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is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident pretenders to certainty. Glanvill.

Past; as, preterlapsed ages. [R.] Glanvill.

Primatical. [R.] D'Anville (Trans. ).

First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light. Glanvill.

; to shoot forth. Before his feet herself she did project. Spenser. Behold! th' ascending villas on my side Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide. Pope.

Previous; antecedent. Glanvill.

overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.

The down of plants; a downy or villous substance which grows on plants; pubescence.

gh, and is usually built either of stone or adobe. The term is also applied to any Indian village in the same region. Pueblo Indians (Ethnol.), any tribe or community of Indians living in pueblos. The principal Pueblo tribes are the Moqui, the Zuñi, the Keran, and the Tewan.

A sweet-scented powder; pulvillio. [Written also pulville.] [Obs.] Gay.

Same as Pulvillus.

or to the practical wants of life. See Mathematics. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) -- Pure villenage (Feudal Law), a tenure of lands by uncertain services at the will of the lord. Blackstone.

cause it commonly had a square head. [Obs.] To shoot with arrows and quarrel. Sir J. Mandeville. Two arblasts, . . . with windlaces and quarrels. Sir W. Scott.

Properly, a kind of superior olive grown in the region of Seville, Spain. It is large size and oblong shape with a small but long pit; it is cured when green, keeps well, and has a delicate flavor. Loosely, any olive of similar character.

Prior; earlier; former. [Obs.] Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville.

chimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth. Glanvill.

ate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits. Glanvill.

A receptible thing. [R.] Glanvill.

ving or containing; as, a receptive mind. Imaginary space is receptive of all bodies. Glanvill.

Suitable to be recommended; worthy of praise; commendable. Glanvill. -- Rec`om*mend"a*ble*ness, n. -- Rec`om*mend"a*bly, adv.