to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc; to banish ostracize lacking in variety; tediously unvarying monotonous meticulous; careful; painstaking conscientious to treat with disdain or contempt, esp. by ignoring snub the violation or profanation of anything sacred or held sacred sacrilegious tending or serving to incite or stir up; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing provocative to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite stimulate to give intellectual or spiritual light to; instruct; impart knowledge to enlightening a person whose political, economic, and social opinions are believed to be determined mainly by concern for property values and conventional respectability bourgeois deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject; wandering off digression incapable of being counted; countless innumerable to make worse or more severe; intensify, as anything evil, disorderly, or troublesome aggravate
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