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Existing at the present time; present. [R.] "Our now happiness." Glanvill.

One fond of his own opinious; one who holds an opinion. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Opinionative. Glanvill. -- O*pin"ia*tive*ly, adv. -- O*pin"ia*tive*ness, n.

One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Glanvill.

equal order to their several ends. Jer. Taylor. Various orders various ensigns bear. Granville. Which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime. Hawthorne.

o cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new. A decomposition of the whole civill and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order. Burke.

To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.

outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous crimes." Shak. "Outrageous panegyric." Dryden.

To travel upon foot; to tread. [Obs.] Padding the streets for half a crown. Somerville.

Littleness. [Obs.] Glanvill. Ray.

The South American hairy armadillo (Dasypus villosus).

One who, or that which, is percipient. Glanvill.

To plague; to vex; to tormen. Glanvill.

be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable. That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Shak.

A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country. Are you native of this place Shak.

play well on an instrument. Ezek. xxxiii. 32. Play, my friend, and charm the charmer. Granville.

Having the villi of the placenta collected into definite patches, or cotyledons.

for cowardice. On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not, at four, to meet me. Granville.

ht, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes. Glanvill.

Presiding or watching over. "Presidential angels." Glanvill.