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18/11/2025

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LUSTRATE

To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; topurify.We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city. Hammond.

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STATEDLY

At stated times; regularly.

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ENEPIDERMIC

Applied to the skin without friction; -- said of medicines.

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POTENTIOMETER

An instrument for measuring or comparing electrial potentialsor electro-motive forces.

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QUEERISH

Rather queer; somewhat singular.

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CHAST

to chasten. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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KUKLUX

The name adopted in the southern part of the United States by asecret political organization, active for several years after theclose of the Civil War, and having for its aim the repression of thepolitical power of the freedmen; -- called also Kuklux Klan.

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DIGITIFORM

Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, adigitiform root.

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REPUGNANT

Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being atvariance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also,distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to,rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant toher nature.[His sword] repugnant to command. Shak.There is no breach of a divine law but is more or less repugnant untothe will of the Lawgiver, God himself. Perkins.

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MEGASTHENE

One of a group which includes the higher orders of mammals,having a large size as a typical characteristic.

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CIRCULATORY

Subserving the purposes of circulation; as, circulatory organs;of or pertaining to the organs of circulation; as, circulatorydiseases.

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PERIPTEROUS

Peripteral.