Search the Dictionary

The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.

To doubt. [R.] If he . . . were to loiter dubitating, and not come. Carlyle.

Act of doubting; doubt. [R.] Sir T. Scott.

Tending to doubt; doubtful. [R.] -- Du"bi*ta*tive*ly, adv. [R.] . Eliot.

Having no ribs or nerves; -- said of a leaf.

Pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance. This ecstatic fit of love and jealousy. Hammond.

Ecstatic. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Rapturously; ravishingly.

An order of mammals including the armadillos, sloths, and anteaters; -- called also Bruta. The incisor teeth are rarely developed, and in some groups all the teeth are lacking.

Destitute of teeth; as, an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf.

Same as Edentate, a.

A depriving of teeth. [R.] Cockeram.

To ask urgently. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Pertaining to electrostatics.

That branch of science which treats of statical electricity or electric force in a state of rest.

Instruction in the elements or first principles. [R.]

To elicit. [Obs.]

The act of eliciting. [Obs.] Abp. Bramhall.

To struggle out; -- with out. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

A struggling out of any difficulty. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.