Glossary

— of Older Words

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Definitions in print at the time the documents were written and ratified tell us what those words meant to that generation. — The meaning remains the same for us in the present day; at least until the content is properly amended in accord with the terms of the respective documents.

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To ABDICATE — (1756)

To ABDICATE. v. a.

To give up right; to resign.

ABDICATION — (1756)

ABDICATION. s.

The act of abdicating; resignation.

ABJURATION. – (1785)

ABJURATION. n.s.

The act of abjuring. The oath taken for that end.

To ABJURE. – (1785)

To ABJURE. v.a.

1. To cast off upon oath, to swear not to do or not to have something.

2. To retract, recant, or abnegate a position upon oath.

To ABOLISH. – (1756)

To ABOLISH. v.a.

1. To annul.

2. To put an end to; to destroy.

To ABOLISH. – (1768)

To ABOLISH. v.a.

1. To annul.

2. To put an end to; to destroy.

To ABRIDGE. – (1785)

To ABRIDGE. v.a.

3. To deprive of; to cutoff from. In which sense it is followed by the particle from or of, preceding the thing taken away.

ABRIDGED of. – (1785)

ABRIDGED of. part.

Deprived of, debarred from, cut short.

ABRIDGMENT. – (1785)

ABRIDGMENT. .

4. Restraint of any thing pleasing; contraction of any thing enjoyed.

To ABSCIND. – (1785)

To ABSCIND. v.a.

To cut off, either in a natural or figurative sense.

ABSOLUTE. – (1756)

ABSOLUTE. a.

4. Not limited; as, absolute power.

ABSOLUTELY. – (1756)

ABSOLUTELY. ad.

1. Completely, without restriction.

2. Without relation.

3. Without limits or dependence.

To ABSTAIN. – (1756)

To ABSTAIN. v.n.

To forbear, to deny one's self any gratification; with the particle from.

To ABSTAIN. – (1768)

To ABSTAIN. v.n.

To forbear, to deny one's self any gratification.

ABSTAIN. – (2022 internet)

ABSTAIN. v.

1. Restrain oneself from doing or enjoying something.

2. Formally decline to vote for or against a proposal or motion.

ABSTENTION. – (1756)

ABSTENTION. s.

The act of holding off.

ABUSE. – (1756)

ABUSE. s.

1. The ill use of any thing.

2. A corrupt practice, bad custom.

3. Seducement.

4. Unjust censure, rude reproach.

To ACCOUTRE. – (1756)

To ACCOUTRE. v. a.

To dress; to equip.

ACCURATE. — (1756)

ACCURATE. a.

1. Exact, as opposed to negligence or ignorance.

2. Exact, without defect or failure.

ACCURATELY. — (1756)

ACCURATELY. ad.

Exactly, without errour, nicely.

ACCURATENESS — (1756)

ACCURATENESS. s.

Exactness, nicety.

To ACKNOWLEDGE. – (1756)

To ACKNOWLEDGE. v.a.

1. To own the knowledge of; to own any thing or person in a particular character.

2. To confess; as, a fault.

3. To own; as, a benefit.

ACKNOWLEDGING. – (1756)

ACKNOWLEDGING. a.

Grateful.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT. – (1756)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT. s.

1. Concession of any character in another.

2. Concession of the truth of any position.

3. Confession of a fault.

4. Confession of a benefit received.

5. Act of attestation to any concession; such as homage.

ACQUIESCENCE. – (1756)

ACQUIESCENCE. s.

1. A silent appearance of content.

2. Satisfaction, rest, content.

3. Submission.

To ACQUIESCE. – (1756)

ACQUIESCE. v.n.

To rest in, or remain satisfied.

To ADHERE. – (1785)

To ADHERE. v.n.

1. To stick to; as, wax to the finger; with to before the thing.

2. To stick, in the figurative sense; to be consistent; to hold together.

3. To remain firmly fixed to a party, person, or opinion.

ADMINISTRATION. – (1756)

ADMINISTRATION. s.

1. The act of administering or conducting any employment.

2. The active or executive part of government.

3. Those to whom the care of publick affairs is committed.

ADVANCE. – (1785)

ADVANCE. n.s.

1. The act of coming forward.

2. A tendency to come forward to meet a lover; an act of invitation.

3. Gradual progression; rise from one point to another.

4. Improvement; progress towards perfection.

ADVANCEMENT. – (1785)

ADVANCEMENT. n.s.

1. The act of coming forward.

2. The state of being advanced; preferment.

3. The act of advancing another.

4. Improvement; promotion to a higher state of excellence.

ADVANCER. – (1785)

ADVANCER. n.s.

He that advances any thing; a promoter; forwarder.

To ADVANCE. – (1785)

To ADVANCE. v.a.

1. To bring forward, in the local sense.

2. To raise to preferment; to aggrandize.

3. To improve.

4. To heighten; to grace; to give lustre to.

5. To forward; to accelerate.

6. To propose; to offer to the publick; to bring to biew or notice.

To ADVANCE. v.n.

1. To come forward.

2. To make improvement.

ADVERSE. – (1756)

ADVERSE. a.

1. Acting with contrary directions.

2. Calamitous; afflictive; pernicious.

3. Personally opponent.

ADVERSE. – (1785)

ADVERSE. adj.

1. Acting with contrary direction; as, two bodies in collision.

2. Figuratively, contrary to the wish or desire; thence, calamitous; afflictive; pernicious.

Personally opponent; the person that counteracts another, or contests any thing.

ADVERSITY. — (1756)

ADVERSITY. s.

1. Affliction; calamity.

2. The cause of our sorrow; misfortune.

ADVERSITY. — (1785)

ADVERSITY. n. s.

1. The curse of our sorrow; affliction; misfortune. In this sense it may have a plural.

2. The state of unhappiness; misery.

ADVERSLY — (1756)

ADVERSLY. a.

Oppositely; unfortunately.

ADVERSELY. — (1785)

ADVERSELY. adv.

In an adverse manner; oppositely; unfortunately.

AFFAIR. – (1756)

AFFAIR. s.

Business; some thing to be managed or transacted.

ALIENABLE. – (1756)

ALIENABLE. a.

That of which the property may be transferred.

ALIENATE. – (1756)

ALIENATE. a.

Withdraw from; stranger to.

To ALIENATE. – (1785)

To ALIENATE. v.a.

1. To transfer the property of any thing to another.

2. To withdraw the heart or affection.

ALL. – (1785)

ALL. adj.

1. Being the whole number; every one.

2. Being the whole quantity; every one.

ALL. n. s.

1. The whole; opposed to part, or nothing.

2. Every thing.

ALLIANCE. – (1756)

ALLIANCE. s.

1. The state of connection with another by confederacy; a league.

4. The persons allied to each other.

ALTERABLE. – (1756)

ALTERABLE. a.

That which may be altered or changed.

ALTERATION. – (1756)

ALTERATION. s.

1. The act of altering or changing.

2. The change made.

To ALTER. – (1756)

To ALTER. v.a.

1. To change; to make otherwise than it is.

To ALTER v.n.

To become otherwise than it was.

To APPLY – (1756)

To APPLY. v. a.

3. To make use of as relative or suitable.

4. To put to a certain use.

5. To use as means to an end.

7. To have recourse to, as a petitioner.

APPORTION. – (1898)

APPORTION. v.t.

To divide and assign in just proportions; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.

To APPORTION. – (1756)

APPORTION. v.a.

To set out in just proportions.

To APPORTION. – (1785)

To APPORTION. v.a.

To set out in just proportions.

APPORTIONMENT. – (1756)

APPORTIONMENT. s.

A dividing into portions.

APPORTIONMENT. – (1785)

APPORTIONMENT. n.s.

A dividing of a rent into two parts or portions, according as the land, whence it issues, is divided among two or more proprietors.

APPORTIONMENT. – (1898)

APPORTIONMENT. n.

The act of apportioning; dividing into just proportions or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property.

APPROBATION. – (1756)

APPROBATION. s.

1. The act of approving, or expressing himself pleased.

2. The liking of any thing.

3. Attestation; support.

ARMS. – (1785)

ARMS. n. s.

1. Weapons of offence, or armour of defence.

2. A state of hostility.

3. War in general.

4. Action; the act of taking arms.

5. The ensigns armorial of a family.

ARMY. – (1756)

ARMY. s.

1. A collection of armed men, obliged to obey one man.

ART. – (1785)

ART. n.s.

1. The power of doing something not taught by nature and instinct; as, to walk, to dance is an art.

2. A science; as, the liberal arts.

3. A trade.

4. Artfulness; skill; dexterity.

5. Cunning.

6. Speculation.

ARTICLE. – (1756)

ARTICLE. s.

2. A single clause of an account; a particular part of anything.

3. Term; stipulation.

To ARTICLE. – (1756)

To ARTICLE v.n.

To stipulate; to make terms.

To ARTICLE v.a.

To draw up in particular articles.

ARTICULAR. – (1785)

ARTICULAR. adj.

Belonging to the joints. In medicine, an epithet applied to a disease, which more immediately infests the joints. Thus the gout is called morbus articularis.

ARTICULATE. – (1785)

ARTICULATE. adj.

1. Distinct; divided, as the parts of a limb are divided by joints; not continued in one tone, as articulate sounds; proper pauses, in opposition to the voice of animals, which admit no such variety. An articulate pronunciation, a manner of speaking clear and distinct, in which the sound is not confounded with another.

To ASCERTAIN. — (1756)

To ASCERTAIN. v. a.

1. To make certain; to fix; to establish.

2. To make confident.

ASCERTAINER. – (1756)

ASCERTAINER. s.

The person that proves or establishes.

ASSENT. – (1756)

ASSENT. s.

1. The act of agreeing to any thing.

2. Consent; agreement.

ASTRAY. – (1756)

ASTRAY. ad.

Out of the right way.

ATTAINDER. – (1785)

ATTAINDER. n.s.

1. The act of attainting in law; conviction of a crime.

2. Taint; sully of character.

To ATTAINT. – (1785)

To ATTAINT. v.a.

1. To disgrace; to cloud with ignominy.

2. To attaint is particularly used for such as are found guilty of some crime or offence, and especially of felony or treason. A man is attainted two ways, by appearance, or by process. Attainder by appearance is by confession, battle, or verdict. Confession is double; one at the bar before the judges, when the prisoner, upon his indictment read, being asked guilty or not guilty, answers Guilty, never putting himself upon the verdict of the jury. The other is before the coroner or factuary, where he, upon his confession, was in former times constrained to abjure the realm; which kind is called attainder by abjuration. Attainder by battle is, when the party appealed, and choosing to try the truth by combat rather than jury, is vanquished. Attainder by verdict is, when the prisoner at the bar, answering to the indictment Not guilty, hath an inquest of life and death passing upon him, and is by verdict pronounced guilty. Attainder by process is, where a party flies, and is not found till five times called publickly in the county, and at last outlawed upon his default.

3. To taint; to corrupt.

ATTENTION. – (1756)

ATTENTION. s.

The act of attending or heeding.

AUTHORITY. – (1756)

AUTHORITY. s.

1. Legal power.

2. Influence; credit.

3. Power; rule.

AUTHORIZATION. – (1756)

AUTHORIZATION. .

Establishment by authority.

To AUTHORIZE. – (1756)

To AUTHORIZE. v.a.

1. To give authority to any person.

2. To make any thing legal.

3. To establish any thing by authority.

4. To justify; to prove a thing to be right.

5. To give credit to any person or thing.

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To BESTOW. – (1756)

To BESTOW. v.a.

1. To give; to confer upon.

2. To give as charity.

BESTOWER. – (1756)

BESTOWER. s.

Giver; disposer.

BIGOT. – (1756)

BIGOT. s.

A man devoted to a certain party.

BIGOTED. – (1756)

BIGOTED. a.

Blindly prepossessed in favor of something.

BIGOTRY. – (1756)

BIGOTRY. s.

1. Blind zeal; prejudice.

2. The practice of a bigot.

BILL. – (1785)

BILL. n.s.

1. A written paper of any kind.

3. A law presented to the parliament, not yet an act.

BORROW. – (1785)

BORROW. n.s.

The thing borrowed.

To BORROW. – (1785)

To BORROW. v.a.

1. To take something from another upon credit; opposed to lend.

2. To ask of another the use of something for a time.

BORROWER. – (1785)

BORROWER. n.s.

1. He that borrows; he that takes money upon trust: opposed to lender.

2. He that takes what is another's and uses it as his own.

BREACH. – (1756)

BREACH. s.

4. The violation of a law or contract.

BY–LAW. – (1756)

BY-LAW. s.

By-laws are orders made for the good of those that make them, farther than the publick law binds.

BY–LAW. – (1768)

BY-LAW. s.

By-laws are orders made for the good of those that make them, farther than the publick law binds.

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CAPITATION. – (1756)

CAPITATION. s.

Numeration by heads.

CAPITATION. – (1785)

CAPITATION. n. s.

Numeration by heads.

CAPTURE. – (1785)

CAPTURE. n.s.

1. The act or practice of taking any thing.

2. The thing taken; a prize.

CAUTION. – (1785)

CAUTION. n.s.

1. Prudence, as it respects danger; fore-sight; provident care; wariness against evil.

2. Security for.

3. Provision of security against.

4. Provisionary precept.

5. Warning

CAUTIONARY. – (1785)

CAUTIONARY. adj.

Given as a pledge, or in security.

To CAUTION. – (1785)

To CAUTION. v.a.

To warn; to give notice of a danger.

CENSION. – (1785)

CENSION. n.s.

A rate, an assessment.

CENSOR. – (1708)

CENSOR. .

A Magistrate, whose Office it was to take an exact View of the People of Rome, to value the Estate of every Citizen, and to reform manners.

CENSOR. – (1768)

CENSOR. s.

1. An officer of Rome, who had the power of correcting manner.

2. One who is given to censure.

CENSOR. – (1785)

CENSOR. n.s.

1. An officer of Rome, who had the power of correcting manner.

2. One who is given to censure and exprobation.

CENSORIAN. – (1785)

CENSORIAN. adj.

Relating to the censor.

CENSUS. – (1818)

CENSUS. n.s.

A declaration, among the Romans, made by the several subjects of the empire, of their names and places of abode, before the censors; by whom the declarations were registered.

CENSUS. – (1828)

CENSUS. n.

1. In Ancient Rome, an authentic declaration made before the censors, by the citizens, of their names and places of abode. This declaration was registered, and contained an enumeration of all their lands and estates, their quality and quantity, with the wives, children, domestics, tenants, and slaves of each citizen. Hence the word signifies the enumeration or register, a man's whole substance , and the tax imposed according to each man's property.

2. In the United States of America, an enumeration of the inhabitants of all the States, taken by orrer of the Congress, to furnish the rule of apportioning the representation among the States, and the number of representatives to which each States is entitles in the Congress; also, an enumeration of the inhabitants of a State, taken by order of its legislature.

CENSUS. – (1898)

CENSUS. n.

1. A numbering of the people and valuation of their estates, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; —usually made once in five years.

2. An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of the country.

☛ A general census of the United States was first taken in 1790, and one has been taken at the end of every ten years since.

CERTAIN. – (1756)

CERTAIN. a.

1. Sure; indubitable; unquestionable.

2. Resolved; determined.

3. In an indefinite sense, some; as, a certain man told me this.

4. Undoubting; put past doubt.

CESARIAN. – (1756)

CESARIAN. a.

The Cesarian section is cutting a child out of the womb.

CESAREAN. – (1785)

CESAREAN. adj.

The Cesarian section is cutting a child out of the womb, either dead or alive, when it cannot otherwise be delivered. Which circumstance, it is said, first gave the name of Caesar to the Roman family so called.

CESS. – (1756)

CESS. s.

1. A levy made upon the inhabitants of a place, rated according to their property.

2. The act of laying rates.

3. Bounds or limits.

CESS. – (1785)

CESS. n.s.

1. A levy made upon the inhabitants of a place, rated according to their property.

2. The act of laying rates.

3. It seems to have been used by Shakespeare for bounds or limits, though it stand for rate, reckoning.

To CESS. – (1756)

To CESS. v.a.

To rate; to lay charge on.

To CESS. – (1785)

To CESS. v.a.

To rate; to lay charge on.

To CESS. v.n.

To omit a legal duty. See Cessor.

CESSATION. – (1756)

CESSATION. s.

1. A stop; a rest; a vacation.

2. A pause of hostility, without peace.

CESSATION. – (1785)

CESSATION. n.s.

1. A stop; a rest.

2. Vacation; suspension.

3. End of action; the state of ceasing to act.

4. A pause of hostility, without peace.

CESSAVIT. – (1756)

CESSAVIT. s.

A writ that lies upon the general ground, that the person, against whom it is brought, hath, for two years, omitted to perform such service, or pay such rent, as he is obliged by his tenure;

CESSAVIT. – (1785)

CESSAVIT. n.s.

A writ that lies upon the general ground, that the person, against whom it is brought, hath, for two years, omitted to perform such service, or pay such rent, as he is obliged by his tenure; and hath not, upon his land or tenement, sufficient goods or chattels to be distrained.

CESSIBILITY. – (1756)

CESSIBILITY. s.

The quality of receding, or giving way.

CESSIBILITY. – (1785)

CESSIBILITY. n.s.

The quality of receding, or giving way, without resistance.

CESSIBLE. – (1756)

CESSIBLE. a.

Easy to give way.

CESSIBLE. – (1785)

CESSIBLE. adj.

Easy to give way.

CESSION. – (1756)

CESSION. s.

Retreat; the act of giving away.

Resignation.

CESSION. – (1785)

CESSION. n. f.

1. Retreat; the act of giving way.

2. Resignation; the act of yielding up or quitting to another.

CESSIONARY. – (1756)

CESSIONARY. a.

Implyig a resignation.

CESSIONARY. – (1785)

CESSIONARY. adj.

As, a cessionary bankrupt, one who has delivered up all his efforts.

CESSMENT. – (1756)

CESSMENT. s.

An assessment or tax.

CESSMENT. – (1785)

CESSMENT. n.s.

An assessment or tax.

CESSOR. – (1756)

CESSOR. s.

He that ceaseth or neglecteth so long to perform a duty belonging to him, as that he incurreth the danger of law.

CESSOR. – (1785)

CESSOR. n.s.

In law, he that ceaseth or neglecteth so long to perform a duty belonging to him, as that by his cess, or cessing, he incurreth the danger of law, and hath, or may have, the writ cessavit brought against him. Where it is said the tenant cesseth, such phrase is to be understood as if it were said, the tenant cesseth to do that which he ought, or is bound, to do by his land or tenement.

CHANCERY. – (1785)

CHANCERY. n.s.

The court of equity and conscience, moderating the rigour of other courts, that are tied to the letter of the law; whereof the lord chancellor of England is the chief judge, or the lord keeper of the great seal.

CHARITY. – (1756)

CHARITY. s.

1. Tenderness; kindness; love.

2. Goodwill; benevolence.

3. The theological virtue of universal love.

4. Liberality of the poor.

5. Alm; relief given to the poor.

CHARTER. – (1756)

CHARTER. s.

1. A charter is a written evidence.

2. Any writing bestowing privileges or rights.

3. Privilege; immunity; exemption.

CITIZEN. – (1756)

CITIZEN. s.

1. A freeman of a city.

2. A townsman; not a gentleman.

3. An inhabitant.

CITIZEN. a.

Having the qualities of a citizen.

CITIZEN. – (1785)

CITIZEN. n.s.

1. A freeman of a city, not a foreigner; not a slave.

2. A townsman; a man of trade; not a gentleman.

3. An inhabitant; a dweller in any place.

CIVICK. – (1756)

CIVICK. a.

Relating to civil houours; not military.

CIVIL. – (1756)

CIVIL. a.

1. Relating to the community; political.

2. Not in anarchy; not wild.

3. Not foreign; intestine.

4. Not ecclestastical.

5. Not natural.

6. Not military.

7. Not criminal.

8. Civilized; not barbarous.

9. Complaisant; civilized; gentle; well bred.

10. Grave; sober.

11. Relating to the ancient consular or imperial government; as, civil law.

CIVILIAN. – (1756)

CIVILIAN. s.

One that professes the knowledge of the old Roman law.

CIVILITY. – (1756)

CIVILITY. s.

1. Freedom from barbarity.

2. Politeness; complaisance; elegance of behaviour.

3. Rule of decency; practice of politeness.

To CIVILIZE. – (1756)

To CIVILIZE. v.a.

To reclaim from savageness and brutality.

CIVILIZER. – (1756)

CIVILIZER. s.

He that reclaims other from a wild and savage life.

CIVILITY. – (1756)

CIVILITY. ad.

1. In a manner relating to government.

2. Politely; complaisantly; without rudeness.

Without gay or gaudy colours.

COIN. – (1785)

COIN. s.

1. Money stamped with a legal impression.

2. Payment of any kind.

To COIN. – (1785)

To COIN. v.a.

1. To mint or stamp metals for momey.

2. To make or invent.

3. To make or forge any thing, in an ill sense.

COLON. – (1785)

COLON. n.s.

1. A point [:] used to mark a pause greater than a comma, and less that that of a period. Its use is not very exactly fixed; nor is it very necessary, being confounded by most with the semicolon. It was used, before punctuation was refined, to mark almost any sense less than a period. To apply properly, we should place it, perhaps, only where the sense is continued without dependence of grammar or constructions; as, I love him, I dispise him: I have long ceased to trust, but shall never forbear to succour him.

COLONY. – (1756)

COLONY. s.

1. A body of people drawn from the mother–country to inhabit some distant place.

2. The country planted; a plantation.

COMFORT. – (1785)

COMFORT. n.s.

1. Support; assistance; countenance.

2. Consolation; support under calamity or danger.

3. That which gives consolation or support in calamity.

To COMFORT. – (1785)

To COMFORT. v.a.

1. To strengthen; to enliven; to invigorate.

2. To console; to strengthen the mind under pressure of calamity.

COMMA. – (1785)

COMMA. n.s.

1. The point which notes the distinction of clauses, and order of construction, in the sentence; marked thus [,].

COMMERCE – (1785)

COMMERCE. n. s.

1. Intercourse; the exchange of one thing for another; interchange of any thing; trade; traffick.

2. Common or familiar intercourse.

To COMMERCE – (1785)

To COMMERCE. v. n.

1. To traffick.

2. To hold intercourse with.

COMMERCIAL – (1785)

COMMERCIAL. adj.

Relating to commerce or traffick.

COMMODITY. – (1756)

COMMODITY. s.

1. Interest; advantage; profit.

2. Convenience of time or place.

3. Wares; merchandise.

COMMON LAW. – (1756)

COMMON LAW. .

Customs which have, by long prescription, obtained the force of laws; distinguished from statute law, which owes its authority to acts of parliament.

COMMON LAW. – (1785)

COMMON LAW. .

Common Law contains those customs and usages which have, by long prescription, obtained in this nation the force of laws. It is distinguished from statute law, which owes its authority to acts of parliament.

COMMONWEALTH. – (1756)

COMMONWEALTH. ...

1. A polity; an established form of civil life.

2. The publick; the general body of the people.

3. A government in which the supreme power is lodged in the people; a republick.

Kingery NOTE: [About definition #3. This might be the other two government forms referred to in the DEMOCRACY definition. However, DEMOCRACY uses the word Sovereign; where here the word is Supreme. What's the difference?]

COMMUNITY. – (1756)

COMMUNITY. s.

1. The commonwealth; the body politick.

2. Common possession.

COMMUTATIVE. – (1785)

COMMUTATIVE. adj.

Relative to exchange; as, commutative justice, that honesty which is exercised in traffick, and which is contrary to fraud in bargains.

COMPACT. – (1756)

COMPACT. s.

A contract; an accord; an agreement.

To COMPACT. – (1756)

To COMPACT. v. a.

3. To league together.

4. To join together; to bring into a system.

To COMPEL. – (1785)

To COMPEL. v.a.

1. To force to some act; to oblige; to constrain; to necessitate; to urge irresistibly.

2. To take by force or violence; to ravish from; to seize. This signification is uncommon and harsh.

3. To gather together, and unite in a company.

4. To seize; to overpower.

COMPELLABLE. – (1785)

COMPELLABLE. adj.

That may be forced. Herhaps it should be compellible.

COMPLACENCE — COMPLACENCY – (1756)

COMPLACENCE — COMPLACENCY s.

1. Pleasure; satisfaction; gratification.

2. The cause of pleasure; joy.

3. Civility; complaisance.

COMPLACENT – (1756)

COMPLACENT. a.

Civil; affable; soft.

CONFEDERACY – (1756)

CONFEDERACY. s.

League; union; engagement..

CONFEDERATE – (1756)

CONFEDERATE. a.

United in a league.

CONFEDERATE. s.

One who engages to support another; an ally.

To CONFEDERATE – (1756)

To CONFEDERATE. v.a.

To join in a league; to unite; to ally.

CONFEDERATION – (1756)

CONFEDERATION. s.

League; alliance.

To CONFER – (1756)

To CONFER. v. n.

To discourse with another upon a stated subject.

To CONFER. v. a.

1. To compare.

2. To give; to bestow.

3. To contribute; to conduce.

CONFIRMABLE. – (1756)

CONFIRMABLE. a.

That which is capable of incontestible evidence.

To CONFIRM. – (1756)

To CONFIRM. v.a.

1. To put past doubt by new evidence.

2. To settle; to establish.

3. To fix; to radicate.

4. To complete; to perfect.

5. To strength by new solemnities or ties.

CONFIRMATION. – (1756)

CONFIRMATION. .

1. The act of establishing any thing or person; settlement.

2. Evidence; additional proof.

3. Proof; convincing testimony.

A CONFLICT. – (1768)

A CONFLICT. s.

1. A violent collision, or opposition.

2. A combat; a fight between two.

3. Contest; strife; contention.

4. Struggle; agony; pang.

A CONFLICT. – (1756)

A CONFLICT. s.

1. A violent collision, or opposition.

2. A combat; a fight between two.

3. Contest; strife; contention.

4. Struggle; agony; pang.

To CONFLICT. – (1756)

To CONFLICT. v.n.

To strive; to contest; to fight; to struggle.

To CONFRONT. – (1785)

To CONFRONT. v. a.

1. To stand against another; in full view; to face.

2. To stand face to face in opposition to another.

3. To oppose one evidence to another in open court.

CONFRONTATION. – (1785)

CONFRONTATION. n.s.

The act of bringing two evidences face to face.

CONGRESS. – (1756)

CONGRESS. s.

1.A meeting; a shock; a conflict.

2. An appointed meeting for settlement of affairs between different nations.

CONGRESS. – (1768)

CONGRESS. s.

1.A meeting; a shock; a conflict.

2. An appointed meeting for settlement of affairs between different nations.

CONSANGUINEOUS. – (1756)

CONSANGUINEOUS. a.

Near of kin; related by birth, not affined (/assined/).

CONSANGUINITY. – (1756)

CONSANGUINITY. s.

Relation by blood.

CONSENT. – (1756)

CONSENT. s.

1. The act of yielding or consenting.

2. Concord; agreement; accord.

3. Coherence with; correspondence.

4. Tendency to one point.

5. The perception one part has with another, by means of some fibres and nerves common to them both.

CONSENT – (1768)

CONSENT. s.

1. The act of yielding or consenting.

2. Concord; agreement; accord.

3. Coherence with; correspondence.

4. Tendency to one point.

5. The perception one part has with another, by means of some fibres and nerves common to them both.

To CONSENT – (1756)

To CONSENT. v.n.

1. To be of the same mind; to agree.

2. To co–operate to the same end.

To CONSENT – (1768)

To CONSENT. v.n.

1. To be of the same mind; to agree.

2. To co–operate to the same end.

3. To yield; to allow; to admit.

CONSTITUENT. – (1756)

CONSTITUENT s.

1. The person or thing which constitutes or settles any thing.

2. That which is necessary to the subsistence of any thing.

3. He that deputes another.

To CONSTITUTE. – (1756)

To CONSTITUTE. v. a.

1. To give formal existence; to produce.

2. To erect; To establish.

3. To depute.

To CONSTITUTE. – (1785)

To CONSTITUTE. v.a.

1. To give formal existence; To make any thing what it is; to produce.

2. To erect; To establish.

3. To depute; to appoint another to an office.

CONSTITUTION – (1756)

CONSTITUTION. s.

1. The act of constituting; enacting; establishing.

3. Corporeal frame.

6. Established form of government; system of laws and customs. [emphasis added]

7. Particular law; establishment; institution.

CONSTITUTION – (1785)

CONSTITUTION. s.

1. The act of constituting; enacting; establishing.

3. Corporeal frame.

6. Established form of government; system of laws and customs. [emphasis added]

7. Particular law; established usage; establishment; institution.

CONSTITUTIONAL – (1756)

CONSTITUTIONAL. a.

2. Consistent with the constitution; legal.

CONSTITUTIONAL. – (1785)

CONSTITUTIONAL. a.

2. Consistent with the constitution; legal.

To CONSTRAIN. – (1756)

To CONSTRAIN. v.a.

1. To compel; to force to some action.

To hinder by force.

To violate; to ravish.

To confine; to press.

CONSTRAINT. – (1756)

CONSTRAINT. s.

Compulsion; violence; confinement.

To CONSTRUE. – (1785)

To CONSTRUE. v.a.

1. To range words in their natural order; to disentangle transposition.

2. To interpret; to explain; to shew the meaning.

CONTEXT. – (1756)

CONTEXT. s.

The general series of a discourse.

CONTEXT. a.

Knit together; firm.

CONTRACT. – (1756)

CONTRACT. s.

1. A bargain; a compact.

3. A writing in which the terms of a bargain are included.

To CONTRACT. – (1756)

To CONTRACT. v. a.

2. To bring two parties together; to make a bargain.

To CONTRACT. v. n.

2. To bargain; a, to contract for a quantity of provisions.

CONVOCATE. – (1647)

CONVOCATE. .

To call together.

CONVOCATION. – (1647)

CONVOCATION. .

An assembly, or calling together.

CONVULSION. – (1756)

CONVULSION. s.

2. Any irregular and violent motion; commotion.

CORPORATE. – (1756)

CORPORATE. a.

United in a body or community.

CORPORATE. – (1768)

CORPORATE. a.

United in a body or community.

CORPORATION. – (1756)

CORPORATION. s.

A body politick, authorized to have a common seal, one head officer or more, able by their common consent, to grant or receive in law, any thing within the compass of their charter; even as one man.

CORPORATION. – (1768)

CORPORATION. s.

A body politick, authorized to have a common seal, one head officer or more, able by their common consent, to grant or receive in law, any thing within the compass of their charter ; even as one man.

CORPOREAL. – (1756)

CORPOREAL. a.

Having a body; not immaterial.

COUNSEL. – (1785)

COUNSEL. n. s.

1. Advice; direction.

2. Consultation; interchange of opinions.

3. Deliberation; examination of consequences.

To COUNSEL. – (1785)

To COUNSEL. v.a.

1. To give advice or counsel to any person.

2. To advise of any thing.

COUNSELLABLE. – (1785)

COUNSELLABLE adj.

Willing to receive and follow the advice or opinions of others.

COUNSELLOR. – (1785)

COUNSELLOR. n. s.

1. One that gives advice.

4. One that is consulted in a case of law; a lawyer.

COUNTERFEIT. – (1785)

COUNTERFEIT. adj.

1. That which is made in the imitation of another, with intent to pass for the original; forged; fictitious.

To COUNTERFEIT. – (1785)

To COUNTERFEIT. v.a.

1. To copy with an intent to pass the copy for an original; forge.

2. To imitate; to copy; to resemble.

COUNTERFEITER. – (1785)

COUNTERFEITER. n.s.

A forger; one who contrived copies to pass for originals.

To CREATE. – (1756)

To CREATE. v.a.

1. To form out of nothing; to cause to exist.

2. To produce; to cause; to be the occasion.

3. To beget.

4. To invest with any new character.

CREATION. – (1756)

CREATION. s.

1. The act of creating or conferring existence.

2. The act of investing with new character.

3. The things created; the universe.

4. Any thing produced, or caused.

CREATIVE. – (1756)

CREATIVE. a.

1. Having the power to create.

2. Exerting the act of creation.

CREATOR. – (1756)

CREATOR. s.

The being that bestows existence.

CREDIT. – (1785)

CREDIT. n.s.

1. Belief of; faith yielded to another.

2. Honour; reputation.

3. Esteem; good opinion.

4. Faith; testimony; that which procures belief.

5. Trust reposed, with regard to property; correlative to debt.

6. Promise given.

7. Influence; power not compulsive; interest.

To CREDIT. – (1785)

To CREDIT. v.n.

1. To believe.

2. To procure credit or hounor to any thing.

3. To trust; to confide in.

4. To admit as a debtor.

CRIME. – (1756)

CRIME. s.

An act contrary to right; an offense; a great fault.

CRIME. – (1785)

CRIME. n.s.

An act contrary to right; an offense; a great fault; an act of wickedness.

CRIMINAL. – (1756)

CRIMINAL. a.

1. Faulty; contrary to right; contrary to duty.

2. Guilty; tainted with a crime; not innocent.

3. Not civil; as a criminal prosecution.

CRIMINAL. s.

1. A man accused.

2. A man guilty of a crime.

CRIMINAL. – (1785)

CRIMINAL. adj.

1. Faulty; contrary to right; contrary to duty; contrary to law.

2. Guilty; tainted with crime; not innocent.

3. Not civil: as a criminal prosecution; the criminal laws.

CRIMINAL. n.s.

1. A man accused.

2. A man guilty of a crime.

CRIMEFUL. – (1756)

CRIMEFUL. a.

Wicked; criminal.

CRIMELESS. – (1756)

CRIMELESS. a.

Innocent; without crime.

CRUEL. – (1785)

CRUEL. adj.

1. Pleased with hurting others; inhuman; hard–hearted; void of pity; wanting compassion; savage; barbarous; unrelenting.

[Of things.] Bloody; mischievous; destructive; causing pain.

CRUELNESS. – (1785)

CRUELNESS. n.s.

Inhumanity; cruelty.

CRUELTY. – (1785)

CRUELTY. n.s.

1. Inhumanity; savageness; barbarity; delight in the pain or misery of others.

2. Act of intentional affliction.

CURRENT. – (1785)

CURRENT. adj.

1. Circulatory; passing from hand to hand.

2. Generally received; uncontradicted; authoritative.

3. Common; general.

4. Popular; such as is established by vulgar estimation.

5. Fashionable; popular.

6. Passable; such as may be allowed or admitted.

7. What is now passing; what is at present in its course; as, the current year.

CUSTOM. – (1756)

CUSTOM. s.

1. Habit; habitual practice.

2. Fashion; common way of acting.

3. Established manner.

4. Practice of buying of certain persons.

5. Application from buyers; as, this trader has good custom.

6. [In law.] A law or right, not written, which, being established by long use, and the consent of our ancestors, has been, and is, daily practiced.

7. Tribute; tax paid for good imported or exported.

D d

DELIBERATE. – (1756)

DELIBERATE. a.

1. Circumspect; wary; advised; discreet.

2. Slow; tedious; not sudden.

To DELIBERATE. – (1756)

To DELIBERATE. v.n.

To think, in order to choice; to hesitate.

DELIBERATELY. – (1756)

DELIBERATELY. ad.

Circumspectly; advisedly; warily.

DELIBERATENESS. – (1756)

DELIBERATENESS. s.

Circumspection; wariness; coolness; caution.

DELIBERATION. – (1756)

DELIBERATION. s.

The act of deliberating; thought in order to choice.

DELIBERATIVE. – (1756)

DELIBERATIVE. a.

Pertaining to deliberation; apt to consider.

DELIBERATIVE. s.

The discourse in which a question is deliberated.

DEMOCRACY. – (1756)

DEMOCRACY. s.

One of the three forms of government; that in which the sovereign power is lodged in the body of the people.

DEMOCRACY. – (1785)

DEMOCRACY. n.s.

One of the three forms of government; that in which the sovereign power is neither lodged in one man, nor in the nobles, but in the collective body of the people.

DEMOCRATICAL. – (1756)

DEMOCRATICAL. a.

Pertaining to a popular government; popular.

DEMOCRATICAL. – (1785)

DEMOCRATICAL. adj.

Pertaining to a popular government; popular.

To DENOUNCE. – (1756)

To DENOUNCE. v.a.

1. To threaten by proclamation.

2. To give information against.

DENOUNCEMENT. – (1756)

DENOUNCEMENT. s.

The act of proclaiming any menace.

DENOUNCER. – (1756)

DENOUNCER. s.

One that declares some menace.

To DENY. – (1785)

To DENY. v.a.

1. To contradict; opposed to affirm.

2. To contradict an accusation; not to confess.

3. To refuse; not to grant.

4. To abnegate; to disown.

To renounce; to disregard; to treat as foreign or not belonging to one.

DEPUTATION. – (1756)

DEPUTATION. s.

1. The act of deputing, or sending with a special commission.

2. Vicegerency.

To DEPUTE. – (1756)

To DEPUTE. v. a.

To send with a special commission; to impower one to transact instead of another.

DEPUTY. – (1756)

DEPUTY. s.

1. A lieutenant; a viceroy.

2. Any one that transacts business for another.

DESPOT. – (1756)

DESPOT. s.

An absolute prince; as, the despot of Servia.

DESPOT. – (1785)

DESPOT. n. s.

An absolute prince; one that governs with unlimited authority. The word is not in use except as applied to some Dacian prince ; as, the despot of Servia.

DESPOTICAL. — DESPOTICK. – (1756)

DESPOTICAL. DESPOTICK. a.

Absolute in power; unlimited in authority.

DESPOTICAL. — DESPOTICK. – (1785)

DESPOTICAL. DESPOTICK. adj.

Absolute in power; unlimited in authority; arbitrary; unaccountable.

DESPOTICALNESS. – (1756)

DESPOTICALNESS. s.

Absolute authority.

DESPOTISM. – (1756)

DESPOTISM. s.

Absolute power.

DICTION. – (1785)

DICTION. n. s.

Style; language; expression.

DICTIONARY FRONT PAGE. – (1647)

The English DICTIONARIE: .

By H. C. Gent

DICTIONARY FRONT PAGE. – (1756)

A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. .

By Samuel Johnson

DICTIONARY FRONT PAGE. – (1785)

A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .

By Samuel Johnson

DICTIONARY FRONT PAGE. – (1818)

A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .

By Samuel Johnson

DICTIONARY FRONT PAGE. – (1828)

AN AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .

By NOAH WEBSTER

DICTIONARY FRONT PAGE. – (1898)

WEBSTER'S INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. .

BY NOAH PORTER

DICTIONARY FRONT PAGE. – (1919)

WEBSTER'S COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY. .

Difficulty-of-corruption-vs-Ease-of-stopping-it

The 50% point is the intersection at which the ease of removing corruption meets with the difficulty for corruption to enter government.

It is this 50% point that must be exceeded by any candidate or other balloted item. But; 50% of what?

The Declaration identifies it as the body of the governed that must consent. With voter-registration, we now have a known list or number of people who choose to participate in the voting process.

Registering as a voter protects the right of those within the body-governed who do not wish to exercise their right to vote. Thus, the body is that known number of people registered as a voter.

DIGNITY. – (1785)

DIGNITY. n.s.

1. Rank of elevation.

2. Grandeur of mien; elevation of aspect.

3. Advancement; preferment; high place.

DIRECT. – (1785)

DIRECT. adj.

1. Straight; not crooked.

2. Not oblique.

4.Not collateral, as the grandson succeeds his grandsire in a direct line.

5. Apparently tending to some end, as a straight line.

6. Open; not ambiguous.

7. Plain; express.

DISCOURSE – (1756)

DISCOURSE. s.

1. The act of the understanding, by which it passes from premises to consequences.

2. Conversation; mutual intercourse of language; talk.

4. A treatise; a dissertatian either written or uttered.

To DISCOURSE – (1756)

To DISCOURSE. v. n.

1. To converse; to talk; to relate.

2. To treat upon in a solemn or set manner.

3. To reason; to pass from premises to consequences.

To DISPARAGE. – (1785)

To DISPARAGE. v.a.

4. To treat with contempt; to mock; to flout; to reproach.

5. To bring reproach upon; to be the cause of disgrace.

DISPOSITION. – (1756)

DISPOSITION. s.

1. Order; method; distribution.

2. Natural fitness; quality.

3. Tendency to any act or state.

4. Temper of mind.

5. Affection of kindness or ill-will.

6. Predominant inclination.

DISQUISITION. – (1785)

DISQUISITION. n.s.

Examination; disputative enquiry.

DISTRIBUTIVE. – (1785)

DISTRIBUTIVE. adj.

1. That which is employed in assigning to others their portions; as, distributive justice, that which allots to each his sentence or claim.

2. That which assigns the various species a general term.

DIVINE. – (1756)

DIVINE. a.

1. Partaking of the nature of God.

2. Proceeding from God; not natural; not human.

3. Excellent in supreme degree.

4. Presageful; divining; prescient.

DIVINE. s.

1. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.

2. A man skilled in divinity; a theologian.

DOMESTICK. – (1756)

DOMESTICK. .

4. Not foreign; intestine.

DOMINION. – (1756)

DOMINION. s.

1. Sovereign authority; unlimited power.

2. Right of possession or use, without being accountable.

3. Territory; region; district.

4. Predominance; ascendant.

5. An order of angels.

DUE. – (1785)

DUE. adj.

1. Owed; that which any one has a right to demand in consequence of a compact, or for any other reason.

2. Proper; fit; appropriate.

3. Exact; without deviation.

4. Consequent to; occasioned or effected by. Proper, but not usual.

DUE. n.s.

1. That which belongs to one; that which may be justly claimed.

2. Right; just title.

3. Whatever custom or law requires to be done.

4. Custom; tribute; exaction; legal or customary perquisiter.

To DUE. – (1785)

To DUE. v.n.

To pay as due; perhaps for endow. It is perhaps only in this single passage.

DULY. – (1785)

DULY. adv.

1. Properly; fitly; in the due manner.

2. Regularly; exactly.

DUTY. – (1756)

DUTY. s.

1. That to which a man is by any natural or legal obligation bound.

7. Tax; impost; custom; toll.

DUTY. – (1785)

DUTY. s.

1. That to which a man is by any natural or legal obligation bound.

7. Tax; impost; custom; toll.

E e

ECCLESIATICK. – (1756)

ECCLESIATICK. a.

Relating to the church; not civil.

ECCLESIASTICK. s.

A person dedicated to the ministries of religion.

EFFECT. – (1785)

EFFECT. n.s.

7. [In the plural] Goods ; moveables.

To EFFECT. – (1768)

To EFFECT. v.a.

1. To bring to pass; to attempt with success; to achieve.

2. To produce as a cause.

ELECT. – (1785)

ELECT. adj.

1. Chosen; taken by preference from among others.

2. Chosen to an office, not yet in possession.

To ELECT. – (1785)

To ELECT. v.a.

To choose for any office or use; to take in preference to others.

ELECTION. – (1785)

ELECTION. n.s.

1. The act of chusing; the act of selecting one or more from a greater number for any use or office; choice.

2. The power of choice.

3. Voluntary preference.

4. Discernment; distinction; discrimination.

6. The ceremony of a publick choice.

ELECTIVE. – (1785)

ELECTIVE. adj.

1. Regulated or bestowed by election or choice.

2. Exerting the power of choice.

ELECTIVELY. – (1785)

ELECTIVELY. adv.

By choice; with preference of one to another.

ELECTOR. – (1785)

ELECTOR. n.s.

1. He that has a vote in the choice of any officer.

ELECTORAL. – (1785)

ELECTORAL. adj.

Having the dignity of an elector.

ELECTORATE. – (1785)

ELECTORATE. n.s.

The territory of an elector.

EMINENT. – (1756)

EMINENT. a.

1. High; lofty.

2. Dignified; exalted.

3. Conspicuous; remarkable.

EMINENTLY. – (1756)

EMINENTLY. ad.

1. Conspicuously; in a manner that attracts observation.

2. In a high degree.

To EMIT. – (1785)

To EMIT. v.a.

1. To send forth; to let go.

2. To let fly; to dart.

3. To issue out juridically.

EMOLUMENT. – (1785)

EMOLUMENT. n. s.

Profit; advantage.

To ENDOW. – (1768)

To ENDOW. v.a.

1. To enrich with a portion.

2. To supply with any external goods.

3. To enrich with any excellence.

4. To be the fortune of any one.

ENDOWMENT. – (1768)

ENDOWMENT. s.

1. Wealth bestowed to any person or use.

2. The bestowing or assuring a dower; the setting forth or severing a sufficient portion for perpetual maintenance.

3. Gifts of nature.

ENGLISH ALPHABET EXPLANATION. – (1756)

ENGLISH ALPHABET EXPLANATION. .

Shows how some letters will appear differently within the dictionary's content; (example; many letter 's' appear to look like the letter 'f' without the crossbar).

To ENRICH. – (1768)

To ENRICH. v.n.

1. To make wealthy; to make opulent.

2. To fertilise; to make fruitful.

3. To store; to supply with augmentation of any thing desireable.

ENRICHMENT. – (1768)

ENRICHMENT. s.

1. Augmentation of wealth.

2. Amplification; improvement by addition.

To ENSURE. – (1756)

To ENSURE. v.a.

1. To ascertain; to make certain; to secure.

2. To exempt any thing from hazard by paying a certain sum, on condition of being reimbursed for miscarriage.

ENTREATANCE. – (1756)

ENTREATANCE. s.

Petition; entreaty; solicitation.

To ENTREAT. – (1756)

To ENTREAT. v.a.

1. To petition; to solicite; to importune.

2. To prevail upon by solicitation.

To ENTREAT. v.n.

1. To offer a treaty or compact.

2. To treat; to discourse.

3. To make a petition.

ENTREATY. – (1756)

ENTREATY. s.

Petition; prayer; solicitation.

To ENUMERATE – (1756)

To ENUMERATE. v. a.

To reckon up singly; to count over distinctly.

To ENUMERATE. – (1785)

To ENUMERATE. v. a.

To reckon up singly; to count over distinctly; to number.

ENUMERATION. – (1756)

ENUMERATION. s.

The act of numbering or counting over.

ENUMERATION. – (1785)

ENUMERATION. n.s.

The act of numbering or counting over; number told out.

ENUMERATION – (1790 Constitution)

The Constitution of the United States of America, Article I, Section 2, Clause 3, defines the extent of the authorized enumeration as:

"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct."

When the document contains the definition, or description for the word; it is that internal definition or description that must be used (unless that definition violates a prior superior document). Then, it is the superior document definition that holds most weight and is enforceable.

Congress may direct the manner, but not direct what information can be collected, or how often information is collected, or how it might be used otherwise use the information collected.

"The respective numbers..." shall be determined in a very specific manner; which, by the way, has not yet been Article 5 amended into The Constitution of the United States of America; but it has been unconstitutionally altered by congress that now conducts an unconstitutional census every year disguised as an income tax; as well as the unconstitutional census every ten years.

EQUAL. – (1756)

EQUAL. a.

1. Like another in bulk, or any quality that admits comparison.

EQUAL. s.

1. One not inferiour or superiour to another.

EQUITY. – (1785)

EQUITY. n.s.

1. Justice; right; honest.

2. Impartiality.

3. [In law] The rules of decision observed by the court of Chancery, as distinct from the literal maxims of law.

EVIDENT. – (1756)

EVIDENT. a.

Plain; apparent; notorious.

EVIDENT. – (1768)

EVIDENT. a.

Plain; apparent; notorious.

EX POST FACTO. – (1708)

EX POST FACTO. a.

Term us'd for the do'ng a thing after the time when it should have been done.

EXCISE. – (1785)

EXCISE. n.s.

A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

To EXCISE. – (1785)

To EXCISE. v.a.

To levy excise upon a person or thing.

EXCISEMAN. – (1785)

EXCISEMAN. n.s.

An officer who inspects commodities, and rates their excise.

EXECUTIVE. – (1756)

EXECUTIVE. a.

1. Having the quality of executing or performing.

2. Active; not deliberative; not legislative; having the power to put in act the laws.

EXECUTIVE. – (1785)

EXECUTIVE. adj.

1. Having the quality of executing or performing.

2. Active; not deliberative; not legislative; having the power to put in act the laws.

EXPRESSION. – (1756)

EXPRESSION. s.

1. The act or power of representing any thing.

2. The form or craft of language in which any thoughts are uttered.

3. A phrase; a mode of speech.

EXPRESSION. – (1785)

EXPRESSION. n. s.

1. The act or power of representing any thing.

2. The form or mode of language in which any thoughts are uttered.

3. A phrase; a mode of speech.

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FACTION. – (1785)

FACTION. n.s.

1. A part in a state.

2. Tumult; discord; dissension.

FACTIONARY. – (1785)

FACTIONARY. n.s.

One of a faction; a party man. A word not in use.

FACTIOUS. – (1785)

FACTIOUS. adj.

1. Given to faction; loud and violent in a party; publickly dissentious; addicted to form parties and raise publick disturbances.

2. Proceeding from publick dissensions; tending to publick discord.

FACTIOUSLY. – (1785)

FACTIOUSLY. adv.

In a manner criminally dissentious or tumultuous.

FAST. – (1756)

FAST. a.

6. Speedy; quick; swift.

FOREBEARANCE. – (1756)

FOREBEARANCE. s.

1. The care of avoiding or shunning any thing.

2. Intermission of something.

3. Command of temper.

4. Lenity; delay of punishment; mildness.

To FROEBEAR. – (1756)

To FROEBEAR. v.n.

1. To cease from any thing; to intermit.

2. To pause; to delay.

3. To omit voluntarily; to abstain.

4. To restrain any violence of temper; to be patient.

To FROEBEAR. v.a.

1. To decline; to omit voluntarily.

2. To spare; to treat with clemency.

To FROBEAR. – (1785)

To FROBEAR v.n.

1. To cease from any thing; to intermit.

2. To pause; to delay.

3. To omit voluntarily; not to do; to abstain.

4. To restrain any violence of temper; to be patient.

To FROEBEAR. v.a.

1. To decline; to omit voluntarily.

2. To abstain from; to shun to do; ot omit.

3. To spare; to treat with clemency.

4. To withhold.

FORBEARER. – (1756)

FORBEARER. s.

An intermitter; interceptor of any thing.

FORM. – (1756)

FORM s.

8. Stated method; established practice.

TO FORM. – (1756)

To FORM. v. a.

1. To make out of materials.

2. To model in a particular shape.

3. To modify; to scheme; to plan.

4. To arrange; to combine in a particular manner.

5. To adjust; to settle.

6. To contrive; to join.

7. To model by education or institution.

To FOUND. – (1756)

To FOUND. v.a.

3. To establish; to erect.

5. To raise upon, as on a principle or ground.

FOUNDER. – (1756)

FOUNDER. s.

1. A builder; one who raises an edifice.

2. One who establishes a revenue for any purpose.

3. One from whom any thing has its original or beginning.

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GENTLEMAN. – (1756)

GENTLEMAN. s.

1. A man of birth; a man of extraction, though not noble.

2. A man raised above the vulgar by his character or post.

3. A term of complaisance.

4. The servant that waits about a person of a man of rank.

5. It is used of any man however high.

GENTLEMANLIKE-GENTLEMANLY. – (1756)

GENTLEMANLIKE-GENTLEMANLY. a.

Becoming a man of birth.

GOD. – (1756)

GOD. s.

1. The Supreme Being.

2. A false god; an idol.

3. Any person or thing deified or too much honoured.

GOD. – (1768)

GOD. s.

1. The Supreme Being.

2. A false god; an idol.

3. Any person or thing deified or too much honoured.

To GOD. – (1768)

To GOD. v.a.

To deify; to exalt to divine honours.

GOODS. – (1756)

GOODS. s.

1. Moveables in a house.

2. Wares; freight; merchandise.

GOODS. – (1785)

GOODS. n. s.

1. Moveables in a house.

2. Personal and moveable estate.

3. Wares; freight; merchandise.

GOVERNABLE. – (1756)

GOVERNABLE. a.

Submissive to authority; subject to rule.

GOVERNANCE. – (1756)

GOVERNANCE. s.

1. Government; rule; management.

2. Control, as that if a guardian.

To GOVERN. – (1756)

To GOVERN. v.a.

1. To rule as a chief magistrate.

2. To regulate; to influence; to direct.

3. To manage; to restrain.

To GOVERN. v.n.

To keep superiority.

GOVERNMENT. – (1756)

GOVERNMENT. s.

1. Form of community with respect to the disposition of the supreme authority.

2. An establishment of legal authority.

3. Administration of publick affairs.

GOVERNOUR. – (1756)

GOVERNOUR. s.

1. One who has the supreme direction.

2. One who is invested with supreme authority in a state.

3. One who rules any place with delegated and temporary authority.

5. Pilot; regulator; manager.

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By day 15; it looks nearly impossible to accomplish before the 30th.

But; if people really want Clean Honest Government — and keep educating others to also pass the word; the job is complete by day 30.

GUARDIAN. – (1756)

GUARDIAN. s.

1. One that has the care of an orphan.

2. One to whom the care and preservation of any thins is committed.

3. A repository or storehouse.

GUARDIAN. – (1785)

GUARDIAN. n.s.

1. One that has the care of an orphan; one who is to supply the want of parents.

2. One to whom the care and preservation of any thing is committed.

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HABEAS CORPUS. – (1785)

HABEAS CORPUS. .

A writ, the which, a man indicted of some trespass, being laid in prison for the same, may have out of the King's Bench, thereby to remove himself thither at his own cost, and to answer the cause there.

HERETOFORE. – (1756)

HERETOFORE. ad.

Formerly; anciently.

HOSTILE. – (1756)

HOSTILE. a.

Adverse; opposite; suitable to an enemy.

HOSTILE. – (1785)

HOSTILE. adj.

Adverse; opposite; suitable to an enemy.

HOSTILITY. – (1756)

HOSTILITY. s.

The practices of an open enemy; open war; opposition in war.

HOSTILITY. – (1785)

HOSTILITY. n. s.

The practices of an open enemy; open war; opposition in war.

HUMAN. – (1756)

HUMAN. a.

1. Having the qualities of a man.

2. Belonging to man.

HUMANKIND. – (1756)

HUMANKIND. s.

The race of man.

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IMMUNITY. – (1785)

IMMUNITY. n.s.

1. Discharge from any obligation.

2. Privilege; exemption from onerous duties.

3.Freedom.

IMPARTIAL. – (1785)

IMPARTIAL. adj.

Equitable; free from regard to party; indifferent; disinterested; equal in distribution of justice; just. It is used as well of actions as persons: an impartial judge; an impartial sentence.

IMPARTIALITY. – (1785)

IMPARTIALITY. n.s.

Equitableness; justice; indifference.

IMPARTIALITY. adv.

Equitably, with indifferent and unbiassed judgment; without regard to party or interest; justly; honestly.

IMPEACH. – (1785)

IMPEACH. n.s.

Hindrance; let; impediment.

IMPEACHABLE. – (1785)

IMPEACHABLE. adj.

Accusable; chargeable.

To IMPEACH. – (1785)

To IMPEACH. v.a.

1. To hinder; to impede. This sense is little in use.

2. To accuse by public authority.

IMPEACHER. – (1785)

IMPEACHER. n,s.

An accuser; one who brings an accusation against another.

IMPEACHMENT. – (1785)

IMPEACHMENT. n.s.

1. Hindrance; let; impediment; obstruction. Not in use.

2. Public accusation; charge preferred.

IMPORTUNE. – (1785)

IMPORTUNE. a.

1. Constantly recurring; troublesome by frequency.

2. troublesome; vexatious.

3. Unseasonable; coming, asking, or happening at a wrong time.

To IMPORTUNE. – (1756)

To IMPORTUNE. v.a.

To teize; to harass with slight vexation perpetually recurring; to molest.

IMPOST. – (1756)

IMPOST. s.

A tax; a toll; custom paid.

IMPOST. – (1785)

IMPOST. n,s.

A tax; a toll; a custom paid.

IMPOSTS. – (1756)

IMPOSTS. s.

In architecture, that part of a pillar, in vaults and arches, on which the weight of the whole building lieth.

INALIENABLE. – (1756)

INALIENABLE. a.

That cannot be alienated.

INCOME. – (1898)

INCOME. n.

3. The gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of a professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stocks in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person or a corporation, from property; as a large income.

— Income tax A tax on a person's income, emolument, profits, etc., or on the excess over a certain amount.

Syn. — Gain, profit, proceeds, salary, revenue, receipts, interest, emolument, produce.

INCOME & INCOME TAX. – (1916)

INCOME. n.

1. A coming in.

2. Something that comes in by way of addition.

3. That gain which proceeds from labor, business, or property; revenue; receipts;

3 b. — Syn. Profit, proceeds, interest, emolument, produce.

INCOME TAX. .

A tax on a person's income, emolument, profits, etc., or on the excess over a certain amount. See TAX

INCORPORATE. – (1756)

INCORPORATE. a.

Immaterial; unbodied.

To INCORPORATE. – (1756)

To INCORPORATE. v. a.

3. To form into a corporation, or body politick.

4. To unite; to associate.

INCORPORATION. – (1756)

INCORPORATION. s.

1. Union of divers ingredients in one mass.

2. Formation of a body politick.

INFERIOUR. – (1785)

INFERIOUR. adj.

1. Lower in place.

2. Lower in station or rank of life: correlative to to superiour.

Lower in value or excellency.

Subordinate.

INFERIOUR. n.s.

One in a lower rank or station than another.

To INFRINGE. – (1785)

To INFRINGE. v.a.

1. To violate; to break laws or contracts.

2. To destroy; to hinder.

INFRINGEMENT. – (1785)

INFRINGEMENT. n.s.

Breach; violation.

INGREDIENT. – (1756)

INGREDIENT. s.

Component part of a body, consisting of different materials.

INSTEAD of. – (1756)

INSTEAD of. prep.

1. In room of; in place of.

2. Equal to.

INSTITUTE. – (1768)

INSTITUTE. s.

1. Established law; settled order.

2. Precept; maxim; principle.

To INSTITUTE. – (1768)

To INSTITUTE. v.n.

1. To fix; to establish; to appoint; to enact; to settle.

2. To educate; to instruct; to form by instruction.

INSURRECTION. – (1785)

INSURRECTION. n.s.

A seditious rising; a rebellious commotion.

To INTEROGATE. – (1756)

To INTEROGATE. v.a.

To examine; to question.

To INTEROGATE. v.n.

To ask; to put questions.

INTERROGATION. – (1756)

INTERROGATION. s.

1. A question put; an enquiry.

INTEROGATIVE. – (1756)

INTEROGATIVE. a.

Denoting a question; expressed in a questionary form of words.

INTEROGATIVE. s.

A pronoun used in asking question: as, who? what?

INTERROGATIVELY. – (1756)

INTERROGATIVELY. ad.

In form of a question.

INTERROGATOR. – (1756)

INTERROGATOR. s.

An asker of questions.

INTERROGATORY. – (1756)

INTERROGATORY. s.

A question; an enquiry.

INTERROGATORY. a.

Containing a question; expressing a question.

INTESTINE. – (1756)

INTESTINE. a.

1. Internal; inward; not external.

3. Domestick, not foreign.

INVASION. – (1785)

INVASION. n.s.

1. Hostile entrance upon rights or possessions of another; hostile encroachment.

To INVENT. – (1756)

To INVENT. v.a.

1. To discover; to find out; to excogitate.

2. Forge; to contrive falsely; to fabricate.

3. To feign; to make by the imagination.

4. To light on; to meet with.

INVENTER. – (1756)

INVENTER. s.

1. One who produces something new; a deviser of something not known before.

A forger.

INVOLUNTARILY. – (1785)

INVOLUNTARILY. adv.

Not by choice; not spontaneously.

INVOLUNTARY. – (1785)

INVOLUNTARY. adj.

1. Not having the power of choice.

2. Not chosen; not done willingly.

INVOLUTION. – (1785)

INVOLUTION. n.s.

1. The act of involving or inwrapping.

2. The state of being entangled; complication.

3. That which is wrapped round any thing.

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JUDGE. – (1756)

JUDGE. s.

1. One who is invested with authority to determine any cause or question, real or personal.

2. One who presides in a court of judicature.

3. One who has skill sufficient to decide upon the merit of any thing.

JUSTICE. – (1756)

JUSTICE. s.

1. The virtue by which we give to every man what is his due.

2. Vindicative retribution; punishment.

3. Right; assertion of right.

4. One deputed by the king to right by way of judgment.

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LAW. – (1756)

LAW. s.

1. A rule of action.

2. A decree, edict, statute, or custom, publickly established.

3. Judicial process.

4. Conformity to law; any thing lawful.

5. An established and constant mode or process.

LAW. – (1785)

LAW. n.s.

1. A rule of action.

2. A decree, edict, statute, or custom, publickly established as a rule of justice.

3. A decree authoritatively annexing rewards or punishment to certain actions.

LAWFUL. – (1785)

LAWFUL. adj.

Agreeable to law; conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; legal.

LAWFULLY. – (1785)

LAWFULLY. adv.

Legally; agreeable to law.

LEAGUE. – (1756)

LEAGUE s.

A confederacy; a combination.

To LEAGUE. – (1756)

To LEAGUE. v.n.

To unite; to confederate.

LEGISLATION. – (1756)

LEGISLATION. s.

The act of giving laws.

LEGISLATIVE. – (1756)

LEGISLATIVE. a.

Giving laws; lawgiving.

LEGISLATOR. – (1756)

LEGISLATOR. s.

A lawgiver; one who makes laws for any community.

LEGISLATURE. – (1756)

LEGISLATURE. s.

The power that makes laws.

To LEND. – (1785)

To LEND. v.a.

1. To afford or supply, on condition of repayment.

2. To suffer to be used on condition that it be returned.

2. To afford; to grant in general.

LENDER. – (1785)

LENDER. n.s.

1. One who ends any thing.

2. One who makes a trade of putting money to interest.

LEVY. – (1785)

LEVY. n.s.

1. The act of raising money or men.

2. War raised.

To LEVY. – (1785)

To LEVY. v.a.

1. To raise; to bring together: applied to men.

2. To raise: applied to war.

3. To raise: applied to money.

LIFE. – (1756)

LIFE. s.

1. Union and co-operation of soul with body.

2. Perfect state.

3. Enjoyment, or possession of terrestrial existence.

4. Blood, the supposed vehicle of life.

5. Conduct; manner of living with respect to virtue or vice.

6. Condition; manner of living with respect to happiness and misery.

7. Continuance of our present state.

8. The living form; resemblance exactly copied.

9. Exact resemblance.

10. General state of man.

11. Common occurrences; human affairs; the course of things.

12. Living person.

13. Narrative of a life past.

14. Spirit; briskness; vivacity; resolution.

15. Animated existence; animal being.

LIFE. – (1785)

LIFE. n.s.

1. Union and co-operation of soul with body; vitality; animation, opposed to an inanimate state.

2. Perfect state; as distinct from other parts of human existence.

3. Enjoyment, or possession of existence, as opposed to death.

4. Blood, the supposed vehicle of life.

5. Conduct; manner of living with respect to virtue or vice.

6. Condition; manner of living with respect to happiness and misery.

7. Continuance of our present state: as, half his life was spent in study.

8. The living form; opposed to copies.

9. Exact resemblance: with to before it.

10. General state of man.

11. Common occurrences; human affairs; the course of things.

12. Living person.

13. Narrative of a life past.

14. Spirit; briskness; vivacity; resolution.

15. Animal; animated existence; animal being.

16.System of animal nature.

17. Life is also used of vegetable, and whatever grows and decays.

LIGHT. – (1756)

LIGHT. a.

11. Easy to admit any influence; unsteady; unsettled.

LIGHT. – (1768)

LIGHT. a.

11. Easy to admit any influence; unsteady; unsettled.

To LIMIT. – (1785)

To LIMIT. v.a.

1. To confine within certain bounds; to restrain; to circumscribe; not to leave 'at large.

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MAGNANIMITY. – (1756)

MAGNANIMITY. s.

Greatness of mind; bravery; elevation of soul.

MAGNANIMOUS. – (1756)

MAGNANIMOUS. a.

Great of mind; elevated in sentiment; brave.

MAGNANIMOUSLY. – (1756)

MAGNANIMOUSLY. ad.

Bravely; with greatness of mind.

MAN. – (1756)

MAN. s.

1. Human being.

8. A human being qualified in any particular manner.

MAN. – (1768)

MAN. s.

1. Human being.

8. A human being qualified in any particular manner.

MANAGEMENT. – (1756)

MANAGEMENT. s.

1. Conduct; administration.

2. Practice; transaction; dealing.

MANAGER. – (1756)

MANAGER. s.

1. One who has the conduct or direction of any ting.

2. A man of frugality; a good husband.

MANKIND. – (1756)

MANKIND. s.

1. The race or species of human beings.

MARTIAL. – (1756)

MARTIAL. a.

1. Warlike; fighting; given to war.

2. Having a warlike show; suiting war.

3. Belonging to war; not civil.

MEN. – (1756)

MEN. .

The plural of man.

MILITARY. – (1756)

MILITARY. .

1. Engaged in the life of a soldier; soldierly.

2. Suiting a soldier; pertaining to a soldier; warlike.

3. Effected by soldiers.

MILITARY. – (1785)

MILITARY. .

1. Engaged in the life of a soldier; soldierly.

2. Suiting a soldier; pertaining to a soldier; warlike.

3. Effected by soldiers.

MILITIA. – (1756)

MILITIA. s.

The trainbands; the standing force of a nation.

MILITIA. – (1785)

MILITIA. n. s.

The trainbands; the standing force of a nation.

MOCK. – (1756)

MOCK. s.

1. Ridicule; act of contempt; ...; sneer.

2. Imitation; mimickry.

To MOCK. – (1756)

To MOCK. v.n.

To make contemptuous sport.

MODERATE. – (1785)

MODERATE. adj.

1. Temperate; not excessive.

2. Not hot of temper.

3. Not luxurious; not expensive.

4. Not extreme in opinion; not sanguine in a ...

5. Placed between extremes; ...

MODERATION. – (1785)

MODERATION n.s.

1. Forbearance of extremity; the contrary temper to party violence; state of keeping a due mean betwixt extremes.

2. Calmness of mind; equanimity.

MOVEABLES. – (1785)

MOVEABLES. n.s.

Goods; furniture; distinguished from real or immoveable possessions, as lands or houses.

MUTINY. – (1785)

MUTINY. n.s.

Insurrection; sedition.

To MUTINY. – (1785)

To MUTINY. v.n.

To rise against authority; to make insurrection; to move sedition.

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NATAL. – (1785)

NATAL. .adj

Native; relating to nativity.

NATION. – (1756)

NATION. s.

A people distinguished from another people.

NATION. – (1768)

NATION. s.

A people distinguished from another people.

NATIONAL. – (1756)

NATIONAL. a.

1. Publick; general; not private; not particular.

2. Bigotted to one's own country.

NATIONAL. – (1768)

NATIONAL. a.

1. Publick; general; not private; not particular.

2. Bigotted to one's own country.

NATIONALLY. – (1756)

NATIONALLY. ad.

With regard to the nation.

NATIONALLY. – (1768)

NATIONALLY. adv.

With regard to the nation.

NATIONALNESS. – (1756)

NATIONALNESS. s.

Reference to the people in general

NATIONLESS. – (1768)

NATIONLESS. s.

Reference to the people in general

NATIVE. – (1785)

NATIVE. adj.

1. Produced by nature; natural; not artificial.

2. Natural; such as is according to nature; original.

3. Conferred by birth; belonging by birth.

4. Relating to the birth; pertaining to the time or place of birth.

5. Original; that which gave being.

NATIVE. n.s.

1. One born in any place; original inhabitant.

2. Offspring.

NATIVENESS. – (1785)

NATIVENESS. n.s.

State of being produced by nature.

NATIVITY. – (1785)

NATIVITY. n.s.

1. Birth; issue into life.

2. Time, place, or manner of birth.

3. State or place of being produced.

NATURAL. – (1785)

NATURAL adj.

1. Produced or effected by nature; not artificial.

2. Illegitimate; not legal

4. Bestowed by nature; not acquired.

4. Not forced; not farfetched; dictated by nature.

5. Following the stated course of things.

NATURALIST. – (1785)

NATURALIST. n.s.

A student in physicks, or natural philosophy.

NATURALIZATION. – (1785)

NATURALIZATION. n.s.

The act of investing aliens with the privileges of native subjects.

To NATURALIZE. – (1785)

To NATURALIZE. v.a.

1. To adopt into a community; to invest with the privileges of native subjects.

2. To make natural; to make easy like things natural.

NATURALLY. – (1785)

NATURALLY. adv.

1. According to the power or impulses of unassisted nature.

2. According to nature; without affectation; with just representation.

3. Spontaneously; without art; without cultivation: as, there is no place where wheat naturally grows.

NATURALNESS. – (1785)

NATURALNESS. n.s.

1. The state of being given or produced by nature.

2. Conformity to truth and reality; not affectation.

NATURE. – (1756)

NATURE. s.

1. An imaginary being supposed to preside over the material and animal world.

2. The native state of properties of any thing.

3. The constitution of an animated body.

4. Disposition of mind.

5. The regualr course of things.

6. The compass of natural existence.

7. Natural affection, or reverence.

8. The state or operation of the material world.

9. Sort; species.

10. Sentiment or images adapted to nature.

11. Physicks; the science which teaches the qualities of things.

NATURE. – (1768)

NATURE. s.

1. An imaginary being supposed to preside over the material and animal world.

2. The native state of properties of any thing.

3. The constitution of an animated body.

4. Disposition of mind.

5. The regualr course of things.

6. The compass of natural existence.

7. Natural affection, or reverence.

8. The state or operation of the material world.

9. Sort; species.

10. Sentiment or images adapted to nature.

11. Physicks; the science which teaches the qualities of things.

NATURE. – (1785)

NATURE. n.s.

1. An imaginary being supposed to preside over the material and animal world.

2. The native state of properties of any thing, by which it is discriminated from others.

3. The constitution of an animated body.

4. Disposition of mind; temper.

5. The course of things.

6. The compass of natural existence.

7. The constitution and appearances of things.

8. Natural affection, or reverence; native sensations.

9. The state or operation of the material world.

10. Sort; species.

11. Sentiments or images adapted to nature, or conformable to truth and reality.

12. Physicks; the science which teaches the qualities of things.

13. Of this world which occurs so frequently, with signification so various.

NATURITY. – (1785)

NATURITY. n.s.

The state of being produced by nature. A word not used.

NOBILITY. – (1785)

NOBILITY. n.s.

1. Antiquity of family joined with splendour.

2. Rank or dignity of several degrees, conferred by sovereigns. Nobility in England is extended to five ranks; duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron.

3. The persons of high rank; the persons who are exalted abour the commons.

4. Dignity. grandeur; greatness.

NOTORIOUS. – (1756)

NOTORIOUS. a.

Publickly known; evident to the world; apparent; not hidden.

NORORIOUS. – (1768)

NOTORIOUS. a.

Publickly known; evident to the world; apparent; not hidden.

NOTORIOUSLY. – (1756)

NOTORIOUSLY. ad.

Publickly; evidently.

NOTORIOUSLY. – (1768)

NOTORIOUSLY. adv.

Publickly; evidently.

NOROTIOUSNESS. – (1756)

NOROTIOUSNESS. s.

Publick fame.

NOTORIOUSNESS. – (1768)

NOTORIOUSNESS. s.

Publick fame.

NOTWITHSTANDING. – (1756)

NOTWITHSTANDING. conj.

This word is properly a participial adjective, as it is compounded of not and withstanding, and answers exactly the Latin non obstante.

1. Without hindrance or objection from.

2. Although.

3. Nevertheless; however.

NOTWITHSTANDING. – (1785)

NOTWITHSTANDING. conj.

[This word, though in conformity to other writer called here a conjunction, is properly a participial adjective, as it is compounded of not and withstanding, and answers exactly the Latin non obstante....]

1. Without hindrance or objection from.

3. Nevertheless; however.

O o

OMISSION. – (1756)

OMISSION. s.

1. Neglect to do something; forebearance of something to be done.

2. Neglect of duty, opposed to commission or perpetration of crimes.

To OMIT. – (1756)

To OMIT. v.a.

2. To neglect to practice.

OMITTANCE. – (1756)

OMITTANCE. s.

Forebearance.

ONEROUS. – (1785)

ONEROUS. adj.

Burthensome; oppressive.

OPPOSELESS. – (1785)

OPPOSELESS. adj.

Irresistible; not to be opposed.

OPPOSER. – (1785)

OPPOSER. n.s.

One that opposes; antagonist; enemy; rival.

To OPPOSE. – (1785)

To OPPOSE. v.a.

1. To act against; to be adverse; to hinder; to resist.

To OPPOSE. v.n.

1. To act adversely.

OPPOSITE. – (1756)

OPPOSITE. a.

1. Placed in front; facing each other.

2. Adverse; repugnant.

3. Contrary.

OPPOSITE. s.

Adversary; opponent; antagonist.

OPPOSITE. – (1785)

OPPOSITE. adj.

1. Placed in front; facing each other.

2. Adverse; repugnant.

3. Contrary.

OPPOSITE. n.s.

Adversary; opponent; antagonist; enemy.

To OPPRESS. – (1756)

To OPPRESS v. a.

1. To crush by hardship or unreasonable severity.

2. To overpower; to subdue.

To OPPRESS. – (1785)

To OPPRESS. v. a.

1. To crush by hardship or unreasonable severity.

2. To overpower; to subdue.

OPPRESSION. – (1756)

OPPRESSION s.

2. The state of being oppressed; misery.

2. Hardship; calamity.

OPPRESSION. – (1785)

OPPRESSION. n.s.

1. The act of oppressing; cruelty; severity.

OPPRESSIVE. – (1756)

OPPRESSIVE. a.

1. Cruel; inhuman; unjustly exactious or severe.

2. Heavy; overwhelming.

OPPRESSIVE. – (1785)

OPPRESSIVE. adj.

1. Cruel; inhuman; unjustly exactious or severe.

OPPRESSOR. – (1785)

OPPRESSOR. n. s.

One who harasses others with unreasonable or unjust severity.

ORDER. – (1785)

ORDER. n.s.

1. Method; regular disposition.

2. Established process.

3. Proper state.

4. Regularity; settled mode.

5. Moderate; precept; command.

6. Rule; regulation.

7. Regular government.

P p

PARDON. – (1785)

PARDON. n.s.

1. Forgiveness of an offender.

2. Forgiveness of a crime.

3. Remission of penalty.

4. Forgiveness received.

To PARDON. – (1785)

To PARDON. v.a.

1. To excuse an offender.

2. To forgive a crime.

3. To remit a penalty.

5. Warrant of forgiveness, or exemption from punishment.

PAUPER. – (1756)

PAUPER. s.

A poor person.

PEACE. – (1756)

PEACE. s.

1. Respite from war.

2.Quiet from suits or disturbances.

3. Rest from any commotion.

4. Silence from riots and tumults.

6. A state not hostile.

7. Rest; quiet; content; freedom from terrour; heavenly rest.

PECULIAR. – (1785)

PECULIAR. adj.

1. Appropriate; belonging to any one with exclusion of others.

2. Not common to other things.

3. Particular; single. To join most with peculiar, though found in Dryden, is improper.

PECULIAR. n.s.

1. The property; the exclusive property.

2. Something absceinded from the ordinary jurisdiction.

PEOPLE. – (1756)

PEOPLE. s.

1. A nation; those who compose a community.

3. The commonality; not the princes or nobles.

5. Men, or persons in general.

To PEOPLE. – (1756)

To PEOPLE. v.a.

To stock with inhabitants.

PERFECT. – (1756)

PERFECT. a.

1. Complete; consummate; finished; neither defective nor redundant.

2. Fully informed; fully skilled.

3. Pure; blameless; clear; immaculate.

4. Safe; out of danger.

PERFECT. – (1785)

PERFECT. adj.

1. Complete; consummate; finished; neither defective nor redundant.

2. Fully informed; fully skillful.

3. Pure; blameless; clear; immaculate.

4. Confident; certain.

To PERFECT. – (1756)

To PERFECT. v.a.

1. To finish; to complete; to consumate; to bring to its due state.

2. To make skillful; to instruct fully.

To PERFECT. – (1785)

To PERFECT. v.a.

1. To finish; to complete; to consumate; to bring to its due state.

2. To make skillful; to instruct fully.

PERPETUAL. – (1756)

PERPETUAL. a.

1. Never ceasing; eternal with respect to futurity.

2. Continual; uninterrupted; perennial.

PERPETUALLY. – (1756)

PERPETUALLY. ad.

Constantly; continually; incessantly.

To PERPETUATE. – (1756)

To PERPETUATE. v.a.

1. To make perpetual; to preserve from extinction; to eternize.

2. To continue without cessation or intermission.

PERPETUATION. – (1756)

PERPETUATION. s.

The act of making perpetual; incessant continuance.

PERPETUITY. – (1756)

PERPETUITY. s.

1. Duration to all futurity.

2. Exemption from intermission or cessation.

3. Something of which there is no end.

PERQUISITE. – (1785)

PERQUISITE. n.s.

Something gained by a place or office over and above the settled wages.

PERQUISITED. – (1785)

PERQUISITED. adj.

Supplied with perquisites.

PERQUISITION. – (1785)

PERQUISITION. n.s.

An accurate inquiry; a thorough search.

PERSON. – (1756)

PERSON. s.

1. Individual or particular man or woman.

2. Man or woman considered as opposed to things.

3. Human Being.

4. Man or woman considered as present, acting or suffering.

5. A general loose term for human being.

PERSPECTIVE. – (1756)

PERSPECTIVE. s.

1. A glass through which things are viewed.

2. The science by which things are ranged in picture, according to their appearance in their real situation.

3. View; visto.

PERSPECTIVE. a.

Relating to the science of vision; optick; optical.

PETITION. – (1756)

PETITION. s.

1. Request; intreaty; supplication; prayer.

2. Single branch or article of a prayer.

To PETITION. – (1756)

To PETITION. v. a.

To solicite; to supplicate.

PIRACY. – (1785)

PIRACY. n.s.

The act or practice of robbing on the sea.

PIRATE. – (1785)

PIRATE. n.s.

1. A sea robber.

2. Any robber; particularly a bookseller who seizes the copies of other men.

To PIRATE. – (1785)

To PIRATE. v.n.

To rob by sea.

To PIRATE. v.a.

To take by robbery.

PLAGUE. – (1756)

PLAGUE. s.

1. Pestilence; a disease eminently contagious and destructive.

2. State of misery.

3. Any thing troublesome or vexatious.

PLAGUE. – (1785)

PLAGUE. s.

1. Pestilence; a disease eminently contagious and destructive.

2. State of misery.

3. Any thing troublesome or vexatious.

PLURALITY. – (1756)

PLURALITY s.

1. The state of being or having a greater number.

2. A number more than one.

4. The greater number; the majority.

PLURALITY. – (1785)

PLURALITY n. s.

1. The state of being or having a greater number.

2. A number more than one.

4. The greater number; the majority.

PLURALITY adv.

In a sense implying more than one.

POLICE. – (1756)

POLICE. s.

The regulation and government of a city our county, so far as regards the inhabitants.

POLICED. – (1756)

POLICED. a.

Regulated; formed into a regular course of administration.

POLITICAL. – (1756)

POLITICAL. a.

1. Relating to politicks; relating to the administration of publick affairs.

2. Cunning; skilled.

POLITICAL – (1768)

POLITICAL. a.

1. Relating to politicks; relating to the administration of publick affairs.

2. Cunning; skilled.

POLITICALLY. – (1756)

POLITICALLY. ad.

1. With relation to publick administration.

2. Artfully; politickly.

POLITICALLY. – (1768)

POLITICALLY. ad.

1. With relation to publick administration.

2. Artfully; publickly.

POLITICASTER. – (1756)

POLITICASTER. s.

1. A petty ignorant pretender to politicks.

POLITICIAN. – (1756)

POLITICIAN. s.

1. One versed in the arts of government; one skilled in politicks.

2. A man of artifice; one of deep contrivance.

POLITICK. – (1756)

POLITICK. a.

1. Political; civil.

2. Prudent; versed in affairs.

3. Artful; cunning.

POLITICKS. – (1756)

POLITICKS. s.

The science of government; that art or practice of administring publick affairs.

POLITICKLY. – (1756)

POLITICKLY. ad.

Artfully; cunningly.

POLITURE. – (1756)

POLITURE. s.

The gloss given by the act of polishing.

POLITY. – (1756)

POLITY. s.

A form of government; civil constitution.

POLL. – (1756)

POLL. s.

1. The head.

2. A catalogue or list of persons; a register of heads.

To POLL. – (1756)

To POLL. v. a.

2nd 4. To take a list or register of persons.

2nd 5. To enter one's name in a list or register.

2nd 6. To insert into a number as a voter.

POOR. – (1756)

POOR. a.

1. Not rich. indigent; necessitous; oppressed with want.

10. The Poor. Those who are in the lowest rank of the community; those who cannot subsist but by the charity of others.

POPULAR. – (1785)

POPULAR. adj.

1. Vulgar; plebeian.

2. Suitable to the common people; familier; not critical.

3. Beloved by the people; pleasing to the people.

4. Studious of the favor of the people.

5. Prevailing or raging among the populace.

POSSESSION. – (1785)

POSSESSION. n.s.

1. The state of owning or having in one's own hands or power; property.

2. The thing possessed.

POST. – (1756)

POST. s.

1. A hasty messenger; a courier who comes and goes at states times.

2. Quick course or manner of traveling.

3. Situation; seat.

5. Place; employment; office

6. A piece of timber set erect.

POST. – (1785)

POST. n.s.

1. A hasty messenger; a courier who comes and goes at states times; commonly a letter carrier.

2. Quick course or manner of traveling.

3. Situation; seat.

5. Place; employment; office

6. A piece of timber set erect.

To POST. – (1756)

To POST. v.n.

To travel with speed.

To POST. v.a.

1. To fix opprobriously on post.

2. To place; to station; to fix.

3. To register methodically; to transcribe from one book into another.

To POST. – (1785)

To POST. v.n.

To travel with speed.

POTENCY. – (1756)

POTENCY. s.

1. Power; influence.

2. Efficacy; strength.

POTENT. – (1756)

POTENT. a.

1. Powerful; forcible; strong; efficacious.

2. Having great authority or dominion: as potent monarchs.

POTENTATE. – (1756)

POTENTATE. s.

Monarch; prince; sovereign.

POWER. – (1756)

POWER. s.

1. Command; authority; dominion; influence.

8. Government; right of government.

9. Sovereign; potentate.

12. Host; army; military force.

13. A large quantity; a great number.

POWERABLE. – (1756)

POWERABLE. a.

Capable of performing any thing.

POWERFUL. – (1756)

POWERFUL. a.

1. Invested with command or authority; potent.

2. Forcible; mighty.

3. Efficacious.

POWERFULLY. – (1756)

POWERFULLY. ad.

Potently; mightily; efficaciously; forcibly.

POWERFULNESS. – (1756)

POWERFULNESS. s.

Power; efficacy; might.

To PRESERVE. – (1785)

To PRESERVE. v.a.

1. To save; to defend from destruction or any evil; to keep.

PRESERVER. – (1785)

PRESERVER. n.s.

1. One who preserves; one who keeps from ruin or mischief.

PRESIDENT. – (1785)

PRESIDENT. n.s.

1. One placed with authority over others; one at the head of others.

2. Governour; prefect.

3. A tutelary power.

PRIVILEGE — To PRIVILEGE – (1785)

PRIVILEGE. n.s.

1. Peculiar advantage.

2. Immunity; right not universal.

TO PRIVILEGE. v.a.

1. To invest with right or immunities; to grant a privilege.

2. To exempt from censure or danger.

3. To exempt from paying tax or impost.

PRODUCE. – (1785)

PRODUCE. n.s.

1. Product; that which any thing yields or brings.

2. Amount; profit; gain; emergent sum or quantity.

PROMISCUOUS. – (1785)

PROMISCUOUS. adj.

Mingled; confused; undistinguished.

PROMISCUOUSLY. – (1785)

PROMISCUOUSLY. adv.

With confused mixture; indiscriminately.

To PROMOTE. – (1785)

To PROMOTE. v.a.

1. To forward; to advance.

2. To elevate; to exalt; to prefer.

PROMOTER. – (1785)

PROMOTER. n.s.

1. Advancer; forwarder; encourager.

PROPOSER. – (1785)

PROPOSER. n.s.

One that offer any thing to consideration

To PROPOSE. – (1785)

To PROPOSE. v.a.

To offer to the consideration.

To PROSECUTE. – (1785)

To PROSECUTE. v. a.

4. To persue by law; to sue criminally.

PROSECUTION. – (1785)

PROSECUTION. n. s.

2. Suit against a man in a criminal case.

PROSECUTOR. – (1785)

PROSECUTOR. n.s.

One that carries on any thing; a persuer of any purpose; one who persues another by law in a criminal cause.

To PROTECT. – (1756)

To PROTECT. v. a.

To defend; to cover from evil; to shield.

To PROTECT. – (1785)

To PROTECT. v.a.

To defend; to cover from evil; to shield.

PROTECTION. – (1785)

PROTECTION. n.s.

1. Defence; shelter from evil.

2. A passport; exemption from being molested: as, he had a protection during the rebellion.

PROTECTIVE. – (1785)

PROTECTIVE. adj.

Defensive; sheltering.

PROTECTOR. – (1785)

PROTECTOR. n.s.

1. Defender; shelterer; supporter; one who shield from evil or oppression; guardian.

2. An officer, who had heretofore the care of the kingdom is the king's minority.

PROTECTRESS. – (1785)

PROTECTRESS. n.s.

A woman that protects.

PROVIDENCE. – (1756)

PROVIDENCE. s.

1. Foresight; timely care; forecast; the act of providing.

2. The care of God over created beings; divine superintendence.

3. Prudence; frugality; reasonable and moderate care of expence.

PRUDENCE. – (1768)

PRUDENCE. s.

Wisdom applied to practice.

PRUDENT. – (1768)

PRUDENT. a.

1. Practically wise.

2. Foreseeing by natural instinct.

PUBLICK. – (1756)

PUBLICK. a.

1. Belonging to the state or nation; not private.

4. Regarding not private interest, but the good of the community.

PUBLICK. s.

1. The general body of mankind, or of a state or nation.

2. Open view; general notice.

PUBLICK. – (1785)

PUBLICK. adj.

1. Belonging to the state or nation; not private.

2. Open; notorious; generally known.

3. General; done by many.

4. Regarding not private interests, but the good of the community.

5. Open for general entertainment.

PUBLICK. n.s.

1. The general body of mankind, or of a state or nation; the people.

2. Open view; general notice.

PUBLICKLY. – (1785)

PUBLICKLY. adv.

1. In the name of the community.

2. Openly; without concealment.

PUNISHABLE. – (1785)

PUNISHABLE. adj.

Worthy of punishment; capable of punishment.

PUNISHABLEMNESS. – (1785)

PUNISHABLEMNESS. n.s.

The quality of deserving or admitting punishment.

To PUNISH. – (1785)

To PUNISH. v.a.

1. To chastise; to afflict with penalties or death for some crime.

2. To revenge a fault with pain or death.

PUNISHER. – (1785)

PUNISHER. n.s.

One who inflicts pains for a crime.

PUNISHMENT. – (1756)

PUNISHMENT. n.s.

Any infliction or pain imposed in vengeance of a crime.

PUNITION. – (1785)

PUNITION. n.s.

Punishment.

PUNITIVE. – (1785)

PUNITIVE. adj.

Awarding or inflicting punishment.

PURSUANCE. – (1785)

PURSUANCE. n.s.

Prosecution; process.

PURSUANT. – (1785)

PURSUANT. adj.

Done in consequence or prosecution of any thing.

To PURSUE. – (1785)

To PURSUE. v.a.

1. To chase; to follow in hostility.

2. To prosecute; to continue.

3. To imitate; to follow as an example.

4. To endeavour to attain.

To PURSUE. v.n.

To go on; to proceed.

Q q

To QUARTER. – (1785)

To QUARTER. n.s.

3. A particular region of a town or country.

4. The place where soldiers are lodged or stationed.

5. Remission of life; mercy granted by a conqueror.

To QUARTER. v.a.

4. To station or lodge soldiers.

5. To lodge; to fix on a temporary dwelling.

QUICK. – (1785)

QUICK. adj.

3. Speedy; free from delay.

4. Active; spritely; ready.

QUICK. adv.

Nimbly; speedily; readily.

R r

RACE – (1756)

RACE. s.

1. A family ascending.

2. Family descending.

3. A generation; a collective family.

4. A particular breed.

To RAISE. – (1785)

To RAISE. v.a.

1. To lift; to heave.

2. To set upright: as, he raised a mast.

19. To collect; to assemble; to levy.

20 To give rise to.

REASON – (1785)

REASON. n.s.

1. The power that man deduces one proposition from another, or proceeds from premises to consequences; the rational faculty; discursive powers.

2. Cause; ground or principle.

3. Cause efficient.

4. Final cause.

REASONABLE – (1785)

REASONABLE. adj.

2. Acting; speaking, or thingking rationally.

3. Just; rational; agreeable to reason.

4. Not immoderate.

5. Tolerable; being in mediocrity.

To REASON. – (1785)

To REASON. v.a.

To examine rationally.

REBELLIOUS. – (1768)

REBELLIOUS. a.

Opponent to lawful authority.

REBELLIOUSLY. – (1768)

REBELLIOUSLY. adv.

In opposition to lawful authority.

REBELLIOUSNESS. – (1768)

REBELLIOUSNESS. s.

The quality of being rebllious.

REBELLION. – (1768)

REBELLION. s.

Insurrection against lawful authority.

REBELLION. – (1785)

REBELLION. n.s.

Insurrection against lawful authority.

To RECALL. – (1756)

To RECALL. v. a.

To call back; to call again; to revoke.

RECALL. – (1756)

RECALL. s.

Revocation; act or power of calling back.

RECOMPENSE. – (1898)

RECOMPENSE. n.s.

1. Reward; something given as an acknowledgment of merit.

2. Equivalent; compensation.

To RECOMPENSE. – (1898)

RECOMPENSE. v.a.

1. To repay; to requite.

2. To give requital.

3. To compensate; to make up by something equivalent.

4. To redeem; to pay for.

RECOURSE. – (1756)

RECOURSE. s.

2. Return; new attack.

3. Application as for help or protection.

4. Access.

REGISTER. – (1756)

REGISTER. s.

1. An account of any thing regularly kept.

To REGISTER. – (1756)

To REGISTER. v.a.

To record; to preserve by authentick accounts.

REGISTRY. – (1756)

REGISTRY v.a.

1. The act of inserting in the register.

2. The place where the register is kept.

3. A series of facts recorded.

To REGULATE. – (1785)

To REGULATE. v.a.

1. To adjust by rule or method.

2. To direct.

RELIGION. – (1756)

RELIGION. v.a.

1. Virtue, as founded upon reverence of God, and expectation of future rewards and punishments.

2. A system of divine faith and worship as opposite to others.

RELIGIONIST. – (1756)

RELIGIONIST. s.

A bigot to any religious persuasion.

RELIGIOUS. – (1756)

RELIGIOUS. a.

1. Pious; disposed to the duties of religion.

2. Teaching religion.

3. Among the Romonists, bound by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

4. Exact; strict.

RELIGIOUSLY. – (1756)

RELIGIOUSLY. ad.

1. Piously; with obedience to the dictates of religion.

2. According to the rites of religion.

3. Reverently; with veneration.

4. Exactly; with strict observance.

RELIGIOUSNESS. – (1756)

RELIGIOUSNESS. s.

The quality or state of being religious.

RELIGION. – (1785)

RELIGION. n.s.

1. Virtue, as founded upon reverence of God, and expectation of future rewards and punishments.

2. A system of divine faith and worship, as opposed to others.

To REPEL. – (1785)

To REPEL. v.a.

1. To drive back any thing.

2. To drive back an assailant.

To REPEL. v.n.

1. To act with force contrary to force impressed.

To REPRESENT. – (1785)

To REPRESENT. v.a.

1. To exhibit, as if the thing exhibited were present.

REPRESENTATION. – (1785)

REPRESENTATION. n.s.

1. Image; likeness.

REPRESENTATIVE – (1756)

REPRESENTATIVE. a.

1. Exhibiting a similitude.

2. Bearing the character or power of another.

REPRESENTATIVE. s.

1. One exhibiting the likeness of another.

2. One exercising the vicarious power given by another.

REPRESENTATIVE. – (1785)

REPRESENTATIVE. adj.

1. Exhibiting a similitude.

2. Bearing the character or power of another.

REPRESENTATIVE. n.s.

1. One exhibiting the likeness of another.

2. One exercising the vicarious power given by another.

REPRIEVE. – (1785)

REPRIEVE. n.s.

Respite after sentence of death.

To REPRIEVE. – (1785)

To REPRIEVE. v.a.

To respite after sentence of death; to give a respite.

REPUBLICAN – (1756)

REPUBLICAN. a.

Placing the government in the people.

REPUBLICAN. s.

One who thinks a commonwealth without monarchy the best government.

REPUBLICK – (1756)

REPUBLICK. s.

Common-wealth; state in which the power is lodged in more than one.

REQUEST – (1756)

REQUEST. s.

1. Petition; entreaty.

2. Demand; repute; credit; state of being desired.

To REQUEST – (1756)

To REQUEST. v.a.

To ask; to solicite; to entreat.

REQUESTER. – (1756)

REQUESTER. s.

Petitioner; soliciter.

RESIDENCE. – (1785)

RESIDENCE. n.s.

1. Act of dwelling in a place.

2. Place of abode; dwelling.

RESIDENT. – (1785)

RESIDENT. adj.

Dwelling or having abode in a place.

To RESIDE. – (1785)

To RESIDE. v. n.

1. To have abode; to live; to dwell; to be present.

RESOLUTION. – (1785)

RESOLUTION. n.s.

1. Act of clearing difficulties

2. [From resolute.] Fixed determination; settled thought.

5. Constancy; firmness; steadiness in good or bad.

6. Determination of a cause in courts of justice.

RESPITE. – (1785)

RESPITE. n.s.

1. Reprieve; suspension of a capital sentence.

2. Pause; interval.

To RESPITE. – (1785)

To RESPITE. v.a.

1. To relieve by a pause.

2. To suspend; to delay.

To RETAIN. – (1785)

To RETAIN. v.a.

1. To keep; not to lose.

2. To keep; not to lay aside.

3. To keep; not to dismiss.

4. To keep in pay; to hire.

REVENUE. – (1785)

REVENUE. n.s.

Income; annual profits received from lands or other funds.

REVOCABLE. – (1756)

REVOCABLE. a.

1. That may be recalled.

2. That may be repealed.

REVOCABLENESS. – (1756)

REVOCABLENESS. s.

The quality of being revocable.

REVOCATION. – (1756)

REVOCATION. s.

1. Act of recalling.

2. State of being recalled.

3. Repeal; reversal.

To REVOCATE. – (1756)

To REVOCATE. v.a.

Ro recall; to call back.

To REVOKE. – (1756)

To REVOKE. v.a.

1. To repeal; reverse.

2. To check; to repress.

3. To draw back.

REVOKEMENT. – (1756)

REVOKEMENT. s.

Revocation; repeal; recal.

RICH. – (1756)

RICH. a.

1. Wealthy; abounding in wealth; abounding in money or possessions.

2. Valuable; estimable; precious; splendid.

3. Having any ingredients or qualities in a great quantity or degree.

4. Fertile; fruitful.

RIGHT. – (1756)

RIGHT. a.

1. Fit; proper; becoming; suitable; true; not erroneous.

3. Just; honest; equitable.

4. Happy; convenient.

RIGHT. interject.

An expression of approbation.

RIGHT. ad.

1. Properly; justly; exactly; according to the truth.

RIGHT s.

1. Justice; not wrong.

2. Freedom from errour.

3. Just claim.

4. That which justly belongs to one.

5. Property; interest.

6. Power; prerogative.

7. Immunity; privilege.

RIGHT. – (1785)

RIGHT. n.s.

1. Not wrong.

2. Justice; not injury.

3. Freedom from guilt; goodness.

4. Freedom from errour.

5. Just claim.

6. That which justly belongs to one.

7. Property; interest.

8. Power; prerogative.

9. Immunity; privilege.

To RIGHT. – (1756)

To RIGHT. v.a.

To do justice to; to establish in possessions justly claimed; to relieve from wrong.

RIGHTEOUS. – (1756)

RIGHTEOUS. a.

1. Just; honest; virtuous; uncorrupt.

2. Equitable.

RIGHTEOUSLY. – (1756)

RIGHTEOUSLY. ad.

Honestly; virtuously.

RIGHTEOUSNESS. – (1756)

RIGHTEOUSNESS. s.

Justice; honesty; virtue; goodness.

RIGHTFUL. – (1785)

RIGHTFUL. adj.

1. Having the right; having the just claim.

2. Honest; just; agreeable to justice.

RIGOUR. – (1785)

RIGOUR. n.s.

3. Severity; sternness; want of cond..cension of others.

4. Severity of life; voluntary pain; adversity.

5. Strictness; unabated exactness.

6. Rage; cruelty; fury.

ROUTE. – (1785)

ROUTE. n.s.

Road; way.

S s

SAFE. – (1756)

SAFE. a.

1. Free from danger.

2. Free from hurt.

3. Cont.... security.

4. No longer dangerous; reposited out of the power of doing harm.

SCANDALIZE. – (1647)

SCANDALIZE. .

To offend by giving ill example.

SCANDALL. – (1647)

SCANDALL. .

An offence which causeth one to take offence.

SCIENCE. – (1785)

SCIENCE. n.s.

1. Knowledge.

2. Certainty grounded on demonstration.

3. Art attained by precepts, built on principle.

4. Any art or species of knowledge.

5.One of the seven liberal arts, grammar, rhetorick, logick, arithmetick, musick, geometry, astronomy.

SCIENTIFICK. – (1785)

SCIENTIFICK. adj.

Producing demonstrative knowledge; producing certainty.

SCIENTIFICALLY. – (1785)

SCIENTIFICALLY. adv.

In such a manner as to produce knowledge.

SEA. – (1785)

SEA. n.s.

1. The ocean; the water, opposed to the land.

2. A collection of water; a lake.

SEAT. – (1785)

SEAT. n.s.

1. A chair, bench, or any thing on which one may sit.

2. Chair of state; throne; post of authority; tribunal.

3. Mansion; residence; dwelling; abode.

Situation; site.

To SEAT. – (1785)

To SEAT. v.a.

1. To place on seats; to cause to sit down.

2. To place in a post of authority, or place of distinction.

3. To fix in any particular place or situation; to settle.

4. To fix; to place firm.

To SECEDE. – (1785)

To SECEDE. v.n.

To withdraw from fellowship in any affair.

SECEDER. – (1785)

SECEDER. n.s.

One who discovers his dispprobation of any proceedings by withdrawing himself.

SECESSION. – (1756)

SECESSION. s.

1. The act of departing.

2. The act of withdrawing from councils or actions.

SECESSION. – (1785)

SECESSION. n.s.

1. The act of departing.

2. The act of withdrawing from councils or actions.

SECURE. – (1756)

SECURE. a.

1. Free from fear exempt from terrour; easy; assured.

3. Free from danger; safe.

SECURE. – (1768)

SECURE. a.

1. Free from fear exempt from terrour; easy; assured.

3. Free from danger; safe.

To SECURE – (1756)

To SECURE. v.a.

1. To make certain to put out of hazard; to ascertain.

2. To protect; to make safe.

3. To insure.

To SECURE. – (1768)

To SECURE. v.a.

1. To make certain; to put out of hazard; to ascertain.

2. To protect; to make safe.

3. To insure.

SEDITION. – (1785)

SEDITION. n.s.

A tumult; an insurrection; a popular commotion; an uproar.

SEDITIOUS. – (1785)

SEDITIOUS. adj.

Factious with tumult; turbulent.

SEDITIOUSLY. – (1785)

SEDITIOUSLY. adv.

Tumultuously; with factious turbulence.

SEDITIOUSNESS. – (1785)

SEDITIOUSNESS. n.s.

Turbulence; disposition to sedition.

SEMICOLON. – (1785)

SEMICOLON. n.s.

Half a colon; a point made thus [;] to denote a greater pause than a comma.

To SERVE. – (1786)

To SERVE. v.n.

1. To be a servant, or slave.

2. To be in subjection.

3. To attend; to wait.

4. To act in war.

5. To produce the end desired.

6. To be sufficient for a purpose.

7. To suit; to be convenient.

8. To conduce, to be of use.

9. To officiate or minister.

SERVITUDE. – (1785)

SERVITUDE. n.s.

1. Slavery; state of a slave; dependence.

2. Servants collectively. Not in use.

SHALL. – (1785)

SHALL. verb desect.

5. He SHALL love. It will be that he must love; it is commanded him that he must love.

SHERIFF. – (1756)

SHERIFF. s.

An officer to whom is intrusted in each county the execution of the laws.

SHOCK. – (1756)

SHOCK. s.

1. Conflict; mutual impression of violence; violent concourse.

2. Concussion; external violence.

3. The conflict of enemies.

4. Offence; impression of disgust.

SHOCK. – (1768)

SHOCK. s.

1. Conflict; mutual impression of violence; violent concourse.

2. Concussion; external violence.

3. The conflict of enemies.

4. Offence; impression of disgust.

To SHOCK. – (1756)

To SHOCK. v.a.

1. To shake by violence.

2. To offend; to disgust.

To SHOCK. v.n.

To be offensive.

SLAVE. – (1756)

SLAVE. s.

One mancipated to a master; not a freeman; a dependant.

SLAVE. – (1785)

SLAVE. n.s.

1. One mansipated to a master; not a freeman; a dependant.

2. One that has lost power of resistance.

To SLAVE. – (1785)

To SLAVE. v.n.

To drudge; to moil; to toil.

SLAVERY. – (1785)

SLAVERY. n. s.

Servitude; the condition of a slave; the offices of a slave.

SOLEMN. – (1756)

SOLEMN. adj. (1756)

4. Striking with seriousness; sober; serious.

5. Grave; affectedly serious.

To SOLICIT. – (1756)

To SOLICIT. v.a.

1. To importune; to intreat.

2. To call to action; to summon; to awaken; to excite.

3. To implore; to ask.

SOVEREIGN. – (1756)

SOVEREIGN. a.

1. Supreme in power; having no superiour.

SOVEREIGNTY. – (1756)

SOVEREIGNTY. s.

Supremacy; highest place; highest degree of excellence.

SPECIES. – (1756)

SPECIES. s.

1. A sort; a subdivision of a general term.

2. Class of nature; single order of beings.

3. Appearance to the senses; any visible or sensible representation.

4. Representation to the mind.

5. Show; visible exhibition.

6. Circulating money.

7. Simples that have place in a compound.

SPEEDY. – (1756)

SPEEDY. a.

Quick; swift; nimble; quick of dispatch.

SPEEDY. – (1785)

SPEEDY adj.

Quick; swift; nimble; quick of dispatch.

STANDING. – (1756)

STANDING. part. a.

1. Settled; established.

STANDING. s.

3. Power to stand.

4. Rank; condition.

STATE. – (1756)

STATE. s.

5. The community; the publick; the commonwealth.

6. A republick; a government not monarchical.

13. The principal persons in the government.

STATE. – (1768)

STATE. s.

5. The community; the publick; the commonwealth.

6. A republick; a government not monarchical.

13. The principal persons in the government.

STYLE. – (1756)

STYLE. s.

3. Title; appellation.

To STYLE. – (1756)

To STYLE. v.a.

To call; to term; to name.

SUBJECT. – (1756)

SUBJECT. a.

1. Placed or situated under.

2. Living under the dominion of another.

SUBJECT. s.

1. One who lives under the dominion of another.

SUBJECT. – (1768)

SUBJECT. a.

1. Placed or situated under.

2. Living under the dominion of another.

SUBJECT. s.

1. One who lives under the dominion of another.

To SUBJECT. – (1756)

To SUBJECT. v.a.

1. To put under.

2. To reduce to submission; to make subordinate; to make submissive.

3. To enslave; to make obnoxious.

5. To submit; to make accountable.

6. To make subservient.

To SUBJECT. – (1768)

To SUBJECT. v.a.

1. To put under.

2. To reduce to submission; to make subordinate; to make submissive.

3. To enslave; to make obnoxious.

5. To submit; to make accountable.

6. To make subservient.

SUBJECTION. – (1756)

SUBJECTION. s.

1. The act of subduing.

2 The state of being under government.

SUBJECTION. – (1768)

SUBJECTION. s.

1. The act of subduing.

2. The state of being under government.

SUCCOUR. – (1785)

SUCCOUR. n.s.

1. Aid; assistance; relief of any kind; help in distress.

2. The person or thing that brings help.

To SUCCOUR. – (1785)

To SUCCOUR. v.a.

To help; to assist in difficulty or distress; to relieve.

SUFFRAGE. – (1756)

SUFFRAGE. s.

Vote; voice given in a controverted point.

To SUFFRAGATE. – (1756)

To SUFFRAGATE. v.n.

To vote with; to agree in voice with.

To SUPPLICATE. – (1756)

To SUPPLICATE. v.n.

To implore; to entreat; to petition submissively.

SUPPLICATION. – (1756)

SUPPLICATION. s.

1. Petition humbly delivered; entreaty.

To SUPPRESS. – (1785)

To SUPPRESS. v.n.

1. To crush; to overpower; to overwhelm; to subdue; to reduce from any state of activity or commotion.

2. To conceal; not to tell; not to reveal.

3. To keep in; not to let out.

SUPPRESSION. – (1785)

SUPPRESSION. n.s.

1. The act of suppressing.

2. Not publication.

SUPPRESSOR. – (1785)

SUPPRESSOR. s.

One that suppresses, crushes, or conceals.

SUPREMACY. – (1756)

SUPREMACY. s.

Highest place; highest authority; state of being supreme.

SUPREME. – (1756)

SUPREME. a.

1. Highest in dignity; highest in authority.

2. Highest; most excellent.

SUPREMELY. – (1756)

SUPREMELY. ad.

In the highest degree.

SWIFT. – (1785)

SWIFT. adj.

1. Moving far in a short time; quick; fleet; speedy; nimble; rapid.

2. Ready.

SWIFTLY. – (1785)

SWIFTLY. adv.

Fleetly, rapidly; nimbly; with celerity; with velocity.

SWIFTNESS. (1785)

SWIFTNESS. n.s.

Speed; nimbleness; rapidity; quickness; velocity; celerity.

SYSTEM. – (1756)

SYSTEM. s.

1. Any complexure or combination of many things acting together.

2. A scheme which reduces many things to regular dependence or co-operation.

3. A scheme which unites many things in order.

T t

TACIT. – (1756)

TACIT. a.

Silent; implied; not expressed by words.

TACIT. – (1768)

TACIT. a.

Silent; implied; not expressed by words.

TACITLY. – (1756)

TACITLY. ad.

Silently; without oral expression.

TACITLY. – (1768)

TACITLY. adv.

Silently; without oral expression.

TACITURRITY. – (1647)

TACITURRITY,

Silence.

TENET. – (1785)

TENET. n.s.

Position; principle; opinion.

TESTIMONY. – (1785)

TESTIMONY. n.s.

1. Evidence given; proof by witness.

2. Publick evidence.

3. Open attestation; profession.

TOWNSMAN. – (1756)

TOWNSMAN. s.

1. An inhabitant of a place.

2. One of the same town.

TRADE. – (1756)

TRADE. s.

1. Traffick; commerce; exchange.

2. Occupation; particular employment whether manual or mercantile.

3. Instruments of any occupation.

4. Any employment not manual; habitual exercise.

To TRADE. – (1756)

To TRADE. v.n.

1. To traffick; to deal; to hold commerce.

2. To act merely for money.

TRADESFOLK. – (1756)

TRADESFOLK. s.

People employed in trades.

TRADESMAN. – (1756)

TRADESMAN. s.

A shopkeeper.

TRAINBANDS. – (1756)

TRAINBANDS. s.

The militia; the part of a community trained to martial exercise.

TRAITOR. – (1756)

TRAITOR. s.

One who being trusted betrays.

TRAITOR. – (1785)

TRAITOR. n. s.

One who being trusted betrays.

TRANQUIL. – (1785)

TRANQUIL. adj.

Quiet; peaceful; undisturbed.

TRANQUILITY. – (1785)

TRANQUILITY. n.s.

Quiet; peace of mind; peace of condition; freedom from perturbation.

TRANSIENT. – (1756)

TRANSIENT a.

Soon past; soon passing; short; momentary.

TRANSIENT. – (1768)

TRANSIENT a.

Soon past; soon passing; short; momentary.

TREASON. – (1756)

TREASON. s.

An offense committed against the dignity and majesty of the commonwealth: it is divided into high treason and petit treason. High treason is an offence against the security of the commonwealth.... Petit treason is when a servant kills his master.....

TREASON. – (1785)

TREASON. n. s.

TREASONOUS. – (1756)

TREASONOUS. a.

Having the nature or guilt of treason.

TREASONOUS. – (1785)

TREASONOUS. adj.

Having the nature or guilt of treason.

TREASON – (The Constitution of the United States of America, Article 3, Section 3 – 1790)

The Constitution of the United States of America, Article 3, Section 3;

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them aid and comfort.

From both, the 1756 and 1785 dictionaries on about first couple lines refer to “offense”; thus war; and the fourteenth line mentioning “adhering to his enemies”. Both elements carry forward into The Constitution of the United States of America, Article 3, Section 3; quoted above.

The constitutional definition is lawfully enforceable. However, neither The unanimous Declaration nor The Constitution of the United States of America define “war”. Therefore, a common-use dictionary of the 1700's must define the words contained in those document contracts. Benefit always going to the governed, while limited power goes to the government. We know this by The Declaration's “consent of the governed”; and The Constitution's Amendments 9 & 10.

TREASURE. – (1756)

TREASURE. s.

Wealth hoarded; riches accumulated.

TREATY. – (1756)

TREATY. s.

1. Negotiation; act of treating.

2. A compact of accommodation relating to publick affairs.

3. For entreaty: supplication; petition.

TULMULT. – (1785)

TULMULT. n.s.

1. A promiscuous commotion in a multitude.

2. A multitude put into wild commotion.

3. A stir; an irregular violence; a wild commotion.

TUMULTUOUSLY. – (1785)

TUMULTUOUSLY. adv.

By act of the multitude; with confusion and violence.

TUMULTUARY. – (1785)

TUMULTUARY. adj.

1. Disorderly; promiscuous; confused.

2. Restless; put into irregular commotion.

TUMULTUOUS. – (1785)

TUMULTUOUS. adj.

1. Violently carried on by disorderly multitudes.

2. Put into violent commotion; irregularly and confusedly agitated.

3. Turbulent; violent.

4. Full of tumults.

TUTELARY. – (1756)

TUTELARY. a.

Having the charge or guardianship of any person or thing; protecting; defensive; guardian.

TUTOR. – (1756)

TUTOR. s.

One who has the care of another's learning and morals.

To TUTOR. – (1756)

To TUTOR. v.a.

1. To instruct; to teach; to document.

2. To treat with superiority or severity.

TYRANNICIDE. – (1756)

TYRANNICIDE. s.

The act of killing a tyrant.

TYRANNICK. – (1756)

TYRANNICK. a.

Suiting a tyrant; acting like a tyrant; cruel; despotick; imperious.

TYRANNOUS. – (1756)

TYRANNOUS. a.

Tyrannical; despotick; arbitrary; severe.

TYRANNY. – (1756)

TYRANNY. s.

1. Absolute monarchy imperiously administered.

2. Unrestricted and cruel power.

3. Cruel government; rigorous command.

4. Severity; rigour; inclemency.

TYRANNY. – (1785)

TYRANNY. n. s.

1. Absolute monarchy imperiously administered.

2. Unresisted and cruel power.

3. Cruel government; rigorous command.

4. Severity; rigour; inclemency.

TYRANT. – (1756)

TYRANT. s.

1, An absolute monarch governing imperiously.

2. A cruel despotick and severe master.

TYRANT. – (1785)

TYRANT. n.s.

1. An absolute monarch governing imperiously.

2. A cruel, despotick and severe master; an oppressor.

U u

UN. – (1756)

UN.

A Saxon privative or negative particle answering to in of the Latins, and a of the Greeks, on, Dutch. It is placed almost at will before adjectives and adverbs.

UNIFORM. – (1785)

UNIFORM. adj.

1. Keeping in tenour; similar to itself.

2. Conforming to one rule; acting in the same manner; agreeing with each other.

UNION. – (1756)

UNION. s.

1. The act of joining two or more.

2. Concord; conjunction of mind or interests.

UNUSUAL. – (1785)

UNUSUAL. adj.

Not common; not frequent; rare.

UNUSUALLY. – (1785)

UNUSUALLY. adv.

Not in the usual manner.

UNUSUALNESS. – (1785)

UNUSUALNESS. n.s

Uncommoness; infrequency.

UNWARRANTABLE. – (1756)

UNWARRANTABLE. a.

Not defensible; not to be justified; not allowed.

UNWARRANTABLY. – (1756)

UNWARRANTABLY. ad.

Not justifiably; not defensibly.

UNWARRANTED. – (1756)

UNWARRANTED. a.

Not ascertained; uncertain.

USEFUL. – (1785)

USEFUL. adj.

Convenient; profitable to any end; conducive or helpful to any purpose; valuable for use.

USEFULLY. – (1785)

USEFULLY. adv.

In such a manner as to help forward some end.

USEFULNESS. – (1785)

USEFULNESS. n.s.

Conduciveness or helpfulness to some end.

USELESS. – (1785)

USELESS. adj.

Answering no purpose; having no end.

To USURP. – (1756)

To USURP. v.a.

To possess by force or intrusion; to seize, or possess without right.

USURPATION. – (1756)

USURPATION. s.

Forcible, unjust, illegal seizure or possession.

USURPER. – (1756)

USURPER. s.

One who seizes or possesses that to which he has no right.

USURPINGLY. – (1756)

USURPINGLY. ad.

Without just claim.

V v

VAGABOND. – (1756)

VAGABOND. a.

1. Wandering without any settled habitation; wanting a home.

2. Wandering; vagrant.

VAGABOND. s.

1. A vagrant; wanderer, commonly in a sense of reproach.

2. One that wander illegally, without a settled habitation.

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To VEX. – (1756)

To VEX. v.a.

1. To plague; to torment; to harrass.

2. To disturb; to disquiet.

3. To trouble with slight provocations.

VEXATION. – (1756)

VEXATION. s.

1. The act of troubling.

2. The state of being troubled; uneasiness; sorrow.

3. The cause of trouble or uneasiness.

4. An act of harrassing by law.

5. A slight teazing trouble.

VEXATIOUS. – (1756)

VEXATIOUS. a.

1.Afflictive; troublesome; causing trouble.

2. Full of trouble; full of uneasiness.

3. Teazing; slightly troublesome.

VICARIOUS. – (1756)

VICARIOUS. a.

Deputed; delegated; acting in the place of another.

VOTE. – (1756)

VOTE. s.

Sufferage; voice given and numbered.

To VOTE. – (1756)

To VOTE. v. a.

1. To chuse by sufferage; to determine by sufferage.

2. To give by vote.

VOTER. – (1756)

VOTER. s.

One who has the right of giving his voice or sufferage.

W w

WAGE. – (1898)

WAGE. n.

2. That for which one labors; mead; reward; stipulated payment; — at present, used in the plural. See Wages. Syn. — Hire; reward; stipend; salary; allowance; pay; compensation; emoluments; fruit.

WAGE. – (1916)

WAGE. —n.

2. That which is pledged or paid for services; hire; pay; —chiefly in pl.
☛ The plural form wages was formerly often, and is still sometimes, continued as a singular.

WAGES. – (1898)

WAGES. n.

A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2.

WAGES. – (1916)

WAGES. pl. of wage n.

1. Specif., pay given for labor, usually manual or mechanical, at short intervals, a disting. from salary or fee.
Syn. Wages, hire, salary, pay, emoluments. Wages and hire (the latter somewhat archaic in this sense) denote the price paid for labor, esp. by day or week. Salary denotes a fixed compensation, commonly paid at longer intervals than wages (as in pay roll, etc.) Emolument applies to whatever profits arise from office or employment; as, the emoluments of a profession.

To WANDER. – (1756)

To WANDER. v.n.

1. To rove; to ramble here and there; to go, without any certain course.

To deviate; to go astray.

To WANDER. v.a.

To travel over, without a certain course.

WANDER. – (1756)

WANDER. s.

Rover; rambler.

WANDERING. – (1756)

WANDERING. s.

1. Uncertain peregrination.

2. Averation; mistaken way.

3. Incertainty; want of being fixed.

WANT. – (1756)

WANT. s.

1. Need.

2. Deficiency.

3. The state of not having.

4. Poverty; penury; indigence.

To WANT. – (1756)

To WANT. v.a.

1. To be without something fit or necessary.

2. To be defective in something.

3. To fall short; not to certain.

4. To be without; not to have.

5. To need; to have need of; to lack.

6. To wish for; to long for.

To WANT. v.n.

1. To be wanted; to be improperly absent.

2. To fail; to be deficient.

3. To be missed; to be not had.

WAR. – (1756)

WAR. s.

1. The exercise of violence under sovereign command.

3. Forces; army.

4. The profession of arms.

5. Hostility; state of opposition; act of opposition.

WAR. – (1785)

WAR. n. s.

1. War may be defined the exercise of violence under sovereign command against withstanders; force, authority, and resistance, being the essential parts thereof. Violence, limited by authority, is sufficiently distinguished from robbery, and the like outrages; yet, in consisting in relation towards others, it necessarily requires a supposition of resistance, whereby the force of war becomes different from the violence inflicted upon slaves or yielding malefactors.

4. The profession of arms.

5. Hostility; state of opposition; act of opposition.

To WAR. – (1756)

To WAR. s.

1. The exercise of violence under sovereign command

3. Forces; army.

4. The profession of arms.

5. Hostility; state of opposition; act of opposition.

To WAR. v.n.

To make war; to be in a state of hostility.

To WAR. v.a.

To make war upon.

WARRANT. – (1785)

WARRANT. n.s.

1. A writ conferring some right or authority.

2. A writ giving the officer of justice the power of caption.

3. A secure inviolable grant.

4. A justificatory commission.

5. Attestation.

WARRANTABLE. – (1785)

WARRANTABLE. adj.

Justifiable; defensible.

WARRANTABLENESS. – (1785)

WARRANTABLENESS. n.s.

Justifiableness.

WARRANTABLY. – (1785)

WARRANTABLY. adv.

Justifiably.

To WARRANT. – (1785)

To WARRANT. v.n.

1. To support or maintain; to attesk.

2. To give authority.

3. To justify.

4. To exempt; top privilege; to secure.

5. To declare upon surety.

WARRANTER. – (1785)

WARRANTER. n.s.

1. One who gives authority.

2. One who gives security.

WARRANTISE. – (1785)

WARRANTISE. n.s.

Authority; security.

To WITHSTAND. – (1756)

To WITHSTAND. v.a.

To gainstand; to oppose; to resist.

WITHSTANDER. – (1756)

WITHSTANDER. s.

An opponent; resisting power.

WITHSTANDER. – (1785)

WITHSTANDER. n. s.

An opponent; resisting power.

WITNESS. – (1785)

WITNESS. n. s.

1. Testimony; attestation.

2. One who gives testimony.

WRIT. – (1785)

WRIT. n.s.

2. A judicial process, by which any one is summoned as an offender.

3. A legal instrument.

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YIELD — To YIELD – (1756)

To YIELD. v. a.

5. To allow; to permit.

7. To resign; to give up.

8. To surrender.

To YIELD. v. n.

1. To give up the conquest; to submit.

4. To concede; to admit; to allow; not to deny.

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To ABDICATE — (1756)

To ABDICATE. v. a.

ABDICATION — (1756)

ABDICATION. s.

ABJURATION. – (1785)

ABJURATION. n.s.

To ABJURE. – (1785)

To ABJURE. v.a.

To ABOLISH. – (1756)

To ABOLISH. v.a.

To ABOLISH. – (1768)

To ABOLISH. v.a.

To ABRIDGE. – (1785)

To ABRIDGE. v.a.

ABRIDGED of. – (1785)

ABRIDGED of. part.

ABRIDGMENT. – (1785)

ABRIDGMENT. .

To ABSCIND. – (1785)

To ABSCIND. v.a.

ABSOLUTE. – (1756)

ABSOLUTE. a.

ABSOLUTELY. – (1756)

ABSOLUTELY. ad.

To ABSTAIN. – (1756)

To ABSTAIN. v.n.

To ABSTAIN. – (1768)

To ABSTAIN. v.n.

ABSTAIN. – (2022 internet)

ABSTAIN. v.

ABSTENTION. – (1756)

ABSTENTION. s.

ABUSE. – (1756)

ABUSE. s.

To ACCOUTRE. – (1756)

To ACCOUTRE. v. a.

ACCURATE. — (1756)

ACCURATE. a.

ACCURATELY. — (1756)

ACCURATELY. ad.

ACCURATENESS — (1756)

ACCURATENESS. s.

To ACKNOWLEDGE. – (1756)

To ACKNOWLEDGE. v.a.

ACKNOWLEDGING. – (1756)

ACKNOWLEDGING. a.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT. – (1756)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT. s.

ACQUIESCENCE. – (1756)

ACQUIESCENCE. s.

To ACQUIESCE. – (1756)

ACQUIESCE. v.n.

To ADHERE. – (1785)

To ADHERE. v.n.

ADMINISTRATION. – (1756)

ADMINISTRATION. s.

ADVANCE. – (1785)

ADVANCE. n.s.

ADVANCEMENT. – (1785)

ADVANCEMENT. n.s.

ADVANCER. – (1785)

ADVANCER. n.s.

To ADVANCE. – (1785)

To ADVANCE. v.a.

To ADVANCE. v.n.

ADVERSE. – (1756)

ADVERSE. a.

ADVERSE. – (1785)

ADVERSE. adj.

ADVERSITY. — (1756)

ADVERSITY. s.

ADVERSITY. — (1785)

ADVERSITY. n. s.

ADVERSLY — (1756)

ADVERSLY. a.

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