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To connect or place together in thought. He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last an long as our language. Macaulay.

Associated movements (Physiol.), consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. Dunglison.

To remove; to put off. [Obs.] She soundly slept, and careful thoughts did quite assoil. Spenser.

Dazed; foolish; infatuated. [Obs.] Willie, I ween thou be assot. Spenser.

To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively. The consequences of assumed principles. Whewell.

The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim. This gives no sanction to the unwarrantable assumption that the soul sleeps from the period of death to the resurrection of the body. Thodey. That calm assumption of the virtues. W. Black.

which a person had a right to assume, in consequence of an exploit; now, those assumed without sanction of the Heralds' College. Percy Smith.

The object causing such an emotion. Thou shalt become an astonishment. Deut. xxviii. 37.

To astonish; to strike with amazement; to confound with wonder, surprise, or fear. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind. Milton.

to restrict; to limit. [R.] The mind is astricted to certain necessary modes or forms of thought. Sir W. Hamilton.

Without columns or pilasters. Weale.

re criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege. So sacred was the church to some, that it had the right of an asylum or sanctuary. Ayliffe.

A line which approaches nearer to some curve than assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet it. Asymptotes may be straight lines or curves. A rectilinear asymptote may be conceived as a tangent to the curve at an infinite distance.

Without technical or artistic knowledge. Difficult to convey to the atechnic reader. Etching & Engr.

Without God, neither accepting nor denying him. I should say science was atheous, and therefore could not be atheistic. Bp. of Carlisle.

whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought.

, to warn others. Spectator. The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. Potter.

-- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.

fforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest. Is he wise who hopes to attain the end without the means Abp. Tillotson.

passed by, a legislative body, condemning a person to death or outlawry, and attainder, without judicial sentence.