Hare

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Amorphous

Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom rude and amorphous in style.

Amphibious

The amphibious character of the Greeks was already determined: they were to be lords of land and sea.

Anthropopathism

In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy.

Arousal

Whatever has associated itself with the arousal and activity of our better nature.

Bestialize

The process of bestializing humanity.

Disperson'ate

We multiply; we dispersonate ourselves.

Eloquence

Eloquence is speaking out . . . out of the abundance of the heart.

Exenterate

Exenterated rule-mongers and eviscerated logicians.

Friz

He [Dr. Johnson], who saw in his glass how his wig became his face and head, might easily infer that a similar fullbottomed, well-curled friz of words would be no less becoming to his thoughts.

Genetical

This historical, genetical method of viewing prior systems of philosophy.

Genial

Men of genius have often attached the highest value to their less genial works.

Grub

They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin.

Handsomeness

Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative.

Heroism

Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action.

Immanent

An immanent power in the life of the world.

Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity.

Leader

He forgot to pull in his leaders, and they gallop away with him at times.

Matronage

Can a politician slight the feelings and convictions of the whole matronage of his country?

Misprision

The misprision of this passage has aided in fostering the delusive notion.

Multiform

A plastic and multiform unit.

Pragmatic

Low, pragmatical, earthly views of the gospel.

Put

All this is ingeniously and ably put.

Repercussion

Ever echoing back in endless repercussion.

Rescript

In their rescripts and other ordinances, the Roman emperors spoke in the plural number.

Ridicule

We have in great measure restricted the meaning of ridicule, which would properly extend over whole region of the ridiculous, -- the laughable, -- and we have narrowed it so that in common usage it mostly corresponds to “derision”, which does indeed involve personal and offensive feelings.

Rising

Among the rising theologians of Germany.

Rubricate

A system . . . according to which the thoughts of men were to be classed and rubricated forever after.

Runagate

Who has not been a runagate from duty?

Running

What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature?

Seminal

The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle.

Shirk

The usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties.

Sinewy

A man whose words . . . were so close and sinewy.

Statuesque

Their characters are mostly statuesque even in this respect, that they have no background.

Stop-gap

Moral prejudices are the stop-gaps of virtue.

Suggestment

They fancy that every thought must needs have an immediate outward suggestment.

Thaumatolatry

The thaumatolatry by which our theology has been debased for more than a century.

Tractate

Agreeing in substance with Augustin's, from whose fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are translated.

Tribunician

A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong.