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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. [ L. See Ambit, Ambition. ] 1. The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Rom. Antiq.) A canvassing for votes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. colombite. See Columbium. ] (Min.) A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mineral consisting principally of sulphate of iron; white copperas; -- so called because found in the province of Coquimbo, Chili. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astrol.) Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + imbitter. Cf. Disembitter. ] To free from bitterness. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of embittering; also, that which embitters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gambit, cf. It. gambitto gambit, a tripping up. See Gambol, n. ] (Chess Playing) A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Imbittered p. pr. & vb. n. Imbittering. ] [ Pref. im- in + bitter. Cf. Embitter. ] [ Written also embitter. ] To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame? South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, imbitters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. (Paleon.) A fossil shell of the genus Strombus. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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