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13 words match “ASPIRATION”

ASPIRATION n. 3 definitions
ronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound. If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing. Wilkins.
ASPIRATE n.
A mark of aspiration used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing. Bentley.
ASPIRATE; ASPIRATED a.
th the h sound or with audible breath. But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an aspiration as h. Holder.
ASPIRE n.
Aspiration. [Obs.] Chapman.
ASPIREMENT n.
Aspiration. [Obs.]
BREATHING n. 3 definitions
Aspiration; secret prayer. "Earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state." Tillotson.
HECKERISM n.
eaching of Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-88), which interprets Catholicism as promoting human aspirations after liberty and truth, and as the religion best suited to the character and institutions of the American people. (b) Improperly, certain views or principles erroneously ascribed to Father Hecker in a French translati…
LIMIT v.
mit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word. Limiting parallels (Astron.), those parallels of latitude between which only an occultation of a star or planet by the moon, in a given case, can occur.
LONGING n.
An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration. Put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me. Shak.
LOWER v.
lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.
PHILISTINE n.
erson deficient in liberal culture and refinement; one without appreciation of the nobler aspirations and sentiments of humanity; one whose scope is limited to selfish and material interests. [Recent] M. Arnold.
SPIRIT n.
A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing. [Obs.] Be it a letter or spirit, we have great use for it. B. Jonson.
SYRINGE n.
A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing w…