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a. [ Cf. F. abolissable. ] Capable of being abolished. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who abolishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. abolissement. ] The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Accomplished p. pr. & vb. n. Accomplishing. ] [ OE. acomplissen, OF. accomplir, F. accomplir; L. ad + complere to fill up, complete. See Complete, Finish. ] 1. To complete, as time or distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Dan. ix. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had accomplished half a league or more. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise. [ 1913 Webster ]

This that is written must yet be accomplished in me. Luke xxii. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish. [ 1913 Webster ]

The armorers accomplishing the knights. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

It [ the moon ] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. Cowden Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To gain; to obtain. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To do; perform; fulfill; realize; effect; effectuate; complete; consummate; execute; achieve; perfect; equip; furnish. -- To Accomplish, Effect, Execute, Achieve, Perform. These words agree in the general idea of carrying out to some end proposed. To accomplish (to fill up to the measure of the intention) generally implies perseverance and skill; as, to accomplish a plan proposed by one's self, an object, a design, an undertaking. “Thou shalt accomplish my desire.” 1 Kings v. 9. [ 1913 Webster ] He . . . expressed his desire to see a union accomplished between England and Scotland. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ] To effect (to work out) is much like accomplish. It usually implies some degree of difficulty contended with; as, he effected or accomplished what he intended, his purpose, but little. “What he decreed, he effected.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] To work in close design by fraud or guile
What force effected not. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] To execute (to follow out to the end, to carry out, or into effect) implies a set mode of operation; as, to execute the laws or the orders of another; to execute a work, a purpose, design, plan, project. To perform is much like to do, though less generally applied. It conveys a notion of protracted and methodical effort; as, to perform a mission, a part, a task, a work. “Thou canst best perform that office.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] The Saints, like stars, around his seat
Perform their courses still. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ] To achieve (to come to the end or arrive at one's purpose) usually implies some enterprise or undertaking of importance, difficulty, and excellence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being accomplished; practicable. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. [ 1913 Webster ]

They . . . show themselves accomplished bees. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

Daughter of God and man, accomplished Eve. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who accomplishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. accomplissement, fr. accomplir. ] 1. The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training. “My new accomplishment of dancing.” Churchill. “Accomplishments befitting a station.” Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place,
And wisdom falls before exterior grace. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like ale; as, an alish taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like an animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the doctrine or political position that opposes the withdrawal of state recognition of an established church; -- used especially concerning the Anglican Church in England. Opposed to disestablishmentarianism. [ PJC ]

a. Doubtful; skittish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Law) A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Partaking of the nature of a bull, or a blunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let me inform you, a toothless satire is as improper as a toothed sleek stone, and as bullish. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. “Churlish benefits.” Ld. Burleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a churlish manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Joint establishment. Bp. Watson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Shoemaking) A tool to polish the edge of a sole. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat cool. [ 1913 Webster ]

The nights began to grow a little coolish. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Demolished p. pr. & vb. n. Demolishing. ] [ F. démolir, fr. L. demoliri, p. p. demolitus; de- + moliri to set a thing in motion, to work, construct, from moles a huge mass or structure. See Mole a mound, and Finish. ] To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

I expected the fabric of my book would long since have been demolished, and laid even with the ground. Tillotson.

Syn. -- To Demolish, Overturn, Destroy, Dismantle, Raze. That is overturned or overthrown which had stood upright; that is destroyed whose component parts are scattered; that is demolished which had formed a mass or structure; that is dismantled which is stripped of its covering, as a vessel of its sails, or a fortress of its bastions, etc.; that is razed which is brought down smooth, and level to the ground. An ancient pillar is overturned or overthrown as the result of decay; a city is destroyed by an invasion of its enemies; a monument, the walls of a castle, a church, or any structure, real or imaginary, may be demolished; a fortress may be dismantled from motives of prudence, in order to render it defenseless; a city may be razed by way of punishment, and its ruins become a memorial of vengeance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of towns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Demolition. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To remove the polish or glaze from. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Ceramics) The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme. “Devilish wickedness.” Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. James iii. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Extreme; excessive. [ Colloq. ] Dryden.

Syn. -- Diabolical; infernal; hellish; satanic; wicked; malicious; detestable; destructive.

-- Dev"il*ish*ly, adv. -- Dev"il*ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + embellish: cf. F. désembellir. ] To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The condition of being disestablished. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrine or political position that advocates abrogating the establishment of a church as the official state religion.. [ PJC ]

Prior to the Puritans, very few earlier believers contended for any form of disestablishmentarianism. David. W. Hall (Savior or Servant? Putting Government in Its Place: The Covenant Foundation, 1996)

n. 1. Want of relish; dislike (of the palate or of the mind); distaste; a slight degree of disgust; as, a disrelish for some kinds of food. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disrelished p. pr. & vb. n. Disrelishing. ] 1. Not to relish; to regard as unpalatable or offensive; to feel a degree of disgust at. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat droll. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome. “A series of dullish verses.” Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Embellished p. pr. & vb. n. Embellishing. ] [ OE. embelisen, embelisshen, F. embellir; pref. em- (L. in) + bel, beau, beautiful. See Beauty. ] To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.

Syn. -- To adorn; beautify; deck; bedeck; decorate; garnish; enrich; ornament; illustrate. See Adorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who embellishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. embellissement. ] 1. The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments. [ 1913 Webster ]

The graces and embellishments of the exterior man. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To enfeeble. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The English language has been variously divided into periods by different writers. In the division most commonly recognized, the first period dates from about 450 to 1150. This is the period of full inflection, and is called Anglo-Saxon, or, by many recent writers, Old English. The second period dates from about 1150 to 1550 (or, if four periods be recognized, from about 1150 to 1350), and is called Early English, Middle English, or more commonly (as in the usage of this book), Old English. During this period most of the inflections were dropped, and there was a great addition of French words to the language. The third period extends from about 1350 to 1550, and is Middle English. During this period orthography became comparatively fixed. The last period, from about 1550, is called Modern English. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type. [ 1913 Webster ]

The type called English. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Billiards) A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. [ 1913 Webster ]

The King's English or
The Queen's English. See under King. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. Englisc, fr. Engle, Angle, Engles, Angles, a tribe of Germans from the southeast of Sleswick, in Denmark, who settled in Britain and gave it the name of England. Cf. Anglican. ] Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race. [ 1913 Webster ]

English bond (Arch.) See 1st Bond, n., 8. --
English breakfast tea. See Congou. --
English horn. (Mus.) See Corno Inglese. --
English walnut. (Bot.) See under Walnut. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Englished p. pr. & vb. n. Englishing. ] 1. To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those gracious acts . . . may be Englished more properly, acts of fear and dissimulation. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Caxton does not care to alter the French forms and words in the book which he was Englishing. T. L. K. Oliphant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Billiards) To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Englishmen A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman. [ Obs. ] Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. [ 1913 Webster ]

A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. able to communicate in English. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a South African bulbous wood sorrel (Oxalis cernua) with showy yellow flowers.
Syn. -- Bermuda buttercup, Oxalis pes-caprae, Oxalis cernua. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Englishwomen Fem. of Englishman. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]