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The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world.

Pertaining to the literature of law.

An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored.

Of or pertaining to the Lepidoptera.

The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever. Leverage of a couple (Mech.), the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions. -- Leverage of a force, the perpendicular distance from the line in which a force acts upon a body to a poin…

a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies. " Liberal education." Macaulay. " A liberal tongue." Shak.

Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party.

A liberal.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.

The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity. That liberality is but cast away Which makes us borrow what we can not pay. Denham.

The act of liberalizing.

To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.

One who, or that which, liberalizes. Emerson.

In a liberal manner.

rom restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.

The act of liberating or the state of being liberated. This mode of analysis requires perfect liberation from all prejudged system. Pownall.

One who, or that which, liberates; a deliverer.

Tending, or serving, to liberate. [R.]

. An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general.

The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.