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762 words match “LIB”

GLIBBERY a. 2 definitions
Slippery; changeable. [Obs.] My love is glibbery; there is no hold on't. Marston.
GLIBLY adv.
In a glib manner; as, to speak glibly.
GLIBNESS n.
The quality of being glib.
GULLIBLE a.
Easily gulled; that may be duped. -- Gul"li*bii`i*ty, n. Burke.
HALIBUT n.
e, weighing more than three hundred pounds. It is an important food fish. [Written also holibut.]
HOLIBUT n.
See Halibut.
ILLIBERAL a. 3 definitions
Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid. "A thrifty and illiberal hand." Mason.
ILLIBERALISM n.
Illiberality. [R.]
ILLIBERALITY n.
The state or quality of being illiberal; narrowness of mind; meanness; niggardliness. Bacon.
ILLIBERALIZE v.
To make illiberal.
ILLIBERALLY adv.
In a illiberal manner, ungenerously; uncharitably; parsimoniously.
ILLIBERALNESS n.
The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
INDELIBERATE a.
Done without deliberation; unpremeditated. [Obs.] -- In`de*lib"er*ate*ly, adv. [Obs.]
INDELIBERATED a.
Indeliberate. [Obs.]
INDELIBILITY n.
The quality of being indelible. Bp. Horsley.
INDELIBLE a. 2 definitions
d away, blotted out, or effaced; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten; as, indelible characters; an indelible stain; an indelible impression on the memory.
INFALLIBILIST n.
One who accepts or maintains the dogma of papal infallibility.
INFALLIBILITY n.
The quality or state of being infallible, or exempt from error; inerrability. Infallibility is the highest perfection of the knowing faculty. Tillotson. Papal infallibility (R. C. Ch.), the dogma that the pope can not, when acting in his official character of supreme pontiff, err in defining a doctrine of Christian fai…
INFALLIBLE a. 3 definitions
Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable. Dryden.
INFALLIBLENESS n.
The state or quality of being infallible; infallibility. Bp. Hall.
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