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See Premunitory.

To fortify beforehand; to guard against objection. [Obs.] Fotherby.

The act of fortifying or guarding against objections. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a premunire; as, a premunitory process.

Punishment. [R.] Mir. for Mag.

Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice. If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence. I. Taylor. We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand. Bagehot.

Punishing; tending to punishment; punitive. God . . . may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and punitory. A. Tucker.

To unite again; to join after separation or variance. Shak.

In a reunited manner.

A second uniting. [R.]

Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare.

Tribunician; tribunitial. [Obs.] Bacon.

Triunity; trinity. [Obs.] As for terms of trinity, triniunity, . . . and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions. Milton.

The quality or state of being triune; trinity. Dr. H. More.

culations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.

g withdrawn; withdrawal. A wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community. J. S. Mill.

A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.

Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary. Shak. Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton.…

To unite; to attach; to incorporate. [Obs.] Milton.