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100 | word:
abhorrency
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abhorrency (plural abhorrencies)
forms:
form:
abhorrencies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abhorrence + -y.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Aberrancy.
Quality of being abhorrent; feeling of abhorrence.
something that elicits abhorrence; a detestable thing.
senses_topics:
|
101 | word:
abandonedly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abandonedly (comparative more abandonedly, superlative most abandonedly)
forms:
form:
more abandonedly
tags:
comparative
form:
most abandonedly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abandoned + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
In the first days of their love she had been his slave; she had admired him abandonedly.
ref:
1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, Part 4, Chapter 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
With abandon, without restraint.
senses_topics:
|
102 | word:
abietene
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abietene (plural abietenes)
forms:
form:
abietenes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* abietic + -ene
* From Latin abies (“silver fir (tree)”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana).
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
103 | word:
ablet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ablet (plural ablets)
forms:
form:
ablets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French ablet, ablette, a diminutive from Late Latin abula, for albula, diminutive of albus (“white”). Compare abele.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small fresh-water fish (Alburnus alburnus); the bleak.
senses_topics:
|
104 | word:
abdicative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abdicative (comparative more abdicative, superlative most abdicative)
forms:
form:
more abdicative
tags:
comparative
form:
most abdicative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abdicate + -ive.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Causing, or implying, abdication.
senses_topics:
|
105 | word:
abdicative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abdicative (plural abdicatives)
forms:
form:
abdicatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abdicativus.
senses_examples:
text:
The fourth mood is that which brings together directly a particular abdicative from a particular dedicative and a universal abdicative, e.g., Some just thing is honourable, no honourable thing is base, therefore some just thing is not base.
ref:
1987, David Londey, The Logic of Apuleius
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A reasoning from the negative
senses_topics:
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences |
106 | word:
abluvion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abluvion (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin abluvio. See abluent.
senses_examples:
text:
This interval has been greatly extended towards Hadley since the settlement of this country. Several considerable lots have been washed away from the Hadley shore within sixty or seventy years and tracts equally large have been added to the Hatfield shore. It cannot be wondered at that this process of alluvion and abluvion which has gone on ever since the deluge or perhaps more correctly ever since Connecticut river broke down the ancient mound between Mount Tom and Mount Holyoke should produce even greater changes than these.
ref:
1821, Timothy Dwight, Travels in New York and New England, volume II, page 57
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That which is washed off.
senses_topics:
|
107 | word:
ablatitious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ablatitious (comparative more ablatitious, superlative most ablatitious)
forms:
form:
more ablatitious
tags:
comparative
form:
most ablatitious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
the ablatitious force
text:
The whole Operation of the said Example you have in the next page, where you may observe, that for the more certain and easie placing, as well of the Numbers, which constitute the several Divisors, as of those which constitute the Ablatitious Numbers to be subtracted from the several and respective Resolvends […]
ref:
1676, Thomas Binning, A Light to the Art of Gunnery […], pages 86–7
type:
quotation
text:
Now the former of these Causes, the Eccentricity of the Orbit […] Remits us to the Aphelia and Perihelia for an Equation of Time, which answers to the Quantity of that Eccentricity, and is once a Year addititious, (or to be added to the true, that is, the apparent Time,) and once ablatitious, (or to be taken from it.)
ref:
1728, William Whiston, Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Publick Schools at Cambridge […], page 119
type:
quotation
text:
This part of M’s action is termed the ablatitious force, because it tends to diminish the gravity of P towards S; […]
ref:
1834, John Herschel, A Treatise on Astronomy, page 330
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Subtractive or tending to diminish.
senses_topics:
sciences |
108 | word:
abettal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abettal (plural abettals)
forms:
form:
abettals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abet + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
abetment
senses_topics:
|
109 | word:
aborsement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aborsement (usually uncountable, plural aborsements)
forms:
form:
aborsements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abortment; abortion
senses_topics:
|
110 | word:
abligate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abligate (third-person singular simple present abligates, present participle abligating, simple past and past participle abligated)
forms:
form:
abligates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abligating
tags:
participle
present
form:
abligated
tags:
participle
past
form:
abligated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin ab- + ligātus, perfect passive participle of ligāre (“to tie”).
senses_examples:
text:
In order to simulate small intestinal conditions in the cecal pouches, the distal end of a cecal pouch of fourteen chickens, three to four months old, was surgically united to the small intestine and the intestine abligated just posterior to the union […]
ref:
1936 April, C. A. Herrick, “Organ Specificity of the Parasite Eimeria tenella”, in Journal of Parasitology, volume 22, number 2, page 226
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To tie up, especially a body part.
senses_topics:
|
111 | word:
abnet
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abnet (plural abnets)
forms:
form:
abnets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hebrew אבנט (avnet, “girdle, belt”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.
senses_topics:
|
112 | word:
abele
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abele (plural abeles)
forms:
form:
abeles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abelle, albell, aubel, from Old French aubel, aubiel, from Medieval Latin albellus (“white poplar”), diminutive of Latin albus (“white”). Some forms after Middle Dutch abeel, from Old French.
senses_examples:
text:
But I account for my predilection, by the kind of pensive and melancholy peasure I used to feel, when in my childhood and early youth, I walked alone, in a long avenue of arbeal […].
ref:
1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 114
type:
quotation
text:
Six abeles i' the churchyard grow
ref:
1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browing, The Rhyme of the Duchess May, line 5
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The white poplar (Populus alba).
senses_topics:
|
113 | word:
aborsive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aborsive (comparative more aborsive, superlative most aborsive)
forms:
form:
more aborsive
tags:
comparative
form:
most aborsive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Besides, most of these designes were abortive, or aborsive rather, like those untimely miscarriages not honoured with a soul or the shape and lineaments of an infant.
ref:
1639, Thomas Fuller, The historie of the holy warre, page 272
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
abortive from the first.
senses_topics:
|
114 | word:
denotation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
denotation (countable and uncountable, plural denotations)
forms:
form:
denotations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
denotation
etymology_text:
From Late Latin dēnotātiō, from Latin dēnotāre (“to denote, mark out”) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns of action), from dē- (“completely”) + notāre (“to mark”); equivalent to denote + -ation.
senses_examples:
text:
The denotations of the two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" are the same (i.e. both expressions denote the planet Venus), but their connotations are different.
type:
example
text:
Regarding denotation, the terms were generally used to refer to a wide range of language contact varieties and features.
ref:
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes
The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of a signifier such as a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
The intension and extension of a word
Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
semiotics
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
|
115 | word:
abashment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abashment (countable and uncountable, plural abashments)
forms:
form:
abashments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abaisshment, from Middle French abaissement (“astonishment”) alteration of esbaissement, from esbaiss + -ment. Compare French ébahissement. Equivalent to abash + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
And the lorde shall smyte the with madnesse, and blyndnesse & abashment of herte.
ref:
1540, Myles Coverdale, transl., The Byble in Englyshe, London: Thomas Berthelet, Deuteronomy 28[.28]
type:
quotation
text:
On my appearing her Spirits again took the Alarm. She scarce ventured a Glance toward me. I was greatly pained by the Abashment under which I saw she laboured, and I hastened to relieve myself as well as her from the Distress.
ref:
1768, Henry Brooke, chapter 13, in The Fool of Quality, volume 3, Dublin, pages 35–36
type:
quotation
text:
“Did he say he would let you meet some white women if you joined the reds?”
He knew that sex relations between blacks and whites were repulsive to most white men.
“Nawsuh,” he said, simulating abashment.
ref:
1940, Richard Wright, Native Son, London: Jonathan Cape, published 1970, Book 2, p. 185
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Marc, who well knew the pangs and abashments of romantic love, recognized the emotions here as genuine and heartfelt and was encouraged.
ref:
2014, Don Gutteridge, chapter 8, in Death of a Patriot, New York: Simon & Schuster, page 104
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being abashed; embarrassment from shame.
senses_topics:
|
116 | word:
abandonee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abandonee (plural abandonees)
forms:
form:
abandonees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abandon + -ee.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One to whom something is abandoned.
senses_topics:
law |
117 | word:
abdicant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abdicant (comparative more abdicant, superlative most abdicant)
forms:
form:
more abdicant
tags:
comparative
form:
most abdicant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abdicate + -ant.
senses_examples:
text:
monks abdicant of their orders
ref:
1654, Richard Whitlock, Manners of the English
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abdicating; renouncing.
senses_topics:
|
118 | word:
abdicant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abdicant (plural abdicants)
forms:
form:
abdicants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abdicate + -ant.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who abdicates.
senses_topics:
|
119 | word:
abearance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abearance (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abear + -ance.
senses_examples:
text:
The other species of recognizance, with sureties, is tor the good abearance or good behaviour.
ref:
1769, Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Behavior.
senses_topics:
|
120 | word:
abbacy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abbacy (plural abbacies)
forms:
form:
abbacies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abbathie, from Late Latin abbātia, from abbās, abbātis (“abbot”). Doublet of abbey and Opatija.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The dignity, estate, term, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess.
senses_topics:
|
121 | word:
aboriginality
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aboriginality (countable and uncountable, plural aboriginalities)
forms:
form:
aboriginalities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From aboriginal + -ity.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being aboriginal.
The distinctive culture of aboriginal peoples
The spiritual bonds between the aboriginal people and their place of heritage.
senses_topics:
|
122 | word:
aboding
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aboding (plural abodings)
forms:
form:
abodings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a + bode + ing.
senses_examples:
text:
Why suffer you that ill-aboding vermin To breed so near your bosom?
ref:
1625, George Chapman, J. M. R. Margeson, edited by J. M. R. Margeson, The conspiracy and tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron, Manchester University Press, page 127
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A foreboding.
senses_topics:
|
123 | word:
aboding
word_type:
verb
expansion:
aboding
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a + bode + ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of abode
senses_topics:
|
124 | word:
abominableness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abominableness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abominable + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The characteristic of being abominable; odiousness.
senses_topics:
|
125 | word:
abought
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abought
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of aby
senses_topics:
|
126 | word:
abluent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abluent (comparative more abluent, superlative most abluent)
forms:
form:
more abluent
tags:
comparative
form:
most abluent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abluēns, present active participle of abluō (“I wash off or away; cleanse, purify”), from ab (“from, away from”) + lavō (“I wash, cleanse”). See lave.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.
senses_topics:
medicine
pharmacology
sciences |
127 | word:
abluent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abluent (plural abluents)
forms:
form:
abluents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abluēns, present active participle of abluō (“I wash off or away; cleanse, purify”), from ab (“from, away from”) + lavō (“I wash, cleanse”). See lave.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A detergent.
senses_topics:
medicine
pharmacology
sciences |
128 | word:
abhorrible
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abhorrible (comparative more abhorrible, superlative most abhorrible)
forms:
form:
more abhorrible
tags:
comparative
form:
most abhorrible
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abhor + -ible.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Detestable.
senses_topics:
|
129 | word:
abidance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abidance (plural abidances)
forms:
form:
abidances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abiden, from Old English ābīdan (“wait”), from ā + bīdan (“to bide, remain”) + ance.
* abide + -ance.
senses_examples:
text:
No wonder then, though the Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine (though this I confess, is but the bark of the text), driving that trade wherewith none ever thrived, the breaking of promises; wherewith one may for a way fairly spread his train, but he will moult his feathers soon after.
ref:
1840, Thomas Fuller, The history of the holy war, page 262
type:
quotation
text:
A judicious abidance by rules, and holding to the results of experience, are good; but not less so, are a judicious setting aside of rules, and a declining to be bound by incomplete experience.
ref:
1862, Sir Arthur Helps, Organization in daily life: an essay, page 78
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of abiding or continuing; abode; stay; continuance; dwelling.
Adherence; compliance; conformity.
senses_topics:
|
130 | word:
abetter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abetter (plural abetters)
forms:
form:
abetters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abet + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of abettor
senses_topics:
|
131 | word:
Aaron's rod
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Aaron's rod (countable and uncountable, plural Aaron's rods)
forms:
form:
Aaron's rods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Aaron's rod (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
A reference to Numbers 17:8, the Authorized / KJV translation of which is "And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds." (spelling modernized).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of various plants with a tall flowering stem, especially:
Verbascum thapsus, the great mullein, common mullein, or hag-taper.
Any of various plants with a tall flowering stem, especially:
Goldenrod, the Solidago genus of North American plants with yellow flowers.
Any of various plants with a tall flowering stem, especially:
Hylotelephium telephium (syn. Sedum telephium; orpine, livelong, or live-forever).
A rod-shaped molding decorated with an entwined snake, and sometimes leaves, vines, and/or scrolls.
A rod with one serpent twined around it, as used by Aaron (differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two serpents).
senses_topics:
architecture
|
132 | word:
abortment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abortment (plural abortments)
forms:
form:
abortments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abort + -ment.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abortion.
senses_topics:
|
133 | word:
about-sledge
word_type:
noun
expansion:
about-sledge (plural about-sledges)
forms:
form:
about-sledges
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The largest hammer used by smiths.
senses_topics:
|
134 | word:
abortively
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abortively (comparative more abortively, superlative most abortively)
forms:
form:
more abortively
tags:
comparative
form:
most abortively
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abortive + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.
senses_topics:
|
135 | word:
abdominoscopy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abdominoscopy (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abdomino- + -scopy.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease, using an endoscope.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
136 | word:
abearing
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abearing (plural abearings)
forms:
form:
abearings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abear + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Behaviour.
senses_topics:
|
137 | word:
abearing
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abearing
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abear + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of abear
senses_topics:
|
138 | word:
ab-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
ab-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin ab-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo (“off, away”) (English off, of). See Proto-Indo-European *apo-. Doublet of apo- and off-.
senses_examples:
text:
ab- + sorb → absorb
type:
example
text:
ab- + normal → abnormal
type:
example
text:
ab- + axial → abaxial
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
From.
Away from; outside of.
senses_topics:
|
139 | word:
ab-
word_type:
prefix
expansion:
ab-
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation of absolute.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A unit of electromagnetic charge in the centimeter-gram-second system: the abcoulomb.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
140 | word:
abjectly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abjectly (comparative more abjectly, superlative most abjectly)
forms:
form:
more abjectly
tags:
comparative
form:
most abjectly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abjectli (“with great humility”), from abject (“outcast, rejected; wretched; humble, lowly; of poor quality, worthless; menial”) + -li (suffix forming adverbs); analysable as abject + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
I abjectly apologise for the damage I have done.
type:
example
text:
A deceitful man is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He will appear innocent, cheerful, polite, attentive, kind, obliging, and abjectly condescending; but let him once get you into his power and he becomes more ferocious, more cruel, and more destructive than the most savage animals that ever trod in deserts uninhabited by rational beings.
ref:
1806, Thoughts on Deceit, Margate, Kent: Printed by J. Warren, […], →OCLC, pages 15–16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an abject fashion; with great shame; desperately.
senses_topics:
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141 | word:
abb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abb (countable and uncountable, plural abbs)
forms:
form:
abbs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ab, abbe, from Old English āweb, āb, ōweb, from away + web (“warp thread”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of yarn for the warp.
A rough wool from the inferior parts of the fleece, used for the woof or weft.
A filling pick used in weaving.
senses_topics:
|
142 | word:
polysemic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
polysemic (comparative more polysemic, superlative most polysemic)
forms:
form:
more polysemic
tags:
comparative
form:
most polysemic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From polyseme + -ic.
senses_examples:
text:
As a series of polysemic and paradoxical sketches, Jackass does not lend itself to one particular theoretical analysis.
ref:
2007, Sean Brayton, “MTV's Jackass: Transgression, Abjection and the Economy of White Masculinity”, in Journal of Gender Studies, volume 16, page 58
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a number of meanings, interpretations or understandings.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
143 | word:
aberrance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aberrance (countable and uncountable, plural aberrances)
forms:
form:
aberrances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From aberr (“to stray”), from Latin aberrō (“to wander from the way”) + -ance.
senses_examples:
text:
Like Miller, George Lionel married briefly and unsuccessfully, and during the McCarthy era was blacklisted for political aberrance.
ref:
1980 August 16, Duncan Mitchel, “Memoirs of a Survivor”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude.
senses_topics:
|
144 | word:
Pope Julius
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Pope Julius (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown. Presumably named after Pope Julius II, the Warrior Pope.
senses_examples:
text:
Of Pope Julius cardys he ys chefe cardynall.
ref:
1525, John Skelton, Speke, Parrot
type:
quotation
text:
Item the laste day delived unto the kings grace whiche his grace lost at pope July game wt my lady marquess and m Weston xvj cor
ref:
1532 November 30, Privy Purse Expences of King Henry VIII, 30 Novembre 1532
type:
quotation
text:
Pope Julio (if I fail not in the name, and sure I am that there is a game of the cards after his name) was a great and wary player, a great vertue in a man of his profession
ref:
c. 1596, Sir John Harington, A Treatise on Playe, quoted in Nugae antiquae, published 1804
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sixteenth-century gambling card game about which little is known.
senses_topics:
|
145 | word:
abolisher
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abolisher (plural abolishers)
forms:
form:
abolishers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abolish + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] I am not come to bee an abolisher of the lawe.
ref:
1548, Nicholas Udall, transl., The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: Edward Whitchurche, Luke 16
type:
quotation
text:
I would not be thought a Reviver of old Rites and Ceremonies to the Burdening of the People, nor an Abolisher of innocent Customs, which are their Pleasures and Recreations […]
ref:
1725, Henry Bourne, Antiquitates Vulgares: or, The Antiquities of the Common People, Newcastle, Preface, p. x
type:
quotation
text:
Alastors, Austenites, A-test
Abolishers—even the straightest
Of issues looks pretty oblique
When a movement turns into a clique,
ref:
1968, Kingsley Amis, “After Goliath”, in A Look Round the Estate: Poems 1957-1967, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, pages 7-8
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Agent noun of abolish; one who abolishes.
senses_topics:
|
146 | word:
abortional
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abortional (comparative more abortional, superlative most abortional)
forms:
form:
more abortional
tags:
comparative
form:
most abortional
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abortion + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive.
senses_topics:
|
147 | word:
abbreviature
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abbreviature (countable and uncountable, plural abbreviatures)
forms:
form:
abbreviatures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin abbreviātūra, from Late Latin abbreviō (“shorten, abbreviate”). See also abbreviate.
senses_examples:
text:
This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a Christian.
ref:
a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Via Pacis
type:
quotation
text:
The hand of PROVIDENCE writes often by abbreviatures, hieroglyphicks or short characters […]
ref:
1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An abridgment; a compendium; an abstract.
An abbreviated state or form.
A shortened form of a word or phrase, used in place of the whole; an abbreviation.
The process of abbreviating.
senses_topics:
|
148 | word:
abnegative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abnegative (comparative more abnegative, superlative most abnegative)
forms:
form:
more abnegative
tags:
comparative
form:
most abnegative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abnegativus.
senses_examples:
text:
There is rather in their faces a quiet , baffling , negative , and abnegative expression , which certainly is as far from happy content as it is from desperate rebellion
ref:
1872, Sara Jane Lippincott, New Life in New Lands
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Denying; renouncing; negative
senses_topics:
|
149 | word:
Abrahamitic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Abrahamitic (comparative more Abrahamitic, superlative most Abrahamitic)
forms:
form:
more Abrahamitic
tags:
comparative
form:
most Abrahamitic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to the patriarch Abraham.
senses_topics:
|
150 | word:
abjection
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abjection (countable and uncountable, plural abjections)
forms:
form:
abjections
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abjeccioun, from either Middle French abjection or Late Latin abiectiōn-, from Latin abiectus (“cast down”).
* See abject.
senses_examples:
text:
an abjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever
type:
example
text:
The abjection of the king and his realm.
type:
example
text:
The disclosure of tolerance's hidden phobic lining fits in well with queer theory's embrace of the abject as exhorted by Michael Warner, David Halperin, and Lee Edelman. Embracing difference or culturally ascribed abjection with the aim of overcoming or dissipating it would be both naive and ineffective.
ref:
2009 September 10, W. C. Harris, Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture, SUNY Press, page 98
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
Something cast off; garbage.
The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down.
The act of casting off; rejection.
The fact of being marginalized as deviant.
The act of dispersing or casting off spores.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
biology
mycology
natural-sciences |
151 | word:
abalienation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abalienation (countable and uncountable, plural abalienations)
forms:
form:
abalienations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abalienatio. Equivalent to abalienate + -ion.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement; transferring a legal title.
The transfer of property, such as land, goods, or chattels, from one to another.
senses_topics:
law
|
152 | word:
abhominable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abhominable (comparative more abhominable, superlative most abhominable)
forms:
form:
more abhominable
tags:
comparative
form:
most abhominable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in the 1300s, a variant of abominable, influenced by Latin ab + homine (“man”); compare abhominal. The unnecessary addition of h to words was once common; compare abholish (abolish). Abandoned by the 1600s. Compare also abhomination.
senses_examples:
text:
This is abhominable, which he [Don Armado] would call abominable.
ref:
1597, Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act 5, scene I
type:
quotation
text:
[...] your Lordship [is] twice guilty of treachery both in withholding the dominion of Narnia from the said Caspian and in the most abhominable, —don’t forget to spell it with an H, Doctor— bloody, and unnatural murder of your kindly lord and brother King Caspian Ninth of that name.
ref:
1951, w:C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, chapter XIII
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of abominable.
senses_topics:
|
153 | word:
abnormous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abnormous (comparative more abnormous, superlative most abnormous)
forms:
form:
more abnormous
tags:
comparative
form:
most abnormous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abnormis, from ab- + norma (“rule”), + -ous. For more, see normal.
senses_examples:
text:
Sir Toby Matthews was a character equally , if not of a more abnormous cast , than his suspected coadjutor
ref:
1777, Edward Ledwich, Antiquitates Sarisburienses: Or, The History and Antiquities of Old and New
type:
quotation
text:
No branch , except in the abnormous cases , is given off from the common carotid between its origin and bifurcation
ref:
1840, William Edmonds Horner, A Treatise on Special and General Anatomy - Volume 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abnormal; irregular; misshapen.
senses_topics:
|
154 | word:
abolishable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abolishable (comparative more abolishable, superlative most abolishable)
forms:
form:
more abolishable
tags:
comparative
form:
most abolishable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abolish + -able. Compare French abolissable.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of being abolished.
senses_topics:
|
155 | word:
abricock
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abricock (plural abricocks)
forms:
form:
abricocks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
apricot
senses_topics:
|
156 | word:
aband
word_type:
verb
expansion:
aband (third-person singular simple present abands, present participle abanding, simple past and past participle abanded)
forms:
form:
abands
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abanding
tags:
participle
present
form:
abanded
tags:
participle
past
form:
abanded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Clipping of abandon
senses_examples:
text:
Two brethren were their Capitaines, which hight
Hengiſt and Horſus, well approov’d in warre,
And both of them men of renowmed might;
Who making vantage of their civill iarre,
And of thoſe forreiners, which came from farre,
Grew great, and got large portions of land,
That in the Realme ere long they ſtronger arre,
Then they which ſought at firſt their helping hand,
ref:
1590, Edmund Spenser, Fairie Queene, Second Booke, Canto X., page 108
type:
quotation
roman:
And Vortiger enforc’t the kingdome to aband.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To desist in practicing, using, or doing; to renounce.
To desert; to forsake.
senses_topics:
|
157 | word:
abdominous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abdominous (comparative more abdominous, superlative most abdominous)
forms:
form:
more abdominous
tags:
comparative
form:
most abdominous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abdomin- + -ous.
senses_examples:
text:
Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan
ref:
1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a protuberant belly; potbellied.
senses_topics:
|
158 | word:
ablactation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ablactation (countable and uncountable, plural ablactations)
forms:
form:
ablactations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ablactacioun from Late Latin ablactatio, ablactō (“to wean”) from ab (“without”) + lacto (“suckle”), from lac (“milk”); equivalent to ab- + lactation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young animals from their dam.
Inarching.
a tempest
senses_topics:
agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
|
159 | word:
above-cited
word_type:
adj
expansion:
above-cited (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cited before, in the preceding part of a text.
senses_topics:
|
160 | word:
abranchial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abranchial (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + branchial.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lacking gills.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
161 | word:
aboma
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aboma (plural abomas)
forms:
form:
abomas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Sranan Tongo aboma, from Fanti Akan aboma (“large constricting snake”), perhaps via French aboma.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any of the large South American serpents from the genus Boa or related genera.
senses_topics:
|
162 | word:
abox
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abox (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + box (“boxhaul”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Braced aback
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
163 | word:
abox
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abox (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + box (“boxhaul”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Braced aback
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
164 | word:
abraum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abraum (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From German abräumen (“to remove”), from ab (“from”) (Old High German aba (“away”)) + raum (“space”) (Old High German rūm).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.
senses_topics:
|
165 | word:
abbatial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abbatial (comparative more abbatial, superlative most abbatial)
forms:
form:
more abbatial
tags:
comparative
form:
most abbatial
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abbacyal, from Middle French abbatial, from Late Latin abbatialis, from abbatia (“abbey”) + -ialis (“-ial”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to, relating to, or pertaining to an abbey, abbot, or abbess.
senses_topics:
|
166 | word:
aborticide
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aborticide (countable and uncountable, plural aborticides)
forms:
form:
aborticides
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abortion + -cide (“killing; killer”).
senses_examples:
text:
As physician I frequently find it helpful to express some of my views regarding prognosis, aborticide, euthanasia, organ transplant, and similar medical exertion of mine, including that of my well-intentioned fellow-man.
ref:
1974, John Morris Dorsey, Psychology of ethics, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
"From today onwards", he legislated, "a woman's infidelity to her husband shall be a sin tantamount to aborticide, an evil that will engender misery.
ref:
1988, Sarva Daman Singh, Polyandry in Ancient India, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
"Aborticide is the basis of God's judgment on America," he says, "because the blood cries out from the ground."
ref:
1989, Paul DeParrie, The Rescuers, page 42
type:
quotation
text:
Thus we have a clear division between homicide, which falls within the biblical law of persons, and aborticide, which is treated as a tort.
ref:
1998, Lenn Evan Goodman, Judaism, human rights, and human values, page 88
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.
An agent responsible for an abortion (the destruction of a fetus); abortifacient.
senses_topics:
|
167 | word:
abreption
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abreption (plural abreptions)
forms:
form:
abreptions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abreptus, perfect passive participle of abripiō (“snatch away”); from ab (“away”) + rapiō (“snatch”).
senses_examples:
text:
Who now and then are under an error, having failings, imperfections, and shortnesses […] You never find these men are called Sinners; neither are the infirmities of the regenerate, the sincere and upright-hearted called Sins, such as these sudden incursions and abreptions, when their thoughts are snatched away from them, either in praying or hearing.
ref:
1751, Benjamin Whichcote, The Works of the Learned Benjamin Whichcote, D. D., page 135
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A snatching away.
senses_topics:
|
168 | word:
abed
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abed (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abedde, on bedde (“bed”), from Old English bedd (“bed”). Equivalent to a- (“in, on”) + bed.
senses_examples:
text:
Not to be abed after midnight
ref:
c. 1564–1616, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II, iii
type:
quotation
text:
The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.
ref:
1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
type:
quotation
text:
Who can lie peacefully abed, while the darkness holds some secret?
ref:
1948, Alan Paton, chapter 12, in Cry, the Beloved Country, London: Jonathan Cape
type:
quotation
text:
I mean, she's brought a-bed
ref:
c. 1564–1616, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, IV, ii
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.
To childbed
senses_topics:
|
169 | word:
abranchiate
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abranchiate (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in the 19th century.
* a- (“not”) + branchiate (“gills”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Without gills.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
170 | word:
abranchiate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abranchiate (plural abranchiates)
forms:
form:
abranchiates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* First attested in the 19th century.
* a- (“not”) + branchiate (“gills”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An organism that does not have gills.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
171 | word:
abjuration
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abjuration (countable and uncountable, plural abjurations)
forms:
form:
abjurations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested around 1439. From Middle English abjuracioun, from Latin abiūrātiō (“forswearing, abjuration”), from ab (“from, away from”) + iūrō (“swear or take an oath”), from iūs (“law, right, duty”). Compare French abjuration.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A solemn recantation or renunciation on oath; as, an abjuration of heresy.
A repudiation on oath of a religious or political principle.
The act of abjuring.
senses_topics:
|
172 | word:
abrenounce
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abrenounce (third-person singular simple present abrenounces, present participle abrenouncing, simple past and past participle abrenounced)
forms:
form:
abrenounces
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abrenouncing
tags:
participle
present
form:
abrenounced
tags:
participle
past
form:
abrenounced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin abrenunciare, from Latin ab- (“from”) + renuntio (“revoke”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To renounce; to contradict.
senses_topics:
|
173 | word:
abraxas
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abraxas (plural abraxases)
forms:
form:
abraxases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Mistaken spelling of Abrasax.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A transcription of Abrasax.
senses_topics:
Gnosticism
lifestyle
religion |
174 | word:
abit
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abit (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of a bit.
senses_topics:
|
175 | word:
current events
word_type:
noun
expansion:
current events pl (normally plural, singular current event)
forms:
form:
current event
tags:
singular
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Current affairs; those events and issues of interest currently found in the news.
senses_topics:
|
176 | word:
abradant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abradant (plural abradants)
forms:
form:
abradants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abrade + -ant.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.; an abrasive.
senses_topics:
|
177 | word:
abradant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abradant (comparative more abradant, superlative most abradant)
forms:
form:
more abradant
tags:
comparative
form:
most abradant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abrade + -ant.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tending to abrade; causing irritation; abrasive.
senses_topics:
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178 | word:
aboriginally
word_type:
adv
expansion:
aboriginally (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From aboriginal + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] music, like verse, can do rhythm but it is only poetry that can yoke words together in rhyme (sometimes, of course, and aboriginally, at the service of music).
ref:
2006, Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within, New York: Gotham, Part 2, Chapter 2, p. 145
type:
quotation
text:
Xaymaca, as the island was aboriginally known, is situated in the Caribbean Sea […]
ref:
1896, Allan Eric, “Buckra” Land: Two Weeks in Jamaica, Boston, Appendix
type:
quotation
text:
[…] in the New World, where pots were never aboriginally shaped by turning, wheeled vehicles also were absent […]
ref:
1973, Charles F. Hockett, chapter 31, in Man’s Place in Nature,, New York: McGraw-Hill, page 523
type:
quotation
text:
The question is, was the disease [tuberculosis] present aboriginally in the New World, or was it introduced to Native Americans by European explorers?
ref:
1986, Robert L. Blakely, David S. Mathews, “What Price Civilization?”, in Miles Richardson, Malcolm C. Webb, editors, The Burden of Being Civilized: An Anthropological Perspective on the Discontents of Civilization, Athens: University of Georgia Press, page 12
type:
quotation
text:
1987, Kate Irving, What Government Does in the Western Northwest Territories, Yellowknife: Western Constitutional Forum,
All land subject to the claim becomes either Crown land or aboriginally-owned land.
text:
1991, Jim Harding, An Annotated Bibliography of Aboriginal-controlled Justice Programs in Canada, Prairie Justice Research, School of Human Justice, University of Regina, p. 80,
It appears that lack of funding and control led to the demise of this program, but that with further refinement the idea has merit especially within an Aboriginally-controlled justice system.
text:
2002, Bradford W. Morse and Robert K. Groves, “Métis and Non-status Indians and Section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867 in Paul L.A.H. Chartrand (ed.), Who Are Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples? Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, pp. 209-210,
These areas […] relate to the identity of Aboriginally predominant communities.
text:
Though his rage against iniquity is aboriginally simple and childlike, and is certainly not always level-headed, it is never divorced from reason […]
ref:
1920, Greville MacDonald, The Sanity of William Blake, London: George Allen and Unwin, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
There is something aboriginally absurd in the idea of the old gentleman staring wild-eyed at his own legs; and half recalling something familiar about them; as if he were revisiting the landscape of his youth.
ref:
1931, G. K. Chesterton, “Dickens at Christmas”, in Marie Smith, editor, The Spirit of Christmas: Stories, Poems, Essays, New York: Dodd, Mead, published 1985, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
Dried apricots eaten with cake should be soaked and simmered first, eaten with cheese they should be aboriginally dry.
ref:
1978, Iris Murdoch, chapter 3, in The Sea, the Sea, London: Chatto & Windus, pages 181–182
type:
quotation
text:
[…] those travellers who did make the trip [to the Western Isles] returned with stories which made Scotland and the Scots sound as aboriginally exotic as shark-eating Eskimos or man-eating pygmies.
ref:
2005, Bella Bathurst, chapter 5, in The Wreckers, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 152
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
From or in the earliest known times.
In the period before contact with Europeans (especially with reference to peoples subjected to colonization).
By indigenous Canadians (often capitalized in this sense).
To the utmost degree (modifying an adjective).
senses_topics:
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179 | word:
abolitionize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abolitionize (third-person singular simple present abolitionizes, present participle abolitionizing, simple past and past participle abolitionized)
forms:
form:
abolitionizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abolitionizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
abolitionized
tags:
participle
past
form:
abolitionized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abolition + -ize.
senses_examples:
text:
It will abolitionize the world. It will remove all objections but such as spring from negro prejudice.
ref:
1838 June 28, “From the Philanthropist Depository of the Ohio A. S. Society”, in The Emancipator, volume III, number 9, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
The public mind has been naturally excited on the position of the American Tract Society, threatened as it has been for months past by a party of revolutionists, determined to expel its Executive Committee, and abolitionize the institution.
ref:
1858 May 13, New York Observer and Chronicle, volume 36, number 19, page 150
type:
quotation
text:
The question is, will the people, by a constitutional provision, abolitionize the State and thereby legalize the unconstitutional acts of the Administration for the abolition of slavery?
ref:
1865 August 13, “Letter from Galveston”, in The New-Orleans Times, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To imbue with the principles of abolitionism.
senses_topics:
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180 | word:
Abderite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Abderite (plural Abderites)
forms:
form:
Abderites
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Abderita, Abderites, from Ancient Greek Ἀβδηρίτης (Abdērítēs).
senses_examples:
text:
To that end they entered the borders of the Abderites in another part of Thrace, and wasted and spoiled the country […]
ref:
1814, Diodorus, chapter 4, in G. Booth, transl., The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian, volume 2, translation of original in Ancient Greek, page 27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or native of Abdera, in Thrace.
Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.
senses_topics:
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181 | word:
abear
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abear (third-person singular simple present abears, present participle abearing, simple past abore, past participle aborn or aborne)
forms:
form:
abears
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abearing
tags:
participle
present
form:
abore
tags:
past
form:
aborn
tags:
participle
past
form:
aborne
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English aberen, from Old English āberan (“to bear, carry, carry away”), from ā- (“away, out”), a- + beran (“to bear”), from Proto-Germanic *uzberaną (“to bear off, bring forth, produce”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to a- + bear. Cognate with Old High German irberan, Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (usbairan).
senses_examples:
text:
Hunder-cook, indeed! which it's what I never abore yet, and never will abear.
ref:
1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009
type:
quotation
text:
And he seems sweet on Miss Hazel though she can’t abear him, though when I ask her about him she snaps my head off and tells me to mind my own business.
ref:
1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 6, in Lud-in-the-Mist, London: Millennium, published 2000, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
So did the Faerie knight himselfe abeare, / And stouped oft his head from shame to shield […]
ref:
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To put up with; to endure; to bear.
To bear; to carry.
To behave; to comport oneself.
senses_topics:
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182 | word:
abear
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abear (plural abears)
forms:
form:
abears
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English aberen, from Old English āberan (“to bear, carry, carry away”), from ā- (“away, out”), a- + beran (“to bear”), from Proto-Germanic *uzberaną (“to bear off, bring forth, produce”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to a- + bear. Cognate with Old High German irberan, Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (usbairan).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bearing, behavior.
senses_topics:
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183 | word:
aboveboard
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aboveboard (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Facebook, for its part, maintains that the data-collection activity its Research app undertook was aboveboard and not at all duplicitous.
ref:
2019 January 31, Ian Bogost, “Apple’s Empty Grandstanding About Privacy”, in The Atlantic
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of above-board
senses_topics:
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184 | word:
abecedarian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abecedarian (plural abecedarians)
forms:
form:
abecedarians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius). Equivalent to abecedary + -an. Compare abecedary.
senses_examples:
text:
This formal organization is most likely to create obscurity in such elaborate and artificial forms as: palindromes (words, phrases, or verses which read the same backward or forward), abecedarians (poems in which the initial letters of lines or stanzas are arranged to[…])[…].
ref:
1996, Mediaevalia, volume 19, Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies of the State University of New York at Binghamton, page 133
type:
quotation
text:
Abecedarian verses are chanted stichoi/stichera verses in which the first letter of each verse follows an alphabetical order.[…]The Amomos, an abecedarian, is the longest psalm in the Psalter[…].
ref:
2007, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music Collection of the National Library, page 590
type:
quotation
text:
An Abecedarian is any poem constrained by alphabetical order.
ref:
2008, Erich J. Goller, Groovy, page 165
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Someone who is learning the alphabet.
An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning.
Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning.
A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.
senses_topics:
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185 | word:
abecedarian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abecedarian (comparative more abecedarian, superlative most abecedarian)
forms:
form:
more abecedarian
tags:
comparative
form:
most abecedarian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius). Equivalent to abecedary + -an. Compare abecedary.
senses_examples:
text:
The professor [...] had several other translations or feats of antiquarian deciphering to his credit. Indeed, I was extremely fortunate to find him in at the museum, for he planned to fly within the week to Peru where yet another task awaited his abecedarian talents.
ref:
1971, Brian Lumley, Rising with Surtsey
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to someone learning the alphabet or basic studies; elementary; rudimentary.
Pertaining to the alphabet, or several alphabets.
Arranged in an alphabetical manner.
Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.
senses_topics:
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186 | word:
ablegate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ablegate (third-person singular simple present ablegates, present participle ablegating, simple past and past participle ablegated)
forms:
form:
ablegates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ablegating
tags:
participle
present
form:
ablegated
tags:
participle
past
form:
ablegated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French ablégate, from Latin ablēgātus, perfect passive participle of ablēgō (“I send off or away; banish”), from ab (“from, away from”) + lēgō (“I dispatch, send on a commission”). See legate.
senses_examples:
text:
Thou hellish Dog, Depart, or I will amand, ablegate, and send thee to some vast and horrid Desert.
ref:
c. 1660, R. Carpenter, Pragmatical Jesuit 64
type:
quotation
text:
The evil which you imav gine, therefore, is so far from being really felt, that we are now sufferers by the bad policy of our ancestors, in ablegating their poor to till the wilds of America; and maintaining them there at an enormous expence
ref:
1795, Elisa Powell, Elisa Powell, or Trials of sensibility
type:
quotation
text:
Couriers were ablegated from all points of the vicinage, to secure the adjuments of pharmacopolists, chirurgeons, and even of amethodists; but their prescriptions had no consimilitude.
ref:
1870, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant: In the East
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To send abroad.
senses_topics:
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187 | word:
ablegate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ablegate (plural ablegates)
forms:
form:
ablegates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French ablégate, from Latin ablēgātus, perfect passive participle of ablēgō (“I send off or away; banish”), from ab (“from, away from”) + lēgō (“I dispatch, send on a commission”). See legate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.
An elected representative of a Hungarian royal free city, charged to be a speaker at the Diet of Hungary and to express the opinion of the city.
senses_topics:
Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
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188 | word:
false friend
word_type:
noun
expansion:
false friend (plural false friends)
forms:
form:
false friends
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
false friend
etymology_text:
Calque of French faux-ami, from the longer phrase faux amis du traducteur (“false friends of a translator”), first used by Maxime Kœssler and Jules Derocquigny in 1928 in their book Les Faux Amis ou les trahisons du vocabulaire anglais (False Friends, or the Pitfalls of the English Vocabulary).
senses_examples:
text:
A word and its false friend may well be etymologically related: in such cases semantic shifts have made them drift apart.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see false, friend.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
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189 | word:
abreuvoir
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abreuvoir (plural abreuvoirs)
forms:
form:
abreuvoirs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French abreuvoir (“a watering place”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cold water drinking fountain (for people) typically found in a public location; more generally, any fountain or water source (including for animals like birds, horses etc).
The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar.
senses_topics:
business
construction
manufacturing
masonry |
190 | word:
abatement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abatement (countable and uncountable, plural abatements)
forms:
form:
abatements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
abatement
etymology_text:
From Middle English abatement, from Anglo-Norman abatre (“to abate”) (from Old French abatre), + -ment; equivalent to abate + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
The abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression.
The deduction of minor revenues incidental to an operation in calculating the cost of the operation.
The action of a person that abates, or without proper authority enters a residence after the death of the owner and before the heir takes possession.
The reduction of the proceeds of a will, when the debts have not yet been satisfied; the reduction of taxes due.
An amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed; in particular from a tax.
A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon; any figure added to the coat of arms tending to lower the dignity or station of the bearer.
Waste of stuff in preparing to size.
A beating down, a putting down.
A quashing, a judicial defeat, the rendering abortive by law.
Forcible entry of a stranger into an inheritance when the person seised of it dies, and before the heir or devisee can take possession; ouster.
rebatement, real or imaginary marks of disgrace affixed to an escutcheon.
senses_topics:
accounting
business
finance
law
law
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
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191 | word:
abrenunciation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abrenunciation (plural abrenunciations)
forms:
form:
abrenunciations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From either Old French abrenonciation or from Late Latin abrenuntiatio, from Late Latin abrenuntiatiō, from ab + renuntiatiō (“to renounce”).
* See abrenounce.
senses_examples:
text:
an abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed
ref:
1842, Fuller, The Church History of Britain
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Absolute renunciation; repudiation; retraction.
senses_topics:
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192 | word:
abbreviated
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abbreviated (comparative more abbreviated, superlative most abbreviated)
forms:
form:
more abbreviated
tags:
comparative
form:
most abbreviated
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The abbreviated lesson only took fifteen minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Shortened; made briefer.
Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
Scanty, as in clothing.
senses_topics:
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193 | word:
abbreviated
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abbreviated
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of abbreviate
senses_topics:
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194 | word:
abelmosk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abelmosk (countable and uncountable, plural abelmosks)
forms:
form:
abelmosks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
abelmosk
etymology_text:
From New Latin abelmoschus, from Arabic حَبّ الْمِسْك (ḥabb al-misk, “pills of musk”).
senses_examples:
text:
Egyptian Ketmia, with a perfumed or Musk-Seed..., called Abelmosch of Morison.
ref:
1719, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, The Compleat Herbal, volume I, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
Abelmosk grains are the seeds of a plant... indigenous to Central Africa, Arabia, and India.
ref:
1892, William Theodore Brannt, translated by Carl Deite, A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery, page 230
type:
quotation
text:
Abelmosk, Abelmosch, or Abelmusk, the Syrian mallow, or musk okro, a species of hibiscus (H. abelmoschus).
ref:
1846, W. M. Buchanan, A Technological Dictionary, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
The same description fits abelmosk, the Hibiscus abelmoshus, better known to the world as the East Indian dwarf okra plant.
ref:
1992, Richard A. Spears, Language & Civilization, volume I, page 43
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The edible and aromatic seed pods (properly, capsules) of the Abelmoschus moschatus.
The tropical evergreen shrub Abelmoschus moschatus itself.
Other members of the genus Abelmoschus, such as okra.
senses_topics:
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195 | word:
abridger
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abridger (plural abridgers)
forms:
form:
abridgers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abridge + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
I am an abridger. When I tell people, at a party for instance, that I am an abridger, their faces cloud with confusion and I always have to explain. What I do is take the written work of other people and compress it.
ref:
1985, Carol Shields, “Accidents”, in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, published 2004, page 47
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who abridges.
senses_topics:
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196 | word:
abscision
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abscision (countable and uncountable, plural abscisions)
forms:
form:
abscisions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abscisiō.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cutting away.
senses_topics:
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197 | word:
abranchiata
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abranchiata (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + βράγχια (bránkhia, “gills”) + -ata.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An order of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration, usually including Oligochaeta.
Any of a number of other groupings of gill-less animals.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
198 | word:
abandoner
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abandoner (plural abandoners)
forms:
form:
abandoners
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abandon + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
Sin-hating powers, reformers of all vice,
Abandoners of euil and cruell actes,
Cease to pursue with weapons of reuenge,
ref:
1595, Francis Sabie, The Fissher-mans Tale of the Famous Actes, Life and Loue of Cassander a Grecian Knight, London
type:
quotation
roman:
Mine haynous and intollerable fact.
text:
[…] Kate’s been left in the emotional lurch by all sorts of objectifying men, psychic abandoners who range from her husband […] to her final lover […]
ref:
1990, David Foster Wallace, “The Empty Plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress”, in Both Flesh and Not, New York: Little, Brown, published 2012
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who abandons.
senses_topics:
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199 | word:
abray
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abray (third-person singular simple present abrays, present participle abraying, simple past and past participle abrayed)
forms:
form:
abrays
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abraying
tags:
participle
present
form:
abrayed
tags:
participle
past
form:
abrayed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from the preterite abraid, abrayde. More at abraid.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of abraid.
senses_topics:
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