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Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event.

The overpowering emotion excited when something unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement. Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. Milton.

To astonish; to strike with amazement; to confound with wonder, surprise, or fear. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind. Milton.

ose piston descends by the pressure of the atmosphere, when the steam which raised it is condensed within the cylinder. Tomlinson. -- Atmospheric line (Steam Engin.), the equilibrium line of an indicator card. Steam is expanded "down to the atmosphere" when its pressure is equal to that of the atmosphere. (See Indicat…

To come or arrive, by an effort of mind. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I can not attain unto it. Ps. cxxxix. 6.

A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation. [Obs.] He lived from all attainder of suspect. Shak. Bill of attainder, a bill brought into, or passed by, a legislative body, condemning a person to death or outlawry, and attainder, without judicial sentence.

Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octave below the tonic.

A judgment of the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal condemning or acquitting persons accused of religious offenses.

sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence. There is an awe in mortals' joy, A deep mysterious fear. Keble. To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in awe. Macaulay. The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the mountain, ma…

A person given to idle observation of everything, with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler.

An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman.

A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking. Numb. xxii. 30. [Cant] Balaam basket or box (Print.), the receptacle for rejected articles. Blackw. Mag.

e shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. "We banish you our territories." Shak.

an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.

Further away; at a distance; yonder. Lo, where beyond he lyeth languishing. Spenser.

to his own church, party, belief, or opinion. To doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and believe. Macaulay.

f society. [Jocose] In our youth we have heard him spoken of by the bigwigs with extreme condescension. Dickens.

Being in two parts; having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty.

The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.