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Distemperature. [Obs.]

Continuance; duration. See Endurance. [Archaic] Of how short durance was this new-made state! Dryden.

h impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance.

Same as Incumbrancer.

lastingness; continuance. Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott.

The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.

The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy. Otway.

Equality of weight; equipoise.

Hope. [Obs.] Shak.

A swelling or rising; protuberance. [R.] Moxon.

ntity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of joy, of fancy, or of foliage.

Superiority; superfluity. [Obs.] Sir K. Digby.

See Furtherence.

Flagrancy. Bp. Hall.

The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience. He soon shall findForbearance no acquittance ere day end. Milton.

a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume. Eve separate he spies, Veiled in a cloud of fragrance. Milton. The goblet crowned, Breathed aromatic fragrancies around. Pope.

continue with you all for your furthersnce and joy of faith. Phil. i. 25. Built of furtherance and pursuing, Not of spent deeds, but of doing. Emerson.

Same as Hindrance.

That which hinders; an impediment. What various hindrances we meet. Cowper. Something between a hindrance and a help. Wordsworth.

or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed. Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak.