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The office or term of a procurator. Bp. Pearson.

Tending to, or authorizing, procuration.

Inaccurate. Boyle.

Inaccuracy. Boyle.

The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, wi…

Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors. His foreboding showed his appreciation of Henry's character. J. R. Green.

Near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values. Approximate quantities (Math.), those which are nearly, but not, equal.

As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate.

A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles. Lyman.

glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters.

To drench; to soak; especially, to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties). [Obs.] There were many bowssening places, for curing of mad men. . . . If there appeared small amendment he was bowssened again and again. Carew.

The curate of a chapel; a chaplain. [Obs.] Fuller.

An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic…

Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict; not wandering; as, a close observer.

In a conscientious manner; as a matter of conscience; hence; faithfully; accurately; completely.

e into contact with each other; -- used in precise determinations of lengths and in the accurate graduation of instruments.

In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.

Pertaining to criticism or the critic's art; of the nature of a criticism; accurate; as, critical knowledge; a critical dissertation.

In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden.

The office or employment of a curate.