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self-ended
† self-ended, ppl. a. Obs. [f. prec. + -ed.] Of merely private or selfish aims; characterized by self-centred actions or desires.1645 W. Goode Discov. Publ. Spirit 17 Publique spirits delight in their worke more then their wages, but self-ended men love their wages better then their worke. 1682 Sir ...
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self-ending
† self-ending, ppl. a. [analogical after self-ended; cf. self-centred, self-centring.] = self-ended.1698 Norris Pract. Disc. (1707) IV. 114 The Self-ending, Self-centring Man does in a very true..sense idolize himself.
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selfish
selfish, a. (ˈsɛlfɪʃ) Also 7 self(e)-ish, selvish. [f. self n. + -ish1 2. In Hacket's life of Archbishop Williams, Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. §136, the word is said to be of the Presbyterians' ‘own new mint’; it is used in reference to events of the year 1641. Synonyms current in the 17th cent. are...
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prescription
▪ I. prescription1 (prɪˈskrɪpʃən) [a. F. prescription (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), or ad. L. præscriptiōn-em a writing before or in front, a title, introduction; a pretext, pretence; a precept, rule; in law, as in sense 4; n. of action f. præscrībĕre (ppl. stem præscript-) to prescribe.] I. 1. The acti...
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