Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Trusting previously; overtrustful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Trusting beforehand; hence, overconfident.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
Trusting beforehand ;overconfident .
Etymologies
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Examples
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StiU there is no foundation for pretendmg that Colon difcovered America pofteriorly to Behaim, as was clearly demonftrated by the prefident Count Carli, loft to the republic of letters and Milan, in 1 795 1.
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By the proportion which I have npw the honor to make in behalf of my government, your lordfllip will perceive the earneft defire of the prefident to remove every obltaclc to an accommo - dation, which confifts merely of form; and to fecure the right* and interefts of the United States in a manner the mod fatisfac - tory and honorable to Great Britain as well as to America.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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The citizens and free merchants of Batavia, who are not in the Company's fervice, are amenable to a feparate municipal court of juftice, being what is called the board of fcheepens, or aldermen, wha are eightin number, with a prefident, who is a member of the coimcil of India.
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Vir - ghia. alone, cannot ele6\ a prefident, whofe elevation depends on aplurality of electoral votes and a confequent concurrence of ma - nr ftates.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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John, earl of Granville, prefident of the council;
Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Hon. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and of the Principle ... 1797
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Monge, prefident; Buonaparte, vicc-prefident; and Fourier, perpetual fecretary 5 in whofc place, on account of his abfencc at Rofetta, Coftaz was provifionally appointed.
A Journal of natural philosophy, chemistry, and the arts .. 1797
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On the 14th Bnmiaire (Nov. 4) the Executive Direftory of the Republic repaired to the Hall of Seffion of the Inftitute, and the eftabliihmcnt was opened by the formality of pro - claiming the members, &c. after which the Inftitute proceeded to choofe their prefident and fecretaries, and to organize their future labours.
A Journal of natural philosophy, chemistry, and the arts .. 1797
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One lot to be free to the firft fchoolmafter, ana his heirs, cho - fen and fettled by the freeholders of the townftiip and town One lot free to the prefident of a college, and his lucceifors.
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. cn 1796
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'(Pref.p. i.) • The College of Phyficians in London have a legal power, vefted in - them by charter and by act of parliament, to' prohibit the practice of alt phyficians, within London and feven miles rcund, who have not been admitted to practife, by letters of the prefident and college under their*
The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan 1796
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The prefident replies that he is an Englifli - man.
Historical epochs of the French Revolution, Goudemetz, H 1796
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