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ity. Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners. Hawthorne.

A precedent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent.

Spontaneous generation.

Hypnotism of one's self by concentration of the attention on some object or idea.

A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulæ. Math. Dict.

Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or admiration.

ch is averred; affirmation; positive assertion. Signally has this averment received illustration in the course of recent events. I. Taylor.

One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.

Advice; opinion; deliberation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Advisement; observation; deliberation. [Obs.]

The act of flying; flight; evaporation. [Obs.]

Evidence; declaration. [Obs.] The sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. Shak.

The act of avouching; positive declaration. [Obs.] Milton.

An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles. Hume.

A tearing asunder; a forcible separation. The avulsion of two polished superficies. Locke.

Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops. Wharton.

Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive. Heaven's awful Monarch. Milton.

th, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."

passing through the center about which it vibrates, and perpendicular to the plane of vibration. -- Axis of polarization, the central line around which the prismatic rings or curves are arranged. Brewster. -- Axis of revolution (Descriptive Geom.), a straight line about which some line or plane is revolved, so that…

In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen.