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 attempt
[.] ATTEMPT', v.t. [L. attento, to attempt, of ad and tento, to try; tento is from the same root as tendo, to strain; Gr. Hence, the literal sense is to strain, urge, stretch.] [.] 1. To make an effort to effect some object; to make trial or experiment; to try; to ...

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 attemptable
[.] ATTEMPT'ABLE, a. That may be attempted, tried or attacked; liable to an attempt, or attack.

4281

 attempted
[.] ATTEMPT'ED, pp. Essayed; tried; attacked.

4282

 attempter
[.] ATTEMPT'ER, n. One who attempts, or attacks.

4283

 attempting
[.] ATTEMPT'ING, ppr. Trying; essaying; making an effort to gain a point; attacking.

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 contempt
[.] CONTEMPT, n. [L. See Contemn.] [.] 1. The act of despising; the act of viewing or considering and treating as mean, vile and worthless; disdain; hatred of what is mean or deemed vile. This word is one of the strongest expressions of a mean opinion which the language ...

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 contemptible
[.] CONTEMPTIBLE, a. [L.] [.] 1. Worthy of contempt; that deserves scorn, or disdain; despicable; mean; vile. Intemperance is a contemptible vice. No plant or animal is so contemptible as not to exhibit evidence of the wonderful power and wisdom of the Creator. [.] [.] The ...

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 contemptibleness
[.] CONTEMPTIBLENESS, n. The state of being contemptible, or of being despised; despicableness; meanness; vileness.

12306

 contemptibly
[.] CONTEMPTIBLY, adv. In a contemptible manner; meanly; in a manner deserving of contempt.

12307

 contemptuous
[.] CONTEMPTUOUS, a. Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; as contemptuous language or manner; a contemptuous opinion. Applied to men, apt to despise; haughty; insolent; as a nation, proud, severe, contemptuous.

12308

 contemptuously
[.] CONTEMPTUOUSLY, adv. In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. [.] [.] The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and treated contemptuously.

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 contemptuousness
[.] CONTEMPTUOUSNESS, n. Disposition to contempt; act of contempt; insolence; scornfulness; haughtiness.

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 metemptosis
[.] METEMP'TOSIS, n. [Gr. after, and to fall.] In chronology,the solar equation necessary to prevent the new moon from happening a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every ...

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 reattempt
[.] REATTEMPT', v.t. [re and attempt.] To attempt again.

54691

 tempt
[.] TEMPT, v.t. [L. tento; teneo; Gr. the primary sense is to strain, urge, press.] [.] 1. To incite or solicit to an evil act; to entice to something wrong by presenting arguments that are plausible or convincing, or by the offer of some pleasure or apparent advantage ...

54692

 temptable
[.] TEMPT'ABLE, a. Liable to be tempted.

54693

 temptation
[.] TEMPTA'TION, n. The act of tempting; enticement to evil by arguments, by flattery, or by the offer of some real or apparent good. [.] [.] When the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. Luke 4. [.] 1. Solicitation of the passions; ...

54694

 tempted
[.] TEMPT'ED, pp. Enticed to evil; provoked; tried.

54695

 tempter
[.] TEMPT'ER, n. One that solicits or entices to evil. [.] [.] Those who are bent to do wickedly, will never want tempters to urge them on. [.] 1. The great adversary of man; the devil. Matt.4.

54696

 tempting
[.] TEMPT'ING, ppr. Enticing to evil; trying. [.] 1. a. Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; as tempting pleasures.

54697

 temptingly
[.] TEMPT'INGLY, adv. In a manner to entice to evil; so as to allure.

54698

 temptress
[.] TEMPT'RESS, n. A female who entices.

57308

 unattempted
[.] UNATTEMPT'ED, a. Not attempted; not tried; not essayed. [.] Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.

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 untempted
[.] UNTEMPT'ED, a. Not tempted; not tried by enticements or persuasions; not invited by any thing alluring.

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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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SIR, n. sur.

1. A word or respect used in addresses to men, as madam is in addresses to women. It signifies properly lord, corresponding to dominus in Latin, in Spanish, and herr in German. It is used in the singular or plural. Speak on, sir. But sirs, be sudden in the execution.

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4. In American colleges, the title of a master of arts.

5. It is prefixed to loin, in sirloin; as a sirloin of beef. This practice is said to have originated in the knighting of a loin of beef by one of the English kings in a fit of good humor.

6. Formerly the title or a priest.

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