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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



156 words match “BURNET”

INDECENCE n.
See Indecency. [Obs.] "An indecence of barbarity." Bp. Burnet.
INDIGESTEDNESS n.
The state or quality of being undigested; crudeness. Bp. Burnet.
INDISPENSABLE a.
ation; not subject to release or exemption. [R.] The law was moral and indispensable. Bp. Burnet.
INDUCT v.
or, when inducted into that dignity, took an oath not to alienate any of their lands. Bp. Burnet.
INEXPEDIENT a.
other. If it was not unlawful, yet it was highly inexpedient to use those ceremonies. Bp. Burnet.
INFAMY n.
afflicted queen would not yield, and said she would not . . . submit to such infamy. Bp. Burnet.
INSEPARABLENESS n.
The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparability. Bp. Burnet.
INSTAURATION n.
enewal; repair; renovation; renaissance. Some great catastrophe or . . . instauration. T. Burnet.
INSTRUMENTALITY n.
thing used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense in a new instrumentality. J. H. Newman.
INTERLINING n.
Correction or alteration by writing between the lines; interlineation. Bp. Burnet.
INTIMATION n.
ntioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him. Bp. Burnet.
INVESTURE n.
Investiture; investment. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.
JUDICIARY a.
ng to courts of judicature, or legal tribunals; judicial; as, a judiciary proceeding. Bp. Burnet.
LATITUDINARIAN n.
and upon this, men of narrow thoughts fastened upon them the name of latitudinarians. Bp. Burnet.
LEASING n.
ies or libels upon the personal character of the sovereign, his court, or his family. Bp. Burnet.
LOVER n.
has a strong liking for anything, as books, science, or music. "A lover of knowledge." T. Burnet.
LUMINOUS a.
r reflecting light; brilliant; bright; as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color. Fire burneth wood, making it . . . luminous. Bacon. The mountains lift . . . their lofty and luminous heads. Longfellow.
MANAGERY n.
Husbandry; economy; frugality. Bp. Burnet.
MERCURY n.
as so full of mercury that he could not fix long in any friendship, or to any design. Bp. Burnet.
ODD a.
Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made, it was destroyed in a deluge. T. Burnet. There are yet missing of your company Some few odd lads that you remember not. Shak.
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