Definition of Ambiteon
Am*bi"tion (&?;), n. [F. ambition, L.
ambitio a going around, especially of candidates for office is Rome,
to solicit votes (hence, desire for office or honor&?; fr. ambire to
go around. See Ambient, Issue.] 1. The
act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of
desire; canvassing. [Obs.]
[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.
Milton.
2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire
for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of
something.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition:
By that sin fell the angels.
Shak.
The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six
thousand more acres.
Burke.
Am*bi"tion, v. t. [Cf. F.
ambitionner.] To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to
covet. [R.]
Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece,
bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
Trumbull.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
AMBITION, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while
living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something. (material copied from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913))
- A desire, as in (1), for another person to achieve these things.
- The purported pathway to a chosen career.
- A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
- A four-player card game of tricks played mainly in North America, Europe, and Japan.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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