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Asserting

ASSERT'ING, participle present tense Declaring with confidence; maintaining; defending.

Assertion

ASSER'TION, noun

1. The act of asserting; the maintaining of a claim.

2. Positive declaration or averment; affirmation; position advanced.

Assertive

ASSERT'IVE, adjective Positive; affirming confidently; peremptory.

Assertively

ASSERT'IVELY, adverb Affirmatively

Assertor

ASSERT'OR, noun One who affirms positively; one who maintains or vindicates a claim; an affirmer, supporter, or vindicator.

Assertory

ASSERT'ORY, adjective Affirming; maintaining.

Assess

ASSESS', verb transitive [Latin assideo, ad and sedeo.]

1. To set, fix or charge a certain sum upon one, as a tax; as, to assess each citizen in due proportion.

2. To value; to fix the value of property, for the purpose of being taxed; as by the law of the United States. Also, to value or fix the profits of business, for the purpose of taxation.

3. To set, fix or ascertain; as, it is the province of a jury to assess damages.

ASSESS', noun Assessment. [Not used.]

Assessable

ASSESS'ABLE, adjective That may be assessed.

Assessed

ASSESS'ED, participle passive Charged with a certain sum; valued; set; fixed; ascertained.

Assessing

ASSESS'ING, participle present tense Charging with a sum; valuing; fixing; ascertaining.

Assession

ASSES'SION, noun A sitting down by a person. [Not used.]

Assessionary

ASSES'SIONARY, adjective Pertaining to assessors.

Assessment

ASSESS'MENT, noun

1. A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation. An assessment is a valuation made by authorized persons according to their discretion, as opposed to a sum certain or determined by law. It may be a direct charge of the tax to be paid; or a valuation of the property of those who are to pay the tax, for the purpose of fixing the proportion which each man shall pay; on which valuation the law imposes a specific sum upon a given amount.

2. A tax or specific sum charged on the person or property.

3. The act of assessing; the act of determining the amount of damages by a jury.

Assessor

ASSESS'OR, noun

1. One appointed to assess the person or property.

2. An inferior officer of justice, who sits to assist the judge.

3. One who sits by another, as next in dignity.

Assets

ASSETS', noun plural [Latin sat, satis, enough.]

Goods or estate of a deceased person, sufficient to pay the debts of the deceased. But the word sufficient, though expressing the original signification of assets is not with us necessary to the definition. In present usage, assets are the money, goods or estate of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies. assets are real or personal; real assets are lands which descend to the heir, subject to the fulfillment of the obligations of the ancestor; personal assets are the money or goods of the deceased, or debts due to him, which come into the hands of the executor or administrator, or which he is bound to collect and convert into money.

Assever

ASSEV'ER,

ASSEV'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin assevero, from ad and swear.]

To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.

Asseveration

ASSEVERA'TION, noun Positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration. This word is not, generally, if ever, used for a declaration under an official oath, but for a declaration accompanied with solemnity.

Assideans

ASSIDE'ANS or CHASIDE'ANS, [Heb. pious.]

Assident

AS'SIDENT, adjective [Latin assideo, assidens, of ad and sedeo, to sit.]

Assident signs, in medicine, are such as usually attend a disease, but not always; distinguished from pathognomic signs, which are inseparable from it.

Assiduate

ASSID'UATE, adjective Daily. [Not in use.]

Assiduity

ASSIDU'ITY, noun [Latin assiduitas. See Assiduous.]

1. Constant or close application to any business or enterprise; diligence.

2. Attention; Attentiveness to persons. Assiduities, in plural, are services rendered with zeal and constancy.

Assiduous

ASSID'UOUS, adjective [Latin assiduus, from assideo, to sit close, ad and sedeo; Eng. to sit.]

1. Constant in application; as a person assiduous in his occupation.

2. Attentive; careful; regular in attendance; as an assiduous physician or nurse.

3. Performed with constant diligence or attention; as assiduous labor.

Assiduously

ASSID'UOUSLY, adverb Diligently; attentively; with earnestness and care; with regular attendance.

Assiduousness

ASSID'UOUSNESS, noun Constant or diligent application.

Assiento

ASSIENT'O, noun [Latin assideo.]

A contract or convention between the king of Spain and other powers, for furnishing slaves for the Spanish dominions in south America.

Assign

ASSI'GN, verb transitive [Latin assigno, of ad and signo, to allot to mark out, signum, a mark. The primary sense of sign is to send, or to set.]

1. To allot; to appoint or grant by distribution or apportionment.

The priests had a portion assigned them. Genesis 47:22.

2. To designate or appoint for a particular purpose.

They assigned Bezer, a city of refuge. Joshua 20:8.

3. To fix, specify or designate; as an assigned quantity.

4. To make or set over; to transfer, sell or convey, by writing, as by indorsing a note, or by any writing on a separate paper.

5. To allege or show in particular; as, to assign a reason for one's conduct.

6. In law, to show or set forth with particularity; as, to assign error in a writ; to assign false judgment.

ASSI'GN, noun A person to whom property or an interest is or may be transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.

Assignable

ASSI'GNABLE, adjective

1. That may be allotted, appointed or assigned.

2. That may be transferred by writing; as an assignable note, or bill.

3. That may be specified, shown with precision or designated; as an assignable error.

Assignat

AS'SIGNAT, noun A public note or bill in France; paper currency.

Assignation

ASSIGNA'TION, noun

1. An appointment of time and place for meeting; used chiefly of love-meetings.

2. A making over by transfer of title. [See Assignment.]

3. In Russia, a public note or bank bill; paper currency.

Assigned

ASSI'GNED, participle passive Appointed; allotted; made over; shown or designated.

Assignee

ASSIGNEE', noun A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed to do some act, perform some business or enjoy some right, privilege or property; as an assignee of a bankrupt. An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by law; as an executor.

Assigner

ASSI'GNER, noun One who assigns, or appoints.

Assigning

ASSI'GNING, participle present tense Allotting; appointing; transferring; showing specially.

Assignment

ASSI'GNMENT, noun

1. An allotting, or an appointment to a particular person or use.

2. A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of a lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange.

3. The writing by which an interest is transferred.

4. The appointment or designation of causes or actions in court, for trial on particular days.

5. In law, the conveyance of the whole interest which a man has in an estate, usually for life or year. It differs from a lease, which is the conveyance of a less term than the lessor has in the estate.

Assignor

ASSIGNOR', noun an assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as the assignor of a bill of exchange.

Assimilable

ASSIM'ILABLE, adjective That may be assimilated.

Assimilate

ASSIM'ILATE, verb transitive [Latin assimilo, of ad and similis, like. See Similar.]

1. To bring to a likeness; to cause to resemble.

2. To convert into a like substance; as, food is assimilated by conversion into animal substances, flesh, chyle, blood, etc.

ASSIM'ILATE, verb intransitive

1. To become similar.

2. To be converted into a like substance.

Assimilated

ASSIM'ILATED, participle passive Brought to a likeness; changed into a like substance.

Assimilating

ASSIM'ILATING, participle present tense Causing to resemble; converting into a like substance.

Assimilation

ASSIMILA'TION, noun

1. The act of bringing to a resemblance.

2. The act or process by which bodies convert other bodies into their own nature and substance; as, flame assimilates oil, and the food of animals is by assimilation converted into the substances which compose their bodies.

Mineral assimilation is the property which substances possess, in the earth, of appropriating and assimilating to themselves other substances with which they are in contact; a property which seems to be the basis of the natural history of the earth.

Assimilative

ASSIM'ILATIVE, adjective having power of converting to a likeness, or to a like substance.

Assimulate

ASSIM'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin assimulo.] To feign. [Not used. See simulate.]

Assimulation

ASSIMULA'TION, noun A counterfeiting. [Not used. See Simulation.]

Assist

ASSIST', verb transitive [Latin assisto, of ad and sisto, to stand up; English, to stand by.]

To help; to aid; to succor; to give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress.

ASSIST', verb intransitive To lend aid.

Assistance

ASSIST'ANCE, noun Help; aid; furtherance; succor; a contribution of support in bodily strength or other means.

Assistant

ASSIST'ANT, adjective Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.

ASSIST'ANT, noun One who aids, or who contributes his strength or other means to further the designs of welfare of another; an auxiliary.

Assisted

ASSIST'ED, participle passive Helped; aided.

Assister

ASSIST'ER, noun One that lends aid.

Assisting

ASSIST'ING, participle present tense Helping; aiding; supporting with strength or means.

Assistless

ASSIST'LESS, adjective Without aid or help.

Assize

ASSI'ZE,

ASSI'ZED, participle passive Regulated in weight, measure or price, by an assize or ordinance.

Assized

ASSI'ZED, pp. Regulated in weight, measure or price, by an assize or ordinance.

Assizer

ASSI'ZER, noun An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures.

Assizes

ASSI'ZES, noun [Latin assideo, to sit by, of ad and sedeo, to sit.]

1. Originally, an assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business. The word was sometimes applied to the general council, or Wittenagemote, of England.

2. A court in England, held in every county by special commission to one of the judges, who is called a justice of the assize, and empowered to take assizes that is, the verdict of a jury, called the assize.

3. A jury. In this sense the word was applied to the grand assize, for the trial of property, and to the petty assize, for the trial of possession. In Scotland, the assize consists of fifteen men, selected from a greater number.

4. A writ; as an assize of novel disseisin, which is given to recover the possession of lands, tenements, rents, common, etc., of which the tenant has been lately disseised; assize of mort d'ancestor, which lies against an abator, who enters upon land after the death of the tenant, and before the heir enters; assize of darrein presentment, which lies against a stranger who presents a clerk to a benefice.

5. A particular species of rents, established and not subject to be varied.

6. The time or place of holding the court of assize.

7. In a more general sense, any court of justice.

8. A statute of regulation; an ordinance regulating the weight, measure and price of articles sold in market; and hence the word came to signify the weight, measure or price itself; as the assize of bread.

This word is, in a certain sense, now corrupted into size, which see.

ASSI'ZE, verb transitive To fix the weight, measure or price of commodities, by an ordinance or regulation of authority.

Assizor

ASSI'ZOR, noun In Scotland, a juror.

Assober

ASSO'BER, verb transitive [See Sober.] To keep under. [Not used.]

Associability

ASSOCIABIL'ITY, noun The quality of being capable of association; the quality of suffering some change by sympathy, or of being affected by the affections of another part of the body.

Associable

ASSO'CIABLE, adjective assoshable. [See Associate.]

1. That may be joined to or associated.

2. In a medical sense, liable to be affected by sympathy, or to receive from other parts correspondent feelings and affections. 'The stomach, the most associable of all the organs of the animal body.'

Associate

ASSO'CIATE, verb transitive assoshate. [Latin associo, of ad and socio, to join.]

1. To join in company, as a friend, companion, partner or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.

It conveys the idea of intimate union.

2. To unite in the same mass; as, particles of matte associated with other substances.

ASSO'CIATE, verb intransitive

1. To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate

2. To unite in action, or be affected by the action of a different part of the body.

ASSO'CIATE, adjective

1. Joined in interest or purpose; confederate.

2. Joined in employment or office; as an associate judge.

ASSO'CIATE, noun

1. A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.

2. A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league.

3. A companion in a criminal transaction; an accomplice.

Associated

ASSO'CIATED, participle passive United in company or in interest; joined.

Associateship

ASSO'CIATESHIP, noun The state or office of an associate.

Associating

ASSO'CIATING, participle present tense Uniting in company or in interest; joining.

Association

ASSOCIA'TION, noun

1. The act of associating; union; connection of persons.

2. Union of persons in a company; a society formed for transacting or carrying on some business for mutual advantage; a partnership. It is often applied to a union of states or a confederacy.

3. Union of things; apposition, as of particles of matter.

4. Union or connection of ideas. An association of ideas is where two or more ideas constantly or naturally follow each other in the mind, so that one almost infallibly produces the other.

5. An exertion or change of some extreme part of the sensory residing in the muscles or organs of sense, in consequence of some antecedent or attendant fibrous contractions.

6. In ecclesiastical affairs, a society of the clergy, consisting of a number of pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.

Associational

ASSOCIA'TIONAL, adjective Pertaining to an association of clergymen.

Associative

ASSO'CIATIVE, adjective Having the quality of associating, or of being affected by sympathy.

Assoil

ASSOIL', verb transitive [Latin absolvo.] To solve; to release; to absolve.

ASSOIL', verb transitive To soil; to stain. obsolete

Assonance

AS'SONANCE, noun [Latin ad and sono, to sound. See Sound.]

Resemblance of sounds. In rhetoric and poetry, a resemblance in sound or termination, without making rhyme.

Assonant

AS'SONANT, adjective Having a resemblance of sounds. In Spanish poetry, assonant rhymes are those in which a resemblance of sounds serves instead of a natural rhyme; as, ligera, tierra.

Assort

ASSORT', verb transitive [See Sort.]

1. To separate and distribute into classes things of the like kind, nature or quality, or things which are suited to a like purpose. It is sometimes applied to persons as well as things.

2. To furnish with all sorts.

ASSORT', verb intransitive To agree; to be in accordance with; to suit.

Assorted

ASSORT'ED, participle passive

1. Distributed into sorts, kinds or classes.

2. Furnished with an assortment, or with a variety; as a well assorted store.

Assorting

ASSORT'ING, participle present tense Separating into sorts; supplying with an assortment.

Assortment

ASSORT'MENT, noun

1. The act of distributing into sorts, kinds of classes, or of selecting and suiting things.

2. A mass or quantity distributed into kinds or sorts; or a number of things assorted.

3. A number of things of the same kind, varied in size, color, quality, price, form, or the like, to suit the market, the wants of people, or various purposes; as an assortment of thread, of silks, of calicoes, etc.

An assortment of paintings.

4. A variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands or purposes; as an assortment of goods.

Assot

ASSOT', verb transitive [See Sot.] To infatuate; to besot. [Not used.]

Assuage

ASSUA'GE, verb transitive

To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease or lessen, as pain or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult. In strictness, it signifies rather to moderate, than to quiet, tranquilize or reduce to perfect peace or ease.

ASSUA'GE, verb intransitive To abate or subside.

The waters assuaged. Genesis 8:1.

But I apprehend the sense is, the waters were checked; Hebrew.

Assuaged

ASSUA'GED, participle passive Allayed; mitigated; eased; appeased.

Assuagement

ASSUA'GEMENT, noun Mitigation; abatement.

Assuager

ASSUA'GER, noun One who allays; that which mitigates or abates.

Assuaging

ASSUA'GING, participle present tense Allaying; mitigating; appeasing; abating.

Assuasive

ASSUA'SIVE, adjective [from assuage.] Softening; mitigating; tranquilizing.

Assuefaction

ASSUEFAC'TION, noun [Latin assuefacio.] The act of accustoming. [Not used.]

Assuetude

AS'SUETUDE, noun [Latin assuetudo, from assuetus, p. of assuesco, to accustom.] Custom; habit; habitual use.

Assume

ASSU'ME, verb transitive [Latin assumo, of ad and sumo, to take.]

1. To take or take upon one. If differs from receive, in not implying an offer to give.

The God assumed his native form again.

2. To take what is not just; to take with arrogant claims; to arrogate; to seize unjustly; as, to assume haughty airs; to assume unwarrantable powers.

3. To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; as, to assume a principle in reasoning.

4. To appropriate, or take to one's self; as, to assume the debts of another.

5. To take what is fictitious; to pretend to possess; to take in appearance; as, to assume the garb of humility.

ASSUME, verb intransitive

1. To be arrogant; to claim more than is due.

2. In law, to take upon one's self an obligation; to undertake or promise; as, A assumed upon himself, and promised to pay.

Assumed

ASSU'MED, participle passive Taken; arrogated; taken without proof; pretended.

Assumer

ASSU'MER, noun One who assumes; an arrogant person.

Assuming

ASSU'MING, participle present tense Taking; arrogating; taking for granted; pretending.

ASSU'MING, adjective Taking or disposed to take upon one's self more than is just; haughty; arrogant.

ASSU'MING, noun Presumption.

Assumpsit

ASSUMP'SIT, noun [Latin assumo.]

1. In law, a promise or undertaking, founded on a consideration. This promise may be verbal or written; An assumpsit is express or implied; express, when made in words of writing; implied, when in consequence of some benefit or consideration accruing to one person from the acts of another, the law presumes that person has promised to make compensation. In this case, the law, upon a principle of justice, implies or raises a promise, on which an action may be brought to recover the compensation. Thus if A contracts with B to build a house for him, by implication and intendment of law, A promises to pay B for the same, without any express words to that effect.

2. An action founded on a promise. When this action is brought on a debt, it is called indebitatus assumpsit which is an action on the case to recover damages for the non-payment of a debt.

Assumpt

ASSUMPT', verb transitive To take up; to raise. [Barbarous and not used.]

ASSUMPT', noun That which is assumed. [not used.]

Assumption

ASSUMP'TION, noun [Latin assumptio.]

1. The act of taking to one's self.

2. The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition.

This gives no sanction to the unwarrantable assumption that the soul sleeps from the period of death to the resurrection of the body.

3. The thing supposed; a postulate or proposition assumed. In logic, the minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.

4. A consequence drawn from the propositions of which an argument is composed.

5. Undertaking; a taking upon one's self.

6. In the Romish Church, the taking up a person into heaven, as the Virgin Mary. Also a festival in honor of the miraculous ascent of Mary, celebrated by the Romish and Greek churches.

7. Adoption.

Assumptive

ASSUMP'TIVE, adjective That is or may be assumed. In heraldry, assumptive arms are such as a person has a right, with the approbation of his sovereign, and of the heralds, to assume, in consequence of an exploit.

Assurance

ASSU'RANCE, noun ashu'rance. [Latin verus; or securus, contracted.]

1. The act of assuring, or of making a declaration in terms that furnish ground of confidence; as, I trusted to his assurances; or the act of furnishing any ground of full confidence.

Whereof he hath given assurance to all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Acts 17:31.

2. Firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certain expectation; the utmost certainty.

Let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith. Hebrews 10:22.

3. Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity.

Brave men meet danger with assurance

4. Excess of boldness; impudence; as, his assurance is intolerable.

5. Freedom from excessive modesty, timidity or bashfulness; laudable confidence.

Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance

6. Insurance; a contract to make good a loss. [See Insurance.]

7. Any writing or legal evidence of the conveyance of property.

8. Conviction.

9. In theology, full confidence of one's interest in Christ, and of final salvation.

Assure

ASSU'RE, verb transitive ashu're. [See Assurance.]

1. To make certain; to give confidence by a promise, declaration, or other evidence; as, he assured me of his sincerity.

2. To confirm; to make certain or secure.

And it shall be assured to him. Leviticus 27:19.

3. To embolden; to make confident.

And hereby we shall assure our hearts before him. 1 John 3:1.

4. To make secure, with of before the object secured; as, let me be assured of your fidelity.

5. To affiance; to betroth. obsolete

6. To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss. [See Insure.]

Assured

ASSU'RED, participle passive Made certain or confident; made secure; insured.

ASSU'RED, adjective Certain; indubitable; not doubting; bold to excess.

Assuredly

ASSU'REDLY, adverb Certainly; indubitably.

Assuredly thy son Solomon shall reign. 1 Kings 1:13.

Assuredness

ASSU'REDNESS, noun The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence.

Assurer

ASSU'RER, noun One who assumes; one who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter.

Assurgent

ASSUR'GENT, adjective [Latin assurgens, assurgo.]

Rising upwards in an arch; as an assurgent stem, in botany.

Assuring

ASSU'RING, participle present tense Making sure or confident; giving security; confirming.

Asswage

ASSWA'GE, [See Assuage.]

Astacite

AS'TACITE,

AS'TACOLITE, noun [Gr. a crawfish and a stone.]

Petrified or fossil crawfish, and other crustaceous animals; called also cancrites, crabites, and gammarolites.

Asteism

AS'TEISM, noun [Gr. beautiful, polite.]

In rhetoric, genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another.

Astenic

ASTEN'IC, adjective asten'ic. [Gr. priv. and strength.]

Weak; characterized by extreme debility.

Aster

AS'TER, noun [Gr.] A genus of plants, with compound flowers, many of which are cultivated for their beauty, particularly the China aster The species are very numerous.

Asterias

ASTE'RIAS,

AS'TER, noun [Gr. a star.] Stella marina, sea-star, or star fish, a genus of the order of Molluscas. It has a depressed body with a coriaceous coat; is composed of five or more segments running out from a central part, and furnished with numerous tentacles, with a mouth below, in the center. There are many species.

Asteriated

ASTE'RIATED, adjective [Supra.] Radiated; presenting diverging rays, like a star; as asteriated sapphire.

Asteriatite

ASTE'RIATITE, noun Petrified asterias.

Asterisk

AS'TERISK, noun [Gr. a little star, from a star.]

The figure of a star thus, *, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, or to fill the space when a name is omitted.

Asterism

AS'TERISM, noun [Gr. a little star, from a star.]

1. A constellation; a sign in the zodiac.

The figures of the twelve asterisms.

2. An asterisk, or mark of reference. [This is less proper.]

Asterite

AS'TERITE, or star stone. [See Astrite.]

Astern

ASTERN', adverb [a or at, and stern. See stern.]

1. In or at the hinder part of a ship; or towards the hinder part, or backwards; as, to go astern

2. Behind a ship, at any indefinite distance.

Asteroid

AS'TEROID, noun [Gr. a star, and form.]

A name given by Herschel to the newly discovered planets between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Asteroidal

ASTEROID'AL, adjective Resembling a star; or pertaining to the asteroids.

Asteropode

AS'TEROPODE,

ASTEROPO'DIUM, noun [Gr. a star, and a foot.]

A kind of extraneous fossil, of the same substance with the astrite, to which it serves as the base.

Asteropodium

ASTEROPO'DIUM, n. [Gr. a star, and a foot.] A kind of extraneous fossil, of the same substance with the astrite, to which it serves as the base.

Astert

ASTERT', verb transitive To startle. [Not in use.]

Asthenology

ASTHENOL'OGY, noun [Gr. priv., strength, and discourse.]

The doctrine of diseases arising from debility.

Asthma

ASTHMA, noun ast'ma. [Gr.]

A shortness of breath; intermitting difficulty of breathing, with cough, straitness and wheezing.

Asthmatic

ASTHMAT'IC, adjective Pertaining to asthma; also affected by asthma; as an asthmatic patient.

Astipulate

ASTIPULATE for Stipulate. [Not in use.]

Astipulation

ASTIPULATION for Stipulation [Not in use.]

Astone

ASTO'NE,

ASTO'NED,

ASTO'NIED, participle passive Astonished. obsolete

Astoned

ASTO'NED,

Astonied

ASTO'NIED, pp. Astonished. Obs.

Astonish

ASTON'ISH, verb transitive [Latin attono, to astonish; ad and tono. See Tone and Stun.]

To stun or strike dumb with sudden fear, terror, surprise or wonder; to amaze; to confound with some sudden passion.

I Daniel was astonished at the vision. Daniel 8:27.

Astonished

ASTON'ISHED, participle passive Amazed; confounded with fear, surprise, or admiration.

Astonishing

ASTON'ISHING, participle present tense Amazing; confounding with wonder or fear.

ASTON'ISHING, adjective Very wonderful; of a nature to excite great admiration, or amazement.

Astonishingly

ASTON'ISHINGLY, adverb In a manner or degree to excite amazement.

Astonishingness

ASTON'ISHINGNESS, noun The quality of exciting astonishment.

Astonishment

ASTON'ISHMENT, noun Amazement; confusion of mind from fear, surprise or admiration, at an extraordinary or unexpected event.

Astony

ASTO'NY, verb transitive [See Astonish.] To terrify or astonish. obsolete

Astound

ASTOUND', verb transitive To astonish; to strike dumb with amazement.

Astraddle

ASTRAD'DLE, adverb [ a and straddle. See Straddle.]

With the legs across a thing, or on different sides; as, to sit astraddle

Astragal

AS'TRAGAL, noun [Gr. a turning joint, vertebra, spondylus.]

1. In architecture, a little round molding which surrounds the top or bottom of a column, in the form of a ring; representing a ring or band of iron, to prevent the splitting of the column. it is often cut into beads or berries, and is used in ornamented entablatures to separate the several faces of the architrave.

2. In gunnery, a round molding on cannon near the mouth.

3. In anatomy, the buckle, ankle, or sling bone; the upper bone of the foot supporting the tibia.

4. In botany, the wood pea; the milk vetch; the liquorice vetch.

Astral

AS'TRAL, adjective [Latin astrum; Gr. a star.]

Belonging to the stars; starry.

Astray

ASTRA'Y, adverb [a and stray. See Stray.]

Out of the right way or proper place, both in a literal and figurative sense. In morals and religion, it signifies wandering from the path of rectitude, from duty and happiness.

Before I was afflicted, I want astray Psalms 129:1.

Cattle go astray when they leave their proper owners or inclosures. See Deuteronomy 22:1.

Astrea

ASTRE'A, noun [Gr. a star.]

The goddess of justice. A name sometimes given to the sign virgo. The poets feign that justice quitted heaen, in the golden age, to reside on earth; but becoming weary with the iniquities of men, she return to heaven, and commenced a constellation of stars.

Astrict

ASTRICT', verb intransitive [Latin astringo, astrictus. See Astringe.]

To bind fast, or compress. [Not much used.]

ASTRICT', adjective Compendious; contracted.

Astricted

ASTRICT'ED, participle passive Bound fast; compressed with bandages.

Astricting

ASTRICT'ING, participle present tense Binding close; compressing; contracting.

Astriction

ASTRIC'TION, noun

1. The act of binding close, or compressing with ligatures.

2. A contraction of parts by applications; the stopping of hemorrhages.

Astrictive

ASTRICT'IVE, adjective Binding; compressing; styptic.

Astrictory

ASTRICT'ORY, adjective Astringent; binding; apt to bind.

Astriferous

ASTRIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin astrifer; astrum, a star, and fero, to bear.]

Bearing or containing stars. [Little used.]

Astrigerous

ASTRIG'EROUS,

a. [Low Latin astriger.] Bearing stars. [Not used.]

Astringe

ASTRINGE, verb transitive astrinj'. [Latin astringo, of ad and stringo, to bind fast, to strain. See Strain.]

To compress; to bind together; to contract by pressing the parts together.

Astringed

ASTRING'ED, participle passive Compressed; straitened; contracted.

Astringency

ASTRING'ENCY, noun The power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines which binds, contracts or strengthens parts which are relaxed; as the astringency of acids or bitters.

Astringent

ASTRING'ENT, adjective Binding; contracting; strengthening; opposed to laxative.

ASTRING'ENT, noun a medicine which binds or contracts the parts of the body to which it is applied, restrains profuse discharges, coagulates animal fluids, condenses and strengthens the solids.

Modern practice inclines to the use of astringent for internal applications, and styptic, for external.

Astringer

ASTRING'ER, noun A falconer that keeps a goss hawk.

Astringing

ASTRING'ING, participle present tense Compressing; binding fast; contracting.

Astrite

AS'TRITE, noun [Gr. a star.]

An extraneous fossil, called also asteria and astroit. Astrites are stones in the form of small, short, angular, or sulcated columns, about an inch and a half long, and the third of an inch in diameter, composed of several regular joints, which, when separated, resemble a radiated star.

Astrites are said to be detached articulations of encrinites, a kind of marine polypier.

Astro-Theology

ASTRO-THEOL'OGY, noun [Latin astrum, a star, and theologia, divinity.]

Theology founded on the observation of the celestial bodies.

Astrography

ASTROG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. a star, and to describe.]

A description of the stars, or the science of describing them.

Astroit

AS'TROIT, noun

1. Star-stone. [See Astrite.]

2. A species of petrified madrepore often found in calcarious stones.

Astrolabe

AS'TROLABE, noun [Gr. a star, and to take.]

1. An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the sun or stars at sea.

2. A stereographic projection of the sphere, either upon the plane of the equator, the eye being supposed to be in the pole of the world; or upon the plane of the meridian, the eye being in the point of intersection of the equinoctial and the horizon.

3. Among the ancients, the same as the modern armillary sphere.

Astrologer

ASTROL'OGER,

ASTROLO'GIAN, noun [Latin astrologus, of a star, and discourse.]

1. One who professes to foretell future events by the aspects and situation of the stars. Astrologian is little used.

2. Formerly, one who understood the motions of the planets, without predicting.

Astrologian

ASTROLO'GIAN, n. [L. astrologus, of a star, and discourse.] 1. One who professes to foretell future events by the aspects and situation of the stars. Astrologian is little used.2. Formerly, one who understood the motions of the planets, without predicting.

Astrologic

ASTROLOG'IC,

ASTROLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to astrology; professing or practicing astrology.

Astrological

ASTROLOG'ICAL, a. Pertaining to astrology; professing or practicing astrology.

Astrologically

ASTROLOG'ICALLY, adverb In the manner of astrology.

Astrologize

ASTROL'OGIZE, verb intransitive To practice astrology.

Astrology

ASTROL'OGY, noun [Supra.] A science which teaches to judge of the effects and influences of the stars, and to foretell future events, by their situation and different aspects. This science was formerly in great request, as men ignorantly supposed the heavenly bodies to have a ruling influence over the physical and moral world; but it is now universally exploded by true science and philosophy.

Astronomer

ASTRON'OMER, noun One who is versed in astronomy; one who has a knowledge of the laws of the heavenly orbs, or the principles by which their motions are regulated, with their various phenomena.

Astronomic

ASTRONOM'IC,

ASTRONOM'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to astronomy.

Astronomical

ASTRONOM'ICAL, a. Pertaining to astronomy.

Astronomically

ASTRONOM'ICALLY, adverb in an astronomical manner; by the principles of astronomy.

Astronomize

ASTRON'OMIZE', verb intransitive To study astronomy. [Little used.]

Astronomy

ASTRON'OMY, noun [Gr. a star, and a law or rule.]

The science which teaches the knowledge of the celestial bodies, their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, aspects, eclipses, order, etc. This science depends on observations, made chiefly with instruments, and upon mathematical calculations.

Astroscope

AS'TROSCOPE, noun [Gr. a star, and to view.]

An astronomical instrument, composed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations, with their stars, are delineated, by means of which the stars may be easily known.

Astroscopy

AS'TROSCOPY, noun [See Astroscope.] Observation of the stars.

Astrut

ASTRUT', adverb [See Strut.] In a strutting manner.

Astute

ASTU'TE, adjective [Latin astutus, from astus, craft, subtilty.]

Shrewd; sharp; eagle-eyed; critically examining or discerning.

Asunder

ASUND'ER, adverb [See sunder.]

Apart; into parts; separately; in a divided state.

The Lord hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. Psalms 129:4.

Aswoon

ASWOON', adverb In a swoon. obsolete

Asylum

ASY'LUM, noun [Latin from Gr. safe from spoil, and spoil, to plunder.]

1. A sanctuary, or place of refuge, where criminals and debtors shelter themselves from justice, and from which they cannot be taken without sacrilege. Temples and altars were anciently asylums; as were tombs, statues and monuments. The ancient heathens allowed asylums for the protection of the vilest criminals; and the Jews had their cities of refuge.

2. Any place of retreat and security.

Asymmetral

ASYM'METRAL,

ASYMMET'RICAL, adjective [See Symmetry.]

Not having symmetry. [Little used.]

Asymmetrical

ASYMMET'RICAL, a. [See Symmetry.] Not having symmetry. [Little used.]

Asymmetry

ASYM'METRY, noun [Gr. priv. symmetry, of with, and to measure.]

The want of proportion between the parts of a thing. It is also used in mathematics for incommensurability, when between two quantities there is no common measure.

Asymptote

AS'YMPTOTE, noun [Gr. priv. with, and to fall; not meeting or coinciding.]

A line which approaches nearer and nearer to some curve, but though infinitely extended, would never meet it. This may be conceived as a tangent to a curve at an infinite distance.

Asymptotical

ASYMPTOT'ICAL, adjective Belonging to an asymptote. asymptotical lines or curves are such as continually approach, when extended, but never meet.

Asyndeton

ASYN'DETON, noun [Gr. priv. and to bind together.]

In grammar, a figure which omits the connective; as, veni, vidi, vici. It stands opposed to polysymdeton, which is a multiplication of connectives.

At

AT, preposition [Latin ad. at ad and to, if not radically the same word often coincide in signification; Heb to come, to a approach. Hence it primarily denotes presence, meeting, nearness, direction towards.]

In general, at denotes nearness, or presents; as at the ninth hour, at the house; but it is less definite than in or on; at the house, may be in or near the house. It denotes also towards, versus; as, to aim an arrow at a mark.

From this original import are derived all the various uses of at at the sight, is with, present, or coming the sight; at this news, present the news, on or with the approach or arrival of this news. at peace, at war, in a state of peace or war, peace or war, in a state of peace or war, peace or war existing, being present; at ease, at play, at a loss, etc. convey the like idea. at arms, furnished with arms, bearing arms present with arms; at hand, within reach of the hand, and therefore near; at my cost, with my cost; at his suit, by or with his suit; at this declaration, he rose from his seat, that is present, or coming this declaration; whence results the idea in consequence of it. at his command, is either under his command, that is, literally, coming or being come his command, in the power of, or in consequence of it. He is good at engraving, at husbandry; that is, in performing that business. He deserves well at our hands; that is, from us. The peculiar phrases in which this word occurs, with appropriate significations, are numerous. at first, at last, at least, at best, at the worst, at the highest or lowest, are phrases in which some noun is implied; as, at the first time or beginning; at the last time, or point of time; at the least or best degree, etc.; all denoting an extreme point or superlative degree. at all, is in any manner or degree.

AT is sometimes used for to, or towards, noting progression or direction; as, he aims at perfection; he makes or runs at him, or points at him. In this phrase, he longs to be at him, at has its general sense of approaching, or present, or with, in contest or attack.

Atabal

AT'ABAL, noun A kettle drum; a kind of tabor.

Atacamite

ATAC'AMITE, noun A muriate of copper

Atagas

AT'AGAS, noun The red cock or moor-game.

Atamasco

ATAMAS'CO, noun A species of lily of the genus Amaryllis.

Ataraxy

AT'ARAXY, noun [Gr. of a priv. and tumult.]

Calmness of mind; a term used by the stoics and skeptics to denote a freedom from the emotions which proceed from vanity and self-conceit.

Ataxy

ATAX'Y, noun [Gr. priv. and order.]

Want of order; disturbance; irregularity in the functions of the body, or in the crises and paroxysms of disease.

Atche

ATCHE, noun In Turkey, a small silver coin, value about six or seven mills.

Ate

ATE, The preterite of eat, which see.

ATE, noun a'ty. [Gr. mischief; to hurt. ate is a personification of evil, mischief or malice.]

In pagan mythology, the goddess of mischief, who was cast down from heaven by Jupiter.

Atellan

ATEL'LAN, adjective Relating to the dramas at Atella in Italy.

ATEL'LAN, noun A dramatic representation, satirical or licentious.

Atempogiusto

ATEMP'OGIUSTO, [Latin in tempore, justo.]

A direction in music, which signifies to sing or play in an equal, true or just time.

Athanasian

ATHANA'SIAN, adjective Pertaining to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, in the fourth century. The athanasian creed is a formulary, confession or exposition of faith, supposed formerly to have been drawn up by Athanasius, but this opinion is now rejected, and the composition is ascribed by some to Hilary, bishop of Arles. It is a summary of what was called the orthodox faith.

Athanor

ATH'ANOR, noun [Heb. thanor, an oven or furnace.]

A digesting furnace, formerly used in chimical operations, so constructed as to maintain a uniform and durable heat. It is a furnace, with a lateral tower close on all sides, which is to be filled with fuel. As the fuel below is consumed, that in the tower falls down to supply its place.

Atheism

A'THEISM, noun The disbelief of the existence of a God, or Supreme intelligent Being.

Atheism is a ferocious system that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us, to awaken tenderness.

Atheist

A'THEIST, noun [Gr. of a priv. and God.]

One who disbelieves the existence of a God, or Supreme intelligent Being.

A'THEIST, adjective Atheistical; disbelieving or denying the being of a Supreme God.

Atheistic

ATHEIST'IC,

ATHEIST'ICAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to atheism.

2. Disbelieving the existence of a God; impious, applied to persons; as, an atheistic writer.

3. Implying or containing atheism; applied to things, as, atheistic doctrines or opinions.

Atheistical

ATHEIST'ICAL, a. 1. Pertaining to atheism.2. Disbelieving the existence of a God; impious, applied to persons; as, an atheistic writer.3. Implying or containing atheism; applied to things, as, atheistic doctrines or opinions.

Atheistically

ATHEIST'ICALLY, adverb In an atheistic manner; impiously.

Atheisticalness

ATHEIST'ICALNESS, noun The quality of being atheistical.

Atheize

A'THEIZE, verb intransitive To discourse an an atheist. [Not used.]

Athel

ATHEL, ADEL or AETHEL, nobel of illustrious birth.

Athenian

ATHE'NIAN, adjective [from Athens.] Pertaining to Athens, the metropolis of Attica in Greece.

ATHE'NIAN, noun A native or inhabitant of Athens.

Atheologian

ATHEOLO'GIAN, noun One who is opposed to a theologian.

Atheology

ATHEOL'OGY, noun atheism. [Not in use.]

Atheous

A'THEOUS, adjective Atheistic; impious. [Not used.]

Atherina

ATHERI'NA, noun a genus of fishes of the abdominal order. The characters are, the upper jaw is rather flat, the rays of the gill membrane are six, and the side belt or line shines like silver. There are four species; the best known is the Hepsetus, very abundant in the Mediterranean, where it is caught in large quantities.

Atherine

ATH'ERINE,

ATHERO'MA,

ATHERO'MATOUS, adjective Pertaining to or resembling an atherome; having the qualities of an atherome.

Atheroma

ATHERO'MA,

Atherome

ATH'EROME, noun [Gr. from pap.]

An encysted tumor, without pain or discoloration of the skin, containing matter like pap, intermixed with hard stony particles; easily cured by incision.

Athirst

ATHIRST', adjective athrust'. [a and thirst. See Thirst.]

1. Thirsty; wanting drink.

2. Having a keen appetite or desire.

He had a soul athirst for knowledge.