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What the Signing Generation Meant
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To ABDICATE (1756)
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To ABDICATE [v. a.]
To give up right; to resign.
ABDICATION (1756)
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ABDICATION [s.]
The act of abdicating; resignation.
ABJURATION (1785)
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ABJURATION [n.s.]
The act of abjuring. The oath taken for that end.
To ABJURE (1785)
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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.
ABODE (1785)
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Abode [n. s.]
1. Habitation, dwelling, place of residence.
2. Stay, continuance in a place.
3. To make abode. To dwell, to reside, to inhabit.
To ABOLISH (1756)
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To ABOLISH [v. a.]
1. To annul.
2. To put an end to; to destroy.
To ABOLISH (1768)
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To ABOLISH [v. a.]
1. To annul.
2. To put an end to; to destroy.
To ABRIDGE (1785)
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To ABRIDGE [v. a.]
3. To deprive of; to cut off from. In which sense it is followed by the particle from or of, preceding the thing taken away.
ABRIDGED of (1785)
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ABRIDGED of [part.]
Deprived of, debarred from, cut short.
ABRIDGMENT (1785)
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ABRIDGMENT [n.s.]
4. Restraint from any thing pleasing; contraction of any thing enjoyed.
To ABSCIND (1785)
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To ABSCIND [v. a.]
To cut off, either in a natural or figurative sense.
ABSOLUTE (1756)
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ABSOLUTE [a.]
1. Complete; applied as well to persons as things.
4. Not limited; as, absolute power.
ABSOLUTELY (1756)
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ABSOLUTELY [ad.]
1. Completely, without restriction.
2. Without relation.
3. Without limits or dependence.
To ABSTAIN (1756)
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To ABSTAIN [v. n.]
To forbear, to deny one's self any gratification.
To ABSTAIN (1768)
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To ABSTAIN [v. n.]
To forbear, to deny one's self any gratification.
ABSTAIN (2022 internet)
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ABSTAIN [v.]
1. Restrain oneself from doing or enjoying something.
2. Formally decline to vote either for or against a proposal or motion.
ABSTENTION (1756)
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ABSTENTION [s.]
The act of holding off.
ABUSE (1756)
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ABUSE [s.]
1. The ill use of any thing.
2. A corrupt practice, bad custom.
3. Seducement.
4. Unjust censure, rude reproach.
To ACCEDE (1756)
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To Accede [v. n.]
To be added to, to come to.
To ACCOUTRE (1756)
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To ACCOUTRE [v. a.]
To dress; to equip.
ACCRUE (1916)
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Accrue [v. a.]
1. To increase.
2. To come or be added as increase, esp. as the produce of money lent.
3. Law. To come into existence as an enforceable claim; to vest as a right.
ACCURATE (1756)
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ACCURATE [a.]
1. Exact, as opposed to negligence or ignorance.
2. Exact, without defect or failure.
ACCURATELY (1756)
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ACCURATELY [ad.]
Exactly, without errour, nicely.
ACCURATENESS (1756)
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ACCURATENESS [s.]
Exactness, nicety.
ACCUSATION (1785)
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ACCUSATION [n. s.]
1. The act of accusing.
2. The charge brought against any one by the accuser.
3. [In the sense of the courts.] A declaration of some crime preferred before a competent judge, in order to inflict some judgment on the guilty person.
To ACCUSE (1785)
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To ACCUSE [v. a.]
1. To charge with a crime. It requires the particle of before the subject of accusation.
2. It sometimes admits the particle for
3. To blame or censure, in opposition to applause or justification.
To ACKNOWLEDGE (1756)
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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)
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ACKNOWLEDGING [a.]
Grateful.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT (1756)
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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)
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ACQUIESCENCE [s.]
1. A silent appearance of content.
2. Satisfaction, rest, content.
3. Submission.
To ACQUIESCE (1756)
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ACQUIESCE [v.n.]
To rest in, or remain satisfied.
ACTUAL (1785)
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ACTUAL [adj.]
1. That which comprises action.
2. Really in act; not merely potential.
3. In act; not purely in speculation.
To ADHERE (1785)
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To ADHERE [v. n.]
1. To stick to; as, wax to the finger; with to before the thing.
2. To stick, in a figurative sense; to be consistent; to hold together.
3. To remain firmly fixed to a party, person, or opinion.
ADMINISTRATION (1756)
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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.
4. Distribution; exhibition; dispensation.
ADVANCE (1785)
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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.
To ADVANCE (1785)
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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 view or notice.
To ADVANCE [v.n.]
1. To come forward.
2. To make improvement.
ADVANCEMENT (1785)
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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)
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ADVANCER [n.s.]
He that advances any thing; a promoter; forwarder.
ADVERSE (1756)
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ADVERSE [a.]
1. Acting with contrary directions.
2. Calamitous; afflictive; pernicious. Opposed to prosperous
3. Personally opponent.
ADVERSE (1785)
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ADVERSE [adj.]
1. Acting with contrary direction; as, two bodies in collision.
2. Figuratively, contrary to the wish or desire; thence, calamitous; afflictive; pernicious. It is opposed to prosperous.
3. Personally opponent; the person that counteracts another, or contests any thing.
ADVERSITY (1756)
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ADVERSITY [s.]
1. Affliction; calamity.
2. The cause of our sorrow; misfortune.
3. The state of unhappiness; misery.
ADVERSITY (1785)
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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)
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ADVERSLY [a.]
Oppositely; unfortunately.
ADVERSELY[m-sic] (1785)
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ADVERSELY [adv.]
In an adverse manner; oppositely; unfortunately.
AFFAIR (1756)
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AFFAIR [s.]
Business; some thing to be managed or transacted.
AFFIRMATION (1785)
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AFFIRMATION [n. s.]
1. The act of affirming or declaring: opposed to negation or denial.
2. The position affirmed
3. Confirmation: opposed to repeal.
AGAINST (1785)
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AGAINST [v. a.]
1. In opposition to any person.
2. Contrary; opposite, in general.
3. In contradiction to any opinion.
4. With contrary motion or tendency: used of material action.
5. Contrary to rule or law.
6. Opposite to, in place
7. To the hurt of another.
AID (1785)
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AID [n. s.]
1. Help; support.
2. The person that gives help or support; a helper; auxiliary.
3. In law. A subsidy. Aid is also particularly used, in matter of pleasing, for a petition made in court, for the calling in of help from another, that hath an interest in the cause in question; and is likewise both to give strength to the party that prays in aid of him, and also to avoid a prejudice accruing towards his own right, except it be prevented: as, when a tenant for term of life, courtesy, &'c. being impleaded touching his estate, he may pray in aid of him in the reversion; that is, entreat the court, that he may be called in by writ, to allege what he thinks good for the maintenance both of his right and his own.
To AID (1785)
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To Aid [v. a.]
To help; to support; to succour.
ALIENABLE (1756)
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ALIENABLE [a.]
That of which the property may be transferred.
ALIENATE (1756)
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ALIENATE [a.]
Withdraw from; stranger to.
To ALIENATE (1756)
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To ALIENATE [v. a.]
1. To transfer the property of any thing to another.
2. To withdraw the heart or affection.
ALL (1756)
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ALL [ad.]
1. Quite; completely.
2. Altogether; wholly.
ALL [a.]
1. The whole number; every one.
2. The whole quantity; every part.
ALL [s.]
1. The whole.
2. Every thing.
ALL (1785)
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ALL [adj.]
1. Being the whole number; every one.
2. Being the whole quantity; every one.
3. The whole quantity, applied to duration of time.
4. The whole extent of place.
ALL [adj.]
1. Quite; completely.
2. Altogether; wholly; without any other consideration.
ALL [n. s.]
1. The whole; opposed to part, or nothing.
2. Every thing.
ALLIANCE (1756)
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ALLIANCE [s.]
1. The state of connection with another by confederacy; a league.
4. The persons allied to each other.
To ALTER (1756)
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To ALTER [v. a.]
1. To change; to make otherwise than it is.
To ALTER [v.n.]
To become otherwise than it was.
ALTERABLE (1756)
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ALTERABLE [a.]
That which may be altered or changed.
ALTERATION (1756)
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ALTERATION [s.]
1. The act of altering or changing.
2. The change made.
AND (1785)
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AND [conjunction.]
1. The particle by which sentences or terms are joined, which it is not easy to explain by any synonimous word.
2. And sometimes signifies though, and seems a contraction of and if
3. In and if, the and is redundant, and is omitted by all later writers.
ANSWER (1785)
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ANSWER [n. s.]
1. That which is said, whether in speech or writing, in return to a question, or position.
2. An account to be given to the demand of justice.
3. In law, a confutation of a charge exhibited against a person.
To ANSWER (1785)
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To ANSWER [v. n.]
1. To speak in return to a question
2. To speak in opposition.
3. To be accountable for: with for.
4. To vindicate; to give a justificatory account of: with for.
5. To give an account.
6. To correspond to; to suit with.
7. To be equivalent to; to stand for something else.
8. To satisfy any claim or petition of right or justice.
9. To act reciprocally
10. To stand as opposite or correlative to something else.
11. To bear proportion to.
12. To perform what is endeavoured or intended by the agent.
13. To comply with.
14. To succeed; to produce the wished event.
15. To appear to any call, or authoritative summons; in which sense, though figuratively, the following passage may be, perhaps, taken.
16. To be over-against any thing.
APPLICATION (1785)
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APPLICATION [v. a.]
1. The act of applying any thing to another; as, he mitigated his pain by the application of emollients.
2. The thing applied; as; he invented a new application, by which blood might be stanched.
3. The act of applying to any person, as a solicitor, or petitioner.
4. The employment of means for a certain end.
5. Intenseness of thought; close study.
6. Attention to some particular affair: with the particle to.
7. Reference to some case or position; as the story was told, and the hearers made application.
To APPLY (1756)
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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.
To APPOINT (1785)
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APPOINT [v. a.]
1. To fix any thing, as to settle the exact time for some transaction.
2. To settle any thing by compact.
3. To establish any thing by decree.
4. To furnish in all points; to equip; to supply with all things necessary: used anciently in speaking of soldiers.
APPOINTER (1785)
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APPOINTER [n. s.]
He that settles or fixes any thing or place.
APPOINTMENT (1785)
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APPOINTMENT [n. s.]
1. Stipulation; the act of fixing something in which two or more are concerned.
2. Decree; establishment.
3. Direction; order.
5. Allowance paid to any man, commonly used of allowances to publick officers.
APPORTION (1898)
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APPORTION [v. t.]
To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.
To APPORTION (1756)
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To APPORTION [v. a.]
To set out in just proportions.
To APPORTION (1785)
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To APPORTION [v. a.]
To set out in just proportions.
APPORTIONMENT (1756)
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APPORTIONMENT [s.]
A dividing into portions.
APPORTIONMENT (1785)
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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)
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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)
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APPROBATION [s.]
1. The act of approving, or expressing himself pleased.
2. The liking of any thing.
3. Attestation; support.
APPROPRIATION (1785)
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APPROPRIATION [n. s.]
1. The application of something to a particular purpose.
2. The claim of any thing as peculiar.
3. The fixing a particular signification to a word.
4. In law, a severing of a benefice ecclesiastical to the proper and perpetual use of some religious house, or dean and chapter, bishoprick, or college; because as persons ordinarily have no right of fee simple, these, by reason of their perpetuity, are accounted owners of the fee simple; and therefore are called proprietors. To an appropriation, after the licence obtained of the king in chancery, the consent of the diocesan, patron, and incumbent, are necessary, if the church be full: but if the church be void, the diocesan and the patron, upon the king's licence, may conclude.
ARMS (1785)
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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)
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ARMY [s.]
1. A collection of armed men, obliged to obey one man.
ARMY (1785)
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ARMY [n. s.]
1. A collection of armed men, obliged to obey one man.
2. A great number.
ART (1785)
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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)
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ARTICLE [s.]
2. A single clause of an account; a particular part of anything.
3. Term; stipulation.
ARTICLE (1785)
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ARTICLE [n. s.]
2. A single clause of an account; a particular part of any complex thing.
3. Terms; stipulations.
To ARTICLE (1756)
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To ARTICLE [v.n.]
To stipulate; to make terms.
To ARTICLE [v. a.]
To draw up in particular articles.
ARTICULAR (1785)
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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)
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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)
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To ASCERTAIN [v. a.]
1. To make certain; to fix; to establish.
2. To make confident.
ASCERTAINER (1756)
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ASCERTAINER [s.]
The person that proves or establishes.
To ASSEMBLE (1785)
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To ASSEMBLE [v. a.]
To bring together into one place. It is used both of persons and things.
ASSENT (1756)
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ASSENT [s.]
1. The act of agreeing to any thing.
2. Consent; agreement.
ASSISTANCE (1785)
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ASSISTANCE [n. s.]
Help; furtherance.
ASTRAY (1756)
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ASTRAY [ad.]
Out of the right way.
ATTAINDER (1785)
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ATTAINDER [n.s.]
1. The act of attainting in law; conviction of a crime.
2. Taint; sully of character.
To ATTAINT (1785)
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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 sanctuary, 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)
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ATTENTION [s.]
The act of attending or heeding.
AUTHORITY (1756)
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AUTHORITY [s.]
1. Legal power.
2. Influence; credit.
3. Power; rule.
AUTHORITY (1785)
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AUTHORITY [v. a.]
1. Legal power.
2. Influence; credit.
3. Power; rule.
4. Support; justification; countenance.
5. Testimony.
6. Weight of testimony; credibility; cogency of evidence.
AUTHORIZATION (1756)
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AUTHORIZATION [s.]
Establishment by authority.
To AUTHORIZE (1756)
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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 BEAR (1785)
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To BEAR [v. a.]
2. To carry as a burden.
3. To convey or carry.
4. To carry as a mark of authority.
(So we say, to bear arms in a coat.)
6. To carry, as in show.
7. To carry, as in trust.
10. To support with proportionate strength.
21. To maintain; to keep up.
22. To support any thing good or bad.
23. To exhibit.
24. To supply.
31. To press.
32. To incite; to animate.
To BEAR [v. n.]
1. To suffer pain.
4. To take effect; to succeed.
6. To tend; to be directed to any point: with a particle to determine the meaning; as, up, away, onward
7. To act as an impellent, opponent, or as a reciprocal power: generally with the particles upon or against.
8. To act upon.
10. To bear up. To stand firm without falling; not to sink; not to faint or fail.
11. To bear with. To endure an unpleasing thing.
Kingery note: Regarding definition #11, just previous. This, in relation to The Constitution, Amendment #2 is contrary to the intent of Amendment 2. Amenmdnet 2 and The Declaration provide strong sentiment that the governed people are not to endure unpleasing government; but they are to resist it, change it; and when necessary, abolish it and throw it off.
BEHAVIOUR (1785)
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BEHAVIOUR [n. s.]
1. Manner of behaving one's self, whether good or bad; manners; carriage, with respect to propriety.
3. Gesture; manner of action, adapted to particular occasions.
5. Conduct; general practice; course of life.
6. To be on one's behaviour. A familiar phrase, noting such a state as requires great caution; a state in which a failure in behaviour will have bad consequences.
To BESTOW (1756)
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To BESTOW [v. a.]
1. To give; to confer upon.
2. To give as charity.
BESTOWER (1756)
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BESTOWER [s.]
Giver; disposer.
BIGOT (1756)
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BIGOT [s.]
A man devoted to a certain party.
BIGOTED (1756)
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BIGOTED [a.]
Blindly prepossessed in favor of something.
BIGOTRY (1756)
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BIGOTRY [s.]
1. Blind zeal; prejudice.
2. The practice of a bigot.
BILL (1785)
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BILL [n.s.]
1. A written paper of any kind.
3. A law presented to the parliament, not yet an act.
BLESSING (1756)
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BLESSING [s.]
1. Benediction.
2. The means of happiness.
3. Divine favour.
BLESSING (1785)
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BLESSING [n. s.]
1. Benediction; a prayer by which happiness is implored for any one.
2. A declaration by which happiness is promised in a prophetick and authoritative manner.
3. Any of the means of happiness; a gift; an advantage; a benefit.
4. Divine favour.
BORROW (1785)
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BORROW [n.s.]
The thing borrowed.
To BORROW (1785)
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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)
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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)
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BREACH [s.]
4. The violation of a law or contract.
BY (1785)
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BY [prep.]
1. It notes the agent.
2. It notes the instrument, and is commonly used after a verb neuter, where with would be put after an active; as he killed her with a sword: she died by a sword.
3. It notes the cause of any effect.
4. It notes the means by which any things is performed, or obtained.
5. It shews the manner of an action.
6. It has a signification, noting the method in which any successive action is performed with regard to time or quantity.
7. It notes the quantity had at one time.
9. According to; noting permission.
12. From; noting ground of judgment; or comparison.
14. It notes co-operation.
16. As soon as; not later than; noting time.
23. It signifies specification and particularity.
24. By proxy of: noting substitution.
BY [adv.]
1. Near; at a small distance.
2. Beside; passing.
3. In presence.
BY–LAW (1756)
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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)
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BY-LAW [s.]
By-laws are orders made for the good of those that make them, farther than the publick law binds.
BY–LAW (1785)
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BY-LAW [s.]
By-laws are orders made in court-leets, or court-barons, by common assent, for the good of those that make them, farther than the publick law binds.
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CAPITAL (1785)
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CAPITAL [adj.]
1. Relating to the head.
2. Criminal in the highest degree, so as to touch life.
3. That which affects life.
4. Chief; principal.
5. Chief; metropolitan.
CAPITAL [n. s.]
2. The chief city of a nation or kingdom.
CAPITATION (1756)
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CAPITATION [s.]
Numeration by heads.
CAPITATION (1785)
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CAPITATION [n. s.]
Numeration by heads.
CAPTION (1785)
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CAPTION [n. s.]
The act of taking any person by a judicial process.
CAPTURE (1785)
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CAPTURE [n.s.]
1. The act or practice of taking any thing.
2. The thing taken; a prize.
CASE (1785)
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CASE [n. s.]
1. Condition with regard to outward circumstances.
2. State of things.
5. The state of facts juridically considered: as, the lawyers cited many cases in their pleas.
To CASE (1785)
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TO CASE [v. a.]
1. To put in a case or cover.
2. To cover as a case.
4. To strip off the covering; to take off the skin.
CAUSE (1785)
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CAUSE [n. s.]
1. That which produces or effects any thing; the efficient.
2. The reason; motive to any thing.
3. Reason of debate; subject of litigation.
4. Side; party; ground or principle of action or opposition.
To CAUSE (1785)
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To CAUSE [v. a.]
To effect as an agent; to produce.
CAUTION (1785)
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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
To CAUTION (1785)
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To CAUTION [v. a.]
To warn; to give notice of a danger.
CAUTIONARY (1785)
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CAUTIONARY [adj.]
Given as a pledge, or in security.
CENSION (1785)
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CENSION [n.s.]
A rate, an assessment.
CENSOR (1708)
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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)
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CENSOR [s.]
1. An officer of Rome, who had the power of correcting manners.
2. One who is given to censure.
CENSOR (1785)
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CENSOR [n.s.]
1. An officer of Rome, who had the power of correcting manners.
2. One who is given to censure and exprobation.
CENSORIAN (1785)
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CENSORIAN [adj.]
Relating to the censor.
CENSURE (1785)
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CENSURE [n. s.]
1. Blame; reprimand; reproach.
2. Judgment; opinion.
3. Judicial sentence.
4. A spiritual punishment inflicted by some ecclesiastical judge.
To CENSURE (1785)
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To CENSURE [v. a.]
1. To blame; to brand publickly.
2. To condemn by a judicial sentence.
CENSUS (1818)
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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)
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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 order of the Congress, to furnish the rule of apportioning the representation among the States, and the number of representatives to which each States is entitled in the Congress; also, an enumeration of the inhabitants of a State, taken by order of its legislature.
CENSUS (1898)
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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)
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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)
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CESARIAN [a.]
The Cesarian section is cutting a child out of the womb.
CESAREAN (1785)
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CESAREAN [adj.]
The Cesarean 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)
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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)
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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)
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To CESS [v. a.]
To rate; to lay charge on.
To CESS (1785)
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To CESS [v. a.]
To rate; to lay charge on.
To CESS [v. n.]
To omit a legal duty. See Cessor.
CESSATION (1756)
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CESSATION [s.]
1. A stop; a rest; a vacation.
2. A pause of hostility, without peace.
CESSATION (1785)
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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)
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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 as he is obliged by his tenure.
CESSAVIT (1785)
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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)
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CESSIBILITY [s.]
The quality of receding, or giving way.
CESSIBILITY (1785)
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CESSIBILITY [n. s.]
The quality of receding, or giving way, without resistance.
CESSIBLE (1756)
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CESSIBLE [a.]
Easy to give way.
CESSIBLE (1785)
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CESSIBLE [adj.]
Easy to give way.
CESSION (1756)
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CESSION [s.]
1. Retreat; the act of giving away.
2. Resignation.
CESSION (1785)
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CESSION [n. s.]
1. Retreat; the act of giving way.
2. Resignation; the act of yielding up or quitting to another.
CESSIONARY (1756)
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CESSIONARY [a.]
Implying a resignation.
CESSIONARY (1785)
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CESSIONARY [adj.]
As, a cessionary bankrupt, one who has delivered up all his efforts.
CESSMENT (1756)
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CESSMENT [s.]
An assessment or tax.
CESSMENT (1785)
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CESSMENT [n. s.]
An assessment or tax.
CESSOR (1756)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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CHARITY [s.]
1. Tenderness; kindness; love.
2. Goodwill; benevolence.
3. The theological virtue of universal love.
4. Liberality to the poor.
5. Alms; relief given to the poor.
CHARTER (1756)
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CHARTER [s.]
1. A charter is a written evidence.
2. Any writing bestowing privileges or rights.
3. Privilege; immunity; exemption.
CITIZEN (1756)
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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)
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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)
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CIVICK [a.]
Relating to civil houours; not military.
CIVIL (1756)
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CIVIL [a.]
1. Relating to the community; political.
2. Not in anarchy; not wild.
3. Not foreign; intestine.
4. Not ecclesiastical.
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)
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CIVILIAN [s.]
One that professes the knowledge of the old Roman law.
CIVILITY (1756)
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CIVILITY [s.]
1. Freedom from barbarity.
2. Politeness; complaisance; elegance of behaviour.
3. Rule of decency; practice of politeness.
To CIVILIZE (1756)
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CIVILIZE [v. a.]
To reclaim from savageness and brutality.
CIVILIZER (1756)
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CIVILIZER [s.]
He that reclaims other from a wild and savage life.
CIVILLY (1756)
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CIVILLY [ad.]
1. In a manner relating to government.
2. Politely; complaisantly; without rudeness.
3. Without gay or gaudy colours.
COIN (1785)
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COIN [n. s.]
1. Money stamped with a legal impression.
2. Payment of any kind.
To COIN (1785)
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To COIN [v. a.]
1. To mint or stamp metals for money.
2. To make or invent.
3. To make or forge any thing, in an ill sense.
COLON (1785)
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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 despise him: I have long ceased to trust, but shall never forbear to succour him.
COLONY (1756)
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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)
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COMFORT [n. s.]
1. Support; assistance; countenance.
2. Consolation; support under calamity or danger.
3. That which gives consolation or support in calamity.
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To COMFORT [v. a.]
1. To strengthen; to enliven; to invigorate.
2. To console; to strengthen the mind under pressure of calamity.
COMMA (1785)
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COMMA [n. s.]
1. The point which notes the distinction of clauses, and order of construction, in the sentence; marked thus [,].
COMMERCE – (1785)
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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)
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To COMMERCE [v. n.]
1. To traffick.
2. To hold intercourse with.
COMMERCIAL – (1785)
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COMMERCIAL [adj.]
Relating to commerce or traffick.
COMMISSION (1785)
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COMMISSION [n. s.]
1. The act of entrusting any thing
2. A trust; a warrant by which any trust is held, or authority exercised.
3. A warrant by which a military officer is constituted.
To COMMISSION (1785)
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To COMMISSION [v. a.]
1. To empower; to appoint.
2. Tosend with mandate or authority.
COMMODITY (1756)
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COMMODITY [s.]
1. Interest; advantage; profit.
2. Convenience of time or place.
3. Wares; merchandise.
COMMON LAW (1756)
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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)
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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.
COMMON LAW (1898)
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COMMON LAW [a.]
Common Law, a system jurisprudence developing under the guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. It is by others defined as the unwritten law (especially of England), the law that receives its binding force from immemorial usage ans universal reception, as ascertained and expressed in the judgments of the courts. This term is also used in contradictions from statute law. Many use it to designate a law common to the whole country.
It is also used to designate the whole body of English (or other) law, as distinguished from subdivisions, local, civil, admiralty, equity, etc.
COMMONWEALTH – (1756)
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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)
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COMMUNITY [s.]
1. The commonwealth; the body politick.
2. Common possession.
COMMUTATIVE (1785)
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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)
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COMPACT [s.]
A contract; an accord; an agreement.
To COMPACT (1756)
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To COMPACT [v. a.]
3. To league together.
4. To join together; to bring into a system.
To COMPEL (1785)
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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)
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COMPELLABLE [adj.]
That may be forced. Perhaps it should be compellible.
COMPENSATE (1898)
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COMPENSATE [v. i.]
To make amends; to supply an equivalent; —followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.
COMPENSATION (1785)
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COMPENSATION [n. s.]
Recompence; something equivalent; amends.
COMPENSATION (1898)
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COMPENSATION [v. a.]
1. The act or principle of compensating.
2. That which compensates, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense
3. (Law) (a) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payments of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.
3. (Law) (b) A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
3. (Law) (c) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
COMPLACENCE (1756)
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COMPLACENCE [s.]
1. Pleasure; satisfaction; gratification.
2. The cause of pleasure; joy.
3. Civility; complaisance.
COMPLACENT – (1756)
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COMPLACENT [a.]
Civil; affable; soft.
COMPULSORY (1785)
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COMPULSORY [adj.]
Having the power of necessitating or compelling
CONFEDERACY – (1756)
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CONFEDERACY [s.]
League; union; engagement.
CONFEDERATE – (1756)
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CONFEDERATE [a.]
United in a league.
CONFEDERATE [s.]
One who engages to support another; an ally.
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To CONFEDERATE [v. a.]
To join in a league; to unite; to ally.
CONFEDERATION – (1756)
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CONFEDERATION [s.]
League; alliance.
To CONFER – (1756)
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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)
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CONFIRMABLE [a.]
That which is capable of incontestible evidence.
To CONFIRM (1756)
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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)
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CONFIRMATION [s.]
1. The act of establishing any thing or person; settlement.
2. Evidence; additional proof.
3. Proof; convincing testimony.
A CONFLICT (1756)
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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 (1768)
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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)
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To CONFLICT [v. n.]
To strive; to contest; to fight; to struggle.
To CONFRONT (1785)
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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)
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CONFRONTATION [n. s.]
The act of bringing two evidences face to face.
CONGRESS (1756)
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CONGRESS [s.]
1.A meeting; a shock; a conflict.
2. An appointed meeting for settlement of affairs between different nations.
CONGRESS (1768)
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CONGRESS [s.]
1.A meeting; a shock; a conflict.
2. An appointed meeting for settlement of affairs between different nations.
CONSANGUINEOUS (1756)
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CONSANGUINEOUS [a.]
Near of kin; related by birth, not affined (/assined/).
CONSANGUINITY (1756)
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CONSANGUINITY [s.]
Relation by blood.
CONSENT (1756)
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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)
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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)
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To CONSENT [v. n.]
1. To be of the same mind; to agree.
2. To co–operate to the same end.
To CONSENT – (1768)
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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)
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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)
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To CONSTITUTE [v. a.]
1. To give formal existence; to produce.
2. To erect; to establish.
3. To depute.
To CONSTITUTE (1785)
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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)
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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)
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CONSTITUTION [s.]
1. The act of constituting; enacting; deputing; establishing; producing.
3. Corporeal frame.
6. Established form of government; system of laws and customs. [emphasis added]
7. Particular law; established usage; establishment; institution.
CONSTITUTIONAL – (1756)
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CONSTITUTIONAL [a.]
1. Bred in the constitution; radical.
2. Consistent with the constitution; legal.
CONSTITUTIONAL (1785)
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CONSTITUTIONAL [adj.]
1. Bred in the constitution; radical.
2. Consistent with the constitution; legal.
To CONSTRAIN (1756)
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To CONSTRAIN [v. a.]
1. To compel; to force to some action.
2. To hinder by force.
4. To violate; to ravish.
5. To confine; to press.
CONSTRAINT (1756)
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CONSTRAINT [s.]
Compulsion; violence; confinement.
To CONSTRUE (1785)
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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)
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CONTEXT [s.]
The general series of a discourse.
CONTRACT (1756)
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CONTRACT [s.]
1. A bargain; a compact.
3. A writing in which the terms of a bargain are included.
To CONTRACT (1756)
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To CONTRACT [v. a.]
2. To bring two parties together; to make a bargain.
To CONTRACT [v. n.]
2. To bargain; as, to contract for a quantity of provisions.
CONTROVERSY (1785)
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CONTROVERSY [n. s.]
1. Dispute; debate; agitation of contrary opinions: a dispute is commonly oral, and a controversy in writing.
2. A suit in law.
3. A quarrel.
CONVENTION (1785)
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CONVENTION [n. s.]
1. The act of coming together; union; coalition; junction.
2. An assembly.
3. A contract; an agreement for a time, previous to a definitive treaty.
CONVOCATE (1647)
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CONVOCATE []
To call together.
CONVOCATION (1647)
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CONVOCATION []
An assembly, or calling together.
CONVULSION (1756)
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CONVULSION [s.]
2. Any irregular and violent motion; commotion.
CORPORATE (1756)
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CORPORATE [a.]
United in a body or community.
CORPORATE (1768)
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CORPORATE [a.]
United in a body or community.
CORPORATION (1756)
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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)
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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)
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CORPOREAL [a.]
Having a body; not immaterial.
CORPOREAL (1785)
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CORPOREAL [adj.]
1. Having a body; not immaterial; not spiritual.
COUNSEL (1785)
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COUNSEL [n. s.]
1. Advice; direction.
2. Consultation; interchange of opinions.
3. Deliberation; examination of consequences.
5. Secrecy; the secrets entrusted in consulting.
7. Those that plead a cause; the counsellors. This seems only an abbreviature usual in conversation.
To COUNSEL (1785)
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To COUNSEL [v. a.]
1. To give advice or counsel to any person.
2. To advise of any thing.
COUNSELLABLE (1785)
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COUNSELLABLE [adj.]
Willing to receive and follow the advice or opinions of others.
COUNSELLOR (1785)
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COUNSELLOR [n. s.]
1. One that gives advice.
2. Confidant; bosom friend.
3. One whose province is to deliberate and adivise upon publick affairs.
4. One that is consulted in a case of law; a lawyer.
COUNTERFEIT (1785)
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COUNTERFEIT [adj.]
1. That which is made in the imitation of another, with intent to pass for the original; forged; fictitious.
To COUNTERFEIT (1785)
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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)
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COUNTERFEITER [n. s.]
A forger; one who contrived copies to pass for originals.
To CREATE (1756)
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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)
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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)
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CREATIVE [a.]
1. Having the power to create.
2. Exerting the act of creation.
CREATOR (1756)
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CREATOR [s.]
The being that bestows existence.
CREDIT (1785)
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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)
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To CREDIT [v. a.]
1. To believe.
2. To procure credit or honour to any thing.
3. To trust; to confide in.
4. To admit as a debtor.
CRIME (1756)
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CRIME [s.]
An act contrary to right; an offense; a great fault.
CRIME (1785)
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CRIME [n. s.]
An act contrary to right; an offense; a great fault; an act of wickedness.
CRIMEFUL (1756)
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CRIMEFUL [a.]
Wicked; criminal.
CRIMEFUL (1785)
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CRIMEFUL [adj.]
Wicked; criminal; faulty in a high degree; contrary to duty; contrary to virtue.
CRIMELESS (1756)
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CRIMELESS [a.]
Innocent; without crime.
CRIMELESS (1785)
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CRIMELESS [adj.]
Innocent; without crime.
CRIMINAL (1756)
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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)
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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.
CRIMINALLY (1785)
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CRIMINALLY [adv.]
Not innocently; wickedly; guiltily.
CROWD (1785)
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CROWD [n. s.]
1. A multitude confusedly pressed together.
3. The vulgar; the populace.
To CROWD (1785)
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To CROWD [v. a.]
1. To fill with confused multitudes.
2. To press close together.
3. To incumber by multitudes.
To CROWD [v. n.]
1. To swarm; to be numerous and confused.
2. To thrust among the multitude.
CRUEL (1785)
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CRUEL [adj.]
1. Pleased with hurting others; inhuman; hard–hearted; void of pity; wanting compassion; savage; barbarous; unrelenting.
2. [Of things.] Bloody; mischievous; destructive; causing pain.
CRUELLY (1785)
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CRUELLY [adv.]
1. In a cruel manner; inhumanly; barbarously.
2. Painfully; mischievously.
CRUELNESS (1785)
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CRUELNESS [n. s.]
Inhumanity; cruelty.
CRUELTY (1785)
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CRUELTY [n. s.]
1. Inhumanity; savageness; barbarity; delight in the pain or misery of others.
2. Act of intentional affliction.
CUNNING (1785)
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CUNNING [adj.]
1. Skillful; knowing; well instructed; learned.
2. Performed with skill; artful.
3. Artfully deceitful; sly; designing; trickith; full of fetches and stratagems; subtle; crafty; subdolous.
4. Acted with subtilty.
CUNNING [n. s.]
1. Artifice; deceit; sliness; sleight; craft; subtilty; dissimulation; fraudulent dexterity.
2. Art; skill; knowledge; right-hand cunning.
CURRENT (1785)
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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)
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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.
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DANGER (1785)
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DANGER [n. s.]
Risque; hazard; peril.
DECLARATION (1756)
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DECLARATION [s.]
1. A proclamation or affirmation; publication.
2. An explanation of something doubtful.
3. [In law.] Declaration is the shewing forth of an action personal in any suit, though it is used for real actions.
DECLARATION (1785)
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DECLARATION [n. s.]
1. A proclamation or affirmation; open expression; publication.
3. [In law.] Declaration (declaratio) is properly the shewing forth, or laying out, of an action personal in any suit, though it is used sometimes for both personal and real actions.
To DECLARE (1756)
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To DECLARE [v. a.]
1. To clear; to free from obscurity.
2. To make known; to tell evidently and openly.
3. To publish; to proclaim.
4. To shew in open view.
To DECLARE [v. n.]
To make a declaration.
To DECLARE (1785)
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To DECLARE [v. a.]
2. To make known; to tell evidently and openly.
3. To publish; to proclaim.
4. To shew in open view; to shew an opinion in plain terms.
To DECLARE [v. n.]
To make a declaration; to proclaim some resolution or opinion, or favour or opposition: with for or against.
DEFENCE (1785)
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DEFENCE [n. s.]
1. Guard; protection; security.
2. Vindication; justification; apology.
4. Resistance
5. [In law.] The defendant's reply after declaration produced.
6. [In fortification.] The part that flanks another work.
DELIBERATE (1756)
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DELIBERATE [a.]
1. Circumspect; wary; advised; discreet.
2. Slow; tedious; not sudden.
To DELIBERATE (1756)
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To DELIBERATE [v. n.]
To think, in order to choice; to hesitate.
DELIBERATELY (1756)
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DELIBERATELY [ad.]
Circumspectly; advisedly; warily.
DELIBERATENESS (1756)
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DELIBERATENESS [s.]
Circumspection; wariness; coolness; caution.
DELIBERATION (1756)
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DELIBERATION [s.]
The act of deliberating; thought in order to choice.
DELIBERATIVE (1756)
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DELIBERATIVE [a.]
Pertaining to deliberation; apt to consider.
DELIBERATIVE [s.]
The discourse in which a question is deliberated.
DEMOCRACY (1756)
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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)
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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)
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DEMOCRATICAL [a.]
Pertaining to a popular government; popular.
DEMOCRATICAL (1785)
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DEMOCRATICAL [adj.]
Pertaining to a popular government; popular.
To DENOUNCE (1756)
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To DENOUNCE [v. a.]
1. To threaten by proclamation.
2. To give information against.
DENOUNCEMENT (1756)
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DENOUNCEMENT [s.]
The act of proclaiming any menace.
DENOUNCER (1756)
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DENOUNCER [s.]
One that declares some menace.
To DENY (1785)
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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.
5. To renounce; to disregard; to treat as foreign or not belonging to one.
To DEPRIVE (1785)
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To DEPRIVE [v. a.]
1. To bereave one of a thing: to take it away from him: with of.
2. To hinder; to debar from: [sometimes] without of [but with from].
3. To release; to free from.
4. To put out of an office.
DEPUTATION (1756)
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DEPUTATION [s.]
1. The act of deputing, or sending with a special commission.
2. Vicegerency.
To DEPUTE. – (1756)
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To DEPUTE [v. a.]
To send with a special commission; to impower one to transact instead of another.
DEPUTY (1756)
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DEPUTY [s.]
1. A lieutenant; a viceroy.
2. Any one that transacts business for another.
To DERIVE (1756)
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To DERIVE [v. a.]
1. To turn the course of any thing.
2. To deduce from the original.
3. To communicate to another, as from the origin and source.
4. To communicate to by a descent of blood.
5. To spread from one place to another.
To DERIVE [v. n.]
1. To come from; to owe its origins to.
2. To descend from.
To DESCRIBE (1785)
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To DESCRIBE [v. a.]
1. To delineate; to mark out; to trace: as a torch waved about the head describes a circle.
2. To mark out any thing by the mention of its properties.
3. To distribute into proper heads or divisions.
4. To define in a lax manner by the promiscuous mention of qualities general and particular.
DESCRIPTION (1785)
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DESCRIPTION [n. s.]
1. The act of delineating or expressing any person or thing by perceptible properties.
2. The sentence or passage in which any thing is described.
3. A lax definition.
4. The qualities expressed in a description.
DESPOT (1756)
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DESPOT [s.]
An absolute prince; as, the despot of Servia.
DESPOT (1785)
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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)
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DESPOTICAL – DESPOTICK [a.]
Absolute in power; unlimited in authority.
DESPOTICAL. — DESPOTICK (1785)
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DESPOTICAL – DESPOTICK [adj.]
Absolute in power; unlimited in authority; arbitrary; unaccountable.
DESPOTICALNESS (1756)
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DESPOTICALNESS [s.]
Absolute authority.
DESPOTISM (1756)
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DESPOTISM [s.]
Absolute power.
DICTION (1785)
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DICTION [n. s.]
Style; language; expression.
DICTIONARY FRONT PAGE (1647)
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The English DICTIONARIE: []
By H. C. Gent
DICTIONARY FRONT PAGE (1756)
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A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE []
By Samuel Johnson
DICTIONARY FRONT PAGE (1785)
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A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE []
By Samuel Johnson
DICTIONARY FRONT PAGE (1818)
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A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE []
By Samuel Johnson
DICTIONARY FRONT PAGE (1828)
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AN AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE []
By NOAH WEBSTER
DICTIONARY FRONT PAGE (1898)
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WEBSTER'S INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE []
BY NOAH PORTER
DICTIONARY FRONT PAGE (1919)
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WEBSTER'S COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY []
Merriam
Difficulty-of-corruption-vs-Ease-of-stopping-it
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The Word []
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)
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DIGNITY [n. s.]
1. Rank of elevation.
2. Grandeur of mien; elevation of aspect.
3. Advancement; preferment; high place.
DIRECT (1785)
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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)
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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 dissertation either written or uttered.
To DISCOURSE – (1756)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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DISQUISITION [n. s.]
Examination; disputative enquiry.
DISTRIBUTIVE (1785)
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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.
DISTURB (1785)
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DISTURB [n. s.]
Confusion; tumultuary[sic] emotion.
To DISTURB (1785)
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To DISTURB [v. a.]
1. To perplex; to disquiet; to deprive of ` tranquility.
2. To confound; to put into irregular motions.
3. To interrupt; to hinder: as care disturbs study.
4. To turn off any direction: with from. This is not usual.
DISTURBANCE (1785)
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DISTURBANCE [n. s.]
1. Perplexity; interruption of a settled state.
2. Confusion; disorder of thoughts.
3. Tumult; violation of peace.
DISTURBER (1785)
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DISTURBER [n. s.]
1. A violater[sic] of peace; he that causes tumults and publick disorders.
2. He that injures tranquility; he that causes perturbation of mind.
DIVINE (1756)
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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.
DOLLAR (1785)
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DOLLAR [n. s.]
A Dutch and German coin of different value, from about two shillings and sixpence to four and sixpence.
DOMESTICK (1756)
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DOMESTICK [a.]
4. Not foreign; intestine.
DOMESTICK (1785)
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DOMESTICK [adj.]
4. Not foreign; intestine.
TO DOMESTICATE (1756)
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TO DOMESTICATE [v. a.]
To make domestick; to withdraw from the publick.
DOMINION (1756)
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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)
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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 perquisitet[sic].
To DUE (1785)
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To DUE [v. n.]
To pay as due; perhaps for endow. It is perhaps only in this single passage.
DULY (1785)
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DULY [adv.]
1. Properly; fitly; in the due manner.
2. Regularly; exactly.
DUTY (1756)
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DUTY [s.]
1. That to which a man is by any natural or legal obligation bound.
3. Obedience or submission due to parents, governors, or superiours.
7. Tax; impost; custom; toll.
7. Tax; impost; custom; toll.
DUTY (1785)
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DUTY [s.]
1. That to which a man is by any natural or legal obligation bound.
3. Obedience or submission due to parents, governors, or superiours; loyalty; piety to parents.
7. Tax; impost; custom; toll.
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ECCLESIASTICK (1756)
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ECCLESIASTICK [a.]
Relating to the church; not civil.
ECCLESIASTICK [s.]
A person dedicated to the ministries of religion.
EFFECT (1785)
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EFFECT [n. s.]
7. [In the plural] Goods; moveables.
To EFFECT (1768)
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To EFFECT [v. a.]
1. To bring to pass; to attempt with success; to achieve.
2. To produce as a cause.
ELECT (1785)
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ELECT [adj.]
1. Chosen; taken by preference from among others.
2. Chosen to an office, not yet in possession.
To ELECT (1785)
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To ELECT [v. a.]
1. To choose for any office or use; to take in preference to others.
ELECTION (1785)
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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)
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ELECTIVE [adj.]
1. Regulated or bestowed by election or choice.
2. Exerting the power of choice.
ELECTIVELY (1785)
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ELECTIVELY [adv.]
By choice; with preference of one to another.
ELECTOR (1785)
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ELECTOR [n. s.]
1. He that has a vote in the choice of any officer.
ELECTORAL (1785)
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ELECTORAL [adj.]
Having the dignity of an elector.
ELECTORATE (1785)
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ELECTORATE [n. s.]
The territory of an elector.
EMINENT (1756)
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EMINENT [a.]
1. High; lofty.
2. Dignified; exalted.
3. Conspicuous; remarkable.
EMINENTLY (1756)
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EMINENTLY [ad.]
1. Conspicuously; in a manner that attracts observation.
2. In a high degree.
To EMIT (1785)
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To EMIT [v. a.]
1. To send forth; to let go.
2. To let fly; to dart.
3. To issue out juridically.
EMOLUMENT (1785)
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EMOLUMENT [n. s.]
Profit; advantage.
To ENDOW (1756)
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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.
To ENDOW (1768)
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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)
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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.
ENGAGE (1828)
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ENGAGE [v. t.]
1. To make liable for a debt to a creditor; to bind one's self as surety.
2. To pawn; to stake as a pledge.
3. To enlist; to bring into a party; as, to engage men for service; to engage friends to aid in a cause.
4. To embark in an affair; as, be not hasty to engage yourself in party disputes.
9. To attack in contest; to encounter. The army engaged the enemy at ten o'clock. The captain engaged the ship, at point blank range.
ENGAGE [v. i.]
1. To encounter; to begin to fight; to attack in conflict. The armies engaged at Marengo, in a general battle.
ENGLISH ALPHABET EXPLANATION (1756)
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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 ENJOY (1785)
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To ENJOY [v. a.]
1. To feel or perceive with pleasure; to have a pleasing sense of; to be delighted with.
2. To obtain possession or fruition of.
3. To please; to gladden; to exhilarate; to glad; to delight. This sense is usual with the reciprocal pronoun, and is derived from enjouir.
To ENJOY [v. n.]
To live in happiness.
To ENRICH (1768)
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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)
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ENRICHMENT [s.]
1. Augmentation of wealth.
2. Amplification; improvement by addition.
To ENSURE (1756)
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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.
To ENSURE (1785)
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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.
To ENTREAT (1756)
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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.
ENTREATANCE[sic] (1756)
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ENTREATANCE[sic] [v. a.]
Petition; entreaty; solicitation.
ENTREATY (1756)
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ENTREATY [s.]
Petition; prayer; solicitation.
ENTREATY (1785)
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ENTREATY [n. s.]
Petition; prayer; solicitation; supplication; request.
To ENUMERATE – (1756)
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To ENUMERATE [v. a.]
To reckon up singly; to count over distinctly.
To ENUMERATE (1785)
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To ENUMERATE [v. a.]
To reckon up singly; to count over distinctly; to number.
ENUMERATION (1756)
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ENUMERATION s.]
The act of numbering or counting over.
ENUMERATION (1785)
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ENUMERATION [n. s.]
The act of numbering or counting over; number told out.
ENUMERATION – (1790 Constitution)
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ENUMERATION []
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)
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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)
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EQUITY [n. s.]
1. Justice; right; honesty.
2. Impartiality.
3. [In law] The rules of decision observed by the court of Chancery, as distinct from the literal maxims of law.
To ESTABLISH (1756)
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To ESTABLISH [v. a.]
1. To settle firmly; to fix unalterably.
2. To settle in any privilege or possession; to confirm
3. To make firm; to ratify.
4. To fix or settle in an opinion.
5. To form a model.
6. To found; to build firmly; to fix immoveably.
7. To make a settlement of any inheritance.
To ESTABLISH (1785)
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To ESTABLISH [v. a.]
1. To settle firmly; to fix unalterably.
2. To settle in any privilege or possession; to confirm.
3. To make firm; to ratify.
4. To fix or settle in an opinion.
5. To form a model.
ESTABLISHER (1785)
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ESTABLISHER [n. s.]
He who establishes.
ESTABLISHMENT (1756)
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ESTABLISHMENT [s.]
1. Settlement; fixed state.
2. Confirmation of something already done; ratification.
3. Settled regulation; form; model.
4. Foundation; fundamental principle.
ESTABLISHMENT (1785)
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ESTABLISHMENT [n. s.]
1. Settlement; fixed state.
2. Confirmation of something already done; ratification.
3. Settled regulation; form; model of a government or family.
4. Foundation; fundamental principle; settled law.
EVIDENT (1756)
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EVIDENT [a.]
Plain; apparent; notorious.
EVIDENT (1768)
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EVIDENT [a.]
Plain; apparent; notorious.
EX POST FACTO (1708)
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EX POST FACTO [a.]
Term us'd for the do'ng a thing after the time when it should have been done.
To EXCEED (1785)
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To EXCEED [v. a.]
1. To go beyond; to outgo.
2. To excel; to surpass.
To EXCEED [v. n.]
1. To go too far; to pass the bounds of fitness.
2. To go beyond any limits.
3. To bear the greater proportion.
EXCISE (1785)
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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)
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To EXCISE [v. a.]
To levy excise upon a person or thing.
EXCISEMAN (1785)
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EXCISEMAN [n. s.]
An officer who inspects commodities, and rates their excise.
EXECUTIVE (1756)
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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)
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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.
EXERCISE (1785)
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EXERCISE [n. s.]
1. Labour of the body; labour considered as conducive to the cure or prevention.
3. Habitual action by which the body is formed to gracefulness, air, and gentleness.
4. Preparatory practice in order to skill: as; the exercise of soldiers.
5. Use; actual application of any thing.
6. Practice; outward performance.
7. Employment frequently repeated.
8. Task; that which one is appointed to perform.
To EXERCISE (1785)
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To EXERCISE [v. a.]
1. To employ; to engage in employment.
2. To train by use to any act.
3. To make skilful or dexterous by practice; to habituate.
4. To busy; to keep busy.
5. To talk; to keep employed as a penal injunction.
6. To practice; to perform.
7. To exert; to put in use.
8. To practice or use in order to habitual skill.
To EXERCISE [v. n.]
To use exercise; to labor for health or for amusement.
To EXPEL (1756)
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To EXPEL [v. a.]
1. To drive out; to force away.
2. To eject; to throw out.
3. To banish; to drive from the place of residence.
4. To reject; to refuse.
5. To keep off; to exclude; to keep out.
To EXPEL (1785)
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To EXPEL [v. a.]
1. To drive out; to force away.
2. To eject; to throw out.
3. To banish; to drive from the place of residence.
4. To reject; to refuse.
5. To keep off; to exclude; to keep out.
EXPRESSION (1756)
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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)
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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.
Alphabetical Sections
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FACT (1785)
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FACT [n. s.]
1. A thing done; an effect produced; something not barely supposed or suspected, but really done.
2. Realty; not supposition; not speculation.
3. Action; deed.
FACTION (1756)
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FACTION [s.]
1. A party in a state.
2. Tumult; discord; dissension.
FACTION (1785)
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FACTION [n. s.]
1. A party in a state.
2. Tumult; discord; dissension.
FACTIONARY (1785)
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FACTIONARY [n. s.]
One of a faction; a party man. A word not in use.
FACTIOUS (1756)
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FACTIOUS [a.]
1. Given to faction; loud and violent in a party.
2. Proceeding from publick dissensions.
FACTIOUS (1785)
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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 (1756)
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FACTIOUSLY [ad.]
In a manner criminally dissensious.
FACTIOUSLY (1785)
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FACTIOUSLY [adv.]
In a manner criminally dissentious or tumultuous.
FAST (1756)
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FAST [a.]
6. Speedy; quick; swift.
FAVOUR (1785)
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FAVOUR [s.]
1. Countenance; kindness; kind regard; propitious aspect: with of before the favourer[sic].
2. Support; defence; vindication; inclination to favor: with of before the thing favoured.
3. Kindness granted; benevolence shewn.
4. Lenity; mildness; mitigation of punishment.
5. Leave; good will; pardon.
6. Object of favour; person or thing favoured.
7. Something given by a lady to be worn.
8. Any thing worn openly as a token.
TO FAVOUR (1785)
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TO FAVOUR [v. a.]
1. To support; to regard with kindness; to be propitious to; to countenance.
2. To assist with advantages or conveniences.
3. To resemble in feature.
4. To conduce to; to contribute.
FELONY (1756)
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FELONY [s.]
A crime denounced capital by the law.
FELONY (1785)
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FELONY [n. s.]
A crime denounced capital by the law; an enormous crime.
To FOREBEAR (1756)
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To FOREBEAR [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 FOREBEAR [v. a.]
1. To decline; to omit voluntarily.
3. To spare; to treat with clemency.
To FORBEAR (1785)
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To FORBEAR [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 FORBEAR [v. a.]
1. To decline; to omit voluntarily.
2. To abstain from; to shun to do; to omit.
3. To spare; to treat with clemency.
4. To withhold.
FORBEARANCE (1756)
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FORBEARANCE [s.]
1. The care of avoiding or shunning any thing.
2. Intermission of something.
3. Command of temper.
4. Lenity; delay of punishment; mildness.
FORBEARER[sic] (1756)
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FORBEARER[sic] [s.]
An intermitter[sic]; interceptor of any thing.
FORCE (1785)
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FORCE [n. s.]
1. Strength; vigour[sic]; might; active power.
2. Violence.
3. Virtue; efficacy
4. Validness; power of law.
5. Armament; warlike preparation. Often forces in the plural.
6. Destiny; necessity; fatal compulsion
FORM (1756)
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FORM [s.]
8. Stated method; established practice.
FORM (1785)
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FORM [s.]
8. Stated method; established practice; ritual and prescribed mode.
TO FORM (1756)
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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)
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To FOUND [v. a.]
3. To establish; to erect.
5. To raise upon, as on a principle or ground.
FOUNDER (1756)
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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.
FREE (1785)
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FREE [adj.]
1. At liberty; not a vassal; not enslaved; not a prisoner; not dependent.
2. Uncompelled; unrestrained.
3. Not bound by fate; not necessitated.
11. Guiltless; innocent.
To FREE (1785)
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To FREE [v. a.]
1. To set at liberty; to rescue from slavery or captivity; to manumit; to loose.
2. To rid from; to clear from any thing ill: with of or from.
3. To clear from impediments or obstructions.
4. To banish; to send away; to rid.
5. To exempt.
FREEDOM (1785)
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FREEDOM [n. s.]
1. Liberty; exemption from servitude; independence.
2. Privileges; franchises; immunities[sic].
3. Power of enjoying franchises.
4. Exemption from fate, necessity, or predetermination.
5. Unrestraint.
6. The state of being without any particular evil or inconvenience.
7. Ease or facility in doing or showing any thing.
FREESPOKEN[sic] (1785)
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FREESPOKEN[sic] [adj.]
Accustomed to speak without reserve.
FUGITIVE (1756)
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FUGITIVE [a.]
1. Not tenable; not to be held or detained.
2. Unsteady; unstable; not durable.
3. Volatile; apt to fly away.
4. Flying; running from danger.
5. Flying from duty; falling off.
6. Wandering; runnagate[sic]; vagabond.
FUGITIVE [s.]
1. One who runs from his station or duty.
2. One who takes shelter under another power from punishment.
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GATE (1785)
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GATE [n. s.]
1. The door of a city, castle, palace, or large building.
2. A frame of timber upon hinges to give a passage into inclosed[sic] grounds.
3. An avenue; an opening.
GENERAL (1756)
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GENERAL [a.]
1. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special.
2. Lax in signification; not restrained to any special or particular import.
3. Not restrained by narrow or distinctive limitations.
4. Relating to a whole class or body of men.
5. Publick; comprising the whole.
6. Not directed to any single object.
7. Extensive, though not universal.
8. Common; usual.
GENERAL [s.]
1. The whole; the totality.
2. The publick; the interest of the whole.
3. The vulgar.
GENERAL (1785)
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GENERAL [adj.]
1. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special; not particular.
2. Lax in signification; not restrained to any special or particular import.
3. Not restrained by narrow or distinctive limitations.
4. Relating to a whole class or body of men, or a whole kind of any being.
5. Publick; comprising the whole.
6. Not directed to any single object.
7. Having relation to all.
8. Extensive, though not universal.
9. Common; usual.
GENERAL [n. s.]
1. The whole; the totality; the main, without insisting on particulars.
GENTLEMAN (1756)
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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[sic] (1756)
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GENTLEMANLIKE-GENTLEMANLY[sic] [a.]
Becoming a man of birth.
GOD (1756)
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GOD [s.]
1. The Supreme Being.
2. A false god; an idol.
3. Any person or thing deified or too much honoured[sic].
GOD (1768)
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GOD [s.]
1. The Supreme Being.
2. A false god; an idol.
3. Any person or thing deified or too much honoured[sic].
To GOD (1768)
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To GOD [v. a.]
To deify; to exalt to divine honours[sic].
GOOD (1785)
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GOOD [adj.]
1. Having, either generally or for any particular end, such physical qualities as are expected or desired. Not bad; not ill.
2. Proper; fit; convenient; right; not wrong.
3. Conducive to happiness.
4. Uncorrupted; undamaged.
5. Wholesome; salubrious.
9. Useful; valuable.
10. Sound; not false; not fallacious.
15. Well qualified; not deficient.
16. Skilful; ready; dexterous.
18. Honourable.
24. Having moral qualities, such as are wished; virtuous; pious; religious; applied both to persons and actions. Not bad; not evil.
GOOD [n. s.]
1. That which physically contributes to happiness; benefit; advantage; the contrary to evil or misery.
4. Moral qualities, such as are desireable; virtue; righteousness; piety; the contrary to wickedness.
GOOD [adv.]
1. Well; not ill; not amiss.
GOODS (1756)
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GOODS [s.]
1. Moveables in a house.
2. Wares; freight; merchandise.
GOODS (1785)
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GOODS [n. s.]
1. Moveables in a house.
2. Personal or moveable[sic] estate.
3. Wares; freight; merchandise.
To GOVERN (1756)
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To GOVERN [v. a.]
1. To rule as chief magistrate.
2. To regulate; to influence; to direct.
3. To manage; to restrain.
5. To pilot; to regulate the motions of a ship.
GOVERNABLE (1756)
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GOVERNABLE [a.]
Submissive to authority; subject to rule.
GOVERNANCE (1756)
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GOVERNANCE [s.]
1. Government; rule; management.
2. Control, as that if a guardian.
GOVERNMENT (1756)
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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[sic] (1756)
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GOVERNOUR[sic] [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.
GRAND (1785)
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GRAND [adj.]
1. Great; illustrious; high in power or dignity.
2. Great; splendid; magnificent.
3. Principal; chief.
4. Eminent; superiour; very frequently in an ill sense.
5. Noble; sublime; lofty; conceived or expressed with great dignity.
6. It is used to signify ascent or descent of consanguinity.
GRANT (1756)
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GRANT [s.]
1. The act of granting or bestowing.
2. The thing granted; a gift; a boon.
3. [In law.] A gift in writing of such a thing as cannot aptly be passed or conveyed by word only.
4. Admission of something in dispute.
GRANT (1785)
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GRANT [s.]
1. The act of granting or bestowing.
2. The thing granted; a gift; a boon.
3. [In law.] A gift in writing of such a thing as cannot aptly be passed or conveyed by word only; as rent, reversions, services, advowsons[sic] in gross, common in gross, tithes, &c. or made by such persons as cannot give by deed, as the king, and all bodies politick; which differences be often in speech neglected, and then is taken generally for every gift whatsoever, made of any thing by any person; and he that granteth[sic] it is named the grantor[sic], and he to whom it is made the grantee. A thing is said to lie in grant which cannot be assigned without deed.
4. Concession; admission of something in dispute.
To GRANT (1756)
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To GRANT [v. a.]
1. To admit that which is not yet proved.
2. To bestow something which cannot be claimed of right.
To GRANT (1785)
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To GRANT [v. a.]
1. To admit that which is not yet proved; to allow; to yield; to concede.
2. To bestow something which cannot be claimed of right.
GRIEVANCE (1785)
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GRIEVANCE [n. s.]
2. The cause of uneasiness. Used of such causes as are the effects of human conduct.
growth-chart
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By day 15; it looks nearly impossible to accomplish.
But by day 30; if people really want Clean Honest Government — keep educating others to also pass the word; the job is complete.
growth-chart days 1-15 & 16-30
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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)
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GUARDIAN [s.]
1. One that has the care of an orphan.
2. One to whom the care and preservation of any thing is committed.
3. A repository or storehouse.
GUARDIAN (1785)
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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[sic] CORPUS (1785)
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HABEAS CORPUS [sic]
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.
HEREIN (1756)
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HEREIN [ad.]
In this.
HEREIN (1785)
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HEREIN [adv.]
In this.
HERETOFORE (1756)
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HERETOFORE [ad.]
Formerly; anciently.
HIMSELF (1785)
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HIMSELF [pron.]
1. In the nominative the same as he, only more emphatical[sic], and more expressive of individual personality.
2. It is added to a personal pronoun or noun, by way of emphatical[sic] discrimination.
HOLD (1785)
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HOLD [v. a.]
1. The act of seizing; gripe; grasp; seizure. It is used with great frequency, both literally and figuratively, both for manual and intellectual agency. The verbs with which it is oftenest united, are take, lay, and have.
2. Something to be held; support.
3. Power of keeping.
4. Catch; power of seizing.
5. Prison; place of custody.
6. Custody.
7. Power; influence operating on the mind.
To HOLD (1785)
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To HOLD [v. a.]
1. To grasp in the hand: to gripe; to clutch.
2. To connect; to keep from separation.
3. To keep; to retain; to gripe fast; not to let go.
4. To maintain as an opinion.
14. To possess; to have.
17. To stop; to restrain.
HOSTILE (1756)
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HOSTILE [a.]
Adverse; opposite; suitable to an enemy.
HOSTILE (1785)
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HOSTILE [adj.]
Adverse; opposite; suitable to an enemy.
HOSTILITY (1756)
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HOSTILITY [s.]
The practices of an open enemy; open war; opposition in war.
HOSTILITY (1785)
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HOSTILITY [n. s.]
The practices of an open enemy; open war; opposition in war.
HOUSE (1785)
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HOUSE [n. s.]
1. A place wherein a man lives; a place of human abode.
2. Any place of abode.
3. Place in which religious or studios persons live in common; monastery; college.
4. The manner of living; the table.
5. Station of a planet in the heavens, astrologically considered.
6. Family of ancestors; descendants, and kindred; race.
7. A body of the parliament; the lords or commons collectively considered.
HUMAN (1756)
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HUMAN [a.]
1. Having the qualities of a man.
2. Belonging to man.
HUMANKIND (1756)
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HUMANKIND [s.]
The race of man.
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IMMUNITY (1785)
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IMMUNITY [n. s.]
1. Discharge from any obligation.
2. Privilege; exemption from onerous duties.
3.Freedom.
IMPARTIAL (1785)
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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)
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IMPARTIALITY [n. s.]
Equitableness[sic]; justice; indifference.
IMPARTIALITY [adv.]
Equitably, with indifferent and unbiassed[sic] judgment; without regard to party or interest; justly; honestly.
IMPEACH (1785)
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IMPEACH [n. s.]
Hindrance; let; impediment.
To IMPEACH (1785)
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To IMPEACH [v. a.]
1. To hinder; to impede. This sense is little in use.
2. To accuse by public authority.
IMPEACHABLE (1785)
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IMPEACHABLE [adj.]
Accusable[sic]; chargeable.
IMPEACHER (1785)
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IMPEACHER [n. s.]
An accuser; one who brings an accusation against another.
IMPEACHMENT (1785)
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IMPEACHMENT [n. s.]
1. Hindrance; let; impediment; obstruction. Not in use.
2. Public accusation; charge preferred.
To IMPETRATE[sic] (1785)
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To IMPETRATE[sic] [v. a.]
To obtain by intreaty[sic].
IMPORTATION (1785)
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IMPORTATION [n. s.]
The act or practice of importing, or bringing into a country from abroad: opposed to exportation.
IMPORTUNE (1785)
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IMPORTUNE [a.]
1. Constantly recurring; troublesome by frequency.
2. troublesome; vexatious.
3. Unseasonable; coming, asking, or happening at a wrong time.
To IMPORTUNE (1756)
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IMPORTUNE [v. a.]
To teize[sic]; to harass with slight vexation perpetually recurring; to molest.
IMPOST (1756)
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IMPOST [s.]
A tax; a toll; custom paid.
IMPOST (1785)
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IMPOST [n. s.]
A tax; a toll; a custom paid.
IMPOSTS (1756)
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IMPOSTS [s.]
In architecture, that part of a pillar, in vaults and arches, on which the weight of the whole building lieth[sic].
INALIENABLE (1756)
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INALIENABLE [a.]
That cannot be alienated.
INCITE (1828)
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INCITE [v. t.]
1. To move the mind to action by persuasion or motives presented; to stir up; to rouse; to spur on.
2. To move to action by impulse or influence.
3. To animate; to encourage.
INCOME (1828)
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INCOME [n.]
1. The gain which proceeds from labor, business or property of any kind; the produce of a farm; the rent of houses; the proceeds of professional business; the profits of commerce or of occupation; the interest of money or stocks in funds. Income is often used synonymously[sic] with revenue, but income is more generally applied to the gain of private persons, and revenue to that of a sovereign or of a state. We speak of the annual income of a gentleman, and the annual revenue of the state.
INCOME (1898)
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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)
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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; wages or salary.
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
INCOME & INCOME TAX (1960)
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INCOME [n.]
2. The money or other gain periodically received by an individual, corporation, etc., for labor or services, or from property, investments, operations, etc.: abbreviated inc.
INCOME TAX []
A tax on income or on that part of income which exceeds a certain amount.
INCOME (2024)
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INCOME [n.]
Money received, especially on a regular basis, for work or through investments.
INCORPORATE (1756)
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INCORPORATE [a.]
Immaterial; unbodied[sic].
To INCORPORATE (1756)
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To INCORPORATE [v. a.]
3. To form into a corporation, or body politick.
4. To unite; to associate.
INCORPORATION. – (1756)
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INCORPORATION [s.]
1. Union of divers ingredients in one mass.
2. Formation of a body politick.
INDICT (1708)
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INDICT []
To prefer a Bill against an Offender in due Course of Law.
INDIGENT. – (1756)
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INDIGENT [a.]
1. Poor; needy; necessitous.
2. In want; wanting.
INFAMOUS (1785)
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INFAMOUS [adj.]
Publickly branded with guilt; openly censured; of bad report.
INFERIOUR (1785)
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INFERIOUR [adj.]
1. Lower in place.
2. Lower in station or rank of life: correlative to to superiour.
3. Lower in value or excellency.
4. Subordinate.
INFERIOUR [n. s.]
One in a lower rank or station than another.
To INFORM (1785)
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To INFORM [v. a.]
1. To animate; to actuate by vital powers.
2. To instruct; to supply with new knowledge; to acquaint. Before the thing communicated was anciently put with; now generally of: sometimes in, though I know not how properly.
3. To offer an accusation to a magistrate.
To INFRINGE (1785)
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To INFRINGE [v. a.]
1. To violate; to break laws or contracts.
2. To destroy; to hinder.
INFRINGEMENT (1785)
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INFRINGEMENT [n. s.]
Breach; violation.
INGREDIENT (1756)
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INGREDIENT [s.]
Component part of a body, consisting of different materials.
INORDINATE (1785)
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INORDINATE [adj.]
Irregular; disorderly; deviating from right.
INSTEAD of (1756)
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The Word [prep.]
1. In room of; in place of.
2. Equal to.
To INSTITUTE (1756)
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To INSTITUTE [v. n.]
1. To fix; to establish; to appoint; to enact; to settle.
2. To educate; to instruct; to form by instruction.
To INSTITUTE (1768)
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To INSTITUTE [v. n.]
1. To fix; to establish; to appoint; to enact; to settle.
2. To educate; to instruct; to form by instruction.
INSTITUTE (1768)
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INSTITUTE [s.]
1. Established law; settled order.
2. Precept; maxim; principle.
INSURRECTION (1756)
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INSURRECTION [s.]
A seditious rising; a rebellious commotion.
INSURRECTION (1785)
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INSURRECTION [n. s.]
A seditious rising; a rebellious commotion.
INSURRECTION (1828)
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INSURRECTION [n.]
1. A rising against civil or political authority; the open and active opposition of a number of persons to the execution of law in a city or state. It is equivalent to sedition, except that sedition expresses a less extensive rising of citizens. It differs from rebellion, for the latter expresses a revolt, or an attempt to overthrow the government, to establish a different one or to place the country under another jurisdiction. It differs from mutiny, as it respects the civil or political government; whereas mutiny is an open opposition to law in the army or navy. Insurrection is however used with such latitude as to comprehend either sedition or rebellion.
To INTERROGATE (1756)
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To INTERROGATE [v. a.]
To examine; to question.
To INTERROGATE [v. n.]
To ask; to put questions.
INTERROGATION (1756)
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INTERROGATION [s.]
1. A question put; an enquiry.
INTERROGATIVE (1756)
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INTERROGATIVE [a.]
Denoting a question; expressed in a questionary[sic] form of words.
INTERROGATIVE [s.]
A pronoun used in asking question: as, who? what?
INTERROGATIVELY (1756)
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INTERROGATIVELY [ad.]
In form of a question.
INTERROGATOR (1756)
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INTERROGATOR [s.]
An asker[sic] of questions.
INTERROGATORY (1756)
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INTERROGATORY [s.]
A question; an enquiry.
INTERROGATORY [a.]
Containing a question; expressing a question.
INTESTINE (1756)
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INTESTINE [a.]
1. Internal; inward; not external.
3. Domestick, not foreign.
INTESTINE (1785)
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INTESTINE [a.]
1. Internal; inward; not external.
3. Domestick, not foreign.
INVASION (1785)
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INVASION [n. s.]
1. Hostile entrance upon rights or possessions of another; hostile encroachment.
INVASIVE (1785)
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INVASIVE [adj.]
Entering hostilely upon other men's possessions; not defensive.
To INVENT (1756)
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To INVENT [v. a.]
1. To discover; to find out; to excogitate[sic].
2. To forge; to contrive falsely; to fabricate.
3. To feign; to make by the imagination.
4. To light on; to meet with.
INVENTER[sic] (1756)
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INVENTER[sic] [s.]
1. One who produces something new; a deviser[sic] of something not known before.
2. A forger.
INVOLUNTARILY (1785)
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INVOLUNTARILY [adv.]
Not by choice; not spontaneously.
INVOLUNTARY (1785)
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INVOLUNTARY [adj.]
1. Not having the power of choice.
2. Not chosen; not done willingly.
INVOLUTION (1785)
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INVOLUTION [n. s.]
1. The act of involving or inwrapping[sic].
2. The state of being entangled; complication.
3. That which is wrapped round any thing.
IRREGULAR (1785)
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IRREGULAR [adj.]
1. Deviating from rule, custom, or nature.
2. Immethodical; not confined to any certain rule or order.
3. Not being according to the laws of virtue.
ISSUE (1785)
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ISSUE [n. s.]
1. The act of passing out.
2. Exit; egress; or passing out.
3. Event; consequence.
4. Termination; conclusion.
5. Sequel deduced from premises.
6. A fontanel; a vent made in a muscle for the discharge of humours[sic].
7. Evacuation.
8. Progenvy; offspring.
9. [In law.] Issue hath divers applications in the common law: sometimes used for the children begotten between a man and his wife; sometimes for profits growing from an amercement, fine, or expences[sic] of suit; sometimes for profits of lands or tenements; sometimes for that point of matter depending in suit, whereupon the parties join and put their cause to the trial of the jury. Issue is either general or special: general issue seemeth[sic] to be that whereby it is referred to the jury to bring in their verdict, whether the defendant have done any such thing as the plaintiff layeth[sic] to his charge. The special issue then must be that, where special matter being alleged by the defendant for his defence, both the, parties join thereupon, and so grow rather to a demurrer, if it be quaestio juris[sic], or to trial by jury, it it be quaestio facti[sic].
To ISSUE (1785)
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To ISSUE [v. n.]
1. To come out; to pass out of any place
2. To make an eruption; to break out.
3. To proceed as an offspring.
4. To be produced by any fund.
5. To run out in lines.
To ISSUE [v. a.]
1. To send out; to send forth.
2. To send out judicially or authoritatively.
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JEOPARDY (1785)
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JEOPARDY [n. s.]
Hazard; danger; Peril. A word not now in use.
JUDGE (1756)
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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.
JUDICIAL (1785)
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JUDICIAL [adj.]
1. Practiced in the distribution of publick justice.
2. Inflicted on as a penalty.
JURY (1785)
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JURY [v. n.]
Jury, a company of men, as many as twenty-four, or twelve, sworn to deliver a truth upon such evidence as shall be delivered them touching the matter in question. [. . . ] The grand jury consists ordinarily of twenty-four grave and substantial gentlemen, or some of them yeomen, chosen indifferently out of the whole shire by the sheriff, to consider of all bills of indictment preferred to the court; which they do either approve by writing upon them these words, billa vera[sic], or disallow by writing ignoramus. Such as they do approve, if they touch life and death, are farther referred to another jury to be considered of, because the case is of importance; but others of lighter moment are, upon their allowance, without more work, fined by the bench, except the party traveise[sic] the indictment, or challenge it for insufficiency, or remove the cause to a higher court by certlorari[sic]; [ . . . ]
JUST (1785)
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JUST [adj.]
1. Upright; incorrupt[sic]; equitable in the distribution of justice.
2. Honest; without crime in dealing with others.
4. Exact; proper; accurate.
5. Vertuous; innocent; pure.
6. True; not forged.
7. Grounded on principles of justice; rightful.
8. Equally retributed[sic].
9. Complete without superfluity or defect.
10. Regulart, orderly.
11. Exactly proportioned.
JUSTICE (1756)
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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.
JUSTICE (1785)
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JUSTICE [n. s.]
1. The virtue by which we give to every man, what is his due; opposed to injury or wrong.
2. Equity; agreeableness to right: as, he proved the justice of his claim.
3. Vindicative retribution; punishment; opposed to mercy.
4. Right; assertion of right.
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KEEP (1785)
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KEEP [n. s.]
1. Custody; guard.
2. Guardianship; restraint.
To KEEP (1785)
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To Keep [v. a.]
1. To retain; not to lose.
2. To have in custody.
5. To protect; to guard.
8. To hold for another.
9. To tend; to have care of.
17. To practice; top use habitually.
22. To have in the house.
24. To maintain; to hold.
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LAND (1785)
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LAND [n. s.]
1. A country; a region; distinct from other countries.
2. Earth; distinct from water.
5. An estate real and immoveable[sic].
6. Nation; people; the inhabitants of the land.
LAW (1756)
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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)
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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)
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LAWFUL [adj.]
Agreeable to law; conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; legal.
LAWFULLY (1785)
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LAWFULLY [adv.]
Legally; agreeable to law.
LAW of MARK, MART, or REPRISAL (1708)
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LAW of MARK, MART, or REPRISAL []
LAW of MARK, MART, or REPRISAL, is that whereby Men take the Goods of those by whom they have receiv'd[sic] Wrong, whenever they find them within their own Territories, or Bounds.
LEAGUE (1756)
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LEAGUE [s.]
A confederacy; a combination.
To LEAGUE (1756)
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To LEAGUE [v. n.]
To unite; to confederate.
LEGISLATION (1756)
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LEGISLATION [s.]
The act of giving laws.
LEGISLATION (1785)
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LEGISLATION [n. s.]
The act of giving laws.
LEGISLATIVE (1756)
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LEGISLATIVE [a.]
Giving laws; lawgiving[sic].
LEGISLATIVE (1785)
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LEGISLATIVE [adj.]
Giving laws; lawgiving[sic].
LEGISLATOR (1756)
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LEGISLATOR [s.]
A lawgiver; one who makes laws for any community.
LEGISLATOR (1785)
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LEGISLATOR [n. s.]
A lawgiver; one who makes laws for any community.
LEGISLATURE (1756)
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LEGISLATURE [s.]
The power that makes laws.
LEGISLATURE (1785)
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LEGISLATURE [n. s.]
The power that makes laws.
To LEND (1785)
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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)
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LENDER [n. s.]
1. One who lends any thing.
2. One who makes a trade of putting money to interest.
LETTER of MART or MARK (1708)
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LETTER of MART or MARK []
Letters which authorize one to take by Force of Arms those Goods which are due by the Law of Mark.
LEVY (1785)
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LEVY [n. s.]
1. The act of raising money or men.
2. War raised.
To LEVY (1785)
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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.
LIBERTY (1756)
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LIBERTY [s.]
1. Freedom as opposed to slavery.
2. Freedom as opposed to necessity.
3. Privilege; exemption; immunity.
4. Relaxation of restraint.
5. Leave; permission.
LIBERTY (1785)
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LIBERTY [n. s.]
1. Freedom, as opposed to slavery.
2. Exemption from tyranny or inordinate government.
3. Freedom, as opposed to necessity.
4. Privilege; exemption; immunity.
5. Relaxation of restraint: as, he sees himself at liberty to chuse[sic] his condition.
6. Leave; permission.
LIFE (1756)
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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)
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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)
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LIGHT [a.]
11. Easy to admit any influence; unsteady; unsettled.
LIGHT (1768)
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LIGHT [v. a.]
11. Easy to admit any influence; unsteady; unsettled.
LIMB (1785)
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LIFE [n. s.]
1. A member; a jointed or articulated part of animals.
To LIMIT (1785)
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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)
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MAGNANIMITY [s.]
Greatness of mind; bravery; elevation of soul.
MAGNANIMOUS (1756)
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MAGNANIMOUS [a.]
Great of mind; elevated in sentiment; brave.
MAGNANIMOUSLY (1756)
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MAGNANIMOUSLY [ad.]
Bravely; with greatness of mind.
MAJORITY (1756)
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MAJORITY [s.]
1. The state of being greater.
2. The greater number.
4. Full age; end of minority.
MAJORITY (1785)
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MAJORITY [n. s.]
1. The state of being greater.
2. The greater number.
4. Full age; end of minority.
MAN (1756)
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MAN [s.]
1. Human being.
8. A human being qualified in any particular manner.
MAN (1768)
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MAN [s.]
1. Human being.
8. A human being qualified in any particular manner.
MANAGEMENT (1756)
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MANAGEMENT [s.]
1. Conduct; administration.
2. Practice; transaction; dealing.
MANAGER (1756)
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MANAGER [s.]
1. One who has the conduct or direction of any thing.
2. A man of frugality; a good husband.
MANKIND (1756)
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MANKIND [s.]
1. The race or species of human beings.
MANNER. (1756)
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MANNER [a.]
1. Form; method.
2. Custom; habit; fashion.
3. Certain degree.
4. Sort; kind.
5. Mien; cast of the look.
6. Particular way; distinct mode of person.
7. Way; mode: of things.
MARK. (1785)
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MARK [n. s.]
1. A token by which any thing is known.
8. [Marque, French.] Licence of reprisals.
9. [Marc, French.] A sum of thirteen shillings and fourpence[sic].
MARTIAL (1756)
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MARTIAL [a.]
1. Warlike; fighting; given to war.
2. Having a warlike show; suiting war.
3. Belonging to war; not civil.
MARTIAL (1785)
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MARTIAL [adj.]
1. Warlike; fighting; given to war; brave.
2. Having a warlike show; suiting war.
3. Belonging to war; not civil; not according to the rules or practice of peaceable government.
MEN (1756)
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The plural of man.
MIGRATION (1785)
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MIGRATION [n. s.]
1. Act of changing residence; removal from habitation to another.
2. Change of place; removal.
MILITARY (1756)
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MILITARY [a.]
1. Engaged in the life of a soldier; soldierly.
2. Suiting a soldier; pertaining to a soldier; warlike.
3. Effected by soldiers.
MILITARY (1785)
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MILITARY [adj.]
1. Engaged in the life of a soldier; soldierly.
2. Suiting a soldier; pertaining to a soldier; warlike.
3. Effected by soldiers.
MILITIA (1756)
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MILITIA [s.]
The trainbands[sic]; the standing force of a nation.
MILITIA (1785)
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MILITIA [n. s.]
The trainbands[sic]; the standing force of a nation.
MOCK (1756)
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MOCK [s.]
1. Ridicule; act of contempt; ...; sneer.
2. Imitation; mimickry[sic].
To MOCK (1756)
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To MOCK [v. n.]
To make contemptuous sport.
MODERATE (1785)
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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; holding the ...
MODERATION (1785)
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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)
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MOVEABLES [n. s.]
Goods; furniture; distinguished from real or immoveable[sic] possessions, as lands or houses.
MUTINY (1785)
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MUTINY [n. s.]
Insurrection; sedition.
To MUTINY (1785)
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MUTINY [v. n.]
To rise against authority; to make insurrection; to move sedition.
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NATAL (1785)
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NATAL [adj.]
Native; relating to nativity.
NATION (1756)
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NATION [s.]
A people distinguished from another people.
NATION (1768)
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NATION [s.]
A people distinguished from another people.
NATIONAL (1756)
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NATIONAL [a.]
1. Publick; general; not private; not particular.
2. Bigotted to one's own country.
NATIONAL (1768)
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NATIONAL [a.]
1. Publick; general; not private; not particular.
2. Bigotted to one's own country.
NATIONALLY (1756)
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NATIONALLY [v]
With regard to the nation.
NATIONALLY (1768)
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NATIONALLY [adv.]
With regard to the nation.
NATIONALNESS[sic] (1756)
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NATIONALNESS[sic] [s.]
Reference to the people in general
NATIONLESS[sic] (1768)
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NATIONLESS[sic] [s.]
Reference to the people in general
NATIVE (1785)
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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[sic] (1785)
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NATIVENESS[sic] [n. s.]
State of being produced by nature.
NATIVITY (1785)
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NATIVITY [n. s.]
1. Birth; issue into life.
2. Time, place, or manner of birth.
3. State or place of being produced.
NATURAL (1785)
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NATURAL [adj.]
1. Produced or effected by nature; not artificial.
2. Illegitimate; not legal.
3. Bestowed by nature; not acquired.
4. Not forced; not farfetched[sic]; dictated by nature.
5. Following the stated course of things.
NATURALIST (1785)
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NATURALIST [n. s.]
A student in physicks[sic], or natural philosophy.
NATURALIZATION (1785)
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NATURALIZATION [n. s.]
The act of investing aliens with the privileges of native subjects.
To NATURALIZE (1785)
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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)
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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)
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NATURALNESS [n. s.]
1. The state of being given or produced by nature.
2. Conformity to truth and reality; not affectation.
NATURE (1756)
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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 regular 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)
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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 regular 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)
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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, and so difficultly defined.
NATURITY[sic] (1785)
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NATURITY[sic] [n. s.]
The state of being produced by nature. A word not used.
NAVAL (1785)
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NAVAL [adj.]
1. Consisting of ships.
2. Belonging to ships.
NAVY (1785)
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NAVY [n. s.]
An assembly of ships, commonly ships of war; a fleet.
NECESSARY (1785)
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NECESSARY [adj.]
1. Needful; indispensably requisite.
2. Not free; fatal; impelled by fate.
3. Conclusive; decisive by inevitable consequence.
NO (1785)
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NO [adv.]
1. The word of refusal: contrary to yea or yes.
2. The word of denial, opposite to concession or affirmation.
3. It sometimes confirms a foregoing negative.
4. It sometimes strengthens a following negative; not true, not even.
NO [adj.]
1. Not any; none.
2. It seems an adjective in these phrases, no longer, no more, no where; though sometimes it may be so commodiously changed to not, that it seems an adverb: as the days are yet no shorter.
3. No one; none; not any one.
NOBILITY (1785)
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NOBILITY [n. s.]
1. Antiquity of family joined with splendour[sic].
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 above the commons.
4. Dignity. grandeur; greatness.
NON (1785)
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NON [adv.]
Not. It is never used separately, but sometimes prefixed to words with a negative power.
NOT (1785)
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NOT [adv.]
1. The particle of negation, or refusal.
2. The first member of a negative sentence, followed by not or neither.
3. A word of exception.
4. A word of prohibition, or deprecation.
5. It denotes cessation or extinction. No more.
NOTORIOUS (1756)
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NOTORIOUS [a.]
Publickly known; evident to the world; apparent; not hidden.
NORORIOUS (1768)
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NOTORIOUS [a.]
Publickly known; evident to the world; apparent; not hidden.
NOTORIOUSLY (1756)
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NOTORIOUSLY [ad.]
Publickly; evidently.
NOTORIOUSLY (1768)
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NOTORIOUSLY [adv.]
Publickly; evidently.
NOTORIOUSNESS[sic] (1756)
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NOTORIOUSNESS[sic] [s.]
Publick fame.
NOTORIOUSNESS[sic] (1768)
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NOTORIOUSNESS[sic] [s.]
Publick fame.
NOTWITHSTANDING (1756)
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NOTWITHSTANDING [conj.]
This word is properly a participial adjective, as it is compounded of not and withstanding, and answers exactly the Latin non obstante[sic].
1. Without hindrance or objection from.
2. Although.
3. Nevertheless; however.
NOTWITHSTANDING (1785)
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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[sic]....]
1. Without hindrance or objection from.
2. Although. This use is not proper.
3. Nevertheless; however.
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OATH (1785)
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OATH [n. s.]
An affirmation, negation, or promise, corroborated by the attestation of the Divine Being.
To OBTAIN (1785)
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To OBTAIN [v. a.]
1. To gain; to acquire; to procure.
2. To impetrate[sic]; to gain by concession or excited kindness of another.
To OBTAIN [v. n.]
1. To continue in use.
2. To be established; to subsist in nature or practice.
OF (1756)
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OF [prep.]
1. It is put before the substantive that follows another in construction; as, of these part were slain.
2. It is put after comparative and superlative adjectives; as, the most dismal and unseasonable time of all other.
3. From; as, one that I brought up of a puppy.
4. Concerning; relating to; as, all have this sense of war.
5. Out of; as, yet of this little he had some to spare.
6. Among; as, any clergyman of my own acquaintance
7. By; as, I was entertained of the consul.
8. According to; as, they do of right belong to you.
9. Noting power, or spontaneity; as, of himself man is confessedly unequal to his duty.
10. Noting properties or qualities; as a man of a decayed fortune; a body of no colour[sic].
11. Noting extraction; as, as a man of an ancient family.
12. Noting adherence, or belonging; as, a Hebrew of my tribe.
13. Noting the matter; as, the chariot was of cedar.
14. Noting the motive; as, of my own choice I undertook this work.
15. Noting preference, or postponence[sic]; as, I do not like the tower of any place.
16. Noting change of; as, O miserable of happy!
17. Noting causality; as, good nature of necessity will give allowance.
18. Noting proportion; as, many of an hundred[sic].
19. Noting kind or species; as, an affair of the cabinet.
OF (1785)
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OF [prep.]
1. It is put before the substantive that follows another in construction; as, of these part were slain; that is, part of these
3. From.
4. Concerning; relating to.
5. Out of.
7. By. This sense was once very frequent, but is not now in use.
8. According to.
OFFENCE (1785)
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OFFENCE [n. s.]
1. Crime; act of wickedness.
2. A transgression.
3. Injury.
4. Displeasure given; cause of disgust; scandal.
5. Anger; displeasure conceived.
6. Attack; act of assailant.
OFFICE (1785)
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OFFICE [n. s.]
1. A publick charge or employment; magistracy.
2. Agency; peculiar use.
3. Business; particular employment.
7. Rooms in a house appropriated to a particular business.
8. [Officina, Latin] Place where business is transacted.
OMISSION (1756)
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OMISSION [s.]
1. Neglect to do something; forbearance of something to be done.
2. Neglect of duty, opposed to commission or perpetration of crimes.
To OMIT (1756)
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To OMIT [v. a.]
1. To leave out; not to mention.
2. To neglect to practice.
OMITTANCE[sic] (1756)
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OMITTANCE[sic] [s.]
Forbearance.
ONEROUS (1785)
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ONEROUS [adj.]
Burthensome[sic]; oppressive.
To OPPOSE (1785)
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To OPPOSE [v. a.]
1. To act against; to be adverse; to hinder; to resist.
2. To put in opposition; to offer as an antagonist or rival.
3. To place as an obstacle.
4. To place in front; to place over against.
To OPPOSE [v. n.]
1. To act adversely.
2. To object in a disputation; to have the part of raising difficulties against a tenet supposed to be right.
OPPOSELESS[sic] (1785)
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OPPOSELESS[sic] [adj.]
Irresistible; not to be opposed.
OPPOSER[sic] (1785)
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OPPOSER[sic] [n. s.]
One that opposes; antagonist; enemy; rival.
OPPOSITE (1756)
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OPPOSITE [a.]
1. Placed in front; facing each other.
2. Adverse; repugnant.
3. Contrary.
OPPOSITE [s.]
Adversary; opponent; antagonist.
OPPOSITE (1785)
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OPPOSITE [adj.]
1. Placed in front; facing each other.
2. Adverse; repugnant.
3. Contrary.
OPPOSITE [n. s.]
Adversary; opponent; antagonist; enemy.
To OPPRESS (1756)
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To OPPRESS [v. a.]
1. To crush by hardship or unreasonable severity.
2. To overpower; to subdue.
To OPPRESS (1785)
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To OPPRESS [v. a.]
1. To crush by hardship or unreasonable severity.
2. To overpower; to subdue.
OPPRESSION (1756)
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OPPRESSION [s.]
1. The art of oppressing; cruelty; severity.
2. The state of being oppressed; misery.
3. Hardship; calamity.
OPPRESSION (1785)
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OPPRESSION [n. s.]
1. The act of oppressing; cruelty; severity.
2. The state of being oppressed; misery.
3. Hardship; calamity.
OPPRESSIVE (1756)
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OPPRESSIVE [a.]
1. Cruel; inhuman; unjustly exactious[sic] or severe.
2. Heavy; overwhelming.
OPPRESSIVE (1785)
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OPPRESSIVE [adj.]
1. Cruel; inhuman; unjustly exactious[sic]or severe.
2. Heavy; overwhelming.
OPPRESSOR (1785)
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OPPRESSOR [n. s.]
One who harasses others with unreasonable or unjust severity.
OR (1785)
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OR [conjunct.]
1. A disjunctive particle, marking distribution, and sometimes opposition.
2. It corresponds to either: he must either, fall or fly.
3. It sometimes, but rather inelegantly stands for either.
4. Or is sometimes redundant, but is then more properly omitted.
To ORDAIN (1756)
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To ORDAIN [v. a.]
1. To appoint; to decree.
2. To establish; to settle; to institute.
3. To set in an office.
4. To invest with ministerial function, or facerdotal[sic] power.
To ORDAIN (1785)
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To ORDAIN [v. a.]
1. To appoint; to decree.
2. To establish; to settle; to institute.
3. To set in an office.
4. To invest with ministerial function, or facerdotal[sic] power.
ORDER (1785)
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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.
OVERT (1785)
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OVERT [adj.]
Open; publick; apparent.
OVERTHROW (1756)
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OVERTHROW [s.]
1. The state of being turned upside down.
2. Ruin; destruction.
3. Defeat; discomfiture.
4. Degradation.
OVERTHROW (1785)
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OVERTHROW [n. s.]
1. The state of being turned upside down.
2. Ruin; destruction.
3. Defeat; discomfiture.
4. Degradation.
To OVERTHROW (1756)
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To OVERTHROW [v. a.]
1. To turn upside down.
2. To throw down; to ruin; to demolish.
3. To defeat; to conquer; to vanquish.
4. To destroy; to mischief; to bring to nothing.
To OVERTHROW (1785)
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To OVERTHROW [v. a.]
1. To turn upside down.
2. To throw down.
3. To ruin; to demolish.
4. To defeat; to conquer; to vanquish.
5. To destroy; to subvert; to mischief; to bring to nothing.
OVERTLY (1785)
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OVERTLY [adv.]
Openly.
OWNER (1785)
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OWNER [n. s.]
One to whom any thing belongs; master; rightful possessor.
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PAPER (1785)
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PAPER [n. s.]
1. Substance on which men write and print; made by macerating linen rag in water, and then grinding them to pulp and spreading them in thin sheets.
2. Piece of paper.
3. Single sheet printed, or written. It is used particularly of essays or journals, or any thing printed on a sheet.
4. It is used for deeds of security, or bills of reckoning.
PAPER [adj.]
Any thing slight or thin.
PARDON (1785)
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The Word [n. s.]
1. Forgiveness of an offender.
2. Forgiveness of a crime.
3. Remission of penalty.
4. Forgiveness received.
To PARDON (1785)
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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.
PARTICULARITY (1785)
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PARTICULARITY [n. s.]
1. Distinct notice or enumeration.
2. Singleness; individuality; single act; single case.
3. Petty account; private incident.
4. Something belonging to single persons.
5. Something peculiar.
PARTICULARLY (1785)
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PARTICULARLY [adv.]
1. Distinctly; singly; not universally.
2.In an extraordinary degree.
PAUPER (1756)
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PAUPER [s.]
A poor person.
PEACE (1756)
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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[sic]; heavenly rest.
PEACEABLY (1785)
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PEACEABLY [adv.]
1. Without war; without tumult.
2. Without tumults or commotion.
3. Without disturbance.
PECULIAR (1785)
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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 abscinded[sic] from the ordinary jurisdiction.
PEOPLE (1756)
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PEOPLE [s.]
1. A nation; those who compose a community.
2. The vulgar.
3. The commonality; not the princes or nobles.
4. Persons of a particular class.
5. Men, or persons in general.
PEOPLE (1785)
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PEOPLE [n. s.]
1. A nation; those who compose a community. In this sense is read peoples
2. The vulgar.
3. The commonality; not the princes or nobles.
4. Persons of a particular class.
5. Men, or persons in general. In this sense, the word people is used indefinitely, like ou[sic] in French.
To PEOPLE (1756)
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To PEOPLE [v. a.]
To stock with inhabitants.
PERFECT (1756)
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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)
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PERFECT adj.]
1. Complete; consummate; finished; neither defective nor redundant.
2. Fully informed; fully skillful.
3. Pure; blameless; clear; immaculate. This is a sense chiefly theological.
4. Confident; certain.
To PERFECT (1756)
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To PERFECT [v. a.]
1. To finish; to complete; to consumate[sic]; to bring to its due state.
2. To make skillful; to instruct fully.
To PERFECT (1785)
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To PERFECT [v. a.]
1. To finish; to complete; to consumate[sic]; to bring to its due state.
2. To make skillful; to instruct fully.
PERPETUAL (1756)
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PERPETUAL [a.]
1. Never ceasing; eternal with respect to futurity.
2. Continual; uninterrupted; perennial.
PERPETUALLY (1756)
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PERPETUALLY [ad.]
Constantly; continually; incessantly.
To PERPETUATE (1756)
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To PERPETUATE [v. a.]
1. To make perpetual; to preserve from extinction; to eternize[sic].
2. To continue without cessation or intermission.
PERPETUATION (1756)
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PERPETUATION [s.]
The act of making perpetual; incessant continuance.
PERPETUITY (1756)
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PERPETUITY [s.]
1. Duration to all futurity.
2. Exemption from intermission or cessation.
3. Something of which there is no end.
PERQUISITE (1785)
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PERQUISITE [n. s.]
Something gained by a place or office over and above the settled wages.
PERQUISITED[sic] (1785)
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PERQUISITED[sic] [adj.]
Supplied with perquisites.
PERQUISITION[sic] (1785)
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PERQUISITION[sic] [n. s.]
An accurate inquiry; a thorough search.
PERSON (1756)
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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.
6. One's self; not a representative.
PERSON (1785)
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PERSON [n. s.]
1. Individual or particular man or woman.
2. Man or woman considered as opposed to things.
3. Individual; man or woman.
4. Human Being, considered with respect to mere corporeal existence.
5. Man or woman considered as present, acting or suffering.
6. A general loose term for human being; one; a man.
7. One's self; not a representative.
PERSPECTIVE (1756)
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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[sic].
PERSPECTIVE [a.]
Relating to the science of vision; optick[sic]; optical.
PERTURBATION (1756)
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PERTURBATION [s.]
1. Disquiet of mind; deprivation of tranquility.
2. Restlessness of passions.
3. Disturbance; disorder; confusion; commotion.
4. Cause of disquiet.
5. Commotion of passions.
PERTURBATION (1785)
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PERTURBATION [n. s.]
1. Disquiet of mind; deprivation of tranquility.
2. Restlessness of passions.
3. Disturbance; disorder; confusion; commotion.
4. Cause of disquiet.
5. Commotion of passions.
PETITION – (1756)
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PETITION [s.]
1. Request; intreaty[sic]; supplication; prayer.
2. Single branch or article of a prayer.
PETITION – (1785)
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PETITION [n. s.]
1. Request; intreaty[sic]; supplication; prayer.
2. Single branch or article of a prayer.
To PETITION (1756)
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To PETITION [v. a.]
To solicite; to supplicate.
To PETITION (1785)
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To PETITION [v. a.]
To solicite; to supplicate.
PIRACY (1785)
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PIRACY [n. s.]
The act or practice of robbing on the sea.
PIRATE (1785)
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PIRATE [n. s.]
1. A sea robber.
2. Any robber; particularly a bookseller who seizes the copies of other men.
To PIRATE (1785)
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To PIRATE [v. n.]
To rob by sea.
To PIRATE [v. a.]
To take by robbery.
PLACE (1785)
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PLACE [n. s.]
1. Particular portion of space.
2. Locality; ubiety[sic]; local location.
3. Local existence.
4. Space in general.
5. Separate room.
6. A seat; residence; mansion.
PLAGUE (1756)
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PLAGUE [s.]
1. Pestilence; a disease eminently contagious and destructive.
2. State of misery.
3. Any thing troublesome or vexatious.
PLAGUE (1785)
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PLAGUE [n. s.]
1. Pestilence; a disease eminently contagious and destructive.
2. State of misery.
3. Any thing troublesome or vexatious.
PLEBEIAN (1785)
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PLEBEIAN [n. s.]
One of the lower people.
PLEBEIAN [adj.]
1. Popular; consisting of mean persons.
2. Belonging to the lower ranks.
3. Vulgar; low; commons.
PLEDGE (1785)
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PLEDGE [n. s.]
1. Any thing put to pawn.
2. A gage[sic]; any thing given by way of warrant or security; a pawn.
3. A surety; a bail; an hostage[sic].
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To PLEDGE [v. a.]
1. To put to pawn.
2. To give as warrant or security.
3. To sure by a pledge.
PLURALITY (1756)
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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)
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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)
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POLICE [s.]
The regulation and government of a city our county, so far as regards the inhabitants.
POLICED (1756)
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POLICED [a.]
Regulated; formed into a regular course of administration.
POLITICAL (1756)
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POLITICAL [a.]
1. Relating to politicks[sic]; relating to the administration of publick affairs.
2. Cunning; skilful.
POLITICAL – (1768)
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POLITICAL [a.]
1. Relating to politicks[sic]; relating to the administration of publick affairs.
2. Cunning; skilful.
POLITICALLY (1756)
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POLITICALLY [ad.]
1. With relation to publick administration.
2. Artfully; politickly[sic].
POLITICALLY (1768)
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POLITICALLY [adv.]
1. With relation to publick administration.
2. Artfully; publickly.
POLITICASTER[sic] (1756)
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POLITICASTER[sic] [s.]
A petty ignorant pretender to politicks[sic].
POLITICIAN (1756)
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POLITICIAN [s.]
1. One versed in the arts of government; one skilled in politicks[sic].
2. A man of artifice; one of deep contrivance.
POLITICK (1756)
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POLITICK[sic] [a.]
1. Political; civil.
2. Prudent; versed in affairs.
3. Artful; cunning.
POLITICKLY[sic] (1756)
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POLITICKLY[sic] [ad.]
Artfully; cunningly.
POLITICKS[sic] (1756)
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POLITICKS[sic] [s.]
The science of government; that art or practice of administring[sic] publick affairs.
POLITURE[sic] (1756)
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POLITURE[sic] [s.]
The gloss given by the act of polishing.
POLITY (1756)
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POLITY [s.] A form of government; civil constitution.
POLL (1756)
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POLL [s.]
1. The head.
2. A catalogue[sic] or list of persons; a register of heads.
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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)
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POOR [a.]
1. Not rich. indigent; necessitous; oppressed with want.
2. Trifling; narrow; of little dignity, force or value.
3. Paltry; mean; contemptible.
4. Unimportant.
9. Not good; not fit for any purpose.
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)
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POPULAR [adj.]
1. Vulgar; plebeian.
2. Suitable to the common people; familier[sic]; 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.
PORT (1785)
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PORT [n. s.]
1. A harbour[sic]; a safe station for ships.
2. [Porta, Latin...] A gate.
POSSESSION (1785)
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POSSESSION [n. s.]
1. The state of owning or having in one's own hands or power; property.
2. The thing possessed.
POST. – (1756)
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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)
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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)
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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.
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To POST [v. n.]
To travel with speed.
POSTERITY (1756)
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POSTERITY [s.]
Succeeding generations; descendants.
POSTERITY (1785)
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POSTERITY [n. s.]
Succeeding generations; descendants: opposed to ancestors.
POTENCY (1756)
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POTENCY [s.]
1. Power; influence.
2. Efficacy; strength.
POTENT (1756)
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POTENT [a.]
1. Powerful; forcible; strong; efficacious.
2. Having great authority or dominion: as potent monarchs.
POTENTATE (1756)
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POTENTATE [s.]
Monarch; prince; sovereign.
POWER (1756)
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POWER [s.]
1. Command; authority; dominion; influence.
8. Government; right of governing.
9. Sovereign; potentate.
12. Host; army; military force.
13. A large quantity; a great number.
POWER (1785)
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POWER [n. s.]
1. Command; authority; dominion; influence of greatness.
8. Government; right of governing: correlative to subjection.
9. Sovereign; potentate.
12. Host; army; military force.
13. A large quantity; a great number.
POWERABLE[sic] (1756)
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POWERABLE[sic] [a.]
Capable of performing any thing.
POWERFUL (1756)
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POWERFUL [a.]
1. Invested with command or authority; potent.
2. Forcible; mighty.
3. Efficacious.
POWERFULLY (1756)
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POWERFULLY [ad.]
Potently; mightily; efficaciously; forcibly.
POWERFULNESS[sic] (1756)
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POWERFULNESS[sic] [s.]
Power; efficacy; might.
PREAMBLE (1756)
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PREAMBLE [s.]
Something previous; introduction; preface.
PREAMBLE (1785)
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PREAMBLE [n. s.]
Something previous; introduction; preface.
PRESENTMENT (1785)
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PRESENTMENT [n. s.]
1. The act of presenting.
2. Any thing presented or exhibited; representation.
3. In Law, presentment is a mere denunciation of the jurors themselves or some other officer, as justice, constable, searcher, surveyors, and without any information, of an offense inquirable[sic] in the court to which it is presented.
PRESERVE (1785)
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PRESERVE [n. s.]
Fruit preserved whole in sugar.
To PRESERVE (1785)
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To PRESERVE [v. a.]
1. To save; to defend from destruction or any evil; to keep.
PRESERVER (1785)
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PRESERVER [n. s.]
1. One who preserves; one who keeps from ruin or mischief.
PRESIDENT (1785)
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PRESIDENT [n. s.]
1. One placed with authority over others; one at the head of others.
2. Governour; prefect.
3. A tutelary power.
PRESS (1785)
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PRESS [n. s.]
2. The instrument by which books are printed
3. Crowd; tumult; throng.
4. Violent tendency.
6. A commission to force men into military service.
To PRESS (1785)
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To PRESS [v. a.]
1. To squeeze; to crush.
2. To distress; to crush with calamities.
3. To constrain; to compel; to urge by necessity.
4. To impose by constraint.
5. To drive by violence.
6. To affect strongly.
7. To enforce; to inculcate with argument or importunity.
8. To urge; to bear strongly on.
12. To force into military service.
To PRESS [v. n.]
1. To act with compulsive violence; to urge; to distress.
2. To go forward with violence to any object.
3. To make invasion; to encroach.
4. To crowd; to throng.
5. To come unseasonably or importunately.
6. To urge with vehemence and importunity.
7. To act upon or influence.
PRIVACY (1785)
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PRIVACY [n. s.]
1. State of being secret; secrecy.
2. Retirement; retreat; place intended to be secret.
PRIVATE (1785)
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PRIVATE [adj.]
1. Not open; secret.
2. Alone; not accompanied.
3. Being upon the same terms with the rest of the community; particular: opposed to publick.
PRIVILEGE – (1785)
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PRIVILEGE [n. s.]
1. Peculiar advantage.
2. Immunity; right not universal.
To PRIVILEGE – (1785)
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TO PRIVILEGE [v. a.]
1. To invest with rights or immunities[sic]; to grant a privilege.
2. To exempt from censure or danger.
3. To exempt from paying tax or impost.
PROBABLE (1785)
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PROBABLE [adj.]
Likely; having more evidence than the contrary.
PROCEED (1916)
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PROCEED [n.]
That which results, proceeds, or accrues from some possession or transaction; esp., the amount realized from a sale or other transaction; —now only in the pl.
PROCEEDS (1828)
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PROCEEDS [n. plu.]
1. Issue; rent; produce; as the proceeds of an estate.
2. In commerce, the sum, amount or value of goods sold or converted into money. The consignee was directed to sell the cargo and vest the proceeds in coffee. The proceeds of the goods sold amounted to little more than the prime cost and charges,
PROCESS (1785)
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PROCESS [n. s.]
1. Tendency; progressive course.
2. Regular and gradual progress.
3. Course; continual flux or passage.
4. Methodical management of any thing.
5. Course of law.
PRODUCE (1785)
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PRODUCE [n. s.]
1. Product; that which any thing yields or brings.
2. Amount; profit; gain; emergent sum or quantity.
PROFIT (1785)
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PROFIT [n. s.]
1. Gain; pecuniary advantage.
2. Advantage; accession of good.
3. Improvement; advancement; proficiency.
PROGRESS (1785)
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PROGRESS [n. s.]
1. Course; procession; passage.
2. Advancement; motion forward.
3. Intellectual improvement; advancement in knowledge; proficience[sic].
To PROHIBIT (1785)
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To PROHIBIT [v. a.]
1. To forbid; to interdict by authority.
2. To debar; to hinder.
PROMISCUOUS (1785)
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PROMISCUOUS [adj.]
Mingled; confused; undistinguished.
PROMISCUOUSLY (1785)
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PROMISCUOUSLY [adv.]
With confused mixture; indiscriminately.
To PROMOTE (1756)
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To PROMOTE [v. a.]
1. To forward; to advance.
2. To elevate; to exalt; to prefer.
To PROMOTE (1785)
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To PROMOTE [v. a.]
1. To forward; to advance.
2. To elevate; to exalt; to prefer.
PROMOTER (1785)
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PROMOTER [n. s.]
1. Advancer; forwarder; encourager[sic].
PROPERTY (1785)
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Property [n. s.]
1. Peculiar quality.
2. Quality; disposition.
3. Right of possession.
4. Possession held in one's own right.
5. The thing possessed.
To PROPOSE (1785)
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To PROPOSE [v. a.]
To offer to the consideration.
To PROPOSE [v. n.]
To lay schemes.
PROPOSER (1785)
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PROPOSER [n. s.]
One that offers any thing to consideration
To PROSECUTE (1785)
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To PROSECUTE [v. a.]
4. To persue[sic] by law; to sue criminally.
PROSECUTION (1785)
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PROSECUTION [n. s.]
2. Suit against a man in a criminal case.
PROSECUTOR (1785)
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PROSECUTOR [n. s.]
One that carries on any thing; a persuer[sic] of any purpose; one who persues[sic] another by law in a criminal cause.
To PROTECT (1756)
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To PROTECT [v. a.]
To defend; to cover from evil; to shield.
To PROTECT (1785)
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To PROTECT [v. a.]
To defend; to cover from evil; to shield.
PROTECTION (1785)
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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)
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PROTECTIVE [adj.]
Defensive; sheltering.
PROTECTOR (1785)
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PROTECTOR [n. s.]
1. Defender; shelterer[sic]; 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[sic] (1785)
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PROTECTRESS[sic] [n. s.]
A woman that protects.
To PROVE (1785)
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To PROVE [v. a.]
1. To evince; to show by argument or testimony.
2. To try; to bring to the test.
3. To experience.
4. To endure; to try by suffering or encountering.
To PROVE [v. n.]
1. To make tryal[sic].
2. To be found by experience.
3. To succeed.
4. To be found in the event.
To PROVIDE (1756)
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To PROVIDE [v. a.]
1. To procure beforehand; to get ready; to prepare.
2. To furnish; to supply.
4. To PROVIDE against. To take measures for counteracting or escaping any ill.
5. To PROVIDE for. To take care of beforehand.
To PROVIDE (1785)
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PROVIDE [v. a.]
1. To procure beforehand; to get ready; to prepare.
2. To furnish; to supply: with of or with before the thing provided.
4. To PROVIDE against. To take measures for counteracting or escaping any ill.
5. To PROVIDE for. To take care of beforehand.
PROVIDENCE (1756)
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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[sic].
PRUDENCE (1756)
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PRUDENCE [s.]
Wisdom applied to practice.
PRUDENCE (1768)
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PRUDENCE [s.]
Wisdom applied to practice.
PRUDENT (1768)
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PRUDENT [a.]
1. Practically wise.
2. Foreseeing by natural instinct.
PUBLICK (1756)
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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)
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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)
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PUBLICKLY [adv.]
1. In the name of the community.
2. Openly; without concealment.
To PUNISH (1785)
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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.
PUNISHABLE (1785)
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PUNISHABLE [adj.]
Worthy of punishment; capable of punishment.
PUNISHABLENESS[sic] (1785)
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PUNISHABLENESS[sic] [n. s.]
The quality of deserving or admitting punishment.
PUNISHER[sic] (1785)
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PUNISHER[sic] [n. s.]
One who inflicts pains for a crime.
PUNISHMENT (1756)
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PUNISHMENT [n. s.]
Any infliction or pain imposed in vengeance of a crime.
PUNITION[sic] (1785)
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PUNITION[sic] [n. s.]
Punishment.
PUNITIVE (1785)
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PUNITIVE [adj.]
Awarding or inflicting punishment.
PURSUANCE (1785)
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PURSUANCE [n. s]
Prosecution; process.
PURSUANT (1785)
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PURSUANT [adj.]
Done in consequence or prosecution of any thing.
To PURSUE (1785)
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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[sic] to attain.
To PURSUE [v. n.]
To go on; to proceed.
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QUARTER (1785)
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QUARTER [n. s.]
3. A particular region of a town or country.
4. The place where soldiers are lodged or stationed.
6. Remission of life; mercy granted by a conqueror.
7 Trestment shown by an enemy.
To QUARTER (1785)
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To QUARTER [v. a.]
4. To station or lodge soldier.
5. To lodge; to fix on a temporary dwelling.
QUICK (1785)
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QUICK [adj.]
3. Speedy; free from delay.
4. Active; spritely[sic]; ready.
QUICK [adv.]
Nimbly; speedily; readily.
QUORUM (1756)
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QUORUM [s.]
A bench of justices; such a number of any officers as is sufficient to do business.
QUORUM (1785)
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QUORUM [n. s.]
A bench of justices; such a number of any officers as is sufficient to do business.
Alphabetical Sections
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZR r
RACE – (1756)
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RACE [s.]
1. A family ascending.
2. Family descending.
3. A generation; a collective family.
4. A particular breed.
To RAISE (1785)
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To RAISE [v. a.]
1. To lift; to heave.
2. To set upright: as, he raised a mast.
3. To erect; to build up.
5. To amplify; to enlarge.
6. To increase the current value.
7. To elevate; to exalt.
8. To advance; to promote; to prefer.
9. To excite; to put into action.
10. To excite to war or tumult; to stir up.
11. To rouse; to stir up.
12. To give beginning to: as, he raised the family.
13. To bring into being.
16. To occasion; to begin.
17. To set up; to utter loudly.
18. To collect; to obtain a certain sum.
19. To collect; to assemble; to levy.
20. To give rise to.
22. To raise, in all its senses, to elevate from low to high, from mean to illustrious, from obscure to famous, or to do something that may be by an easy figure referred to local elevation.
REASON – (1785)
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REASON [n. s.]
1. The power by which 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.
5. Argument; ground of persuasion; motive.
7. Clearness of faculties.
8. Right; justice.
10. Rationale; just account.
To REASON (1785)
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To REASON [v. a.]
To examine rationally.
REASONABLE – (1785)
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REASONABLE [adj.]
1. Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason.
2. Acting; speaking, or thinking rationally.
3. Just; rational; agreeable to reason.
4. Not immoderate.
5. Tolerable; being in mediocrity.
REBELLION (1756)
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REBELLION [s.]
Insurrection against lawful authority.
REBELLION (1768)
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REBELLION [s.]
Insurrection against lawful authority.
REBELLION (1785)
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REBELLION [n. s.]
Insurrection against lawful authority.
REBELLIOUS (1756)
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REBELLIOUS [a.]
Opponent to lawful authority.
REBELLIOUS (1768)
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REBELLIOUS [a.]
Opponent to lawful authority.
REBELLIOUS (1785)
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REBELLIOUS [adj.]
Opponent to lawful authority.
Emphasis added.
REBELLIOUSLY (1756)
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REBELLIOUSLY [ad.]
In opposition to lawful authority.
REBELLIOUSLY (1768)
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REBELLIOUSLY [adv.]
In opposition to lawful authority.
REBELLIOUSNESS (1768)
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REBELLIOUSNESS [s.]
The quality of being rebellious.
RECALL (1756)
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RECALL [s.]
Revocation; act or power of calling back.
To RECALL (1756)
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To RECALL [v. a.]
To call back; to call again; to revoke.
RECOMPENSE (1898)
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RECOMPENSE [v. t.]
1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.
2. To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.
3. To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
RECOMPENSE [v. i.]
To give recompense; to make amends or requital.
RECOMPENSE [n.]
An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.
RECOURSE (1756)
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RECOURSE [s.]
2. Return; new attack.
3. Application as for help or protection.
4. Access.
REDRESS (1756)
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REDRESS [s.]
1. Reformation; amendment.
2. Relief; remedy.
3. One who gives relief.
REDRESS (1785)
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REDRESS [n. s.]
1. Reformation; amendment.
2. Relief; remedy.
3. One who gives relief.
To REDRESS (1756)
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To REDRESS [v. a.]
1. To set right; to amend.
2. To relieve; to remedy; to ease.
To REDRESS (1785)
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The Word [v. a.]
1. To set right; to amend.
2. To relieve; to remedy; to ease. It is sometimes used of persons, but more properly of things.
REGISTER (1756)
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REGISTER [s.]
1. An account of any thing regularly kept.
To REGISTER (1756)
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To REGISTER [v. a.]
To record; to preserve by authentick[sic] accounts.
REGISTRY (1756)
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REGISTRY [s.]
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)
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To REGULATE [v. a.]
1. To adjust by rule or method.
2. To direct.
RELIGION (1756)
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RELIGION [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 opposite to others.
RELIGION (1785)
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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.
RELIGIONIST[sic] (1756)
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RELIGIONIST[sic] [s.]
A bigot to any religious persuasion.
RELIGIOUS (1756)
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RELIGIOUS [a.]
1. Pious; disposed to the duties of religion.
2. Teaching religion.
3. Among the Romonists[sic], bound by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
4. Exact; strict.
RELIGIOUSLY (1756)
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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)
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RELIGIOUSNESS [s.]
The quality or state of being religious.
To RENOUNCE (1756)
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To RENOUNCE [v. a.]
To disown; to abnegate.
To RENOUNCE [v.n.]
To declare renunciation.
To REPEL (1785)
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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)
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To REPRESENT [v. a.]
1. To exhibit, as if the thing exhibited were present.
REPRESENTATION (1785)
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REPRESENTATION [n. s.]
1. Image; likeness.
REPRESENTATIVE – (1756)
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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)
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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)
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REPRIEVE [n. s.]
Respite after sentence of death.
To REPRIEVE (1785)
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To REPRIEVE [v. a.]
To respite after sentence of death; to give a respite.
REPRISAL (1785)
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REPRISAL [n. s.]
Something seized by way of retaliation for robbery or injury.
REPRISE (1785)
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REPRISE [n. s.]
The act of taking something in retaliation of injury.
REPROACH (1785)
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REPROACH [n. s.]
Censure; infamy; shame.
To REPROACH (1785)
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To REPROACH [v. a.]
1. To censure in opprobrious terms, as a crime.
2. To charge with a fault in severe language.
3. To upbraid in general.
REPUBLICAN – (1756)
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REPUBLICAN [a.]
Placing the government in the people.
REPUBLICAN [s.]
One who thinks a commonwealth without monarchy the best government.
REPUBLICK – (1756)
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REPUBLICK [s.]
Common-wealth; state in which the power is lodged in more than one.
REQUEST – (1756)
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REQUEST [s.]
1. Petition; entreaty.
2. Demand; repute; credit; state of being desired.
To REQUEST – (1756)
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To REQUEST [v. a.]
To ask; to solicite; to entreat.
REQUESTER (1756)
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REQUESTER [s.]
Petitioner; soliciter[sic].
To RESIDE (1785)
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To RESIDE [v. n.]
1. To have abode; to live; to dwell; to be present.
RESIDENCE (1785)
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RESIDENCE [n. s.]
1. Act of dwelling in a place.
2. Place of abode; dwelling.
RESIDENT (1785)
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RESIDENT [adj.]
Dwelling or having abode in a place.
RESISTANCE (1785)
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RESISTANCE [n. s.]
1. The act of resisting; opposition.
2. The quality of not yielding to force or external impression.
To RESIST (1785)
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To RESIST [v. a.]
1. To oppose; to act against.
2. Not to admit impression or force.
To RESIST [v. n.]
To make opposition.
RESOLUTION (1785)
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RESOLUTION [n. s.]
1. Act of clearing difficulties.
4. [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)
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RESPITE [n. s.]
1. Reprieve; suspension of a capital sentence.
2. Pause; interval.
To RESPITE (1785)
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To RESPITE [v. a.]
1. To relieve by a pause.
2. To suspend; to delay.
To RETAIN (1785)
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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.
RETURN (1756)
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RETURN [s.]
1. Act of coming back to the same place.
3. Act of coming back to the same state.
RETURN (1785)
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RETURN [n. s.]
1. Act of coming back to the same place.
3. Act of coming back to the same state.
To RETURN (1756)
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To RETURN [v. n.]
1. To come to the same place.
2. To come back to the same state.
3. To go back.
4. To make answer.
5. To come back; to come again; to revisit.
6. After a periodical revolution, to begin the same again.
7. To retort; to recriminate.
To RETURN [v. a.]
1. To repay; to give in requital.
2. To give back.
3. To send back.
4. To give account of.
5. To transmit.
TO RETURN (1785)
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TO RETURN [v. n.]
1. To come again to the same place.
2. To come back to the same state.
3. To go back.
4. To make answer.
5. To come back; to come again; to revisit.
6. After a periodical revolution, to begin the same again.
7. To retort; to recriminate.
To RETURN [v. a.]
1. To repay; to give in requital.
2. To give back.
3. To send back.
4. To give account of.
5. To transmit.
REVENUE (1785)
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REVENUE [n. s.]
Income; annual profits received from lands or other funds.
REVOCABLE (1756)
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REVOCABLE [a.]
1. That may be recalled.
2. That may be repealed.
REVOCABLENESS[sic] (1756)
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REVOCABLENESS[sic] [s.]
The quality of being revocable.
To REVOCATE[sic] (1756)
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To REVOCATE[sic] [v. a.]
To recall; to call back.
REVOCATION (1756)
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REVOCATION [s.]
1. Act of recalling.
2. State of being recalled.
3. Repeal; reversal.
To REVOKE (1756)
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To REVOKE [v. a.]
1. To repeal; reverse.
2. To check; to repress.
3. To draw back.
REVOKEMENT[sic] (1756)
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REVOKEMENT[sic] [s.]
Revocation; repeal; recal[sic].
RICH (1756)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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To RIGHT [v. a.]
To do justice to; to establish in possessions justly claimed; to relieve from wrong.
RIGHTEOUS (1756)
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RIGHTEOUS [a.]
1. Just; honest; virtuous; uncorrupt[sic].
2. Equitable.
RIGHTEOUSLY (1756)
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RIGHTEOUSLY [ad.]
Honestly; virtuously.
RIGHTEOUSNESS (1756)
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RIGHTEOUSNESS [s.]
Justice; honesty; virtue; goodness.
RIGHTFUL (1785)
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RIGHTFUL [adj.]
1. Having the right; having the just claim.
2. Honest; just; agreeable to justice.