Organization to Overwork

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

organization, n. (55)

    Nat 1.44 14 ...a law of one organization, holds true throughout nature.
    AmS 1.86 13 The ambitious soul...goes on forever to animate the last fibre of organization...
    LE 1.165 3 ...an able man is nothing else than a good, free, vascular organization...
    LE 1.165 19 ...in [men] this disease of an excess of organization cheats them of equal issues.
    MR 1.241 18 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled to wait on his thoughts;...
    Con 1.322 12 ...if it still be asked in this necessity of partial organization, which party...has the highest claims on our sympathy,-I bring it home to the private heart...
    Hist 2.25 27 The Greeks are...perfect in their senses and in their health, with the finest physical organization in the world.
    Hist 2.26 7 [Vases, tragedies, statues] have continued to be made in all ages...but, as a class, from their superior organization, [the Greeks] have surpassed all.
    Hist 2.37 15 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind. Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay-Lussac... anticipate the laws of organization.
    SL 2.141 4 This talent and this call depend on [a man's] organization...
    Lov1 2.179 10 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization.
    Fdsp 2.200 15 Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk in which a delicate organization is protected from premature ripening.
    Prd1 2.231 12 Health or sound organization should be universal.
    Mrs1 3.128 12 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...in their physical organization a certain health and excellence which secure to them, if not the highest power to work, yet high power to enjoy.
    Nat2 3.184 4 If the identity [in nature] expresses organized rest, the counter action runs also into organization.
    PPh 4.51 27 ...if we dare...name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization...and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality...
    GoW 4.273 13 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become, by population, compact organization and drill of parts, one great Exploring Expedition...this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.
    ET5 5.99 9 ...the intellectual organization of the English admits a communicableness of knowledge and ideas among them all.
    ET6 5.103 17 The mechanical might and organization [in England] requires in the people constitution and answering spirits;...
    ET7 5.117 2 Veracity...marks superiority in organization.
    ET8 5.134 20 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...a race to which their fortunes flow, as if they alone had the elastic organization at once fine and robust enough for dominion;...
    ET10 5.170 5 ...the evil [of England's wealth] requires a deeper cure, which time and a simpler social organization must supply.
    ET15 5.263 21 [The London Times] has shown those qualities which are dear to Englishmen...a towering assurance, backed by the perfect organization in its printing-house...
    F 6.8 26 An expense of ends to means is fate;-organization tyrannizing over character.
    F 6.9 15 People seem sheathed in their tough organization.
    F 6.28 18 ...when a strong will appears, it usually results from a certain unity of organization...
    F 6.35 24 Behind every individual closes organization;...
    F 6.36 6 Liberation of the will from the sheaths and clogs of organization... is the end and aim of this world.
    Ctr 6.165 17 We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization.
    Bhr 6.169 13 The visible carriage or action of the individual, as resulting from his organization and his will combined, we call manners.
    Ill 6.311 7 ...rainbows and Northern Lights are not quite so spheral as our childhood thought them, and the part our organization plays in them is too large.
    Ill 6.311 14 The same interference from our organization creates the most of our pleasure and pain.
    Civ 7.25 18 Civilization is the result of highly complex organization.
    Art2 7.44 2 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...
    Elo1 7.95 21 ...the slight yet sufficient party organization [the resistance to slavery] offered, reinforced the city with new blood from the woods and mountains.
    Res 8.147 20 Disorganization [good sense] confronts with organization...
    PPo 8.239 7 The favor of the climate...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization...
    Dem1 10.6 26 We fear lest the poor brute [the dog]...should learn in some moment the tough limitations of this fettering organization.
    Dem1 10.7 8 ...in varieties of our own species where organization seems to predominate over the genius of man...we are sometimes pained by the same feeling [of the similarity between man and animal];...
    Supl 10.177 1 ...[Nature]...in the East...inculcates the tenet of a beatitude to be found in escape from all organization and all personality...
    SovE 10.183 23 ...this unity exists in the organization of insect, beast and bird, still ascending to man...
    SovE 10.184 16 St. Pierre says of the animals that a moral sentiment seems to have determined their physical organization.
    LLNE 10.354 19 [The Fourier marriage] was...ignorant how serious and how moral [women's] nature always is; how chaste is their organization;...
    FSLN 11.221 27 [Webster's] excellent organization...we shall not soon find again.
    AsSu 11.250 3 I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing...to bear his part in the labor which party organization requires.
    EdAd 11.386 15 Every material organization exists to a moral end...
    Wom 11.408 16 ...[women's] fine organization, their taste and love of details, makes the knowledge they give better in their hands.
    ChiE 11.470 6 Nature...in the East...inculcates a beatitude to be found in escape from all organization and all personality...
    FRep 11.525 21 ...the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance...from rude to finer organization...
    FRep 11.529 25 In this fact, that we are a nation of individuals, that we have a highly intellectual organization...in this is our hope.
    FRep 11.529 27 In this fact, that we are a nation of individuals...and that on such an organization sooner or later the moral laws must tell, to such ears must speak,-in this is our hope.
    PLT 12.20 23 ...as mind, our mind, or mind like ours, reappears to us in our study of Nature, Nature being everywhere formed after a method which we can well understand...therefore our own organization is a perpetual key...
    PLT 12.59 21 ...wit...puts together what belongs together, custom or no custom; in that is organization.
    MAng1 12.218 20 ...all men have an organization corresponding more or less to the entire system of Nature...
    ACri 12.302 3 'T is very easy...to represent the farm, which stands for the organization of the gravest needs, as a poor trifle of pea-vines, turnips and hen-roosts.

organizations, n. (11)

    Nat 1.42 12 ...all organizations are radically alike.
    Nat 1.45 11 [Words and actions] introduce us to the human form, of which all other organizations appear to be degradations.
    Nat 1.46 2 ...these [human forms] all rest...on the unfathomed sea of thought and virtue whereto they alone, of all organizations, are the entrances.
    NER 3.255 4 There was in all the practical activities of New England for the last quarter of a century, a gradual withdrawal of tender consciences from the social organizations.
    ET4 5.50 10 The low organizations are simplest;...
    ET4 5.50 12 As the scale mounts, the organizations become complex.
    Elo1 7.96 22 This man [the sturdy countryman] scornfully renounces your civil organizations...
    DL 7.125 10 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;... in a sixth, his coming forth from the abolition organizations;...
    Aris 10.33 17 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man, billows of chaos, down to the dancing and menial organizations.
    FRep 11.542 17 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe. They are all toiling...to a use in the economy of the world; the higher and more complex organizations to higher and more catholic service.
    CL 12.155 2 It was said of [Samuel Johnson] that he preferred the Strand to the Garden of the Hesperides. But this is not the experience...of men with good eyes and susceptible organizations.

organize, v. (10)

    SL 2.140 4 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences... the heaven...still predicted from the bottom of the heart, would organize itself...
    Hsm1 2.259 7 ...a better valor and a purer truth shall one day organize [many extraordinary young men's] belief.
    Mrs1 3.146 15 Even the line of heroes is not utterly extinct. ... These are the creators of Fashion, which is an attempt to organize beauty of behavior.
    ET13 5.226 3 ...[the religious element] is in its nature constructive, and will organize such a church as it wants.
    Pow 6.53 12 ...if there be such a tie that wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.
    CbW 6.274 23 ...one may take a good deal of pains...to organize clubs and debating-societies, and yet no result come of it.
    Bty 6.301 6 If a man...can organize victory...'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    Clbs 7.242 16 ...in all civil nations attempts have been made to organize conversation by bringing together cultivated people under the most favorable conditions.
    Cour 7.254 2 Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass...
    FSLC 11.209 24 The sun paints; presently we shall organize the echo, as now we do the shadow.

organized, adj. (10)

    LT 1.264 17 In the brain of a fanatic; in the wild hope of a mountain boy... is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come, more than in the now organized and accredited oracles.
    Hist 2.13 18 Genius detects...through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity.
    Nat2 3.184 3 If the identity [in nature] expresses organized rest, the counter action runs also into organization.
    UGM 4.35 6 The destiny of organized nature is amelioration...
    SwM 4.120 16 A man is in general and in particular an organized justice or injustice...
    Civ 7.19 10 [Civilization] implies the evolution of a highly organized man...
    SA 8.90 23 Every highly organized person knows the value of the social barriers...
    Thor 10.463 2 ...setting, like all highly organized men, a high value on his time, [Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town...
    HDC 11.73 8 In the field where the western abutment of the old bridge [in Concord] may still be seen...the first organized resistance was made to the British arms.
    CL 12.167 10 ...as soon as man knows himself as [Nature's] interpreter... then is there a rider to the horse, an organized will...

organized, v. (25)

    MN 1.210 26 ...as far as we can trace the natural history of the soul, its health consists...in the fact that enthusiasm is organized therein.
    LT 1.277 9 [The Reforms] are quickly organized in some low, inadequate form...
    Con 1.319 14 Sickness gets organized as well as health...
    SL 2.142 26 We think greatness entailed or organized in some places or duties...
    Pt1 3.8 6 ...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down...
    Chr1 3.108 3 Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
    Nat2 3.196 15 The world is mind precipitated, and the volatile essence is forever escaping again into the state of free thought. Hence the virtue and pungency of the influence on the mind of natural objects, whether inorganic or organized.
    ET2 5.25 4 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which separately are organized much in the same way as our New England Lyceums...
    ET8 5.131 25 [The English] are good at storming redoubts...but not, I think, at...any passive obedience, like jumping off a castle-roof at the word of a czar. Being both vascular and highly organized...and intellectual...
    Ctr 6.166 7 The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized.
    PI 8.27 24 William Blake...writes thus... The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely organized than anything seen by his mortal eye.
    PI 8.74 14 Poems!--we have no poem. Whenever that angel shall be organized and appear on earth, the Iliad will be reckoned a poor ballad-grinding.
    PC 8.226 1 The sublime point of experience is the value of a sufficient man. Cube this value by the meeting of two such...who understand and support each other, and you have organized victory.
    Aris 10.33 4 A many-chambered Aristocracy lies already organized in [a man's] moods and faculties.
    Edc1 10.150 1 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men of Athens around Socrates...in short the natural sphere of every leading mind. But the moment this is organized, difficulties begin.
    SovE 10.200 8 Here [a man] stands, a lonely thought harmoniously organized into correspondence with the universe of mind and matter.
    SovE 10.203 16 Far be it from me to underrate the men or the churches that have...organized [men's] devout impulses or oracles into good institutions.
    LLNE 10.361 3 Those who inspired and organized [Brook Farm] were of course persons impatient of the routine...of society around them...
    LLNE 10.367 20 The children from six to eight [said Fourier], organized into companies with flags and uniforms, shall do this last function of civilization [the dirty work].
    CSC 10.373 8 The [Chardon Street] Convention organized itself by the choice of Edmund Quincy as Moderator...
    GSt 10.502 4 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee...
    HDC 11.44 12 ...each little company [in the Massachusetts Bay colonies] organized itself after the pattern of the larger town...
    HDC 11.54 17 A military company had been organized [in Concord] in 1636.
    ACiv 11.309 14 ...the laws by which the universe is organized reappear at every point, and will rule it.
    CL 12.166 1 [External Nature] requires a will as perfectly organized,- requires man.

organizer, n. (1)

    Res 8.137 18 I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over Nature;...by seeing that every healthy and resolute man is an organizer...

organizes, v. (4)

    Con 1.317 24 ...nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as [man];...
    PPh 4.67 26 There is no thought in any mind but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power and organizes a huge instrumentality of means.
    Elo1 7.66 3 [Eloquence] is a power...requiring a large composite man, such as Nature rarely organizes;...
    Edc1 10.157 3 The will, the male power, organizes...

organizing, v. (5)

    Cir 2.310 2 ...all nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.
    GSt 10.503 10 In 1862, on the President's first or preliminary Proclamation of Emancipation, [George Stearns] took the first steps for organizing the Freedman's Bureau...
    War 11.170 7 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms...not by organizing a society...
    FRep 11.534 24 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading. Later this strength appeared in the solitudes of the West, where...neighborhoods must combine against the Indians...by organizing themselves into committees of vigilance.
    II 12.77 7 I think this pathetic,-not to have any wisdom at our own terms, not to have any power of organizing victory.

Organon, Novum [Francis Ba (1)

    Bost 12.204 4 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...not any...equal power of imagination. No Novum Organon;...have we yet contributed.

organs, n. (46)

    Nat 1.28 7 ...the most trivial of these [natural] facts...the organs, or work, or noise of an insect, applied to the illustration of a fact in intellectual philosophy...affects us in the most lively...manner.
    Nat 1.44 27 Words are finite organs of the infinite mind.
    DSA 1.150 26 ...[Christianity has given us] secondly, the institution of preaching...essentially the most flexible of all organs, of all forms.
    YA 1.388 12 I find no expression...of a high national feeling, no lofty counsels that rightfully stir the blood. I speak of those organs which can be presumed to speak a popular sense.
    YA 1.390 20 ...to one thing we are bound...not to throw stumbling-blocks in the way of the abolitionist, the philanthropist; as the organs of influence and opinion are swift to do.
    Hist 2.18 3 ...every spine and tint in the sea-shell preexists in the secreting organs of the fish.
    SR 2.64 24 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us... organs of its activity.
    SR 2.84 4 ...the ear and the tongue are two organs of one nature.
    Comp 2.101 22 Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity,--all find room to consist in the small creature.
    Comp 2.125 25 We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs...
    SL 2.155 20 Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs...
    Fdsp 2.196 23 Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are. Their essence is not less beautiful than their appearance, though it needs finer organs for its apprehension.
    Prd1 2.223 19 [Base prudence] is a disease like a thickening of the skin until the vital organs are destroyed.
    OS 2.270 17 All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs;...
    Cir 2.319 20 Let [the man and woman of seventy] then become organs of the Holy Ghost;...and their eyes are uplifted;...
    Exp 3.74 11 The spirit is not helpless or needful of mediate organs.
    Pol1 3.205 23 The boundaries of personal influence it is impossible to fix, as persons are organs of moral or supernatural force.
    UGM 4.17 2 ...these acts [of the intellect] expose the invisible organs and members of the mind...
    SwM 4.98 7 If you will have pure carbon, carbuncle, or diamond, to make the brain transparent, the trunk and organs shall be so much the grosser...
    SwM 4.114 14 The unities of each organ are so many little organs...
    GoW 4.264 3 Whatever can be thought can be spoken, and still rises for utterance, though to rude and stammering organs.
    ET13 5.225 20 [Religion] is endogenous, like the skin and other vital organs.
    ET15 5.267 8 The tone of [the London Times's] articles has often been the occasion of comment from the official organs of the continental courts...
    F 6.10 23 ...the fine organs of [the digger's] brain have been pinched by overwork and squalid poverty...
    Wsp 6.232 22 A high aim reacts on the means, on the days, on the organs of the body.
    Civ 7.25 18 In the snake, all the organs are sheathed;...
    Civ 7.25 20 In bird and beast the organs are released and begin to play.
    Elo1 7.76 15 ...eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency,--a total and resultant power, and rare, because it requires a rich coincidence of powers, intellect, will, sympathy, organs and...good fortune in the cause.
    WD 7.157 11 One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
    OA 7.325 23 ...Nature takes care that we shall not lose our organs forty years too soon.
    PI 8.44 27 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama;...they are perfect in their organs, attitude, manners;...
    QO 8.189 1 In every kind of parasite...the self-supplying organs wither and dwindle...
    Imtl 8.340 19 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers...came to this point, that whatsoever motions the spirit of man could act and perform without the organs of the body, might remain after death;...
    Chr2 10.99 14 Slowly the body comes to the use of its organs;...
    Edc1 10.127 22 This apparatus of wants and faculties, this craving body, whose organs ask all the elements and all the functions of Nature for their satisfaction, educate the wondrous creature which they satisfy with light, with heat...
    Schr 10.275 20 Nature could not leave herself without a seer and expounder. But he could not see or teach without organs.
    Schr 10.283 22 [Mother-wit] does not put forth organs, it rests in presence...
    MMEm 10.428 2 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then...honors, pleasures, labors, I always refuse, compared to this divine partaking of existence;-but how rare, how dependent on the organs through which the soul operates!
    War 11.175 13 ...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short day, and human blood will cease to flow. It is of little consequence in what manner, through what organs, this purpose of mercy and holiness is effected.
    PLT 12.21 26 If man has organs for breathing, for sight...you shall find all the same in the muskrat.
    PLT 12.47 3 A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is...rude and chiding. The truth is not spoken but injured. The same thing happens in power to do the right. His rectitude is ridiculous. His organs do not play him true.
    PLT 12.53 21 We see ourselves; we lack organs to see others...
    II 12.65 10 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain, which has not yet put forth organs...
    II 12.69 15 ...the drop of blood has latent power and organs...
    Mem 12.102 23 ...when age and calamity have bereaved [those who have used their days well] of their limbs or organs, then they retreat on mental faculty...
    WSL 12.343 3 Whatever can make for itself an element, means, organs, servants and the most profound and permanent existence in the hearts and heads of millions of men, must have a reason for its being.

organ-stop, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.119 20 Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit of heat, and moreover...an art of husbanding it,--as if their hand was on the organ-stop...

Organum [Organon], Novum [ (1)

    Boks 7.207 13 [The scholar] will not repent the time he gives to Bacon,-- not if he read...the Novum Organum...

Oriel College, Oxford, n. (2)

    ET12 5.199 13 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford, where I had introductions to Dr. Daubeny...and to the Regius Professor of Divinity, as well as to a valued friend [Arthur Hugh Clough], a Fellow of Oriel...
    ET12 5.199 15 I was the guest of my friend [Arthur Hugh Clough] in Oriel [College, Oxford]...

oriental, adj. (3)

    DSA 1.126 17 Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses.
    Tran 1.337 19 ...if there is...any presentiment, any extravagance of faith, the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature. The oriental mind has always tended to this largeness.
    PPo 8.237 24 Oriental life and society...stand in violent contrast with the multitudinous detail...of the Western nations.

Oriental, adj. (12)

    Hist 2.7 7 ...all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea...
    ET3 5.37 3 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west, the old Greek, the Oriental...
    ET11 5.174 7 There was this advantage of Western over Oriental nobility, that this was recruited from below.
    ET14 5.236 7 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries.
    ET14 5.258 20 For a self-conceited modish life...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness.
    Elo1 7.74 1 ...unless this oiled tongue could, in Oriental phrase, lick the sun and moon away, it must take its place with opium and brandy.
    PPo 8.238 10 All or nothing is the genius of Oriental life.
    PPo 8.239 9 The favor of the climate...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization,-leaving out of view, at present, the genius of the Hindoos (more Oriental in every sense)...
    Supl 10.177 14 ...the diamond and the pearl, which are only accidental and secondary in their use and value to us, are proper to the Oriental world.
    ChiE 11.471 6 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations.
    WSL 12.349 2 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit. These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of which both are composed. All our great debt to the Oriental world is of this kind, not utensils and statues of the precious metal, but bullion and gold-dust.
    PPr 12.382 2 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;... These things strike us with a force which reminds us of the morals of the Oriental or early Greek masters...

Orientalism, n. (2)

    LE 1.179 10 Feudalism and Orientalism had long enough thought it majestic to do nothing;...
    ET14 5.258 17 By the law of contraries, I look for an irresistible taste for Orientalism in Britain.

Orientalists, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.176 19 Every man...looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child which he would not dare to presume in the child of a stranger. The Orientalists are very orthodox on this point.

Orientals, n. (6)

    DSA 1.131 6 ...the language that describes Christ...paints a demigod, as the Orientals or the Greeks would describe Osiris or Apollo.
    SwM 4.135 23 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what with...behemoth and unicorn? Good for Orientals, these are nothing to me.
    PI 8.15 7 ...these Orientals [the Hindoos] deal with worlds and pebbles freely.
    Supl 10.177 21 ...the Orientals excel in costly arts...
    SovE 10.206 15 The Orientals believe in Fate.
    CL 12.159 12 ...it was the practice of the Orientals, especially of the Persians, to let insane persons wander at their own will out of the towns, into the desert...

oriflamme, n. (1)

    CW 12.176 12 ...if one is so happy as to find the company of a true artist, he...ought only to be used like an oriflamme or a garland, for feasts and May-days...

Origen, n. (1)

    Plu 10.319 8 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace or home of...Porphyry, Origen...

origin, n. (62)

    Nat 1.26 9 ...this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import...is our least debt to nature.
    Nat 1.35 5 Material objects...are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator, which must always preserve an exact relation to their first origin;...
    Nat 1.61 12 ...[nature] is faithful to the cause whence it had its origin.
    AmS 1.96 20 Henceforth [the new deed] is an object of beauty, however base its origin...
    AmS 1.104 19 Let [the scholar] look into [fear's] eye and...inspect its origin...
    DSA 1.136 21 Where now sounds the persuasion, that...imparadises my heart, and so affirms its own origin in heaven?
    MR 1.245 24 Much of the economy which we see in houses is of a base origin...
    LT 1.272 8 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect. ... If we would make more strict inquiry concerning its origin, we find ourselves rapidly approaching the inner boundaries of thought...
    LT 1.272 11 ...the origin of all reform is in that mysterious fountain of the moral sentiment in man...
    LT 1.277 7 The Reforms have their high origin in an ideal justice...
    LT 1.281 6 ...the reforming movement is sacred in its origin;...
    Con 1.304 6 The system of property and law goes back for its origin to barbarous and sacred times;...
    Con 1.304 18 ...the Egyptians and Chaldeans, whose origin could not be explored, passed among the junior tribes of Greece and Italy for sacred nations.
    Hist 2.17 2 In a certain state of thought is the common origin of very diverse works.
    Hist 2.20 19 In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window...in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.
    SR 2.56 4 If this aversion had its origin in contempt and resistance like [the nonconformist's] own he might well go home with a sad countenance;...
    SR 2.64 10 In that deep force...all things find their common origin.
    SL 2.132 12 Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like.
    Prd1 2.223 20 ...culture, revealing the high origin of the apparent world... degrades every thing else...into means.
    Prd1 2.236 24 ...the proper administration of outward things will always rest on a just apprehension of their cause and origin;...
    OS 2.268 8 I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
    Art1 2.359 17 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber...through all forms of beauty cut in the richest materials, is in danger of forgetting...that they had their origin from thoughts and laws in his own breast.
    Pt1 3.21 27 ...the origin of most of our words is forgotten...
    Pt1 3.22 10 ...language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.
    Pol1 3.208 16 [Parties] have nothing perverse in their origin...
    Pol1 3.212 20 Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.
    NER 3.268 14 A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on. I am afraid the remark...comes from the same origin as the maxim of the tyrant, If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.
    UGM 4.5 6 [Man] believes that the great material elements had their origin from his thought.
    UGM 4.11 27 Man, made of the dust of the world, does not forget his origin;...
    UGM 4.33 11 A new quality of mind travels...in concentric circles from its origin...
    PPh 4.47 14 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics: then the partialists,-- deducing the origin of things from flux or water, or from air, or from fire, or from mind.
    PPh 4.57 1 Exempt from envy, [the Supreme Ordainer] wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself. Whosoever, taught by wise men, shall admit this as the prime cause of the origin and foundation of the world, will be in the truth.
    PPh 4.66 3 In the doctrine of the organic character and disposition is the origin of caste.
    SwM 4.105 8 What was left for a genius of the largest calibre but to go over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite? It is easy to see, in these minds, the origin of Swedenborg's studies...
    SwM 4.122 25 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him...into natural objects, and showed their origin and meaning...
    GoW 4.274 11 ...[Goethe] showed...that, in actions of routine, a thread of mythology and fable spins itself, by tracing the pedigree of...every institution, utensil and means, home to its origin in the structure of man.
    ET4 5.50 21 The English composite character betrays a mixed origin.
    ET19 5.311 8 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which lies at the foundation of that aristocratic character, which certainly wanders into strange vagaries, so that its origin is often lost sight of, but which, if it should lose this, would find itself paralyzed;...
    CbW 6.251 14 All the marked events of our day...may be traced back to their origin in a private brain.
    Art2 7.40 9 When we reflect on the pleasure we receive from a ship, a railroad, a dry-dock; or from a picture, a dramatic representation, a statue, a poem,--we find that these have not a quite simple, but a blended origin.
    Art2 7.54 1 ...each work of art...took its form from the broad hint of Nature. Beautiful in this wise is the obvious origin of all the known orders of architecture;...
    Art2 7.54 25 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight, sickness, or odd appearance in the street.
    Art2 7.55 10 It would be easy to show of many fine things in the world... the origin in quite simple local necessities.
    Art2 7.56 1 These arts have their origin always in some enthusiasm...
    WD 7.167 1 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...
    Suc 7.287 21 These boasted arts are of very recent origin.
    Suc 7.309 20 ...every gift of noble origin/ Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath./
    PI 8.36 7 Many of the fine poems of Herrick, Jonson and their contemporaries had this casual origin.
    PI 8.68 4 ...our overpraise and idealization of famous masters is not in its origin a poor Boswellism...
    Imtl 8.335 22 A candle a mile long or a hundred miles long does not help the imagination; only a self-feeding fire, an inextinguishable lamp, like the sun and the star, that we have not yet found date and origin for.
    Aris 10.43 13 ...the origin of most of the perversities and absurdities that disgust us is, primarily, the want of health.
    Chr2 10.116 8 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church. Mankind cannot long suffer this loss, and the office of this age is to put all these writings on the eternal footing of equality of origin in the instincts of the human mind.
    Edc1 10.132 1 ...truly the population of the globe has its origin in the aims which their existence is to serve;...
    SovE 10.208 2 ...the most accomplished culture, or rapt holiness, never exhausted the claim of these lowly duties,-never penetrated to their origin...
    Schr 10.272 11 The unmentionable dollar itself has at last a high origin in moral and metaphysical nature.
    Schr 10.272 20 ...the quality and essence of the universe is in [Union Pacific stock] also. Have we less interest...in any relation of life or custom of society? The scholar is to show, in each, identity and connexion; he is to show its origin in the brain of man...
    LS 11.14 8 To make [his friends'] enormity plainer, [St. Paul] goes back to the origin of this religious feast [the Lord's Supper] to show what sort of feast that was...
    JBS 11.281 18 ...our blind statesmen go up and down...hunting for the origin of this new heresy [abolition].
    Scot 11.464 7 It is easy to see the origin of [Scott's] poems.
    FRO1 11.480 12 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the Pythagorean disciples. Our Masonic institutions probably grew from the like origin.
    PLT 12.62 15 ...Aristotle declares that the origin of reason is not reason, but something better.
    Bost 12.184 18 How can we not believe in influences of climate and air, when, as true philosophers, we must believe...that carbon, oxygen, alum and iron, each has its origin in spiritual nature?

original, adj. (89)

    Nat 1.3 6 Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
    Nat 1.29 10 The same symbols are found to make the original elements of all languages.
    Nat 1.73 21 The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by the redemption of the soul.
    AmS 1.83 10 ...unfortunately, this original unit...has been so distributed to multitudes...that it...cannot be gathered.
    MN 1.207 1 ...when Napoleon unrolls his map, the eye is commanded by original power.
    MR 1.239 26 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him to his ends...
    Hist 2.19 12 By surrounding ourselves with the original circumstances we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture...
    SR 2.45 2 I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original...
    SR 2.63 7 When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
    SR 2.63 22 The magnetism which all original action exerts is explained when we inquire the reason of self-trust.
    SL 2.132 12 Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like.
    OS 2.296 9 The soul gives itself, alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original and Pure...
    Art1 2.353 5 Though he were never so original...[a man] cannot wipe out from his work every trace of the thoughts amidst which it grew.
    Art1 2.357 25 No mannerist made these varied groups and diverse original single figures.
    Art1 2.358 13 ...what skill is...shown [in works of the highest art] is the reappearance of the original soul...
    Pt1 3.39 17 ...by and by [the poet] says something which is original and beautiful.
    Exp 3.47 20 The history of literature...is a sum of very few ideas and of very few original tales;...
    Exp 3.54 11 Temperament is the veto or limitation-power in the constitution...absurdly offered as a bar to original equity.
    Chr1 3.93 19 I see [in the natural merchant]...the consciousness of being an agent and playfellow of the original laws of the world.
    Mrs1 3.123 26 ...whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name [gentleman] will be found to point at original energy.
    Mrs1 3.149 14 I have seen an individual whose manners, though wholly within the conventions of elegant society, were...original and commanding...
    Nat2 3.173 18 Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty [of nature].
    NER 3.254 21 It is right and beautiful in any man to say, I will take this coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see the act to be original...
    NER 3.280 18 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws, which to second and authorize, true virtue must abate very much of its original vigor.
    UGM 4.34 25 We have never come at the true and best benefit of any genius so long as we believe him an original force.
    PPh 4.57 12 The mind of Plato...is to be apprehended by an original mind in the exercise of its original power.
    PPh 4.57 13 The mind of Plato...is to be apprehended by an original mind in the exercise of its original power.
    SwM 4.96 23 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things...
    SwM 4.102 15 [Swedenborg's] excellent English editor magnanimously lays no stress on his discoveries, since he was too great to care to be original;...
    SwM 4.102 26 [Swedenborg's] superb speculation...almost realizes his own picture, in the Principia, of the original integrity of man.
    MoS 4.162 3 ...some stark and sufficient man, who is...sufficiently related to the world to do justice to Paris or London, and, at the same time, a vigorous and original thinker, whom cities can not overawe, but who uses them,--is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    ShP 4.189 5 If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original.
    ShP 4.191 11 Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all;...
    ShP 4.195 20 In Henry VIII. I think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which [Shakespeare's] own finer stratum was laid.
    ShP 4.198 13 It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
    NMW 4.249 22 [Napoleon] delighted in running through the range of practical, of literary and of abstract questions. His opinion is always original and to the purpose.
    GoW 4.264 19 Nature has dearly at heart the formation of the speculative man, or scholar. It is an end...prepared in the original casting of things.
    GoW 4.289 11 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time and country, when original talent was oppressed under the load of books and mechanical auxiliaries...taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.
    ET1 5.9 25 An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more [to Landor] than all the censures.
    ET4 5.51 13 Neither do this people [the English] appear to be of one stem, but collectively a better race than any from which they are derived. Nor is it easy to trace it home to its original seats.
    ET8 5.142 25 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence...
    ET12 5.213 1 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors...for not attempting themselves to fill their vacant shelves as original writers.
    ET14 5.239 19 Whoever...requires heaps of facts before any theories can be attempted, has no poetic power, and nothing original or beautiful will be produced by him.
    ET18 5.308 10 ...if the ocean out of which it emerged should wash it away, [England] will be remembered as an island famous...for the announcements of original right which make the stone tables of liberty.
    Pow 6.54 27 ...the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
    Bty 6.291 4 ...our taste in building...shows the original grain of the wood...
    Art2 7.45 16 ...how much is there that is not original in every particular building...
    DL 7.126 11 One is struck in every company...with the riches of Nature, when he...sees in each person original manners...
    Farm 7.137 10 ...every man has an exceptional respect for tillage, and a feeling that this is the original calling of his race...
    Boks 7.214 10 ...books that...distribute things...with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams...enable us to form an original judgment of our duties...
    PI 8.39 25 Michel Angelo is largely filled with the Creator that made and makes men. How much of the original craft remains in him, and he a mortal man!
    PI 8.57 15 The original force...is in these ancient poems...
    QO 8.180 6 The originals are not original.
    QO 8.181 4 Swedenborg, Behmen, Spinoza, will appear original to uninstructed and to thoughtless persons...
    QO 8.181 16 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work...
    QO 8.190 25 Original power is usually accompanied with assimilating power...
    QO 8.191 1 ...we value in Coleridge his excellent knowledge and quotations perhaps as much, possibly more, than his original suggestions.
    QO 8.191 22 When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: Yet he was more original than his originals.
    QO 8.196 24 ...it is not rare to find great powers of recitation, without the least original eloquence...
    QO 8.201 27 [Genius] implies Will, or original force...
    Insp 8.294 15 I have heard from persons who had practice in rhyming, that it was sufficient to set them on writing verses, to read any original poetry.
    Aris 10.40 18 It only needs to look at the social aspect of England and America and France, to see the rank which original practical talent commands.
    Aris 10.61 19 ...by original studies...[the generous soul] has made a place for himself in the world;...
    Chr2 10.111 20 ...with every repeater something of creative force is lost, as we feel when we go back to each original moralist.
    SovE 10.183 17 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...
    SovE 10.211 13 Governments stand by [men's credence],-by the faith that the people share,-whether it comes from the religion in which they were bred, or from an original conscience in themselves...
    MoL 10.249 17 ...let us have masculine and divine men, formidable lawgivers...who...penetrate [the churches of the world] through and through with original perception.
    Schr 10.267 9 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...
    Plu 10.294 24 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated and printed in Latin, thence into Italian, French and English, more than a century before the original Works were yet printed.
    MMEm 10.399 10 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's life] is purely original and hardly admits of a duplicate.
    Thor 10.457 24 ...[Thoreau]...used an original judgment on each emergency.
    Thor 10.477 20 ...the same isolation which belonged to his original thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social religious forms.
    LS 11.12 9 These views of the original account of the Lord's Supper lead me to esteem it an occasion full of solemn and prophetic interest...
    LS 11.20 8 ...any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought, a flow of love, an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true commemoration [of Jesus].
    HDC 11.40 23 The original [Concord] Town Records, for the first thirty years, are lost.
    HDC 11.41 1 ...the original distribution of the land [in Concord], or an account of the principle on which it was divided, are not preserved.
    HDC 11.62 19 Before 1666, 15,000 acres had been added by grants of the General Court to the original territory of the town [Concord]...
    FSLC 11.184 8 What is the use of courts, if...no judge exerts original jurisdiction...
    FSLN 11.217 14 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation. For they cannot affirm these from any original experience...
    FSLN 11.223 17 Whether evil influences and the corruption of politics, or whether original infirmity, it was the misfortune of his country that with this large understanding [Webster] had not what is better than intellect...
    ACiv 11.302 14 We want men of original perception and original action...
    ACiv 11.302 15 We want men of original perception and original action...
    FRep 11.537 1 We want men of original perception and original action...
    II 12.66 15 All men are, in respect to this source of truth [consciousness]... equal in original science...
    II 12.69 27 Here are we with...the spontaneous impressions of Nature and men, and original oracles,-all ready to be uttered, if only we could be set aglow.
    MLit 12.312 14 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world, reacting with great energy on England and America. And thus...does an original genius work and spread himself.
    MLit 12.319 21 ...imagination, the original, authentic fire of the bard, [Shelley] has not.
    WSL 12.340 14 ...[Landor's Imaginary Conversations] seems to us as original in its form as in its matter.
    WSL 12.342 6 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What boundless leisure! what original jurisdiction!...

Original Cause, n. (1)

    Nat 1.31 10 It is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made.

original, n. (13)

    Art1 2.351 24 In a portrait [the painter]...must esteem the man who sits to him as himself only an imperfect picture or likeness of the aspiring original within.
    Exp 3.77 19 There will be the same gulf between every me and thee as between the original and the picture.
    GoW 4.262 6 ...nature strives upward; and, in man, the report is something more than print of the seal. It is a new and finer form of the original.
    ET1 5.13 4 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work. Yes, he said, the man was a chaos of truths, but lacked the knowledge that God was a God of order. Yet the passage would no doubt strike you more in the quotation than in the original, for I have filtered it.
    Boks 7.204 7 ...in our Bible...it seems easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
    Boks 7.204 11 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version.
    QO 8.181 17 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work, until Grimm found fragments of another original a century older.
    QO 8.184 26 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham!...if he only knew a little of law, he would know a little of everything. You may find the original of this gibe in Grimm...
    QO 8.186 13 Hafiz...furnished Moore with the original of the piece,- When in death I shall calm recline,/ Oh, bear my heart to my mistress dear,/ etc.
    QO 8.189 4 In common prudence there is an early limit to this leaning on an original.
    Chr2 10.119 11 ...[the infant soul]...reads the original of the Ten Commandments...
    Chr2 10.119 12 ...[the infant soul]...reads the original of the Ten Commandments, the original of Gospels and Epistles;...
    Schr 10.288 20 ...[the scholar] should read a little proudly, as one who knows the original, and cannot therefore very highly value the copy.

Original, n. (2)

    OS 2.296 10 The soul gives itself, alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original and Pure...
    MMEm 10.431 14 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...I indulge the delight of sympathizing with great virtues,-blessing their Original...

originalities, n. (2)

    PPh 4.39 13 Great havoc makes [Plato] among our originalities.
    QO 8.180 26 Whoso knows Plutarch, Lucian, Rabelais, Montaigne and Bayle will have a key to many supposed originalities.

originality, n. (15)

    NER 3.254 26 ...we are very easily disposed to resist the same generosity of speech when we miss originality and truth to character in it.
    SwM 4.105 15 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of the difficulty...of proving originality...
    ShP 4.189 2 Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
    ShP 4.189 3 If we require the originality which consists in weaving, like a spider, their web from their own bowels;...no great men are original.
    ShP 4.189 6 If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original. Nor does valuable originality consist in unlikeness to other men.
    ShP 4.196 13 If [Shakespeare] lost any credit of design, he augmented his resources; and, at that day, our petulant demand for originality was not so much pressed.
    ShP 4.198 20 ...originality is relative.
    ShP 4.199 18 Is there at last in [the writer's] breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or nay? and to have answer, and to rely on that? All the debts which such a man could contract to other wit would never disturb his consciousness of originality;...
    ShP 4.201 11 ...the generic catholic genius who is not afraid or ashamed to owe his originality to the originality of all, stands with the next age as the recorder and embodiment of his own.
    ShP 4.201 12 ...the generic catholic genius who is not afraid or ashamed to owe his originality to the originality of all, stands with the next age as the recorder and embodiment of his own.
    PI 8.35 17 The use of occasional poems is to give leave to originality.
    QO 8.178 20 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive...that, in a large sense, one would say there is no pure originality.
    QO 8.181 5 ...[Swedenborg's, Behmen's, Spinoza's] originality will disappear to such as are either well read or thoughtful;...
    Prch 10.236 10 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...
    Bost 12.204 1 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...

Originality, n. (1)

    QO 8.201 21 ...what is Originality?

originally, adv. (8)

    Art1 2.364 4 [Sculpture] was originally a useful art...
    Pt1 3.20 6 ...though all men are intelligent of the symbols through which [life] is named; yet they cannot originally use them.
    ET8 5.136 3 Great men, said Aristotle, are always of a nature originally melancholy.
    Art2 7.55 15 The College of Cardinals were originally the parish priests of Rome.
    QO 8.192 1 ...Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew.
    Chr2 10.105 20 Christianity was once a schism and protest against the impieties of the time, which had originally been protests against earlier impieties, but had lost their truth.
    Chr2 10.111 23 ...Behmen, George Fox,-these speak originally;...
    EWI 11.120 9 The accounts [of emancipation] which we have from all parties [in the West Indies], both from the planters (and those too who were originally most opposed to the measure), and from the new freemen, are of the most satisfactory kind.

originals, n. (8)

    ShP 4.200 27 The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation. There never was a time when there was none. All the truly idiomatic and national phrases are kept, and all others successively picked out and thrown away. Something like the same process had gone on, long before, with the originals of these books.
    Boks 7.204 18 I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
    QO 8.180 6 The originals are not original.
    QO 8.181 19 M. Le Grand showed that in the old Fabliaux were the originals of the tales of Moliere, La Fontaine, Boccaccio, and of Voltaire.
    QO 8.191 23 When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: Yet he was more original than his originals.
    QO 8.194 6 Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals...
    QO 8.202 6 Originals never lose their value.
    Scot 11.466 10 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...came with these into real ties of mutual help and good will. From these originals he drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts and Edie Ochiltrees...

originate, v. (3)

    Pow 6.72 4 [The affirmative class] originate and execute all the great feats.
    Dem1 10.9 21 Goethe said: These whimsical pictures [dreams], inasmuch as they originate from us, may well have an analogy with our whole life and fate.
    Dem1 10.18 6 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the woof. For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names...

originated, v. (3)

    Hist 2.20 9 The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees...
    Art2 7.55 16 The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower.
    LS 11.19 2 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper], however suitable to the people and modes of thought in the East, where it originated, is foreign and unsuited to affect us.

originates, v. (2)

    SS 7.10 3 [The ends of thought] reach down to that depth where society itself originates and disappears;...
    QO 8.194 13 We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

originating, v. (2)

    Pow 6.68 1 ...the energy for originating and executing work deforms itself by excess...
    MLit 12.325 2 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the Venetian music of the gondolier, originating in the habit of the fishers' wives of the Lido singing on shore to their husbands on the sea;...

originator, n. (1)

    QO 8.191 15 Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

oriole, n. (1)

    SHC 11.435 24 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...the oriole, robin, purple finch, bluebird, thrush...will find out the hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...

Orion, n. (7)

    Nat 1.47 18 ...what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
    MN 1.212 21 It is not enough that [the stars] are Jove, Mars, Orion, and the North Star, in the gravitating firmament;...
    PNR 4.81 27 The naturalist...is as poor when cataloguing the resolved nebula of Orion, as when measuring the angles of an acre.
    Wsp 6.235 16 I spent, [Benedict] said, ten months in the country. Thick-starred Orion was my only companion.
    Ill 6.318 17 The fine star-dust and nebulous blur in Orion...must come down and be dealt with in your household thought.
    Civ 7.30 19 Let us not lie and steal. No god will help. We shall find all their teams going the other way...Orion, Leo, Hercules: every god will leave us.
    Supl 10.172 17 The astronomer shows you in his telescope the nebula of Orion, that you may look on that which is esteemed the farthest-off land in visible nature.

orisons, n. (1)

    Pray 12.354 20 The last of the four orisons is written in a singularly calm and healthful spirit...

Orleans, adj. (2)

    ET11 5.193 11 The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre, and now and then darker scandals break out, ominous as the new chapters added under the Orleans dynasty to the Causes Celebres in France.
    Pow 6.70 8 ...when you espouse an Orleans party...you have a personality instead of a principle, which will inevitably drag you into a corner.

Orleans, Louis Philippe Jo (1)

    Grts 8.315 25 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him and wished to dedicate it to a pious Duc d'Orleans, came with it in his poverty to Diderot...

Orleans, New, Louisiana, n. (11)

    YA 1.371 2 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America, namely Boston, New York, and New Orleans...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    ET3 5.41 1 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was...by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure...by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.
    F 6.7 22 ..the sword of the climate...at New Orleans, cut off men like a massacre.
    Wth 6.105 11 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills...landlords are shot down in Ireland. The police-records attest it. The vibrations are presently felt in New York, New Orleans and Chicago.
    Wsp 6.222 11 In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is lost. ... This is the peril...of New Orleans...to young men.
    EWI 11.130 17 ...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket...working chained in the streets of that city...
    EWI 11.132 16 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime...
    SMC 11.363 20 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they set themselves to use the time to the wisest advantage...
    SMC 11.366 2 This [old artillery] company...was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers...and sent to New Orleans...
    CInt 12.118 19 ...I note that we had a vast self-esteem on the subject of Bunker Hill, Yorktown and New Orleans.
    Bost 12.187 11 In New York, in...New Orleans...a middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris;...

Orleans, New, Lousisiana, n (1)

    EPro 11.323 14 Give the Confederacy New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond, and they would have demanded St. Louis and Baltimore.

Ormuzd, n. (1)

    SovE 10.213 5 Once men thought Spirit divine, and Matter diabolic; one Ormuzd, the other Ahriman.

ornament, n. (39)

    Nat 1.19 7 ...the river...boasts each month a new ornament.
    Nat 1.53 2 ...the scents and dyes of flowers [Shakspeare] finds to be the shadow of his beloved;...the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament;...
    Nat 1.53 3 ...The ornament of beauty is Suspect/...
    LE 1.179 15 ...[Napoleon] belonged to a class...who think that what a man can do is his greatest ornament...
    Con 1.309 24 What you do not want for use, you crave for ornament...
    Con 1.314 9 Under the richest robes...the strong heart will beat...with the desire to achieve its own fate and make every ornament it wears authentic and real.
    YA 1.366 26 ...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised...the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor... could suggest.
    YA 1.369 4 In Europe...the land is full of men...whose interest and pride it is...to fill [their estates] with every convenience and ornament.
    YA 1.395 5 This land...wants no ornament or privilege which nature could bestow.
    Hist 2.14 10 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove, a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows!
    Hist 2.18 6 A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.
    Hist 2.19 4 ...[the cloud] was undoubtedly the archetype of that familiar ornament [the cherub].
    SL 2.131 13 Even the corpse that has lain in the chambers has added a solemn ornament to the house.
    Hsm1 2.255 16 Poverty is [greatness's] ornament.
    ShP 4.194 12 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall...
    ET1 5.6 22 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...an emphasis of features proportioned to their gradated importance in function; color and ornament to be decided and arranged and varied by strictly organic laws...
    ET4 5.62 13 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into...most noble Knights of the Garter; but every sparkle of ornament dates back to the Norse boat.
    ET11 5.186 14 ...[English nobles] have that simplicity and that air of repose which are the finest ornament of greatness.
    ET14 5.235 1 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words, and, when elevation or ornament is sought, to interweave Roman, but sparingly;...
    ET14 5.251 24 The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse has a slight hint of the steam-whistle, and the poem is created as an ornament and finish of their monarchy...
    ET16 5.274 22 In these days, [Carlyle] thought, it would become an architect to...say, I can build you a coffin for such dead persons as you are, and for such dead purposes as you have, but you shall have no ornament.
    Wsp 6.234 3 Hafiz writes,--At the last day, men shall wear/ On their heads the dust,/ As ensign and as ornament/ Of their lowly trust.
    Bty 6.290 2 ...the forms and colors of nature have a new charm for us in our perception that not one ornament was added for ornament...
    Bty 6.290 3 ...the forms and colors of nature have a new charm for us in our perception that not one ornament was added for ornament...
    Elo1 7.82 10 ...the commonest populace is flattered by hearing its low mind returned to it with every ornament which happy talent can add.
    DL 7.107 3 [The little pilgrim] grows up the ornament and joy of the house...
    DL 7.128 13 The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
    Supl 10.174 17 We are fond of dress, of ornament, of accomplishments, of talents...
    LLNE 10.332 23 In the lecture-room, [Everett] abstained from all ornament...
    SlHr 10.444 3 [Samuel Hoar's] beauty was pathetic and touching in these latest days, and, as now appears, it awakened a certain tender fear in all who saw him, that the costly ornament of our homes and halls and streets was speedily to be removed.
    Thor 10.464 15 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which showed him the material world as a means and symbol. This discovery, which sometimes yields to poets a certain casual and interrupted light, serving for the ornament of their writing, was in him an unsleeping insight;...
    Thor 10.481 1 [Thoreau's] study of Nature was a perpetual ornament to him...
    HDC 11.77 5 To you [veterans of the battle of Concord] belongs a better badge than stars and ribbons. This prospering country is your ornament...
    SHC 11.431 6 A grove of trees,-what benefit or ornament is so fair and great?...
    SHC 11.431 20 ...there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters...
    Scot 11.467 11 What an ornament and safeguard is humor!
    FRep 11.531 26 That repose which is the ornament and ripeness of man is not American.
    MAng1 12.223 23 Nor was [Michelangelo's] a skill in ornament, or confined to the outline and designs of towers and facades...
    MAng1 12.231 2 Of [Michelangelo's] genius for architecture it is sufficient to say that he built Saint Peter's, an ornament of the earth.

ornamental, adj. (8)

    Con 1.300 21 Each of the convolutions of the sea-shell...marks one year of the fish's life; what was the mouth of the shell for one season...becoming an ornamental node.
    ET14 5.255 24 ...poetry [in England] is degraded and made ornamental.
    Bty 6.301 12 If a man...can enlarge knowledge...his deformities will come to be reckoned ornamental and advantageous on the whole.
    DL 7.124 24 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away. The...manhood and offices they brought thither at this return seemed mere ornamental masks;...
    PC 8.216 22 We grow free with [Michelangelo's] name, and find it ornamental now;...
    Wom 11.410 11 ...[Women] are always making...that ornamental life in which they best appear.
    SHC 11.431 12 The life of a tree is a hundred and a thousand years; its decays ornamental;...
    CL 12.145 7 In October, the country is covered with [the apple's] ornamental harvests.

ornamented, adj. (2)

    ET13 5.228 8 England accepts this ornamented national church, and it glazes the eyes, bloats the flesh, gives the voice a stertorous clang...
    Bhr 6.184 15 The theatre in which this science of manners has a formal importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles, wherein, after the close of the day's business, men and women meet...in ornamented drawing-rooms.

ornamented, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.234 24 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...

ornaments, n. (18)

    Nat 1.12 18 What angels invented these splendid ornaments...
    Nat 1.77 3 As when the summer comes...the face of the earth becomes green before it, so shall the advancing spirit create its ornaments along its path...
    Hist 2.9 20 This life of ours is stuck round with...Church, Court and Commerce, as with so many flowers and wild ornaments...
    Hist 2.19 14 By surrounding ourselves with the original circumstances we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture...
    SR 2.82 15 ...our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments;...
    Mrs1 3.135 10 ...by luxuries and ornaments we amuse the young people...
    ET7 5.119 4 [The English] are not fond of ornaments...
    ET11 5.186 27 [The English] wear the laws as ornaments...
    ET14 5.259 12 [Warren Hasting] goes to bespeak indulgence to ornaments of fancy unsuited to our taste...
    DL 7.109 14 There should be...the genius and love of the man so conspicuously marked in all his estate that the eye that knew him should read his character...in his ornaments...
    DL 7.111 3 [The citizen] brings home whatever commodities and ornaments have for years allured his pursuit...
    QO 8.187 22 ...if we learn how old are...the fret, the beads, and other ornaments on our walls...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    Edc1 10.145 27 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...was struck with the beauty of the sculptured ornaments...
    EWI 11.141 5 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom...ornaments, soap...
    Wom 11.412 5 The worm its golden woof presents./ Whatever runs, flies, dives or delves/ All doff for [woman] their ornaments,/ Which suit her better than themselves./
    SHC 11.432 15 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...all the ornaments of either adding so much value to all.
    FRep 11.533 18 We import trifles...manuels of Gothic architecture, steam-made ornaments.
    Milt1 12.248 25 [Milton's tracts] are...rich with allusion, sparkling with innumerable ornaments;...

ornithologist, n. (1)

    Bty 6.281 15 We should go to the ornithologist with a new feeling if he could teach us what the social birds say when they sit in the autumn council...

ornithology, n. (3)

    Ctr 6.159 4 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill; as when we learn...of a partisan journalist, his devotion to ornithology.
    Grts 8.305 9 Others find a charm and a profession in the natural history of man and the mammalia or related animals; others in ornithology, or fishes, or insects;...
    CW 12.176 16 ...it is much better to learn the elements...of ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

orphan, n. (5)

    Nat 1.37 18 Debt...whose iron face the widow, the orphan...fear and hate;... is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
    Mrs1 3.133 4 [A man] should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation which his daily associates draw him to, else he...will be an orphan in the merriest club.
    FSLC 11.193 11 If you starve or beat the orphan, in my presence, and I accuse your cruelty, can I help it?
    FSLN 11.236 17 The Persian Saadi said, Beware of hurting the orphan. When the orphan sets a-crying, the throne of the Almighty is rocked from side to side.
    CInt 12.125 9 ...unless...the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.

orphaned, adj. (1)

    Ill 6.325 17 ...[the young mortal] fancies himself poor, orphaned, insignificant.

orphaned, v. (1)

    MoS 4.174 10 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly insight, and sends back the votary orphaned.

orphans, n. (3)

    Chr2 10.118 2 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities,-as in...appointing... guardians of foundlings and orphans.
    MMEm 10.423 19 For the widows and orphans--Oh, I [Mary Moody Emerson] could give facts of the long-drawn years of imprisoned minds and hearts, which uneducated orphans endure!
    MMEm 10.423 21 For the widows and orphans--Oh, I [Mary Moody Emerson] could give facts of the long-drawn years of imprisoned minds and hearts, which uneducated orphans endure!

orphan's, n. (1)

    SovE 10.191 2 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...the orphan's tears, the vices of men, lust, cruelty and pitiless avarice.

Orpheus, n. (9)

    LT 1.263 5 I do not wonder at the miracles which poetry attributes to the music of Orpheus...
    Hist 2.31 22 The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and...clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus.
    Pt1 3.4 14 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the...manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact; Orpheus, Empedocles...
    Pt1 3.31 10 ...Orpheus speaks of hoariness as that white flower which marks extreme old age;...
    Boks 7.190 3 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables...of the old Orpheus of Thrace...
    PI 8.66 1 He is the true Orpheus who writes his ode, not with syllables, but men.
    PerF 10.82 14 The story of Orpheus, of Arion, of the Arabian minstrel, are not fables...
    Thor 10.475 12 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one.
    Shak1 11.449 16 ...at the short distance of three hundred years [Shakespeare] is mythical, like Orpheus and Homer...

Orphic, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.72 8 Thus my Orphic poet sang.
    LLNE 10.332 15 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys...than exegetical discourses...on the Orphic and Ante-Homeric remains,-yet this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...

orrery, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.346 14 You cannot make a written theory or demonstration of [immortality] as you can an orrery of the Copernican astronomy.

ors, louis d', n. (1)

    ET12 5.203 17 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr. Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts...for four thousand louis d'ors...

Orsini Gardens, Rome, Ital (1)

    CW 12.173 15 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens,-as...the Borghese, the Orsini at Rome...

Orson, n. (1)

    TPar 11.284 1 Here comes Parker, the Orson of parsons, a man/ Whom the Church undertook to put under her ban.-/

ort, n. (1)

    CbW 6.262 18 Nature...works up every shred and ort and end into new creations;...

Orte, M., n. (1)

    FSLC 11.192 6 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...

orthodox, adj. (4)

    Bhr 6.176 19 Every man...looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child which he would not dare to presume in the child of a stranger. The Orientalists are very orthodox on this point.
    Imtl 8.326 16 [The doctrine of the resurrection] was an affair of the body, and narrowed again by the fury of sect; so that grounds were sprinkled with holy water to receive only orthodox dust;...
    Chr2 10.116 26 The orthodox clergymen hold a little firmer to [their traditions]...
    EurB 12.376 3 ...there is but one standard English novel, like the one orthodox sermon...

Orthodox, adj. (1)

    Chr2 10.105 12 ...we read with surprise the horror of Athens when, one morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were found broken, and the like consternation was in the city as if, in Boston, all the Orthodox churches should be burned in one night.

Orthodox Calvinists, n. (1)

    JBS 11.279 7 Our farmers were Orthodox Calvinists...

orthodox, n. (1)

    Bty 6.299 2 Saadi describes a schoolmaster so ugly and crabbed that a sight of him would derange the ecstasies of the orthodox.

orthodoxy, n. (3)

    Comp 2.94 5 The preacher, a man esteemed for his orthodoxy, unfolded in the ordinary manner the doctrine of the Last Judgment.
    CSC 10.374 13 The singularity and latitude of the summons [to the Chardon Street Convention] drew together...men of every shade of opinion from the straitest orthodoxy to the wildest heresy...
    War 11.164 10 Observe the ideas of the present day,-orthodoxy, skepticism, missions...

Osawatomie Brown, n. (2)

    JBB 11.266 10 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Came homeward in the morning to find his house burned down./
    JBB 11.266 21 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Said, Boys, the Lord will aid us! and he shoved his ramrod down./ Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Brown.

Osawatomie, Kansas, n. (1)

    Mem 12.105 18 Captain John Brown, of Ossawatomie, said he had in Ohio three thousand sheep on his farm, and could tell a strange sheep in his flock as soon as he saw its face.

Osborne House, Isle of Wig (1)

    FRep 11.534 3 A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not his own, but a far-off copy of Osborne House or the Elysee.

oscillates, v. (2)

    Int 2.341 27 Between [truth and repose], as a pendulum, man oscillates.
    Supl 10.163 12 There is a superlative temperament which...swiftly oscillates from the freezing to the boiling point...

oscillating, adj. (1)

    Prd1 2.229 23 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity, and have a certain swimming and oscillating appearance.

oscillations, n. (1)

    Pow 6.74 8 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes,-- all are distractions which cause oscillations in our giddy balloon...

Osgood, Samuel, n. (2)

    CSC 10.375 14 ...H. C. Wright, Dr. Osgood, William Adams...and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
    ACri 12.287 24 I remember when a venerable divine [Dr. Osgood] called the young preacher's sermon patty cake.

O'Shanter, Tam [Robert Bu (1)

    PI 8.25 19 Give [people]...Chevy Chase, or Tam O'Shanter, and they like these well enough.

O'Shaughnessy, Mrs., n. (1)

    Pow 6.78 18 The rule for hospitality and Irish 'help' is to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessy learns to cook it to a nicety...

osiers, n. (1)

    Res 8.152 19 ...long before anything else is ready, these osiers hang out their joyful flowers in contrast to all the woods.

Osiris, n. (2)

    DSA 1.131 7 ...the language that describes Christ...paints a demigod, as the Orientals or the Greeks would describe Osiris or Apollo.
    Exp 3.46 20 Some heavenly days must have been intercalated somewhere, like those that Hermes won with dice of the Moon, that Osiris might be born.

Osiris, On Isis and [Pluta (2)

    Boks 7.200 6 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates, On Isis and Osiris...
    Boks 7.202 23 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he will find it one of the majestic remains of literature...

Osiris-Jove, n. (1)

    Hist 2.14 7 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove...

Osman, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.154 14 The king of Schiraz could not afford to be so bountiful as the poor Osman who dwelt at his gate.
    Mrs1 3.154 14 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never a poor outcast...but fled at once to him;...

osprey, n. (2)

    Aris 10.44 4 I think he'll be to Rome/ As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it/ By sovereignty of nature./
    Thor 10.467 1 ...the birds which frequent the stream [the Concord River], heron, duck, sheldrake, loon, osprey;...were all known to [Thoreau]...

ossa, n. (1)

    SwM 4.113 18 Ossa videlicet e pauxillis atque minutis/ Ossibus sic et de pauxillis atque minutis/ Visceribus viscus gigni, sanguenque creari/ Sanguinis inter se multis coeuntibus guttis;

Ossian, n. (5)

    ET4 5.48 18 ...the Briton of to-day is a very different person from Cassibelaunus or Ossian.
    PI 8.38 12 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols...
    QO 8.196 18 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as...Macpherson as Ossian;...
    Insp 8.287 15 Do you want...Helvellyn, or Plinlimmon, dear to English song, in your closet? Caerleon, Provence, Ossian and Cadwallon?
    Insp 8.295 17 ...read Hafiz and the Trouveurs; nay, Welsh and British mythology of Arthur, and (in your ear) Ossian;...

ossibus, n. (1)

    SwM 4.113 19 Ossa videlicet e pauxillis atque minutis/ Ossibus sic et de pauxillis atque minutis/ Visceribus viscus gigni, sanguenque creari/ Sanguinis inter se multis coeuntibus guttis;/...

ostentation, n. (6)

    YA 1.373 14 ...Nature...uses a grinding economy...not a superfluous grain of sand, for all the ostentation she makes of expense and public works.
    SR 2.54 24 Do I not know that with all this ostentation of examining the grounds of the institution [the preacher] will do no such thing?
    Hsm1 2.254 3 ...they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger,-- so it be done for love and not for ostentation,--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them...
    ShP 4.212 15 ...[Shakespeare's] talents never seduced him into an ostentation...
    Schr 10.279 1 [The scholar] is to forge out of coarsest ores the sharpest weapons. But...if his talents...come to work for ostentation, they cannot serve him.
    WSL 12.338 22 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...prone to indulge a sort of ostentation of coarse imagery and language.

ostentatious, adj. (4)

    Wth 6.93 1 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth...
    Cour 7.271 6 True courage is not ostentatious;...
    War 11.166 18 ...bayonet and sword must first retreat a little from their ostentatious prominence;...
    PLT 12.61 12 Intellect...runs down into talent...conceited, ostentatious and malignant.

ostentatious, n. (1)

    Art1 2.361 7 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius left to novices the gay and fantastic and ostentatious...

ostentatiously, adv. (4)

    Pol1 3.207 15 In this country we are very vain of our political institutions... and we ostentatiously prefer them to any other in history.
    ET11 5.197 9 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families, the continual recruiting of these from new blood. The doors, though ostentatiously guarded, are really open...
    CL 12.162 22 ...sometimes [my naturalist] brought [the farmers] ostentatiously gifts of flowers, fruit or rare shrubs they would gladly have paid a price for...
    Let 12.404 9 ...every man knows in his heart the cure for the disease he so ostentatiously bewails.

osteology, n. (3)

    GoW 4.275 10 ...in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that one vertebra of the spine might be might be considered as the unit of the skeleton...
    PI 8.7 26 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind;...
    Comc 8.167 8 I have been employed, [Camper] says, six months on the Cetacea; I understand the osteology of the head of all these monsters...

ostler, n. (1)

    Wth 6.108 7 We must have joiner, locksmith, planter, priest, poet, doctor, cook, weaver, ostler; each in turn, through the year.

ostracized, v. (1)

    FSLN 11.241 23 It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right, and out-voted and ostracized, to know that better men in other parts of the country appreciate the service...

ostrich, n. (2)

    AmS 1.104 13 It is a shame to [the scholar]...if he seek a temporary peace by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions, hiding his head like an ostrich...
    SwM 4.121 6 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to a theologic notion;...a cat means this; and ostrich that; an artichoke this other;...

ote, v. (2)

    CbW 6.278 14 I prefer to say...what was said of a Spanish prince, The more you took from him the greater he looked. Plus on lui ote, plus il est grand.
    Grts 8.314 3 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say...what was said of the Spanish prince, The more you took from him, the greater he appeared, Plus on lui ote, plus il est grand.

Othello [Shakespeare, Othel (1)

    Tran 1.336 15 Afterwards, when Emilia charges him with the crime, Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not I./

Othello [William Shakespear (2)

    Tran 1.336 12 In the play of Othello, the expiring Desdemona absolves her husband of the murder, to her attendant Emilia.
    Int 2.333 22 ...notwithstanding our utter incapacity to produce anything like Hamlet and Othello, see the perfect reception this wit and immense knowledge of life and liquid eloquence find in us all.

Othello's [Shakespeare, Oth (1)

    ShP 4.207 19 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?

otherest, adj. (1)

    UGM 4.5 24 Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the otherest.

otherness, n. (1)

    PPh 4.48 6 Oneness and otherness. It is impossible to speak or to think without embracing both.

otherwise, adj. (14)

    LE 1.170 7 ...[every man's] own conversation with nature is still unsung. Is it otherwise with civil history?
    Exp 3.77 13 The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might. Though not in energy, yet by presence, this magazine of substance cannot be otherwise than felt;...
    PPh 4.76 4 ...expounding...the hope of the parting soul,--[Plato] is literary, and never otherwise.
    MoS 4.158 2 ...great numbers dislike [the State] and suffer conscientious scruples to allegiance; and the only defence set up, is the fear of doing worse in disorganizing. Is it otherwise with the Church?
    ET11 5.177 8 The pretence is that the [English] noble is of unbroken descent from the Norman, and has never worked for eight hundred years. But the fact is otherwise.
    Wsp 6.220 9 Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...it was so then and another day it would have been otherwise.
    Wsp 6.224 1 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat, and usually know what he conceals. Is it otherwise if there be some belief or some purpose he would bury in his breast?
    SS 7.10 25 When a young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason, I keep my chamber to read law,--Read law! replied the veteran, 't is in the court-room you must read law. Nor is the rule otherwise for literature.
    PLT 12.38 19 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published...in conversation...of men of the world, and at last in the very choruses of songs. The young hear it, and as they...have never known it otherwise, they accept it...
    II 12.73 26 ...when we consider who and what the professors of that art usually are, does it not seem as if music falls accidentally and superficially on its artists? Is it otherwise with poetry?
    CInt 12.124 10 I could heartily wish it were otherwise, but there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges...
    MAng1 12.217 24 There is no standard whereby the understanding can determine whether objects are beautiful or otherwise.
    MLit 12.324 17 ...a certain greatness encircles every fact [Goethe] treats; for to him it has a soul, an eternal reason why it was so, and not otherwise.
    Pray 12.350 14 ...we seldom have the prayer otherwise than it can be inferred from the man and his fortunes...

otherwise, adv. (47)

    DSA 1.124 4 ...whatever opposes that will is everywhere balked and baffled, because things are made so, and not otherwise.
    MN 1.202 17 ...we feel not much otherwise if...we take the great and wise men...and narrowly inspect their biography.
    MN 1.204 14 ...there is a Life not to be described or known otherwise than by possession?
    Tran 1.333 20 [The idealist] does not respect...the products of labor, namely property, otherwise than as a manifold symbol...
    YA 1.379 7 We design it thus and thus; it turns out otherwise and far better.
    Hist 2.35 11 ...all the postulates of elfin annals...I find true in Concord, however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne. Is it otherwise in the newest romance?
    SR 2.47 8 A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
    SL 2.152 2 The man may teach by doing, and not otherwise.
    SL 2.156 12 You think because you...have given no opinion on the times... that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom. Far otherwise;...
    Fdsp 2.207 17 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. No partialities of friend to friend...are there pertinent, but quite otherwise.
    Cir 2.306 13 Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and... I see not how it can be otherwise.
    Chr1 3.112 15 ...[friends] gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise...
    Mrs1 3.133 22 [Fops] pass also at their just rate; for how can they otherwise, in circles which exist as a sort of herald's office for the sifting of character.
    Nat2 3.174 20 ...it is the magical lights of the horizon and the blue sky for the background which save all our works of art, which were otherwise bawbles.
    Nat2 3.181 17 ...the artist still goes back for materials and begins again with the first elements on the most advanced stage; otherwise all goes to ruin.
    NER 3.277 20 ...surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say, Take me and all mine, and use me and mine freely to your ends! for I could not say it otherwise than because a great enlargement had come to my heart and mind...
    PNR 4.85 17 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of the present time, no one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised justice, otherwise than as respects the repute, honors, and emoluments arising therefrom;...
    GoW 4.281 17 There must be a man behind the book; a personality...which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise;...
    ET4 5.54 10 We must use the popular category...for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise we are presently confounded when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.
    F 6.34 6 It has not fared much otherwise with higher kinds of steam.
    Wth 6.105 12 Not much otherwise the economical power touches the masses through the political lords.
    Ctr 6.143 17 ...the being master of [minor skills] enables the youth to judge intelligently of much on which otherwise he would give a pedantic squint.
    Ctr 6.151 23 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./ Not much otherwise Milnes writes in the Lay of the Humble...
    Wsp 6.226 2 In every variety of human employment...there are...those... who finish their task for its own sake; and the state and the world is happy that has the most of such finishers. The world will always do justice at last to such finishers; it cannot otherwise.
    SS 7.14 8 Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.
    Art2 7.50 3 Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is.
    Elo1 7.85 18 ...in any public assembly, him who has the facts and can and will state them, people will listen to, though he is otherwise ignorant...
    Cour 7.266 11 The thoughtful man says...do you not see that I cannot think or act otherwise than I do?...
    Suc 7.291 23 ...[every man] is to dare...not help others as they would direct him, but as he knows his helpful power to be. To do otherwise is to neutralize all those extraordinary special talents distributed among men.
    Chr2 10.108 4 ...So far the religion is now where it should be. Persons are discriminated...as helpful, as having public and universal regards, or otherwise;...
    Chr2 10.110 25 Voltaire was an apostle of Christian ideas; only the names were hostile to him, and he never knew it otherwise.
    Supl 10.176 9 The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth;...a ground...where they speak and think and do what they must, because they are so and not otherwise.
    MoL 10.248 26 You [scholars] are carriers of ideas which are to fashion the mind and so the history of this breathing world, so as they shall be, and not otherwise.
    MoL 10.255 23 We should see in [the work of art] the great belief of the artist, which caused him to make it so as he did, and not otherwise;...
    Schr 10.268 3 ...I do not wish...that life should be to you, as it is to many, optical, not practical. Far otherwise...
    LLNE 10.342 24 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth and Goethe, then on Carlyle, with pleasure and sympathy. Otherwise, their education and reading were not marked...
    HDC 11.53 10 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country? The sachem replied that he knew if the Indians dwelt far from the English, they would not so much care to pray...but would be...Indians still; but dwelling near the English, he hoped it might be otherwise with them then.
    War 11.168 1 Otherwise, if you go for no war, then be consistent, and give up self-defence...
    AsSu 11.250 2 I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing to make electioneering speeches, or otherwise to bear his part in the labor which party organization requires.
    JBS 11.278 9 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy...whom he looked upon as his superior. This boy was a slave; he saw him beaten with an iron shovel, and otherwise maltreated;...
    TPar 11.290 24 [Theodore Parker] took away the reproach of silent consent that would otherwise have lain against the indignant minority, by uttering in the hour and place wherein these outrages were done, the stern protest.
    EPro 11.323 4 [The Civil War] might have begun otherwise or elsewhere...
    Wom 11.426 2 The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. The melioration of manners brought their melioration of course. It could not be otherwise...
    RBur 11.439 11 ...I must trust to the inspirations of the theme [of the Burns Festival] to make a fitness which does not otherwise exist.
    MAng1 12.240 24 Condivi, his friend, has left this testimony; I have often heard Michael Angelo reason and discourse upon love, but never heard him speak otherwise than upon platonic love.
    ACri 12.298 2 What [Carlyle] has said shall be proverb, nobody shall be able to say it otherwise.
    AgMs 12.362 15 Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] inherited a farm, and spends on it every year from other resources; otherwise his farm had ruined him long since;...

Othman, n. (1)

    Con 1.317 6 ...the vigor of...Othman the Turk, sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.

Otis, Harrison Gray (?), n. (1)

    PI 8.25 26 [People] like to go...to Faneuil Hall, and be taught by Otis, Webster...what great hearts they have...

Otis, James, n. (2)

    Bost 12.211 2 The elder Otis could hardly excel the popular eloquence of the younger Otis;...
    Bost 12.211 4 The elder Otis could hardly excel the popular eloquence of the younger Otis;...

otter, n. (1)

    Thor 10.467 1 ...the snake, muskrat, otter, woodchuck and fox, on the banks [of the Concord River];...were all known to [Thoreau]...

ottimo, adj. (1)

    MAng1 12.214 1 Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun concetto,/ Ch' un marmo solo in se non circoscriva/ Col suo soverchio, e solo a quello arriva/ La man che obbedisce all' intelletto./ M. Angelo, Sonneto primo.

otto, n. (3)

    Supl 10.173 25 Gardens of roses must be stripped to make a few drops of otto.
    Supl 10.177 25 ...the Orientals excel...in spices, in dyes and drugs, henna, otto and camphor...
    AKan 11.259 26 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. They call it otto of rose and lavender,-I call it bilge-water.

ottomans, n. (1)

    MR 1.246 12 Sofas, ottomans, stoves, wine, game-fowl, spices, perfumes, rides, the theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want...

otto-of-roses, n. (1)

    EurB 12.370 16 Otto-of-roses is good, but wild air is better.

Ought, n. (1)

    DSA 1.151 22 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he...shall show that the Ought, that Duty, is one thing with Science...

ought, v. (4)

    DSA 1.121 2 He ought. [Man] knows the sense of that grand word...
    DSA 1.125 20 When [man] says, I ought;...deep melodies wander through his soul from Supreme Wisdom.
    Wsp 6.236 2 If the thought come, I would give it entertainment [said Benedict]. It should, as it ought, go into my hands and feet;...
    Cour 7.266 8 [Courage] is directness,--the instant performing of that which [a man] ought.

ounce, n. (8)

    Nat 1.33 21 ...The last ounce broke the camel's back;...
    Exp 3.45 24 We have enough [spirit] to live and bring the year about, but not an ounce to impart or to invest.
    Pow 6.73 12 ...an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.
    Pow 6.73 13 ...an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.
    Pow 6.77 16 'T is the same ounce of gold here in a ball, and there in a leaf.
    CbW 6.264 25 The latent heat of an ounce of wood or stone is inexhaustible.
    Bty 6.294 19 ...our art...reaches beauty by taking every superfluous ounce that can be spared from a wall, and keeping all its strength in the poetry of columns.
    Res 8.143 11 ...the immense expansion of trade has wanted every ounce of gold...

ounces, n. (3)

    ET12 5.211 8 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics, with five miles more walking, or five ounces less eating...the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...
    Wsp 6.202 19 The strength of that principle [Faith] is not measured in ounces and pounds;...
    Bty 6.281 21 The bird is not in its ounces and inches...

outbid, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.197 13 Nothing remains in this race of roguery but to coax Connecticut or Maine to outbid us all by adopting slavery into its constitution.

outbreak, n. (4)

    LT 1.281 14 The sad Pestalozzi, who shared with all ardent spirits the hope of Europe on the outbreak of the French Revolution...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
    MoL 10.257 7 All of us have shared the new enthusiasm of country and of liberty which swept like a whirlwind through all souls at the outbreak of war...
    LLNE 10.355 9 ...like the dreams of poetic people on the first outbreak of the old French Revolution, so [the Fourierist community] would disappear in a slime of mire and blood.
    MMEm 10.399 24 Mary Moody Emerson was born just before the outbreak of the Revolution.

out-cant, v. (1)

    ACri 12.286 2 Bacon, if he could out-cant a London chirurgeon, must have possessed the Romany under his brocade robes.

outcast, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.56 10 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches...had already transferred nature into the mind, and left matter like an outcast corpse.
    JBS 11.281 2 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men...who, like the Cid, give the outcast leper a share of their bed;...

outcast, n. (3)

    MR 1.252 15 An acceptance of the sentiment of love throughout Christendom for a season would bring the felon and the outcast to our side in tears...
    Mrs1 3.154 18 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never a poor outcast...but fled at once to him;...
    Prch 10.221 23 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To...behold the horse, cow and bird, and to foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them;-no, the bird...would... declare him an outcast.

outcasts, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.390 13 As soon as men have tasted the enjoyment of learning, friendship and virtue, for which the State exists, the prizes of office appear polluted, and their followers outcasts.

outcries, n. (1)

    Cour 7.265 24 Our affections and wishes for the external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries...

outcry, n. (3)

    AmS 1.89 6 The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude...having once received this book...makes an outcry if it is disparaged.
    YA 1.389 8 It is not often the worst trait that occasions the loudest outcry.
    Edc1 10.143 25 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion:- Would you verily throw up the reins of public and private discipline;...

outdazzle, v. (1)

    PPr 12.386 26 ...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle the calm daylight...

outdid, v. (1)

    Clbs 7.248 20 Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson no doubt paint the fact:-- When we such clusters had/ As made us nobly wild, not mad;/ And yet, each verse of thine/ Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine./

outdo, v. (2)

    Civ 7.17 25 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again,/--Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill,/ Traditioned fame of masters, eager strife/ Of keen competing youths, joined or alone,/ To outdo each other and extort applause./
    PI 8.55 1 ...the masters sometimes rise above themselves to strains...which neither any competitor could outdo, nor the bard himself again equal.

outdoing, v. (1)

    Dem1 10.4 3 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows...a delicate creation outdoing the prime and flower of actual Nature...

outdone, v. (2)

    Comp 2.124 6 If I feel overshadowed and outdone by great neighbors, I can yet love;...
    Cir 2.301 13 ...every action admits of being outdone.

out-door, adj. [outdoor,] (3)

    SwM 4.128 18 The Eden of God is bare and grand: like the out-door landscape remembered from the evening fireside, it seems cold and desolate...
    Bhr 6.178 4 The out-door life and hunting and labor give equal vigor to the human eye.
    PPo 8.239 6 The favor of the climate, making subsistence easy and encouraging an outdoor life, allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization...

out-doors, adv. (1)

    SMC 11.364 26 [George Prescott writes] I told Lieutenant Bowers, this morning, that I could afford to be sick from bringing the tent-poles, for it saved the whole regiment from sleeping out-doors;...

outdoors, n. (1)

    CbW 6.268 11 [The young people] explore a farm, but the house is small... there's too much sky, too much outdoors;...

outer, adj. (7)

    Nat 1.25 11 ...the use of outer creation [is] to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.
    SwM 4.141 26 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like...to the phenomena of dreaming, which nightly turns many an honest gentleman... into a wretch, skulking like a dog about the outer yards and kennels of creation.
    ET5 5.86 17 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling, or stationing his ships one on the outer bow and another on the outer quarter of each of the enemy's, were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
    ET5 5.86 18 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling, or stationing his ships one on the outer bow and another on the outer quarter of each of the enemy's, were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
    Imtl 8.348 25 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities; the outer relations and circumstances dying out, he entering deeper into God...
    PerF 10.76 19 We define Genius to be a sensibility to all the impressions of the outer world...
    PLT 12.17 25 ...the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether...

outfit, n. (1)

    Con 1.310 22 It is trivial and merely superstitious to say that nothing is given you, no outfit, no exhibition;...

outgeneral, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.125 2 My gentleman...will...outgeneral veterans in the field...

out-generalled, v. (1)

    Cir 2.309 9 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled...

outgo, n. (1)

    Wth 6.117 5 The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo;...

outgo, v. (1)

    Nat 1.46 16 When much intercourse with a friend...has increased our respect for the resources of God who thus sends a real person to outgo our ideal;...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...

outgrow, v. (3)

    PI 8.68 7 How fast we outgrow the books of the nursery...
    Imtl 8.329 13 The experiences of the soul will fast outgrow this alarm [of death].
    MoL 10.244 2 The Greek was so perfect in action and in imagination, his poems...so charming in form and so true to the human mind, that we cannot forget or outgrow their mythology.

outgrown, adj. (1)

    Ctr 6.155 5 ...a tender boy who wears his rusty cap and outgrown coat, that he may secure the coveted place in college...is educated to some purpose.

outgrown, v. (11)

    DSA 1.125 27 In the sublimest flights of the soul...love is never outgrown.
    Fdsp 2.210 26 Let [your friend] be to thee for ever...not a trivial conveniency to be soon outgrown and cast aside.
    F 6.36 6 Liberation of the will from the sheaths and clogs of organization which [man] has outgrown, is the end and aim of this world.
    PI 8.68 12 ...many of our later books we have outgrown.
    Chr2 10.112 7 The laws of old empires stood on the religious convictions. Now that their religions are outgrown, the empires lack strength.
    Thor 10.479 9 A certain habit of antagonism defaced [Thoreau's] earlier writings,-a trick of rhetoric not quite outgrown in his later, of substituting for the obvious word and thought its diametrical opposite.
    LS 11.20 24 ...to adhere to one form a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable...
    Scot 11.464 11 ...finding [the old ballads] now outgrown and dishonored by the new culture, [Scott] attempted to dignify and adapt them to the times in which he lived.
    FRO1 11.478 5 We are all very sensible...of the feeling that churches are outgrown; that creeds are outgrown;...
    Bost 12.190 11 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston], The town hath indeed three elder Sisters in this colony, but it hath wonderfully outgrown them all...
    Bost 12.209 9 [Boston] is very willing to be outnumbered and outgrown...

outgrows, v. (1)

    PC 8.226 19 The ear outgrows the tongue...

outlasted, v. (1)

    GSt 10.504 21 I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or that man's behavior, but never that his anger outlasted for a moment the mischief done or threatened to the good cause...

outlasts, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.174 15 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years, yet the remembrance of these visions outlasts all other remembrances...

outlaw, n. (2)

    Aris 10.63 10 ...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the standard of Chartist and outlaw?
    PPr 12.389 20 [Carlyle] is like a lover or an outlaw who wraps up his message in a serenade, which is nonsense to the sentinel, but salvation to the ear for which it is meant.

outlaw, v. (1)

    Aris 10.35 11 ...neither...the Congress, nor the mob, nor the guillotine, nor fire, nor all together, can avail to outlaw...or destroy the offence of superiority in persons.

outlawry, n. (1)

    Civ 7.34 6 ...if there be...a country...where the position of the white woman is injuriously affected by the outlawry of the black woman;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...

outlaws, n. (1)

    PNR 4.89 14 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts of two kinds: first, those who by demerit have put themselves below protection,--outlaws;...

outlay, n. (1)

    Farm 7.142 3 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say...solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

outlet, n. (10)

    SL 2.142 12 [A man] must find in [his vocation] an outlet for his character...
    Hsm1 2.249 14 ...war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature, which, as it had its inlet by human crime, must have its outlet by human suffering.
    Art1 2.360 6 In proportion to his force, the artist will find in his work an outlet for his proper character.
    Art1 2.363 21 A man should find in [art] an outlet for his whole energy.
    Exp 3.51 9 Of what use [is genius]...if the web is...too irritable by pleasure and pain, so that life stagnates from too much reception without due outlet?
    ET3 5.41 27 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom...
    PerF 10.76 24 ...the health of man is an equality of inlet and outlet...
    Supl 10.173 5 We...cannot live without much outlet for all our sense and nonsense.
    MMEm 10.426 19 Number the waste places of the journey...the narrow limits which know no outlet...and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary Moody Emerson] love.
    Trag 12.412 23 There is a fire in some men which demands an outlet in some rude action;...

outlets, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.42 21 ...wherever are outlets into celestial space...there is Beauty... shed for thee [O poet]...
    ET4 5.49 2 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...the million opportunities and outlets for expanding and misplaced talent;...

outline, n. (18)

    Nat 1.15 8 ...the primary forms...give us...a pleasure arising from outline, color, motion, and grouping.
    Nat 1.49 27 When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression.
    LE 1.157 4 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems...a vase of fair outline, but empty...
    Hist 2.13 26 ...a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will. The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it, and whilst I look at it its outline and texture are changed again.
    Hist 2.36 25 Transport [Napoleon] to...complex interests and antagonist power, and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon.
    SR 2.55 25 The muscles...grow tight about the outline of the face...
    Cir 2.305 1 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere.
    Pol1 3.201 15 The history of the State sketches in coarse outline the progress of thought...
    Bty 6.290 23 'T is the adjustment of the size and of the joining of the sockets of the skeleton that gives grace of outline and the finer grace of movement.
    Bty 6.305 25 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns. This is that haughty force of beauty... which the poets praise,--under calm and precise outline the immeasurable and divine;...
    Boks 7.201 10 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...
    Suc 7.296 3 'T is the fulness of man that...makes his Bibles and Shakspeares and Homers so great. The joyful reader borrows of his own ideas to fill their faulty outline...
    PI 8.44 16 This power [of characterization] appears not only in the outline or portrait of [Shakespeare's] actors...
    SovE 10.194 9 [Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to [God], as well as the scope and outline;...
    PLT 12.11 27 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed, without attempting to arrange them within one outline, follows a system also...
    MAng1 12.223 8 The love of beauty which never passes beyond outline and color was too slight an object to occupy the powers of [Michelangelo's] genius.
    MAng1 12.223 23 Nor was [Michelangelo's] a skill in ornament, or confined to the outline and designs of towers and facades...
    Milt1 12.256 16 Nor is there in literature a more noble outline of a wise external education than that which [Milton] drew up, at the age of thirty-six, in his Letter to Samuel Hartlib.

outlines, n. (9)

    Nat 1.49 25 Until this higher agency intervened, the animal eye sees...sharp outlines and colored surfaces.
    Nat 1.50 4 If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent...
    Hist 2.16 20 A painter told me that nobody could...draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely...
    Art1 2.358 24 The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill...in outlines... can ever teach...
    Bty 6.305 6 Into every beautiful object there enters somewhat immeasurable and divine, and just as much into form bounded by outlines... as into tones of music or depths of space.
    Bty 6.306 14 ...there is a climbing scale of culture...up through fair outlines and details of the landscape...
    Boks 7.206 8 For the Church and the Feudal Institution, Mr. Hallam's Middle Ages will furnish, if superficial, yet readable and conceivable outlines.
    Dem1 10.10 23 We doubt not a man's fortune may be read...in the outlines of the skull, by craniology...
    MAng1 12.233 18 Through [superficial beauty] [Michelangelo] beheld the eternal spiritual beauty which ever clothes itself with grand and graceful outlines...

outlived, v. (1)

    Cir 2.319 17 ...the man and woman of seventy...have outlived their hope...

outlook, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.172 24 My house stands in low land, with limited outlook...
    Wth 6.122 16 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...
    Insp 8.290 23 ...the experience of some good artists has taught them to prefer the smallest and plainest chamber, with one chair and table and with no outlook...

outloved, v. (1)

    ShP 4.210 6 What lover has [Shakespeare] not outloved?

outlying, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.47 17 In my utter impotence...to know whether the impressions [my senses] make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?

outmost, adj. (3)

    Prd1 2.222 2 [Prudence] is the outmost action of the inward life.
    SwM 4.123 20 There is an invariable method and order in [Swedenborg's] delivery of his truth, the habitual proceeding of the mind from inmost to outmost.
    Insp 8.295 24 Only our newest knowledge works as a source of inspiration and thought, as only the outmost layer of liber on the tree.

outmost, n. (1)

    SR 2.45 11 ...the inmost in due time becomes the outmost...

outnumbered, v. (1)

    Bost 12.209 9 [Boston] is very willing to be outnumbered and outgrown...

outnumbering, v. (1)

    NMW 4.224 9 The second [democratic] class is selfish also...always outnumbering the other [conservative class]...

out-of-doors, adj. (1)

    Grts 8.305 3 There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men: to geology, sinewy, out-of-doors men...

out-of-doors, adv. (2)

    YA 1.388 3 In America, out-of-doors all seems a market;...
    Supl 10.170 6 Under the Catskill Mountains the boy in the steamboat said, Come up here, Tony; it looks pretty out-of-doors.

outpouring, n. (1)

    Insp 8.294 5 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind...

outpray, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.125 2 My gentleman...will outpray saints in chapel...

outrage, n. (10)

    Hist 2.38 2 Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an outrage...
    Comp 2.119 24 ...[the mob] would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have [a principle, right, justice].
    SlHr 10.446 17 [Samuel Hoar] had a childlike innocence...which...enabled him to meet every comer with a free and disengaged courtesy that had no memory in it Of wrong and outrage with which the earth is filled./
    HDC 11.61 24 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits...
    LVB 11.94 10 ...[the question of currency and trade] is the chirping of grasshoppers beside the immortal question...whether...so vast an outrage upon the Cherokee Nation and upon human nature shall be consummated.
    EWI 11.131 15 If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping of freeborn negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with impunity, let the Governor break the broad seal of the State;...
    AsSu 11.248 25 The outrage [attack on Sumner] is the more shocking from the singularly pure character of its victim.
    ACiv 11.308 25 What is so foolish as the terror lest the blacks should be made furious by freedom and wages? It is denying these that is the outrage...
    Koss 11.396 4 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./
    Bost 12.192 12 [The Massachusett colonists' experience] seems to have been the last outrage ever committed by the sting-rays...

outrage, v. (1)

    ALin 11.337 6 Easy good nature has been the dangerous foible of the Republic, and it was necessary that its enemies should outrage it...to secure the salvation of this country in the next ages.

outraged, v. (1)

    EWI 11.133 1 ...the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged.

outrages, n. (4)

    Hsm1 2.262 27 Whatever outrages have happened to men may befall a man again;...
    EWI 11.111 25 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters...and the negroes furiously forbidden to go near them. These outrages rekindled the flame of British indignation.
    AKan 11.256 10 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated?
    TPar 11.290 27 [Theodore Parker] took away the reproach of silent consent that would otherwise have lain against the indignant minority, by uttering in the hour and place wherein these outrages were done, the stern protest.

outrages, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.238 1 Honor him...who does not shine, and would rather not. With eyes open, he makes the choice of virtue which outrages the virtuous;...

outran, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.89 20 ...somewhat resided in these men which begot an expectation that outran all their performance.

outrance, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.158 20 Though an egotist a outrance, [Bonaparte] could criticise a play...and give a just opinion.
    Thor 10.454 5 [Thoreau] was a protestant a outrance...

outrun, v. (6)

    Comp 2.99 24 Has [the man of genius] light? he must...always outrun that sympathy which gives him such keen satisfaction...
    Hsm1 2.260 12 ...we have the weakness to expect the sympathy of people in those actions whose excellence is that they outrun sympathy...
    Nat2 3.176 22 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive.
    ET15 5.266 22 ...[the London Times's] expresses outrun the despatches of the government.
    Wom 11.406 15 [Women] learn so fast and convey the result so fast as to outrun the logic of their slow brother...
    Bost 12.209 13 [Boston] is very willing to be outrun in numbers, and in wealth;...

out-running, adj. [outrunning,] (2)

    DSA 1.120 13 Behold these out-running laws...
    PC 8.225 11 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...whose outrunning immensity, the old Greeks believed, astonished the gods themselves;...

outruns, v. (2)

    Nat2 3.190 3 All promise outruns the performance.
    Suc 7.301 10 Our perception far outruns our talent.

outsee, v. (2)

    AmS 1.109 24 Do we fear lest we should outsee nature and God...
    GoW 4.283 4 This earnestness enables [the Germans] to outsee men of much more talent.

outseen, v. (1)

    ShP 4.210 6 What sage has [Shakespeare] not outseen?

outset, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.245 6 ...the club must be self-protecting, and obstacles arise at the outset.

outshine, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.125 3 My gentleman...will...outshine all courtesy in the hall.

outshoot, v. (1)

    WD 7.184 23 Phoebus challenged the gods, and said, Who will outshoot the far-darting Apollo? Zeus said, I will.

outside, adj. (3)

    SL 2.163 21 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge...
    ET18 5.305 1 [English] culture is not an outside varnish...
    Bty 6.290 17 ...all beauty must be organic;...outside embellishment is deformity.

outside, adv. (18)

    Comp 2.102 7 That soul which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law.
    Cir 2.299 3 Nature centres into balls,/ And her proud ephemerals,/ Fast to surface and outside,/ Scan the profile of the sphere;/...
    Cir 2.305 4 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere. Then already is our first speaker not man, but only a first speaker. His only redress is forthwith to draw a circle outside of his antagonist.
    Cir 2.311 27 Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal circle through which a new one may be described.
    Exp 3.75 17 ...scepticisms...are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in and make affirmations outside of them...
    Mrs1 3.146 24 ...the chemical energy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.
    ET11 5.191 2 Castles are proud things, but 't is safest to be outside of them.
    ET13 5.214 3 No people at the present day can be explained by their national religion. They do not feel responsible for it; it lies far outside of them.
    Bhr 6.192 10 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed, and we follow the gala procession home to the bannered portal, when the doors are slammed in our face and the poor reader is left outside in the cold...
    Ill 6.317 16 'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their practicality are a certain poetry and play...
    Civ 7.34 2 ...if there be...a country...where public debts and private debts outside of the State are repudiated;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Farm 7.149 2 ...the vines and stalks and stems may go sprawling about in the fields outside...
    PI 8.53 22 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people...
    PI 8.60 9 [The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when] Pons de Capdeuil declares,--Since the air renews itself and softens, so must my heart renew itself, and what buds in it buds and grows outside of it.
    Schr 10.279 15 ...the young...finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul, are confused...
    AKan 11.262 8 Pans of gold lay drying outside of every man's tent, in perfect security [in California].
    CInt 12.116 4 ...[the college]...cannot give to those who come to it and refuse to those outside.
    CInt 12.129 5 Is...an insurance office, bank or bakery outside of the system and connection of things...

outside, n. (7)

    Comp 2.105 5 We can no more...get the sensual good, by itself, than we can get an inside that shall have no outside...
    Cir 2.304 23 There is no outside, no inclosing wall, no circumference to us.
    Exp 3.64 2 ...the new molecular philosophy shows astronomical interspaces betwixt atom and atom, shows that the world is all outside; it has no inside.
    Exp 3.78 16 The act looks very differently on the inside and on the outside;...
    Wsp 6.204 15 ...the public and the private element...like inside and outside...adhere to every soul...
    PerF 10.73 10 Whilst these [natural] forces act on us from the outside and we are not in their counsel, we call them Fate.
    MAng1 12.219 23 [Michelangelo] knew well that only by an understanding of the internal mechanism can the outside be faithfully delineated.

outsides, n. (2)

    ET10 5.170 23 Who can propose to youth poverty and wisdom...when English success has grown out of the very renunciation of principles, and the dedication to outsides?
    Aris 10.65 21 To many the word [Gentleman] expresses only the outsides of cultivated men...

outskirt, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.192 21 This or this [in nature] is but outskirt and a far-off reflection and echo of the triumph that has passed by...

outskirts, n. (2)

    Nat 1.61 11 ...to the suburbs and outskirts of things, [nature] is faithful to the cause whence it had its origin.
    AmS 1.86 13 The ambitious soul...goes on forever to animate the last fibre of organization, the outskirts of nature...

outstood, v. (1)

    ET16 5.277 6 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across--had long outstood all later churches...

outstride, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.178 10 ...Though, feigning dwarfs, [Eternal Rights] crouch and creep,/ The strong they slay, the swift outstride;/...

outstripping, v. (1)

    ET11 5.198 7 A multitude of English...are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality, and outstripping them, as often, in the race of honor and influence.

outvalue, v. (1)

    ACri 12.287 21 Not only low style, but the lowest classifying words outvalue arguments;...

outvalues, v. (3)

    Gts 3.159 16 ...flowers...are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
    NER 3.258 6 ...the shock of the electric spark in the elbow, outvalues all the theories;...
    ET14 5.245 21 Hallam...is unconscious of the deep worth which lies in the mystics, and which often outvalues as a seed of power and a source of revolution all the correct writers and shining reputations of their day.

outvote, v. (1)

    Con 1.319 20 ...leprosy has grown cunning, has got into the ballot-box; the lepers outvote the clean;...

outvoted, v. [out-voted,] (2)

    Pol1 3.206 25 When the rich are outvoted...it is the joint treasury of the poor which exceeds their accumulations.
    FSLN 11.241 23 It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right, and out-voted and ostracized, to know that better men in other parts of the country appreciate the service...

outvotes, v. (1)

    Chr2 10.110 1 Paganism...outvotes the true men by millions of majority...

outwalk, v. (1)

    Thor 10.461 27 [Thoreau]...would probably outwalk most countrymen in a day's journey.

outward, adj. (25)

    Nat 1.9 2 The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other;...
    Nat 1.29 16 ...this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power to affect us.
    Nat 1.56 18 ...in [Ideas'] presence we feel that the outward circumstance is a dream and a shade.
    LT 1.276 11 The Reformers affirm the inward life, but they...use outward and vulgar means.
    LT 1.281 17 ...Pestalozzi...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
    Comp 2.125 11 ...such should be the outward biography of man in time, a putting off of dead circumstances day by day...
    SL 2.141 18 The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by... outward signs that mark him extraordinary...is fanaticism...
    Prd1 2.236 14 The prudence which secures an outward well-being is not to be studied by one set of men, while heroism and holiness are studied by another...
    Prd1 2.236 22 ...the proper administration of outward things will always rest on a just apprehension of their cause and origin;...
    Int 2.335 25 When the spiritual energy is directed on something outward, then it is a thought.
    OA 7.326 24 The youth suffers...from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality.
    PI 8.27 26 I assert for myself [wrote Blake] that I do not behold the outward creation...
    PI 8.30 8 The right poetic mood is or makes a more complete sensibility, piercing the outward fact to the meaning of the fact;...
    Comc 8.159 17 We have a primary association between perfectness and this [human] form. But the facts that occur when actual men enter do not make good this anticipation; a discrepancy which is at once detected by the intellect, and the outward sign is the muscular irritation of laughter.
    Aris 10.34 4 ...I take this inextinguishable persuasion in men's minds [of hereditary transmission of qualities] as a hint from the outward universe to man to inlay as many virtues and superiorities as he can into this swift fresco of the day...
    Chr2 10.102 17 Character denotes...a balance not to be overset or easily disturbed by outward events and opinion...
    SovE 10.197 13 What is this intoxicating sentiment...that makes this doll... able to spurn all outward advantages...
    SovE 10.212 25 What armor [innocence] is to protect the good from outward or inward harm...
    MMEm 10.421 21 In a religious contemplative public [our civilization] would have less outward variety, but simpler and grander means;...
    ALin 11.328 17 [The people] knew that outward grace is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's [Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent, like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./
    Shak1 11.450 23 There never was a writer who, seeming to draw every hint from outward history, the life of cities and courts, owed them so little [as Shakespeare].
    PLT 12.12 24 ...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of outward objects...in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth;...
    PLT 12.16 10 ...the suggestion is always returning, that hidden source publishing at once our being and that it is the source of outward Nature.
    PLT 12.36 14 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image;...
    MAng1 12.216 14 Beauty in the largest sense, beauty inward and outward... this to receive and this to impart, was [Michelangelo's] genius.

outward, adv. (11)

    MN 1.218 4 ...[Genius] proceeds from within outward...
    Tran 1.334 4 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...
    Lov1 2.183 20 In the procession of the soul from within outward, it enlarges its circles ever...
    Cir 2.304 18 ...in its first and narrowest pulses [the heart] already tends outward with a vast force...
    UGM 4.6 4 Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows, like the palm, from within outward.
    UGM 4.8 11 Right ethics...go from the soul outward.
    PI 8.11 15 The mind, penetrated with its sentiment or its thought, projects it outward on whatever it beholds.
    PI 8.41 17 ...all becomes poetry, when we look from the centre outward...
    LLNE 10.352 26 There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties always appear, and which, according to the strength of the individual, they seek to realize in the surrounding world. The value of Fourier's system is that it is a statement of such an order...carried outward into its correspondence in facts.
    PLT 12.12 23 ...the natural direction of the intellectual powers is from within outward...
    MLit 12.315 3 [The great man's] own affection is in Nature...and, of course, all his communication leads outward to it...

outward, n. (1)

    PLT 12.16 6 To Be is the unsolved, unsolvable wonder. To Be, in its two connections of inward and outward, the mind and Nature.

outwardly, adv. (2)

    Nat 1.47 8 A noble doubt perpetually suggests itself...whether nature outwardly exists.
    Nat2 3.196 4 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... and have some stake in every possibility, lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.

outwards, adv. (1)

    Cir 2.304 3 The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles...

outweighs, v. (4)

    Fdsp 2.189 2 A ruddy drop of manly blood/ The surging sea outweighs;/...
    MoS 4.183 8 All moods may be safely tried, and their weight allowed to all objections: the moral sentiment as easily outweighs them all, as any one.
    EWI 11.144 11 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint... or of the leaders of [the negro] race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.
    JBS 11.276 10 Then angrily the people cried,/ The loss outweighs the profit far;/ Our goods suffice us as they are:/ We will not have them tried./

outwhisper, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.202 6 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they have thrust his speeches into the chimney. No roars of New York mobs can drown this voice in Mr. Webster's ear. It will outwhisper all the salvos of the Union Committees' cannon.

outwit, v. (2)

    MN 1.202 9 When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...a gambling table...where the end is ever by some lie or fetch to outwit your rival...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    HCom 11.342 6 ...revolutions disconcert and outwit all the insurgents.

outwits, v. (1)

    PI 8.2 12 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that 's just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/ So to repeat/ No word or feat/ Crowds in a day the sum of ages,/ And blushing Love outwits the sages./

outwitted, v. (3)

    Comp 2.121 21 There is no stunning confutation of [the criminal's] nonsense before men and angels. Has he therefore outwitted the law?
    Wth 6.109 4 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel, and believes he must somehow have outwitted Dr. Franklin and Malthus, for luxuries are cheap.
    Dem1 10.25 19 ...Nature can never be outwitted...

outworn, adj. (1)

    DSA 1.131 12 One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn,/ than to be defrauded of his manly right...

ovations, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.211 21 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one; and no amount of evidence of his crimes will prevent them giving him ovations...

oven, n. (2)

    Con 1.305 11 The past has baked your loaf, and in the strength of its bread you would break up the oven.
    PI 8.4 2 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person...never tries to kindle his oven with water...

ovens, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.365 10 Eggs might be hatched in ovens, but the hen on her own account much preferred the old way.

overarching, adj. (1)

    Lov1 2.188 18 ...in health the mind is presently seen again,--its overarching vault, bright with galaxies of immutable lights...

overawe, v. (2)

    MoS 4.162 4 ...some stark and sufficient man, who is...sufficiently related to the world to do justice to Paris or London, and, at the same time, a vigorous and original thinker, whom cities can not overawe, but who uses them,--is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    Bhr 6.172 20 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...overawe their spite and meanness;...

overawed, v. [over-awed,] (3)

    SL 2.154 8 ...a public...not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
    GoW 4.284 13 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion: a man not to be bribed, nor deceived, nor over-awed;...
    EPro 11.316 21 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;-the bravos and wits who greeted him loudly thus far are surprised and overawed;...

overawing, v. (1)

    CInt 12.117 8 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear; then the college... ceases to be a school;...and instead of overawing the strong, and upholding the good, it is a hospital for decayed tutors.

overbearing, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.100 11 It has been in all men's experience a marked effect of the enterprise in behalf of the African, to generate an overbearing and defying spirit.

overbearing, n. (1)

    Comp 2.98 25 There is always some levelling circumstance that puts down the overbearing...substantially on the same ground with all others.

overboard, adv. (2)

    F 6.19 15 I seemed in the height of a tempest to see men overboard struggling in the waves...
    EWI 11.140 25 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity? For they had no doubt...that the case of slaves was the same as if horses had been thrown overboard.

overbold, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.173 10 I have seen...the overbold, who make their own invitation to your hearth;...

overborne, v. (3)

    ET8 5.141 14 ...[The English] think humanely on the affairs of France...of Schleswig Holstein, though overborne by the statecraft of the rulers at last.
    Cour 7.260 24 ...the only title I can have to your help is when I have manfully put forth all the means I possess to keep me, and being overborne by odds, the by-standers have a natural wish to interfere and see fair play.
    PC 8.218 26 Even manners are a distinction which...are not to be overborne by rank or official power...

overcasts, v. (1)

    Tran 1.344 25 [Transcendentalists] make us feel the strange disappointment which overcasts every human youth.

over-charge, n. (1)

    Comp 2.100 16 If the government is a terrific democracy, the pressure is resisted by an over-charge of energy in the citizen...

overcharged, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.135 2 Yet is this private interest and self so overcharged that if a man seeks a companion who can look at objects for their own sake and without affection or self-reference, he will find the fewest who will give him that satisfaction;...

overcharges, n. (1)

    NMW 4.240 6 When the expenses...of his palaces, had accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself, detected overcharges and errors...

over-civilized, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.289 10 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time and country... taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.

over-coloring, v. (1)

    PPr 12.387 26 ...the manifold and increasing dangers of the English State, may easily excuse some over-coloring of the picture;...

overcome, v. (22)

    Nat 1.34 8 Can such things be,/ And overcome us like a summer's cloud,/ Without our special wonder?/
    LE 1.155 5 A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I might well entertain of my ability to bring you any thought worthy of your attention.
    LE 1.166 13 ...once having overcome the novelty of the situation, [the speaker] finds it just as easy and natural to speak...as it was to sit silent;...
    LE 1.181 19 ...by this discipline, the usurpation of the senses is overcome...
    Prd1 2.237 17 The Latin proverb says, In battles the eye is first overcome.
    Cir 2.321 14 People say sometimes, See what I have overcome;...
    Pow 6.79 8 It is not question to express our thought, to elect our way, but to overcome resistances of the medium and material in everything we do.
    Ctr 6.166 16 ...there is nothing [the human being] will not overcome and convert...
    Wsp 6.235 14 A man, says Vishnu Sarma, who having well compared his own strength or weakness with that of others, after all doth not know the difference, is easily overcome by his enemies.
    CbW 6.255 2 We acquire the strength we have overcome.
    Bty 6.283 19 A deep man believes...that love...can overcome all odds.
    DL 7.112 25 The difficulties to be overcome [in housekeeping] must be freely admitted;...
    Suc 7.298 3 Now it costs a rare combination of clouds and lights to overcome the common and mean.
    Suc 7.310 2 ...I seek one who shall make me forget or overcome the frigidities and imbecilities into which I fall.
    SA 8.79 14 ...how impossible to overcome the obstacle of an unlucky temperament and acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start;...
    MMEm 10.417 23 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] did overcome and return kindness for the repeated provocations.
    HDC 11.31 13 ...some of these [suspended ministers]...were punished with imprisonment or mutilation. This severity brought some of the best men in England to overcome that natural repugnance to emigration which holds the serious and moderate of every nation to their own soil.
    EWI 11.143 22 [Nature] appoints...no rescue for flies and mites but their spawning numbers, which no ravages can overcome.
    PLT 12.64 5 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness...
    MAng1 12.237 23 ...it seemed to [Michelangelo] that if a man gave him anything, he was always obligated to that individual. His friend Vasari mentions one occasion on which his scruples were overcome.
    Milt1 12.249 5 Milton seldom deigns a glance at the obstacles that are to be overcome before that which he proposes can be done.
    Pray 12.353 25 I know that sorrow comes not at once only. We cannot meet it and say, now it is overcome...

overcomes, v. (3)

    LE 1.169 21 [All men] serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
    CbW 6.259 13 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which...overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds and first addresses in society...
    Farm 7.152 4 ...[the first planter] learns...that the earth...works for him when he is asleep, when it rains, when heat overcomes him.

overcometh, v. (1)

    PI 8.51 14 Time sadly overcometh all things...

overcoming, v. (2)

    Bhr 6.175 23 We had in Massachusetts an old statesman who had sat all his life...in chairs of state without overcoming an extreme irritability of face, voice and bearing;...
    Elo1 7.73 1 ...[Homer] does not fail to arm Ulysses at first with this power of overcoming all opposition by the blandishments of speech.

over-cultivated, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.288 25 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother, long since driven away from the trim hedge-rows and over-cultivated garden of England.

overdo, v. (1)

    OA 7.325 1 To secure strength, [Nature] plants cruel hunger and thirst, which so easily overdo their office, and invite disease.

over-doing, n. (1)

    Schr 10.267 15 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends. Yes, but not...an over-doing and busy-ness which pretends to the honors of action...

overdriven, adj. (2)

    ALin 11.333 9 ...[good humor]...is the protection of the overdriven brain against rancor and insanity.
    SHC 11.432 7 ...how much more are [parks] needed by us, anxious, overdriven Americans...

over-estimate, n. [overestimate,] (2)

    SL 2.165 3 This over-estimate of the possibilities of Paul and Pericles... comes from a neglect of the fact of an identical nature.
    PLT 12.30 6 ...nobody ever forgives any admiration in you of them, any overestimate of what they do or have.

over-estimate, v. [overestimate,] (5)

    Fdsp 2.195 24 We over-estimate the conscience of our friend.
    Boks 7.199 14 ...who can overestimate the images with which Plato has enriched the minds of men...
    MMEm 10.399 7 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life. It is a representative life...of an age now past, and of which I think no types survive. Perhaps I deceive myself and overestimate its interest.
    War 11.162 7 ...you overestimate the virtue of men.
    CPL 11.495 20 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who...make costly gifts to education, civility and culture, as in the act we are met to witness and acknowledge to-day [opening of the Concord Library]. I think we cannot easily overestimate the benefit conferred.

overestimated, v. (1)

    TPar 11.289 11 One fault [Theodore Parker] had, he overestimated his friends...

overfaith, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.187 20 Not less remarkable is the overfaith of each man in the importance of what he has to do or say.

overfed, adj. (1)

    OA 7.320 22 Universal convictions are not to be shaken by the whimseys of overfed butchers and firemen...

overfed, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.362 19 ...[Charles Newcomb's] mind [was] fed and overfed by whatever is exalted in genius...

overfill, v. (2)

    Art1 2.349 28 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate,/ And, moulded of one element/ With the days and firmament,/ Teach him on these as stairs to climb/ And live on even terms with Time;/ Whilst upper life the slender rill/ Of human sense doth overfill./
    Thor 10.466 26 ...the conical heaps of small stones on the river-shallows, the huge nests of small fishes, one of which will sometimes overfill a cart;... were all known to [Thoreau]...

over-fine, adj. (2)

    Con 1.307 25 With equal earnestness and good faith, replies to this plaintiff an upholder of the establishment, a man of many virtues: Your opposition is feather-brained and over-fine.
    Pow 6.60 4 The second man is as good as the first,--perhaps better; but has not stoutness or stomach, as the first has, and so his wit seems over-fine or under-fine.

overflow, n. (1)

    HDC 11.55 15 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought.

overflow, v. (1)

    LE 1.157 7 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems...a vase of fair outline...which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty...

overflowed, v. (2)

    OS 2.293 10 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... In the presence of law to his mind he is overflowed with a reliance so universal that it sweeps away all cherished hopes and the most stable projects of mortal condition in its flood.
    Pt1 3.16 7 It is nature the symbol, nature certifying the supernatural, body overflowed by life which [the coachman or the hunter] worships with coarse but sincere rites.

overflowing, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.71 15 [Man] filled nature with his overflowing currents.

overflowing, n. (1)

    MN 1.219 23 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and expansion of the human race, and resembled herein the sequent Revolution, which was...the overflowing of the sense of natural right in every clear and active spirit of the period.

overflowings, n. (1)

    MN 1.210 12 It is pitiful to be an artist, when by forbearing to be artists we might be vessels filled with the divine overflowings...

overflows, v. (1)

    LE 1.166 11 Presently [the listener's] own emotion rises to his lips, and overflows in speech.

overgod, n. (1)

    Trag 12.407 7 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that...makes the Oedipus and Antigone and Orestes objects of such hopeless commiseration. They must perish, and there is no overgod to stop or to mollify this hideous enginery that grinds or thunders...

over-governed, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.200 13 There are always men ready for adventures-more in an over-governed, over-peopled country...

over-great, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.296 14 In good hours we do not find Shakspeare or Homer over-great...

overgrowing, v. (1)

    ET16 5.288 15 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping, overgrowing, almost conscious...

overgrown, adj. (7)

    AmS 1.104 26 ...what overgrown error you behold is there only by sufferance...
    MR 1.255 4 This great, overgrown, dead Christendom of ours still keeps alive at least the name of a lover of mankind.
    YA 1.376 21 The king is compelled to call in the aid of his brothers...to help him keep his overgrown house in order;...
    OS 2.288 11 ...[scholars' and authors'] talent is...some overgrown member...
    Comc 8.165 3 ...the more overgrown the particular form is, the more ridiculous to the intellect.
    SMC 11.352 16 ...this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison, which in eighty years corrupted the whole overgrown body politic...
    EdAd 11.388 15 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully...

overhangs, v. (2)

    Edc1 10.132 4 ...in history an idea always overhangs, like the moon, and rules the tide which rises simultaneously in all the souls of a generation.
    PLT 12.17 13 ...as man is conscious of the law of vegetable and animal nature, so is he aware of an Intellect which overhangs his consciousness...

overhead, adv. (8)

    Nat2 3.192 13 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead...
    CbW 6.265 17 I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead;...
    Ill 6.309 6 We traversed, through spacious galleries affording a solid masonry foundation for the town and county overhead, the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...
    Ill 6.310 23 Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead [in the Mammoth Cave], reflecting the light of a half-hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect.
    Elo2 8.119 5 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do. It only needs that they should be once well pushed off into the water, overhead...
    Res 8.149 19 When now and then the vaulted roof [of the Mammoth Cave] rises high overhead...'t is but gloom on gloom.
    PPo 8.241 7 ...the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that were upon it, whither he pleased,-the army of birds at the same time flying overhead and forming a canopy to shade them from the sun.
    HDC 11.47 16 The moderator [of the New England town-meeting] was the passive mouth-piece, and the vote of the town, like the vane on the turret overhead, free for every wind to turn...

overhear, v. (1)

    Pray 12.350 11 If we can overhear the prayer we shall know the man.

overheard, v. (7)

    Mrs1 3.155 9 I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of destroying the earth;...
    Ill 6.313 17 Few have overheard the gods or surprised their secret.
    Res 8.145 26 ...coming among a wild party of Illinois, [Tissenet] overheard them say that they would scalp him.
    QO 8.204 13 ...the words overheard at unawares by the free mind, are trustworthy and fertile when obeyed...
    PPo 8.236 10 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/ And pass the burning summer-time/ In the palm-grove with a rhyme;/ Heedless that each cunning word/ Tribes and ages overheard/...
    Pray 12.350 13 ...prayers are not made to be overheard...
    Trag 12.409 12 The whisper overheard, the detected glance...darken the brow and chill the heart of men.

overhears, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.25 14 The sea...and every flower-bed, pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which sail like odors in the air, and when any man goes by with an ear sufficiently fine, he overhears them and endeavors to write down the notes without diluting or depraving them.

over-influence, n. (1)

    AmS 1.91 5 Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence.

over-instructed, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.173 18 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... ... I am over-instructed for my return.

over-intellectually, adv. (1)

    Aris 10.32 8 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture; science of a gentleman; art of a gentleman; poetry in a gentleman: intellectually held, that is, for their own sake...not for economy...but not over-intellectually...

overjoyed, adj. (3)

    OA 7.335 17 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer...insisted on repairing to the meeting-house, and proclaimed it aloud to the congregation, who were so overjoyed that they rose in their seats and cheered thrice.
    QO 8.198 6 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper.
    Milt1 12.278 11 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] was a sally of the extravagant spirit of the time, overjoyed...with the sudden victories it had gained...

overlaid, v. (1)

    F 6.40 16 All the toys that infatuate men...are the selfsame thing, with a new gauze or two of illusion overlaid.

overland, adv. (2)

    SwM 4.99 20 [Swedenborg] performed a notable feat of engineering in 1718, at the siege of Frederikshald, by hauling two galleys, five boats and a sloop, some fourteen English miles overland...
    SwM 4.100 3 In 1743, when [Swedenborg] was fifty-four years old, what is called his illumination began. All his metallurgy and transportation of ships overland was absorbed into this ecstasy.

overlap, v. (1)

    Dem1 10.5 12 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer;...

overlapped, v. (1)

    F 6.36 23 Nature is intricate, overlapped, interweaved and endless.

overleaped, v. (1)

    Clbs 7.236 15 ...having a large heart, mother-wit and good sense which impatiently overleaped his customary bounds, [Dr. Johnson's] conversation...has a lasting charm.

overleaps, v. (1)

    Int 2.326 19 Nature shows all things formed and bound. The intellect... overleaps the wall...

overleapt, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.1 5 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ They overleapt the horizon's edge,/ Searched with Apollo's privilege;/...

overload, v. (1)

    SR 2.85 17 ...[man's] libraries overload his wit;...

overloaded, v. (1)

    ET4 5.71 14 If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed, a wealthy, juicy, broad-chested creature...a little overloaded by his flesh.

overloading, adj. (1)

    CL 12.150 19 In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a man] does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals in a night. In the familiar forest he finds Norway and Russia in the masses of overloading snow which break all that they cannot bend.

overloading, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.134 9 The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion...

overloads, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.131 22 ...nature usually in the instances where a marked man is sent into the world, overloads him with bias...

overlook, v. (6)

    Tran 1.335 15 I do not wish to overlook or to gainsay any reality;...
    OS 2.296 21 [The soul saith] I am somehow receptive of the great soul, and thereby I do overlook the sun and the stars...
    Dem1 10.7 17 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to see...the features of the mink, of the bull, of the rat and the barn-door fowl. You think, could the man overlook his own condition, he could not be restrained from suicide.
    Dem1 10.10 5 It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic. The fallacy consists in selecting a few insignificant hints, when all are inspired with the same sense. As if one should exhaust his astonishment at the economy of his thumb-nail, and overlook the central causal miracle of his being a man.
    Edc1 10.127 12 [Man's] continual tendency, his great danger, is to overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher...
    Plu 10.321 9 I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch]...

overlooked, v. (7)

    Dem1 10.19 8 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. ... The crimes they commit...are strangely overlooked...
    SovE 10.198 12 ...spontaneous graces and forces elevate [life] in every domestic circle, which are overlooked while we are reading something less excellent in old authors.
    EzRy 10.386 14 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers...are well remembered, and his own entire faith that these petitions were not to be overlooked...
    EWI 11.138 16 Men have become aware, through the emancipation [in the West Indies] and kindred events, of the presence of powers which, in their days of darkness, they had overlooked.
    EPro 11.324 9 These necessities which have dictated the conduct of the federal government are overlooked especially by our foreign critics.
    SMC 11.352 8 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence. But in the necessities of the hour, they overlooked the moral law...
    CPL 11.501 8 Nathaniel Hawthorne's residence in the Manse gave new interest to that house, whose windows overlooked the retreat of the British soldiers in 1775...

overlooking, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.7 17 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism...overlooking the fact that some men, namely poets, are natural sayers...

overlooks, v. (3)

    Nat 1.68 6 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world;...
    Comp 2.99 20 He who by force of will or of thought is great and overlooks thousands, has the charges of that eminence.
    OS 2.278 21 I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbors, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play...

overmastered, v. (1)

    Comp 2.110 2 Our action is overmastered and characterized above our will by the law of nature.

overmatch, n. (5)

    MR 1.251 10 The naked Derar, horsed on an idea, was found an overmatch for a troop of Roman cavalry.
    LT 1.260 25 Meantime...arises Reform...and offers the sentiment of Love as an overmatch to this material might [of Conservatism].
    NMW 4.230 8 ...a very small force, skilfully and rapidly manoeuvring so as always to bring two men against one at the point of engagement, will be an overmatch for a much larger body of men.
    ET10 5.162 16 ...old energy of the Norse race [in England] arms itself with these magnificent powers [of steam]; new men prove an overmatch for the land-owner...
    Cour 7.273 19 There is a persuasion in the soul of man...that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.

overmatch, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.95 8 Is there no love, no reverence. Is there never a glimpse of right in a poor slave-captain's mind; and cannot these be supposed available to break or elude or in any manner overmatch the tension of an inch or two of iron ring?

overmatched, v. (1)

    ShP 4.199 11 Did [the bard] feel himself overmatched by any companion?

overmuch, adv. (1)

    Gts 3.162 27 ...if the gift pleases me overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity, and not him.

overmuch, n. (1)

    OA 7.313 21 The world has overmuch of pain,--/ If Nature give me joy again,/ Of such deceit I'll not complain./

overnight, adv. (2)

    Mem 12.107 11 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.
    CL 12.146 3 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground, and keep him there overnight, all day, all summer, for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...

overpaid, v. (1)

    ET13 5.226 24 The [English] curates are ill paid, and the prelates are overpaid.

over-particular, adj. (1)

    TPar 11.284 12 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street,/ And to hear, you 're not over-particular whence,/ Almost Taylor's profusion, quite Latimer's sense./ Lowell, A Fable for Critics.

overpast, adj. (1)

    Int 2.344 2 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and after a short season the dismay will be overpast...

overpay, v. (1)

    MoL 10.258 7 ...the issues already appearing overpay the cost.

over-peopled, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.200 13 There are always men ready for adventures-more in an over-governed, over-peopled country...

overplaced, v. (1)

    Aris 10.47 19 ...I pity the man overplaced.

overplus, n. (1)

    HDC 11.80 26 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that, their pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby directed to pay the overplus into the town treasury.

over-populated, v. (1)

    WD 7.161 23 When Europe is over-populated, America and Australia crave to be peopled;...

overpower, v. (9)

    MN 1.212 10 ...[all things] seek to penetrate and overpower each the nature of every other creature...
    Tran 1.357 4 ...the strong spirits overpower those around them without effort.
    SR 2.70 9 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities...who are not.
    Art1 2.358 19 ...the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art.
    Chr1 3.94 2 Higher natures overpower lower ones by affecting them with a certain sleep.
    Bhr 6.188 1 Strong will and keen perception overpower old manners and create new;...
    Elo1 7.74 10 There is the glib tongue and cool self-possession of the salesman in a large shop, which...overpower the prudence and resolution of housekeepers of both sexes.
    Edc1 10.154 21 It is so easy to bestow on a bad boy a blow, overpower him...
    PPr 12.383 26 ...when the political aspects are so calamitous that the sympathies of the man overpower the habits of the poet, a higher than literary inspiration may succor him.

overpowered, v. (14)

    Tran 1.333 13 Although in his action overpowered by the laws of action... yet when he speaks...after the order of thought, [the idealist] is constrained to degrade persons into representatives of truths.
    Tran 1.341 13 What [many intelligent and religious persons] do is done only because they are overpowered by the humanities that speak on all sides;...
    Hist 2.20 25 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder...
    OS 2.272 14 The influence of the senses has in most men overpowered the mind to that degree that the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable;...
    OS 2.286 9 By virtue of this inevitable nature, private will is overpowered...
    Nat2 3.186 4 The child...delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    NR 3.233 19 ...the master [Handel] overpowered the littleness and incapableness of the performers, and made them conductors of his electricity...
    Civ 7.20 18 [The Indian] is overpowered by the gaze of the white...
    Art2 7.56 6 The Gothic cathedrals were built when the builder and the priest and the people were overpowered by their faith.
    DL 7.104 9 Carry [the nestler] out of doors,--he is overpowered by the light...
    Cour 7.262 7 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was overpowered with fear...
    PI 8.22 3 Men are imaginative, but not overpowered by it to the extent of confounding its suggestions with external facts.
    Elo2 8.129 16 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it?
    PC 8.218 13 If a theologian of deep convictions and strong understanding carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran, in spite of the Emperor; as Thomas a Becket overpowered the English Henry.

overpowering, adj. (15)

    DSA 1.120 21 A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
    DSA 1.133 5 ...the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity...
    MN 1.217 2 What is Love, and why is it the chief good, but because it is an overpowering enthusiasm?
    OS 2.268 26 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents...
    Cir 2.321 3 Character makes an overpowering present;...
    NMW 4.226 24 ...Mirabeau, with his overpowering personality, felt that these things which his presence inspired were as much his own as if he had said them...
    ET3 5.35 21 ...an American has more reasons than another to draw him to Britain. In all that is done or begun by the Americans towards right thinking or practice, we are met by a civilization already settled and overpowering.
    CbW 6.274 11 ...see the overpowering importance of neighborhood in all association.
    Elo1 7.79 15 It is easy to illustrate this overpowering personality by these examples of soldiers and kings;...
    Elo1 7.80 16 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism.
    PI 8.48 20 ...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp tune.
    Elo2 8.113 10 After Sheridan's speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, Mr. Pitt moved an adjournment, that the House might recover from the overpowering effect of Sheridan's oratory.
    Elo2 8.130 19 [Eloquence] leads us to...the men of character, who bring an overpowering personality into court...
    Bost 12.192 19 ...the awe [of the Massachusetts colonists] was real and overpowering in the superstition with which every new object was magnified.
    WSL 12.348 13 ...[Landor] has not the high, overpowering method by which the master gives unity and integrity to a work of many parts.

overpowering, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.174 12 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years...

overpowers, v. (5)

    Hist 2.27 26 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people.
    Fdsp 2.212 6 Wait, and thy heart shall speak. Wait until the necessary and everlasting overpowers you...
    Art1 2.352 22 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it will retain a certain grandeur...
    ACiv 11.301 24 ...the eager interest of the few overpowers the apathetic general conviction of the many.
    EPro 11.319 22 ...slavery overpowers the disgust of the moral sentiment only through immemorial usage.

overpraise, n. (1)

    PI 8.68 3 ...our overpraise and idealization of famous masters is not in its origin a poor Boswellism...

overpraise, v. (2)

    Pow 6.80 10 We can easily overpraise the vulgar hero.
    CL 12.140 6 ...we cannot overpraise the comfort and the beauty of the [Massachusetts] climate in the best days of the year.

overran, v. (2)

    Exp 3.84 5 When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate my body to make the account square, for if I should die I could not make the account square. The benefit overran the merit the first day...
    PPh 4.77 12 ...you shall feel that Alexander indeed overran, with men and horses, some countries of the planet;...

overrated, v. (1)

    Pray 12.354 19 That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,/ And my life practise more than my tongue saith;/ That my low conduct may not show,/ Nor my relenting lines,/ That I thy purpose did not know,/ Or overrated thy designs./

over-read, v. (1)

    Plu 10.322 17 If over-read in this decade...[Plutarch's] sterling values will presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...

over-refinement, n. (1)

    WSL 12.339 22 In Mr. Landor's coarseness...the rude word seems sometimes to arise from a disgust at niceness and over-refinement.

over-refinements, n. (1)

    Aris 10.64 11 No great man has existed who did not rely on the sense and heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people, as correcting the modes and over-refinements and class prejudices of the lettered men of the world.

override, v. (1)

    ET10 5.164 15 The rights of property [in England] nothing but felony and treason can override.

overriding, v. (1)

    Res 8.142 27 American energy is overriding every venerable maxim of political science.

over-royal, adj. (1)

    OS 2.291 18 Souls such as these treat you as gods would...accepting without any admiration...your virtue even,--say rather your act of duty, for your virtue they own as their proper blood, royal as themselves, and over-royal...

overrun, v. (1)

    Exp 3.84 6 When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate my body to make the account square, for if I should die I could not make the account square. The benefit overran the merit the first day, and has overrun the merit ever since.

overrunning, v. (1)

    Civ 7.24 10 Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge, overrunning all the old barriers of caste...

overruns, v. (2)

    PLT 12.33 6 As soon as our accumulation [of knowledge] overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin...
    Trag 12.415 8 [Our human being] is like a stream of water, which, if dammed up on one bank, overruns the other, and flows equally at its own convenience over sand, or mud, or marble.

oversee, v. (1)

    Int 2.330 13 ...we cannot oversee each other's secret.

overseers, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.154 1 Are you...rich enough to make...the lame pauper hunted by overseers from town to town...feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    Edc1 10.156 26 No discretion that can be lodged...with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities [in education]...

overset, v. (4)

    Chr1 3.99 17 Character is...the impossibility of being displaced or overset.
    CbW 6.270 9 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into...repairers of this one malefactor; like a boat about to be overset, or a carriage run away with,--not only the foolish pilot or driver, but everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
    Chr2 10.102 16 Character denotes...a balance not to be overset or easily disturbed by outward events and opinion...
    MMEm 10.404 5 I like that kind of apathy that is a triumph to overset.

overshadowed, v. (3)

    Comp 2.124 5 If I feel overshadowed and outdone by great neighbors, I can yet love;...
    PLT 12.29 15 Whilst [man] draws on his own he cannot be overshadowed or supplanted.
    CInt 12.130 23 He that draws on his own talent cannot be overshadowed or supplanted.

overshadowing, v. (1)

    SHC 11.435 10 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century, this mute green bank [Sleepy Hollow] will be full of history...

overshone, v. (1)

    Schr 10.262 16 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy of blessing.

overshot, v. (1)

    Tran 1.354 6 ...we retain the belief that this petty web we weave will at last be overshot and reticulated with veins of the blue...

oversight, n. (2)

    DSA 1.140 27 Let me not taint the sincerity of this plea by any oversight of the claims of good men.
    II 12.65 10 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain...which rests in oversight and presence...

Over-Soul, n. (1)

    OS 2.268 22 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that Unity, that Over-Soul, within which every man's particular being is contained...

overspread, v. (2)

    Nat 1.11 11 ...the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume...is overspread with melancholy to-day.
    Elo1 7.83 21 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...

overstate, v. (6)

    MR 1.240 18 I do not wish to overstate this doctrine of labor...
    MoS 4.167 2 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I stand here for truth, and will not, for all the states and churches and revenues and personal reputations of Europe, overstate the dry fact, as I see it;...
    QO 8.204 4 We cannot overstate our debt to the Past...
    LLNE 10.357 5 [Thoreau said] Again and again I congratulate myself on my so-called poverty, I could not overstate this advantage.
    EPro 11.325 15 We think we cannot overstate the wisdom and benefit of this act of the government [the Emancipation Proclamation].
    Mem 12.108 15 You cannot overstate our debt to the past...

overstated, v. (5)

    F 6.35 7 ...when mature [the Neopolitan] assumes the forms of the unmistakable scoundrel. That is a little overstated-but may pass.
    SA 8.79 9 Who does not delight in fine manners? Their charm cannot be predicted or overstated.
    EWI 11.105 4 It became plain to all men, the more this business was looked into, that the crimes and cruelties of the slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated.
    AKan 11.256 11 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated?
    PLT 12.50 25 Every man has his theory, true, but ridiculously overstated.

overstatement, n. (1)

    Supl 10.166 4 All this overstatement is needless.

overstates, v. (1)

    MN 1.198 22 Language overstates.

overstayed, v. (1)

    ACri 12.288 26 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college yard, who found his wrath so aesthetic and fertilizing that they...even overstayed the hour of the mathematical professor.

overstep, v. (5)

    Fdsp 2.208 16 Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend should overstep...his real sympathy.
    Pol1 3.214 8 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I overstep the truth...
    Clbs 7.240 5 What can you do with an eloquent man? No rules of debate... no gag-laws can be contrived that his first syllable will not...overstep and annul.
    Imtl 8.348 6 ...Plato and Cicero had both allowed themselves to overstep the stern limits of the spirit, and gratify the people with that picture [of personal immortality].
    LVB 11.93 2 In speaking thus the sentiments of my neighbors and my own, perhaps I overstep the bounds of decorum.

overstimulating, v. (1)

    Suc 7.302 4 Ah! if one could...find the day and its cheap means contenting, which only ask receptivity in you, and no strained exertion and cankering ambition, overstimulating to be at the head of your class and the head of society...

oversupply, n. (1)

    OA 7.324 23 To perfect the commissariat, [Nature] implants in each a certain rapacity to get the supply, and a little oversupply, of his wants.

overt, adj. (3)

    SR 2.58 24 Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions...
    Exp 3.83 19 I should feel it pitiful to demand...an overt effect on the instant month and year.
    Exp 3.84 9 ...that hankering after an overt or practical effect seems to me an apostasy.

overtaken, v. (1)

    ET11 5.193 14 Even peers who are men of worth and public spirit [in England] are overtaken and embarrassed by their vast expense.

overtakes, v. (2)

    Nat 1.42 8 ...[a farm] is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.
    Milt1 12.251 22 ...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in Nature;...

overtasked, v. (1)

    GSt 10.506 21 ...the excessive toil and anxieties, into which [George Stearns's] ardent spirit led him, overtasked his strength...

overthrilled, v. (1)

    Supl 10.162 1 For Art, for Music overthrilled,/ The wine-cup shakes, the wine is spilled./

overthrow, v. (1)

    EdAd 11.393 2 The health which we call Virtue...resembles those rocking stones which a child's finger can move, and a weight of many hundred tons cannot overthrow.

overthrown, v. (2)

    NMW 4.245 22 ...as intellectual beings we feel the air purified by the electric shock, when material force is overthrown by intellectual energies.
    SA 8.95 27 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...

overtly, adv. (1)

    Pol1 3.205 18 ...the attributes of a person, his wit and his moral energy, will exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force,--if not overtly, then covertly;...

overturned, v. (3)

    Fdsp 2.201 2 ...let us approach our friend with an audacious trust...in the breadth, impossible to be overturned, of his foundations.
    EzRy 10.384 17 In March following [Joseph Emerson] notes: Had a safe and comfortable journey to York. But April 24th, we find: Shay overturned, with my wife and I in it, yet neither of us much hurt. blessed be our gracious Preserver.
    EzRy 10.384 25 Then again, May 5th [1735, Joseph Emerson writes]: Went to the beach with three of the children. The beast, being frightened when we were all out of the shay, overturned and broke it.

overuse, v. (1)

    Edc1 10.157 9 The will, the male power...makes that military eye which controls boys as it controls men;...only dangerous when it leads the workman to overvalue and overuse it...

overvalue, v. (2)

    F 6.26 19 [The mind] does not overvalue particular truths.
    Edc1 10.157 8 The will, the male power...makes that military eye which controls boys as it controls men;...only dangerous when it leads the workman to overvalue and overuse it...

overweening, adj. (2)

    Hist 2.39 15 [Each man] shall...bring with him into humble cottages...all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth. Is there somewhat overweening in this claim?
    PLT 12.9 3 ...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society, where the manners and estimate of the world have...effectually suppressed this overweening self-conceit.

over-weight, n. [overweight,] (2)

    Cour 7.253 9 Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight, that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own;...
    OA 7.324 18 [With age] The passions have answered their purpose: that slight but dread overweight with which in each instance Nature secures the execution of her aim, drops off.

overwhelming, adj. (3)

    NMW 4.236 6 On any point of resistance [Bonaparte] concentrated squadron on squadron in overwhelming numbers...
    Imtl 8.330 23 ...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence.
    HDC 11.59 12 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house, or a village; but the association of the white men and their arts of war give them an overwhelming advantage...

overwork, n. (1)

    F 6.10 24 ...the fine organs of [the digger's] brain have been pinched by overwork and squalid poverty...

overwork, v. (1)

    EWI 11.117 12 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed to use their old privileges, and overwork the apprentices;...

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