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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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361 words match “LIGE”

To lie; to tell lies. [Obs.]

on and the securing of justice, the latter to faithful service; allegiance. [Written also ligeancy and liegance.] Chaucer.

Having wings; winged. [R.]

BELLIGERENCE; BELLIGERENCY n.

The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.

BELLIGERENT a. 3 definitions

Waging war; carrying on war. "Belligerent powers." E. Everett.

BELLIGERENTLY adv.

In a belligerent manner; hostilely.

COBELLIGERENT a. 2 definitions

Carryng on war in conjunction with another power.

Same as Anthozoa.

CORALLIGENOUS a.

producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.

CORALLIGEROUS n.

Producing coral; coraliferous.

COTYLIGEROUS a.

Having cotyles.

DILIGENCE n. 4 definitions

The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.

Diligence; care; persevering endeavor. [Obs.] Milton.

DILIGENT a. 2 definitions

Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent. The judges shall make diligent inquisition. Deut. xix. 18.

DILIGENTLY adv.

In a diligent manner; not carelessly; not negligently; with industry or assiduity. Ye diligently keep commandments of the Lord your God. Deut. vi. 17.

DISOBLIGE v. 2 definitions

ease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to. Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come to know the value of them by having none when they shall most need them. South. My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige. Addison.…

DISOBLIGEMENT n.

Release from obligation. [Obs.]

One who disobliges.

Want of diligence. [Obs.] B. Jonson.