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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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366 words match “AGED”

OVERLANGUAGED a.

Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.

PHAGEDENA n. 2 definitions

A canine appetite; bulimia. [Obs.]

PHAGEDENIC; PHAGEDENICAL a. 2 definitions

Of, like, or pertaining to, phagedena; used in the treatment of phagedena; as, a phagedenic ulcer or medicine. -- n.

SELVAGED; SELVEDGED a.

Having a selvage.

TRAGEDIAN n. 2 definitions

A writer of tragedy. Thence what the lofty, grave, tragedians taught. Milton.

A woman who plays in tragedy.

Like tragedy; tragical. [Obs.] "Tragedious history." Fabyan.

TRAGEDY n. 2 definitions

hat species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life. Tragedy is to say a certain storie, As olde bookes maken us memorie, Of him that stood in great prosperitee And is yfallen out of high degree Into misery and endeth wretchedly. Chaucer. All our tragedies are of kings and princes. Je…

Having a visage. Shak.

One engaged in teaching the alphabet. Wood.

In concern with; engaged in; intent on. I must be about my Father's business. Luke ii. 49.

ABSORBEDLY adv.

In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.

To cite; to summon. [Obs.] Our heralds now accited all that were Endamaged by the Elians. Chapman.

Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; -- opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert; as, an active man of business; active mind; active zeal.

is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him. Fuller. What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away Luke ix. 25. To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]

only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated. Burke. Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause. Mitford.

One engaged in an affray.

To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged. They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

AGRICULTURAL a.

Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc. -- Ag`ri*cul"tur*al*ly, adv. Agricultural ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas…