Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Circuit or compass.
A desire of preferment, or of honor; a desire of excellence or superiority. It is used in a good sense; as, emulation may spring from a laudable ambition It denotes also an inordinate desire of power, or eminence, often accompanied with illegal means to obtain the object. It is sometimes followed by of; as, a man has an ambition of wit. Milton has used the word in the Latin sense of going about, or attempting; but this sense is hardly legitimate.
Ambitiously to seek after. [Little used.]
1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
One excessively ambitious.
Devoid of ambition.
1. Desirous of power, honor, office, superiority or excellence; aspiring; eager for fame; followed by of before a noun; as ambitious of glory.
2. Showy; adapted to command notice or praise; as, ambitious ornaments.
3. Figuratively, eager to swell or rise higher; as, the ambitious ocean.
1. Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.
2. Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something.
In an ambitious manner; with an eager desire after preferment, or superiority.
In an ambitious manner.
The quality of being ambitious; ambition. Being nearly synonymous with ambition, it is not often used.
The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.
1. The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.
2. A canvassing for votes.
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