‖n. pl. [ NL., from L. compositus made up of parts. See Composite. ] (Bot.) A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Cursitor. ] Moving about slightly. [ R. ] H. Bushnell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Depositaries [ L. depositarius, fr. deponere. See Deposit. ] 1. One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor. [ 1913 Webster ]

I . . . made you my guardians, my depositaries. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The depositaries of power, who are mere delegates of the people. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A storehouse; a depository. Bp. Hurd. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. haesitantia a stammering. ] 1. The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stammering; a faltering in speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. haesitans, p. pr. of haesitare: cf. F. hésitant. See Hesitate. ] 1. Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unready in speech. Baxter. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With hesitancy or doubt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Hesitated p. pr. & vb. n. Hesitating. ] [ L. haesitatus, p. p. of haesitare, intens. fr. haerere to hesitate, stick fast; to hang or hold fast. Cf. Aghast, Gaze, Adhere. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To stammer; to falter in speaking.

Syn. -- To doubt; waver; scruple; deliberate; demur; falter; stammer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner. [ Poetic & R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. one who hesitates.
Syn. -- waverer, vacillator, hesitator. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. holding back because of doubt or lack of confidence.
Syn. -- hesitant, indecisive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. With hesitation or doubt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. haesitatio: cf. F. hésitation. ] 1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Showing, or characterized by, hesitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He said ] in his mild, hesitative way. R. D. Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hesitating. R. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inusitatus unusual. See Use. ] Unusual. [ R. ] Bramhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of use; disuse. [ R. ] Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An ancient region and Roman province of the Iberian peninsula, corresponding roughly to modern Portugal and parts of Spain. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to Lusitania, the ancient name of the region almost coinciding with Portugal. -- n. One of the people of Lusitania. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of biting or gnawing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. mussitatio suppression of the voice, fr. mussitare to be silent, to murmur. ] A speaking in a low tone; mumbling. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; -- opposed to libertarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds to the doctrine of necessitarianism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; determinism. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Necessitated p. pr. & vb. n. Necessitating ] [ Cf. L. necessitatus, p. p. of necessitare, and F. nécessiter. See Necessity. ] 1. To make necessary or indispensable; to render unavoidable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sickness [ might ] necessitate his removal from the court. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

This fact necessitates a second line. J. Peile. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Marquis of Newcastle, being pressed on both sides, was necessitated to draw all his army into York. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. nécessitation. ] The act of making necessary, or the state of being made necessary; compulsion. [ R. ] bp. Bramhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) (a) An artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc. (b) A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot. & Zool.) Of or pertaining to parasites; parasitic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See 4th Press. ] Gravitating; heavy. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of revisiting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Supparasite. ] The act of flattering to gain favor; servile approbation. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. usitari to use often. ] Denoting usual or customary action. “The usitative aorist.” Alford. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Liable or subject to be visited or inspected. “All hospitals built since the Reformation are visitable by the king or lord chancellor.” Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. visitans, -antis; p. pr.: cf. F. visitant. ] One who visits; a guest; a visitor. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the visitant comes again, he is no more a stranger. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Visiting. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. visitatio: cf. F. visitation. ] 1. The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing but peace and gentle visitation. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: The act of a superior or superintending officer who, in the discharge of his office, visits a corporation, college, etc., to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed; as, the visitation of a diocese by a bishop. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The object of a visit. [ Obs. ] “O flowers, . . . my early visitation and my last.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Internat. Law) The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually coupled with the right of search (see under Search), visitation being used for the purpose of search. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

What will ye do in the day of visitation? Isa. x. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Eccl.) A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of July. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Order of the Visitation of Our Lady (R. C. Ch.), a religious community of nuns, founded at Annecy, in Savoy, in 1610, and in 1808 established in the United States. In America these nuns are devoted to the education of girls. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. LL. visitator a bishop temporarily put in place of another. ] Of or pertaining to visitation, or a judicial visitor or superintendent; visitorial. [ 1913 Webster ]

An archdeacon has visitatorial power. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

The queen, however, still had over the church a visitatorial power of vast and undefined extent. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]