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Assurance. [Obs.] Shak.

e natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.

Insurance for a specified term providing for no payment to the insured except upon losses during the term, and becoming void upon its expiration.

The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance. Diogenes, one frosty morning, came into the market place,shaking, to show his tolerance. Bacon.

Insurance in which the benefits of the insurance are distributed upon the tontine principle. Under the old, or full tontine, plan, all benefits were forfeited on lapsed policies, on the policies of those who died within the tontine period only the face of the policy was paid without any share of the surplus, and the su…

d he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance. Acts. x. 10. My soul was ravished quite as in a trance. Spenser.

Wildcat insurance.

Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. I. Watts.

The act of ushering, or the state of being ushered in. [Obs.] Shaftesbury.

Putting in circulation; as, the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes.

Vociferation; noise; clamor. [R.] R. Browning.

An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.

ing to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet. Gibbon.

the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.

The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. The abstinence from…

One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.

Abstracted; absent in mind. "Abstract, as in a trance." Milton. An abstract idea (Metaph.), an idea separated from a complex object, or from other ideas which naturally accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated apart from its color or figure. -- Abstract terms, those which express abstract ideas, as be…

Unusual appearance or effect. [Obs.] Chaucer.

nt; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate. Beton . . . was accredited to the Court of France. Froude.