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Argue :: Argue (v. t.) To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued..

Aforesaid :: Aforesaid (a.) Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified..

Promulger :: Promulger (n.) One who promulges or publishes what was before unknown.

Turn :: Turn (v. t.) To change the form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to alter; to metamorphose; to convert; to transform; -- often with to or into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindu to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like..

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden..

Supralapsarian :: Supralapsarian (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall. Cf. Infralapsarian..

Antiphon :: Antiphon (n.) A verse said before and after the psalms.

Backing :: Backing (n.) The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover..

Pretentative :: Pretentative (a.) Fitted for trial beforehand; experimental.

Business :: Business (n.) That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure..

Precondemn :: Precondemn (v. t.) To condemn beforehand.

Napping :: Napping (n.) A sheet of partially felted fur before it is united to the hat body.

Opposite :: Opposite (a.) Placed directly in front of another part or organ, as a stamen which stands before a petal..

Prenatal :: Prenatal (a.) Being or happening before birth.

Desert :: Desert (v. i.) To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond..

Colewort :: Colewort (n.) Any white cabbage before the head has become firm.

Presentive :: Presentive (a.) Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic.

Flat :: Flat (n.) A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower..

Zeolite :: Zeolite (n.) A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe..

Imparl :: Imparl (v. i.) To have time before pleading; to have delay for mutual adjustment.

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