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n. [ L. dehonestatio. ] A dishonoring; disgracing. [ Obs. ] Gauden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. dis- + honest: cf. F. déshonnête, OF. deshoneste. ] 1. Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [ the women ]. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears,
Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust. [ 1913 Webster ]

To get dishonest gain. Ezek. xxii. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dishonest profits of men in office. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. OF. deshonester. ] To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I will no longer dishonest my house. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a dishonest manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. deshonesté, F. déshonnêteté. ] 1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. [ Obs. ] “The hidden things of dishonesty.” 2 Cor. iv. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation from probity; a dishonest act. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Lewdness; unchastity. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;. See Ecphonema. ] (Rhet.) An animated or passionate exclamation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The feelings by the ecphonesis are very various. Gibbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. honest, onest, OF. honeste, oneste, F. honnête, L. honestus, fr. honos, honor, honor. See Honor. ] 1. Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Characterized by integrity or fairness and straightforwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession. [ 1913 Webster ]

An honest man's the noblest work of God. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

An honest physician leaves his patient when he can contribute no farther to his health. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

Look ye out among you seven men of honest report. Acts vi. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Provide things honest in the sight of all men. Rom. xii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Open; frank; as, an honest countenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Chaste; faithful; virtuous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. Shak.

Syn. -- Upright; ingenuous; honorable; trusty; faithful; equitable; fair; just; rightful; sincere; frank; candid; genuine. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. honestare to clothe or adorn with honor: cf. F. honester. See Honest, a. ] To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable. [ Obs. ] Abp. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of honesting; grace; adornment. [ Obs. ] W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Honesty; honorableness. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Honorably; becomingly; decently. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To come honestly by. (a) To get honestly. (b) A circumlocution for to inherit; as, to come honestly by a feature, a mental trait, a peculiarity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. honeste, oneste, honor, OF. honesté, onesté (cf. F. honnêteté), L. honestas. See Honest, a. ] 1. Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile. [ 1913 Webster ]

That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 1 Tim. ii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Chastity; modesty. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; Lunaria rediva is perennial honesty.

Syn. -- Integrity; probity; uprightness; trustiness; faithfulness; honor; justice; equity; fairness; candor; plain-dealing; veracity; sincerity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pythonissa: cf. F. pythonisse. See Pythian. ] 1. (Gr. Antiq.) The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Shoshone /sing>. (Ethnol.) A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho into Mexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied especially to the Snakes, the most northern of the tribes. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to utter together. ] (Gram.) A contraction of two syllables into one; synizesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not entirely honest. [ R. ] “We think him overproud and underhonest.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]