The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness.
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The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.
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The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness.
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The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.
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The responsibility for proving a claim.
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To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…
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Defect; want; lack; default.
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The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
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Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders.
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The state of being incumbent; a lying or resting on something.
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A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
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of Keep
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Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
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The state or quality of being reliable; reliableness.
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The act of requiring; demand; requisition.
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Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.
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The area in the central part of an amphitheater, in which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; -- so called because it was covered w…
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Dominion; empire; authority.
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Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
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The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.
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A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.
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The quality or state of being trusty.
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To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive.
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To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive.
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To attach, as by a bond.
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To attach, as by a bond.
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Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct…
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Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct…
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A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.
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Alt. of Fibre
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One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.
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Nor responsible; not liable or able to answer fro consequences; innocent.
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Nor responsible; not liable or able to answer fro consequences; innocent.
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Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct…
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Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct…
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That which is due; payment.
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The act of obligating.
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A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.
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Want of, or freedom from, responsibility or accountability.
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Want of, or freedom from, responsibility or accountability.
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