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n.
Neglect of duty; idleness; indolence.
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Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant.
n.
One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.
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Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty.
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Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.
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The office duty of a trierarch.
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Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.
a.
Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law.
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To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against.
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An officer in London whose duty was to weigh wool.
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Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy.
n.
A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of weighing wool.
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The office or duty of a trustee.
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One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.
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To take upon one's self, or assume, any business, duty, or province.
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Uncustomable; also, not having paid duty or customs.
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The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage.
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Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the /imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.
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A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts.
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Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer.
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