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That which is sent by an express messenger or message. [Obs.] Eikon Basilike. Express office, an office where packages for an express are received or delivered.

derable fatality. Ser T. Browne. By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike.

programme of reform through revolution as advocated by the French political leader Jules Basile Guesde (pron. ged) (1845- ). -- Guesd"ist (#), n. & a.

Impression, as upon the mind or heart. New gravings upon their souls. Eikon Basilike

Freedom or exemption from error; infallibility. Eikon Basilike.

To insult. [Obs.] Eikon Basilike.

ining; a union; an alliance. [Obs.] "Devotional compliance and juncture of hearts." Eikon Basilike.

r enterprise. All art is used to sink episcopacy, and launch presbytery in England. Eikon Basilike.

sities of the times, more than led by his own disposition, to any rigor of actions. Eikon Basilike. Silly women, laden with sins,led away by divers lusts. 2 Tim. iii. 6 (Rev. Ver.).

h a flowing mane, usually clipped to resemble a lion's mane. -- Lion lizard (Zoöl.), the basilisk. -- Lion's share, all, or nearly all; the best or largest part; -- from Æsop's fable of the lion hunting in company with certain smaller beasts, and appropriating to himself all the prey.

ss, Or else be impudently negative. Shak. Denying me any power of a negative voice. Eikon Basilike. Something between an affirmative bow and a negative shake. Dickens.

iptures, or in some established standard of faith; -- opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy. Basil himself bears full and clear testimony to Gregory's orthodoxy. Waterland.

To outvote; to outnumber in votes given. [R.] Eikon Basilike.

monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.

ned; rashly hurried; hasty; sudden; reckless. Jer. Taylor. "Precipitant rebellion." Eikon Basilike.

Affliction; distress; grievance. My people's pressures are grievous. Eikon Basilike. In the midst of his great troubles and pressures. Atterbury.

Preoccupation. [Obs.] Eikon Basilik

Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis) as, the banded purple (B. arthemis). See Illust. under Ursula.

m rationality. South. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered. Eikon Basilike.

Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval. This Basilius took as though his mistress had given him a secret reprehension that he had not showed more gratefulness to Dorus. Sir P. Sidney.