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Nearly; almost; much. [Obs.] "Muchwhat after the same manner." Glanvill.

different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural. Granville commands; your aid, O Muses, bring: What Muse for Granville can refuse to sing Pope.

A notional or groundless opinion. [R.] Glanvill.

Existing at the present time; present. [R.] "Our now happiness." Glanvill.

One fond of his own opinious; one who holds an opinion. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Opinionative. Glanvill. -- O*pin"ia*tive*ly, adv. -- O*pin"ia*tive*ness, n.

One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Glanvill.

in equal order to their several ends. Jer. Taylor. Various orders various ensigns bear. Granville. Which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime. Hawthorne.

Littleness. [Obs.] Glanvill. Ray.

One who, or that which, is percipient. Glanvill.

To plague; to vex; to tormen. Glanvill.

n play well on an instrument. Ezek. xxxiii. 32. Play, my friend, and charm the charmer. Granville.

ne for cowardice. On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not, at four, to meet me. Granville.

ight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes. Glanvill.

Presiding or watching over. "Presidential angels." Glanvill.

t is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident pretenders to certainty. Glanvill.

Past; as, preterlapsed ages. [R.] Glanvill.

Primatical. [R.] D'Anville (Trans. ).

First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light. Glanvill.

Previous; antecedent. Glanvill.