- acceded - Acknowledged - Believed to be true - Believed to have said yes to invitation - Customary or usual - Received - Received and said yes to invitation
- Effrontery - Expectancy - Supposition - The act of presuming, or believing upon probable
evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon
incomplete proof. - Ground for presuming; evidence probable, but not
conclusive; strong probability; reasonable supposition; as, the
presumption is that an event has taken place. - That which is presumed or assumed; that which is
supposed or believed to be real or true, on evidence that is probable
but not conclusive. - The act of venturing beyond due beyond due bounds; an
overstepping of the bounds of reverence, respect, or courtesy; forward,
overconfident, or arrogant opinion or conduct; presumptuousness;
arrogance; effrontery.
- Ill-famed - Infamous - Scandalous - Scandalous, not laborious, to yield research room - Generally known and talked of by the public; universally
believed to be true; manifest to the world; evident; -- usually in an
unfavorable sense; as, a notorious thief; a notorious crime or vice.
- Perfume base - Perfume ingredient - A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in
the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid
secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter
macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin.
In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated
like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two
hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a
white vapor at 212¡ Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery.