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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,570 words match “CIT”

ILLICITOUS a.
Illicit. [R.] Cotgrave.
IMMUNDICITY n.
Uncleanness; filthness. [R.] W. Montagu.
IMPLICIT a. 3 definitions
olded; entangled; complicated; involved. [Obs.] Milton. In his woolly fleece I cling implicit. Pope.
IMPLICITLY adv. 2 definitions
In an implicit manner; without reserve; with unreserved confidence. Not to dispute the methods of his providence, but humbly and implicitly to acquiesce in and adore them. Atterbury.
IMPLICITNESS n.
State or quality of being implicit.
IMPLICITY n.
Implicitness. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
IMPUDICITY n.
Immodesty. Sheldon.
INCAPACITATE v. 2 definitions
To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.
INCAPACITATION n.
The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification. Burke.
INCAPACITY n. 2 definitions
Want of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability.
INCITANT a. 2 definitions
Inciting; stimulating.
INCITATION n. 2 definitions
The act of inciting or moving to action.
INCITATIVE n.
A provocative; an incitant; a stimulant. [R.] Jervas.
INCITE v.
To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on. Anthiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans. Bacon. No blown ambition doth our arms incite. Shak.
INCITEMENT n. 2 definitions
The act of inciting.
INCITER n.
One who, or that which, incites.
INCITINGLY adv.
So as to incite or stimulate.
INCITO-MOTOR a.
Inciting to motion; -- applied to that action which, in the case of muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor.
INCITO-MOTORY a.
Incitomotor.
INELASTICITY n.
Want of elasticity.
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