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1,912 words match “VAT”

INOBSERVATION n.
Neglect or want of observation. [R.]
INSALIVATION n.
The mixing of the food with the saliva and other secretions of the mouth in eating.
KEELVAT n.
See Keelfat.
LARVATE a.
ce, concealed; obscure; -- applied in medicine to doubtful cases of some diseases; as, larvate pneumonis; larvate epilepsy.
LARVATED a.
Masked; clothed as with a mask.
LAVATIC a.
Like lava, or composed of lava; lavic.
LAVATION n.
A washing or cleansing. [Obs. or R.]
LAVATORY a. 5 definitions
Washing, or cleansing by washing.
LAVATURE n.
A wash or lotion. [Obs.]
LEVATION n.
The act of raising; elevation; upward motion, as that produced by the action of a levator muscle.
LEVATOR n. 2 definitions
A muscle that serves to raise some part, as the lip or the eyelid.
MALOBSERVATION n.
Erroneous observation. J. S Mill.
MARGRAVATE; MARGRAVIATE n.
The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave.
MOTIVATE v.
To provide with a motive; to move; impel; induce; incite. -- Mo`ti*va"tion (#), n. William James.
NERVATE a.
Nerved.
NERVATION n.
especially those of leaves; neuration. The outlines of the fronds of ferns, and their nervation, are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera. J. D. Hooker.
NOVATIAN n.
One of the sect of Novatius, or Novatianus, who held that the lapsed might not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful.
NOVATIANISM n.
The doctrines or principles of the Novatians. Milner.
NOVATION n. 2 definitions
Innovation. [Obs.] I shall easily grant that novations in religion are a main cause of distempers in commonwealths. Laud.
NOVATOR n.
An innovator. [Obs.]
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