George Washington: First Annual Message to Congress

Glossary

• accession addition
• arduous difficult or demanding
• auspicious favorable
• conciliate to reconcile
• depredations attacks
• effectual effective
• encroachments infringements; advances beyond accepted limits
• exigencies situations that make pressing demands
• expedient appropriate or useful in attaining a particular goal
• facilitated made less difficult
• inducements stimuli that lead one to action
• inviolable secure from being breached or attacked; unassailable
• licentiousness behavior lacking morality
• naturalization grant of citizenship
• pacifick pacifying
• patronage support
• publick credit financial trustworthiness of a government or country
• requisite necessary to a purpose
• sanction show of support
• seminaries institutions of higher education
• superfluous exceeding what is necessary
• temperate moderate