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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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ARITHMETICIAN n.

One skilled in arithmetic.

ARITHMOMANCY n.

ARITHMOMETER n.

A calculating machine.

ARSENOPYRITE n.

or and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron; -- also called arsenical pyrites and mispickel.

Inflammation of an artery or arteries. Dunglison.

ARTHRITIC; ARTHRITICAL a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to arthritis; gouty. Cowper.

Any inflammation of the joints, particularly the gout.

ARTHROCHONDRITIS n.

Chondritis of a joint.

One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [Gen. iv. 3, 4.]

ASPERITY n. 5 definitions

Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness. "The asperities of dry bodies." Boyle.

ATTRITE a. 2 definitions

Repentant from fear of punishment; having attrition of grief for sin; -- opposed to contrite.

ATTRITION n. 3 definitions

e act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion. Effected by attrition of the inward stomach. Arbuthnot.

Matter pulverized by attrition.

Having lobes like the ear; auriculate.

AUSTERITY n. 3 definitions

Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline. The austerity of John the Baptist. Milton.

AUTHORITATIVE a. 2 definitions

Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow.

AUTHORITY n. 8 definitions

son in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court. Thus can the demigod, Authority, Make us pay down for our offense. Shak. By what authority doest thou these things Matt. xxi. 23.…

Blue carbonate of copper; blue malachite.

BARBARITY n. 4 definitions

Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. Treating Christians with a barbarity which would have shocked the very Moslem. Macaulay.

Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins.…