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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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7,436 words match “ANCE”

DISTANCE n. 15 definitions

e attracts every other with a force . . . inversely proportioned to the square of the distance. Sir I. Newton.

DISTEMPERANCE n.

Distemperature. [Obs.]

DISTURBANCE n. 4 definitions

e or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current.

DOMINANCE; DOMINANCY n.

Predominance; ascendency; authority.

State of being in doubt; uncertainty; doubt. [Obs.] Chaucer.

DURANCE n. 4 definitions

Continuance; duration. See Endurance. [Archaic] Of how short durance was this new-made state! Dryden.

To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart. [R.] While thy unerring hand elanced . . . a dart. Prior.

ELEGANCE; ELEGANCY n. 2 definitions

nement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc. That grace that elegance affords. Drayton. The endearing elegance of female friendship. Johnson. A trait of native elegance, seldom seen in the masculine character after childhood or early youth, was shown in the General's fondness for the sight and…

ELLIPTIC-LANCEOLATE a.

Having a form intermediate between elliptic and lanceolate.

Parley; imparlance. [Obs.] Spenser.

ENCUMBRANCE n. 2 definitions

impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance.

ENCUMBRANCER n.

Same as Incumbrancer.

ENDURANCE n. 2 definitions

A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott.

ENHANCE v. 3 definitions

To raise or lift up; to exalt. [Obs.] Wyclif. Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced. Spenser.

The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.

One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.

ENTERPARLANCE n.

Mutual talk or conversation; conference. [Obs.] Sir J. Hayward.

ENTRANCE n. 9 definitions

The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.

ENTRANCEMENT n.

The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy. Otway.

Entreaty. [Obs.] Fairfax.