‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. calx, calcis, lime + spongia a sponge. ] (Zool.) An order of marine sponges, containing calcareous spicules. See Porifera. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr.
n. an emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
n. a behavioral response to a stimulus that has been acquired by experience or conditioning.
n. (Law) One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
None of them [ the forms of Sidney's sonnets ] correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]
Words being but empty sounds, any farther than they are signs of our ideas, we can not but assent to them as they correspond to those ideas we have, but no farther. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
After having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he [ Atterbury ] began to correspond directly with the Pretender. Macaulay.
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 ]
a.
Corresponding member of a society,
adv. In a corresponding manner; conformably. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Corresponding; conformable; adapted. Shak. --
n. Despondency. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
The slough of despond. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
I should despair, or at least despond. Scott's Letters. [ 1913 Webster ]
Others depress their own minds, [ and ] despond at the first difficulty. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
We wish that . . . desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that the foundations of our national power still stand strong. D. Webster.
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 ]
adv. In a desponding manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ From L. desponsus, p. p. See Despond. ] Betrothal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Ethelbert . . . went peaceably to King Offa for desponsage of Athilrid, his daughter. Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ L. desponsatus, p. p. of desponsare, intens. of despondere to betroth. See Despond. ] To betroth. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. desponsatio: cf. OF. desponsation. ] A betrothing; betrothal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
For all this desponsation of her . . . she had not set one step toward the consummation of her marriage. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
a. Incongruous. W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Despond. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. dispondeus, Gr. &unr_;;
v. t. [ L. disponere. See Disposition. ]
He has disponed . . . the whole estate. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Scots Law) The person to whom any property is legally conveyed. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Scots Law) One who legally transfers property from himself to another. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ Pref. dis- + sponge. ] To sprinkle, as with water from a sponge. [ Poetic & Rare ]
O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,
The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. fibra a fiber + spongia a sponge. ] (Zool.) An order of sponges having a fibrous skeleton, including the commercial sponges. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) A siliceous sponge, of the genus
n. [ L. Hellespontus, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; the mythological Helle, daughter of Athamas + &unr_; sea. ] A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the
a. Of or pertaining to the Hellespont. Mitford.
‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr.
a. Not corresponding; disagreeing. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. irresponsabilité. ]
a. [ Pref. ir- not + responsible: cf. F. irresponsable. ]
n. the habitual failure to behave in a responsible manner; irresponsibility.
adv.
a. Not responsive; not able, ready, or inclined to respond. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr.
a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the
n. [ L. iasponyx, Gr. &unr_;. See Jasper, and Onyx. ] (min.) An onyx, part or all of whose layers consist of jasper. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; plaited + &unr_;, &unr_;, a vertebra. ] (Zool.) An extensive suborder of fresh-water physostomous fishes having the anterior vertebræ united and much modified; the Eventognathi. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Plectospondyli. [ 1913 Webster ]