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9358

 chaplain
[.] CHAPLAIN, n. [.] 1. An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs service in a chapel. The king of Great Britain has forty-eight chaplains, who attend, four each month, to perform divine service for the royal family. Princes also, and persons of quality have ...

9359

 chaplaincy
[.] CHAPLAINCY, n. The office or station of a chaplain.

9360

 chaplainship
[.] CHAPLAINSHIP, n. [.] 1. The office or business of a chaplain. [.] 2. The possession, or revenue of a chapel.

11364

 complain
[.] COMPLAIN, v.i. [.] 1. To utter expressions of grief; to lament. [.] [.] I will complain in the bitterness of my spirit. Job 7. [.] [.] I complained and my spirit was overwhelmed. Ps. 77. [.] 2. To utter expressions of censure or resentment; to murmur; to ...

11365

 complainable
[.] COMPLAINABLE, a. That may be complained of.

11366

 complainant
[.] COMPLAINANT, n. [.] 1. A prosecutor; one who prosecutes by complaint, or commences a legal process against an offender for the recovery of a right or penalty. [.] [.] He shall forfeit one moiety to the use of the town; and the other moiety to the use of the complainant. [.] 2. ...

11367

 complainer
[.] COMPLAINER, n. One who complains, or expresses grief; one who laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer. [.] These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts. Jude 16.

11368

 complainful
[.] COMPLAINFUL, a. Full of complaint.

11369

 complaining
[.] COMPLAINING, ppr. Expressing grief, sorrow, or censure; finding fault; murmuring; lamenting; accusing of an offense. [.] COMPLAINING, n. The expression of regret, sorrow, or injury.

11370

 complaint
[.] COMPLAINT, n. [.] 1. Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; a finding fault. [.] [.] Even to day is my complaint bitter. Job 23. [.] 2. The cause or subject of complaint, or murmuring. [.] [.] The poverty of the ...

13188

 court-chaplain
[.] COURT-CHAPLAIN, n. A chaplain to a king or prince.

20749

 explain
[.] EXPLA'IN, v.t. [L. explano; ex and planus, plain, open, smooth.] [.] To make plain,manifest or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to illustrate by discourse, or by notes. The first business of a preacher is to explain his text. Notes and comments are ...

20750

 explainable
[.] EXPLA'INABLE, a. That may be cleared of obscurity; capable of being made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted.

20751

 explained
[.] EXPLA'INED, pp. Made clear or obvious to the understanding; cleared of doubt, ambiguity or obscurity; expounded; illustrated.

20752

 explainer
[.] EXPLA'INER, n. One who explains; an expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.

20753

 explaining
[.] EXPLA'INING, ppr. Expounding; illustrating; interpreting; opening to the understanding; clearing of obscurity.

29544

 inexplainable
[.] INEXPLA'INABLE, a. That cannot be explained; inexplicable. [The latter word is generally used.]

41211

 plain
[.] PLAIN, a. [L. planus; splendor. Gr. to wander.] [.] 1. Smooth; even; level; flat; without elevations and depressions; not rough; as plain ground or land; a plain surface. In this sense, in philosophical writings, it is written plane. [.] 2. Open; clear. [.] [.] ...

41212

 plain-dealing
[.] PLAIN-DE'ALING, a. [plain and deal.] Dealing or communicating with frankness and sincerity; honest; open; speaking and acting without art; as a plain-dealing man. [.] PLAIN-DE'ALING, n. A speaking or communicating with openness and sincerity; management without ...

41213

 plain-hearted
[.] PLA'IN-HE`ARTED, a. Having a sincere heart; communicating without art, reserve or hypocrisy; of a frank disposition.

41214

 plain-heartedness
[.] PLAIN-HE`ARTEDNESS, n. Frankness of disposition; sincerity.

41215

 plain-song
[.] PLA'IN-SONG, n. The plain unvaried chant of churches; so called in contradistinction from the prick-song, or variegated music sung by note.

41216

 plain-spoken
[.] PLA'IN-SPOKEN, a. Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity.

41217

 plain-work
[.] PLA'IN-WORK, n. Plain needlework, as distinguished from embroidery.

41218

 plainly
[.] PLA'INLY, adv. With a level surface. [Little used.] [.] 1. Without cunning or disguise. [.] 2. Without ornament or artificial embellishment; as, to be plainly clad. [.] 3. Frankly; honestly; sincerely; as, deal plainly with me. [.] 4. In earnest; fairly. [.] 5. ...

41219

 plainness
[.] PLA'INNESS, n. Levelness; evenness or surface. [.] 1. Want of ornament; want of artificial show. [.] [.] So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. [.] 2. Openness; rough, blunt or unrefined frankness. [.] [.] Your plainness and your shortness please me ...

41220

 plaint
[.] PLAINT, n. [L. plango, to strike, to beat, to lament, whence complaint; Gr. to strike, from the root disused, whence, a stroke; L. plaga, Eng. plague.] [.] 1. Lamentation; complaint; audible expression of sorrow. [.] [.] From inward grief [.] [.] His bursting ...

41221

 plaintful
[.] PLA'INTFUL, a. Complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice; as my plaintful tongue.

41222

 plaintif
[.] PLA'INTIF, n. In law, the person who commences a suit before a tribunal, for the recovery of a claim; opposed to defendant. [.] [Prior uses this word as an adjective, in the French sense, for plaintive, but the use is not authorized.]

41223

 plaintive
[.] PLA'INTIVE, a. Lamenting; complaining; expressive of sorrow; as a plaintive sound or song. [.] 1. Complaining; expressing sorrow or grief; repining. [.] [.] To sooth the sorrows of her plaintive son.

41224

 plaintively
[.] PLA'INTIVELY ,adv. In a manner expressive of grief.

41225

 plaintiveness
[.] PLA'INTIVENESS, n. The quality or state of expressing grief.

41226

 plaintless
[.] PLA'INTLESS, a. Without complaint; unrepining.

54847

 terre-plain
[.] TERRE-PLAIN, n. In fortification, the top, platform or horizontal surface of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed.

57657

 uncomplaining
[.] UNCOMPLA'INING, a. Not complaining; not murmuring; not disposed to murmur.

58288

 unexplainable
[.] UNEXPLA'INABLE, a. That cannot be explained.

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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.

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Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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forestall

FORESTALL', v.t. [See Stall.]

1. To anticipate; to take beforehand.

Why need a man forestall his date of grief, and run to meet what he would most avoid?

2. To hinder by preoccupation or prevention.

I will not forestall your judgment of the rest.

3. In law, to buy or bargain for corn, or provisions of any kind, before they arrive at the market or fair, with intent to sell them at higher prices. This is a penal offense.

4. To deprive by something prior. [Not in use.]

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