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entire; pref. in-, negative + the root of tangere to touch. See 1. Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance. That ye may be perfect

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entire; pref. in-, negative + the root of tangere to touch. See 1. Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance. That ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James i. 4. With strength entire and free will armed. Milton. One entire and perfect chrysolite. Shak. 2. Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful. Pure fear and entire cowardice. Shak. No man had ever a heart more entire to the king. Clarendon. Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla. Having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth. 4. Not gelded; -- said of a horse. 5. Internal; interior. Spenser. Syn. -- See Whole, and Radical.

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  • CONSUMMATELY
    In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
  • OUTRAGEOUS
    Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
  • ANIMALIZATION
    1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
  • NATURALIST
    1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
  • ANIMALCULISM
    The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
  • BAFFLE
    1. To practice deceit. Barrow. 2. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
  • INGRAIN
    1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
  • NATURAL STEEL
    Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
  • FINISHER
    1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
  • ANIMALITY
    Animal existence or nature. Locke.
  • PERFECT
    Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly
  • TOTALIS
    The total. I look on nothing but totalis. B. Jonson.
  • COARSE
    was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
  • THOROUGHWORT
    See BONESET
  • EVERYWHERENESS
    Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
  • INTEGRAL
    1. Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire. A local motion keepeth bodies integral. Bacon. 2. Essential to completeness; constituent, as a part; pertaining to, or serving to form, an integer; integrant. Ceasing
  • EVERYWHERE
    In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
  • ANIMALLY
    Physically. G. Eliot.
  • ANIMALNESS
    Animality.
  • SENSUALISTIC
    1. Sensual. 2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.
  • SUPERNATURALNESS
    The quality or state of being supernatural.
  • UNSEEMLY
    Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
  • ABORIGINALLY
    Primarily.
  • PRETERNATURALITY
    Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
  • SPORADICAL
    Sporadic.
  • PARIPINNATE
    Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.

 

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