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Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.

Neglect or failure to pay.

Neglect or failure to perform.

Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.

Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.

Neglect of rendition; the not rendering what is due. The nonrendition of a service which is due. S. E. Dwight.

A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a stopping of the suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff, either because he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground tha…

Neglect of using; failure to use. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Neglect or omission to use an easement or franchise or to assert a right. Kent.

No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances.

The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty. The most natural division of all offenses is into those of omission and those of commission. Addison.

To pass by; to forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect. Her father omitted nothing in her education that might make her the most accomplished woman of her age. Addison.

The act of omitting, or the state of being omitted; forbearance; neglect. Shak.

ing omnipotent; almighty power; hence, one who is omnipotent; the Deity. Will Omnipotence neglect to save The suffering virtue of the wise and brave Pope.

to miss or omit in looking; hence, to refrain from bestowing notice or attention upon; to neglect; to pass over without censure or punishment; to excuse. The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. Acts xvii. 30 (Rev. Ver. ) They overlook truth in the judgments they pass. Atterbury. The pardoning and overlooking o…

To omit or neglect seeing. Spenser.

To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond; to omit; to neglect; as, to overslip time or opportunity.

To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass.

A break or paragraph in writing. He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe. Locke.

c exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music.