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n. The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. kosmopoli`ths; ko`smos the world + poli`ths citizen, po`lis city: cf. F. cosmopolitain, cosmopolite. ] One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal. [ 1913 Webster ]

In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. R. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. debilitants, p. pr. ] (Med.) Diminishing the energy of organs; reducing excitement; as, a debilitant drug. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Debilitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Debilitating. ] [ L. debilitatus, p. p. of debilitare to debilitate, fr. debilis. See Debility. ] To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Various ails debilitate the mind. Jenyns. [ 1913 Webster ]

The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by this last effort. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. lacking strength or vigor; weakened.
Syn. -- adynamic, asthenic, enervated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. weakened due to illness.
Syn. -- enfeebled, infirm, seedy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. causing weakness. Opposite of invigorating. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. debilitatio: cf. F. débilitation. ] The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. causing weakness. [ Narrower terms: debilitating (vs. invigorating) ]
Syn. -- enervating, enfeebling, weakening. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Delightful; delectable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make difficult. [ Obs. ] W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Disability. ] To disqualify. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes in equalizing the condition of men; a leveler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality.
Syn. -- egalitarianism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Facilitated p. pr. & vb. n. Facilitating ] [ Cf. F. faciliter. See Facility. ] To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task. [ 1913 Webster ]

To invite and facilitate that line of proceeding which the times call for. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. freed from difficulty or impediment. Contrasted with delayed.
Syn. -- expedited. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. The act of facilitating or making easy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. freeing from difficulty or impediment; as, facilitative changes in the economic structure. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. someone who makes progress easier. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. (Med.) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To fertilize; to fecundate. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. habilitatus, p. p. of habilitare to enable. ] Qualified or entitled. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To fit out; to equip; to qualify; to entitle. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. habilitatio: cf. F. habilitation. ] Equipment; qualification. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To weaken, as to the body or the mind; to enfeeble. [ R. ] A. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Litanies [ OE. letanie, OF. letanie, F. litanie, L. litania, Gr. litanei`a, fr. litaney`ein to pray, akin to li`tesqai, li`ssesqai, to pray, lith` prayer. ] A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usually of a penitential character. [ 1913 Webster ]

Supplications . . . for the appeasing of God's wrath were of the Greek church termed litanies, and rogations of the Latin. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Litharge. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. mellitate. See Mellitic. ] (Chem.) A salt of mellitic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. metropolitanus: cf. F. métropolitain. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority. “Bishops metropolitan.” Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. metropolitanus. ] 1. The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Lat. Church.) An archbishop. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gr. Church) A bishop whose see is a civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch; as, the metropolitan of Constantinople. Hook. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The see of a metropolitan bishop. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Militant. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The state of being militant; warfare. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A military spirit or system; militarism. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. militans, -antis, p. pr. of militare to be soldier: cf. F. militant. See Militate. ] Engaged in warfare; fighting; combating; serving as a soldier. -- Mil"i*tant*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

At which command the powers militant . . .
Moved on in silence. Milton. [1913 Webster]

Church militant, the Christian church on earth, which is supposed to be engaged in a constant warfare against its enemies, and is thus distinguished from the church triumphant, in heaven. [1913 Webster]

a. Military. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a military manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. militarization. [ mostly Brit. ]
Syn. -- mobilization, mobilisation, militarization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. militarisme. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A military state or condition; a military system; reliance on military force in administering government. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The spirit and traditions of military life. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The view that military strength, efficiency and values should dominate the country's public policy choices and take precedence over other interests. [ 1913 Webster PJC ]

4. The policy of maintaining a large military force, even in peacetime; -- a term usually used by opponents of such a policy on the assumption that such a large force is unnecessary for national defense. [ PJC ]

n. 1. A military man. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person having a strong spirit of militarism, in senses 3 or 4. [ PJC ]

adj. imbued with militarism, in senses 3 or 4. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. act of assembling and putting into readiness the military forces for war or other emergency.
Syn. -- mobilization, mobilisation, militarisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. & i. to lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force.
Syn. -- make military. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. Equipped with weapons; armed; -- used of persons, regions, or the military. Contrasted to unarmed and demilitarized; as, if that's a demilitarized zone, I wonder what a militarized zone would look like. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ L. militaris, militarius, from miles, militis, soldier: cf. F. militaire. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor do I, as an enemy to peace,
Troop in the throngs of military men. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Military law. See Martial law, under Martial. --
Military order. (a) A command proceeding from a military superior. (b) An association of military persons under a bond of certain peculiar rules; especially, such an association of knights in the Middle Ages, or a body in modern times taking a similar form, membership of which confers some distinction. --
Military tenure, tenure of land, on condition of performing military service. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. militaire. ] The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Militated p. pr. & vb. n. Militating ] [ L. militare, militatum, to be a soldier, fr. miles, militis, soldier. ] To make war; to fight; to contend; -- usually followed by against and with. [ 1913 Webster ]

These are great questions, where great names militate against each other. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

The invisible powers of heaven seemed to militate on the side of the pious emperor. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To argue against; to cast doubt on; -- used in reference to facts which tend to disprove a hypothesis; as, the absence of a correlation of budget deficits with inflation militates against any causal relation between the two. Opposite of support. [ PJC ]

prop. a. [ L. Neapolitanus, fr. Neapolis Naples, Gr. &unr_;, lit., New town. ] Of of pertaining to Naples in Italy. -- n. A native or citizen of Naples. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }. (a) An ice or ice cream containing eggs as well as cream. (b) An ice or ice cream prepared in layers, as vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate ice cream, and orange or lemon water ice. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]