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[.] MISOBSERVE, v.t. misobzerv'. To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing.

[.] OBSERVE, v.t. obzerv'. [L. observo; ob and servo, to keep or hold. The sense is to hold in view, or to keep the eyes on.] [.] 1. To see or behold with some attention; to notice; as, to observe a halo round the moon; I observed a singular phenomenon; we observe ...

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[.] OBSERV'ED, pp. s as z. [.] 1. Noticed by the eye or the mind. [.] 2. Kept religiously; celebrated; practiced. [.]

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observer

[.] OBSERV'ER, n. s as z. [.] 1. One who observes; one that takes notice; particularly, one who looks to with care, attention or vigilance. [.] Careful observers may foretell the hour, by sure prognostic, when to dread a shower. [.] Creditors are great observers ...

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unobserved

[.] UNOBSERV'ED, a. Not observed; not noticed; not seen; not regarded; not heeded.

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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taint

TAINT, v.t. [L. tingo; Gr. to dye, literally to dip, primarily to thrust, the sense of L. tango; and n not being radical, the real word is tego or tago, coinciding with Eng. duck; hence its sense in extinguo. See Dye, Attaint and Tinge.]

1. To imbue or impregnate, as with some extraneous matter which alters the sensible qualities of the substance.

The spaniel struck

Stiff by the tainted gale--

2. More generally, to impregnate with something odious, noxious or poisonous; as, putrid substances taint the air.

3. To infect; to poison. The breath of consumptive lungs is said to taint sound lungs.

4. To corrupt, as by incipient putrefaction; as tainted meat.

5. To stain; to sully; to tarnish.

We come not by the way of accusation

To taint that honor every good tongue blesses.

6. To corrupt, as blood; to attaint. [Not in use.] [See Attaint.]

TAINT, v.i. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.

I cannot taint with fear.

1. To be affected with incipient putrefaction.

Meat soon taints in warm weather.

TAINT, n. Tincture; stain.

1. Infection; corruption; depravation. Keep children from the taint of low and vicious company.

2. A stain; a spot; a blemish on reputation.

3. An insect; a kind of spider.

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