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Aggrace (�), n. Grace; favor. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Aggrade (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aggraded; p. pr. & vb. n. Aggrading.] (Phys. Geog.) To bring, or tend to bring, to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment.
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Aggrandizable (�), a. Capable of being aggrandized.
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Aggrandization (�), n. Aggrandizement. [Obs.] Waterhouse.
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Aggrandize (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aggrandized (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Aggrandizing (�).] [F. agrandir; à (L. ad) + grandir to increase, L. grandire, fr. grandis great. See , and cf. .] 1. To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.
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2. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc.
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His scheme for aggrandizing his son. Prescott.
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3. To make appear great or greater; to exalt. Lamb.
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Syn. -- To augment; exalt; promote; advance.
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Aggrandize, v. i. To increase or become great. [Obs.]
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Follies, continued till old age, do aggrandize. J. Hall.
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Aggrandizement (?; 277), n. [Cf. F. agrandissement.] The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.
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Syn. -- Augmentation; exaltation; enlargement; advancement; promotion; preferment.
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Aggrandizer (�), n. One who aggrandizes, or makes great.
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Aggrate (�), v. t. [It. aggratare, fr. L. ad + gratus pleasing. See , a.] To please. [Obs.]
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Each one sought his lady to aggrate. Spenser.
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Aggravate (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aggravated (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Aggravating.] [L. aggravatus, p. p. of aggravare. See .] 1. To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. [Obs.] “To aggravate thy store.” Shak.
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2. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. “To aggravate my woes.” Pope.
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To aggravate the horrors of the scene. Prescott.
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The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. Addison.
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3. To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. Paley.
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4. To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate. [Colloq.]
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If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine. Richardson (Clarissa).
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Syn. -- To heighten; intensify; increase; magnify; exaggerate; provoke; irritate; exasperate.
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aggravated adj. 1. 1 made more severe or intense, especially in law; as, aggravated assault.
Syn. -- intensified.
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2. 1 incited, especially deliberately, to anger. aggravated by passive resistance
Syn. -- provoked.
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Aggravating (�), a. 1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances.
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2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. [Colloq.]
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A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow.
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Aggravatingly, adv. In an aggravating manner.
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Aggravation (�), n. [LL. aggravatio: cf. F. aggravation.] 1. The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
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2. Exaggerated representation.
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By a little aggravation of the features changed it into the Saracen's head. Addison.
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3. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
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4. Provocation; irritation. [Colloq.] Dickens.
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Aggravative (�), a. Tending to aggravate. -- n. That which aggravates.
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Aggregate (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aggregated (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Aggregating.] [L. aggregatus, p. p. of aggregare to lead to a flock or herd; ad + gregare to collect into a flock, grex flock, herd. See .] 1. To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. “The aggregated soil.” Milton.
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2. To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
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It is many times hard to discern to which of the two sorts, the good or the bad, a man ought to be aggregated. Wollaston.
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3. To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels. [Colloq.]
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Syn. -- To heap up; accumulate; pile; collect.
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Aggregate (�), a. [L. aggregatus, p. p.] 1. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
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The aggregate testimony of many hundreds. Sir T. Browne.
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2. (Anat.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.
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3. (Bot.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
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4. (Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
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5. (Zoöl.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.
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Coloq. Corporation aggregate . (Law) See under .
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Aggregate, n. 1. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
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☞ In an aggregate the particulars are less intimately mixed than in a compound.
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2. (Physics) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
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Coloq. In the aggregate , collectively; together.
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Aggregately, adv. Collectively; in mass.
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Aggregation (�), n. [Cf. LL. aggregatio, F. agrégation.] The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.
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Each genus is made up by aggregation of species. Carpenter.
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A nation is not an idea only of local extent and individual momentary aggregation, but . . . of continuity, which extends in time as well as in numbers, and in space. Burke.
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Aggregative (�), a. [Cf. Fr. agrégatif.] 1. Taken together; collective.
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2. Gregarious; social. [R.] Carlyle.
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3. tending to gather into a mass.
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Aggregator (�), n. One who aggregates.
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Aggrege (�), v. t. [OF. agreger. See .] To make heavy; to aggravate. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Aggress (�), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Aggressed (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Aggressing.] [L. aggressus, p. p. of aggredi to go to, approach; ad + gradi to step, go, gradus step: cf. OF. aggresser. See .] To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.
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2. take the initiative and go on the offensive, as in a game.
Syn. -- attack
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Aggress, v. t. To set upon; to attack. [R.]
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Aggress, n. [L. aggressus.] Aggression. [Obs.]
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Their military aggresses on others. Sir M. Hale.
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Aggression (�), n. [L. aggressio, fr. aggredi: cf. F. agression.] The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. “Aggressions of power.” Hallam
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Syn. -- Attack; offense; intrusion; provocation.
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Aggressive (�), a. [Cf. F. agressif.] 1. Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.
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No aggressive movement was made. Macaulay.
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2. marked by self-confident ambition, competitiveness, energy and initiative; as, an aggressive young executive.
Syn. -- enterprising, pushful, pushing, pushy
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3. 1 (Med., Biol.) tending to spread quickly an aggressive tumor [Narrower terms: invasive (vs. noninvasive) ]
Syn. -- fast-growing(prenominal)
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4. characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight aggressive acts against another country
Syn. -- belligerent
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Narrower related terms: bellicose, combative, pugnacious, scrappy, truculent ; hard-hitting, high-pressure ; hostile (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business: hostile takeover; hostile tender offer); predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous . See also: assertive, hostile, offensive.
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-- Aggressively, adv. -- Aggressiveness, n.
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Aggressor (�), n. [L.: cf. F. agresseur.] The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
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The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.
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Aggrievance (�), n. [OF. agrevance, fr. agrever. See .] Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. [Archaic]
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Aggrieve (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aggrieved (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Aggrieving (�).] [OE. agreven, OF. agrever; a (L. ad) + grever to burden, injure, L. gravare to weigh down, fr. gravis heavy. See , and cf. .] To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved.
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Aggrieved by oppression and extortion. Macaulay.
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Aggrieve, v. i. To grieve; to lament. [Obs.]
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aggrieved adj. 1. 1 subjected to an injustice. the aggrieved mother.
Syn. -- injured, wronged.
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aggro n. 1. aggravation or aggression. [informal British usage] I skipped it because it was too much aggro
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Aggroup (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aggrouped (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Aggrouping.] [F. agrouper; à (L. ad) + groupe group. See ..] To bring together in a group; to group. Dryden.
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Aggroupment (�), n. Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
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Aggry, Aggri (�), a. Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.
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Aghast (�), v. t. See , v. t. [Obs.]
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Aghast (�), a. & p. p. [OE. agast, agasted, p. p. of agasten to terrify, fr. AS. pref. ā- (cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) + g�stan to terrify, torment: cf. Goth. usgaisjan to terrify, primitively to fix, to root to the spot with terror; akin to L. haerere to stick fast, cling. See , .] Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
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Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed,
Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden.
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The commissioners read and stood aghast. Macaulay.
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Agible (�), a. [Cf. LL. agibilis, fr. L. agere to move, do.] Possible to be done; practicable. [Obs.] “Fit for agible things.” Sir A. Sherley.
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Agile (�), a. [F. agile, L. agilis, fr. agere to move. See .] Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.
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Shaking it with agile hand. Cowper.
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Syn. -- Active; alert; nimble; brisk; lively; quick.
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Agilely, adv. In an agile manner; nimbly.
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Agileness, n. Agility; nimbleness. [R.]
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Agility (�), n. [F. agilié, L. agilitas, fr. agilis.] 1. The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body.
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They . . . trust to the agility of their wit. Bacon.
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Wheeling with the agility of a hawk. Sir W. Scott.
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2. Activity; powerful agency. [Obs.]
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The agility of the sun's fiery heat. Holland.
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Agincourt n. 1. a battle in which English longbowmen under Henry V decisively defeated a much larger French army in 1415. It was named for the site at which it occurred.
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Aging (�), n. the process by which objects or materials acquire desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time under specific conditions. It is used mostly for foods snd beverages, but also for other materials. [Also spelled ageing.]
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Agio (�), n.; pl. Agios (�). [It. aggio exchange, discount, premium, the same word as agio ease. See Ease.] (Com.) The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.
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Agiotage (�), n. [F. agiotage, fr. agioter to practice stockjobbing, fr. agio.] Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds.
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Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor.
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agism n. discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people. [Also spelled ageism.]
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Agist (�), v. t. [OF. agister; à (L. ad) + gister to assign a lodging, fr. giste lodging, abode, F. gîte, LL. gistum, gista, fr. L. jacitum, p. p. of jac�re to lie: cf. LL. agistare, adgistare. See .] (Law) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. Blackstone.
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Agistator (�), n. [LL.] See .
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{ Agister, Agistor } (�), n. [Anglo-Norman agistour.] (Law) (a) Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker. (b) Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer. Mozley & W.
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Agistment (�), n. [OF. agistement. See .] (Law) (a) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests. (b) The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate. Mozley & W. (c) The price paid for such feeding. (d) A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.
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Agitable (�), a. [L. agitabilis: cf. F. agitable.] Capable of being agitated, or easily moved. [R.]
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Agitate (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Agitated (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Agitating (�).] [L. agitatus, p. p. of agitare to put in motion, fr. agere to move: cf. F. agiter. See , .] 1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. “Winds . . . agitate the air.” Cowper.
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2. To move or actuate. [R.] Thomson.
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3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
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The mind of man is agitated by various passions. Johnson.
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4. To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated. Boyle.
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5. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
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Syn. -- To move; shake; excite; rouse; disturb; distract; revolve; discuss; debate; canvass.
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agitated adj. 1. troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of unagitated. agitated parents Narrower terms are: demoniac, demoniacal ; distraught, overwrought; disturbed, jolted, shaken; feverish, hectic; frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied; psychedelic ; rampageous, raging, frenzied ; wild-eyed . Also See: discomposed, excited, impatient, tense, unquiet, unsteady.
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2. 1 throwing oneself from side to side.
Syn. -- tossing
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3. physically disturbed or set in motion; as, the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled. Opposite of unagitated and left alone, allowed to stand. [Narrower terms are: churning, churned-up, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent ; stirred.]
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Agitatedly, adv. In an agitated manner.
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Agitation (�), n. [L. agitatio: cf. F. agitation.] 1. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.
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2. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation.
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3. Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation. “Religious agitations.” Prescott.
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4. Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.
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A logical agitation of the matter. L'Estrange.
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The project now in agitation. Swift.
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Syn. -- Emotion; commotion; excitement; trepidation; tremor; perturbation. See .
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agitating adj. 1. causing or tending to cause anger or resentment.
Syn. -- agitative, provoking.
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Agitative (�), a. Tending to agitate.
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Agitato (�), a. [It., agitated.] (Mus.) Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.
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Agitator (�), n. [L.] 1. One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.
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2. (Eng. Hist.) One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators. Clarendon.
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3. An implement for shaking or mixing.
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agitprop n. 1. [agitation + propaganda.] 1. agitation and propaganda; -- used especially for such activities carried out on behalf of communist activists.
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2. a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government; one disseminating . Also called agitpropist.
Syn. -- propagandist
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agitpropist n. [agitation + propaganda + -ist.] same as .
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Agkistrodon n. a genus of snakes comprising the copperheads.
Syn. -- genus Agkistrodon, Ancistrodon, genus Ancistrodon.
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Aglaomorpha n. 1. 1 a genus of epiphytic ferns of tropical Asia.
Syn. -- genus Aglaomorpha.
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Aglaonema n. 1. 1 a genus of Indo-Malayan climbing herbs having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers: Chinese evergreen.
Syn. -- genus Aglaonema.
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Agleam (�), adv. & a. [Pref. a- + gleam.] Gleaming; as, faces agleam. Lowell.
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{ Aglet (ăglĕt), Aiglet (āglĕt), } n. [F. aiguillette point, tagged point, dim. of aiguilee needle, fr. LL. acucula for acicula, dim. of L. acus needle, pin; cf. OF. agleter to hook on. See , and cf. .] 1. A tag of a lace or of the points, braids, or cords formerly used in dress. They were sometimes formed into small images. Hence, “aglet baby” (Shak.), an aglet image.
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2. (Haberdashery) A round white staylace. Beck.
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Agley (�), adv. Aside; askew. [Scotch] Burns.
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Aglimmer (�), adv. & a. [Pref. a- + glimmer.] In a glimmering state. Hawthorne.
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Aglitter (�), adv. & a. [Pref. a- + glitter.] Glittering; in a glitter.
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Aglossal (�), a. [Gr. �.] (Zoöl.) Without tongue; tongueless.
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Aglow (�), adv. & a. [Pref. a- + glow.] In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.
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Aglutition (�), n. [Pref. a- not + L. glutire to swallow.] (Med.) Inability to swallow.
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Agminal (�), a. [L. agminalis; agmen, agminis, a train.] Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train. [R.]
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{ Agminate (�), Agminated (�), } a. [L. agmen, agminis, a train, crowd.] (Physiol.) Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine.
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Agnail (�), n. [AS. angnægl; ange vexation, trouble + nægel nail. Cf. .] 1. A corn on the toe or foot. [Obs.]
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2. An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail.
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Agnate (�), a. [L. agnatus, p. p. of agnasci to be born in addition to; ad + nasci (for gnasci) to be born. Cf. .] 1. Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor; as, agnate brother: a brother having the same father, but a different mother; in ths sense it is a correlative of uterine.
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2. Allied; akin. “Agnate words.” Pownall.
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Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former. Landor.
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Agnate, n. [Cf. F. agnat.] (Civil Law) A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.
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Agnatha n. a class of eel-shaped chordates with a cartilaginous skeleton lacking jaws, scales, and pelvic fins. Among these are the lampreys and hagfishes. There are some extinct forms.
Syn. -- class Agnatha.
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agnathan n. 1. an eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages; a member of the Agnatha. The group includes the cyclostomes and some extinct forms.
Syn. -- jawless vertebrate, jawless fish
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Agnatic (�), a. [Cf. F. agnatique.] Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors. “The agnatic succession.” Blackstone.
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Agnation (�), n. [L. agnatio: cf. F. agnation.] 1. (Civil Law) Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. Bouvier.
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