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nd missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery. Blackstone. Wharton. Practically, however, the word assault is used to include the battery. Mozley & W.

A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things; as, a political assemblage; an assemblage of ideas.

Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

Asserting that a thing is; -- opposed to problematical and apodeictical.

agistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors. Mozley & W.

Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions. E. Darwin.

Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.

An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star- shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica.

Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty.

In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the political doctrines of the leaders of the American Revolution and the speculations of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine represented the movement in America.

Pertaining to a royal court. Ecclesiastical wealth and aulic dignities. Landor. Aulic council (Hist.), a supreme court of the old German empire; properly the supreme court of the emperor. It ceased at the death of each emperor, and was renewed by his successor. It became extinct when the German empire was dissolved, in…

Authentically.

Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy. Barlow.

Self-moving; moving automatically.

The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

Fear of one's self; fear of being egotistical. [R.] Hare.

Acting or moving automatically by means of compressed air.

Pertaining to autopsy; autoptical. [Obs.]

ble if it keeps in steady poise by virtue of its shape and proportions alone; it is automatically stable if it keeps in steady poise by means of self-operative mechanism.

ean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10.