Essay on Sir William Temple Author:Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GLOSSARY. aboriginal (21. 25): primitive, original. abstract (76. 8): considered apart from special cases. acrimonious (97. 13): bitter, sharp. addre... more »ss (69. 20): skill. adherent (27. 14): follower, partisan. admonition (15. 34) : counsel, advice. adulation (27. 22): flattery. amanuensis (86. 24): one who writes from dictation, a secretary. ambiguous (32. 29): having two meanings, equivocal. analogous (76. 16): similar. anarchy (75. 5) : want of government, disorder. annihilate (47. 3): destroyed, annulled. annulled (45. 32): made void, repealed. apathetic (8. 9): having no feeling, indifferent. approbation (37. 33): commendation, approval. approximate (9. 16): to come near to, approach. arbitrary (4. 9): despotic, capricious. armistice (36. 24) : a temporary cessation from arms. articles (52. 19): stipulations, conditions. austerity (13. 31) : severity, harshness. auspicious (45. 11): prosperous, favourable. Back-settlers (23. 11): settlers on unreclaimed land; comp. ' back-woodsman.' belligerent (51. 18): engaged in war, contending. besotted (95. 31): infatuated, stupefied, bigotry (63. 35): blind zeal, prejudice. bowsprit (62. 17): a boom or mast at a ship's head, buffoon (26. 36) : a low jester, a fool. burgess (12. 17): a citizen, representative. by-word (73. 27): a proverb, an example for reproach and warning. Capitulation (5. 1): a surrender on certain conditions. caricaturist (15. 22): one who makes ridiculous or grotesque likenesses. censure (6. 21): blame, reproach. checkered (99. 5): diversified, varied, cipher (10. 34): secret writing. coalition (31. 2): a union, junction. colloquial (27. 3): conversational. conclave (40. 16) : a secret assembly or council. congress (39. 4): a mee...« less