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INSECUTION n.
A following after; close pursuit. [Obs.] Chapman.
INTERCUTANEOUS a.
Subcutaneous.
INTERLOCUTION n. 3 definitions
Interchange of speech; dialogue; conversation; conference.
INTERLOCUTOR n. 2 definitions
An interlocutory judgment or sentence.
INTERLOCUTORY a. 3 definitions
Consisting of, or having the nature of, dialogue; conversational. Interlocutory discourses in the Holy Scriptures. Fiddes.
INTERLOCUTRICE n.
A female interlocutor.
LOCUTION n.
Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression. " Stumbling locutions." G. Eliot. I hate these figures in locution, These about phrases forced by ceremony. Marston.
LOCUTORY n.
A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.
MALEXECUTION n.
Bad execution. D. Webster.
MESOSCUTUM n.
The scutum or dorsal plate of the middle thoracic segment of an insect. See Illust. of Butterfly.
MUSCULOCUTANEOUS a.
Pertaining both to muscles and skin; as, the musculocutaneous nerve.
NONEXECUTION n.
Neglect or failure of execution; nonperformance.
OBLOCUTOR n.
A disputer; a gainsayer. [Obs.] Bale.
OFFCUT n. 2 definitions
That which is cut off.
PERACUTE a.
Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever. [R.] Harvey.
PERCUTIENT a. 2 definitions
Striking; having the power of striking. -- n.
PERSECUTE v. 2 definitions
ip. Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. Matt. v. 44.
PERSECUTION n. 3 definitions
The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship. Persecution produces no sincere conviction. Paley.
PERSECUTOR n.
One who persecutes, or harasses. Shak.
PERSECUTRIX n.
A woman who persecutes.
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