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With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly. In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths. Atterbury. So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they

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With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly. In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths. Atterbury. So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong. Pope.

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  • RIGHT-RUNNING
    Straight; direct.
  • COMPOSITOUS
    Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
  • CHANCELLERY
    Chancellorship. Gower.
  • DESIGN
    drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
  • DECLINATION
    The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining
  • DESIGNATE
    Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
  • PURPOSELESS
    Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
  • RIGHTEOUSNESS
    The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
  • CROWD
    1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
  • COMPOSURE
    1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
  • COMPOSSIBLE
    Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
  • OFFENSIVE
    1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. "Offensive to the stomach."
  • DECLINATOR
    1. An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane. 2. A dissentient. Bp. Hacket.
  • PURPOSE
    1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
  • COMPOSE
    To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
  • PREDETERMINATION
    The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.
  • COMPOSER
    1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
  • DISCOURSE
    fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
  • CHANCEFUL
    Hazardous. Spenser.
  • RIGHT-ANGLED
    Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
  • INDECOMPOSABLENESS
    Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
  • BESCORN
    To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.
  • BRIGHT
    See I
  • CARTWRIGHT
    An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
  • DECOMPOSE
    To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
  • FRIGHTFUL
    1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
  • SPRIGHTLY
    Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
  • SHRIGHT
    imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
  • INTHRONG
    To throng or collect together. Fairfax.
  • FOREDESIGN
    To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
  • UPRIGHTNESS
    the quality or state of being upright.

 

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