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To cause to be done quickly.

Belonging to winter; done in winter. Sir T. Browne.

esentation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc.

Done, attempted, or said, at an unsuitable or unpropitious time.

k or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages.

Whose is this image and superscription Matt. xxii. 20. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Shak. And God created man in his own image. Gen. i. 27.

ish the original grant. In 1832 the plan of dating legal memory from a fixed time was abandoned and the principle substituted that rights which had been enjoyed for full twenty years (or as against the crown thirty years) should not be liable to impeachment merely by proving that they had not been enjoyed before.…

Done by express direction; not involuntary; communded. [Obs.] Those imperate acts, wherein we see the empire of the soul. Sir M. Hale.

An impossible thing; that which can not be thought, done, or endured. Impossibilities! O, no, there's none. Cowley.

Not possible; incapable of being done, of existing, etc.; unattainable in the nature of things, or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; not feasible. With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Matt. xix. 26. Without faith it is impossible t…

Done by imposture. [Obs.]

Something made or done offhand, at the moment, or without previous study; an extemporaneous composition, address, or remark.

rror." Hooker. -- In the name of, in behalf of; on the part of; by authority; as, it was done in the name of the people; -- often used in invocation, swearing, praying, and the like. -- To be in for it. (a) To be in favor of a thing; to be committed to a course. (b) To be unable to escape from a danger, penalty, etc.…

bject to; to occasion. [Obs.] Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life. Chapman.

Done without deliberation; unpremeditated. [Obs.] -- In`de*lib"er*ate*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Done or being within doors; within a house or institution; domestic; as, indoor work.

Not capable of being done or accomplished; impracticable. Glanvill.

y; unfortunate; not fortunate or appropriate in application; not well said, expressed, or done; as, an infelicitous condition; an infelicitous remark; an infelicitous description; infelicitous words.

grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind. When have I injured thee when done thee wrong Shak.

To view and examine officially, as troops, arms, goods offered, work done for the public, etc.; to oversee; to superintend. Sir W. Temple.