n. Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. [ R. ] Phillips. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who absconds. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖ [ F. beau fine + monde world. ] The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
n. [ F. ]
a. Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to certain regulations. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bonded goods,
Bonded warehouse,
n.
n. [ Norwegian bonde. ] A freeholder on a small scale. [ Norway ] Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it!
Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Wilt thou condemn him that is most just? Job xxxiv. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it. Matt. xii. 42. [ 1913 Webster ]
Driven out from bliss, condemned
In this abhorred deep to utter woe. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
To each his sufferings; all are men,
Condemned alike to groan. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]
And they shall condemn him to death. Matt. xx. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]
The thief condemned, in law already dead. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
No flocks that range the valley free,
To slaughter I condemn. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]
The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver. 2 Cron. xxxvi. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. condemnabilis. ] Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. condemnatio. ]
In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]
A legal and judicial condemnation. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]
Whose condemnation is pronounced. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]
This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather light, because their deeds were evil. John iii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure;
a.
Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs in the condemned ward of Newgate. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who condemns or censures. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Capability of being condensed. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. condensable. ] Capable of being condensed;
a. [ L. condensatus, p. p. of condensare. See Condense, v. t. ] Made dense; condensed. [ 1913 Webster ]
Water . . . thickened or condensate. Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
n. [ L. condensatio: cf. F. condensation. ]
He [ Goldsmith ] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
Condensation product (Chem.),
Surface condensation,
a. [ Cf. F. condensatif. ] Having the property of condensing. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
In what shape they choose,
Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]
Condensed milk,
Condensing engine,
v. i.
Nitrous acid is gaseous at ordinary temperatures, but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the zero of Fahrenheit. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. condensus. ] Condensed; compact; dense. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
The huge condense bodies of planets. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
n.
Achromatic condenser (Optics),
Bull's-eye condenser,
Bull's-eye
Injection condenser,
Surface condenser,
a. Capable of being condensed;
n. [ From Cond. ] One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
Can they think me so broken, so debased
With corporal servitude, that my mind ever
Will condescend to such absurd commands? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Spain's mighty monarch,
In gracious clemency, does condescend,
On these conditions, to become your friend. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Often used ironically, implying an assumption of superiority. [ 1913 Webster ]
Those who thought they were honoring me by condescending to address a few words to me. F. W. Robinson. [ 1913 Webster ]
All parties willingly condescended heruento. R. Carew.
adj. exhibiting an attitude of superiority; patronizing; -- used of behavior or attitude.
adv. In a condescending manner. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. condescensio. ] The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors. [ 1913 Webster ]
It forbids pride . . . and commands humility, modesty, and condescension to others. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Such a dignity and condescension . . . as are suitable to a superior nature. Addison.
n. [ Cf. Condescend, Descent. ] An act of condescension. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Law) One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. correspondance. ]
Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
. A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or department for instruction by correspondence, as in a university or other educational bodies, but the term is commonly applied to various educational institutions organized on a commercial basis, some of which offer a large variety of courses in general and technical subjects, conducted by specialists. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n.;
The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be very reasonable confirmations. S. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. correspondant. ] Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing. [ 1913 Webster ]
Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]
As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]
I will be correspondent to command. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
adv. In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F.; demi + monde world, L. mundus. ] Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps. [ 1913 Webster ]
Literary demimonde,
n. Despondency. [ 1913 Webster ]
The people, when once infected, lose their relish for happiness [ and ] saunter about with looks of despondence. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind. [ 1913 Webster ]
The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk in despondency. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. despondens, -entis, p. pr. of despondēre. ] Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited;
n. One who desponds. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
a. Incongruous. W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. dispondeus, Gr. &unr_;;