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Excellencies Excellency Ex"cel*len*cy, n.; pl. Excellencies.
1. Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.
His excellency is over Israel. --Ps. lxviii.
34.
Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency.
--Hooker.
2. A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp.
to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English
colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given
to kings and princes.
Silencing Silence Si"lence, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Silenced; p. pr. & vb.
n. Silencing.]
1. To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to
hush.
Silence that dreadful bell; it frights the isle.
--Shak.
2. To put to rest; to quiet.
This would silence all further opposition.
--Clarendon.
These would have silenced their scruples. --Rogers.
3. To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege
of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of
preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel.
The Rev. Thomas Hooker of Chelmsford, in Essex, was
silenced for nonconformity. --B. Trumbull.
4. To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as,
to silence the batteries of an enemy.
Valencia Valencia Va*len"ci*a, n. [Perhaps fr. Valence in France.]
A kind of woven fabric for waistcoats, having the weft of
wool and the warp of silk or cotton. [Written also
valentia.]
Valenciennes lace Valenciennes lace Va*len`ci*ennes" lace" [F.; -- so called
after the town of Valenciennes.]
A rich kind of lace made at Valenciennes, in France. Each
piece is made throughout, ground and pattern, by the same
person and with the same thread, the pattern being worked in
the net.
Valencies Valency Val"en*cy, n.; pl. Valencies. (Chem.)
(a) See Valence.
(b) A unit of combining power; a so-called bond of affinity.
