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ce, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent. If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent to offend. Shak.

To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely.

Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child. The love of cronies, pets, and favorites. Tatler.

Of or pertaining to the Phæacians, a fabulous seafaring people fond of the feast, the lyre, and the dance, mentioned by Homer.

A combining form from Gr. fi`los loving, fond of, attached to; as, philosophy, philotechnic.

Fondness for women; uxoriousness; -- opposed to Ant: misogyny. [R.] Byron.

Fond of polemics or controversy. [R.]

Having the love of offspring; fond of children.

The love of offspring; fondness for children.

Fond of the arts. [R.]

Fond of flogging; as, a plagose master. [R.]

A cat; -- a fondling appellation.

ulous man or people. Enmity can hardly be more annoying that querulous, jealous, exacting fondness. Macaulay.

for the loss of a servant. Clarendon. From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. W. Irving.

A taste for; liking; appetite; fondness. A relish for whatever was excelent in arts. Macaulay. I have a relish for moderate praise, because it bids fair to be jCowper.

so with in. Go in thy native innocence; rely On what thou hast of virtue. Milton. On some fond breast the parting soul relies. Gray.

Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling. [Obs.] Companionable and revelous was she. Chaucer.

o cause to depart. And that old dame said many an idle verse, Out of her daughter's heart fond fancies to reverse. Spenser.

A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi He [Lessing] may be said to have begun the revolt from pseudo- classicism in poetry, and to have been thus u…

Skillful in, or fond of, writing. [Obs.] Barrow.