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An electress. Bp. Burnet.

The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil. Bp. Burnet.

c does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil. It was the epidemical sin of the nation. Bp. Burnet.

l." Bacon. Promised faithfully to espouse his cause as soon as he got out of the war. Bp. Burnet.

One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity. T. Burnet.

One who takes exceptions. T. Burnet.

plains it; definition; inerpretation; sense. Different explanations [of the Trinity]. Bp. Burnet.

Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word. Bp. Burnet.

The sense given by an expositor. Bp. Burnet.

Foreign; alien. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

ents in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society. "Ladies of a high form." Bp. Burnet.

Marked with freckles; spotted. "The freckled trout." Dryden. The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover. Shak.

ely, by of. Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties. Bp. Burnet.

harbors men. Shak. The bare suspicion made it treason to harbor the person suspected. Bp. Burnet. Let not your gentle breast harbor one thought of outrage. Rowe.

pile. [Now Low or Humorous] A vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations. Bp. Burnet. I have noticed a heap of things in my life. R. L. Stevenson.

The consecrated wafer; the host. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. Bp. Burnet.

e marriage should only be dissolved for the future, without illegitimating the issue. Bp. Burnet.

diner had performed his promise to the queen of getting her illegitimation taken off. Bp. Burnet.

Not capacious; narrow; small; weak or foolish; as, an incapacious soul. Bp. Burnet. -- In`ca*pa"cious*ness, n.