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epulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough. Clarence is so harsh, so blunt. Shak. Though harsh the precept, yet the charmed. Dryden.

r contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing. A woman of a haughty and imperious nature. Clarendon.

Earnestness; sincerity; heartiness. [R.] Clarendon.

His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot. Clarendon.

uld ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history. Shak. What histories of toil could I declare! Pope. History piece, a representation in painting, drawing, etc., of any real event, including the actors and the action. -- Natural history, a description and classification of objects in nature, as minerals, plants, anim…

ant manner; without knowledge; inadvertently. Whom therefoer ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Acts xvii. 23.

To make or declare illegal or unlawful.

To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize. The marriage should only be dissolved for the future, without illegitimating the issue. Bp. Burnet.

ss, n. The absoluteness and illimitedness of his commission was generally much spoken of. Clarendon.

ood and forgery are proved; an action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false or forged. Bell.

porarily on the mind; sudden motive or influence; impulse. "The impulsion of conscience." Clarendon. "Divine impulsion prompting." Milton.

the Thirteen United States of America, on the 4th of July, 1776, by which they formally declared that these colonies were free and independent States, not subject to the government of Great Britain.

Not devoted. [Obs.] Bentley. Clarendon.

Proclaimed; declared; public. Kennet.

as sufficiently indisposed towards the persons, or the principles, of Calvin's disciples. Clarendon.

master that . . . took much delight in indoctrinating his young, unexperienced favorite. Clarendon.

God will be very visible in infatuating a people . . . ripe and prepared for destruction. Clarendon.

ishing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is. Clarendon.

To redouble or repeat; to reiterate. Clarendon. . . . She yet ingeminates The last of sounds, and what she hears relates. Sandys.

were inhibited, by proclamation, at the dissolution, so much as to mention a Parliament. Clarendon. Burial may not be inhibited or denied to any one. Ayliffe.