Uxorious

ugz-o'ri-us, a. Submi ively or exce ively fond of a wife. [L. uxorius, pert, to, or fond of, a wife, fr. uxor, wife Skr. vac a, a wife, also willing, 6ubdued, vac, to will.] — Uxo'riously, adv. — Uxo'riousne , n. — Uxoricide, -Sr's ld, n. The murder of a wife by her husband; one who murders his wife. [L. uxor and csedere, to kill; cf. parricide.] bent, po e or, or officer; not occupied with study or reflection; thoughtle . (Law.) Abandoned; having no heir, po e or, claimant, or occupier. [F.; vacans, p. pr. of vacare, -catum, to be empty or unoccupied.] — Wcantly, adv. — Va'cancy, -sT, n. Quality of being vacant; emptine ; freedom from employment; leisure; idlene ; that which is vacant; empty space; vacuity; a space between bodies or things; chasm; gap; unemployed time; interval of leisure; a place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office. _ Va'cate, -kat, v. To make vacant, leave eve. tSrm Xn, Ice 5dd. tone. 6r 667 VACCINATE 647 empty; to annul, make void, make of no authority or validity. — Vaca'tion, n. The act of vacating, making void, or of no force; intermi ion of a stated employment, procedure, or office; stated interval in a round of duties, busine , or study; rest. (Law.) Intermi ion of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next non-term. The intermi ion of the regular studies and exercises of a college or other seminary, when the students have a rece ; the time when a see or other spiritual dignity vacant. [F.; L. vacatio.] — Vac'uum, -u-um, n. Space empty or devoid of all matter or body space from which the air has been exhausted. fL., neut. of vacuus, empty, from vacare.] — Vac'uiBt, n. One who holds to the doctrine of a vacuum in nature. — Vacn'ity, -ku'Y-tY, n. Quality or condition of being vacuous; a state of being unfilled; emptine ; space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only; emptine ; void; vacuum. [F. vacu- L. vacuitas.] — VaCuous, -u-us, a. Empty; void. — Vac'uousne , n.