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a. Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation. Holmes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. honorable, L. honorabilis. ] 1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy name and honorable family. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Proceeding from an upright and laudable cause, or directed to a just and proper end; not base; irreproachable; fair; as, an honorable motive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is this proceeding just and honorable? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Conferring honor, or produced by noble deeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Honorable wounds from battle brought. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Worthy of respect; regarded with esteem; to be commended; consistent with honor or rectitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

Marriage is honorable in all. Heb. xiii. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Performed or accompanied with marks of honor, or with testimonies of esteem; as, an honorable burial. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Of reputable association or use; respectable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let her descend: my chambers are honorable. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. An epithet of respect or distinction; as, the honorable Senate; the honorable gentleman. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Honorable is a title of quality, conferred by English usage upon the younger children of earls and all the children of viscounts and barons. The maids of honor, lords of session, and the supreme judges of England and Ireland are entitled to the prefix. In American usage, it is a title of courtesy merely, bestowed upon those who hold, or have held, any of the higher public offices, esp. governors, judges, members of Congress or of the Senate, mayors, and often also extended to lower officials, such as city council members. [ 1913 Webster ]

Right honorable. See under Right. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In an honorable manner; in a manner showing, or consistent with, honor. [ 1913 Webster ]

The reverend abbot . . . honorably received him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why did I not more honorably starve? Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Decently; becomingly. [ Obs. ] “Do this message honorably.” Shak.

Syn. -- Magnanimously; generously; nobly; worthily; justly; equitably; fairly; reputably.

{ ‖ } n. [ L. honorarium (sc. donum), fr. honorarius. See Honorary, a. ] 1. A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars. S. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price. Heumann. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. honorarius, fr. honor honor: cf. F. honoraire. ] 1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. “Honorary arches.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., we are ignorant. See Ignore. ] 1. (Law) We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The phrase now used is, “No bill, ” “No true bill, ” or “Not found, ” though in some jurisdictions “Ignored” is still used. Wharton (Law Dict. ). Burn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (pl. Ignoramuses ) A stupid, ignorant person; a vain pretender to knowledge; a dunce. [ 1913 Webster ]

An ignoramus in place and power. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. ignorantia. ] 1. The condition of being ignorant; the lack of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ignorance is the curse of God,
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Theol.) A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have. Book of Common Prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Invincible ignorance (Theol.), ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., fr. L. ignorans, -antis, p. pr. of ignorare to be ignorant. See Ignore. ] 1. Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed; untaught; unenlightened. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that doth not know those things which are of use for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unacquainted with; unconscious or unaware; -- used with of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Unknown; undiscovered. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Ignorant concealment. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly. [ 1913 Webster ]

His shipping,
Poor ignorant baubles! -- on our terrible seas,
Like eggshells moved. Shak.

Syn. -- Uninstructed; untaught; unenlightened; uninformed; unlearned; unlettered; illiterate. -- Ignorant, Illiterate. Ignorant denotes lack of knowledge, either as to single subject or information in general; illiterate refers to an ignorance of letters, or of knowledge acquired by reading and study. In the Middle Ages, a great proportion of the higher classes were illiterate, and yet were far from being ignorant, especially in regard to war and other active pursuits. [ 1913 Webster ]

In such business
Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant
More learned than the ears. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the first ages of Christianity, not only the learned and the wise, but the ignorant and illiterate, embraced torments and death. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Did I for this take pains to teach
Our zealous ignorants to preach? Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The spirit of those who extol the advantage of ignorance; obscurantism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge; an obscurantist. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a ignorant manner; without knowledge; inadvertently. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whom therefoer ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Acts xvii. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ LL. impignoratus, p. pl of impignorare to pawn. See Pignoration. ] To pledge or pawn. [ Obs. ] Laing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. impignoratio: cf. F. impignoration. ] The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) A category used in some classification systems for all lichens that produce apothecia.
Syn. -- order Lechanorales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ NL., from L. marinus marine + Gr. &unr_; view. ] A representation of a sea view. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. Cf. Minor, a. ] (Law) A custom or right, analogous to borough-English in England, formerly existing in various parts of Europe, and surviving in parts of Germany and Austria, by which certain entailed estates, as a homestead and adjacent land, descend to the youngest male heir. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ L. minoratus; p. p. of minorare to diminish, fr. minor, a. See 1st Minor. ] To diminish. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. minoratio: cf. F. minoration. ] A diminution. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as norepinephrine.
Syn. -- norepinephrine. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. pa^s, pa^n, all + &unr_; that which is seen, a view, fr. &unr_; to see. See Pan-, and Wary. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A complete view in every direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A comprehensive survey of a particular topic; also, a broad view of the development of a series of events. [ PJC ]

3. A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Of, pertaining to, or like, a panorama; exhibiting a very broad view; as, a panoramic view. [ 1913 Webster ]

Panoramic camera. See under Camera. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Presented with a broad perspective; as, a panoramic view of European history. [ PJC ]

n. [ LL. pignoratio, L. pigneratio, fr. pignerate to pledge, fr. pignus, gen. -ous and -eris, a pledge, a pawn: cf. F. pignoration. ] 1. The act of pledging or pawning. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Civil Law) The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. pignoratif. ] Pledging, pawning. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ignorance of one's own character, powers, and limitations. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ignorant of one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] A Spanish title of courtesy given to a lady; Mrs.; Madam; also, a lady. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] Madam; Mrs; -- a title of address or respect among the Italians. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biogeography) Pertaining to or designating the arid division of the Austral zone, including the warmer parts of the western United States and central Mexico. It is divided into the
Upper Sonoran, which lies next to the Transition zone, and the
Lower Sonoran, next to the Tropical. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]