So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven. [ 1913 Webster ]

The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just. Thodey. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hasty notion; intuitive preconception. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mus.) The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Preoccupation; preclusion; foretaste; prelibation; antepast; pregustation; preconception; expectation; foresight; forethought. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fullness of matter, or a pretty close constipation . . . of its particles. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened fæces; costiveness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations. O. W. Holmes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without loss or dissipation of the matter. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The famous dissipation of mankind. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness. [ 1913 Webster ]

To reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance. P. Henry. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prevented from finishing them [ the letters ] a thousand avocations and dissipations. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dissipation of energy. Same as Degradation of energy, under Degradation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Deliverance; liberation; release; freedom; manumission; enfranchisement. [ 1913 Webster ]

These robbers, however, were men who might have made out a strong case in exculpation of themselves. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Extreme constipation. [ Obs. ] Hooper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which occupies or engages the time and attention. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. Specfically: The principal business of one's life; the principal work by which one earns one's livelihood; vocation; employment; profession; calling; trade; avocation; as, these days many people continue to practice their occupation well into their seventies. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Absence of occupation is not rest. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Occupation bridge (Engin.), a bridge connecting the parts of an estate separated by a railroad, a canal, or an ordinary road. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Occupancy; possession; tenure; use; employment; avocation; engagement; vocation; calling; office; trade; profession. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Examination of a patient by touch. Quain. [ 1913 Webster ]

These deities are so by participation. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed participation of himself! Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Distribution; division into shares. [ Obs. ] Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Community; fellowship; association. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The patio process is used to reduce silver ores by amalgamation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In Spain, Spanish America, etc., a court or courtyard of a house or other building; esp., an inner court open to the sky. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. def>A usually paved area adjacent to a dwelling, used for outdoor lounging, dining, receptions of guests, etc. [ PJC ]

2. Anticipation of objections. [ R. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) The act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; -- commonly used with of, also used with on or upon; as, the usurpation of a throne; the usurpation of the supreme power. [ 1913 Webster ]

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He contrived their destruction, with the usurpation of the regal dignity upon him. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

A law [ of a State ] which is a usurpation upon the general government. O. Ellsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Manifest usurpation on the rights of other States. D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Usurpation, in a peculiar sense, formerly denoted the absolute ouster and dispossession of the patron of a church, by a stranger presenting a clerk to a vacant benefice, who us thereupon admitted and instituted. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Use; usage; custom. [ Obs. ] Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]