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43 words match “BAXTER”

BAXTER n.
A baker; originally, a female baker. [Old Eng. & Scotch]
ACADEMISM n.
The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. [Obs.] Baxter.
AUCTARY n.
That which is superadded; augmentation. [Obs.] Baxter.
BAPTIZABLE a.
Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized. Baxter.
BENEFICE n.
A favor or benefit. [Obs.] Baxter.
COMPLACENTIAL a.
Marked by, or causing, complacence. [Obs.] "Complacential love." Baxter.
CONVICT v.
or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience. He [Baxter] . . . had been convicted by a jury. Macaulay. They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one. John viii. 9.
DIRIGENT a.
Directing. Baxter.
EGOMISM n.
Egoism. [R.] A. Baxter.
ENTERTAINMENT n.
eception; also, reception or treatment, in general. The entertainment of Christ by faith. Baxter. The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the gospel. Bp. Sprat.
EXUPERATION n.
The act of rising or coming into view. [Obs.] Baxter.
FAMILISTIC; FAMILISTICAL a.
Pertaining to Familists. Baxter.
FINALITY n.
e of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement. Baxter.
FUDDLER n.
A drunkard. [Colloq.] Baxter.
HESITANT a.
Unready in speech. Baxter.
HIGH a.
ual; preëminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives. "The highest faculty of the soul." Baxter.
IMPERANT a.
Commanding. [R.] Baxter.
IMPERCIPIENT a.
Not perceiving, or not able to perceive. A. Baxter.
INDESINENT a.
Not ceasing; perpetual. [Obs.] Baxter. -- In*des"i*nent*ly, adv. [Obs.] Ray.
INFLEXIBILITY n.
adfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy. The inflexibility of mechanism. A. Baxter. That grave inflexibility of soul. Churchill. The purity and inflexibility of their faith. T. Warton.
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