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systematic effort to obtain votes, subscribers, etc. No previous canvass was made for me. Burke.

rson of large property, which is employed in business. The expenditure of the capitalist. Burke.

To take prisoner; to capture. Their inhabitans slaughtered and captived. Burke.

One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs. [R.] Burke.

us, as our cause is just. Shak. The part they take against me is from zeal to the cause. Burke. Efficient cause, the agent or force that produces a change or redult. -- Final cause, the end, design, or object, for which anything is done. -- Formal cause, the elements of a conception which make the conception or the…

to outline; to indicate; to plan. [Colloq.] "I shall pursue the plan I have chalked out." Burke.

a channel to convey to the National assembly such matter as may import that body to know. Burke.

One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector. Jer. Taylor. The chastiser of the rich. Burke.

o curb. So many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression. Burke.

o foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle. To cherish virtue and humanity. Burke.

edings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior. To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.

lish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author. Burke.

One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector. Burke.

for ages upon two principles -- . . . the spirit of a gentleman, and spirit of religion. Burke

nd the rest of his clan may hoot me. Smolett. The whole clan of the enlightened among us. Burke.

Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy. "A clerical education." Burke.

tone. He was no great clerk, but he was perfectly well versed in the interests of Europe. Burke.

Of or pertaining to a client. A dependent and cliental relation. Burke. I sat down in the cliental chair. Dickens.

or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics. Burke.

land are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and opression. Burke.