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To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters. The Arian doctrines were proscribed and anathematized in the famous Council of Nice. Waterland.

ion; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly. " Puffed with wonderful skill." Macaulay.

Squared; suited; correspondent. [Archaic] " A generical description quadrate to both." Harvey. Quadrate bone (Anat.), a bone between the base of the lower jaw and the skull in most vertebrates below the mammals. In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with the skull; in mammals it is represented by the malle…

. See Quarter, n., 1 (m) (Arch.) Gwilt. Quartering block, a block on which the body of a condemned criminal was quartered. Macaulay.

blood shall quench that fire. Shak. The supposition of the lady's death Will quench the wonder of her infamy. Shak.

A colorless liquid of a slightly pungent odor, C9H6N.CH3, first obtained as a condensation product of aldehyde and aniline, and regarded as a derivative of quinoline; -- called also methyl quinoline. [Written also chinaldine.]

n divided into very small parts ascending in the air, till, encountering the cold, it be condensed into clouds, and descends in drops. Ray. Fair days have oft contracted wind and rain. Milton.

Relation; proportion; conformity; correspondence; accord. 'T is obvious what rapport there is between the conceptions and languages in every country. Sir W. Temple. En` rap`port" ( Etym: [F.], in accord, harmony, or sympathy; having a mutual, especially a private, understanding; in mesmerism, in that relation of sympat…

The act or process of rarefying; the state of being rarefied; - - opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air.

s dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.

sing through it, tending to choke or diminish the current, or the similar influence of a condenser; inductive resistance. Reactance is measured in ohms. The reactance of a circuit is equal to the component of the impressed electro-motive force at right angles to the current divided by the current, that is, the componen…

A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.

To reflect; to ponder. [Obs.] Praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had read. Fuller.

The state or condition of being recrudescent. A recrudescence of barbarism may condemn it [land] to chronic poverty and waste. Duke of Argyll.

volatile portions are separated from the less volatile by the process of evaporation and condensation; a rectifier.

to set right; to emend; to revise. [R.] The common profit could she redress. Chaucer. In yonder spring of roses intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. Milton. Your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared. A. Hamilton.

To go over again; to repeat. [Obs.] To him therefore this wonder done refar. Fairfax.

on, a vessel filled with cold water, surrounding the worm, the vapor in which is thereby condensed.

One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.

The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet.