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ASlothful. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

,a.Of or relating to Bishop Berkeley or his system of idealism; as, Berkeleian philosophy. -- Berke"ley*ism, n.

One who fights as if frenzied, like a Berserker.

Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged; -- said of a ship.

perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill (Scilla nutans). [Obs.] A girl cropping culverkeys and cowslips to make garlands. Walton.

A beater. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Murky. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

To stifle or choke. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To keep under, or in subjection; to suppress. [Obs.] Spenser.

A subordinate keeper or guardian. Gray.

See Work. [Obs.]

The substance rubbed off. Berkeley.

To perform the process of abstraction. [R.] I own myself able to abstract in one sense. Berkeley.

ical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.

tive; dogmatic. [Obs.] J. Taylor. Lysicles was a little by the affirmative air of Crito. Berkeley.

A prince is analogically styled a pilot, being to the state as a pilot is to the vessel. Berkeley.

Proving indirectly, by showing the absurdity, or impossibility of the contrary. Bp. Berkeley.

f the sun. To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship. Macaulay. What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude. Reid. Apparent horizon, the circle which in a level plain bounds our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the earth and heavens, as distinguis…

Hidden; secret. [Obs.] "The arcane part of divine wisdom." Berkeley.

To render atheistic or godless. [R.] They endeavored to atheize one another. Berkeley.