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exhaustion of the animal or mental powers; weariness solid which is able to bear, and does not easily give way 

 is a wearing out the strength, or breaking the spirits; that is stable which is able to make a stand against ^ 

 lassitude is a general relaxation of the animal frame. 

 Fearful, Dreadful, Frightful. Tremendous. Ter 



rible, Terrific, Horrible. Horrid. A conte.-- 

 ful when the issue is important, but the event doubtful; 

 the thought of death is dreadful to one who feels him- 

 self unprepared; the frightful is less than the tremen- 

 dous; the tremendous than the terrible; the terrible 

 than the horrible; shrieks may be frightful; thunder 

 and lightning may be tremendous; the roaring of a lion 

 is terrible; the glare of his eye terrific; the actual spec- 



sistance. or the effects of time. 



lit. Apt. Meet. A house is fit or the accommoda- 



tion of the family according to the plan of the builder; 

 the young mind is apt to receive either good or bad im- 

 pressions; meet is a term of rare use, except in spiritual 

 or in poetry: it is meet to offer our prayers to 

 the Supreme Disposer of all things. 



I 1.. tterer. Sycophant, Parasite. The flatterer is 

 one who flatters by words; the sycophant and parasite 

 '8 therefore always a flatterer, and something more, for 



tade of killing is horrible or horrid. We may sj>eak of the sycophant adopts every mean artifice by which he 

 a frightful, dreadful, terrible, or horrid dream; or can ingratiate himself, and the parasite submits to every 

 frightful, dreadful, or terrible tempest; dreadful, ter- degradation and servile compliance by which he can ob- 

 rible, or horrid consequences. tain his base purpose. 



To Feel. l> veii-ihle. < onscious. To feel is said I. Flexible, Pliable, Pliant, Supple. Flexible is used 

 of t IK- whole frame, inwardly and outwardly: it is the in a natural or moral sense; pliable in the familiar sense 

 accompaniment of existence; to l>e sensible is said only only; pliant in the higher and moral application only- 

 It is the property of all living creatures j what can be bent in any degree as a stick is flexible; 

 to feel pleasure and pain in a greater or less degree: ' what can be bent as wax, or folded like cloth, is pliable; 

 those creatures which have not the sense of hearing will supple, whether in a proper or a figurative sense, is an 



not be sensible of sounds; one is conscious only of what excess of pliability; what can be bent backward and for- 

 passes inwardly; we are conscious of having fallen ward, like osier twig,^ is supple. 



short of our duty. 



To Feign. Pretend. 



-oine future end : 



One feigns in order to gain 

 feign- Mcknos in order to 



up! 



Tp i Fluctuate. TO Waver. To fluctuate conveys 

 the idea of strong agitation; to waver, that of constant 

 motion backward and forward: when applied in the 



moral sense, to fluctuate designates the action of the 

 spirits or the opinions; to waver is said only of the will 

 or opinions. 



To Follow, Succeed, Ensue. Follow and succeed 

 is said of persons and things; ensue of things only: fol- 

 low, in respect of persons, denotes the going in order; 

 succeed denotes the going or being in the same place 

 immediately after another: many persons may follow 

 one another at the same time; but only one individual 

 properly succeeds another; ensue is used in specific cases; 

 quarrels too often ensue from the conversations of violent 

 men who differ either in religion or politics. 



To Follow, Pursue. The idea of going after any 

 object in order to reach or obtain it is common to these 

 terms, but under different circumstances: to follow a 

 person is mostly with a friendly intention ; to pursue with 

 a hostile intention. 



Follower, Adherent, Partisan. A follower is one 

 who follows a person generally; an adherent is one who 

 adheres to his cause; a part isan is t he follower of a party. 



roily. Foolery. Folly is the abstract of foolish, and 

 characterizes the thing; foolery the abstract of fool, 

 and characterizes the person: young people are per- 



: from paying a di-agreeable visit; one lire- 

 tends in order to serve a present purpose; a child pre- 

 tends to have lost his book who wishes to excuse him- 

 self for his i'i 



To Felicitate. Congratulate. Felicitate signifies to 

 make happy, and is applicable only to ourselves; con- 

 gratulate is applicable either to ourselves or others: 

 we felicitate ourselves on having escaped the danger; 

 we congratulate others on their good fortune. 



Female, Feminine. Klt'emiiiafe. In the female 



chancier we expect to find that which is feminine. The 



female dress, manners, and habits, have engaged the 



t ion of all essayists, from the time of Addison to the 



nt period. The feminine is natural to the female; 



the effeminate is unnatural to the male. 



I ero. ion-, liene. Savage. Ferocity marks the 

 untamed character of a cruel disposition : fierceness has a 

 greater mixture of pride and anger in it ; savageness 

 marks a more permanent, but not so violent a sentiment 

 of either cruelty or anger as the two former. Ferocity 

 and fierceness are in common applied to the brutes, to 

 Mate their natural tempers: savage is mostly em- 

 ployed to designate the natural tempers of man. when r .. r .,- 



uncontrolled by the force of reason and a sense of religion, i petually committing follies if not under proper control; 

 lei-M.r, Ardor. The affections are properly, fer- ' fashionable people lay aside one foolery only to take up 

 vent ; the passions are ardent: we are fervent in feeling, ; another. 



and ardent in acting. Fool, Idiot, Buffoon. Fool is doubtless connected 



I in al. Conclusive. Final designates simply the [ with our word foul, in German faul, which is either nasty 

 circnm-tanre of being the last; conclusive the mode of or lazy, and the Greek word, which signifies worthless 

 finishing or coming to the la.-t : a determination is final or good for nothing. Idiot comes from the Cireek word 



signifying either a private person or one that is rude and 

 unskilled in the ways of the world; buffoon, m French 

 " bouffon." is in all probability connected with our word 

 beef, buffalo, and bull, signifying a senseless fellow. 

 The fool is either naturally or artificially a fool, the 

 idiot i- a natural fool; the buffoon is an 'artificial fool; 

 whoever violates common-sense in his actions is a fool; 

 whoever is unable to act according to common-sense is an 

 idiot;' whoever intentionally violates common-sense is a 

 buffoon. 



Foolhardy. Adventurous. Hash. The foolhardy 

 man ventures in defiance of consequences: the adven- 

 turous man ventures from a love of the arduous and the 

 bold; the rash man ventures for want of thought. 



I.MI.. XIOI.IHC. The arm of justice must exercise 

 force in order to bring offenders to a proper a. 

 one nation exercises violence against another m the act 

 ng on war; force is mostly conformable to rea- 

 len.-e is always resorted to for the 



which is to be succeeded by no other; a reasoning is con- 

 clu-ive that puts a stop to farther question. 



I I ind. Find Out. l>i-eo\er. Invent. The merit 

 Of finding or inventing n.n-i-t- in newly applying or 

 modifying the materials, which exist separately; the 

 discovering consist! m removing the obstacles 

 which prevent us from knowing the real nature of the 

 thing: imagination and industry are re<im-ite for finding 

 or inventing; acuteness ami penei nil ion for discovering. 

 I- ind IH applicable to the operative arts; invent to the 

 mechfit ver to the specula 



I-. I ind I ..ult \\ iih. HI. ime. oi.j.-rt To. We find 

 fault wit ha person for his behavior; we find fault with our 



ant; we blame a person for hi- ie- 



his improvidence; we object to a measure that i- pi.,- 

 posed. We find fault with or blame that which has 

 been done; we object to that which has been or is to be 



lone. 



Ime. Delicate, Ni<e. i ...e. m the natural 

 denotes smallness in general. Delicate denotes a 



of fineness that i- 

 to be fine; silk is 



agraeabh 



3d t,, i,, 



ile [ ee 



to the taste. Thread is said 



to be delicate, when to h 



texture it adds softness; nice in .-aid of what is agreeable 



i, the appetite. 



Finite, Limited. the natural property of 



and limited rty: the former 



,te only to the infinite, lull Mch lies 



within the finite, is opposed U> the unlimited or the ili- 



c, and space infinite; the power 



of a prim e i- limited. 



Finn. I i\ed. x,,|i,|. Maid. . 1 

 rued denotes the .-taU of being fixed; solid. 

 solldus. comes from -olum. the rti.und. which i- 

 Olid thing e 



firm which i. not easily shaken; that is fixed which is 

 fastened to something else, and not easily torn; that ii 







attainment of that winch is unattainable by lav 

 is always something desirable: M> >lcnce is always some- 

 thing hurtful. We ought to listen to arguments which 



Fore- 



have force in them ; we endeavor to correct the violence 

 of all angry passions. 



i ii.-rs. Progenitor*. Ancestors. 



i gullies our fathers before us. and incues our 

 immediate parents; progenitors signifies those begotten 

 before us, exclusive of our immediate parents; ancestors 



i tboM from whom we are remotely descended. 



i,, Foretell. Predict, Prtptosy. Prognosticate. 



We may foretell common events, although we cannot 



<>r prophesy anything important: one foretells 

 by a simple ralcniat ion or guess: to predict and prophesy 

 are extraordinary gift*; one predicts by a supernatural 

 power, real or supposed; one prophesies by means of 

 inspiration. To prognosticate is an act of the under- 



