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from laws, authorities, and the like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs. Johnson. -- Artificial classification (Science), an arrangement based on superficial characters, and not expressing the true natural relations species; as, "the artificial system" in botany, which is the same as the Linnæan syste…

Artificial. [Obs.] Johnson.

To make Aryan (a language, or in language). K. Johnston.

descend. Higher yet that star ascends. Bowring. I ascend unto my father and your father. John xx. 17.

that forsake thee shall be ashamed. Jer. xvii. 13. I began to be ashamed of sitting idle. Johnson. Enough to make us ashamed of our species. Macaulay. An ashamed person can hardly endure to meet the gaze of those present. Darwin.

me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John xv. 7.

s no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson.

of aspiring of a ardently desiring; strong wish; high desire. "Aspirations after virtue." Johnson. Vague aspiration after military renown. Prescott.

power of assailing; attack; assault. [R.] His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.

o cause a resemblance between. Sir M. Hale. To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. John Bright. Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all objects. Cowper.

ler [was] killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance, . . . John Cavendish. Fuller.

entally linked or associated with a thing. Words . . . must owe their powers association. Johnson. Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned Coleridge.

A patch; an addition; a piece put on. [Obs.] John Lewis (1731).

9. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. 1 John iii. 19.

The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. [Obs.] Johnson.

The state of being worn. Johnson.

A species of crowfoot. Johnson.

Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity. Johnson.

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

an editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory every people arises from its authors. Johnson.