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ed away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [Obs.] Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.

Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope.

Added; additional. [Obs.] An ascriptitious and supernumerary God. Farindon.

Asphaltic.

is body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty.

Relating to attitude.

One who attitudinizes; a posture maker.

A practicing of attitudes; posture making.

To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose. Maria, who is the most picturesque figure, was put to attitudinize at the harp. Hannah More.

One who practices attitudes.

A salt formed by the combination of azotous, or nitrous, acid with a base; a nitrite. [R.]

A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.

A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.

Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues.

To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle. [Obs.] Carlyle.

a containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See Mica.

dent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty.

The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.

A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.

A basic sulphate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.