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censured and cashiered. Cowper. They absolutely cashier the literal express sense of the words. Sowth.

A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, "To take arms against a sea of troubles. " Shak. "Her voice was but the shadow of a sound." Young.

Hence: To insnare; to entangle. "To catch him in his words". Mark xii. 13.

Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.

omposable conception; a predicament. The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive cla…

g a cause; causative. Causal propositions are where two propositions are joined by causal words. Watts.

A word which expresses or suggests a cause.

Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.

he heavenly Jerusalem. Bunyan. -- Celestial empire, China; -- so called from the Chinese words, tien chan, Heavenly Dynasty, as being the kingdom ruled over by the dynasty appoined by heaven. S. W. Williams.

To exchange; to bandy, as words. Spenser.

an's hut in the mountains of Switzerland. Chalets are summer huts for the Swiss herdsmen. Wordsworth.

r champaign, with less rivers interveined. Milton. Through Apline vale or champaign wide. Wordsworth.

f a person or a cause; a defender; an advocate; a hero. A stouter champion never handled sword. Shak. Champions of law and liberty. Fisher Ames.

and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. Samuel Clark. Any society into which chance might t…

A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed; as, ship chandler, corn chandler.

The transverse guard of a sword or dagger.

One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. [Obs.] The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller.

A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.

n and their actions; a disposition which inclines men to put the best construction on the words and actions of others. The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. Buckminster.

A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation. My high charms work. Shak.