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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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636 words match “POND”

CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL n.

A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or de…

CORRESPONDENCY n.

Same as Correspondence, 3. The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be very reasonable confirmations. S. Clarke.

CORRESPONDENT a. 4 definitions

Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing. Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker. As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson. I will be correspondent to command. Shak.

CORRESPONDENTLY adv.

In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably.

CORRESPONDING a. 2 definitions

Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers.

CORRESPONDINGLY adv.

In a corresponding manner; conformably.

COUNTERPONDERATE v.

TO equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.

DESPOND v. 2 definitions

come dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view. I should despair, or at least despond. Scott's Letters. Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty. Locke. We wish that . . . desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power stil…

Despondency. The people, when once infected, lose their relish for happiness [and] saunter about with looks of despondence. Goldsmith.

The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind. The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk in despondency. Macaulay.

Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner. -- De*spond"ent*ly, adv.

One who desponds.

DESPONDINGLY adv.

In a desponding manner.

DISCORRESPONDENT a.

Incongruous. W. Montagu.

A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables.

EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY n.

Equality of weight; equipoise.

EQUIPONDERANT a.

Being of the same weight. A column of air . . . equiponderant to a column of quicksilver. Locke.

EQUIPONDERATE v. 2 definitions

To make equal in weight; to counterbalance. "More than equiponderated the declension in that direction." De Quincey.

EQUIPONDEROUS a.

Having equal weight. Bailey.