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n exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty. [Obs.] Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason. South. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Shak.…

in the last part of a race course. The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. L'Estrange.

- Next door to, near to; bordering on. A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult. L'Estrange. -- Out of doors, or Without doors, and, colloquially, Out doors, out of the house; in open air; abroad; away; lost. His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors. Locke. -- To lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's…

One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.

lf asleep; to be drowsy. If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. L'Estrange.

v. 4. He laid down his pipe, and cast his net, which brought him a very great draught. L'Estrange.

ll along Drew him through dirt and mire without remorse. Spenser. He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. Sir W. Scott. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats James ii. 6. The arrow is now drawn to the head. Atterbury.

Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.

To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel. Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel. L'Estrange.

To become small; to diminish in size. Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf. Beaconsfield.

A contraction for even. See Even. I have e'en done with you. L'Estrange.

em. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church. It became estranged from the Western, or Roman, Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque, and a separation, begun in the latter part of the 9th century, became final in 1054. The Eastern Church consists of…

In a strange, unearthly way.

Sudden; hasty. [Obs.] "Ejaculatory repentances, that take us by fits and starts." L'Estrange.

o lived at an earlier period; a predecessor. Carry your head as your elders have done. L'Estrange.

Mutual dealings; intercourse. [Obs.] The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.

at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained unawares. Heb. xiii. 2.

Admission into service; service. Some band of strangers in the adversary's entertainment. Shak.

Deviating from a wise of the common course in opinion or conduct; eccentric; strange; queer; as, erratic conduct.

To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive. "Excogitate strange arts." Stirling. This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory. Whewell.