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See Ædile.

The office of ædile. T. Arnold.

A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer.

The office of an ædile. T. Arnold.

To elect or choose beforehand. [R.] Walter Harte.

A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality. Burke.

g of a remedy; incapable of being restored or corrected; incurable; irreparable; as, a remediless mistake or loss. "Chains remedilesse." Spenser. Hopeless are all my evils, all remediless. Milton.

ison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine. He imprisoned was in chains remediles. Spenser.

Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils. Rancorous and incurable hostility. Burke. They were laboring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance. Sir J. Stephen.

A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.

A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking; as, a partiality for poetry or painting. Roget.

. Hutcheson. The term passion, and its adverb passionately, often express a very strong predilection for any pursuit, or object of taste -- a kind of enthusiastic fondness for anything. Cogan. The bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion. Shak. The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion c…

sing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger.

eing preferred; the setting of one thing before another; precedence; higher estimation; predilection; choice; also, the power or opportunity of choosing; as, to give him his preference. Leave the critics on either side to contend about the preference due to this or that sort of poetry. Dryden. Knowledge of things alone…

ide of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge. Though often misled by prejudice and passion, he was emphatically an hone…

Destitute of relief; also, remediless.