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3,852 words match “MILT”

ANGLE n.
Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles of the heart. Milton.
ANNUL v.
the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton.
ANOINTMENT n.
The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment. Milton.
ANSWER v. 2 definitions
ke the apostate angel, though in pain: . . . And him thus answered soon his bold compeer. Milton.
ANSWERABLE a. 2 definitions
olland. This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians. Milton.
ANTAGONIST n.
r, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent. Antagonist of Heaven's Almigthy King. Milton. Our antagonists in these controversies. Hooker.
ANTAGONY n.
Contest; opposition; antagonism. [Obs.] Antagony that is between Christ and Belial. Milton.
ANTHEM n.
A song or hymn of praise. Milton.
ANTILOGY n.
A contradiction between any words or passages in an author. Sir W. Hamilton.
ANTINOMY n.
An opposing law or rule of any kind. As it were by his own antinomy, or counterstatute. Milton.
ANTIPAPAL a.
Opposed to the pope or to popery. Milton.
ANTISTROPHON n.
An argument retorted on an opponent. Milton.
ANTITYPY n.
Opposition or resistance of matter to force. [R.] Sir W. Hamilton.
ANXIOUS a.
nxious labor. The sweet of life, from which God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares. Milton.
APART adv.
company; in a state of separation as to place; aside. Others apart sat on a hill retired. Milton. The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself. Ps. iv. 3.
APHORISMER n.
A dealer in aphorisms. [Used in derogation or contempt.] Milton.
APODEICTIC; APODICTIC; APODEICTICAL; APODICTICAL a.
Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction. Brougham. Sir Wm. Hamilton.
APOSTATE a.
rized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade. So spake the apostate angel. Milton. A wretched and apostate state. Steele.
APOSTROPHE n.
course, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."
APPARENT a.
n; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view. The moon . . . apparent queen. Milton.
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