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<hw>Ag`gra*va"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>aggravatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>aggravation</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Exaggerated representation.</def>

<blockquote>By a little <b>aggravation</b> of the features changed it into the Saracen's head. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Provocation; irritation.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<i>Dickens.</i>

<h1>Aggravative</h1> <Xpage=32>

<hw>Ag"gra*va*tive</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Tending to aggravate.</def> <wordforms><wf>Ag*gres"sive*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Ag*gres"sive*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<blockquote>No <b>aggressive</b> movement was made. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Aggressor</h1> <Xpage=32>

<hw>Ag*gres"sor</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.: cf. F. <ets>agresseur</ets>.]</ety> <def>The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.</def>

<blockquote>The insolence of the <b>aggressor</b> is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. <i>Ames.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Aggrievance</h1> <Xpage=32>

<hw>Ag*griev"ance</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>agrevance</ets>, fr. <ets>agrever</ets>. See <er>Aggrieve</er>.]</ety> <def>Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<h1>Aggrieve</h1> <Xpage=32>

<hw>Ag*grieve"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Aggrieved</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Aggrieving</er> <tt>(#)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>agreven</ets>, OF. <ets>agrever</ets>; <ets>a</ets> (L. <ets>ad</ets>) + <ets>grever</ets> to burden, injure, L. <ets>gravare</ets> to weigh down, fr. <ets>gravis</ets> heavy. See <er>Grieve</er>, and cf. <er>Aggravate</er>.]</ety> <def>To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive <i>TO be aggrieved</i>.</def>

<blockquote><b>Aggrieved</b> by oppression and extortion. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Aggrieve</h1> <Xpage=32>

<hw>Ag*grieve"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To grieve; to lament.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Aggroup</h1> <Xpage=32>

<hw>Ag*group"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Aggrouped</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Aggrouping</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>agrouper</ets>; <ets>\'85</ets> (L. <ets>ad</ets>) + <ets>groupe</ets> group. See <er>Group</er>..]</ety> <def>To bring together in a group; to group.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<h1>Aggroupment</h1> <Xpage=32>

<hw>Ag*group"ment</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.</def>

<mhw><h1>Aggry, Aggri</h1> <Xpage=32>

<hw>Ag"gry</hw>, <hw>Ag"gri</hw> <tt>(#)</tt></mhw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; <as>as, <ex>aggry</ex> beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa</as>.</def>

<h1>Aghast</h1> <Xpage=32>

<hw>A*ghast"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>See <er>Agast</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt></def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>