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Uninteresting. [Obs.] "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.

To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste. Even with the speediest expedition I will dispatch him to the emperor's couShak.

To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.

To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom. [R.] Bp. Hall.

An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction. Birds which do give a happy divination of things to come. Sir T. North.

Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Obs.] Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave him. Milton.

rine. Hooker. The Monroe doctrine (Politics), a policy enunciated by President Monroe (Message, Dec. 2, 1823), the essential feature of which is that the United States will regard as an unfriendly act any attempt on the part of European powers to extend their systems on this continent, or any interference to oppress, o…

Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book. Statute books before unopened, not dog-eared. Ld. Mansfield.

Passage; means of approach or access. I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. John x. 9.

The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.

The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.

archbishop. Mozley & W. -- Duplex telegraphy, a system of telegraphy for sending two messages over the same wire simultaneously. -- Duplex watch, one with a duplex escapement.

The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life.

Strong attachment to ecclesiastical usages, forms, etc.

g with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.

General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council. [Written also .] Ecumenical Bishop, a title assumed by the popes. -- Ecumenical council. See under Council.

Of, Pertaining to, or produced by, magnetism which is developed by the passage of an electric current. Electro-magnetic engine, an engine in which the motive force is electro-magnetism. -- Electro-magnetic theory of light (Physics), a theory of light which makes it consist in the rapid alternation of transient electri…

The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.