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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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AFFECT v. 2 definitions

, as the feelings or passions; to touch. A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.

AFFIRM v. 2 definitions

To declare, as a fact, solemnly, under judicial sanction. See Affirmation, 4.

The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief. Some virtues are seen only in affliction. Addison.

AFFORCIAMENT n.

See Afforcement. [Obs.]

An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.

; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

uring the Age of Stone man is supposed to have employed stone for weapons and implements. See Augustan, Brazen, Golden, Heroic, Middle.

See Again. [Obs.]

See Agendum. [Obs.]

but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2.

AGGLUTINATION n.

ation in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.

AGGRANDIZEMENT n.

zed or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.

See Agast, v. t. [Obs.]

The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positi…

AGNUS SCYTHICUS n.

The Scythian lamb, a kind of woolly-skinned rootstock. See Barometz.

See Aggrace. [Obs.]

In accordance; suitably; consistently; conformably; -- followed by to and rarely by with. See Agreeable, 4. The effect of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably to the maxim above laid down. Paley.

AGRICULTURAL a.

i*cul"tur*al*ly, adv. Agricultural ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.