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To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate. [Archaic] Fuller.

To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge. [Archaic]

All Saints' Day, November 1st. [Archaic]

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. [Obs. or Archaic] Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning. Fuller.

Everywhere. [Archaic]

Persons supported by alms; almsmen. [Archaic] Holinshed.

titude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar. [Archaic] Almucanter staff, an ancient instrument, having an arc of fifteen degrees, formerly used at sea to take observations of the sun's amplitude at the time of its rising or setting, to find the variation of the compass.…

Always. [Archaic or Poetic] I would not live alway. Job vii. 16.

To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt. [Obs. or Archaic] The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. Milton.

To be astounded. [Archaic] B. Taylor.

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.

To near; to approach. [Archaic]

A minister or pastor of a church, as in the Seven Asiatic churches. [Archaic] Unto-the angel of the church of Ephesus write. Rev. ii. 1.

Ahungered; longing. [Archaic]

Nigh. [Archaic]

In the night time; at night. [Archaic] Does he hawk anights still Marston.

Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment. [Archaic] "Divine animadversions." Wesley.

Having the power of perceiving; percipient. [Archaic] Glanvill. I do not mean there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty. Coleridge.

To take cognizance judicially; to inflict punishment. [Archaic] Grew.

Anhilated. [Archaic] Swift.