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to purchase stock in any fund or partnership. -- To buy on credit, to purchase, on a promise, in fact or in law, to make payment at a future day. -- To buy the refusal (of anything), to give a consideration for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future time.

Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [Obs.] Ten thousands of calamitous persons. South.

Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals.

XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.

Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement. A poor, miserable, captive thrall. Milton.

The state of a communty which permits promiseuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.

laces as a guide and protector; to matronize. Fortunately Lady Bell Finley, whom I had promised to chaperon, sent to excuse herself. Hannah More.

ank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter.

A garment for women, consisting of chemise and drawers united in one. [U. S.]

A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard. Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf. Drayton.

Quite certain. [Colloq.] I throught myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. Pope.

A miser or mean person.

To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. [Archaic.] Shak. Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected. Locke. To collect one's self, to recover from surprise, embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control.

The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. [Obs.] We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. Milton.

To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course. You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without commiting the honor of your sovereign. Junius. Any sudden assent to the proposal .…

- In comparison of, In comparison with, as compared with; in proportion to. [Archaic] "So miserably unpeopled in comparison of what it once was." Addison. -- Comparison of hands (Law), a mode of proving or disproving the genuineness of a signature or writing by comparing it with another proved or admitted to be genuin…

nother; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration. Womanly igenuity set to work by womanly compassion. Macaulay.

To have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with. Compassionates my pains, and pities me. Addison.

eof do compensate the heat of the day. Bacon. The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries. Prior.

oin in a secret design. We find them complotting together, and contriving a new scence of miseries to the Trojans. Pope.