n. (Med.) A medicine that diminishes or alleviates irritation. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

adj. (Med.) Diminishing or alleviating irritation Stedman. [ AS ]

v. t. [ Pref. ab- + irritate. ] (Med.) To diminish the sensibility to stimulation of. [ 1913 Webster+ AS ]

n. (Med.) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; lack of strength; asthenia. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Characterized by abirritation or debility. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; indiscernible; 'a priv. + &unr_; to distinguish. ] (Zool.) The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Acrita. -- n. An individual of the Acrita. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Skr. amrita. ] (Hind. Myth.) Immortality; also, the nectar conferring immortality. -- a. Ambrosial; immortal. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. opposed to authoritarian government. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; -- of governments or rulers; as, an authoritarian regime
Syn. -- autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannical [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 expecting unquestioning obedience: "he was imperious and dictatorial"; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
Syn. -- dictatorial, overbearing [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 behaves like a tyrant.
Syn. -- dictator [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an authoritative tone. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mock authoritative manner of the one, and the insipid mirth of the other. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Au*thor"i*ta*tive*ly, adv. -- Au*thor"i*ta*tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From L. Britannia Great Britain. ] A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware. Called also Britannia metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Britannicus, fr. Britannia Great Britain. ] Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. See Charity. ] 1. Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be thy intents wicked or charitable, . . .
. . . I will speak to thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Liberal in judging of others; disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent. [ 1913 Webster ]

What charitable men afford to beggars. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; eleemosynary; as, a charitable institution. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Dictated by kindness; favorable; lenient. [ 1913 Webster ]

By a charitable construction it may be a sermon. L. Andrews.

Syn. -- Kind; beneficent; benevolent; generous; lenient; forgiving; helpful; liberal; favorable; indulgent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a charitable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Joint inheritance. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Med.) To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., n. See Counter irritant, etc., under Counter, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Geol.) Pertaining to, or composed of, detritus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. desheritance. ] The act of disinheriting or state of being disinherited; disinheritance. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being heritable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. héritable. See Heritage, Hereditable. ] 1. Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance. [ 1913 Webster ]

This son shall be legitimate and heritable. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

Heritable rights (Scots Law), rights of the heir; rights to land or whatever may be intimately connected with land; realty. Jacob (Law Dict.). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. heritage, eritage, OF. heritage, eritage, F. héritage, fr. hériter to inherit, LL. heriditare. See Hereditable. ] 1. That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Part of my heritage,
Which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Script.) A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge. Joel iii. 2. 1 Peter v. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. heritance. ] Heritage; inheritance. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Robbing their children of the heritance
Their fathers handed down Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without authority; not authoritative. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. incharitable. ] Uncharitable; unfeeling. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. [ Cf. OF. enheritable, inheritable. ] Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir. [ 1913 Webster ]

By attainder . . . the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inheritable blood, blood or relationship by which a person becomes qualified to be an heir, or to transmit possessions by inheritance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By inheritance. Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. enheritance. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the man dies, let the inheritance
Descend unto the daughter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction. [ 1913 Webster ]

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away. 1 Pet. i. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Possession; ownership; acquisition. “The inheritance of their loves.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To you th' inheritance belongs by right
Of brother's praise; to you eke 'longs his love. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Biol.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Law) A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word inheritance (used simply) is mostly confined to the title to land and tenements by a descent. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men are not proprietors of what they have, merely for themselves; their children have a title to part of it which comes to be wholly theirs when death has put an end to their parents' use of it; and this we call inheritance. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + irritable: cf. F. inirritable. ] Not irritable; esp. (Physiol.), incapable of being stimulated to action, as a muscle. -- In*ir`ri*ta*bil"i*ty n. [1913 Webster]

a. Not accompanied with excitement; as, an inirritative fever. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. irritabilitas: cf. F. irritabilité. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways, -- as that quality in plants by which they exhibit motion under suitable stimulation; esp., the property which living muscle possesses, of responding either to a direct stimulus of its substance, or to the stimulating influence of its nerve fibers, the response being indicated by a change of form, or contraction; contractility. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. irritabilis: cf. F. irritable. See Irritate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Capable of being irritated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as, an irritable temper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vicious, old, and irritable. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Physiol.) Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) Susceptible of irritation; unduly sensitive to irritants or stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.

Syn. -- Excitable; irascible; touchy; fretful; peevish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Irritability. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an irritable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From 1st Irritant. ] (Scots Law) The state or quality of being null and void; invalidity; forfeiture. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From 2d Irritant. ] The state or quality of being irritant or irritating. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. irritants, -antis, p. pr. of irritare to make null, fr. L. irritus void; pref. ir- not + ratus established. ] (Scots Law) Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating. [ 1913 Webster ]

The states elected Harry, Duke of Anjou, for their king, with this clause irritant; that, if he did violate any part of his oath, the people should owe him no allegiance. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. irritans, -antis, p. pr. of irritare: cf. F. irritant. See Irritate to excite. ] Irritating; producing irritation or inflammation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. irritant. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. That which irritates or excites. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol. & Med.) Any agent by which irritation is produced; as, a chemical irritant; a mechanical or electrical irritant. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Toxicology) A poison that produces inflammation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Counter irritant. See under Counter. --
Pure irritant (Toxicology), a poison that produces inflammation without any corrosive action upon the tissues. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Excited; heightened. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Irritated p. pr. & vb. n. Irritating ] [ L. irritatus, p. p. of irritare. Of doubtful origin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cold maketh the spirits vigorous and irritateth them. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To excite anger or displeasure in; to provoke; to tease; to exasperate; to annoy; to vex; as, the insolence of a tyrant irritates his subjects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dismiss the man, nor irritate the god:
Prevent the rage of him who reigns above. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Physiol.) To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage.

Syn. -- To fret; inflame; excite; provoke; tease; vex; exasperate; anger; incense; enrage. -- To Irritate, Provoke, Exasperate. These words express different stages of excited or angry feeling. Irritate denotes an excitement of quick and slightly angry feeling which is only momentary; as, irritated by a hasty remark. To provoke implies the awakening of some open expression of decided anger; as, a provoking insult. Exasperate denotes a provoking of anger at something unendurable. Whatever comes across our feelings irritates; whatever excites anger provokes; whatever raises anger to a high point exasperates. “Susceptible and nervous people are most easily irritated; proud people are quickly provoked; hot and fiery people are soonest exasperated.” Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See 1 st Irritant. ] To render null and void. [ R. ] Abp. Bramhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. aroused to impatience or anger; as, made an irritated gesture.
Syn. -- annoyed, nettled, peeved, pissed, stung. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. causing annoyance.
Syn. -- annoying, galling, chafing, nettlesome, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. causing irritation of living tissue; -- used of physical stimuli.
Syn. -- irritant, irritative. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

3. causing pain or physical discomfort; as, an irritating burr under his stocking.
Syn. -- painful. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. irritatio: cf. F. irritation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially, excitement of anger or passion; provocation; annoyance; anger. [ 1913 Webster ]

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action. [ 1913 Webster ]