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Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabiliary. Dunglision. A hard-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race. Lowell. He was constitutionally atrabilious and scornful. Froude.

Black, like ink; inky; atramental. [Obs.] Derham.

Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.

suitable for making ink. Sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink.

Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.

Not inverted; orthotropous.

Coal-black; very black.

Touching; bordering; contiguous. [Obs.] -- At*tig"u*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]

Matter pulverized by attrition.

Daring; spirited; adventurous. As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides Audacious. Milton.

In an audacious manner; with excess of boldness; impudently.

The quality of being audacious; impudence; audacity.

Full of augury; foreboding. [Obs.] "Augurous hearts." Chapman.

ndeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority. "Forms august." Pope. "August in visage." Dryden. "To shed that august blood." Macaulay. So beautiful and so august a spectacle. Burke. To mingle with a body so august. Byron.

Of or pertaining to Augustus Cæsar or to his times.

A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar.

Of or pertaining to St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in Northern Africa (b. 354 -- d. 430), or to his doctrines. Augustinian canons, an order of monks once popular in England and Ireland; -- called also regular canons of St. Austin, and black canons. -- Augustinian hermits or Austin friars, an order of friars establishe…

The doctrines held by Augustine or by the Augustinians.

In an august manner.

The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.