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Opinionated; conceited. His opinioned zeal which he thought judicious. Milton.

One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Glanvill.

A wing, literal or figurative. Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome. Pope.

Having wings or pinions.

Any winged creature.

Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice. Sir T. Browne.

Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. Collier.

Having a high opinion of one's self; opinionated; conceited. South.

To loose from pinions or manacles; to free from restraint. Goldsmith.

Taking away or removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

To withdraw; to separate; to take away. He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. Sir W. Scott.

ense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. 'This phrase absurd to call a villain great. Pope. p. 9

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent. A mediator of an accord and peace between them. Bacon. These all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts i. 14.

On one's own account, for one's own interest or behalf. -- To make account, to have an opinion or expectation; to reckon. [Obs.] s other part . . . makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it. Milton. -- To make account of, to hold in e…

. . . accredit his praises. Cowper. These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine opinion. Shelton.

To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition.

evoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.

ed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions.

One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.

aking that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. Jer. Taylor.