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Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation. Let him write her a divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris.

Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution.

The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.

A clasp in the arms; embrace. Dear though chaste embracements. Sir P. Sidney.

A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.

The act of enforcing; compulsion. He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master or resist them. Sir W. Raleigh. Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement You got it from her. Shak.

e act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.

The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace.

Act of enouncing; that which is enounced.

The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.

The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy. Otway.

The act of evincing or proving, or the state of being evinced.

Stuffing; forcemeat. [Obs.] They spoil a good dish with . . . unsavory farcements. Feltham.

cing; compulsion. [Obs.] It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster.

ive or consideration that leads one to action or induces one to act; as, reward is an inducement to toil. "Mark the inducement." Shak.

The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced; also, that which is interlaced.

Introduction. [Obs.]

Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice. [Obs.] Johnson.

The act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced.

A charge of phase whereby an alternating current attains its maximum later or earlier. An inductance would cause a lag, a capacity would cause an advance, in phase.