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g or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteement mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn. Criminal contempt of public feeling. Macaulay. Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great. Addison.

Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Milton. The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke.

tents of a book. I shall prove these writings . . . authentic, and the contents true, and worthy of a divine original. Grew.

Vehemence of endeavor; eagerness; ardor; zeal. An end . . . worthy our utmost contenion to obtain. Rogers.

An adjunct or accessory. Wordsworth.

iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet. Years contracting to a moment. Wordsworth.

tradict thyself, And say it is not so. Shak. The future can not contradict the past. Wordsworth.

ontradiction can not possibly be true. Hobbes. Of contradictions infinite the slave. Wordsworth. Principle of contradiction (Logic), the axiom or law of thought that a thing cannot be and not be at the same time, or a thing must either be or not be, or the same attribute can not at the same time be affirmed and and den…

rariety of qualities. place the prospect of the soul In sober contrast with reality. Wordsworth.

caulay. Conventual church, a church attached or belonging to a convent or monastery. Wordsworth.

e the world's fashions. Sir W. Scott. But to converse with heaven -This is not easy. Wordsworth.

costumes of state. Cordon bleu (kd" bl Etym: [F., blue cordon], a first-rate cook, or one worthy to be the cook of the cordons bleus, or Knights of the Holy Ghost, famous for their good dinners. -- Cordon sanitaire (kd" s Etym: [F., sanitary cordon], a line of troops or military posts around a district infected with d…

Materialism. Cudworth.

Qualifying; limiting. "The Psalmist interposeth . . . this corrective particle." Holdsworth.

To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. Matt. vi. 19.

Worship paid to the world. Cudworth.

f the world independently of God; world-forming. "Cosmoplastic and hylozoic atheisms." Gudworth.

A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles. Whitworth.

and the general course of the action. Shak. By perseverance in the course prescribed. Wodsworth. You hold your course without remorse. Tennyson.

Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook. Wordsworth. Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley. Bacon.