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e top or highest point; the culmination. The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. Pope. The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy. I. Taylor.

to action; to actuate; to animate. [Obs.] Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope.

ation; as, the action of heat; a man of action. One wise in council, one in action brave. Pope.

Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope.

state. For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administered is best. Pope.

person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.

A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave. [Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration. Froude.

th the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize. The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth. Macaulay.

Curvature inwards; hookedness. The aduncity of the beaks of hawks. Pope.

propose; to show; as, to advance an argument. Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own. Pope.

To summon; to call. [Obs.] Queen Katharine had privately prevailed with the pope to advoke the cause to Rome. Fuller.

To assure by promise. [Obs.] Pope.

pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.

The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation. "Ages yet unborn." Pope. The way which the age follows. J. H. Newman. Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.

less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. "To aggravate my woes." Pope. To aggravate the horrors of the scene. Prescott. The defense made by the prisioner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. Addison.

with such a figure. It is made from the remains of the paschal candles and blessed by the Pope.

To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. Pope.

Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion. With cries and agonies of wild delight. Pope.

te pleasure to the mind or senses. That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us. Pope.

Indisposition or morbid affection. Pope.