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rried Stephen to his burial. Acts viii, 2. Another carried the intelligence to Russell. Macaulay. The sound will be carried, at the least, twenty miles. Bacon.

. carved out his passage." Shak. Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown. Macaulay.

dison. He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard. Macaulay.

chiefly hold intercourse among themselves. The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste. Macaulay. To lose caste, to be degraded from the caste to which one has belonged; to lose social position or consideration.

See under Proximate. -- To make common cause with, to join with in purposes and aims. Macaulay.

aving celebrity; distinguished; renowned. Celebrated for the politeness of his manners. Macaulay.

on or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit. The heroic confessor in his cell. Macaulay.

in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere. Dryden. A cenotaph in Westminster Abbey. Macaulay.

A cenotaph. [R.] Lord Cobham honored him with a cenotaphy. Macaulay.

ensorship. Holland. The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. Macaulay.

condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited. Macaulay.

. Luke. v. 12. About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace und decorum. Macaulay. For certain, assuredly. -- Of a certain, certainly.

A cosmetic containing white lead. To distinguish ceruse from natural bloom. Macaulay.

and age. -- To put into the chair, to elect as president, or as chairman of a meeting. Macaulay. -- To take the chair, to assume the position of president, or of chairman of a meeting.

real and immediate cause. Samuel Clark. Any society into which chance might throw him. Macaulay. That power Which erring men call Chance. Milton.

A simpleton; an idiot. Macaulay. Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut out. Wildly we roam in discontent about. Dryden.

Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone. [R.] His strange face, his strange chant. Macaulay. Ambrosian chant, See under Ambrosian. Chant royal Etym: [F.], in old French poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a concluding stanza. -- each of these six parts ending with a common refrain. --…

raits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.

A horse for battle or parade. Macaulay. And furious every charger neighed. Campbell.

on or art. That great model of chaste, lofty, and eloquence, the Book of Common Prayer. Macaulay.