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A writ of command to suspend the powers of an officer in certain cases, or to stay proceedings under another writ. Blackstone.

lton. An abstract idea (Metaph.), an idea separated from a complex object, or from other ideas which naturally accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated apart from its color or figure. -- Abstract terms, those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object i…

The quality of being abstract. "The abstractness of the ideas." Locke.

False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. Milton. As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years. Locke.

In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.

Of or Pertaining to æsthetics; versed in æsthetics; as, æsthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc. -- Æs*thet"ic*al*ly, adv.

To attach, unite, or connect with; as, names affixed to ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one.

The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.

To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.

Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.

Old-womanish; imbecile. "Anile ideas." Walpole.

f perceiving; percipient. [Archaic] Glanvill. I do not mean there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty. Coleridge.

A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect. Example: Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war, Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl ANTICLINAL An`ti*cli"nal, a. Etym: [Pref. anti- + Gr.

A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.

the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.…

The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.

hip. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.

or of individuals, or of particular things; as, a political assemblage; an assemblage of ideas.