OFFENSELESS
OFFENSELESS, adjective offens'less. Unoffending; innocent; inoffensive.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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OFFENSIVE
OFFENS'IVE, adjective1. Causing displeasure or some degree of anger; displeasing. All sin is offensive to God. Rude behavior is offensive to men. Good breeding forbids us to use...
OFFENSIVELY
OFFENS'IVELY, adverb1. In a manner to give displeasure; as language offensively harsh or sarcastic.2. Injuriously; mischievously.3. By way of invasion or first attack. The enemy...
OFFENSIVENESS
OFFENS'IVENESS, noun1. The quality that offends or displeases; as the offensiveness of rude language or behavior.2. Injuriousness; mischief.3. Cause of disgust; the quality that...
OFFER
OF'FER, verb transitive [Latin offero; ob and fero, to bring.]1. Literally, to bring to or before; hence, to present for acceptance or rejection; to exhibit something that may b...
OFFERABLE
OF'FERABLE, adjective That may be offered.
OFFERED
OF'FERED, participle passive Presented for acceptance or rejection; presented in worship or devotion; immolated; bid; presented to the eye or the mind.
OFFERER
OF'FERER, noun One that offers; one that sacrifices or dedicates in worship.
OFFERING
OF'FERING, participle present tense Presenting; proposing; sacrificing; bidding; presenting to the eye or mind.OF'FERING, noun That which is presented in divine service; an anim...
OFFERTORY
OF'FERTORY, noun The act of offering, or the thing offered. [Little used.]1.offertory was properly an anthem chanted or a voluntary played on the organ during the offering and a...
OFFERTURE
OF'FERTURE, noun Offer; proposal. [Not used.]
OFFICE
OF'FICE, noun [Latin officium; ob and facio, to make or do.]1. A particular duty, charge or trust conferred by public authority and for a public purpose; an employment undertake...
OFFICER
OF'FICER, noun A person commissioned or authorized to perform any public duty. Officers are civil, military or ecclesiastical. There are great officers of state, and subordinate...
OFFICERED
OF'FICERED, participle passive Furnished with officers.
OFFICIAL
OFFI'CIAL, adjective1. Pertaining to an office or public trust. The secretary is engaged in official duties.2. Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper auth...
OFFICIALLY
OFFI'CIALLY, adverb By the proper officer; by virtue of the proper authority; in pursuance of the special powers vested; as accounts or reports officially verified or rendered; ...
OFFICIALTY
OFFI'CIALTY, noun The charge or office of an official.
OFFICIATE
OFFI'CIATE, verb transitive1. To act as an officer in his office; to transact the appropriate business of an office or public trust. At this court the chief justice officiated.T...
OFFICIATING
OFFI'CIATING, participle present tense Performing the appropriate duties of an office; performing the office of another.
OFFICINAL
OFFIC'INAL, adjective [Latin officina, a shop.]Used in a shop or belonging to it. officinal drugs, medicines and simples are such as are required to be constantly kept in the sh...
OFFICIOUS
OFFI'CIOUS, adjective [Latin officiosus.]1. Kind; obliging; doing kind offices.Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries officious2. Excessively forward in kindness; importun...
OFFICIOUSLY
OFFI'CIOUSLY, adverb1. Kindly; with solicitous care.Let thy goats officiously be nurs'd.2. With importunate or excessive forwardness.Flattering crowds officiously appear, to giv...
OFFICIOUSNESS
OFFI'CIOUSNESS, noun1. Eagerness to serve; usually, an excess of zeal to serve others, or improper forwardness, interposing in affairs without being desired, or with a dispositi...
OFFING
OFF'ING, noun [from off.] That part of the sea which is at a good distance from the shore, or at a competent distance, where there is deep water and no need of a pilot. We saw a...
OFFSCOURING
OFF'SCOURING, noun [off and scour.] That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised. Lamentations 3:45. 1 Corinthians 4:13.
OFFSET
OFF'SET, noun [off and set.]1. A shoot; a sprout from the roots of a plant.2. In surveying, a perpendicular let fall from the stationary lines to the hedge, fence or extremity o...
OFFSPRING
OFF'SPRING, noun [off and spring.1. A child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock. Acts 17:28. Revelation 22:16.2. Propagation; generation.3. P...