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ed by lofty or noble traits; eminent; -- said of persons. "The sublime Julian leader." De Quincey.

. . . wore masks as the sole substitute known to our ancestors for the modern parasol. De Quincey.

ous, -- these are the two frequent extremities to which the French manner betrays men. De Quincey.

ging to it; to include under something else. To subsume one proposition under another. De Quincey. A principle under which one might subsume men's most strenuous efforts after righteousness. W. Pater.

. But whether you see cause to go against the rule, or the subsumption under the rule. De Quincey.

A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.

nt; also, an aggregate. Of this series no summation is possible to a finite intellect. De Quincey.

y. Each would be supreme within its own sphere, and those spheres could not but clash. De Quincey.

The act of whispering; a whisper; a murmur. De Quincey. The soft susurrus and sighs of the branches. Longfellow.

A swingletree. De Quincey.

ruined by a sycophantical parasite. South. Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. De Quincey.

c"o*phant`ish*ly, adv. Sycophantish satirists that forever humor the prevailing folly. De Quincey.

nal memory of a rural and a sylvan region . . . is usually exact as well as tenacious. De Quincey.

is great empire, through its arch of progress, synchronized with that of Christianity. De Quincey.

opriated by new shades and combinations of thought evolved in the progress of society. De Quincey. His name has thus become, throughout all civilized countries, a synonym for probity and philanthropy. Macaulay. In popular literary acceptation, and as employed in special dictionaries of such words, synonyms are words su…

Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low. "Horribly tabernacular." De Quincey.

. Hallam. The certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin. De Quincey.

Of or pertaining to the earth. De Quincey.

s effect produced by a German structure of sentence, and a terminology altogether new. De Quincey.

op; culture; as, land is good tilth. The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth. De Quincey.