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See Utas. [Obs.]

rinciples or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey.

Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles.

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Taylor.

The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.

A computer.

See Dermis.

The condition of being a deaf-mute.

Dispute; discussion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A player on the flute; a flutist.

A performer on the flute; a flautist. Busby.

A writer or compiler of, or a commentator on, institutes. [R.] Harvey.

Clownish; rude; awkward. "Loutish clown." Sir P. Sidney. -- Lout"ish*ly, adv. -- Lout"*ish*ness, n.

One who plays on a lute.

The condition, state, or habit of being mute, or without speech. Max Müller.

One skilled in pharmacy; a druggist. See the Note under Apothecary.

Uproarious; riotous. [Obs.]

Somewhat stout; somewhat corpulent.

One versed in therapeutics, or the discovery and application of remedies.