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07/10/2026

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HANDFAST

Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands. [Obs.] Bale.

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SYLLABIZE

To syllabify. Howell.

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PURITANISM

The doctrines, notions, or practice of Puritans.

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TAXABILITY

The quality or state of being taxable; taxableness.

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INCOCTED

Raw; indigestible. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

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CHLOROUS

Pertaining to, or resembling, the electro-negative character ofchlorine; hence, electro-negative; -- opposed to basylous or zincous.[Obs.]

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POSIT

To assume as real or conceded; as, to posit a principle. Sir W.Hamilton.

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CIRCULATIVE

Promoting circulation; circulating. [R.] Coleridge.

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LATRIA

The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; --distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferiorworship paid to saints.

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HARVESTING

, from Harvest, v. t. Harvesting ant (Zoöl.), any species ofant which gathers and stores up seeds for food. Many species areknown.

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FILCH

To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of littlevalue); to pilfer.Fain would they filch that little food away. Dryden.But he that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which notenriches him, And makes me poor indeed. Shak.

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FEROCITY

Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity ofcountenance.The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.