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The capacity of living, or being distributed, over wide geographical limits; as, the viability of a species.

The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake.

articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.

d when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed.

Remote; distant; far. The contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God. Hammond.

To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate. I would not wish them to a fairer death. Shak. I wish it may not prove some ominous foretoken of misfortune to have met with such a miser as I am. Sir P. Sidney. Let them be…

incarnation; among those who reject a Trinity of persons, some one or all of the divine attributes personified. John i. 1. -- To eat one's words, to retract what has been said. -- To have the words for, to speak for; to act as spokesman. [Obs.] "Our host hadde the wordes for us all." Chaucer. -- Word blindness (Phys…

The sacred writings of the ancient Persian religion, attributed to Zoroaster, but chiefly of a later date.

A Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simon ben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century, a. d. Modern critics believe it to be a compilation of the 13th century. Encyc. Brit.

The representation of God, or of gods, in the form, or with the attributes, of the lower animals. To avoid the error of anthropomorphism, we fall into the vastly greater, and more absurd, error of zoömorphism. Mivart.