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45 words match “PALFREY”

DISFRANCHISEMENT n.
to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. Palfrey.
ECONOMIC; ECONOMICAL a.
p. There was no economical distress in England to prompt the enterprises of colonization. Palfrey. Economic questions, such as money, usury, taxes, lands, and the employment of the people. H. C. Baird.
ENFORCEMENT n.
A giving force to; a putting in execution. Enforcement of strict military discipline. Palfrey.
EXPATRIATION n.
legiance. Expatriation was a heavy ransom to pay for the rights of their minds and souls. Palfrey.
FLAGRANT a.
nce; carried on hotly; raging. A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant. Palfrey.
GANTLET n.
r controversy, or ill-treatment at many hands. Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights. Palfrey.
HEARTBURNING n.
Discontent; secret enmity. Swift. The transaction did not fail to leave heartburnings. Palfrey.
HILL v.
ap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn. Showing them how to plant and hill it. Palfrey.
IMPRACTICABLE a.
butloyal men went away disguested afresh with the impracticable arrogance of a sovereign. Palfrey.
OPTIONAL a.
he movement was not optional, it was the same that the latter chose when it was optional. Palfrey. Original writs are either optional or peremptory. Blackstone.
POST n.
[Obs.] He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years. Palfrey.
PRELATIZE v.
To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
PROPOSE v.
ntend. I propose to relate, in several volumes, the history of the people of New England. Palfrey. To propose to one's self, to intend; to design.
PROVISION v.
with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison. They were provisioned for a journey. Palfrey.
QUAGMIRE n.
under the feet. "A spot surrounded by quagmires, which rendered it difficult of access." Palfrey.
RELIGIONIST n.
ious zealot. The chief actors on one side were, and were to be, the Puritan religionists. Palfrey. It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodoreligionists, was to be scourged out of the town. Hawthorne.
RESTATE v.
To state anew. Palfrey.
SCRIPTURIST n.
e cherished the scheme of looking to the Word of God as his sole and universal directory. Palfrey.
SELECTMAN n.
by selectmen;" the name presently extended throughout New England to municipal governors. Palfrey.
STAGNANT a.
oomy slumber of the stagnant soul. Johnson. For him a stagnant life was not worth living. Palfrey.
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