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n. [ L. adhibitio. ] The act of adhibiting; application; use. Whitaker. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] 1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ I ] used no ambition to commend my deeds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something. [ 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 ]

a. [ L. ambitiosus: cf. F. ambitieux. See Ambition. ] 1. Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in vain. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style. [ 1913 Webster ]

A giant statue . . .
Pushed by a wild and artless race,
From off wide, ambitious base. Collins. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an ambitious manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. lining a surface or bearing with babbitt metal.
Syn. -- babbitting [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Secret slander; detraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic. “A biting affliction.” “A biting jest.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Etching.) The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See Etch. G. Francis. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a biting manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ a. [ Cf. F. cénobitique. ] Of or pertaining to a cenobite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living. Opposite of eremitic.
Syn. -- cenobitic, cenobitical. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. cohibitio. ] Hindrance; restraint. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Cribbing, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the shape of a gourd seed; -- said of certain small worms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exhibitio a delivering: cf. F. exhibition. ] 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art, or of feats of skill, or of oratorical or dramatic ability; as, an exhibition of animals; an exhibition of pictures, statues, etc.; an industrial exhibition. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension. Specifically: (Eng. Univ.) Private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars. [ 1913 Webster ]

What maintenance he from his friends receives,
Like exhibition thou shalt have from me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have given more exhibitions to scholars, in my days, than to the priests. Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) The act of administering a remedy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Univ.) One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. [ 1913 Webster ]

A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a person with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals; -- usually a male. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- flasher. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. someone who deliberately behaves in such a way as to attract attention. [ wns=2 ]
Syn. -- show-off. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. compulsively attracting attention to oneself especially by boasting or exaggerated behavior. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Serving for exhibition; representative; exhibitory. Norris.

-- Ex*hib"it*ive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Cf. F. imbibition. ] The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post-mortem imbibition of poisons. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Incubation. [ R. ] Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Phrenol.) See Inhabitativeness. [ 1913 Webster ]

What the phrenologists call inhabitiveness. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. discouraging (a person) from action by threat of punishment; as, an overly strict or inhibiting discipline.
Syn. -- inhibitory, repressive, repressing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. inhibitio: cf. F. inhibition. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or enzyme, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Chem., Biochem.) The reduction in rate or stopping of a chemical or biochemical reaction, due to interaction with a chemical agent. [ PJC ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to the Jacobites; characterized by Jacobitism. -- Jac`o*bit"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The principles of the Jacobites. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Moabite. Ruth ii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. fle`ps, flebo`s, a vein + -itis. ] (Med.) Inflammation of a vein. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. prohibitio: cf. F. prohibition. ] 1. The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict. [ 1913 Webster ]

The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists mostly of prohibitions. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Writ of prohibition (Law), a writ issued by a superior tribunal, directed to an inferior court, commanding the latter to cease from the prosecution of a suit depending before it. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ By ellipsis, prohibition is used for the writ itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The period of 1920 to 1932 in the United States, during which sale of alcoholic beverages were forbidden by the consitution. [ PJC ]

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1. One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a protectionist. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who favors the prohibition of the sale (or of the sale and manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. prohibitif. ] That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The hunting of rabbits. T. Hughes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ratihabitio; ratus fixed, valid + habere to hold. ] Confirmation or approbation, as of an act or contract. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Etching) The act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action of acid. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. redhibitio a taking back. ] (Civil Law) The annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. re- + L. habere to have. ] (Law) The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sorbitio. ] The act of drinking or sipping. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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a. Of, pertaining to or containing, trilobites; as, trilobitic rocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The absence of ambition. [ R. ] F. W. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]