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To rate or chide vehemently; to scold. Holland. Motley.

onsequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools." Shak.

or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.

The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection.

To strike or sound through. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).

To swell out. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To abound; to be in great abundance. [Obs.] Boyle.

Done without deliberation; unpremeditated. [Obs.] -- In`de*lib"er*ate*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Indeliberate. [Obs.]

from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.

To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.

To deliberate again; to reconsider.

Reverberant. [Obs.] "The reverberate hills." Shak.

A salt of suberic acid.

To beat or strike through. [Obs.]

To beat; to strike. [Obs.] "The sound . . . rebounds again and verberates the skies." Mir. for Mag.

In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.] To accept a bill (Law), to agree (on the part of the drawee) to pay it when due. -- To accept service (Law), to agree that a wr…

A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence. "An adjudication in favor of natural rights." Burke.

Deliberate consideration; knowledge. [Obs.] How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her Shak.

To consider; to deliberate. [Obs.] Advise if this be worth attempting. Milton.