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urging
(encz) | urging,naléhání n: Zdeněk Brož |
urging
(encz) | urging,nutící adj: Zdeněk Brož |
urging
(encz) | urging,urgování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Urging
(gcide) | Urge \Urge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Urged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Urging.] [L. urgere; akin to E. wreak. See Wreak, v. t.]
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1. To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
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Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight.
--Pope.
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2. To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives,
arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
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My brother never
Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it. --Shak.
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3. To provoke; to exasperate. [R.]
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Urge not my father's anger. --Shak.
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4. To press hard upon; to follow closely
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Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave. --Pope.
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5. To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention;
to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the
necessity of a case.
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6. To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent
measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.
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Syn: To animate; incite; impel; instigate; stimulate;
encourage.
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urging
(wn) | urging
n 1: a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something;
"the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves" [syn: goad,
goading, prod, prodding, urging, spur,
spurring]
2: the act of earnestly supporting or encouraging
3: insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left me
no alternative but to agree" [syn: importunity, urgency,
urging] |
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purging
(encz) | purging,čištění n: Zdeněk Brožpurging,pročišťování n: Zdeněk Brož |
purging cassia
(encz) | purging cassia, n: |
scourging
(encz) | scourging, |
surging
(encz) | surging,kolísání n: Zdeněk Brožsurging,vlnění n: Zdeněk Brož |
urging
(encz) | urging,naléhání n: Zdeněk Brožurging,nutící adj: Zdeněk Brožurging,urgování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Purging
(gcide) | Purge \Purge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Purging.] [F. purger, L. purgare; purus pure + agere to
make, to do. See Pure, and Agent.]
1. To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying
off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or
superfluous. "Till fire purge all things new." --Milton.
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2. (Med.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic
medicine, or in a similar manner.
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3. To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.
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4. To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam
pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.
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5. To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial
defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.
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When that he hath purged you from sin. --Chaucer.
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Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. --Ps.
li. 7.
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6. (Law) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime
or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.
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7. To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often
followed by away.
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Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. --Ps.
lxxix. 9.
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We 'll join our cares to purge away
Our country's crimes. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]Purging \Pur"ging\, a.
That purges; cleansing.
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Purging flax (Bot.), an annual European plant of the genus
Linum (Linum catharticum); dwarf wild flax; -- so
called from its use as a cathartic medicine.
[1913 Webster]Purging \Pur"ging\, n. (Med.)
The act of cleansing; excessive evacuations; especially,
diarrhea.
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Purging flax
(gcide) | Purging \Pur"ging\, a.
That purges; cleansing.
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Purging flax (Bot.), an annual European plant of the genus
Linum (Linum catharticum); dwarf wild flax; -- so
called from its use as a cathartic medicine.
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Scourging
(gcide) | Scourge \Scourge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scourged; p. pr. & vb.
n. Scourging.] [From Scourge, n.: cf. OF. escorgier.]
1. To whip severely; to lash.
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Is it lawful for you to scourge a . . . Roman?
--Acts xxii.
25.
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2. To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for
sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction.
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Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth
every son whom he receiveth. --Heb. xii. 6.
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3. To harass or afflict severely.
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To scourge and impoverish the people. --Brougham.
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Spurging
(gcide) | Spurging \Spur"ging\ (sp[^u]r"j[i^]ng), n. [See 2d Spurge.]
A purging. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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Surging
(gcide) | Surge \Surge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Surging.] [Cf. F. surgir to cast anchor, to land. Cf.
Surge, n.] (Naut.)
To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a
hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a
capstan).
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Unsurging
(gcide) | Unsurging \Unsurging\
See surging. |
purging
(wn) | purging
adj 1: serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites" [syn:
purgatorial, purging, purifying]
n 1: an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or
other undesired elements [syn: purge, purging]
2: the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or
charge [syn: purge, purging, purgation] |
purging cassia
(wn) | purging cassia
n 1: deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to
yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is
used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South
America and Australia [syn: golden shower tree,
drumstick tree, purging cassia, pudding pipe tree,
canafistola, canafistula, Cassia fistula] |
surging
(wn) | surging
adj 1: characterized by great swelling waves or surges; "billowy
storm clouds"; "the restless billowing sea"; "surging
waves" [syn: billowy, billowing(a), surging] |
urging
(wn) | urging
n 1: a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something;
"the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves" [syn: goad,
goading, prod, prodding, urging, spur,
spurring]
2: the act of earnestly supporting or encouraging
3: insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left me
no alternative but to agree" [syn: importunity, urgency,
urging] |
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