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The extension of the advantages of university instruction by means of lectures and classes at various centers.

The state of being unnecessary; something unnecessary. [Obs.]

Not sitting well; unbecoming. [Obs.] "Unsitting words." Sir T. More.

A sitting up of a woman after her confinement, to receive and entertain her friends. [Obs.] To invite your lady's upsitting. Beau. & Fl.

Denoting usual or customary action. "The usitative aorist." Alford.

An enlargement or swelling in a vessel, fiber, or the like; a varix; as, the varicosities of nerve fibers.

Colloq. contr. of University.

The quality or state of being venous.

Quality or state of being ventose; windiness; hence, vainglory; pride. Bacon.

lixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.

Vitiosity. [R.]

e. God made two great lights . . . To illuminate the earth and rule the day In their vicissitude, and rule the night. Milton.

Subject to vicissitudes. Donne.

Full of, or subject to, changes.

State of being villous.

The quality or state of being vinous.

ce of religious character; sentimentalism. This famous passage . . . over which the virtuosity of modern times, rejoicing in evil, has hung so fondly. C. Kingsley.

The quality or state of being viscous.

To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

Liable or subject to be visited or inspected. "All hospitals built since the Reformation are visitable by the king or lord chancellor." Ayliffe.