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art; essential import; purport. This edition is the same in substance with the Latin. Bp. Burnet. It is insolent in words, in manner; but in substance it is not only insulting, but alarming. Burke.

Survivorship. [R.] His son had the survivance of the stadtholdership. Bp. Burnet.

The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics. Bp. Burnet.

, v. t., 3. Macaulay. Some tacks had been made to money bills in King Charles's time. Bp. Burnet.

thing continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse. Bp. Burnet.

to knit; to knot. "We do not tie this knot with an intention to puzzle the argument." Bp. Burnet.

footsteps, tracks, or tokens. Cowper. You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. T. Burnet. I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest agents. Milton.

ays with that ivy." Waller. There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame. T. Burnet.

The quality of making uneasy; discomfort; as, the uneasiness of the road. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

deprive of being; to uncreate. God does not make or unmake things to try experiments. T. Burnet.

To reverse or annul by vote, as a former vote. [R.] Bp, Burnet.

regard. Dryden. My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great Bp. Burnet.

without offering violence to all records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge. T. Burnet. Looking down, he saw The whole earth filled with violence. Milton.

al. These violent delights have violent ends. Shak. No violent state can be perpetual. T. Burnet. Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. Milton. Violent presumption (Law), presumption of a fact that arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily attend such facts. -- Violent profits (Scots Law…

to annul; to nullify. After they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken. Bp. Burnet. It was become a practice . . . to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed. Clarendon.

; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach. T. Burnet.