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A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet.

Not prevented or hindered; as, unprevented sorrows. Shak.

Not furnished with a revenue. [R.] Milton.

Absence or lack of reverence; irreverence. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Not reverend.

Irreverent. [R.] Shak.

Irreverently. [R.] B. Jonson.

At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury.

The evening of yesterday; the evening last past.

A time indication, equivalent to alla breve.

m facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

umed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.

tes in Genoa. -- Abbot of Misrule (or Lord of Misrule), in mediæval times, the master of revels, as at Christmas; in Scotland called the Abbot of Unreason. Encyc. Brit.

[R.] An adjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever. Jer. Taylor.

w; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.

To go about, To set about, to undertake; to arrange; to prepare. "Shall we set about some revels Shak. -- Round about, in every direction around.

To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun. If after due summons any member absents himself, he is to be fined. Addison.

ense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.

ing actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts. [Cant] The accounts of revenues supplied . . . were not real receipts: not, in financial language, "actuals," but only Egyptian budget estimates. Fortnightly Review.

elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.