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To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of ; to show or exhibit; to imply. He thought it carried something of argument in it. Watts. It carries too great an imputation of ignorance. Lacke.

ure. Prior. And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Shak.

To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody. "Fiery thoughts . . . whereof I catch the issue." Tennyson.

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were inte…

Caution; prudent; wary. [Obs.] "Cautelous, though young." Drayton.

To engrave; to inscribe. [R.] These trees shall be my books. And in their barks my thoughts I 'll character. Shak.

A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men. Memory . . . fills up the chasms of thought. Addison.

Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes.

Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle. Your words are but idle and empty chatter. Longfellow.

To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over. Dryden.

ted understanding, etc. When I was child. I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1. Cor. xii. 11.

To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage. Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits. Rogers.

tastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.

One who communicates thoughts by signs made with the hands and fingers.

The art or practice of using the manual alphabet or of communicating thoughts by sings made by the hands and fingers; a substitute for spoken or written language in intercourse with the deaf and dumb. See Dactylalogy.

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Rome 754, which year he counted as 1 a. d. This date for Christ's birth is now generally thought to be about four years too late.

are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion. J. W. Chadwick.

An event; a fact; a particular incident. The sculptor had in his thoughts the conqoeror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in histery. Addison.

One who is domiciled in a country, and who is a citizen, though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense that he takes his legal status from such country.