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ial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church. "Our primitive great sire." Milton.

rty. The prisoned eagle dies for rage. Sir W. Scott. His true respect will prison false desire. Shak.

state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.

cal, U. S. (North Carolina and Tennessee).] "To procession the lands of such persons as desire it." Burrill.

One who begets; a father or sire; a generator.

desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; attainment of the object desired; good fortune; success; as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity. Now prosperity begins to mellow. Shak. Prosperities can only be enjoyed by them who fear not at all to lose the Jer. Taylor.

Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals. Sir T. Browne.

To provide with a proverb. [R.] I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase. Shak.

Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful. -- Pru"ri*ent*ly, adv. The eye of the vain and prurient is darting from object to object of illicit attraction. I. Taylor.

e method rests upon the theory that hysteria is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously persistent; it consists in a close analysis of the patient's mental history, stress being laid upon the dream life, and of treatment by means of suggestion. -- Psy*chan`a*lyt"ic (#), a…

A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites, and inclinations.

plied to a cannon or mortar in adjusting it to the elevation required for attaining the desired range. -- Gunter's quadrant. See Gunter's quadrant, in the Vocabulary. Hadley's quadrant, a hand instrument used chiefly at sea to measure the altitude of the sun or other celestial body in ascertaining the vessel's positio…

Earnest desire or longing. [Obs.] Holland. To pick a quarrel. See under Pick, v. t.

Request; desire; solicitation. Gad not abroad at every quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion. Herbert.

To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query. And most we question what we most desire. Prior.

Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief. Hawthorne.

force; spoliation; pillage; plunder. Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory. Macaulay.

Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.

tretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his hand reaches the river. Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame. Milton.

ognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discur…