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To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question. The court could not burke an inquiry, supported by such a mass of a affidavits. C. Reade.

bandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke.

d of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc. He abdicates all right to be his own governor. Burke. The understanding abdicates its functions. Froude.

atural state, or from a type. "The aberration of youth." Hall. "Aberrations from theory." Burke.

ly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts. The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.

e. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke.

. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke.

pth. The abysses of metaphysical theology. Macaulay. In unfathomable abysses of disgrace. Burke.

Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.

Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as, an acidulous tincture. E. Burke. Acidulous mineral waters, such as contain carbonic anhydride.

the plural, equivalent to stocks. [A Gallicism] [Obs.] The Euripus of funds and actions. Burke.

ial power; a judicial decision or sentence. "An adjudication in favor of natural rights." Burke.

assistance. It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division. Burke.

rvilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

ions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

Sanderson (1624). This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated. Burke. Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause. Mitford.

zens. His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment. Burke.

Relating to or practicing alchemy. Metaphysical and alchemistical legislators. Burke.

Capability of being alienated. "The alienability of the domain." Burke.

Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings. Burke.