A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, Explained in Their Different Meanings, and Authorized by the Names of the Writers in Whose Works They are FoundW. Strahan; J. and F. Rivington; J. Hinton; T. Davies; Hawes, Clarke, and Collins; R. Horsefield; W. Johnston; W. Owen; T. Lowndes; T. Caslon; S. Crowder; T. Longman; B. Law; Beckett, and De Hondt; E. and C. Dilly; J. Dodsley; W. Nicoll; W. Griffin; G. Robinson; T. Cadell; J. Knox; Almon; W. Goldsmith; J. and J. Ridley, 1773 |
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... term of law , implying him that inherits from a man , who though he had the power to make a will , yet did not make it . Hale . To ABJU'RE . v . a . [ abjuro , Lat . ] 1. To fwear not to do fomething . 2. To retract , or recant , or ...
... term of law , implying him that inherits from a man , who though he had the power to make a will , yet did not make it . Hale . To ABJU'RE . v . a . [ abjuro , Lat . ] 1. To fwear not to do fomething . 2. To retract , or recant , or ...
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... term of grammar , fignifying the relation of the noun , on which the action implied in the verb terminates . The 4th cate of a noun . A ACCU'SATORY . a . [ from accufe . ] That which produceth or containeth an accufa tion . To ACCU'SE ...
... term of grammar , fignifying the relation of the noun , on which the action implied in the verb terminates . The 4th cate of a noun . A ACCU'SATORY . a . [ from accufe . ] That which produceth or containeth an accufa tion . To ACCU'SE ...
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... term applied to the stars , of which the rifing and fetting is called acro- scal , when they either appear above or fink below the horizon at fun - fet . ACRO / NYCALLY . ad . [ from acronycal . ] At the acronycal time . Dryden . A ...
... term applied to the stars , of which the rifing and fetting is called acro- scal , when they either appear above or fink below the horizon at fun - fet . ACRO / NYCALLY . ad . [ from acronycal . ] At the acronycal time . Dryden . A ...
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... term , fignifying to confirm . AFFVANCE f . [ affiance , from after , Fr. ] 1. A marriage contract . Fairy Queen . 2. Truft in general ; confidence . Shakelp . 3. Truft in the divine promifes and pio . tection , To AFFIANCE , v . a ...
... term , fignifying to confirm . AFFVANCE f . [ affiance , from after , Fr. ] 1. A marriage contract . Fairy Queen . 2. Truft in general ; confidence . Shakelp . 3. Truft in the divine promifes and pio . tection , To AFFIANCE , v . a ...
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... term , used chiefly in Holland and Venice , for the diffe rence between the value of bank notes , and the current ... terms by ftipulation . Marid . 4. To fettle a price between buyer and feller . Matthew . 5. To be of the fame mind or ...
... term , used chiefly in Holland and Venice , for the diffe rence between the value of bank notes , and the current ... terms by ftipulation . Marid . 4. To fettle a price between buyer and feller . Matthew . 5. To be of the fame mind or ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Addifon adjective Arbuthnot Atterbury Ayliffe Bacon Bentley Blackmore body Boyle Brown Burnet caft Camden Carew caufe Clarendon clofe colour Confifting corrupted Corvel Davies Decay of Piety defire Denbam Deuteronomy Donne drefs Dryden Dutch Fairfax fame fenfe feparate fhip fide fignifies fmall fome fomething fometimes fore fpecies French ftate ftone ftrike fuch fupport fyllable Glanville ground Hale Hammond Hayward Hooker horfe houfe houſe Hudibras inftrument Jobnfon kind King Charles Knolles L'Eftrange Latin lefs Locke low Latin manner meaſure Milton Mortimer nefs Newton noife noun obfcure oppofition paffion participle Peacham perfon plant Pope prefent preter preterite Prior publick purpoſe Quincy raiſe Raleigh Refembling Rofcommon Rogers Savift Saxon Shakefp Shakespeare Sidney ſmall South Spenfer ſtate Stilling fleet Swift Tatler Taylor Temple thing Tillotson tion ufed uſed veffel verb Waller Watts whofe Wiseman Woodward word Wotton
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Seite 18 - Excise. A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Seite 12 - ... its motion ; and yet, with its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round about its proper centre.
Seite 164 - In arithmetic^, the increasing .of any one number by another, so often as there are units in that number, by which the one is increased. MULTIPLICATOR,(mul-te-ple-ka'-tnr)n.!. The number by which" another number is multiplied.
Seite 152 - The application of a word to an use to which, in its original import, it cannot be put: as, he bridles his anger; he deadens the sound; the spring awakes the flowers.
Seite 78 - In mathematics or the parabolic spiral, is a curve which rises from the supposition of the axis of the common Apollonian parabola's being bent round into the periphery of a circle, and is a line then passing through the extremities of the ordinates. which now converge toward the centre of the said circle.
Seite 12 - A curve generated by the revolution of the periphery of a circle along the convex or concave part of another circle.
Seite 96 - In architecture, that part of a pillar in vaults and arches, on which the weight of the building...