Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Vassalage

Vas″sal‐age (?), n. [OE. vassalage, F. vasselage, LL. vassallaticum.]1. The state of being a vassal, or feudatory.2. Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, th...

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Vassaless

Vas″sal‐ess, n. A female vassal. Spenser.

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Vassalry

Vas″sal‐ry (?), n. The body of vassals.

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Vast

Vast (vȧst), a. [Compar.Vaster (?); superl.Vastest.] [L. vastus empty, waste, enormous, immense: cf. F. vaste. See Waste, and cf. Devastate.]1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.T...

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Vast (2)

Vast, n. A waste region; boundless space; immensity. “The watery vast.” Pope.Michael bid soundThe archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heavenIt sounded. Milton.

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Vastation

Vas‐ta″tion (?), n. [L. vastatio, fr. vastare to lay waste, fr. vastus empty, waste.] A laying waste; waste; depopulation; devastation. Bp. Hall.

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Vastel

Vas″tel (?), n. See Wastel. Fuller.

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Vastidity

Vas‐tid″i‐ty (?), n. [Cf. OF. vastité, L. vastitas.] Vastness; immensity. “All the world's vastidity.” Shak.

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Vastitude

Vas″ti‐tude (?), n. [L. vastitudo.] 1. Vastness; immense extent.2. Destruction; vastation. Joye.

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Vastity

Vast″i‐ty (?), n. [L. vastitas.] Vastness.The huge vastity of the world. Holland.

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Vastly

Vast″ly, adv. To a vast extent or degree; very greatly; immensely. Jer. Taylor.

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Vastness

Vast″ness, n. The quality or state of being vast.

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Vasty

Vas″ty (?), a. [From Vast.] Vast; immense.I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Shak.

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Vasum

‖Va″sum (?), n. [L., a vase. See Vase.] (Zoöl.) A genus including several species of large marine gastropods having massive pyriform shells, with conspicuous folds on the colume...

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Vat

Vat (văt), n. [A dialectic form for fat, OE. fat, AS. fæt; akin to D. vat, OS. fat, G. fass, OHG. faz, Icel. & Sw. fat, Dan. fad, Lith. půdas a pot, and probably to G. fassen to...

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Vat (2)

Vat (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Vatted (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Vatting.] To put or transfer into a vat.

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Vatful

Vat″ful (?), n.; pl.Vatfuls (�). As much as a vat will hold; enough to fill a vat.

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Vatical

Vat″ic‐al (?), a. [L. vates a prophet.] Of or pertaining to a prophet; prophetical. Bp. Hall.

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Vatican

Vat″i‐can (?), n. [L. Vaticanus, mons, or collis, Vaticanus, the Vatican hill, in Rome, on the western bank of the Tiber: cf. F. Vatican, It. Vaticano.] A magnificent assemblage...

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Vatican Council

Vat″i‐can Coun″cil. (R. C. Ch.) The council held under Pope Pius IX. in Vatican at Rome, in 1870, which promulgated the dogma of papal infallibility.

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Vaticanism

Vat″i‐can‐ism (?), n. The doctrine of papal supremacy; extreme views in support of the authority of the pope; ultramontanism; — a term used only by persons who are not Roman Cat...

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Vaticanist

Vat″i‐can‐ist, n. One who strongly adheres to the papal authority; an ultramontanist.

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Vaticide

Vat″i‐cide (?), n. [L. vates a prophet + caedere to kill.] The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet. “The caitiff vaticide.” Pope.

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Vaticinal

Va‐tic″i‐nal (?), a. [See Vaticinate.] Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic. T. Warton.

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Vaticinate

Va‐tic″i‐nate (?), v. i. & t. [L. vaticinatus, p. p. of vaticinari to prophesy, fr. vaticinus prophetical, fr. vates a prophet.] To prophesy; to foretell; to practice prediction...

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Vaticination

Va‐tic′i‐na″tion (?), n. [L. vaticinatio.] Prediction; prophecy.It is not a false utterance; it is a true, though an impetuous, vaticination. I. Taylor.

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Vaticinator

Va‐tic″i‐na′tor (?), n. One who vaticinates; a prophet.