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One who, or that which, strangles. "The very strangler of their amity." Shak.

n attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death. At this one stroke the man looked dead in law. Harte.

Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion. According to the usual style of dedications. C. Middleton.

The quality or state of being sublime; sublimity.

Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.

The acceptance of articles, or other tests tending to promote uniformity; esp. (Ch. of Eng.), formal assent to the Thirty-nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer, required before ordination.

Appearing as if a part were cut off at the extremity.

To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity. Sir T. Browne.

tist possible (sometimes in a bad sense); as, supreme love; supreme glory; supreme magnanimity; supreme folly. Each would be supreme within its own sphere, and those spheres could not but clash. De Quincey.

the form or dimensions of the several parts of a thing to each other; the union and conformity of the members of a work to the whole.

An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them.

The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.

gle. -- Tangent of an arc, a right line, as ta, touching the arc of a circle at one extremity a, and terminated by a line ct, passing from the center through the other extremity o.

Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.

ces, are constructed, both agreeably to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic sentiments and ideas.

Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper. To fall with dignity, with temper rise. Pope. Restore yourselves to your tempers, fathers. B. Jonson.

ines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum. Vesical tenesmus, a similar sensation as to the evacuation of urine, referred to the region of the bladder.

Affectation of sublimity; bombast. [Obs.] Bailey.

That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary. Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms, or boundaries. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the extremity; as, a terminal edge.