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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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BY-DEPENDENCE n.

An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak.

Designating furniture designed, or like that designed, by Thomas Chippendale, an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glue…

A compendium; an epitome; a summary. A compend and recapitulation of the Mosaical law. Bp. Burnet.

COMPENDIARIOUS a.

Short; compendious. [Obs.] Bailey.

To sum or collect together. [Obs.] Bp. King.

eneral principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized. More compendious and exeditious ways. Woodward. Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority -- that it be compendious, sententious, and delectable. Sir T. Elyot.

COMPENDIOUSLY n.

In a compendious manner. Compendiously exressed by the word chaos. Bentley.

COMPENDIOUSNESS n.

The state or quality of being compendious.

heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary. A short system or compendium of a sience. I. Watts.

DEPEND v. 6 definitions

to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above. And ever-living lamps depend in rows. Pope.

Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy. "Dependable friendships." Pope.

DEPENDANT; DEPENDANCE; DEPENDANCY n.

See Dependent, Dependence, Dependency.

DEPENDENCE n. 8 definitions

The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.

DEPENDENCY n. 4 definitions

State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust. Any long series of action, the parts of which have very much dependency each on the other. Sir J. Reynolds. So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the crown of England. Bacon.…

DEPENDENT a. 4 definitions

Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.

DEPENDENTLY adv.

In a dependent manner.

One who depends; a dependent.

DEPENDINGLY adv.

As having dependence. Hale.

To spend; to squander. See Dispend. [Obs.] Some noble men in Spain can despend Howell.

DISAPPENDENCY n.

A detachment or separation from a former connection. [R.]