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02/05/2024

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INTINCTIVITY

The want of the quality of coloring or tingeing other bodies.Kirwan.

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EFFECTIVENESS

The quality of being effective.

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CONCUPISCENCE

Sexual lust; morbid carnal passion.Concupiscence like a pestilence walketh in darkness. Horne.

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JACKKNIFE

A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife.

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MANDIL

A loose outer garment worn the 16th and 17th centuries.

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LEVITICUS

The third canonical book of the Old Testament, containing thelaws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among theHebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law.

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YARAGE

The power of moving, or being managed, at sea; -- said withreference to a ship. Sir T. North.

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PERIENTERON

The primitive perivisceral cavity.

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ELECTION

Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects ofmercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism.There is a remnant according to the election of grace. Rom. xi. 5.

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NOMADIZE

To lead the life of a nomad; to wander with flocks and herdsfor the sake of finding pasturage.The Vogules nomadize chiefly about the Rivers Irtish, Obi, Kama, andVolga. W. Tooke.

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ALKALIZE

To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkalito.

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ELECTROSCOPE

An instrument for detecting the presence of electricity, orchanges in the electric state of bodies, or the species ofelectricity present, as by means of pith balls, and the like.Condensing electroscope (Physics), a form of electroscope in which anincrease of sensibility is obtained by the use of a condenser.