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335 words match “CARL”

ACCESSORY n.
something additional and subordinate. "The aspect and accessories of a den of banditti." Carlyle.
ACCOMPLISHABLE a.
Capable of being accomplished; practicable. Carlyle.
ACIDIFY v.
To sour; to imbitter. His thin existence all acidified into rage. Carlyle.
ACIDULENT a.
Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous. "With anxious, acidulent face." Carlyle.
ADULATOR n.
A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.
ADUMBRATIVE a.
Faintly representing; typical. Carlyle.
ADZ v.
To cut with an adz. [R.] Carlyle.
AERATE v.
rly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.
AFFLUENCE n.
bles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.
AGGREGATIVE a.
Gregarious; social. [R.] Carlyle.
ALLEVIATORY a.
Alleviative. Carlyle.
AMENABLE a.
d or submit; responsive; tractable. Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel. Carlyle.
ANONYMITY n.
ss; also, that which anonymous. [R.] He rigorously insisted upon the rights of anonymity. Carlyle.
ANTICIVISM n.
Opposition to the body politic of citizens. [Obs.] Carlyle.
APOCALYPSE n.
Anything viewed as a revelation; as disclosure. The new apocalypse of Nature. Carlyle.
APOSTATIZE v.
has previously adhered. He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to believing in Carlyle.
ARROWY a.
rushing of the arrowy Rhone. Byron. With arrowy vitalities, vivacities, and ingenuities. Carlyle.
ARTICULATE a. 2 definitions
les; as, articulate speech, sounds, words. Total changes of party and articulate opinion. Carlyle.
ASTUCITY n.
Craftiness; astuteness. [R.] Carlyle.
ATHEOUS a.
nying him. I should say science was atheous, and therefore could not be atheistic. Bp. of Carlisle.
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