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Resembling a thrall, or his condition, feelings, or the like; slavish. Servile and thrall-like fear. Milton.

d have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance. Acts. x. 10. My soul was ravished quite as in a trance. Spenser.

To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul. [They] laugh as if transported with some fit Of passion. Milton. We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder. South.

That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.

ntastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out. " Trick her off in air." Pope. People lavish it profusely in tricking up their children in fine clothes, and yet starve their minds. Locke. They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would h…

Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.

Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.

To ravish; to deflower. [Obs.]

The quality or state or being unthrifty; profuseness; lavishness. Udall.

Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile. The sun and every vassal star. Keble.

To commit rape on; to ravish; to outrage.

Ravishment; rape; outrage. Shak.

One who violates; an infringer; a profaner; a ravisher.

Ravishment; rape; constupration. To do violence on, to attack; to murder. "She . . . did violence on herself." Shak. -- To do violence to, to outrage; to injure; as, he does violence to his own opinions.

lizabeth's] reign. Fuller. The faith of Christianity is far more vivacious than any mere ravishment of the imagination can ever be. I. Taylor.

o employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury. The younger son gathered all together, and . . . wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke xv. 13. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen…

tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition.

Stain; brand. [Obs.] "Slavish wipe." Shak.

Containing many words; full of words. We need not lavish hours in wordy periods. Philips.