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7,739 words match “ENS”

ANENST; ANENT prep. 2 definitions

Over against; as, he lives anent the church.

The act of appending. [Obs.]

APPREHENSIBIITY n.

The quality of being apprehensible. [R.] De Quincey.

APPREHENSIBLE a.

Capable of being apprehended or conceived. "Apprehensible by faith." Bp. Hall. -- Ap`*pre*hen"si*bly, adv.

APPREHENSION n. 6 definitions

The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne.

APPREHENSIVE a. 5 definitions

o do so; apt; discerning. It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk. Hawthorne.

APPREHENSIVELY adv.

In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.

APPREHENSIVENESS n.

The quality or state of being apprehensive.

ASCENSION n. 3 definitions

le ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day.

Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon. Ascensional difference (Astron.), the difference between oblique and right ascension; -- used chiefly as expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six…

ASCENSIVE a. 2 definitions

Augmentative; intensive. Ellicott.

A plant of the genus Geum, esp. Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.

See Bimonthly, a. [Obs. or R.]

Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive. The debt immense of endless gratitude So burdensome. Milton.

BURSCHENSCHAFT n. 2 definitions

In Germany, any of various associations of university students formed (the original one at Jena in 1815) to support liberal ideas, or the organization formed by the affiliation of the local bodies. The organization was suppressed by the government in 1819, but was secretly revived, and is now openly maintained as a soc…

A plan proposed to the Pope in 1891 by P. P. Cahensly, a member of the German parliament, to divide the foreign-born population of the United States, for ecclesiastical purposes, according to European nationalities, and to appoint bishops and priests of like race and speaking the same language as the majority of the me…

Belonging to a camp. Sir T. Browne.

Castrensial. [R.]

CENSE n. 4 definitions

A census; -- also, a public rate or tax. [Obs.] Howell. Bacon.