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248 words match “BURT”

INTEMPESTIVE a.
Out of season; untimely. [Obs.] Burton. Intempestive bashfulness gets nothing. Hales.
INTENABLE a.
untenable; not defensible; as, an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton.
INTERCOMMUNITY n.
e of that intercommunity of paganism . . . one nation adopted the gods of another. Bp. Warburton.
INTERFERE v.
disputes. Swift. There was no room for anyone to interfere with his own opinions. Bp. Warburton.
INTHRONIZATION n.
Enthronement. Bp. Warburton.
INTRINSIC n.
A genuine quality. [Obs.] Warburton.
ISOLATE v.
sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts. Bp. Warburton.
JUMBLE v.
followed by together or up. Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies together Burton. Every clime and age Jumbled together. Tennyson.
JUMENT n.
A beast; especially, a beast of burden. [Obs.] Fitter for juments than men to feed on. Burton.
JUST a.
hall stand ranged in its just array. Addison. Their named alone would make a just volume. Burton.
KEN v.
To look around. [Obs.] Burton.
LEGATION n.
th or commissioning one person to act for another. "The Divine legation of Moses." Bp. Warburton.
LIVOR n.
Malignity. [P.] Burton.
LOVELOCK n.
by itself; an earlock; -- worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Burton. A long lovelock and long hair he wore. Sir W. Scott.
LUXURIATE v.
grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance. " Corn luxuriates in a better mold." Burton.
MAGISTRAL n.
A sovereign medicine or remedy. [Obs.] Burton.
MAKE v.
destroy. [Obs.] If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away. Burton.
MALEFICIATE v.
To bewitch; to harm. [Obs.] Burton.
MALEVOLOUS a.
Malevolent. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton.
MERD n.
Ordure; dung. [Obs.] Burton.
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