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The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.

In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.

More than human.

Above or beyond what is human; sometimes, divine; as, superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom.

More than human; superhuman. [R.] Words may not tell of that transhuman change. H. F. Cary.

To make more than human; to purity; to elevate above humanity. [R.] Souls purified by sorrow and self-denial, transhumanized to the divine abstraction of pure contemplation. Lowell.

Not human; inhuman.

To render inhuman or barbarous. J. Barlow.

To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress.

Inhuman. [Obs.] Fuller.

The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.

ncomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

ass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes. Barrow. The highest achievements of the human intellect. Macaulay.

agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey.

The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.

A descendant of Adam; a human being.

a god. The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

rd of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest.

. . affluent in expression. H. Reed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. Prior.