n. [ F. ambition, L. ambitio a going around, especially of candidates for office is Rome, to solicit votes (hence, desire for office or honor), fr. ambire to go around. See Ambient, Issue. ]
[ I ] used no ambition to commend my deeds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition:
By that sin fell the angels. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ Cf. F. ambitionner. ] To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. Trumbull. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One excessively ambitious. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Devoid of ambition. Pollok. [ 1913 Webster ]