*empti*

a. [ Gr. 'apopemptiko`s, fr. 'apope`mpein to send off or away; 'apo` from + pe`mpein to send. ] Sung or addressed to one departing; valedictory; as, apopemptic songs or hymns. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disposed to attempt; adventurous. [ Obs. ] Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. coëmptio, fr. coëmere to buy up. See Emption. ] The act of buying the whole quantity of any commodity. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness. Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Insolent; scornful; contemptuous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If she should make tender of her love, 't is very possible he 'll scorn it; for the man . . . hath a contemptible spirit. Shak.

Syn. -- Despicable; abject; vile; mean; base; paltry; worthless; sorry; pitiful; scurrile. See Contemptuous. -- Contemptible, Despicable, Pitiful, Paltry. Despicable is stronger than contemptible, as despise is stronger than contemn. It implies keen disapprobation, with a mixture of anger. A man is despicable chiefly for low actions which mark his life, such as servility, baseness, or mean adulation. A man is contemptible for mean qualities which distinguish his character, especially those which show him to be weak, foolish, or worthless. Treachery is despicable, egotism is contemptible. Pitiful and paltry are applied to cases which are beneath anger, and are simply contemptible in a high degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a contemptible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. diremptio. ] A tearing apart; violent separation. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, empties. [ 1913 Webster ]

compar. of Empty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Empty. ] 1. The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; as, the emptiness of earthly glory. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eternal smiles his emptiness betray. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. emptio, fr. emere to buy. ] The act of buying. [ R. ] Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being purchased. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be exempted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exemptio a removing: cf. F. exemption exemption. ] The act of exempting; the state of being exempt; freedom from any charge, burden, evil, etc., to which others are subject; immunity; privilege; as, exemption of certain articles from seizure; exemption from military service; exemption from anxiety, suffering, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Separable. [ Obs. ] “Exemptitious from matter.” Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. peremptio: cf. F. péremption. ] (Law) A quashing; a defeating. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. pre- + emption: cf. F. préemption. See Redeem. ] The act or right of preemption. Specifically: (a) The act or right of purchasing before others. (b) The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others. [ Eng. ] (c) The right of an actual settler upon public lands (particularly those of the United States) to purchase a certain portion at a fixed price in preference to all other applicants. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds a prior right to purchase certain public land. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to preëmption; having power to preëmpt; preëmpting. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Redeemable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. rédemption, L. redemptio. See redeem, and cf. ransom. ] The act of redeeming, or the state of being redeemed; repurchase; ransom; release; rescue; deliverance; as, the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo. Specifically: (a) (Law) The liberation of an estate from a mortgage, or the taking back of property mortgaged, upon performance of the terms or conditions on which it was conveyed; also, the right of redeeming and reentering upon an estate mortgaged. See Equity of redemption, under Equity. (b) (Com.) Performance of the obligation stated in a note, bill, bond, or other evidence of debt, by making payment to the holder. (c) (Theol.) The procuring of God's favor by the sufferings and death of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. [ 1913 Webster ]

In whom we have redemption through his blood. Eph. i. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is, or may be, redeemed. [ R. ] Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to America, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (R.C.Ch.) A monk of an order founded in 1197; -- so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also Trinitarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive work of Christ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Tempt"ing*ly, adv. -- Tempt"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]