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Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery.

in the perpetration of a crime, whether by advice or by assistance in the execution; complicity.

Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale. They were plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them. Porteus. O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's e…

The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity.

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; - - often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed. Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God. Judg. xviii. 5. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John xv. 7.…

The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation. Longfellow.

Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity. Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners. Hawthorne.

A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen. Thackeray.

ss of the head; baldness of style. This gives to their syntax a peculiar character of simplicity and baldness. W. D. Whitney.

the bar, and undertake the public trial of causes, as distinguished from an attorney or solicitor. See Attorney. [Eng.]

child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

Illicit intercourse; fornication. Shak.

Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.

r and figure, causing delight in the beholder. Locke. The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole. Wordsworth. The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that such is the principle of beauty. Coleridge.…

n sea bathing, or in abstinence from alcoholic beverages. -- To believe on, to accept implicitly as an object of religious trust or obedience; to have faith in.

Solicitation; supplication. [Obs. or Poetic] Shak.

One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald. Burke.

To esteem or account happy; to felicitate. The nations shall bless themselves in him. Jer. iv. 3.

Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven. Reverenced like a blessed saint. Shak. Cast out from God and blessed vision. Milton.

The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God. The assurance of a future blessedness. Tillotson. Single blessedness, the unmarried state. "Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness." Shak.