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Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

Severely; rigidly; sternly. A doctrine austerely logical. Macaulay.

Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity. Johnson.

Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe. The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline. Sir W. Scott.

Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.

Austere or stiff, like scholastics. Those budge doctors of the stoic fur. Milton. Budge bachelor, one of a company of men clothed in long gowns lined with budge, who formerly accompanied the lord mayor of London in his inaugural procession. -- Budge barrel (Mil.), a small copper-hooped barrel with only one head, the o…

A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis. A bare-footed and long-bearded capuchin. Sir W. Scott.

A member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086.

A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.

Sour; rough; austere. The crab vintage of the neighb'ring coast. Dryden.

nded by Antisthenes, and of whom Diogenes was a disciple. The first Cynics were noted for austere lives and their scorn for social customs and current philosophical opinions. Hence the term Cynic symbolized, in the popular judgment, moroseness, and contempt for the views of others.

A Turkish or Persian monk, especially one who professes extreme poverty and leads an austere life.

Sacred. [R.] To take her from austerer check of parents, To make her his by most devoutful rights. Marston.

Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.

Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant. I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. B. Jonson.

Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough. Clarence is so harsh, so blunt. Shak. Though harsh the precept, yet the charmed. Dryden.

panionable; disinclined to social intercourse or conversation; unsociable; taciturn. This austere insociable life. Shak.

those disagree with us; not tolerant; unforbearing; bigoted. Religion, harsh, intolerant, austere, Parent of manners like herself severe. Cowper.

ng the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark. Though on his brow were graven lines austere. Byron. He tipples palmistry, and dines On all her fortune-telling lines. Cleveland.

ng like a small apple, but has a bony endocarp. When first gathered the flesh is hard and austere, and it is not eaten until it has begun to decay. Japan medlar (Bot.), the loquat. See Loquat. -- Neapolitan medlar (Bot.), a kind of thorn tree (Cratægus Azarolus); also, its fruit.