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A female anchoret. And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth.

e; previous principles, conduct, course, history. J. H. Newman. If the troops . . . prove worthy of their antecedents, the victory is surely ours. Gen. G. McClellan.

true time. And antedate the bliss above. Pope. Who rather rose the day to antedate. Wordsworth.

Anthropomorphism. Wordsworth.

d fraught with antics as the Indian bird That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage. Wordsworth.

Resisting blows; hard. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Doubting; skeptical. [Obs.] Cudworth.

rees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure. Appareled in celestial light. Wordsworth.

taining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. Cudworth.

said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house. Wharton. Coke.

Desirable; capable or worthy of being the object of desire. Bramhall.

Worthy pf applause; praiseworthy. [Obs.]

To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.

The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth.

A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.

Worthy of being approved; meritorious. -- Ap*prov"a*ble*ness, n.

ke proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically. Opportunities to approve . . . worth. Emerson. He had approved himself a great warrior. Macaulay. 'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true. Byron. His account . . . approves him a man of thought. Parkman.

ing else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn…

To form or bend into the shape of an arch. The horse arched his neck. Charlesworth.

etype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original. "One archetypal mind." Gudworth.