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The act of flattering to gain favor; servile approbation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To flatter; to cajole; to act the parasite. [Obs.] Dr. R. Clerke.

A woman who has borne one child.

To deprive of happiness like that of paradise; to render unhappy. [R.] Young.

Having no paragon or equal; matchless; peerless. [R.] Your unparagoned mistress is dead. Shak.

Having no parallel, or equal; unequaled; unmatched. The unparalleled perseverance of the armies of the United States, under every suffering and discouragement, was little short of a miracle. Washington.

Inseparable. [Obs.] "In love unseparable." Shak.

division of vertebrates including those that produce their young alive; -- opposed to Ovipara.

unds. See Guide to pronunciation, §§ 43-74. The regular long a, as in fate, etc., is a comparatively modern sound, and has taken the place of what, till about the early part of the 17th century, was a sound of the quality of ä (as in far).

art on each side; -- used specif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.

A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott.

, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French à (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Gre…

A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. See A- (6).

The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.

n Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.

A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. Woodward.

A separating; removal; also, an abscess. [Obs.] Gauden. Barrough.

ces or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.

Withdraw; separate. [Obs.] The more abstract . . . we are from the body. Norris.

Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. The evil abstracted stood from his own evil. Milton.