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One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.

o produce courage, as contrasted with scientific physical determinism, is obvious. F. P. Cobbe.

ent manner. To stand diffidently against each other with their thoughts in battle array. Hobbes.

To render unprepared. [Obs.] Hobbes.

Subjugation. [Obs.] Hobbes.

Existing at all times without change; immutable. Hobbes believed the eternal truths which he opposed. Dryden. What are the eternal objects of poetry among all nations, and at all times M. Arnold.

izing; the state of being evangelized. The work of Christ's ministers is evangelization. Hobbes.

The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse. These robbers, however, were men who might have made out a strong case in exculpation of themselves. Southey.

ess in the earth. Jer. ix. 24. The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Ezek. xxii. 29.

rify, to clarify; as, to fine gold. It hath been fined and refined by . . . learned men. Hobbes.

Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.

One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. [Cant, U.S.]

A highwayman or robber on foot.

hority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber. Bacon.

Robbery; plunder; a pillaging.

Boast; a triumphing. [Obs.] Bp. Richardson. Internal gloriation or triumph of the mind. Hobbes.

See Gobbet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

rowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).

which signified no more than a private opinion, without reference to truth or falsehood. Hobbes.

One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.