Search the Dictionary

Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable). 2 Chron. ii. 8.

rnamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally.

That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable. I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply. Johnson.

Approval; approbation. [Obs.] Crabbe.

Without sympathy; unfavorably. To make the Bible as from the hand of God, and then to look at it aloof and with caution, is the worst of all impieties. I. Taylor.

fice, superiority, or distinction. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man. Shak.

Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. I. Taylor.

The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness.

A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation. Amende honorable(#). (Old French Law) A species of infamous punishment in which the offender, being led into court with a rope about his neck, and a lighted torch in his hand, begged pardon of his God, the court, etc. In popular language, the phrase now denot…

ation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation. [Now const. with sing. verb.] "An honorable amends." Addison. Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends. Shak.

The state of being amused; pleasurable excitement; that which amuses; diversion. His favorite amusements were architecture and gardening. Macaulay.

One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc.

e for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.

Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other. Crabb.

Not apodeictic; undemonstrable. [R.]

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison.

Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable. [Archaic] He wrought but some few hours of the day, and then would he seem very grave and ancient. Holland.

animadvert on him . . . if he had not used extreme severity in his judgment of the incomparable Shakespeare. Dryden.