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[uh-sweyj,
uh-sweyzh]
–verb (used with object), -suaged, -suag·ing.
1. to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's
grief; to assuage one's pain.
2. to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to assuage one's hunger.
3. to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears; to assuage her anger.
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[Origin:
1250–1300; ME aswagen < OF asouagier < VL *assu?vi?re,
equiv. to L as- as- + -su?vi?re, v. deriv. of L su?vis agreeable
to the taste, pleasant (cf. suave; akin to sweet)]
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1: surpassing the ordinary or normal; "Beyond his preternatural
affability there is some acid and some steel"- George Will
2: existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; "find
transcendental motives for sublunary action"-Aldous Huxley
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pre·ter·nat·u·ral (prtr-nchr-l,
-nchrl)
1 Out of or being beyond the normal course of nature; differing from the natural.
2 Surpassing the normal or usual; extraordinary: “Below his preternatural
affability there is some acid and steel” (George F. Will).
3 Transcending the natural or material order; supernatural.
[Medieval Latin praeterntrlis, from Latin praeter ntrm, beyond nature :
praeter, beyond; see preterit + ntra, nature; see nature.] |
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: only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient
civil disorder"; "an
incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea" [syn: inchoate] |
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Main Entry: incipient
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: developing
Synonyms: basic, beginning, commencing, elementary,
embryonic, fundamental, inceptive, inchoate, initial, initiative,
initiatory, introductory,
nascent, originating, starting |
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: not embarrassed; "a tinseled charm and unabashed sentimentality"-
Jerome Stone; "an unembarrassed greeting as if nothing
untoward had happened" [syn: unembarrassed] |
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Main Entry:
barefaced
Part of Speech:
adjective
Definition:
shameless
Synonyms:
apparent, arrant, audacious, blatant, blunt, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, candid,
clear, flagrant, frank, glaring, immodest, impudent, insolent, manifest, naked,
obvious, open, palpable, temerarious, transparent, unabashed, unconcealed
Antonyms:
polite, reserved, respectful, shamed |
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erudite
adj : having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned
jurist"; "an erudite professor" [syn: learned] |
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Main Entry:
erudite
Part of Speech:
adjective
Definition:
well-educated
Synonyms:
brainy, cultivated, cultured, educated, highbrow, into, knowledgeable,
learned, lettered, literate, savvy, scholarly, scholastic,
studious, well-read, wise to, wised up |
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Reconnoitre \Rec`on*noi"tre\ (r?k`?n*noi"t?r),
v. t. [F. reconnoitre, a former spelling of reconna[^i]tre.
See Recognize.] 1. To examine with the eye to make a preliminary
examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to
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2. To
recognize. [Obs.] --Sir H. Walpole.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
reconnoiter v : explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
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from The Power of Myth:
Joseph Campbell
So through the eyes love attains the heart:
For the eyes are the scouts of the heart,
And the eyes go reconnoitering
For what it would please the heart to possess.
And when they are in full accord
And firm, all three, in one resolve,
At that time, perfect love is born
From what the eyes have made welcome to the heart.
Not otherwise can love either be born or have commencement
Than by this birth and commencement moved by inclination.
By the grace and by command
Of these three, and from their pleasure,
Love is born, who its fair hope
Goes comforting her friends.
For as all true lovers
Know, love is perfect kindness,
Which is born - there is no doubt - from the heart and eyes.
The eyes make it blossom; the heart matures it:
Love, which is the fruit of their very seed.
- Guiraut de Borneilh (c. 1138-1200?) |
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