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To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the…

To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.

The top or highest point; the culmination.

One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the l…

A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia.

Having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things.

A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank a…

Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.

To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; -- frequently with up; as,…

(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has take…

one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university

Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.

Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.

an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)

that which is pleasing or valuable or useful; "weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are happiness and self…

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living or…