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Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent. The judges shall make diligent inquisition. Deut. xix. 18.

In a diligent manner; not carelessly; not negligently; with industry or assiduity. Ye diligently keep commandments of the Lord your God. Deut. vi. 17.

The act of disobliging.

Releasing from obligation. "Disobligatory power." Charles I.

ires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to. Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come to know the value of them by having none when they shall most need them. South. My plan has given offense to some gentleme…

Release from obligation. [Obs.]

One who disobliges.

Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging person or act.

An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.

A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium light, or lime light.

The sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon, by which we see faintly, when the moon is near the sun (either before or after new moon), that part of the moon's disk unillumined by direct sunlight, or "the old moon in the arms of the new."

The quality of being eligible; eligibleness; as, the eligibility of a candidate; the eligibility of an offer of marriage.

Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house. The more eligible of the two evils. Burke.

The quality worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness.

In an eligible manner.

To illumine; to enlighten. [R.] Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. Pope.

To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth. His lightnings enlightened the world. Ps. xcvii. 4.

One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.

Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.

Filigree. [Archaic] With her head . . . touches the crown of filigrane. Longfellow.