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without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger insignificantly fierce." Cowper.

quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency.

One who overrates the importance of the understanding. [R.] Bacon.

the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.

Full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse. I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education. Felton.

Supreme; highest in degree; utmost. Contending for principles of the last importance. R. Hall .

ything else; of the same height; on the same line or plane; on the same footing; of equal importance; -- followed by with, sometimes by to. Young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone. Shak. Everything lies level to our wish. Shak.

to slight; to disregard. -- To set light by, to undervalue; to slight; to treat as of no importance; to despise.

Small in dignity, power, or importance; not great; insignificant; contemptible. When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes I Sam. xv. 17.

Low in rank or social importance. One common right the great and lowly claims. Pope.

To increase the importance of; to augment the esteem or respect in which one is held. On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel. Joshua iv. 14.

Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance; as, an affair of magnitude. The magnitude of his designs. Bp. Horsley. Apparent magnitude (Opt.), the angular breadth of an object viewed as measured by the angle which it subtends at the eye of the observer; - - called also apparent diameter. -- Magnitude of…

Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc. Our main interest is to be happy as we can. Tillotson.

ence. -- To make no doubt, to have no doubt. -- To make no matter, to have no weight or importance; to make no difference. -- To make oath (Law), to swear, as to the truth of something, in a prescribed form of law. -- To make of. (a) To understand or think concerning; as, not to know what to make of the news. (b) T…

The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants.

Importance; as, the materiality of facts.

Affair worthy of account; thing of consequence; importance; significance; moment; -- chiefly in the phrases what matter no matter, and the like. A prophet some, and some a poet, cry; No matter which, so neither of them lie. Dryden.

A genus of grasses (Melica) of little agricultural importance.

Denoting and extraordinary degree or quality in respect of size, character, importance, consequences, etc. "A mighty famine." Luke xv.

Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.