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To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently. Spencer. Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy! Shak. Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it. Barrow.

See Ratable.

Any carnivore of the genus Mellivora, allied to the weasels and the skunks; -- called also honey badger.

One who pays rates or taxes.

One who rates or estimates.

To go astray; to diverge. [R.] Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.

To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.

To unite; to attach; to incorporate. [Obs.] Milton.

ment, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.

The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.

A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.

To convert adipocere.

To administer. [R.] Milman.

t, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor.

carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.

To heap up. [Obs.] Foxe.

a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. Where he builds the agglomerated pile. Cowper.

Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.