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o the evil designs and passions of another. Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition. Burke.

ho extols or praises, either by writing or speaking. If these panegyrists are in earnest. Burke.

Struck with a panic, or sudden fear. Burke.

y; talent; -- usually in the plural with a collective sense. "Men of considerable parts." Burke. "Great quickness of parts." Macaulay. Which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them. Shak.

ted to one's care; to embezzle. An oppressive, . . . rapacious, and peculating despotism. Burke.

ment. Every British subject . . . active in the discovery of peculations has been ruined. Burke.

Relating to money; monetary; as, a pecuniary penalty; a pecuniary reward. Burke.

Petty; insignificant. "The miserable remains of a peddling commerce." Burke.

omething ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural. "Mucky pelf." Spenser. "Paltry pelf." Burke. Can their pelf prosper, not got by valor or industry Fuller.

ission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing. The perennial existence of bodies corporate. Burke.

e; interchange. The violent convulsions and permutations that have been made in property. Burke.

luding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument. Burke.

e continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize. Addison. Burke.

irit of cabal, intrigue, and proselytism pervaded all their thoughts, words, and actions. Burke.

, pestiferous creatures begging alms." Evelyn. "Unwholesome and pestiferous occupations." Burke.

c.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote. Burke.

Plethoric. [R.] -- Ple*thor"ic*al*ly, adv. Burke.

The claw or talon of a bird of prey. Spenser. Burke.

reamble; introductory; contained or provided for in a preamble. "A preambulary tax." [R.] Burke.

repossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality. Burke.