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580 words match “FULLER”

ADVANTAGE v.
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.]
ADVOCATE v.
To act as advocate. [Obs.] Fuller.
ADVOKE v.
[Obs.] Queen Katharine had privately prevailed with the pope to advoke the cause to Rome. Fuller.
AFFECT v.
s for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected, rather honored than loved, her. Fuller.
AGGEST v.
To heap up. [Obs.] The violence of the waters aggested the earth. Fuller.
ALLAY v.
To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate. [Archaic] Fuller.
ALLOW v.
ke xi. 48. We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning. Fuller.
AMPLITUDE n.
Lincoln . . . is a magnificent structure, proportionable to the amplitude of the diocese. Fuller.
AMUSE v.
ir gold. Holland. Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house. Fuller.
ANARCHY n.
, in general. There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their reFuller.
ANATOMY n.
parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. Shak.
ANCIENT a.
earth. Milton. Gildas Albanius . . . much ancienter than his namesake surnamed the Wise. Fuller.
ANCIENTRY n.
Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller.
ANNOYANCE n.
annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. Wilkins.
ANTIC a.
axons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape. Fuller.
ANTIPATHETIC; ANTIPATHETICAL a.
constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to. Fuller.
APPELLATIVENESS n.
The quality of being appellative. Fuller.
APPREHEND v.
t first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it. Fuller. The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them. Gladstone.
APPROPRE v.
To appropriate. [Obs.] Fuller.
ARCHIEPISCOPALITY n.
The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy. Fuller.
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