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Vested with all due formalities, and legally attested.

To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit. The king serves only as a notary to authenticate the choice of judges. Burke.

Hypnotism of one's self by concentration of the attention on some object or idea.

; automatic, mechanical, or involuntary action. (Metaph.) A theory as to the activity of matter.

is an excess of power the dynamo is driven by the engine so as to charge a small storage battery; when there is a deficiency of power the dynamo reverses and acts as an auxiliary motor. Sometimes called Pieper system. -- Automixte car, etc.

Patterned after one's self. The conception which any one frames of another's mind is more or less after the pattern of his own mind, -- is automorphic. H. Spenser.

The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage. Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor. Fuller. Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge. Wordsworth.

ting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. Auxiliary scales (Mus.), the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under Attendant, a. -- Auxiliary verbs (Gram.). See Auxiliary, n., 3.

his servants. Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. Macaulay.

ce or opposition of mind; disliking; disinclined; unwilling; reluctant. Averse alike to flatter, or offend. Pope. Men who were averse to the life of camps. Macaulay. Pass by securely as men averse from war. Micah ii. 8.

A turning away. [Obs.] Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury.

ations which accompany marriage the clergy have been furnished with skill in common life. Atterbury.

the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter. Blackstone.

To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly. If this which he avouches does appear. Shak. Such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish. Spenser.

To wait on, serve, or attend. [Obs.]

act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.

on a hand loom, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (1755 -- 1835) made.

To talk much; to chatter; to prate.

A name given to any one of family (Timalinæ) of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note.

A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way. Atterbury.