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A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages. (more info) originally, the poem of, or concerning, a sirvent, fr. sirvent,

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A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages. (more info) originally, the poem of, or concerning, a sirvent, fr. sirvent, properly, serving, n., one who serves , fr.

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  • PECULIARIZE
    To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
  • MIDDLE
    1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
  • MORALIST
    1. One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties. Addison. 2. One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules;
  • MORALIZE
    1. To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from. This fable is moralized in a common proverb. L'Estrange. Did he not moralize this spectacle Shak. 2. To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend
  • DEVOTIONALLY
    In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
  • MORALIZATION
    1. The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse. 2. Explanation in a moral sense. T. Warton.
  • PECULIARNESS
    The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
  • MORAL
    1. Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners,
  • COMMONLY
    1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
  • SPECIES
    A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
  • DEVOTO
    A devotee. Dr. J. Scott.
  • DEVOTE
    1. To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames. No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord
  • MIDDLE-GROUND
    That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
  • SIRVENTE
    A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages. (more info) originally, the poem of, or concerning, a sirvent, fr. sirvent,
  • MIDDLE-EARTH
    The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
  • PECULIARLY
    In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
  • OFTENNESS
    Frequency. Hooker.
  • CONCERNEDLY
    In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.
  • MIDDLEMAN
    The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers. (more info) 1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts,
  • PECULIAR
    1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
  • INDEVOTE
    Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
  • ABORIGINALLY
    Primarily.
  • UNCONCERNMENT
    The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South.
  • SELF-DEVOTION
    The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
  • DEMORALIZATION
    The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.
  • UNMORALIZED
    Not restrained or tutored by morality. Norris.
  • IRRELIGIOUS
    1. Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impiou. Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. South. 2. Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious

 

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