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376 words match “HOOKER”

ENCROACH v.
e duty and office of another. South. Superstition, . . . a creeping and encroaching evil. Hooker. Exclude the encroaching cattle from thy ground. Dryden.
ENCUMBER v.
mind is encumbered with useless learning. Not encumbered with any notable inconvenience. Hooker.
ENFORCE v.
To prove; to evince. [R.] Hooker.
ENJOIN v.
To join or unite. [Obs.] Hooker.
ENTOMB v.
To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume. Hooker.
ERECT a. 2 definitions
Watchful; alert. Vigilant and erect attention of mind. Hooker.
ESTRANGE v.
ly evidenced. Glanvill. Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker.
ETERNAL n.
One of the appellations of God. Law whereby the Eternal himself doth work. Hooker.
EVACUATION n.
Abolition; nullification. [Obs.] Hooker. Evacuation day, the anniversary of the day on which the British army evacuated the city of New York, November 25, 1783.
EVERY a.
one. Cf. Each. [Obs.] "Every of your wishes." Shak. Daily occasions given to every of us. Hooker. Every each, every one. [Obs.] "Every each of them hath some vices." Burton.. -- Every now and then, at short intervals; occasionally; repeatedly; frequently. [Colloq.]
EVITABLE a.
A voidable. [R.] Hooker.
EXAGITATE v.
To satirize; to censure severely. [Obs.] Hooker.
EXAMPLARY a.
Serving for example or pattern; exemplary. [Obs.] Hooker.
EXCELLENCY n.
ency is over Israel. Ps. lxviii. 34. Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency. Hooker.
EXCLAMATION n.
as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc. Exclamations against abuses in the church. Hooker. Thus will I drown your exclamations. Shak. A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion. Trench.
EXECRABLE a.
; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch. "Execrable pride." Hooker. -- Ex"e*cra*ble*ness, n. -- Ex"e*cra*bly, adv.
EXIGENCE n.
Exigency. Hooker.
EXORBITANT a.
. . . [were] inured with causes exorbitant, and such as their laws had not provided for. Hooker.
EXPEDITE a.
Free of impediment; unimpeded. To make the way plain and expedite. Hooker.
EXULCERATE v.
To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame. [Obs.] Minds exulcerated in themselves. Hooker.
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