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Impatience. [Obs.]

Impatient. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Not pitied.

Deprived of the usual faculties. [Obs.] Shak.

To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot. Sacharissa's captive fain Would untie his iron chain. Waller. Her snakes untied, sulphurous waters drink. Pope.

To tie up. Spenser.

Of or pertaining to the viscount or sheriff of a country. Vicontiel rents. See Vicontiels. -- Vicontiel writs, such writs as were triable in the sheriff, or county, court.

Things belonging to the sheriff; especially, farms (called also vicontiel rents) for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king.

sing the will; acting from choice; willing, or having power to will. "What I do, I do volitient, not obedient." Mrs. Browning.

e, in order to make experience rational or possible. A priori, that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possible. Coleridge.

A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½, at Hamburg 38¼. [Written also Aum and Awm.]

or central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus.

To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with. She could not abide Master Shallow. Shak.

ng to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren. Acts xi. 29. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. Bacon. The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability. Macaulay.

ntative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.

To tie up so as to hinder from. [Obs.]

Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent. -- n. (Med.)

ful man shall abound with blessings. Prov. xxviii. 20. It abounds with cabinets of curiosities. Addison.

An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication. P. Cyc.

from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majorit…