In ignorance of all this, Wolsey urged Henry to send Ghinucci, the Bishop of Worcester, and others to Rome with certain demands, among which was a request for Clement's assent to the abortive proposal for a council in France.
An abortive raid on the Borders and a high-born Scottish wife[24] were all that he obtained of James IV.
There an endeavour was made to burn them to death; but it provedabortive owing to the warning counsels of Vidura.
In anabortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.
Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches.
Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child.
Made from the skin of a stillÏborn animal; as, abortive vellum.
In Lauraceae there are perfect stamens, each having at the base of the filament two abortive stamens or staminodes, which may be analogous to stipules.
Corymb of Cerasus Mahaleb, terminating an abortive branch, at the base of which are modified leaves in the form of scales, e.
It may consist of processes rising from the torus, alternating with the stamens, and thus representing an abortive whorl; or its parts may be opposite to the stamens.
Male flower of Pellitory (Parietaria officinalis), having four stamens with in-curved elastic filaments, and an abortive pistil in the centre.
He escaped to Holland, but in 1685 was again in Scotland in connexion with the abortive invasion of the earl of Argyll.
In 1848 the revolution in France let loose fresh elements of discord, which culminated in anabortive insurrection, and for a lengthened period Ireland was a prey to more than her wonted symptoms of disaffection and disorder.
He was probably connected with the abortive rising of the count of Soissons in 1641; however that may be, in the following year he formed a conspiracy with the duke of Bouillon and others to overthrow Richelieu.
Appointed governor of that country, he landed at Dublin in 1361, and in November of the following year was created duke of Clarence, while his father made anabortive attempt to secure for him the crown of Scotland.
The first attempt at French colonization in Acadia was as abortive as Popham’s English colony at the mouth of the Sagadahock in the following year.
How far the abortiveattempt of establishing the colony of Zwanendael, mentioned in the narrative, and the voyage bringing over the colonists may be called “the cradling of a state,” I leave others to decide.
Taking station at Rhegium, Lachês did something towards rescuing the Ionic cities in part from their maritime blockade, and even undertook an abortive expedition against the Lipari isles, which were in alliance with Syracuse.
His political designs were at length so openly manifested, that he was brought to trial, condemned, and put to death; yet not without an abortive insurrection of his partisans to rescue him.
In the absence of all effective machinery of Government, I perceive that it would be quite abortive to attempt to raise a revenue from licences to dig for gold in that region.
This is especially necessary when we have used some of the quick methods of cure, like the abortive treatment.
This is the so-called abortive cure, the greatest gift which salvarsan has made to our power to fight syphilis.
To some extent, the abortive cure of the disease, with its 100 per cent certainty, will therefore remain a luxury until the public is aroused to the necessity of providing it under safe conditions and without restrictions for all who need it.
Salvarsan is an absolute essential in the treatment of those early infections in which an abortive cure can be hoped for, and in them it must be begun without a day's delay.
So valuable is it that several physicians of large experience have expressed the belief that even in cases in which we are not entirely sure the first sore is syphilitic, we should undertake an abortive treatment for syphilis.
The abortive forms seem to be more common, especially in this locality.
Note also huge masses of abortivestuff upon which it grows.
There are often three forms of this plant; a perfect form, an imperfect form, and an abortive form as will be seen in Figure 203.
Abortivus means abortive or imperfectly developed; so called from its many irregular and undeveloped forms.
The abortive marriage Scheme perished in its birth, but the doubt which had been raised could not perish with it.
In February 1853 there was an abortive attempt at revolution in Milan, of which not one person in a thousand knew anything till it was suppressed.
It was hard to get such a letter, and it must have been harder still for her to gaze on the abortive wedding-dress.
This variety differs from the typical form in having fewer tentacles and in the fact that the marginal processes of the statoblast are abortive or absent.
As a rule the genus is easily recognized by means of the statoblasts, but sometimes the processes at the ends of these structures are absent or abortive and it is then difficult to distinguish them from those of Lophopus.
Inigo Jones's magnificent but abortive scheme had but a poor result.
One day there is an ejectment at Ballycastle; the next an abortive attempt to evict at Cloontakilla.
Fifty men and a couple of sub-inspectors attended the serving of some civil-bill processes towards Newport only a few days ago, and a similar body attended to witness an abortive attempt at eviction on Miss Gardiner's property near Ballina.
Thus it was with one or two succeeding witnesses; the Attorney-General, on each occasion, resuming his seat after his abortive efforts with perfect composure.
With long style, perfect stigma, and shortabortive stamens.
As the session was drawing near to a close, the opposition seemed to entertain hopes of rendering the measure abortive by mere opposition.
In Brazil, a Nazi-directed abortive Putsch took place in 1938.
When, after the abortive attempt to seize the Austrian Government, the Nazis were made illegal, they went underground but continued to get aid from Germany.
It is somewhat mortifying to add that all speculations on the probable conduct of the war were rendered abortive by the peace, which left Russia in military possession of the north side of Sebastopol.
They who have made these abortive attempts have been little aware of the power with which they have to contend.
Roman amphitheaters} The world has had a striking example of the potency of commerce as opposed to that of even the sword, in the abortive policy of Napoleon to exclude England from the trade of the Continent.
Error now will prove abortive and, perhaps, postpone indefinitely what might otherwise sooner come in the natural course of events.
