To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. advertens, -entis, p. pr. of advertere. See Advert. ] Attentive; heedful; regardful. Sir M. Hale. --
n.
n. One who animadverts; a censurer; also [ Obs. ], a chastiser. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
n. One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor. [ 1913 Webster ]
The inflexible asserter of the rights of the church. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious. [ 1913 Webster ]
Who scornful pass it with averted eye. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who, or that which, averts. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a genus of plants comprising the hoary alyssum.
adv. [ F. certes, for à certes, fr. L. certus. See Certain. ] Certainly; in truth; verily. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Certes it great pity was to see
Him his nobility so foul deface. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. cherté. See Charity. ] Love; tender regard. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on;
Concerted piece (Mus.),
n. One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. [ 1913 Webster ]
Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. spiritually reborn or converted;
n. [ L. convertenus to be converted. ] (Logic) Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse. See Converse, n. (Logic). [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. A term or word which is the opposite of, or antithesis to, another; an antonym; -- the opposite of synonym;
adj.
(d&euptack_;*z&etilde_;rt"&etilde_;r), n. One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion. [1913 Webster]
n. One who, or that which, diverts, turns off, or pleases. [ 1913 Webster ]
A small portion of the basal edge of the shell exserted. D. H. Barnes. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A heart. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. & adv. Hearty; heartily. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. abnormally high blood pressure; especially, the chronic condition associated with persistent high blood pressure. [ PJC ]
n.
n. A person who suffers from persistently high blood pressure. [ PJC ]
Inadvertency, or lack of attendance to the sense and intention of our prayers. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses an inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact. Addison.
a. [ Cf. F. inadvertant. See 2d In-, and Advert. ] Not turning the mind to a matter; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive. [ 1913 Webster ]
An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path. Cowper.
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a. Not turned or changed about. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Bot.) Situated upon, attached to, or growing out of, some part; -- said especially of the parts of the flower;
v. t. [ L. intertexere; inter between + texere to weave. ] To intertwine; to weave or bind together. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of interweaving, or the state of being interwoven; that which is interwoven. ”Knit in nice intertexture.” Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
Skirted thick with intertexture firm
Of thorny boughs. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Anat.) Between vertebræ. --
adj.
a. (Zool.) Same as Invertebrate. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. in- not + vertebratus vertebrate. ] (Zool.) A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Zool.) Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. --
Age of invertebrates.
a. Having no backbone; invertebrate. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ 1913 Webster ]
Inverted arch (Arch.),
adv. In an inverted order. Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Electricity) A device which converts direct current to alternating current. [ PJC ]
n. Inadvertence. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the
‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr.
a. Too tedious. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To tempt exceedingly, or beyond the power of resistance. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Anat.) Surrounding the vertebræ. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. perterebratus, p. p. of perterebrare to bore through. ] The act of boring through. [ Obs. ] Ainsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]