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430 words match “LARE”

ENLARGEMENT n.
or argument. An enlargement upon the vices and corruptions that were got into the army. Clarendon.
ENOUNCE v.
To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument. Sir W. Hamilton.
ENREGISTER v.
to inregister. To read enregistered in every nook His goodness, which His beauty doth declare. Spenser.
ENTIRE a.
. Pure fear and entire cowardice. Shak. No man had ever a heart more entire to the king. Clarendon.
ENUNCIATE v.
To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth. The terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel. Coleridge.
EQUAL a.
to the task. The Scots trusted not their own numbers as equal to fight with the English. Clarendon. It is not permitted to me to make my commendations equal to your merit. Dryden. Whose voice an equal messenger Conveyed thy meaning mild. Emerson.
EXCLAIM v.
To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; "The field is won!" he exclaimed.
EXHIBIT v.
. He suffered his attorney-general to exhibit a charge of high treason against the earl. Clarendon.
EXPIATE v.
treason, hath naught left. Milton. The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury. Clarendon.
EXPRESS a. 3 definitions
Directly and distinctly stated; declared in terms; not implied or left to inference; made unambiguous by intention and care; clear; not dubious; as, express consent; an express statement. I have express commandment. Shak.
EXTRACTION n.
escent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. "A family of ancient extraction." Clarendon.
FACTION n.
Tumult; discord; dissension. They remained at Newbury in great faction among themselves. Clarendon.
FAITH n.
Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony.
FAVORABLE a.
cilitate; advantageous; convenient. A place very favorable for the making levies of men. Clarendon. The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. Sir W. Temple.
FIGURE v.
te form; to shape. If love, alas! be pain I bear, No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.Prior.
FIND v.
To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff. Burrill.
FIREFLAIRE n.
A European sting ray of the genus Trygon (T. pastinaca); -- called also fireflare and fiery flaw.
FITZ n.
legitimate sons of kings and princes of the blood; as, Fitzroy, the son of the king; Fitzclarence, the son of the duke of Clarence.
FLARING a.
That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light. His [the sun's] flaring beams. Milton.
FLUSTER v.
itation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle. His habit or flustering himself daily with claret. Macaulay.
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