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1. The supposition, at least, that angels do sometimes assume bodies need not startle us.Locke. Syn. To start; shock; fright; frighten; alarm. Startle After having recovered from my first startle, I was very well pleased with the accident.Spectator. Startlingly Startlish A startuppe, or clownish shoe.Spenser. Start-up Starvation This word was first used, according to Horace Walpole, by Henry Dundas, the first Lord Melville, in a speech on American affairs in 1775, which obtained for him the nickname of Starvation Dundas. "Starvation, we are also told, belongs to the class of 'vile compounds' from being a mongrel; as if English were not full of mongrels, and if it would not be in distressing straits without them." Fitzed. Hall. Starve In hot coals he hath himself raked . . .Chaucer. Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.Pope. Have I seen the naked starve for cold?Sandys. Starving with cold as well as hunger.W. Irving. In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used of the United States. |
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