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An outlaw; a brigand. No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton. Note: The plural banditti was formerly used as a collective noun. Deerstealers are ever a desperate banditti. Sir W. Scott. (more info) of bandire to proclaim, to banish, to

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An outlaw; a brigand. No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton. Note: The plural banditti was formerly used as a collective noun. Deerstealers are ever a desperate banditti. Sir W. Scott. (more info) of bandire to proclaim, to banish, to proscribe, LL. bandire,

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• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• OUTLAWRY
  1. The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man is deprived of that protection. 2. The state of being an outlaw.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• PLURAL
  Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word. Plural faith, which is too much by one. Shak. Plural number , the number which designates more than one. See Number, n., 8.
• PLURALIST
  A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice. Of the parochial clergy, a large proportion were pluralists. Macaulay.
• BRIGANDAGE
  Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.
• BANDIT
  An outlaw; a brigand. No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton. Note: The plural banditti was formerly used as a collective noun. Deerstealers are ever a desperate banditti. Sir W. Scott. (more info) of bandire to proclaim, to banish, to
• PLURALIZER
  A pluralist.
• PLURALIZE
  1. To make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form. 2. To multiply; to make manifold.
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• PROCLAIM
  1. To make known by public announcement; to give wide publicity to; to publish abroad; to promulgate; to declare; as, to proclaim war or peace. To proclaim liberty to the captives. Isa. lxi. 1. For the apparel oft proclaims the man. Shak.
• SAVAGELY
  In a savage manner.
• PLURALITY
  See PLURALITY (more info) 1. The state of being plural, or consisting of more than one; a number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as, a plurality of worlds; the plurality of a verb.
• PROCLAIMER
  One who proclaims.
• BANISHMENT
  The act of banishing, or the state of being banished. He secured himself by the banishment of his enemies. Johnson. Round the wide world in banishment we roam. Dryden. Syn. -- Expatriation; ostracism; expulsion; proscription; exile; outlawry.
• BRIGANDISH
  Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.
• FIERCE
  fiers, OF. fier, nom. fiers, fierce, savage, cruel, F. fier proud, from L. ferus wild, savage, cruel; perh. akin to E. bear the animal. 1. Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind. His fierce thunder drove us to the
• BRIGANDINE
  A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass. Milton.
• SAVAGE
  belonging to a wood, wild, fr. silva a wood. See Silvan, and cf. 1. Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness. 2. Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage
• SEMISAVAGE
  Half savage.
• REBANISH
  To banish again.
• OVERFIERCE
  Excessively fierce.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.