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1. Free from ambiguity; unequivocal; unmistakable; unquestionable; clear; evident; as, a decided advantage. "A more decided taste for science." Prescott. 2. Free from doubt or wavering; determined; of fixed purpose; fully settled; positive;

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1. Free from ambiguity; unequivocal; unmistakable; unquestionable; clear; evident; as, a decided advantage. "A more decided taste for science." Prescott. 2. Free from doubt or wavering; determined; of fixed purpose; fully settled; positive; resolute; as, a decided opinion or purpose. Syn. -- Decided, Decisive. We call a thing decisive when it has the power or quality of deciding; as, a decisive battle; we speak of it as decided when it is so fully settled as to leave no room for doubt; as, a decided preference, a decided aversion. Hence, a decided victory is one about which there is no question; a decisive victory is one which ends the contest. Decisive is applied only to things; as, a decisive sentence, a decisive decree, a decisive judgment. Decided is applied equally to persons and things. Thus we speak of a man as decided in his whole of conduct; and as having a decided disgust, or a decided reluctance, to certain measures. "A politic caution, a guarded circumspection, were among the ruling principles of our forefathers in their most decided conduct." Burke. "The sentences of superior judges are final, decisive, and irrevocable. Blackstone.

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  • PERSEVERANCE
    Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. Syn. -- Persistence; steadfastness; constancy; steadiness; pertinacity. (more info)
  • SOLIDARE
    A small piece of money. Shak.
  • UNDERSTOOD
    imp. & p. p. of Understand.
  • EXPOSER
    One who exposes or discloses.
  • PERSEVER
    To persevere.
  • UNDAUNTABLE
    Incapable of being daunted; intrepid; fearless; indomitable. Bp. Hall.
  • STABLENESS
    The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.
  • ROOTCAP
    A mass of parenchym
  • ACKNOWLEDGE
    1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
  • SOLIDUNGULA
    A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
  • DECIDER
    One who decides.
  • STABLEBOY; STABLEMAN
    A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
  • DECIDEMENT
    Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
  • SETTLEMENT
    A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
  • STRONGYLOID
    Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.
  • AGRESTICAL
    Agrestic.
  • ROOTLESS
    Destitute of roots.
  • EXPOSEDNESS
    The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
  • FIXTURE
    Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
  • CONSTANTIA
    A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony.
  • POSTABLE
    Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
  • INTESTABLE
    Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
  • REFIX
    To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
  • DISAGREEABLENESS
    The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
  • CONSTABLESS
    The wife of a constable.
  • PROOTIC; PROOETIC
    In front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule. -- n.
  • AFFIX
    figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
  • DEFIX
    To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
  • AFFIXION
    Affixture. T. Adams.
  • SWEETROOT
    Licorice.
  • BLOODROOT
    A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
  • STONEROOT
    A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
  • PUTTYROOT
    An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called
  • CONSOLIDATED
    Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787)

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