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A beating windBeat Beat, v. i.
1. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock
vigorously or loudly.
The men of the city . . . beat at the door.
--Judges. xix.
22.
2. To move with pulsation or throbbing.
A thousand hearts beat happily. --Byron.
3. To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force;
to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below. --Dryden.
They [winds] beat at the crazy casement.
--Longfellow.
The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he
fainted, and wisbed in himself to die. --Jonah iv.
8.
Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers.
--Bacon.
4. To be in agitation or doubt. [Poetic]
To still my beating mind. --Shak.
5. (Naut.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a
zigzag line or traverse.
6. To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
7. (Mil.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the
drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
8. (Acoustics & Mus.) To sound with more or less rapid
alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to
produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones,
or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
A beating wind (Naut.), a wind which necessitates tacking
in order to make progress.
To beat about, to try to find; to search by various means
or ways. --Addison.
To beat about the bush, to approach a subject circuitously.
To beat up and down (Hunting), to run first one way and
then another; -- said of a stag.
To beat up for recruits, to go diligently about in order to
get helpers or participators in an enterprise. AbatingAbate A*bate" ([.a]*b[=a]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abated, p.
pr. & vb. n. Abating.] [OF. abatre to beat down, F.
abattre, LL. abatere; ab or ad + batere, battere (popular
form for L. batuere to beat). Cf. Bate, Batter.]
1. To beat down; to overthrow. [Obs.]
The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls.
--Edw. Hall.
2. To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state,
number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to
moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate
pride, zeal, hope.
His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
--Deut. xxxiv.
7.
3. To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.
Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds.
--Fuller.
4. To blunt. [Obs.]
To abate the edge of envy. --Bacon.
5. To reduce in estimation; to deprive. [Obs.]
She hath abated me of half my train. --Shak.
6. (Law)
(a) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away
with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.
(b) (Eng. Law) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable
to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a
deficiency of assets.
To abate a tax, to remit it either wholly or in part. AbbreviatingAbbreviate Ab*bre"vi*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abbreviated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Abbreviating.] [L. abbreviatus, p. p. of
abbreviare; ad + breviare to shorten, fr. brevis short. See
Abridge.]
1. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by
contraction or omission, especially of words written or
spoken.
It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting,
another by cutting off. --Bacon.
2. (Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction. AbdicatingAbdicate Ab"di*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abdicated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Abdicating.] [L. abdicatus, p. p. of abdicare; ab +
dicare to proclaim, akin to dicere to say. See Diction.]
1. To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to
withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high
office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the
crown, the papacy.
Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of
James II., to abandon without a formal surrender.
The cross-bearers abdicated their service.
--Gibbon.
2. To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust,
duty, right, etc.
He abdicates all right to be his own governor.
--Burke.
The understanding abdicates its functions. --Froude.
3. To reject; to cast off. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
4. (Civil Law) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a
father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
Syn: To give up; quit; vacate; relinquish; forsake; abandon;
resign; renounce; desert.
Usage: To Abdicate, Resign. Abdicate commonly expresses
the act of a monarch in voluntary and formally
yielding up sovereign authority; as, to abdicate the
government. Resign is applied to the act of any
person, high or low, who gives back an office or trust
into the hands of him who conferred it. Thus, a
minister resigns, a military officer resigns, a clerk
resigns. The expression, ``The king resigned his
crown,' sometimes occurs in our later literature,
implying that he held it from his people. -- There are
other senses of resign which are not here brought into
view. AbnegatingAbnegate Ab"ne*gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abnegated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Abnegating.] [L. abnegatus,p. p. of abnegare; ab +
negare to deny. See Deny.]
To deny and reject; to abjure. --Sir E. Sandys. Farrar. AbominatingAbominate A*bom"i*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abominated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Abominating.] [L. abominatus, p. p. or
abominari to deprecate as ominous, to abhor, to curse; ab +
omen a foreboding. See Omen.]
To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as
if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all
impiety.
Syn: To hate; abhor; loathe; detest. See Hate. AbrogatingAbrogate Ab"ro*gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abrogated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Abrogating.] [L. abrogatus, p. p. of abrogare; ab +
rogare to ask, require, propose. See Rogation.]
1. To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the
authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; --
applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the
abolition of customs, etc.
Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what
we so frequently see in the Old. --South.
Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian,
they can not alter or abrogate. --Burke.
2. To put an end to; to do away with. --Shak.
Syn: To abolish; annul; do away; set aside; revoke; repeal;
cancel; annihilate. See Abolish. AcceleratingAccelerate Ac*cel"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accelerated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Accelerating.] [L. acceleratus, p. p. of
accelerare; ad + celerare to hasten; celer quick. See
Celerity.]
1. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add
to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
2. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process
of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase
of wealth, etc.
3. To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate
our departure.
Accelerated motion (Mech.), motion with a continually
increasing velocity.
Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated
motion. --Nichol.
Syn: To hasten; expedite; quicken; dispatch; forward;
advance; further. Accelerating forceAccelerate Ac*cel"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accelerated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Accelerating.] [L. acceleratus, p. p. of
accelerare; ad + celerare to hasten; celer quick. See
Celerity.]
1. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add
to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
2. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process
of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase
of wealth, etc.
3. To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate
our departure.
Accelerated motion (Mech.), motion with a continually
increasing velocity.
Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated
motion. --Nichol.
Syn: To hasten; expedite; quicken; dispatch; forward;
advance; further. AccentuatingAccentuate Ac*cen"tu*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accentuated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Accentuating.] [LL. accentuatus, p. p. of
accentuare, fr. L. accentus: cf. F. accentuer.]
1. To pronounce with an accent or with accents.
2. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize.
In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was
even more accentuated. --London
Times.
3. To mark with the written accent. AcclimatingAcclimate Ac*cli"mate (#; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Acclimated; p. pr. & vb. n. Acclimating.] [F. acclimater;
[`a] (l. ad) + climat climate. See Climate.]
To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. --J. H.
Newman. AccommodatingAccommodate Ac*com"mo*date, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Accommodated; p. pr. & vb. n. Accommodating.] [L.
accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make
fit, help; con- + modus measure, proportion. See Mode.]
1. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to
conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
``They accommodate their counsels to his inclination.'
--Addison.
2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to
compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate
differences, a dispute, etc.
3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient;
to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a
loan or with lodgings.
4. To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by
analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental
circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to
accommodate prophecy to events.
Syn: To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange. Accommodating
Accommodating Ac*com"mo*da`ting, a.
Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as
an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.
AccumulatingAccumulate Ac*cu"mu*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accumulated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Accumulating.] [L. accumulatus, p. p. of
accumulare; ad + cumulare to heap. See Cumulate.]
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring
together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
Syn: To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate;
heap together; hoard. AcidulatingAcidulate A*cid"u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Acidulated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Acidulating.] [Cf. F. aciduler. See
Acidulous.]
To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.
--Arbuthnot. ActuatingActuate Ac"tu*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Actuated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Actuating.] [LL. actuatus, p. p. of actuare, fr. L.
actus act.]
1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action;
to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more
commonly used of persons.
Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by
the perpetual motion. --Johnson.
Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with
ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow
minds are the least actuated by it. --Addison.
2. To carry out in practice; to perform. [Obs.] ``To actuate
what you command.' --Jer. Taylor.
Syn: To move; impel; incite; rouse; instigate; animate. AdjudicatingAdjudicate Ad*ju"di*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjudicated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Adjudicating] [L. adjudicatus, p. p. of
adjudicare. See Adjudge.]
To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by
judicial decree. AdulteratingAdulterate A*dul"ter*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adulterated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Adulterating.] [L. adulteratus, p. p. of
adulterare, fr. adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter
other, properly one who approaches another on account of
unlawful love. Cf. Advoutry.]
1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.] --Milton.
2. To corrupt, 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.
Syn: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate;
sophisticate. AdvocatingAdvocate Ad"vo*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advocated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Advocating.] [See Advocate, n., Advoke, Avow.]
To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a
tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend
publicly.
To advocate the cause of thy client. --Bp.
Sanderson
(1624).
This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has
been advocated. --Burke.
Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause.
--Mitford. AffiliatingAffiliate Af*fil"i*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Affiliated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Affiliating.] [LL. adfiliare, affiliare, to
adopt as son; ad + filius son: cf. F. affilier.]
1. To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to
bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged
and in rebellion? --I. Taylor.
2. To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child;
as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man
rather than another.
3. To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of
hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
--H. Spencer.
4. To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society
as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.;
-- followed by to or with.
Affiliated societies, societies connected with a central
society, or with each other. AgglomeratingAgglomerate Ag*glom"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Agglomerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Agglomerating.] [L.
agglomeratus, p. p. of agglomerare; ad + glomerare to form
into a ball. See Glomerate.]
To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass
or anything like a mass.
Where he builds the agglomerated pile. --Cowper. AgglutinatingAgglutinate Ag*glu"ti*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Agglutinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Agglutinating.] [L.
agglutinatus, p. p. of agglutinare to glue or cement to a
thing; ad + glutinare to glue; gluten glue. See Glue.]
To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous
substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances. Aggravating
Aggravating Ag"gra*va`ting, a.
1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating
circumstances.
2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. [Colloq.]
A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. --J.
Ingelow.
Aggravatingly
Aggravatingly Ag"gra*va`ting*ly, adv.
In an aggravating manner.
AggregatingAggregate Ag"gre*gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aggregated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Aggregating.] [L. aggregatus, p. p. of
aggregare to lead to a flock or herd; ad + gregare to collect
into a flock, grex flock, herd. See Gregarious.]
1. To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. ``The
aggregated soil.' --Milton.
2. To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
It is many times hard to discern to which of the two
sorts, the good or the bad, a man ought to be
aggregated. --Wollaston.
3. To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating
five hundred bushels. [Colloq.]
Syn: To heap up; accumulate; pile; collect. AgitatingAgitate Ag"i*tate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Agitated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Agitating.] [L. agitatus, p. p. of agitare to put in
motion, fr. agere to move: cf. F. agiter. See Act,
Agent.]
1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind
agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. ``Winds .
. . agitate the air.' --Cowper.
2. To move or actuate. [R.] --Thomson.
3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was
greatly agitated.
The mind of man is agitated by various passions.
--Johnson.
4. To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a
controversy hotly agitated. --Boyle.
5. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to
contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians
agitate desperate designs.
Syn: To move; shake; excite; rouse; disturb; distract;
revolve; discuss; debate; canvass. AlienatingAlienate Al"ien*ate (-[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alienated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Alienating.]
1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or
right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of
averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to
estrange; to wean; -- with from.
The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and
priesthood from the House of Stuart. --Macaulay.
The recollection of his former life is a dream that
only the more alienates him from the realities of
the present. --I. Taylor. AltercatingAltercate Al"ter*cate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Altercated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Altercating.] [L. altercatus, p. p. of
altercare, altercari, fr. alter another. See Alter.]
To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to
wrangle. AlternatingAlternate Al"ter*nate (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Alternated; p. pr. & vb. n. Alternating.] [L. alternatus,
p. p. of alternare. See Altern.]
To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by
turns; to interchange regularly.
The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this
life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition
of good and evil. --Grew. Alternating current
Alternating current Al"ter*nat`ing cur"rent (Elec.)
A current which periodically changes or reverses its
direction of flow.
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