Search the Dictionary

To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker.

Of or pertaining to Ptolemy Philadelphus, or to one of the cities named Philadelphia, esp. the modern city in Pennsylvania.

A dread or intolerance of light. Sir T. Watson.

upholds, as a board does a swimmer. His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot. Southey.

Preceding the diastole of the heart; as, a prediastolic friction sound.

Preceding the systole or contraction of the heart; as, the presystolic friction sound.

In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline. The motions of the greatest persons in…

nkind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.

action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate. Obey his voice, provoke him not. Ex. xxiii. 21. Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. Eph. vi. 4. Such acts Of contumacy will provoke the Highest To make death in us live. Milton. Can ho…

rmed. Pulse wave (Physiol.), the wave of increased pressure started by the ventricular systole, radiating from the semilunar valves over the arterial system, and gradually disappearing in the smaller branches. the pulse wave travels over the arterial system at the rate of about 29.5 feet in a second. H. N. Martin. -- T…

Reasonable; tolerably. [Obs.] I have a reasonable good ear in music. Shak.

Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder.

To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.

One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen. Blackstone.

ance; as, relics of youthful days or friendships. The pearis were split; Some lost, some stolen, some as relics kept. Tennyson.

a small allowed deviation from the legal standard of weight and fineness; -- called also tolerance.

The receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw. Jamieson.

One who receives or conceals, as stolen goods or criminal.

ich serves to retain an organ or part in place, esp. when retracted. See Illust. of Phylactolemata.

A revolutionist. [R.] Dumfries was a Tory town, and could not tolerate a revolutionary. Prof. Wilson.