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Want or neglect of observance; inobservance. Whitlock.

Not obtrusive; not presuming; modest. -- Un`ob*tru"sive*ly, adv. -- Un`ob*tru"sive*ness, n.

antity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.

tuous cars, accompanied his march. Glover. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir P. Sidney. He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels. Macaulay.

A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx. The affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

One of the Mohammedan nobility of Afghanistan and Scinde.

A purple color in a nobleman's escutcheon, or coat of arms.

e the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils. Do the strings answer to thy noble hand Dryden.

statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.

eing near; approach; also, the result of approximating. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature. I. Taylor.

held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings. -- n.

chy. The aristocracy of Venice hath admitted so many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach. Swift.

One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble.

Of or pertaining to an aristocracy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men; as, an aristocratic constitution.

hus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers. A gallant array of nobles and cavaliers. Prescott.

se, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.

rnment of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.

nspiring belief or confidence. I dare assure thee that no enemy Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus. Shak.

An Anglo-Saxon prince or nobleman; esp., the heir apparent or a prince of the royal family. [Written also Adeling and Ætheling.]

To unite in making. [Obs. & R.] The four elements . . . have atoned A noble league. Ford.