Webster's Dictionary 1828

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VIEW

VIEW, verb transitive vu. [Latin videre. The primary sense is to reach or extend to.]1. To survey; to examine with the eye; to look on with attention, or for the purpose of exam...

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VIEWED

VIEWED, participle passive vu'ed. Surveyed; examined by the eye; inspected; considered.

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VIEWER

VIEWER, noun vu'er.1. One who views, surveys or examines.2. In New England, a town officer whose duty is to inspect something; as a viewer of fences, who inspects them to determ...

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VIEWING

VIEWING, participle present tense vu'ing. Surveying; examining by the eye or by the mind; inspecting; exploring.VIEWING, noun vu'ing. The act of beholding or surveying.

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VIEWLESS

VIEWLESS, adjective vu'less. That cannot be seen; not being perceivable by the eye; invisible; as viewless winds.Swift through the valves the visionary fair repass'd and viewles...

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VIGESIMATION

VIGESIMA'TION, noun [Latin vigesimus, twentieth.]The act of putting to death every twentieth man.

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VIGIL

VIG'IL, noun [Latin vigilia, vigil walking, watchful; vigilo, to watch. This is formed on the root of Eng. wake. The primary sense is to stir or excite, to rouse, to agitate.]1....

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VIGILANCE

VIG'ILANCE, noun [Latin vigilans. See Vigil.]1. Forbearance of sleep; a state of being awake.2. Watchfulness; circumspection; attention of the mind in discovering and guarding a...

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VIGILANCY

VIG'ILANCY, for vigilance, is not used.

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VIGILANT

VIG'ILANT, adjective [Latin vigilans.] Watchful; circumspect; attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety.Take your places and be vigilant Be sober, be vigi...

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VIGILANTLY

VIG'ILANTLY, adverb [supra.] Watchfully; with attention to danger and the means of safety; circumspectly.

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VIGNET

VIGNET', noun An ornament placed at the beginning of a book, preface or dedication; a head piece. Those vignets are of various forms; often they are wreaths of flowers or sprigs.

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VIGNETTE

VIGNETTE,VIG'OR, noun [Latin from vigeo, to be brisk, to grow, to be strong; allied to vivo, vixi, to live.]1. Active strength or force of body in animals; physical force.The vi...

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VIGOR

VIG'OR, n. [L. from vigeo, to be brisk, to grow, to be strong; allied to vivo, vixi, to live.]1. Active strength or force of body in animals; physical force.The vigor of this ar...

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VIGOROUS

VIG'OROUS, adjective1. Full of physical strength or active force; strong; lusty; as a vigorous youth; a vigorous body.2. Powerful; strong; made by strength, either of body or mi...

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VIGOROUSLY

VIG'OROUSLY, adverb With great physical force or strength; forcibly; with active exertions; as, to prosecute an enterprise vigorously

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VIGOROUSNESS

VIG'OROUSNESS, noun The quality of being vigorous or possessed of active strength.[Vigor and all its derivatives imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in d...

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VILD

VILD,VILE, adjective [Latin vilis. Gr.]1. Base; mean; worthless; despicable.The inhabitants account gold a vile thing.A man in vile raiment. James 2:1.Wherefore are we counted a...

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VILE

VILE, a. [L. vilis. Gr.]1. Base; mean; worthless; despicable.The inhabitants account gold a vile thing.A man in vile raiment. James 2.Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and rep...

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VILED

VI'LED, adjective Vile. [Not in use.]

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VILELY

VI'LELY, adverb1. Basely; meanly; shamefully; as Hector vilely dragged about the walls of Troy.2. In a cowardly manner. 2 Samuel 1:21.The Volscians vilely yielded the town.

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VILENESS

VI'LENESS, noun1. Baseness; meanness; despicableness.His vileness us shall never awe.2. Moral baseness or depravity; degradation by sin; extreme wickedness; as the vileness of m...

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VILIFIED

VIL'IFIED, participle passive [from vilify.] Defamed; traduced; debased.

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VILIFIER

VIL'IFIER, noun One who defames or traduces.

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VILIFY

VIL'IFY, verb transitive [from vile.]1. To make vile; to debase; to degrade.Their Maker's image forsook them, when themselves they vilified to serve ungovern'd appetite.2. To de...

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VILIFYING

VIL'IFYING, participle present tense Debasing; defaming.

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VILIPEND

VIL'IPEND, verb transitive [Latin vilipendo.] To despise. [Not in use.]