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t with the constitution or frame of government, or of being authorized by its provisions. Burke. Constitutionalities, bottomless cavilings and questionings about written laws. Carlyle.

ice to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption. Burke.

despicable. Milton. The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke.

sing the number of "Contents" and "Not contents" strictly equal in number and consequence.Burke.

The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric. Burke.

; incidental; casual. Weighing so much actual crime against so much contingent advantage. Burke.

he muscles of the face. Swift. All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. Burke.

ns the most bound in duty to prevent contraband, and the most interested in the seizures. Burke.

e our experience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it. Burke. Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true. Hobbes. Of contradictions infinite the slave. Wordsworth. Principle of contradiction (Logic), the axiom or law of thought that a thing cannot be and not be at the same…

mething, as a symptom, indicating that the usual mode of treatment is not to be followed. Burke.

ect. We are engaged in war; the secretary of state calls upon the colonies to contribute. Burke.

ice; arrangement. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Burke.

wrong, the proud man's contumely. Shak. Nothing aggravates tyranny so much as contumely. Burke.

d; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.

Capable of being conveyed or transferred. Burke.

ular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease. Burke.

ous; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct. Burke.

y of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness. Burke.

vitiated; susceptible of depravation. They systematically corrupt very corruptible race. Burke. -- Cor*rupt"i*ble*ness, n. -- Cor*rupt"i*bly, adv.

To give additional security to or for. Burke.