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education; instruction in classical and polite literature. Polished with humanity and the study of witty science. Holland.

The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.

A student, or lover of the study, of iconography.

objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.

Offhand; without previous study; extemporaneous; extempore; as, an impromptu verse.

ne; to render averse or unfavorable; as, a love of pleasure indisposes the mind to severe study; the pride and selfishness of men indispose them to religious duties. The king was sufficiently indisposed towards the persons, or the principles, of Calvin's disciples. Clarendon.

News, advice, or knowledge, communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction. Larger opportunities of information. Rogers. He should get some information in the subject he intends to handle. Swift.

itive manner. The occasion that made him afterwards so inquisitively apply himself to the study of physic. Boyle.

Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and understood by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained or accounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible; as, an inscrutable design or event. 'T is not in man To yield a reason for the will of Heaven Which is inscrutable. Beau. & Fl. Waiving a…

Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information. I write as he that none intelligence Of meters hath, nCourt of Love.

Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

lity of being intense; intensity; as, the intenseness of heat or cold; the intenseness of study or thought.

ary treatise; specifically, a treatise introductory to other treatises, or to a course of study; a guide; as, an introduction to English literature.

To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine. Thus first Necessity invented stools. Cowper.

That which is inverse. Thus the course of human study is the inverse of the course of things in nature. Tatham.

To pursue a course of investigation and study; to make investigation.

The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist.

To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb. "Involved in a deep study." Sir W. Scott.

Introductory; especially, introductory to the study of theology.

or a time; to lodge; to dwell. [Now disused except locally or colloquially.] Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps. Shak.