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rmometer at 80º; goods sold at a cheap price; a country estimated at 10,000 square miles; life is short at the longest.

make, to cause, to act, etc.; as, to propitiate (to make propitious); to animate (to give life to).

The life principle, soul, or individual essence.

To make satisfaction for; to expiate. Or each atone his guilty love with life. Pope.

hed by efforts directed to the object. The highest pitch of perfection attainable in this life. Addison.

To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice with clemency.

try to take by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp. Without attempting his adversary's life. Motley.

Lifting up; raising; as, an attollent muscle. Derham.

A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law.

modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life. From whom the austere Etrurian virtue rose. Dryden.

Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline. The austerity of John the Baptist. Milton.

One who writers his own life or biography.

One who writes his own life; an autobiographer. [R.]

A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.

n; third stage. Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor. Fuller. Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge. Wordsworth.

Past the middle of life; in the third stage. An autumnal matron. Hawthorne. Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it proceeds southward, or when it passes the ~ point. -- ~= point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra.…

A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.

Pertaining to, or containing, auxesis; amplifying.

A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulæ. Math. Dict.

nwilling; reluctant. Averse alike to flatter, or offend. Pope. Men who were averse to the life of camps. Macaulay. Pass by securely as men averse from war. Micah ii. 8.