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- Undue - a. - Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.
- Undue - a. - Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue proceeding.
- Undue - a. - Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law.
- Undueness - n. - The quality of being undue.
- Strabismus - n. - An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.
- Vainglory - n. - Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness.
- Distemper - v. t. - Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.
- Worry - n. - A state of undue solicitude; a state of disturbance from care and anxiety; vexation; anxiety; fret; as, to be in a worry.
- Dogmatize - v. i. - To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.
- Thaumatolatry - n. - Worship or undue admiration of wonderful or miraculous things.
- Burn - v. t. - To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
- Materialism - n. - The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants.
- Engross - v. t. - To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power.
- Arrogate - v. t. - To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings.
- Emancipate - v. t. - To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
- Bold - n. - In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent.
- Chill - n. - A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.
- Clericalism - n. - An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.
- Extort - v. t. - To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.
- Extortion - n. - The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge.
- Arrogant - a. - Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons.
- Arrogance - n. - The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.
- Chatter - v. i. - To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate.
- Undue - a. - Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.
- Melanism - n. - An undue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages; -- the opposite of albinism.
- Unduly - adv. - In an undue manner.
- Distemper - v. t. - An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts.
- Rush - v. i. - To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.
- Irritability - n. - A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.