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Cosmothetic
Cosmothetic Cos`mo*thet"ic (k?z`m?-th?t"?k), a. [Gr. ko`smos universe + ??? to place or arrange.] (Metaph.) Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world. Cosmothetic idealists (Metaph.), those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance. The cosmothetic idealists . . . deny that mind is immediately conscious of matter. --Sir W. Hamilton.
Cosmothetic idealists
Cosmothetic Cos`mo*thet"ic (k?z`m?-th?t"?k), a. [Gr. ko`smos universe + ??? to place or arrange.] (Metaph.) Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world. Cosmothetic idealists (Metaph.), those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance. The cosmothetic idealists . . . deny that mind is immediately conscious of matter. --Sir W. Hamilton.
Smother
Smother Smoth"er, n. That which smothers or causes a sensation of smothering, as smoke, fog, the foam of the sea, a confused multitude of things. Then they vanished, swallowed up in the grayness of the evening and the smoke and smother of the storm. --The Century.
Smother
Smother Smoth"er, v. i. 1. To be suffocated or stifled. 2. To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.
Smother
Smother Smoth"er, n. [OE. smorther. See Smother, v. t.] 1. Stifling smoke; thick dust. --Shak. 2. A state of suppression. [Obs.] Not to keep their suspicions in smother. --Bacon. Smother fly (Zo["o]l.), an aphid.
Smother fly
Smother Smoth"er, n. [OE. smorther. See Smother, v. t.] 1. Stifling smoke; thick dust. --Shak. 2. A state of suppression. [Obs.] Not to keep their suspicions in smother. --Bacon. Smother fly (Zo["o]l.), an aphid.
Smothered mate
Smothered mate Smoth"ered mate (Chess) Checkmate given when movement of the king is completely obstructed by his own men.
Smotheriness
Smotheriness Smoth"er*i*ness, n. The quality or state of being smothery.
Smotheringly
Smotheringly Smoth"er*ing*ly, adv. In a smothering manner.
Smothery
Smothery Smoth"er*y, a. Tending to smother; stifling.
Thesmothete
Thesmothete Thes"mo*thete, n. [Gr. ?; ? that which is established, a law (fr. ? to set) + ? a giver (also fr. ?).] (Gr. Antiq.) A lawgiver; a legislator; one of the six junior archons at Athens.

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- below) in such terms as "rody, fresh, and lyvely hewed", her neck as "whyt, smothe, streght, and flat", and her throat as "a round tour of yvoire": she was...
- hadde as smal as hath a goot. No berd hadde he, ne nevere sholde have; As smothe it was as it were late shave. I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare. The last...
- 1379 Richard, son of Adam Clerk, kinsman and heir to Thomas, son of Thomas Smothe, released to Roger Bekeford a messuage and seven shops in the Street of...