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To bring into subjection. [Obs.] Shak.

o receive or adopt. The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company. Sir W. Scott.

The taking of a person up into heaven. Hence: (Rom. Cath. & Greek Churches)

Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.

Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places. I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder. Zech. xi. 10. As wide asunder as pole and pole. Froude.

The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule.

The reduction of fluids into fine spray.

A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.

To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach. Cooley.

A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process.

friendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet.

n. [Obs.] He lived from all attainder of suspect. Shak. Bill of attainder, a bill brought into, or passed by, a legislative body, condemning a person to death or outlawry, and attainder, without judicial sentence.

dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts.

in friars, an order of friars established in 1265 by Pope Alexander IV. It was introduced into the United States from Ireland in 1790. -- Augustinian nuns, an order of nuns following the rule of St. Augustine. -- Augustinian rule, a rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adop…

eart. Auricular finger, the little finger; so called because it can be readily introduced into the ear passage.

Self-intoxication. See Auto-intoxication.

Same as Auto-intoxication.

process resembling "nature printing," by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate.

he time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage. Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor. Fuller. Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge. Wordsworth.

g used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate. Struggling to redeem, as he did, the available months and days out of so many that were unavailable. Carlyle. Having no available funds with which to pay the calls…