n. A foreboding; an omen. [ Obs. ] “Abodements must not now affright us.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. academia. See Academy. ] An academy. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Academic. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of an academy, university, or college. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. academicus: cf. F. académigue. See Academy. ] 1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. “Academic courses.” Warburton. “Academical study.” Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an academical manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. académicien. See Academy. ] 1. A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collegian. [ R. ] Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the position or state of being a member of an honorary academy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A tenet of the Academic philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. [ Obs. ] Baxter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. academiste. ] 1. An Academic philosopher. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An academician. [ Obs. ] Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Academies [ F. académie, L. academia. Cf. Academe. ] 1. A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A place of training; a school. “Academies of fanaticism.” Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music. [ 1913 Webster ]

Academy figure (Paint.), a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. [ L. ademptus, p. p. of adimere to take away. ] Taken away. [ Obs. ]

Without any sinister suspicion of anything being added or adempt. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ademptio, fr. adimere, ademptum, to take away; ad + emere to buy, orig. to take. ] (Law) The revocation or taking away of a grant, donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. anadema, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to wreathe; &unr_; up + &unr_; to bind. ] A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath. Drayton. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. apo- + Gr. &unr_; body. ] (Zool.) One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Intent. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An omen; a prognostic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl
Makes all these bodements. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., n. See Bridesmaid, Bridesman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;; kako`s bad + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; demon: cf. F. cacodémon. ] 1. An evil spirit; a devil or demon. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) The nightmare. Dunaglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Condemned p. pr. & vb. n. Condemning ] [ L. condemnare; con- + damnare to condemn: cf. F. condamner. See Damn. ] 1. To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it!
Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wilt thou condemn him that is most just? Job xxxiv. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it. Matt. xii. 42. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Driven out from bliss, condemned
In this abhorred deep to utter woe. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To each his sufferings; all are men,
Condemned alike to groan. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

And they shall condemn him to death. Matt. xx. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

The thief condemned, in law already dead. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

No flocks that range the valley free,
To slaughter I condemn. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver. 2 Cron. xxxvi. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Law) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.

Syn. -- To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. condemnabilis. ] Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. condemnatio. ] 1. The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation. [ 1913 Webster ]

In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture. [ 1913 Webster ]

A legal and judicial condemnation. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose condemnation is pronounced. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of being condemned. [ 1913 Webster ]

His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The ground or reason of condemning. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather light, because their deeds were evil. John iii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Used for condemned persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs in the condemned ward of Newgate. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who condemns or censures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the surgical excision of dead, contaminated, or damaged tissue, and foreign matter, especially from a wound. [ PJC ]

n. Means of forming a decision. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act or process of removing magnetization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. 1. To deprive of magnetic properties; to render nonmagnetic. See Magnetize. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the bar be rapidly magnetized and demagnetized. Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To free from mesmeric influence; to demesmerize. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

-- De*mag`net*i*za"tion, n. -- De*mag"net*i`zer n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Demagogue.

{ } a. [ Gr. dhmagwkiko`s: cf. F. démagogique. ] Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practices of a demagogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. dhmagwgo`s a popular leader; commonly in a bad sense, a leader of the mob; dh^mos the people + 'agwgo`s leading, fr. 'a`gein to lead; akin to E. act: cf. F. démagogue. ] A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace.
Syn. -- demagogy, demagogism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. démagogie, Gr. dhmagwgi`a leadership of the people. ] Demagogism.
Syn. -- demagoguery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Demesne. ] 1. Rule; management. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) See Demesne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Demanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Demanding. ] [ F. demander, LL. demandare to demand, summon, send word, fr. L. demandare to give in charge, intrust; de- + mandare to commit to one's charge, commission, order, command. Cf. Mandate, Commend. ] 1. To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience. [ 1913 Webster ]

This, in our foresaid holy father's name,
Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question. [ 1913 Webster ]

I did demand what news from Shrewsbury. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) To call into court; to summon. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make a demand; to inquire. [ 1913 Webster ]

The soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? Luke iii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. demande, fr. demander. See Demand, v. t. ] 1. The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand. [ 1913 Webster ]

The demand [ is ] by the word of the holy ones. Dan. iv. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that has confidence to turn his wishes into demands will be but a little way from thinking he ought to obtain them. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Earnest inquiry; question; query. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to possess; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand. [ 1913 Webster ]

In 1678 came forth a second edition [ Pilgrim's Progress ] with additions; and then the demand became immense. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That which one demands or has a right to demand; thing claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) (a) The asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due. (b) The right or title in virtue of which anything may be claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person. (c) A thing or amount claimed to be due. [ 1913 Webster ]

In demand, in request; being much sought after. --
On demand, upon presentation and request of payment. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be demanded or claimed. “All sums demandable.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ F. demandant, p. pr. of demander. ] One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who demands. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who demands. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. demant diamond + -oid. ] (Min.) A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Demarcation. ] To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate. Wilkinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. démarcation; pref. dé- (L. de) + marquer to mark, of German origin. See Mark. ] The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction. [ 1913 Webster ]

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]