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518 words match “COLE”

ULTIMATE a.
timate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can not rationally contradict. Coleridge.
UNDERHANDED a.
rsely populated. Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is much underhanded now. Coleridge.
UNDERSTANDING n.
law of unity; and in its most comprehensive meaning it includes even simple apprehension. Coleridge.
UNHAND v.
the hand; to let go. Hold off! unhand me, gray beard loon! Eftsoons his hand dropped he. Coleridge.
UNICITY n.
e strive not to express, for that is impossible, but to designate by the nearest analogy. Coleridge.
UNIVERSALIZE v.
To make universal; to generalize. Coleridge.
UNRELIABLE a.
ble. -- Un`re*li"a*ble*ness, n. Alcibiades . . . was too unsteady, and (according to Mr. Coleridge's coinage) "unreliable;" or perhaps, in more correct English, too "unrelyuponable." De Quincey.
UNSENSUALIZE v.
To elevate from the domain of the senses; to purify. Coleridge.
UNTENANT v.
To remove a tenant from. [R.] Coleridge.
UPBUOYANCE n.
The act of buoying up; uplifting. [R.] Coleridge.
UPRIST n.
of Uprise. Uprose. Chaucer. Nor dim nor red, like God's own head The glorious sun uprist. Coleridge.
UPTHUNDER v.
To send up a noise like thunder. [R.] Coleridge.
USUFRUCTUARY a.
aces bequeathed by Christ to his church, as the usufructuary property of all its members. Coleridge.
VALETUDINARIAN a.
g to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm. My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach. Coleridge. The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue. Macaulay.
VERBARIAN a.
Of or pertaining to words; verbal. [R.] Coleridge.
VERTIGINATE a.
Turned round; giddy. [R.] Coleridge.
VOICEFUL a.
cal; sounding. Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. Coleridge.
VULGARISM n.
risms, or what we now call "slang," which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. Coleridge.
WARMTHLESS a.
Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold. [R.] Coleridge.
WARP v.
twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise. The planks looked warped. Coleridge. Walter warped his mouth at this To something so mock solemn, that I laughed. Tennyson.
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