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25/05/2025

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SEABEACH

A beach lying along the sea. "The bleak seabeach." Longfellow.

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GRINTING

Grinding. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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EMPERICE

An empress. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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MAHDISM

Belief in the coming of the Mahdi; fanatical devotion to thecause of the Mahdi or a pretender to that title. -- Mah"dist (#), n.

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DIMINISHMENT

Diminution. [R.] Cheke.

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PROPAGANDIST

A person who devotes himself to the spread of any system ofprinciples. "Political propagandists." Walsh.

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EXCITING

Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as,exciting events; an exciting story.-- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes (Med.), those whichimmediately produce disease, or those which excite the action ofpredisposing causes.

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STOPPER

A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with alanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something. Totten.

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ACTLESS

Without action or spirit. [R.]

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DISSEIZE

To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oustwrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of;as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold. [Written also disseise.]Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those goldenmines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them thereof. Holland.

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SPARKLER

One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvidentperson. [Obs.]

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DISPRIZE

To do preciate. [R.] Cotton (Ode to Lydia).