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Conclusible. adj. [from conclude.] Determinable; certain by regular proof.

’Tis as certainly conclusible from God’s prescience, that they will voluntarily do this, as that they will do it all.
Hammond.
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Antemundane. adj. [ante, before, and mundus, the world.] That which was before the creation of the world.
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Fosterson. n.s. [foster and son.] One fed and educated, though not the son by nature.

Mature in years, to ready honours move;
O of celestial seed! O fosterson of Jove!
Dryd. Virg. Past.
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Brownbill. n.s. [from brown and bill.] The ancient weapon of the English foot; why it is called brown, I have not discovered; but we now say brown musket from it.

And brownbills, levied in the city,
Made bills to pass the grand committee.
Hudibras.

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BROWN. adj. [brun, Saxon.] The name of a colour, compounded of black and any other colour.

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Brownish. adj. [from brown.] Somewhat brown.

A brownish grey iron-stone, lying in thin strata, is poor, but runs freely.
Woodward.
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Brownstudy. n.s. [from brown and study.] Gloomy meditations; study in which we direct our thoughts to no certain point.

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To MUSE. v.n. [muser, Fr. muysen, Dutch; musso, Latin.]
1. To ponder; to think close; to study in silence.
2. To be absent of mind; to be attentive to something not present; to be in a brown study.
3. To wonder; to be amazed.
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Depulsion. n.s. [depulsion, Latin.] A beating or thrusting away.

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ANA. adv. [ἄνα] A word used in the prescriptions of physick, importing the like quantity; as, wine and honey, à or ana ii; that is, of wine and honey each two ounces.

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Generosity. n.s. [generosité, French; generositas, Latin.] The quality of being generous; magnanimity; liberality.

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To Reave. v.a. pret. rest. [ræfian, Saxon; whence to bereave.]
1. To take away by stealth or violence. An obsolete word.
2. It was used as well in a good as bad sense.
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Livelihood. n.s. [It appears to me corrupted from livelode.] Support of life; maintenance; means of living.
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To Aftereye. v.a. [from after and eye.] To keep one in view; to follow in view. This is not in use.

Thou shouldst have made him
As little as a crow, or less, ere left
To aftereye him.
Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.
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E'THER. n.s. [æther, Latin; ἄιϑηϱ.]
1. An element more fine and subtle than air; air refined or sublimed.
2. The matter of the highest regions above.
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Unselfish. adj. Not addicted to private interest.

The most interested cannot purpose any thing so much to their own advantage, notwithstanding which the inclination is nevertheless unselfish.
Spectator, № 588.
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Middest. superl. of mid, middest, midst.

Yet the stout fairy ’mongst the middest crowd,
Thought all their glory vain in knightly view.
Spenser.
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Economick. Economical. adj. [from economy.]
1. Pertaining to the regulation of an houshold.
2. Frugal.
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Paschal. adj. [pascal, French; paschalis, Latin.]
1. Relating to the passover.
2. Relating to Easter.
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Synodal. n.s. [from synod.] Money paid anciently to the bishop, &c. at Easter visitation.
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GOOD. adj. comp. better, superl. best. [god, Saxon; goed, Dutch.]

... 24. Having moral qualities, such as are wished; virtuous; pious; religious; applied both to persons and actions. Not bad; not evil....

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Passover. n.s. [pass and over.]

1. A feast instituted among the Jews in memory of the time when God, smiting the first born of the Egyptians, passed over the habitations of the Hebrews.

2. The sacrifice killed.

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Maundy-thursday. n.s. [derived by Spelman from mande, a hand-basket, in which the king was accustomed to give alms to the poor.] The Thursday before Good-friday.

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To ADUMBRATE. v.a. [adumbro, Lat.] To shadow out; to give a slight likeness; to exhibit a faint resemblance, like that which shadows afford of the bodies which they represent.

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Physick. n.s. [φυσιϰὴ, which, originally signifying natural philosophy, has been transferred in many modern languages to medicine.] The science of healing.
2. Medicines; remedies.
3. [In common phrase.] A purge.

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Anthypochondriack. adj. [from ἀντὶ, against, and ὑϖοχονδϱίακος.] Good against hypochondriack maladies.
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Blessedness. n.s. [from blessed.]
1. Happiness; felicity.
2. Sanctity.
3. Heavenly felicity.
4. Divine favour.
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Turkois. n.s. [turquoise, French, from turkey.] A blue stone numbered among the meaner precious stones, now discovered to be a bone impregnated with cupreous particles.

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Meered. adj. Relating to a boundary; meer being a boundary, or mark of division. Hanmer.

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