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fected, or troubled, with hysterics; convulsive, fitful. With no hysteric weakness or feverish excitement, they preserved their peace and patience. Bancroft.

One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.

To hold in the bosom; to cherish in the heart or affection; to embosom.

Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance. Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible. 1 Tim. i. 17. For my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself Shak.

To impoverish. [Obs.]

Affording no aliment or nourishment. [Obs.] Bacon.

To produce inanition in; to exhaust for want of nourishment. [R.]

To produce or generate within. Bp. Reynolds. To inbreed and cherish . . . the seeds of virtue. Milton.

gratification. If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly. Rogers.

One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident.

Want of nutrition; failure of nourishment. E. Darwin.

Not nutritious; not furnishing nourishment.

, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained minister in a parish. On the election, the bishop gives a mandate for his installation. Ayliffe.

o be estimated; also, any particular moment. There is scarce an instant between their flourishing and their not being. Hooker.

A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.

One who intrudes; especially, one who favors the appointment of a clergyman to a parish, by a patron, against the wishes of the parishioners.

To breed; to nourish. [R.] W. Montagu.

Irishism. [R.] Jeffrey.

of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.

A verb ending, originally appearing in certain verbs of French origin; as, abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish, impoverish.