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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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7,769 words match “RIT”

A compact feldspathic rock; felsite. See Felsite.

Of or pelating to eurite.

Exemplariness. [R.] The exemplarity of Christ's life. Abp. Sharp.

Surface; superficies; externality.

EXTERRITORIAL a.

Beyond the territorial limits; foreign to, or exempt from, the territorial jurisdiction. -- Ex*ter`ri*to"ri*al*ly(#),adv.

EXTERRITORIALITY n. 2 definitions

The state of being free from the jurisdiction of a country when within its territorial limits.

EXTRATERRITORIAL a.

Beyond the limits of a territory or particular jurisdiction; exterritorial. -- Ex`tra*ter`ri*to"ri*al*ly(#), adv.

EXTRATERRITORIALITY n. 2 definitions

The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory; esp. (Internat. Law),

FAMILIARITY n. 2 definitions

rcourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity.

FAVORITE n. 4 definitions

lly, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority. Committing to a wicked favorite All public cares. Milton.

y, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality. A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States. A. Hamilton.

Wildness; savageness; fierceness. [Obs.] Woodward.

A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly luster; -- so called from Fiora, in Ischia.

Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.

Quality of being fissiparous; fissiparism.

FLUOCERINE; FLUOCERITE n.

A fluoride of cerium, occuring near Fahlun in Sweden. Tynosite, from Colorado, is probably the same mineral.

Calcium fluoride, a mineral of many different colors, white, yellow, purple, green, red, etc., often very beautiful, crystallizing commonly in cubes with perfect octahedral cleavage; also massive. It is used as a flux. Some varieties are used for ornamental vessels. Also called fluor spar, or simply fluor.…

FOURIERIST; FOURIERITE n.

One who adopts the views of Fourier.

A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc.

FRIDSTOL; FRITHSTOOL n.

A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary. [Written variously fridstool, freedstool, etc.] [Obs.]