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nguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock. All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues. Rev. vii. 9.

Of or pertaining to a nation; common to a whole people or race; public; general; as, a national government, language, dress, custom, calamity, etc.

The state of being national; national attachment; nationality.

One who advocates national unity and independence; one of a party favoring Irish independence.

The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism.

The act of nationalizing, or the state of being nationalized.

To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.

In a national manner or way; as a nation. "The jews ... being nationally espoused to God by covenant." South.

The quality or state of being national; nationality. Johnson.

See Legislature.

The act of abacinating. [R.]

The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. [Obs.]

Banishment. [Obs.] Bailey.

treme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.

A combining together. [R.]

A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point. Bp. Pearson.

The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

Adornment. [Obs.]

A uniting; union. Jer. Taylor.

Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.