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372 words match “CLARE”

DISPASSIONATE a.
carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed. Wise and dispassionate men. Clarendon.
DISSENTER n.
One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement.
DISTINCT a.
ntention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct. Clarendon.
DISUNION n.
cord and its effect; alienation. Such a disunion between the two houses as might much clouClarendon.
DOCTORSHIP n.
Doctorate. [R.] Clarendon.
DOUBTFULLY adv.
In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
DRAKE n.
illery. [Obs.] Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger. Clarendon.
DRIVE v.
tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at. Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular interest he drove at. South.
DWINDLE v.
To break; to disperse. [R.] Clarendon.
ECLAIRCISSEMENT n.
y understood; an explanation. The eclaircissement ended in the discovery of the informer. Clarendon.
ENLARGE v.
free vent to speech; to spread out discourse. "They enlarged themselves on this subject." Clarendon. -- To enlarge the heart, to make free, liberal, and charitable.
ENLARGEMENT n.
e or argument. An enlargement upon the vices and corruptions that were got into the army. Clarendon.
ENOUNCE v.
To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument. Sir W. Hamilton.
ENREGISTER v.
; to inregister. To read enregistered in every nook His goodness, which His beauty doth declare. Spenser.
ENTIRE a.
l. Pure fear and entire cowardice. Shak. No man had ever a heart more entire to the king. Clarendon.
ENUNCIATE v.
To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth. The terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel. Coleridge.
EQUAL a.
to the task. The Scots trusted not their own numbers as equal to fight with the English. Clarendon. It is not permitted to me to make my commendations equal to your merit. Dryden. Whose voice an equal messenger Conveyed thy meaning mild. Emerson.
EXCLAIM v.
To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; "The field is won!" he exclaimed.
EXHIBIT v.
e. He suffered his attorney-general to exhibit a charge of high treason against the earl. Clarendon.
EXPIATE v.
s treason, hath naught left. Milton. The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury. Clarendon.
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