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n. [ F. almageste, LL. almageste, Ar. al-majistī, fr. Gr. &unr_; (sc. &unr_;), the greatest composition. ] The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. almagra, almagre, fr. Ar. al-maghrah red clay or earth. ] A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + magistrical for magistratical. ] Opposed to the office or authority of magistrates. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL.; pref. archi- + L. magus, Gr. ma`gos, a Magian. ] 1. The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A great magician, wizard, or enchanter. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the final, decisive battle between the forces of good and evil, as foretold in the Apocolypse of Saint John. Also, the site of that battle. Used metaphorically for a vast and decisive conflict, attended by cataclysmic destruction. [ PJC ]

a. Relating to biomagnetism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. bi`os life + E. magnetism. ] 1. Animal magnetism. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. magnetic phenomena in living organisms. [ PJC ]

a. [ Birmingham (formerly Bromwycham), Eng., “the great mart and manufactory of gilt toys, cheap jewelry, ” etc. ] Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham. [ Slang ] “These Brummagem gentry.” Lady D. Hardy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] 1. A popular or Red Rebublican song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution. [ 1913 Webster ]

They danced and yelled the carmagnole. Compton Reade. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bombastic report from the French armies. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. chomage. ] 1. Stoppage; cessation (of labor). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A standing still or idle (of mills, factories, etc.). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ Pref. circum + agitate. ] To agitate on all sides. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. a race of human-like hominids of the Upper Paleolithic in Europe, considered of the same species as modern humans (Homo sapiens). Their skeletal remains were found mostly in southern France. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. a member of the Cro-Magnon race. [ PJC ]

n. [ OF. damage, domage, F. dommage, fr. assumed LL. damnaticum, from L. damnum damage. See Damn. ] 1. Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage. Prov. xxvi. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Law) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In common-law actions, the jury are the proper judges of damages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consequential damage. See under Consequential. --
Exemplary damages (Law), damages imposed by way of example to others. Similar in purpose to vindictive damages, below. --
Nominal damages (Law), those given for a violation of a right where no actual loss has accrued. --
vindictive damages or
punitive damages, those given specially for the punishment of the wrongdoer.

Syn. -- Mischief; injury; harm; hurt; detriment; evil; ill. See Mischief. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Damaged p. pr. & vb. n. Damaging ] [ Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See Damage, n. ] To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value; as, some colors in cloth damage in sunlight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. damageable, F. dommageable for sense 2. ] 1. Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hurtful; pernicious. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That it be not damageable unto your royal majesty. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. changed so as to reduce value, function, or other desirable trait; -- usually not used of persons. Opposite of undamaged. [ Narrower terms: battered, beat-up, beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound; bent, crumpled, dented; blasted, rent, ripped, torn; broken-backed; burned-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt-out(prenominal), burnt out(predicate); burst, ruptured; corroded; cracked, crackled, crazed; defaced, marred; hurt, weakened; knocked-out(prenominal), knocked out; mangled, mutilated; peeling; scraped, scratched; storm-beaten ] Also See blemished, broken, damaged, destroyed, impaired, injured, unsound. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Rendered imperfect by impairing the integrity of some part, or by breaking. Opposite of unbroken. [ Narrower terms: busted; chipped; cracked; crumbled, fragmented; crushed, ground; dissolved; fractured; shattered, smashed, splintered; split; unkept, violated ] Also See: damaged, imperfect, injured, unsound.
Syn. -- broken. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. being unjustly brought into disrepute; as, her damaged reputation.
Syn. -- discredited. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. made to appear imperfect; -- especially of reputation; as, the senator's seriously damaged reputation.
Syn. -- besmirched, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

[ OF. damage + F. faisant doing, p. pr. See Feasible. ] (Law) Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) a sum of money paid in compensation for an injury or wrong.
Syn. -- amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. causing harm or injury; as, damaging to career and reputation.
Syn. -- detrimental, detrimental to(predicate), prejudicial, prejudicious. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions.
Syn. -- negative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the act or process of removing magnetization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. 1. To deprive of magnetic properties; to render nonmagnetic. See Magnetize. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the bar be rapidly magnetized and demagnetized. Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To free from mesmeric influence; to demesmerize. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

-- De*mag`net*i*za"tion, n. -- De*mag"net*i`zer n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Demagogue.

{ } a. [ Gr. dhmagwkiko`s: cf. F. démagogique. ] Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practices of a demagogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. dhmagwgo`s a popular leader; commonly in a bad sense, a leader of the mob; dh^mos the people + 'agwgo`s leading, fr. 'a`gein to lead; akin to E. act: cf. F. démagogue. ] A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace.
Syn. -- demagogy, demagogism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. démagogie, Gr. dhmagwgi`a leadership of the people. ] Demagogism.
Syn. -- demagoguery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. dai`mwn demon + magei`a magic. ] Magic in which the aid of demons is invoked; black or infernal magic. Bp. Hurd. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. dia- + magnet. ] A body having diamagnetic polarity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, diamagnetism; taking, or being of a nature to take, a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force. See Paramagnetic. [ 1913 Webster ]

Diamagnetic attraction. See under Attraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any substance, as bismuth, glass, phosphorous, etc., which in a field of magnetic force is differently affected from the ordinary magnetic bodies, as iron; that is, which tends to take a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force, and is repelled by either pole of the magnet. Contrasted with paramagnetic and ferromagnetic. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of, or according to, diamagnetism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The science which treats of diamagnetic phenomena, and of the properties of diamagnetic bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The magnetic action which characterizes diamagnetic substances, the magnetic moments of which tend to oppose an externally applied magnetic field. Contrasted with paramagnetism and ferromagnetism. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ See Damage. ] 1. Damage; hurt. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Subjugation. [ Obs. ] Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A penalty or fine for neglect. [ Local, New England ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to electromagnetism. [ 1913 Webster ]

Electro-magnetic engine, an engine in which the motive force is electro-magnetism. --
Electro-magnetic theory of light (Physics), a theory of light which makes it consist in the rapid alternation of transient electric currents moving transversely to the direction of the ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. magnetism produced by an electric current. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. one of the fundamental forces of nature, responsible for both electrical and magnetic phenomena. Called also the electromagnetic force. Formerly believed to be separate phenomena, electricity and magnetism were shown by experiment and theory to be different aspects of the electromagnetic force. It is responsible for the forces generated between magnetically or electrically charged objects, and is the fundamental force responsible for the characteristics of electromagnetic radiation, including light. [ PJC ]

3. the branch of physics concerned with electromagnetic phenomena. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Endamaged p. pr. & vb. n. Endamaging ] [ Pref. en- + damage: cf. F. endommager. ] To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The trial hath endamaged thee no way. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being damaged, or injured; damageable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. endommagement. ] Damage; injury; harm. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. fumage, fumaige, fr. L. fumus smoke. ] Hearth money. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Guidance; direction. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. homage, homenage, F. hommage, LL. hominaticum, homenaticum, from L. homo a man, LL. also, a client, servant, vassal; akin to L. humus earth, Gr.&unr_; on the ground, and E. groom in bridegroom. Cf. Bridegroom, Human. ] 1. (Feud. Law) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance. [ 1913 Webster ]

All things in heaven and earth do her [ Law ] homage. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

I sought no homage from the race that write. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Reverence directed to the Supreme Being; reverential worship; devout affection. Chaucer.

Syn. -- Fealty; submission; reverence; honor; respect. -- Homage, Fealty. Homage was originally the act of a feudal tenant by which he declared himself, on his knees, to be the hommage or bondman of the lord; hence the term is used to denote reverential submission or respect. Fealty was originally the fidelity of such a tenant to his lord, and hence the term denotes a faithful and solemn adherence to the obligations we owe to superior power or authority. We pay our homage to men of preëminent usefulness and virtue, and profess our fealty to the principles by which they have been guided. [ 1913 Webster ]

Go, go with homage yon proud victors meet !
Go, lie like dogs beneath your masters' feet ! Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Man, disobeying,
Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins
Against the high supremacy of heaven. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Homaged p. pr. & vb. n. Homaging. ] [ Cf. OF. hommager. ] 1. To pay reverence to by external action. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to pay homage. [ Obs. ] Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. hommageable. ] Subject to homage. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]