Search the Dictionary

red, with yellow bands, and hover around plants. The larvæ feed upon plant lice, and are, therefore, very beneficial to agriculture.

A count or declaration. [Obs.] To tell tale of, to make account of. [Obs.] Therefore little tale hath he told Of any dream, so holy was his heart. Chaucer.

In that case; in consequence; as a consequence; therefore; for this reason. If all this be so, then man has a natural freedom. Locke. Now, then, be all thy weighty cares away. Dryden.

For that reason; therefore. Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous, about him. Milton.

For that, or this; for it. With certain officers ordained therefore. Chaucer.

On account, or in consequence, of that; therefore. [He] hopes to find you forward, . . . And thereupon he sends you this good news. Shak.

Pert. to or designating heat rays that have undergone selective absorption and are therefore analogous to colored light rays.

To feel titillation. He with secret joy therefore Did tickle inwardly in every vein. Spenser.

Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.

i in regard to the fundamental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience,…

divert, as to another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to devote. Therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David. 1 Chron. x. 14. God will make these evils the occasion of a greater good, by turning them to advantage in this world. Tillotson. When the passage is open, land will be turn…

rown; to take the crown from; hence, to discrown; to dethrone. He hath done me wrong, And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long. Shak.

To cause to cease to be a king. [R.] Shall his condescension, therefore, unking him South.

ry of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Deut. xxiii. 19. Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchanges, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. Matt. xxv. 27. What he borrows from the ancients, he repays with usury of Dryden.

sed for passages and stairs, having a woolen warp which conceals the weft; the pattern is therefore commonly made up of simple stripes. -- Venetian chalk, a white compact or steatite, used for marking on cloth, etc. -- Venetian door (Arch.), a door having long, narrow windows or panes of glass on the sides. -- Venet…

To sell; to vend. [Obs.] Therefore did those nations vent such spice. Sir W. Raleigh.

ey. Vincible ignorance (Theol.), ignorance within the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is responsible before God.

One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller.

To express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep. Therefore I will wail and howl. Micah i. 8.

ly prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful. "Bear a wary eye." Shak. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men. Milton.