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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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14,304 words match “TED”

Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.

ACQUAINTEDNESS n.

State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. [R.] Boyle.

Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.

The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.

ADDICTEDNESS n.

The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.

ADDLE-BRAINED; ADDLE-HEADED; ADDLE-PATED a.

Dull-witted; stupid. "The addle-brained Oberstein." Motley. Dull and addle-pated. Dryden.

ADDLE-PATEDNESS n.

See Affected, 5.

See Affiliated. [Obs.]

ADMITTED; ADMITTEDLY a. 2 definitions

Received as true or valid; acknowledged. -- Ad*mit"ted*ly adv.

Clouded; obscured. [R.]

Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- A*dopt"ed*ly, adv.

Burnt; adust. [Obs.] Howell.

AFFECTED p. 5 definitions

Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.] His affected Hercules. Chapman.

AFFECTEDLY adv. 2 definitions

In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality.

AFFECTEDNESS n.

AFFECTIONATED a.

Disposed; inclined. [Obs.] Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.

AFFLICTEDNESS n.

The state of being afflicted; affliction. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

AFFRIGHTEDLY adv.

With fright. Drayton.

AFFRONTEDLY adv.

Shamelessly. [Obs.] Bacon.