Webster's Dictionary 1828

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FASTIDIOSITY

FASTIDIOS'ITY, noun Fastidiousness. [Not used.]

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FASTIDIOUS

FASTID'IOUS, adjective [Latin fastidiousus, from fastidio, to disdain from fastus, haughtiness. See Heb.]1. Disdainful; squeamish; delicate to a fault; over nice; difficult to p...

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FASTIDIOUSLY

FASTID'IOUSLY, adverb Disdainfully; squeamishly; contemptuously. they look fastidiously and speak disdainfully.

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FASTIDIOUSNESS

FASTID'IOUSNESS, noun Disdainfulness; contemptuousness; squeamishness of mind, taste or appetite.

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FASTIGIATE

FASTIG'IATE,FASTIG'IATED, adjective [Latin fastigiatus, pointed, from fastigio, to point, fastigium, a top or peak.]1. In botany, a fastigiate stem is one whose branches are of ...

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FASTIGIATED

FASTIG'IATED, a. [L. fastigiatus, pointed, from fastigio, to point, fastigium, a top or peak.]1. In botany, a fastigiate stem is one whose branches are of an equal height. Pedun...

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FASTING

F'ASTING, participle present tense Abstaining from food.F'ASTING, noun The act of abstaining from food.

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FASTING-DAY

F'ASTING-DAY, noun A day of fasting; a fast-day; a day of religious mortification and humiliation.

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FASTNESS

F'ASTNESS, noun1. The state of being fast and firm; firm adherence.2. Strength; security.The places of fastness are laid open.3. A strong hold; a fortress or fort; a place forti...

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FASTUOUS

FAS'TUOUS, adjective [Latin fastuosus, from fastus, haughtiness.]Proud; haughty; disdainful.

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FAT

FAT, adjective1. Fleshy; plump; corpulent; abounding with an oily concrete substance, as an animal body; the contrary to lean; as a fat man; a fat ox.2. Coarse; gross.Nay, added...

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FATAL

FA'TAL, adjective [Latin fatalis. See Fate.]1. Proceeding from fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.These things are fatal and necessary.2. Appointed by fate or destiny.It was...

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FATALISM

FA'TALISM, noun The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.

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FATALIST

FA'TALIST, noun One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.

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FATALITY

FATAL'ITY, noun1. A fixed unalterable course of things, independent of God or any controlling cause; an invincible necessity existing in things themselves; a doctrine of the Sto...

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FATALLY

FA'TALLY, adverb1. By a decree of fate or destiny; by inevitable necessity or determination.2. Mortally; destructively; in death or ruin. This encounter ended fatally The prince...

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FATALNESS

FA'TALNESS, noun Invincible necessity.

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FATBRAINED

FAT'BRAINED, adjective Dull of apprehension.

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FATE

FATE, noun [Latin fatum, from for, fari, to speak, whence fatus.]1. Primarily, a decree or word pronounced by God; or a fixed sentence by which the order of things is prescribed...

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FATED

FA'TED, adjective1. Decreed by fate; doomed; destined. He was fated to rule over a factious people.2. Modelled or regulated by fate.Her awkward love indeed was oddly fated3. End...

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FATEFUL

FA'TEFUL, adjective Bearing fatal power; producing fatal events.The fateful steel.

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FATES

FATES, nounplural In mythology, the destinies or parcae; goddesses supposed to preside over the birth and life of men. They were three in number, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos.

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FATHER

F'ATHER, noun [Latin pater. The primary sense is obvious.]1. He who begets a child; in Latin genitor or generator.The father of a fool hath no joy. Proverbs 17:21.2. The first a...

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FATHER-IN-LAW

F'ATHER-IN-LAW, noun The father of one's husband or wife; and a man who marries a woman who has children by a former husband is called the father in law or step-father of those ...

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FATHERED

F'ATHERED, participle passive1. Adopted; taken as one's own; ascribed to one as the author.2. Having had a father of particular qualities.I am no stronger than my sex, being so ...

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FATHERHOOD

F'ATHERHOOD, noun The state of being a father, or the character or authority of a father.We might have had an entire notion of this fatherhood or fatherly authority.

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FATHERING

F'ATHERING, participle present tense Adopting; taking or acknowledging as one's own; ascribing to the father or author.