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885 words match “RIDGE”

ADVENE v.
of it, though not essential. [R.] Where no act of the will advenes as a coefficient. Coleridge.
AFFECTIBLE a.
d. [R.] Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the creaturely, become affectible. Coleridge.
AGASP adv.
In a state of gasping. Coleridge.
AGGLOMERATIVE a.
eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge.
ALONE a.
others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18.
ALONG adv.
ghway. Numb. xxi. 22. He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. Coleridge.
ALTERITY n.
feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. Coleridge.
ALTITUDINARIAN a.
Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. [R.] Coleridge.
AMENABILITY n.
The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.
ANCHOR n. 2 definitions
chor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.
ANCHORAGE n.
Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.
ANDROGYNOUS; ANDROGYNAL a.
ale and female; hermaphroditic. Owen. The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous. Coleridge.
ANEAR prep.
Near. [R.] "It did not come anear." Coleridge. The measure of misery anear us. I. Taylor.
ANIMADVERSIVE a.
there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty. Coleridge.
ANIMALIZE v.
scious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.
ANONYMOUSNESS n.
The state or quality of being anonymous. Coleridge.
ANTICLIMAX n.
Anticlinal axis (Geol.), a line from which strata dip in opposite directions, as from the ridge of a roof. -- Anticlinal vertebra (Anat.), one of the dorsal vertebræ, which in many animals has an upright spine toward which the spines of the neighboring vertebræ are inclined.
ANTIPATHIST n.
One who has an antipathy. [R.] "Antipathist of light." Coleridge.
APERY n.
The practice of aping; an apish action. Coleridge.
APPARENCY n.
Apparentness; state of being apparent. Coleridge.
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