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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,095 words match “VERSE”

A POSTERIORI n.

facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

ed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.

ABECEDARIAN; ABECEDARY a.

hymns, etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet. Hook.

To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with from. [Obs.] "To abhor from those vices." Udall. Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law. Milton.

ACATALECTIC a. 2 definitions

Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse. -- n.

Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.

A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God.

One who denies the existence of the universe, or of a universe as distinct from God. G. H. Lewes.

One versed in acoustics. Tyndall.

ACROMONOGRAMMATIC a.

Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.

A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.

ACROTELEUTIC n.

The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to be sung by the people, by way of a response.

Pertaining to an adage; proverbial. "Adagial verse." Barrow.

An addition, or a thing added. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.

ADEPT n. 2 definitions

One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

An Adonic verse. Adonic verse, a verse consisting of a dactyl and spondee.

of; to outline; to shadow forth. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor.

her; to promote; to benefit; to profit. The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him. Fuller. What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away Luke ix. 25. To advantage one's self of, to avail…

Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic. [Archaic] Bp. King.

One versed in aëography: an aërologist.