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nsion; in conception; not in reality. Two faculties . . . notionally or really distinct. Norris.

neself), is quite a modern form. In Elizabethan English we find a man's self=one's self. Morris.

tue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively. Norris.

ing; to shoot beyond. Bacon. Men are resolved never to outshoot their forefathers' mark. Norris.

Capable of being participated or shared. [R.] Norris.

ence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up. "Pinioned up by formal rules of state." Norris.

cuted act too; the positiveness of sins of omission is in the habitude of the will only. Norris.

efiguring, or the state of being prefigured. A variety of prophecies and prefigurations. Norris.

To cut off; to abstract. [Obs.] Norris.

The quality or state of being primary, or first in time, in act, or in intention. Norris.

esign or tendency; meaning; import; tenor. The whole scope and purport of that dialogue. Norris. With a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell. Shak.

The act of adverting to again, or of reviewing. [R.] Norris.

ore bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt whether the corruptions in our language have not equaled its refinements. Swift.

ing or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.

ng settled again; as, the resettlement of lees. The resettlement of my discomposed soul. Norris.

ition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things; habitude. [Obs.] Norris.

Having power to diffuse itself; diffusing itself. Norris.

Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will. Norris.

le; judicious. [R.] "Senseful speech." Spenser. "Men, otherwise senseful and ingenious." Norris.

as shattered; his hopes were shattered. A man of a loose, volatile, and shattered humor. Norris.