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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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17 words match “SELF-CONTROL”

SELF-CONTROL n.
Control of one's self; restraint exercised over one's self; self-command.
BOIL v.
y heat or other cause of effervescence; to be excited with ardor or passion so as to lose self-control.
COLLECT v.
Locke. To collect one's self, to recover from surprise, embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control.
COOL a.
Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater. For a patriot, too cool. Goldsmith.
ESTABLISH v.
Confidence which must precede union could be established only by consummate prudence and self-control. Bancroft.
FAINTNESS n.
The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.
FORGET v.
unselfish. (c) To be guilty of what is unworthy of one; to lose one's dignity, temper, or self-control.
FUME n.
Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion. South.
IMPOTENCE; IMPOTENCY n.
Want of self-restraint or self-control. [R.] Milton.
MAD a.
Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform. It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. Jer. 1. 88. And being exceedingly mad against them, I…
MASTER n.
d painters of the 16th and 17th centuries. -- To be master of one's self, to have entire self-control; not to be governed by passion. -- To be one's own master, to be at liberty to act as one chooses without dictation from anybody.
RECOLLECTION n.
The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control. [Archaic] From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection. Robertson.
SELF-COMMAND n.
Control over one's own feelings, temper, etc.; self-control.
SELF-CONTAINED a.
Having self-control; reserved; uncommunicative; wholly engrossed in one's self.
SELF-GOVERNMENT n.
The act of governing one's self, or the state of being governed by one's self; self-control; self-command.
SELF-RESTRAINT n.
Restraint over one's self; self-control; self-command.
SOBER a.
sane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self- possessed. There was not a sober person to be had; all was tempestuous and blustering. Druden. No sober man would put himself into danger for the applause of escaping without breaking his neck. Dryden.…