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Auster [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The south wind.

Auster [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The south wind.

Austere [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. [Latin Austerus.

2. Severe; harsh; rigid; stern; applied to persons; as an austere master; an austere look.

3. Sour; harsh; rough to the taste; applied to things; as austere fruit, or wine.

Austere Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

2. Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.

3. Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.

Austerely [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Severely; rigidly; harshly.

Austerely [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Severely; rigidly; sternly.

Austereness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Severity in manners; harshness; austerity.

2. Roughness in taste.

Austereness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.

2. Severity; strictness; austerity.

Austerities [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Austerity

Austerity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Severity of manners or life; rigor; strictness; harsh discipline. It is particularly applied to the mortifications of a monastic life, which are called austerities.

Austerity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Sourness and harshness to the taste.

2. Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.

3. Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity.

Austerlitz Encyclopedia Britannica

AUSTERLITZ, a small town of Moravia, 12 miles E.S.E. of Brünn, containing a magnificent palace belonging to the prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, and a beautiful church. It has been rendered memorable by the great victory obtained in its vicinity, on the 2d December 1805, by the French under Napoleon, over the united forces of Austria and Russia under their emperors. Population, 3450.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3, p. 102
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