English Dictionary: uselessness | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Uckewallist \Uck`e*wal"list\, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of rigid Anabaptists, which originated in 1637, and whose tenets were essentially the same as those of the Mennonists. In addition, however, they held that Judas and the murderers of Christ were saved. So called from the founder of the sect, Ucke Wallis, a native of Friesland. --Eadie. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Uglesome \Ug"le*some\ ([ucr]g"'l*s[ucr]m), a. [[root]3. See {Ugly}.] Ugly. [Obs.] [bd]Such an uglesome countenance.[b8] --Latimer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ugly \Ug"ly\, a. [Compar. {Uglier}; superl. {Ugliest}.] [Icel. uggligr fearful, dreadful; uggr fear (akin to ugga to fear) + -ligr (akin to E. -ly, like). [?][?]. Cf. {Awe}.] 1. Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed. The ugly view of his deformed crimes. --Spenser. Like the toad, ugly and venomous. --Shak. O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. --Shak. 2. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly. [Colloq. U. S.] 3. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer. [Colloq.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Useless \Use"less\, a. Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity. Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous. --Milton. Syn: Fruitless; ineffectual. Usage: {Useless}, {Fruitless}, {Ineffectual}. We speak of an attempt, effort, etc., as being useless when there are in it inherent difficulties which forbid the hope of success, as fruitless when it fails, not from any such difficulties, but from some unexpected hindrance arising to frustrate it; as, the design was rendered fruitless by the death of its projector. Ineffectual nearly resembles fruitless, but implies a failure of a less hopeless character; as, after several ineffectual efforts, I at last succeeded. Useless are all words Till you have writ [bd]performance[b8] with your swords. The other is for waiving. --Beau. & Fl. Waiving all searches into antiquity, in relation to this controversy, as being either needless or fruitless. --Waterland. Even our blessed Savior's preaching, who spake as never man spake, was ineffectual to many. --Bp. Stillingfleet. -- {Use"less*ly}, adv. -- {Use"less*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Useless \Use"less\, a. Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity. Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous. --Milton. Syn: Fruitless; ineffectual. Usage: {Useless}, {Fruitless}, {Ineffectual}. We speak of an attempt, effort, etc., as being useless when there are in it inherent difficulties which forbid the hope of success, as fruitless when it fails, not from any such difficulties, but from some unexpected hindrance arising to frustrate it; as, the design was rendered fruitless by the death of its projector. Ineffectual nearly resembles fruitless, but implies a failure of a less hopeless character; as, after several ineffectual efforts, I at last succeeded. Useless are all words Till you have writ [bd]performance[b8] with your swords. The other is for waiving. --Beau. & Fl. Waiving all searches into antiquity, in relation to this controversy, as being either needless or fruitless. --Waterland. Even our blessed Savior's preaching, who spake as never man spake, was ineffectual to many. --Bp. Stillingfleet. -- {Use"less*ly}, adv. -- {Use"less*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Useless \Use"less\, a. Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity. Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous. --Milton. Syn: Fruitless; ineffectual. Usage: {Useless}, {Fruitless}, {Ineffectual}. We speak of an attempt, effort, etc., as being useless when there are in it inherent difficulties which forbid the hope of success, as fruitless when it fails, not from any such difficulties, but from some unexpected hindrance arising to frustrate it; as, the design was rendered fruitless by the death of its projector. Ineffectual nearly resembles fruitless, but implies a failure of a less hopeless character; as, after several ineffectual efforts, I at last succeeded. Useless are all words Till you have writ [bd]performance[b8] with your swords. The other is for waiving. --Beau. & Fl. Waiving all searches into antiquity, in relation to this controversy, as being either needless or fruitless. --Waterland. Even our blessed Savior's preaching, who spake as never man spake, was ineffectual to many. --Bp. Stillingfleet. -- {Use"less*ly}, adv. -- {Use"less*ness}, n. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
UGLIAC AN early system on the {Datatron 200} series. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. |