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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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16 words match “ASTATE”

ASTATE n.
Estate; state. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ANASTATE n.
by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate. Foster.
DEVASTATE v.
To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay.
HASTATE; HASTATED a.
like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf.
KATASTATE n.
(Physiol.) A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
DESTRUCTION n.
The state of being destroyed, demolished, ruined, slain, or devastated. This town came to destruction. Chaucer. Thou castedst them down into destruction. Ps. lxxiii. 18.
DEVAST v.
To devastate. [Obs.] Bolingbroke.
DEVASTATION n.
The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste. Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done. Goldsmith.
DEVASTATOR n.
One who, or that which, devastates. Emerson.
DIVAST a.
Devastated; laid waste. [Obs.]
HALBERD-SHAPED a.
Hastate.
HASTILE a.
Same as Hastate. Gray.
HAVOC v.
To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste. To waste and havoc yonder world. Milton.
KATABOLIC a.
f or pertaining to katabolism; as, katabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability.
SACK v.
To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage. The Romans lay under the apprehension of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy. Addison.
WASTE a. 3 definitions
Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity. Sir W. Scott.