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12/07/2024

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HESITATINGLY

With hesitation or doubt.

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EXPERIENCE TABLE

A table of mortality computed from the experience of one ormore life-insurance companies.

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PURPORTLESS

Without purport or meaning.

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INVEIGH

To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to uttercensorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism orreproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- withagainst; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs,morals, a law, an abuse.All men inveighed against him; all men, except court vassals, opposedhim. Milton.The artificial life against which we inveighed. Hawthorne.

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KERASINE

Resembling horn; horny; corneous.

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ANTISTROPHON

An argument retorted on an opponent. Milton.

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ANTIDOTARY

Antidotal.-- n. Antidote; also, a book of antidotes.

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FANTAST

One whose manners or ideas are fantastic. [R.] Coleridge.

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LITHO

A combining form from Gr. stone.

#37247

SOVEREIGN

Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalidi, or genus Basilarchia, asthe ursula and the viceroy.

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SYRINGEAL

Of or pertaining to the syrinx; as, the syringeal muscle.

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ADIAPHOROUS

Incapable of doing either harm or good, as some medicines.Dunglison.