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The act of abrogating; repeal by authority. Hume.

One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume.

A place of training; a school. "Academies of fanaticism." Hume.

ncomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

ass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes. Barrow. The highest achievements of the human intellect. Macaulay.

on Paris' love. Shak. I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumberland. Shak.

agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey.

The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.

A descendant of Adam; a human being.

or may be omitted. Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king. Hume.

a god. The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

rd of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest.

To make low or humble. [Obs.] Spenser. Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth. Jer. Taylor.

. . affluent in expression. H. Reed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. Prior.

world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); --…

itable; suitableness or conformity; consistency. The agreeableness of virtuous actions to human nature. Pearce.

esembling, the white of the eye, or of an egg; albuminous; -- a term applied to textures, humors, etc., which are perfectly white.

One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.

Affording food; nourishing. [R.] "Alimonious humors." Harvey.

Of all living (by way of emphasis). Northumberland was the proudest man alive. Clarendon.