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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,182 words match “ITER”

OBITER adv.
In passing; incidentally; by the way. Obiter dictum (Law), an incidental and collateral opinion uttered by a judge. See Dictum, n., 2(a).
OBLITERATE v. 3 definitions
o wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity. The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated. W. Black.
OBLITERATION n.
The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction. Sir. M. Hale.
OBLITERATIVE a.
Tending or serving to obliterate.
OXBITER n.
The cow blackbird. [Local, U. S.]
PLAITER n.
One who, or that which, plaits.
PLAYWRITER n.
A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
PLURILITERAL a. 2 definitions
A pluriliteral word.
PROHIBITER n.
One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.
PULPITER n.
A preacher. [Obs.]
QUADRILITERAL a.
Consisting of four letters.
QUINQUELITERAL a.
Consisting of five letters.
RE-REITERATE v.
To reiterate many times. [R.] "My re-reiterated wish." Tennyson.
RECITER n.
One who recites; also, a book of extracts for recitation.
RECONNOITER; RECONNOITRE v. 2 definitions
To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations.
RECRUITER n.
One who, or that which, recruits.
REITER n.
A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
REITERANT a.
Reiterating. [R.] Mrs. Browning.
REITERATE v. 2 definitions
To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat. That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation. Milton. You never spoke what did become you less Than this; which to reiterate were sin. Shak.
REITERATEDLY adv.
Repeatedly.
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