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Chief; primary; primordial. [Obs.] Cudworth.

aldic arms or escutcheon of a family. Figures with armorial signs of race and birth. Wordsworth. Armorial bearings. See Arms, 4.

consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption. I hate not you for her proud arrogance. Shak.

A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.

k. The material universe.. in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. Cudworth.

plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia).

A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties. Asclepias butterfly (Zoöl.), a large, handsome, red and black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.

ful or wrong, and hence, in general literature, has commonly a bad sense; as, to impute unworthy motives. The theological sense of impute is not here taken into view. More than good-will to me attribute naught. Spenser. Ascribes his gettings to his parts and merit. Pope. And fairly quit him of the imputed blame. Spense…

rescott. Unshaken bears the assault Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest. Wordsworth.

ion; to make over. In the order I assign to them. Loudon. The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned. Southey. He assigned to his men their several posts. Prescott.

An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. [Obs.] Wat Tyler [was] killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance, . . . John Cavendish. Fuller.

To soil; to stain. [Obs. or Poet.] Beau. & Fl. Ne'er assoil my cobwebbed shield. Wordsworth.

hat which is assumed; an assumption. [Obs.] The sun of all your assumpts is this. Chillingworth.

A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy.

A bitter herb, probably the same as aster, or starwort. Spenser.

practicing astrology. "Astrologi learning." Hudibras. "Astrological prognostication." Cudworth. -- As`tro*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

To discourse, argue, or act as an atheist. [R.] -- A"the*i`zer, n. Cudworth.

The doctrine of atoms. Cudworth.

Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information.

dent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent.