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which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it. Addison.

One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.

act of bringing into proper relations; regulation. Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Paley.

t of; as, to administer the government or the state. For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administered is best. Pope.

The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.

A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.

A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.

A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord".

laration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation.

furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age. His tuneful Muse affords the sweetest numbers. Addison. The quiet lanes . . . afford calmer retreats. Gilpin.

Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine.

A contest for a prize at the public games.

Contention for a prize; a contest. [Obs.] Blount.

Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games.

Violent contest or striving. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Macaulay.

A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

Nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part. Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. Acts xxvi. 28. Almost never, scarcely ever. -- Almost nothing, scarcely anything.

ontention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. "Stormy altercations." Macaulay.

Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.