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07/09/2025

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RETROACTIVE

Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action;affecting what is past; retrospective. Beddoes. Retroactive law orstatute (Law), one which operates to make criminal or punishable, orin any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to the passing of thelaw.

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LACKER

One who lacks or is in want.

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DISULPHURET

See Disulphide.

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ATTIRED

Provided with antlers, as a stag.

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DRIFTWEED

Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin.

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AU GRATIN

With a crust made by browning in the oven; as, spaghetti may beserved au gratin.

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AMPHIBOLOGY

A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of twointerpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs fromequivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.

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GRADUS

A dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek orLatin poetry.He set to work . . . without gradus or other help. T. Hughes.

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ACOLYTH

Same as Acolyte.

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APHIS LION

The larva of the lacewinged flies (Chrysopa), which feedsvoraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvæ of theladybugs (Coccinella).

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EIGHTFOLD

Eight times a quantity.

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OSMIDROSIS

The secretion of fetid sweat.