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or effect. Our common forms of compliment are almost all of them extravagant hyperboles. Blair. Somebody has said of the boldest figure in rhetoric, the hyperbole, that it lies without deceiving. Macaulay.

of improvement. South. Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties. Blair.

It is not from an inability to discover what they ought to do, that men err in practice. Blair.

ticable or impossible; irremediably. "Incurably diseased." Bp. Hall. "Incurably wicked." Blair.

which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind. The indelicacy of English comedy. Blair. Your papers would be chargeable with worse than indelicacy; they would be immoral. Addison.

ed, inelegant. Milton. It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and inelegant. Blair.

describable; unutterable; as, inexpressible grief or pleasure. "Inexpressible grandeur." Blair. In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood. Milton.

In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly. Blair.

d sophistical are incomparably more so. I. Taylor. Such is the infatuation of self-love. Blair.

ness; skill in devising or combining. All the means which human ingenuity has contrived. Blair.

no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild. "Inhospitable wastes." Blair. -- In*hos"pi*ta*ble*mess, n. -- In*hos"pi*ta*bly, adv.

d knowledge of the world, is commonly no other thing than dissimulation and insincerity. Blair.

nce; an insurer; an underwriter. [Obs.] Dryden. hose bold insurancers of deathless fame. Blair.

One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer. See 3d Jack, n. Christie . . . the laird's chief jackman. Sir W. Scott.

Pasture; feed. See Lair. [Obs.] Spenser.

A concealed hiding place; a burrow; a lair; a hole.

To make mouths at. [R.] R. Blair.

lessness. remarking his beauties, ... I must also point out his negligences and defects. Blair.

ms of peace yet none Vouchsafed or sought. Milton. None of their productions are extant. Blair.

r the symptoms of fever; -- used also figuratively. Holland. "A refrigerant to passion." Blair.