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o devise curious works. Ex. CCTV. 32. Devising schemes to realize his ambitious views. Bancroft.

disagreement; an objection; a cavil. Measures for terminating all local difficulties. Bancroft.

form what was covenanted. Milton. Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. Bancroft.

They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public. Bancroft.

by cold treatment; to discourage. A town meeting was convened to discountenance riot. Bancroft.

unjust. To get dishonest gain. Ezek. xxii. 27. The dishonest profits of men in office. Bancroft.

ions or arguments. To seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance. Bancroft.

as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune. The dissatisfied factions of the autocracy. Bancroft.

to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation. Chivalry had the vices of dissoluteness. Bancroft.

; characteristic; peculiar. The distinctive character and institutions of New England. Bancroft.

tumult. The disturbance was made to support a general accusation against the province. Bancroft.

lf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. Bancroft.

w; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture. A sagacity which divined the evil designs. Bancroft.

ce, or even the doubtful friend [i. e., one as to whose sincerity there may be doubts] Bancroft.

s; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance. Corruption lost nothing of its effrontery. Bancroft.

ice, or right of choosing; electoral. The independent use of their elective franchise. Bancroft.

paper. W. Irving. The embarrassments tom commerce growing out of the late regulations. Bancroft.

age; perquisites, fees, or salary. A long . . . enjoyment of the emoluments of office. Bancroft.

rusion. An unconstitutional encroachment of military power on the civil establishment. Bancroft.

the seeming contradiction of susceptibility to enthusiasm and calculating shrewdness. Bancroft.