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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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4,332 words match “EVER”

FEVEROUS a. 3 definitions

Affected with fever or ague; feverish. His heart, love's feverous citadel. Keats.

FEVEROUSLY adv.

Feverishly. [Obs.] Donne.

See Fever root, under Fever.

Feverish. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

FOREVER adv. 2 definitions

Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally.

One who, or that which, grieves.

HOWEVER adv. 3 definitions

In whetever manner, way, or degree. However yet they me despise and spite. Spenser. Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault. Shak.

HOWSOEVER conj. 2 definitions

In what manner soever; to whatever degree or extent; however. I am glad he's come, howsoever he comes. Shak.

IMPERSEVERANT a.

Not persevering; fickle; thoughtless. [Obs.]

Incapable of being severed; indivisible; inseparable. De Quincey.

The state or quality of being irreverent; want of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior.

Irreverent. [Obs.] Immodest speech, or irreverend gesture. Strype.

Not reverent; showing a want of reverence; expressive of a want of veneration; as, an irreverent babbler; an irreverent jest.

IRREVERENTLY adv.

In an irreverent manner.

IRREVERSIBILITY n.

The state or quality of being irreversible; irreversibleness.

IRREVERSIBLE a. 2 definitions

Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine.

IRREVERSIBLE STEERING GEAR n.

n they strike an obstacle side ways, but easily controlled by the hand wheel or steering lever.

IRREVERSIBLENESS n.

The state or quality of being irreversible.

IRREVERSIBLY adv.

In an irreversible manner.