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One who, or that which, mitigates.

Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.

An East Indian curry soup.

See Mullagatawny.

Having many pairs of leaflets.

To joirney by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail. The Phenicians navigated to the extremities of the Western Ocean. Arbuthnot.

The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.

One who navigates or sails; esp., one who direct the course of a ship, or one who is skillful in the art of navigation; also, a book which teaches the art of navigation; as, Bowditch's Navigator.

t been, or will not be; denial; -- the opposite of Ant: affirmation. Our assertions and negations should be yea and nay. Rogers.

Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to Ant: affirmative. If thou wilt confess, Or else be impudently negative. Shak. Denying me any power of a negative voice. Eik…

In a negative manner; with or by denial. "He answered negatively." Boyle.

The quality or state of being negative.

Expressing denial; belonging to negation; negative. Carlyle.

A roving or going about in the night. Gayton.

A cake, sweetmeat, or confectión made with almonds or other nuts.

The act or practice of trifling. [R.] Bacon.

doned, and pardoned as a mere act of clemency, the very substance of government is made nugatory. I. Taylor.

To chide; to reprove.

The act of objurgating; reproof. While the good lady was bestowing this objurgation on Mr.Ben Allen. Dickens. With a strong objurgation of the elbow in his ribs. Landor.

Designed to objurgate or chide; containing or expressing reproof; culpatory. Bancroft. The objurgatory question of the Pharisees. Paley.