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or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see. A city is a town incorporated; which is, or has been, t…

The act or state of being an accomplice. [R.]

Achromatism.

Curvature inwards; hookedness. The aduncity of the beaks of hawks. Pope.

Allotropic property or nature.

The state or quality of being English.

The state or quality of being apostolical.

Craftiness; astuteness. [R.] Carlyle.

Degree of atomic attraction; equivalence; valence; also (a later use) the number of atoms in an elementary molecule. See Valence.

Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.

Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness. The freedom and audacity necessary in the commerce of men. Tatler.

The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.

The quality or state of being a base.

The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling. Blount.

The state of being twice folded; reduplication. [R.] Bailey.

Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. [R.] [A] jumble of youth and caducity. Chesterfield.

A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat nesessary to life, that is, the animal heat.

The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.

ace; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things. Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together. Shak. The capacity of the exhausted cylinder. Boyle.

Greediness of appetite for flesh. [Sportive.] Pope.