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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,864 words match “CATE”

To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy. G. A. Sala.

VACATE v. 3 definitions

y; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.

VELLICATE v. 2 definitions

To move spasmodically; to twitch; as, a nerve vellicates.

To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister. Wiseman.

VINDICATE v. 6 definitions

claim. [R.] Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain. Pope.

To convert into glass; to vitrify. [Obs.] Bacon.

VIVIFICATE v. 2 definitions

To give life to; to animate; to revive; to vivify. [R.] God vivificates and actuates the whole world. Dr. H. More.

Anything forfeited or confiscated.

Capable of being abdicated.

One who abdicates. Smart.

One who abdicates.

different part. [Obs.] If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate. Sir T. Browne.

acter used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.

To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize. And the city shall be accursed. Josh. vi. 17. Thro' you, my life will be accurst. Tennyson.

Provisions. Same as Cates. [Obs.] Spenser.

Purveyor; acater. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT n.

egal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration. Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords. Cowell.

To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; -- followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act. Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. Shak. I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumbe…

ACROAMATIC; ACROAMATICAL a.

Communicated orally; oral; -- applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.

An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Jacobs.