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| 1. pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the philosophy of aesthetics; 2. of or pertaining to the study of the mind and emotion in relation to the sense of beauty; of or relating to the science of aesthetics; 3. having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty; 4. pertaining to, involving, or concerned with pure emotion and sensation as opposed to pure intellectuality; 5. the philosophical theory or set of principles governing the idea of beauty at a given time and place; the study of nature and sensation |
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| 1. at a distance, especially in feeling or interest; apart; 2. reserved or reticent; indifferent; disinterested |
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| 1. marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated; 2. commonly used in an earlier time but rare in present-day usage except to suggest the older time, as in religious rituals or historical novels; 3. forming the earliest stage; prior to full development; 4. pertaining to or designating the style of the fine arts, especially panting and sculpture; 5. primitive; ancient; old |
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| 1. to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate; 2. to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve; 3. to soothe, calm, or mollify |
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| 1. to show to be false; contradict; 2. to misrepresent; 3. to act unworthily according to the standards of a tradition, one's ancestry, or one's faith, 4. to lie about |
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| 1. tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome; 2. causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy; 3. pertaining to causes between contending parties |
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| 1 to overcome with fear; intimidate; 2. to lessen the courage of; dishearte |
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| 1. lack of concord or harmony between persons or things; 2. disagreement; difference of opinion; 3. strife; dispute; war; 4. an inharmonious combination of musical tones sounded together; 5. any confused or harsh noise; dissonance |
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| the act of disseminating, or spreading widely |
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| 1. of or pertaining to, or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas; doctrinal; 2. asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated |
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| 1. deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing; 2. an act or instance of such deceitfulness; 3. the act or fact of including two or more offenses in one count, or charge, as part of an indictment, thus violating the requirement that each count contain only a single offense; 4. the state or quality of having two elements or parts; being twofold or double |
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| 1. having or regarding the self or the individual as the center of all things; 2. having little or no regard for interests, beliefs, or attitudes other than one's own; self-centered |
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