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To act as a pettifogger; to use contemptible tricks. De Quincey.

Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad. "Piacular pollution." De Quincey.

The quality or state of being piacular; criminality; wickedness. De Quincey.

eautiful and the sublime It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. De Quincey. -- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv. -- Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.

up piques and displeasures. Dr. H. More. Wars had arisen . . . upon a personal pique. De Quincey.

The quality of being plausible; speciousness. To give any plausibility to a scheme. De Quincey.

so metaphorically. "Plethoric phrases." Sydney Smith. "Plethoric fullness of thought." De Quincey.

ng, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles; as, a polymorphous author. De Quincey.

ining to a suborder (Pomeæ) of rosaceous plants, which includes the true thorn trees, the quinces, service berries, medlars, and loquats, as well as the apples, pears, crabs, etc.

sed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.

sentinel. "It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant, . . . or to get him posted." De Quincey.

One who hawks crockery or earthenware. [Prov. Eng.] De Quincey.

To conform by way anticipation. De Quincey.

To discourse publicly; to lecture. Spitting . . . was publicly prelected upon. De. Quincey. To prelect upon the military art. Bp. Horsley.

probable but not conclusive. "In contradiction to these very plausible presumptions." De Quincey.

eing prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy. [R.] De Quincey.

conduct. "Pride, not personal, but professional." Macaulay. "A professional sneerer." De Quincey.

Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative. "A far-seeing or proleptic wisdom." De Quincey.

vulgar. "Every citizen, if he were not a proletarian animal kept at the public cost." De Quincey. -- n.

To generate; to produce. Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life. De Quincey.