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xpurgate. My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places. Spectator.

Relating to the chair or office of a teacher. [Obs.]

To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.

Having celebrity; distinguished; renowned. Celebrated for the politeness of his manners. Macaulay.

The office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri.

An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.

Covered with wax.

To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

A salt of chloric acid; as, chlorate of potassium.

See Aurochloride.

To tame. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a rotary or circular motion. Ray.

Having cirri along the margin of a part or organ.

A salt of citric acid.

Shaped like a lattice; cancellate. Gray.

Belonging to the Coelentra. -- n.

See Collaborator.

The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.

Colored. [Obs.] Ray.

To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect of affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Su…