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e heard in the present day against expediency, as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled. Whately.

Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family. War is expensive, and peace desirable. Burke.

atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty. His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation. W. Irving.

initial velocity and consequently a flat trajectory. It is usually of moderately large caliber.

me under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. (c) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different…

A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.

raint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties.

"vor*a*bly, sdv. The faborableness of the present times to all extertions in the cause of liberty. Burke.

desire. I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. Shak. Feeding him with the hope of liberty. Knolles.

One who deliberately puts an end to his own existence, or loses his life while engaged in the commission of an unlawful or malicious act; a suicide. Burrill.

dy flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. See Flounder.

Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal. Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. Arbuthnot.

Foolishly liberal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

esight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation. His calm, deliberate forecast better fitted him for the council than the camp. Prescott.

eople; a foreign idiom or custom. It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.

Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.

To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego. For sith [since] I shall forgoon my liberty At your request. Chaucer. And four [days] since Florimell the court forwent. Spenser.

the life and spirit of religion. As far a formalist from wisdom sits, In judging eyes, as libertines from wits. Young.

Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty. [Obs.] Spenser.

Liberal; generous; profuse. [Obs.] Frank of civilities that cost them nothing. L'Estrange.