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ty of having a little or ignoble mind; pettiness; meanness; -- opposed to magnanimity. De Quincey.

See Pasquin. [R.]

A northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of Pegasus.

Same as Quindecylic.

An Algonquin tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Illinois.

. The ambition and perfidy of tyrants. Macaulay. His perfidy to this sacred engagement. DeQuincey.

or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution. "To describe by enigmatic periphrases." De Quincey.

nic, and is a remedy for malarial diseases. This property is due to several alkaloids, as quinine, cinchonine, etc., and their compounds; -- called also Jesuit's bark, and cinchona. See Cinchona.

a dunce. Pope. The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. De Quincey. A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition. G. Eliot.

To act as a pettifogger; to use contemptible tricks. De Quincey.

A nitrogenous hydrocarbon base, C13H9N, analogous to phenanthrene and quinoline.

d by the decomposition of phlorizin, and formerly used to some extent as a substitute for quinine.

A yellow crystalline substance having a peculiar unpleasant odor, resembling the quinones, and obtained from beechwood tar and coal tar, as also by the oxidation of xylidine; -- called also xyloquinone.

Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad. "Piacular pollution." De Quincey.

The quality or state of being piacular; criminality; wickedness. De Quincey.

eautiful and the sublime It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. De Quincey. -- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv. -- Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.

up piques and displeasures. Dr. H. More. Wars had arisen . . . upon a personal pique. De Quincey.

A zodiacal constellation, including the first point of Aries, which is the vernal equinoctial point; the Fish.

ocate. -- Platonic year (Astron.), a period of time determined by the revolution of the equinoxes, or the space of time in which the stars and constellations return to their former places in respect to the equinoxes; -- called also great year. This revolution, which is caused by the precession of the equinoxes, is acc…

The quality of being plausible; speciousness. To give any plausibility to a scheme. De Quincey.