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her intellectual more I shun. Milton. I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. De Quincey.

Mutual dependence; as, interdependency of interests. De Quincey.

our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand. De Quincey.

Mutually repellent. De Quincey.

en. [R.] Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates. De Quincey.

Not reflective. De Quincey.

Want of retaining power; forgetfulness. De Quincey.

composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. De Quincey.

To exult; to rejoice. [R.] De Quincey.

One skilled in law or jurisprudence. [R.] De Quincey.

out. "The horses were beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe service." De Quincey. -- To knock off, to cease, as from work; to desist. -- To knock under, to yield; to submit; to acknowledge one's self conquered; -- an expression probably borrowed from the practice of knocking under the table with the…

To transport for crime. [Slang, Eng.] She lags us if we poach. De Quincey.

To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab. De Quincey.

ers pertaining to religious belief. Fierce sectarianism bred fierce latitudinarianism. De Quincey. He [Ammonius Saccas] plunged into the wildest latitudinarianism of opinion. J. S. Harford.

he text. We ourselves are offended by the obtrusion of the new lections into the text. De Quincey.

Lawyerlike; legal. [R.] "Leguleian barbarism." De Quincey. -- n.

ome people have a letch for unmasking impostors, or for avenging the wrongs of others. De Quincey.

mitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey.

terator or black-letter " bibliomane," simply because they have once been interesting. De Quincey.

. Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed. De Quincey.