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prorogue: (v) 1. To extend in time, cause to last longer.
2. In Roman History: To make a formal extension of (the term of office or command of an official, general, etc.); to extend the appointment of (an official).
3. To put off for a time; to defer, postpone.
4. To delay, temporize
5. To discontinue the meetings of (a legislative or other assembly) for a period of time or until the next session, without dissolving it. Also: to adjourn (a meeting).
6. Of a legislative assembly, etc.: to discontinue sittings for a period of time or until the next session.
snaffle: (n) 1. A simple form of bridle-bit, having less restraining power than one provided with a curb.
2. Figuratively, for something or someone who rules easy or guides with a light hand.
yarely: (adv) Quickly, promptly; nimbly, briskly; diligently.
riggish: (adj) Wanton, licentious.
filiation: (n) 1. In Theology: The process of becoming, or the condition of being, a son.
2. The designating (of a person) as a son; ascription of sonship.
3. The fact of being descended or derived, or of originating from; descent, transmission from.
4. The relation of one thing to another from which it may be said to be descended or derived; position in a genealogical classification.
5. Formation of branches or offshoots; chiefly concretely, a branch or offshoot of a society or language.
6. The fixing of the paternity of a child. Also figuratively the fathering of a thing upon any one; and, the assignment of anything to its origin.
epigraphy: (n) 1. Inscriptions collectively.
2. The science concerned with the interpretation, classification, etc. of inscriptions. Often in narrower sense: The palæography of inscriptions.
palæography: (n) 1. The study of ancient writing and inscriptions; the science or art of deciphering and interpreting historical manuscripts and writing systems.
2. Ancient writing; an ancient style or method of writing.
3. The geographical features of an area at some time in the past; the branch of science that deals with such features.
theophanic: (adj) Of or pertaining to theophany.
theophany: (n) 1. A manifestation or appearance of God or a god to man.
2. A festival celebrating the manifestation of a deity. (Sometimes specifically applied to Christmas.)
telluric: (adj) 1. Derived from or containing tellurium. Applied to compounds in which tellurium is present in a smaller proportion than in tellurous compounds, as telluric acid, H2TeO4; telluric oxide = tellurium trioxide, TeO3, etc. Also in telluric gold, silver, bismuth, the tellurides of these metals occurring as native alloys.
2. Of or belonging to the earth, terrestrial; pertaining to the earth as a planet; also, of or arising from the earth or soil.
theurgy: (n) 1. A system of magic, originally practised by the Egyptian Platonists, to procure communication with beneficent spirits, and by their aid produce miraculous effects; in later times distinguished as ‘white magic’ from goety or ‘black magic’.
2. The operation of a divine or supernatural agency in human affairs; the effects produced among men by direct divine or spiritual action.
goety: (n) Witchcraft or magic performed by the invocation and employment of evil spirits; necromancy.
gematria: (n) A cabbalistic method of interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures by interchanging words whose letters have the same numerical value when added.
umbrageous: (adj) 1. Forming or affording shade; shady.
2. Abounding in shade; shaded by trees or the like; overshadowed.
3. Caused by thick foliage.
4. Of persons, disposition, or nature: Suspicious; jealous; apt or disposed to take offence.
5. Obscure; dubious.
vignette: (n) 1. An ornamental or decorative design on a blank space in a book or among printed matter, esp. at the beginning or end of a chapter or other division, usually one of small size or occupying a small proportion of the space; specifically any embellishment, illustration, or picture uninclosed in a border, or having the edges shading off into the surrounding paper; a head-piece or tail-piece.
2. An ornamental design, drawing, or picture in a manuscript or written document.
3. A photographic portrait, showing only the head or the head and shoulders, with the edges of the print shading off into the background.
4. A brief verbal description of a person, place, etc.; a short descriptive or evocative episode in a play, etc.
5. Little ornamental shrubs, which generally hang from and adorn the projections and edges of the several members of ruined architecture.
targe: (n) 1. A shield; specifically a light shield or buckler, borne instead of the heavy shield, especially by footmen and archers.
2. A name applied in the reigns of the first three Edwards to the King's private or privy seal (perhaps bearing a shield as its device).
3. Tarrying, delay.
4. One who targes; a termagant; a scold.
targe: (v) 1. To delay; tarry.
2. To protect or defend as with a targe or shield; to shield.
3. To question closely, cross-examine.
4. To keep in strict order, look after strictly.
5. To reprimand, scold loudly; to beat, thrash.
termagant: (n) 1. (with capital T.) Name of an imaginary deity held in mediæval Christendom to be worshipped by Muslims: in the mystery plays represented as a violent overbearing personage.
2. A savage, violent, boisterous, overbearing, or quarrelsome person (or thing personified); a blusterer, bully.
3. Specifically, a violent, overbearing, turbulent, brawling, quarrelsome woman; a virago, shrew, vixen.
2. In Roman History: To make a formal extension of (the term of office or command of an official, general, etc.); to extend the appointment of (an official).
3. To put off for a time; to defer, postpone.
4. To delay, temporize
5. To discontinue the meetings of (a legislative or other assembly) for a period of time or until the next session, without dissolving it. Also: to adjourn (a meeting).
6. Of a legislative assembly, etc.: to discontinue sittings for a period of time or until the next session.
snaffle: (n) 1. A simple form of bridle-bit, having less restraining power than one provided with a curb.
2. Figuratively, for something or someone who rules easy or guides with a light hand.
yarely: (adv) Quickly, promptly; nimbly, briskly; diligently.
riggish: (adj) Wanton, licentious.
filiation: (n) 1. In Theology: The process of becoming, or the condition of being, a son.
2. The designating (of a person) as a son; ascription of sonship.
3. The fact of being descended or derived, or of originating from; descent, transmission from.
4. The relation of one thing to another from which it may be said to be descended or derived; position in a genealogical classification.
5. Formation of branches or offshoots; chiefly concretely, a branch or offshoot of a society or language.
6. The fixing of the paternity of a child. Also figuratively the fathering of a thing upon any one; and, the assignment of anything to its origin.
epigraphy: (n) 1. Inscriptions collectively.
2. The science concerned with the interpretation, classification, etc. of inscriptions. Often in narrower sense: The palæography of inscriptions.
palæography: (n) 1. The study of ancient writing and inscriptions; the science or art of deciphering and interpreting historical manuscripts and writing systems.
2. Ancient writing; an ancient style or method of writing.
3. The geographical features of an area at some time in the past; the branch of science that deals with such features.
theophanic: (adj) Of or pertaining to theophany.
theophany: (n) 1. A manifestation or appearance of God or a god to man.
2. A festival celebrating the manifestation of a deity. (Sometimes specifically applied to Christmas.)
telluric: (adj) 1. Derived from or containing tellurium. Applied to compounds in which tellurium is present in a smaller proportion than in tellurous compounds, as telluric acid, H2TeO4; telluric oxide = tellurium trioxide, TeO3, etc. Also in telluric gold, silver, bismuth, the tellurides of these metals occurring as native alloys.
2. Of or belonging to the earth, terrestrial; pertaining to the earth as a planet; also, of or arising from the earth or soil.
theurgy: (n) 1. A system of magic, originally practised by the Egyptian Platonists, to procure communication with beneficent spirits, and by their aid produce miraculous effects; in later times distinguished as ‘white magic’ from goety or ‘black magic’.
2. The operation of a divine or supernatural agency in human affairs; the effects produced among men by direct divine or spiritual action.
goety: (n) Witchcraft or magic performed by the invocation and employment of evil spirits; necromancy.
gematria: (n) A cabbalistic method of interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures by interchanging words whose letters have the same numerical value when added.
umbrageous: (adj) 1. Forming or affording shade; shady.
2. Abounding in shade; shaded by trees or the like; overshadowed.
3. Caused by thick foliage.
4. Of persons, disposition, or nature: Suspicious; jealous; apt or disposed to take offence.
5. Obscure; dubious.
vignette: (n) 1. An ornamental or decorative design on a blank space in a book or among printed matter, esp. at the beginning or end of a chapter or other division, usually one of small size or occupying a small proportion of the space; specifically any embellishment, illustration, or picture uninclosed in a border, or having the edges shading off into the surrounding paper; a head-piece or tail-piece.
2. An ornamental design, drawing, or picture in a manuscript or written document.
3. A photographic portrait, showing only the head or the head and shoulders, with the edges of the print shading off into the background.
4. A brief verbal description of a person, place, etc.; a short descriptive or evocative episode in a play, etc.
5. Little ornamental shrubs, which generally hang from and adorn the projections and edges of the several members of ruined architecture.
targe: (n) 1. A shield; specifically a light shield or buckler, borne instead of the heavy shield, especially by footmen and archers.
2. A name applied in the reigns of the first three Edwards to the King's private or privy seal (perhaps bearing a shield as its device).
3. Tarrying, delay.
4. One who targes; a termagant; a scold.
targe: (v) 1. To delay; tarry.
2. To protect or defend as with a targe or shield; to shield.
3. To question closely, cross-examine.
4. To keep in strict order, look after strictly.
5. To reprimand, scold loudly; to beat, thrash.
termagant: (n) 1. (with capital T.) Name of an imaginary deity held in mediæval Christendom to be worshipped by Muslims: in the mystery plays represented as a violent overbearing personage.
2. A savage, violent, boisterous, overbearing, or quarrelsome person (or thing personified); a blusterer, bully.
3. Specifically, a violent, overbearing, turbulent, brawling, quarrelsome woman; a virago, shrew, vixen.