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A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt.

A versifier. B. Jonson.

A verse. [Obs.] Milton.

acts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

d, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.

hymns, etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet. Hook.

To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with from. [Obs.] "To abhor from those vices." Udall. Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law. Milton.

bridge power or rights. "The bridegroom . . . abridged his visit." Smollett. She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity. Fuller.

mate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty. So absolute she seems, And in herself complete. Milton.

Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse. -- n.

Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.

foreign to their proper harmony. -- Accidental colors (Opt.), colors depending on the hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for complementary colors. They are purely subjective sensations of color which often result from the contemplation of actually colored bodies. -- Accidental point (Persp.), the point in whic…

A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God.

One who denies the existence of the universe, or of a universe as distinct from God. G. H. Lewes.

One versed in acoustics. Tyndall.

Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.

A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.

The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to be sung by the people, by way of a response.

Pertaining to an adage; proverbial. "Adagial verse." Barrow.

An addition, or a thing added. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.