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200 | word:
ably
word_type:
adv
expansion:
ably (comparative more ably, superlative most ably)
forms:
form:
more ably
tags:
comparative
form:
most ably
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abeliche, abelyche, abilliche, abliche; equivalent to able + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
ably done, planned, said
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an able manner; with great ability.
senses_topics:
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201 | word:
abortiveness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abortiveness (usually uncountable, plural abortivenesses)
forms:
form:
abortivenesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abortive + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being abortive.
The result or product of being abortive.
senses_topics:
|
202 | word:
abrogative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abrogative (comparative more abrogative, superlative most abrogative)
forms:
form:
more abrogative
tags:
comparative
form:
most abrogative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abrogate + -ive.
senses_examples:
text:
an abrogative law
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tending or designed to abrogate.
senses_topics:
|
203 | word:
abalienate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abalienate (third-person singular simple present abalienates, present participle abalienating, simple past and past participle abalienated)
forms:
form:
abalienates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abalienating
tags:
participle
present
form:
abalienated
tags:
participle
past
form:
abalienated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abaliēnātus, perfect passive participle of abaliēnō (“alienate; remove”); from ab- (“by, from; away”) + aliēnō (“alienate, estrange”); from aliēnus (“foreign, alien”), from alius (“other, another”). Equivalent to ab- + alienate.
senses_examples:
text:
Thereat the holy mother took grief; for, if I died before my profession, what would become of the goodly hereditaments that were to be abalienated to the monastery.
ref:
1861, Anne Manning, The chronicle of Ethelfled, page 153
type:
quotation
text:
In addition, compelling to sell was not necessary either, because the foreigner, led by economic logic and his own interests, would try hard to abalienate the objects and means of work which are not used in production or in some other type of […]
ref:
1994, Yugoslav law, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
[…] serves for nothing else than to abalienate the Infidels from the Christian Church.
ref:
1698, A voyage to the East-Indies, page 43
type:
quotation
text:
National distinction did not, indeed, exist in patriarchal times, but by the formation of the theocracy the other races of men were formally abalienated from Israel, and no doubt their own vices and idolatry justified their exclusion.
ref:
1883, A commentary on the Greek text of the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians, page 165
type:
quotation
text:
The devil and his deceitful angels do so bewitch them, and fill their hearts with vain cogitations, so abalienate their minds, and trouble their memory, that they cannot tell what is said: it is forgotten by that it is spoken.
ref:
1841, Edwin Sandys, The sermons of Edwin Sandys, volume 4, page 300
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make another's that which was once yours; to transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
To estrange in feeling; to cause alienation of.
To to cause loss or perversion of intellect.
senses_topics:
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204 | word:
abligurition
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abligurition (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
PIE word
*h₂epó
Learned borrowing from Late Latin abligurrītiō (“act of devouring; act of spending in feasting”), from abligurriō (“to lick away; (figuratively) to spend or waste indulgently, squander”) + -tiō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs); from ab- (prefix meaning ‘away; away from; from’) + ligurriō, liguriō (“to lick up; to feast or feed upon; to be dainty or fond of luxuries”) (from lingō (“to lick (up)”) + probably -uriō (suffix meaning ‘to desire or wish’)).
senses_examples:
text:
So soon as a rogation for a benison by the concionator, transpired, fourchettes, and all implements for the transportation of prog from the table to oral apertures, were movent and sonorific. Such abligurition; such lycanthropic edacity, lurcation, ingurgitation and gulosity; such omnivorousness and pantophagy; and such a mutation and avolation of comestibles, had never fallen under my vision in any antecedent part of my sublunary entity. Truly, anamnestic of [Lord] Byron’s “dura illia messorum!”
A deliberate use of bombastic language.
ref:
1906, J. E. L. Seneker, “Letter V”, in Thomas Stone, editor, Frontier Experience: Or Epistolary Sesquipedalian Lexiphanicism from the Occident, 102nd anniversary edition, published 2008, page 68
type:
quotation
text:
Deipnosophy, not abligurition, makes the aristologist.
A deliberate use of bombastic language.
ref:
1999, Bonnie Johnson, Wordworks: Exploring Language Play, Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Resources, page 103
type:
quotation
text:
“Your dad says it’s because I remember things better than other people on account of how I pay very close attention and care very much.” / “Why?” / “Because it is important to know things. For an example, I just recently learned that Roman Emperor Vitellius once ate one thousand oysters in one day, which is a very impressive act of abligurition,” he said, using a word he felt sure Katherine wouldn’t know.
ref:
2006, John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, London: Penguin Books, published 2012, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
[W]hen you squander your money on treats and comfort foods, you are engaging in abligurition (excessive spending on food and drink)
ref:
2007, Barbara Ann Kipfer, “abligurition”, in Word Nerd: More Than 17,000 Fascinating Facts about Words, Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, page 3, column 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Prodigal expenditure on food.
senses_topics:
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205 | word:
abrogator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abrogator (plural abrogators)
forms:
form:
abrogators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abrogate + -or.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Agent noun of abrogate; one who abrogates.
senses_topics:
|
206 | word:
ableness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ableness (usually uncountable, plural ablenesses)
forms:
form:
ablenesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abilnes; equivalent to able + -ness.
senses_examples:
text:
She knew how to do things and make things and even her good looks were competent, a straightforward sort of ableness, open and clear-eyed, with a smatter of fading freckles and a dirty-minded smile.
ref:
1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, New York: Scribner, Part 5, Chapter 3, p. 549
type:
quotation
text:
The card's release is presented as part of a broader effort to demonstrate that inclusiveness, and addressing discrimination across race, sex or degrees of ableness isn't just a social marketing good—it's good for business.
ref:
2021 October 26, David Kaplan, “Mastercard's Touch Card Continues Brand's Marketing Efforts to Engage All Consumers—and Their Senses”, in Adweek, New York, N.Y.: Adweek, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-23
type:
quotation
text:
For [Peter] Morriss abilities are the capacities we have which we may use under particular conditions (power in a generic sense). Ablenesses are the abilities when those particular conditions obtain (power in a particular sense).
ref:
1991, Keith Dowding, chapter 4, in Rational Choice and Political Power, Aldershot, Hants: E. Elgar, page 52
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ability of body or mind.
The degree to which one is abled or disabled.
Something one is able to do.
senses_topics:
|
207 | word:
abhorrence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abhorrence (countable and uncountable, plural abhorrences)
forms:
form:
abhorrences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abhorrent + -ence.
senses_examples:
text:
My abhorrence of this fiend cannot be conceived.
ref:
1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 9, in Frankenstein, archived from the original on 2012-04-03
type:
quotation
text:
The recognition of what pollutes evidently reflects deep-seated abhorrences, whose cause and origin are difficult to discover.
ref:
2018, Dr. Philip J. Budd, David Allen Hubbard, Glenn W. Barker, Numbers, volume 5, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
All of them are תובעות abhorrences or abominations, although “adultery and bestiality” are branded as “unclean” (אמט) activities. Because “homosexuality” is classified as one of the “abhorrences,” Milgrom believes the practice was “widespread."
ref:
2022, Sabine Dievenkorn, Shaul Levin, [Re]Gained in Translation I: Bibles, Theologies, and the Politics of Empowerment, page 276
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Extreme aversion or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike or loathing.
An expression of abhorrence, in particular any of the parliamentary addresses dictated towards Charles II.
A person or thing that is loathsome; a detested thing.
senses_topics:
|
208 | word:
abrook
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abrook (third-person singular simple present abrooks, present participle abrooking, simple past and past participle abrooked)
forms:
form:
abrooks
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abrooking
tags:
participle
present
form:
abrooked
tags:
participle
past
form:
abrooked
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + brook (“to endure”). Compare Old English ābrūcan (“to eat”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] / Uneath may she endure the flinty streets, / To tread them with her tender-feeling feet. / Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook / The abject people gazing on thy face / With envious looks, laughing at thy shame, / […]
ref:
1591, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, act 2, scene 4, lines 8–12
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To brook; to endure.
senses_topics:
|
209 | word:
abnormally
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abnormally (comparative more abnormally, superlative most abnormally)
forms:
form:
more abnormally
tags:
comparative
form:
most abnormally
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abnormal + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
Living, as they did, in what appeared to me impenetrable darkness, their eyes were abnormally large and sensitive.
ref:
1895, H. G. Wells, chapter 6, in The Time Machine
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an abnormal manner; in a way that deviates from a standard, norm, or average.
senses_topics:
|
210 | word:
abnormity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abnormity (countable and uncountable, plural abnormities)
forms:
form:
abnormities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abnorm(al) + -ity, from Late Latin abnormitas, from Latin abnormis (“irregular, abnormal”), from ab + norm (“rule, pattern”). See also abnormous.
senses_examples:
text:
Why do critics—some of them—make such short, smart work,—such cheerful, confident despatch, nowadays, of a story with religion in it, as if it were an abnormity,—a thing with sentence of death in itself, like a calf born with two heads,—that needs not their trouble, save to name it as it is?
ref:
1893, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Real Folks
type:
quotation
text:
Abnormity was detected during the flight of the rocket, which blasted off at 7:23 p.m. Sunday from Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern province of Hainan.
ref:
2017, Xinhua News, China says launch of Long March-5 Y2 "unsuccessful"
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of abnormality
A monstrosity
senses_topics:
|
211 | word:
abominably
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abominably (comparative more abominably, superlative most abominably)
forms:
form:
more abominably
tags:
comparative
form:
most abominably
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abominable + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
He lit a fire in the dining-room, and the chimney was damp and smoked abominably, so that when he had fed full on tinned meats he was fain to let the fire go out and to sit in his fur-lined overcoat by the becindered grate, now fast growing cold, and smoke pipe after pipe of gloomy reflection.
ref:
1903, The Pall Mall Magazine, volume 30, page 304
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.
senses_topics:
|
212 | word:
abeam
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abeam (comparative more abeam, superlative most abeam)
forms:
form:
more abeam
tags:
comparative
form:
most abeam
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- (“in the direction of”) + beam (“keel”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] waves striking the ship abeam pushed her always south of their new course, and rolled her, and filled her with water so that bailing must be ceaseless […]
ref:
1968, Ursula K. LeGuin, chapter 2, in A Wizard of Earthsea, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, published 2012, page 36
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On the beam; at a right angle to the centerline or keel of a vessel or aircraft; being at a bearing approximately 090 Degrees or 270 Degrees relative.
Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport
nautical
transport |
213 | word:
abeam
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abeam (comparative more abeam, superlative most abeam)
forms:
form:
more abeam
tags:
comparative
form:
most abeam
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- (“in the direction of”) + beam (“keel”).
senses_examples:
text:
The sound shifted its place markedly, but without coming nearer. It even grew a little more distant right abeam of the lighter, and then ceased again.
ref:
1904, Joseph Conrad, chapter 8, in Nostromo, New York: Harper, page 311
type:
quotation
text:
The attack on the abeam ship, Louisville, killed Commander Cruiser Division Four […]
ref:
2005, William Thomas Generous, Sweet Pea at War: A History of USS Portland, page 178
type:
quotation
text:
The island was directly abeam of us.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
214 | word:
abeam
word_type:
prep
expansion:
abeam
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- (“in the direction of”) + beam (“keel”).
senses_examples:
text:
She came abeam the crippled ship.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alongside.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
215 | word:
abeam
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abeam (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + beam (“to emit beams of light”).
senses_examples:
text:
1876, William Davidson, Sermons on the Parables, Cincinnati: Western Tract Society, Sermon 1, p. 41,
[…] the hearts of the saints [will] be all attention and their faces all abeam for the consolation;
text:
[…] the waiters fly about abeam with good will and on excellent terms with those they serve […]
ref:
1906, Miriam Michelson, chapter 9, in A Yellow Journalist,, New York: D. Appleton, page 199
type:
quotation
text:
[…] since he refused to be intimidated, stage two of their introduction consisted of Sheba sitting round in attitudes of beleaguered desperation while Seeley, his face abeam with adulation, sat determinedly beside her.
ref:
1970, Doreen Tovey, chapter 6, in The New Boy, Chicago: Summersdale, published 2006, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
When we met for another lunch […] he was all abeam with pride as he handed me a newly minted paperback reissue of Wodehouse […]
ref:
2011, Christopher Buckley, “Christopher Hitchens”, in But Enough About You: Essays, New York: Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 227
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Beaming, shining (especially with reference to a person's face or eyes).
senses_topics:
|
216 | word:
abiding
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abiding (comparative more abiding, superlative most abiding)
forms:
form:
more abiding
tags:
comparative
form:
most abiding
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Present participle or participial adjective from abide (verb) + -ing; or, from Middle English participle form of abiden, abyden (“to abide”).
senses_examples:
text:
an abiding belief
type:
example
text:
a deep and abiding hatred of wealth
type:
example
text:
However, one abiding weakness with such data collection is that people’s beliefs about their speech habits may not necessarily tally with reality.
ref:
2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 9
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Continuing or persisting in the same state: lasting, enduring; steadfast.
senses_topics:
|
217 | word:
abiding
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abiding
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Present participle or participial adjective from abide (verb) + -ing; or, from Middle English participle form of abiden, abyden (“to abide”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of abide
senses_topics:
|
218 | word:
abiding
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abiding (plural abidings)
forms:
form:
abidings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abydynge, abidynge, -inge [verbal noun of abiden, abyden (“to abide”)], from Old English abīdung; or, verbal noun from abide (verb) + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The action of one who abides; the state of an abider.
An abode.
senses_topics:
|
219 | word:
encyclopaedia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
encyclopaedia (plural encyclopaedias or encyclopaediae)
forms:
form:
encyclopaedias
tags:
plural
form:
encyclopaediae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin encyclopaedia, variant of earlier encyclopedia, q.v.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of encyclopedia
senses_topics:
|
220 | word:
abscession
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abscession (plural abscessions)
forms:
form:
abscessions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin abscessio (“a separation”); from abscedere. See abscess.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] neither justly excommunicated out of that particular Church, to which eh was orderly joyned, not excommunicating himself by voluntary Schisme, declared abscession, separation, or Apostasie.
ref:
1659, John Gauden, Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Suspiria
type:
quotation
text:
I have seen many in the final stage of long illnesses affected by our disease. For Nature has here wished, as it were, in the manner of a crisis in the outer parts of the body to attempt an "abscession" in the sense of an outflow […]
ref:
1939, The British Journal of Rheumatism: An Independent Review, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
Machine harvest is comparable in cost now to hand harvest and could be better if a suitable abscession material is found.
ref:
1971, Farmer's Digest, volume 35, issue 1, page 86
text:
The abscession being already come to suppuration […]
ref:
1610, Barrough, Physick, volume 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A separating; a removal; a going away.
An abscess.
senses_topics:
|
221 | word:
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.
senses_topics:
|
222 | word:
abnegation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abnegation (countable and uncountable, plural abnegations)
forms:
form:
abnegations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested before 1398. From Middle English abnegacioun, borrowed from Late Latin abnegātiō, from abnegō (“refuse, deny”), from ab (“off”) + negō (“deny; refuse, say no”). Compare French abnégation.
senses_examples:
text:
With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court.
ref:
1558, John Knox, Letter to the Queen Dowager
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A denial; a renunciation; denial of desire or self-interest.
senses_topics:
|
223 | word:
abloom
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abloom (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- (“in”) + bloom (“flower”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding.
senses_topics:
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224 | word:
abloom
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abloom (comparative more abloom, superlative most abloom)
forms:
form:
more abloom
tags:
comparative
form:
most abloom
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- (“in”) + bloom (“flower”).
senses_examples:
text:
[Krazy Kat:] How can you tell spring is here, Offissa Pupp? / [Officer Pupp:] By the flower abloom in yon pot.
ref:
1934 April 17, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Tuesday, comic strip, page 112
type:
quotation
text:
For Santa Claus comes / With reindeer and sleigh / To fill up the stockings on glad Christmas Day. / And there in the library / Stands a great tree / With gifts all abloom, most lovely to see!
ref:
1900 January 24, Gregory Hartswick, “[Untitled]”, in St. Nicholas (magazine), volume 27, number 3, page 274
type:
quotation
text:
Who does not feel the passage of divine dreams over his troubled life when the infinite meadows of heaven are suddenly abloom with light?
ref:
1902, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Under the Trees, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
He was abloom with heat and anxiety. The sweat underneath his arms had turned into an oily slick.
ref:
1998, Tom Wolfe, chapter 15, in A Man in Full
type:
quotation
text:
The Hollywood concept of clean-shaven, square-jawed young men and fragrant young ladies with cheeks abloom does not seem to square with the facts.
ref:
1987, Merrill J. Mattes, The Great Platte River Road, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
When they returned, Jade's cheeks were abloom, her eyes alight with anticipation.
ref:
1997, Ruth Langan, chapter 1, in Jade
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Blooming; covered in flowers.
Having something growing or grown.
Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; exhibiting youth-like beauty.
senses_topics:
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225 | word:
aboon
word_type:
prep
expansion:
aboon
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abone, abowne, from abuven, from Old English abūfan (“above”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Above.
senses_topics:
|
226 | word:
aboon
word_type:
adv
expansion:
aboon (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abone, abowne, from abuven, from Old English abūfan (“above”).
senses_examples:
text:
The ceiling fair that rose aboon.
ref:
1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Above.
senses_topics:
|
227 | word:
aboon
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aboon (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abone, abowne, from abuven, from Old English abūfan (“above”).
senses_examples:
text:
The Sun ſhall change, the Moon to change ſhall ceaſe;
The Gaits to clim-----the Sheep to yield the Fleece,
Ere ought by me be either ſaid or done,
ref:
1730, Allan Ramsay, “[https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Gentle_Shepherd_Ec/Cs9ZAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA22 [Act II, Scene IV]]”, in The Gentle Shepherd: A Scots Paſtoral-Comedy, page 23
type:
quotation
roman:
Shall do thee Wrang, I ſwear by all aboon.
text:
We'll a' meet aboon! We'll a' meet aboon!
Oh what a blithe meeting yon meeting aboon!
ref:
1871, James Ballantine, “We'll A' Meet Aboon”, in Lilias Lee and Other Poems, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 180
type:
quotation
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senses_glosses:
Above.
senses_topics:
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228 | word:
aboon
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aboon (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abone, abowne, from abuven, from Old English abūfan (“above”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Above.
senses_topics:
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229 | word:
freedom of speech
word_type:
noun
expansion:
freedom of speech (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The concept and the term are ancient; Athens’ democratic ideology of free speech (παρρησία (parrhēsía)) is thought to have emerged in the 5th or 6th century B.C.E. The first occurrence of the phrase freedom of speech recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary dates to 1567, and it also appears in the English Bill of Rights, among other works: see the quotations.
senses_examples:
text:
S. Iohn the Baptiste, who died for the lyke liberty and fredome of speache, as S. Quillian, and S. Lamberte did.
ref:
1567, Thomas Stapleton, A Counterblast to M. Hornes Vayne Blaste against M. Fekenham: Wherein is Set Forthe: A Ful Reply to M. Hornes Answer, and to Euery Part therof Made, against the Declaration of my L. Abbat of Westminster, M. Fekenham, Touching, the Othe of the Supremacy. By Perusing vvhereof shall Appeare, besides the Holy Scriptures, as it vvere a Chronicle of the Continual Practise of Christes Churche in Al Ages and Countries, fro[m] the Time of Constantin the Great, vntil our Daies: Prouing the Popes and Bishops Supremacy in Ecclesiastical Causes: And Disprouing the Princes Supremacy in the Same Causes, Leuven: Apud Ioannem Foulerum, →OCLC, book III, chapter xxi, folio 308 (verso)
type:
quotation
text:
That the Freedome of Speech and Debates or Proceedings in Parlyament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Court or Place out of Parlyament.
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1689 December 16, Bill of Rights (1688 chapter 2, 1 William and Mary, Session 2), Legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives
type:
quotation
text:
All Miniſters, therefore, who were Oppreſſors, or intended to be Oppreſſors, have been loud in their Complaints againſt Freedom of Speech, and the Licence of the Preſs; and always reſtrained, or endeavored to reſtrain both, in conſequence of this, they have browbeaten Writers, and puniſhed them violently, and againſt Law, and burnt their Works; by all which, they ſhewed how much Truth alarmed them, and how much they were at Enmity with Truth.
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1720 February 4, John Trenchard; Thomas Gordon, “Of Freedom of Speech, that the Same is Inseparable from Publick Liberty” [letter no. 15], in Collection of Cato's Political Letters in the London Journal …, London: Printed for J. Roberts, OCLC 42689852; republished in A[bel] Boyer, editor, The Political State of Great Britain, volume XXI, London: Printed for the author, February 1721, OCLC 181370424, page 147
text:
The freedom of speech and of the press which are secured by the First Amendment against abridgment by the United States are among the fundamental personal rights and liberties which are secured to all persons by the Fourteenth Amendment against abridgment by a state. The safeguarding of these rights to the ends that men may speak as they think on matters vital to them and that falsehoods may be exposed through the processes of education and discussion is essential to free government. Those who won our independence had confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning and communication of ideas to discover and spread political and economic truth. […] Abridgment of freedom of speech and of the press, however, impairs those opportunities for public education that are essential to effective exercise of the power of correcting error through the processes of popular government.
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1940 April 22, Associate Justice Frank Murphy (Supreme Court of the United States), Thornhill v. Alabama, 310 U.S. 88, page 95
text:
First Amendment rights, applied in light of the special characteristics of the school environment, are available to teachers and students. It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
ref:
1969 February 24, Associate Justice Abe Fortas (Supreme Court of the United States), Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, page 506
text:
Cyberspace may give freedom of speech more muscle than the First Amendment does. It may already have become literally impossible for a government to shut people up.
ref:
1994, Mike Godwin, “Pamphleteering in the Electronic Era: Hacking out a Digitized Proclamation of Rights”, in U.S. News & World Report, volume 116, Washington, D.C.: U.S. News & World Report, Inc., ISSN 0041-5537, OCLC 424029014, page 55; quoted in David L. Green, editor, i-Quote: Brilliance and Banter from the Internet Age, Guildford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59921-150-3, page 113
text:
One question that remains is at what point an individual Net poster has the right to assume prerogatives that have traditionally been only the province of journalists and news-gathering organizations. When the Pentagon Papers landed on the doorstep of The New York Times, the newspaper was able to publish under the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech, and to make a strong argument in court that publication was in the public interest. […] [T]he amplification inherent in the combination of the Net's high-speed communications and the size of the available population has greatly changed the balance of power.
ref:
1997, Wendy M. Grossman, Net.wars, New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
The term free speech, which appears in this book's subtitle as well as in its text, is used more or less interchangeably with freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of expression to refer to all of the expressive rights guaranteed by the forty-five words of the First Amendment, as interpreted by the U.S. courts.
ref:
2003, Mike Godwin, “A New Frontier for Free Speech and Society”, in Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age, revised and updated edition, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, page 2
type:
quotation
text:
“Of course, I know there might be limits to freedom of speech, but overall I don’t think being absorbed by China would be that bad,” said Mr. Hsieh, a poet who works at a cafe in New Taipei City.
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2022 March 1, Amy Qin, Amy Chang Chien, “Watching the War in Ukraine, Taiwanese Draw Lessons in Self-Reliance”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-03-01, Russia-Ukraine War
type:
quotation
text:
[…] For to him that opens himſelf, Men will hardly ſhew themselves averſe, but will (fair) let him go on, and turn their freedom of ſpeech to freedom of thought. And therefore it is a good ſhrewd Proverb of the Spaniard, Tell a lye, and find a Troth; as if there were no way of diſcovery, but by Simulation.
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1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Simulation and Dissimulation”, in The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St Alban. With a Table of the Colours of Good & Evil. Whereunto is Added The Wisdom of the Antients, Enlarged by the Honourable Author Himself; and now More Exactly Published, London: Printed by M[ary] Clark, for Samuel Mearne, in Little Britain, John Martyn, in St. Pauls Church-yard, and Henry Herringman, in the New Exchange, published 1680, →OCLC, page 20
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The right of citizens to speak, or otherwise communicate, without fear of harm or prosecution.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see freedom, speech.
senses_topics:
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230 | word:
abolishment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abolishment (countable and uncountable, plural abolishments)
forms:
form:
abolishments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French abolissement, from aboliss-, stem of some conjugated forms abolir, equivalent to abolish + -ment.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.
senses_topics:
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231 | word:
abeyant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abeyant (comparative more abeyant, superlative most abeyant)
forms:
form:
more abeyant
tags:
comparative
form:
most abeyant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from abeyance + -ant.
senses_examples:
text:
This statute, and that in favour of the heirs general before mentioned, would of themselves, it is submitted, establish that the barony of Slane, was neither a peerage in fee nor a palatine honor. Had it been the former, it would have become abeyant between the heirs general: had it been the latter, it would have been annihilated by the non-possession of the lands.
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1835, Richard Bligh (reporter), “Slane Peerage Case”, in New Reports of Cases Heard in the House of Lords, on Appeals and Writs of Error; and Decided during the Session 1836, volume X, London: Saunders and Benning, law booksellers, (successors to J. Butterworth and Son,) […], published 1838, →OCLC, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
In abeyant intractable conflicts violence is suspended, or "frozen" (i.e., they have gone into remission), usually because a third party is willing and able to guarantee the terms of a negotiated cease-fire—a cease-fire that may also include the broad outlines of a political settlement.
ref:
2005, Chester A[rthur] Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, Pamela R. Aall, “Introduction: Mapping the Nettle Field”, in Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, Pamela Aall, editors, Grasping the Nettle: Analyzing Cases of Intractable Conflict, Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, page 11
type:
quotation
text:
So even where extraordinary circumstances render civilian courts abeyant, the civilian law must be reintroduced as soon as the emergency ends.
ref:
2013, William Nester, “Total War”, in The Age of Lincoln and the Art of American Power, 1848–1876, Lincoln, Neb.: Potomac Books, University of Nebraska Press, part 2 (Civil War, 1861–1865), page 202
type:
quotation
text:
Having placed an abeyant death sentence on Corde's head, he turned his attention to Bose, who, for his part, looked vapid and without a shred of malice or machinatory instinct about him, a soft toy in the great department store of life.
ref:
2013 October, Jonathan L. Howard, “In which there is a Battle and Cabal Makes It Quick”, in Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, page 200
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Being in a state of abeyance; suspended.
senses_topics:
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232 | word:
abovedeck
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abovedeck (comparative more abovedeck, superlative most abovedeck)
forms:
form:
more abovedeck
tags:
comparative
form:
most abovedeck
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From above + deck.
senses_examples:
text:
Dress warmly so that you can stay abovedeck in the fresh air.
ref:
1983, Steven K. Katona, Valerie Rough, David T. Richardson, A Field Guide to the Whales, Porpoises, and Seals of the Gulf of Maine and Eastern Canada, page 20
type:
quotation
text:
Abovedeck the air had been black with wind.
ref:
2004, Courtney Angela Brkic, Stillness: And Other Stories
type:
quotation
text:
I wondered, sir, if you might like to accompany me abovedeck for some fresh air.
ref:
2010, Cheryl Cooper, Come Looking for Me
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
On deck.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
233 | word:
abovedeck
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abovedeck (comparative more abovedeck, superlative most abovedeck)
forms:
form:
more abovedeck
tags:
comparative
form:
most abovedeck
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From above + deck.
senses_examples:
text:
These heating elements allow the gun mount to continue to operate when the abovedeck temperature is as low as 40° C.
ref:
1997, Jim Bomar, Gunner's Mate, page 5-44
type:
quotation
text:
The ship's rocking seemed less noticeable below the water's surface, so the first mate recommended that everyone come out of the abovedeck cabins and staterooms to weather the storm in the lower ballrooms.
ref:
2016, Nessi Monstrata, Lagoona Blue and the Big Sea Scarecation
type:
quotation
text:
She was easily two hundred fifty feet long, with her dark, forbidding abovedeck casement taking up some two-thirds of that length.
ref:
2016, Michael Kilian, Ironclad Alibi
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Located on deck.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
234 | word:
abovedeck
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abovedeck
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From above + deck.
senses_examples:
text:
It's a good idea to plan these jobs in logical steps, working down from abovedeck to the bilge.
ref:
1978, Martin Levin, How to Get from January Through December in Powerboating, page 174
type:
quotation
text:
The brightness from abovedeck made the shadowed interior all the darker.
ref:
2004, Kurt R. A. Giambastiani, From the Heart of the Storm, page 276
type:
quotation
text:
From abovedeck, shouts could be heard, mingling with the sound of running feet.
ref:
2015, Sara Orwig, Tides of Passion
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The area on a boat that is abovedeck.
senses_topics:
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235 | word:
abrogable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abrogable (comparative more abrogable, superlative most abrogable)
forms:
form:
more abrogable
tags:
comparative
form:
most abrogable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abrogō. Equivalent to abrogate + -able.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
capable of being abrogated.
senses_topics:
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236 | word:
abnegator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abnegator (plural abnegators)
forms:
form:
abnegators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin abnegator, from abnegatus. Equivalent to abnegate + -or.
senses_examples:
text:
On the other side, representing a serpentine generation wholy, made of fraud, policies, and practises, men lovers of the world, and haters of truth and godlinesse, fighters against the light, protectors of darkenesse, persecuters of marriage, and patrons of brothelles, abnegators and dispencers against the lawes of God […]
ref:
1605, Edwin Sandys, A Relation of the State of Religion, London: Simon Waterson
type:
quotation
text:
The Catholic is theoretically a Collectivist, a self-abnegator, a Tory, a Conservative, a supporter of Church and State one and undivisible, an obeyer.
ref:
1914, George Bernard Shaw, “Preface for Politicians”, in John Bull’s Other Island, London: Constable, page xix
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who abnegates, denies, or rejects.
senses_topics:
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237 | word:
abovesaid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abovesaid (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From above + said.
senses_examples:
text:
...which being disagreeable to the animal œconomy, is thrust out by nature, into the glands that separate the oyl abovesaid.
ref:
1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 14
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Mentioned or recited before.
senses_topics:
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238 | word:
abhorrent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abhorrent (comparative more abhorrent, superlative most abhorrent)
forms:
form:
more abhorrent
tags:
comparative
form:
most abhorrent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin abhorrēns, abhorrēntis, present active participle of abhorreō (“abhor”). Equivalent to abhor + -ent.
senses_examples:
text:
abhorrent thoughts
type:
example
text:
The persons most abhorrent from blood, and treason, and arbitrary confiscation, might remain silent spectators of this civil war between the vices.
ref:
1803, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
type:
quotation
text:
This legal, and, as it should seem, injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to out stricter principles, was received with a very faint murmur, ...
ref:
1827, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire
type:
quotation
text:
In establishing his ideal state he expressed some opinions utterly abhorrent to our customs and ways of living. He believed, for instance, that all wives should be held in common ... with the result that no one could tell his own children from those of a perfect stranger.
ref:
1990, James Hankins, Plato in the Italian Renaissance
type:
quotation
text:
If Pride, abhorrent as it is, and if Ambition, ...
ref:
1833, Isaac Taylor, Fanaticism
type:
quotation
text:
That, I protest, is a doctrine psychologically impossible and ethically abhorrent.
ref:
1936, Paul E. More, On Being Human
type:
quotation
text:
The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn, abhorrent; in a spotless heart I look for pleasure.
ref:
1822, Richard Clover, Leonidas
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Inconsistent with, or far removed from, something; strongly opposed.
Contrary to something; discordant.
Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing.
Detestable or repugnant.
senses_topics:
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239 | word:
aberrate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
aberrate (third-person singular simple present aberrates, present participle aberrating, simple past and past participle aberrated)
forms:
form:
aberrates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
aberrating
tags:
participle
present
form:
aberrated
tags:
participle
past
form:
aberrated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin aberrātus, perfect passive participle of aberrō (“wander, stray or deviate from”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + errō (“stray”).
senses_examples:
text:
1765, Peter Dollond, letter to James Short dated 7 February, 1765, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 55, London, 1766, p. 55,
[…] the surfaces of the concave lens may be so proportioned as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens, near the axis […]
text:
Such, indeed, were the primitive regulations of the greater number of monastic institutions; but the abominable and luxurious indulgences into which they afterwards aberrated, the page of history amply unfolds.
ref:
1812, John Brady, Clavis Calendaria, volume I, London, page 229
type:
quotation
text:
1839, Thomas De Quincey, “Lake Reminiscences: No. V, Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge” originally published in Tait’s Magazine, August 1839, in David Masson (editor), The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, London: A. & C. Black, 1896, Volume 2, Chapter 5, pp. 340-341,
[…] the barriers, which to them limit the view, and give to it, together with the contraction, all the distinctness and definite outline of limitation, are, in nine cases out of ten, the product of their own defective and aberrating vision, and not real barriers at all.
text:
[…] after all the Governor of a Southern state has got to try to act like he regrets having to aberrate from being a gentleman
ref:
1951, William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun, New York: Vintage, published 1975, act 2, scene 2, pages 173–174
type:
quotation
text:
1893, Bret Harte, Sally Dows, Chapter 6, in Sally Dows and Other Stories, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 104,
He saw them through no aberrating mist of tenderness or expediency—but with the single directness of the man of action.
text:
He and Phœbe had had a senseless quarrel […] and she had left. It was an aberrated fulfillment of her old jesting threat that if he did not behave himself she would leave him.
ref:
1918, Theodore Dreiser, “The Lost Phœbe”, in Free and Other Stories, New York: Boni and Liveright, page 122
type:
quotation
text:
Don’t imagine that there was any sudden and complete renunciation such as overcomes the luckless and often temporarily aberrated victim of a highly emotionalized revival meeting; this would have been, at best, but temporary.
ref:
1934, Archibald Belaney, chapter 1, in Pilgrims of the Wild, London: Lovat Dickson & Thompson, published 1935
type:
quotation
text:
1950, Louis S. London, Sexual Deviations, cited in reviews in Time, 17 April, 1950 (“Medicine: The Abnormal”) and Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, Volume 43, August, 1950, p. 802,
[…] sexually aberrated individuals can be treated most successfully via the method of psycho-analytic psychotherapy.
text:
As these monographs and as these occasional exhibition catalogues on some handful of Canadian Impressionists started to appear, once again, I was surprised (to say it with the utmost respect) that they were aberrated, there was no timeline, there was no continuity.
ref:
2014 December 5, James Adams, “Group of who? A new book paints the fullest picture yet of Canada’s vision of Impressionism”, in The Globe and Mail
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from.
To distort; to cause aberration of.
senses_topics:
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240 | word:
Abraham man
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Abraham man (plural Abraham men)
forms:
form:
Abraham men
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Abraham-men
John Awdely
etymology_text:
Britain pre-1561. From patients claiming, genuinely or not, to be temporarily discharged from the Abraham ward at Bethlem Royal Hospital (also known as Bedlam)—a psychiatric hospital in London, Kingdom of England—for the purpose of begging.
Possibly an allusion to a story in Luke 16, in which the beggar Lazarus ends up in Abraham's bosom.
First attested in The Fraternity of Vagabonds (1561) by John Awdely.
senses_examples:
text:
An Abraham man is he that walketh bare armed, and bare legged, and fayneth hymselfe mad, and caryeth a packe of wool, or a stycke with baken on it, or such lyke toy, and nameth himselfe poore Tom.
ref:
1561, John Awdely, The Fraternitye of Vacabondes
type:
quotation
text:
Of all the mad rascalls (that are of this wing) the Abraham-man is the most phantastick: The fellow (quoth this old Lady of the Lake unto me) that sat halfe naked (at table to day) from the girdle upward, is the best Abraham-man that ever came to my house and the notablest villaine: he sweares he hath bin in bedlam, and will talke frantickly of purpose[…]
ref:
1608, Thomas Dekker, The Bel-Man of London, J. M. Dent & Sons, published 1905, An Abraham-man, pages 98–99
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A mentally ill beggar.
By extension, any beggar who pretends to be ill, physically or mentally, to obtain alms.
senses_topics:
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241 | word:
able-bodied
word_type:
adj
expansion:
able-bodied (comparative more able-bodied, superlative most able-bodied)
forms:
form:
more able-bodied
tags:
comparative
form:
most able-bodied
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From able body + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
A servant determinately idle, leaving his work, or an able-bodied vagrant, roaming the country without means of honest self-support and without seeking employment, was to be brought before the two nearest magistrates.
ref:
1893, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust; fit for service.
Capable of performing all requisite duties as a seaman, specifically in the Royal Navy, a rating between leading and ordinary.
senses_topics:
nautical
transport |
242 | word:
Fabian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Fabian (comparative more Fabian, superlative most Fabian)
forms:
form:
more Fabian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Fabian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Fabiānus (“belonging to Fabius”), derived from Fabius + -ānus.
senses_examples:
text:
Hood complained behind his commander's back to Richmond of Johnston's Fabian strategy.
ref:
1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2004, page 745
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to or reminiscent of Roman general Fabius Maximus, whose tactics against Hannibal during the Second Punic War famously consisted of delaying or avoiding combat, focusing instead on weakening the enemy by cutting off supply lines.
Advocating that social reforms be reached through a series of gradual and moderate stages rather than sudden revolution; specifically, relating to the Fabian Society, a British socialist society advocating reformist socialism.
cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war
government
politics
|
243 | word:
Fabian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Fabian (plural Fabians)
forms:
form:
Fabians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin Fabiānus (“belonging to Fabius”), derived from Fabius + -ānus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Fabian socialist, a gradualist socialist; a member of the Fabian Society.
senses_topics:
government
politics |
244 | word:
Fabian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Fabian
forms:
wikipedia:
Fabian (name)
etymology_text:
From Latin Fabiānus (“belonging to Fabius”), derived from Fabius + -ānus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from Latin.
A surname.
senses_topics:
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245 | word:
multiculturalism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
multiculturalism (countable and uncountable, plural multiculturalisms)
forms:
form:
multiculturalisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
multiculturalism
etymology_text:
From multicultural + -ism.
senses_examples:
text:
The truth is that diversity, a kind of multiculturalism if we want to call it that, is the norm in any society.
ref:
1984, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Something had to replace the threat of communism, and at last a workable substitute is at hand. "Multiculturalism," as the new menace is known, has been denounced in the media recently as the new McCarthyism, the new fundamentalism, even the new totalitarianism – take your choice.
ref:
1991 April 8, Barbara Ehrenreich, “Essay: Teach Diversity – with a Smile”, in Time
type:
quotation
text:
Britain has pursued a policy of multiculturalism - allowing people of different cultures to settle without expecting them to integrate into society.
ref:
2005 August 3, David Davis MP, Daily Telegraph
type:
quotation
text:
Earlier this year he said multiculturalism had “failed”, that immigrants needed to “melt” into French society, and that “we do not want ostentatious prayers in the street in France.”
ref:
2011 April 7, “On a mat and a prayer”, in The Economist
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The characteristics of an organization, society, city etc. which has many different ethnic or national cultures mingling freely; political or social policies which support or encourage such coexistence.
the cultural Marxism conspiracy theory.
senses_topics:
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246 | word:
aborted
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aborted (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abort + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
Spines are aborted branches.
type:
example
text:
The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state.
ref:
1855, Richard Owen, Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Stopped before completion; especially because of problems or danger.
Brought forth prematurely.
Checked in normal development at an early stage.
Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
247 | word:
aborted
word_type:
verb
expansion:
aborted
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abort + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of abort
senses_topics:
|
248 | word:
abrood
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abrood (comparative more abrood, superlative most abrood)
forms:
form:
more abrood
tags:
comparative
form:
most abrood
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abrod, equivalent to a- + brood.
senses_examples:
text:
The word in the original (as St. Hierom tells us from the Hebrew traditions) implies, that the Spirit of God sat abrood upon the whole rude mass, as birds upon their eggs, […]
ref:
1821, George D'Oyly, Hendrik Slatius, Henry Wharton, The life of William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Upon a brood; on a hatch.
Mischief.
senses_topics:
|
249 | word:
abrood
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abrood (comparative more abrood, superlative most abrood)
forms:
form:
more abrood
tags:
comparative
form:
most abrood
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abrod, equivalent to a- + brood.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Upon a brood; hatching eggs.
Mischief.
senses_topics:
|
250 | word:
abash
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abash (third-person singular simple present abashes, present participle abashing, simple past and past participle abashed)
forms:
form:
abashes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abashing
tags:
participle
present
form:
abashed
tags:
participle
past
form:
abashed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Attested from 1303, as Middle English abaisen, abaishen, abashen (“lose one's composure, be upset”), from the later 14th-century also transitive "to make ashamed, to perplex or embarrass"; from Anglo-Norman abaïss, from Middle French abair, abaisser (“lose one's composure, be startled, be stunned”), from Old French esbaïr, (French ébahir), from es- (“utterly”) + baïr (“to astonish”), from Medieval Latin *exbadō, from ex- (“out of”) + bado (“I gape, yawn”), an onomatopoeic word imitating a yawn, see also French badaud (“rubbernecker”).
senses_examples:
text:
The stare seemed to abash Poirot.
ref:
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 129
type:
quotation
text:
[...] as King Uther lay by his queen, he asked her, by the faith she owed to him, whose was the body; then she sore abashed to give answer.
ref:
1485 July 31, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter III, in William Caxton, editor, Le Morte d'Arthur, volume 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.
To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.
senses_topics:
|
251 | word:
abruptness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abruptness (usually uncountable, plural abruptnesses)
forms:
form:
abruptnesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abrupt + -ness.
senses_examples:
text:
So be neither diffuse with damp and slippery words nor blunt the edge of your discourse by abruptness of style. Study in particular the purest period of style, that those who move only to Ciceronian rhythm call you not a Celt.
ref:
1853-6, Thomas Browne, To a friend intending a difficult work
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being abrupt or broken
Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence.
senses_topics:
|
252 | word:
abhorrer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abhorrer (plural abhorrers)
forms:
form:
abhorrers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abhor + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
Be they what they may, the barbarities of the Catholics of those times had their limits: but of this abhorrer of Catholic barbarities, the barbarity has, in respect of the number of intended victims, no limits other than those of time.
ref:
1839, Jeremy Bentham, edited by John Bowring, The works of Jeremy Bentham, now first collected; under the superintendence of his executor, John Bowring, page 450
type:
quotation
text:
The “even be killed” is not comic, for Thoreau the individualist must have found it in theory as difficult to imagine himself dying for others as Thoreau the abhorrer of violence found it difficult to imagine himself killing another individual.
ref:
1948, Joseph Wood Krutch, Henry David Thoreau, page 236
type:
quotation
text:
Hate, detester, abhorrer. Enemy, ennemi. With her tongue curled over her lip, she copied them in her notebook, then made them into sentences.
ref:
1959, Dorothy Sterling, Mary Jane, page 83
type:
quotation
text:
Thus, chiefly through the efforts of this lover of peace and abhorrer of war, the art of maiming and killing became ever more efficient.
ref:
1970, Robert Leckie, Warfare, page 128
type:
quotation
text:
The problem of usage comes in for abhorrer in various ways: There are 63 entries with the root abhor, including 3 abhorrer, 17 abhorrence.
ref:
1999, Guy A. J. Tops et al., Thinking English Grammar: to honour Xavier Dekeyser, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
Pretty much as Lincoln is thus supposed to arise out of the word fleas, so (according to Rapin) do the words Whig and Tory arise out of addresser and abhorrer[…]
ref:
1890, Thomas de Quincey, edited by David Masson, The Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, page 389
type:
quotation
text:
Whether “Petitioner” or “Abhorrer”, his opinion was asked and use of his undistinguished name was requested […]
ref:
1949, Felix Morley, The Power in the People, page 76
type:
quotation
text:
He might be assimilated to a madman, but the honourable Gentleman himself was an abhorrer, and an abhorrer could not reason.
ref:
1966, Robert Gourlay, General Introduction to Statistical Account of Upper Canada, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
The terms petitioners and abhorrers in this context were later superseded by Whig and Tory.
ref:
1999, Guy A. J. Tops et al., Thinking English Grammar: to honour Xavier Dekeyser, page 59
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who abhors.
A nickname given in the early 17ᵗʰ century to signatories of addresses of a petition to reconvene parliament, addressed to Charles II.
senses_topics:
|
253 | word:
abada
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abada (plural abadas)
forms:
form:
abadas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese abada (“female rhinoceros”), from Malay badak (“rhinoceros”).
senses_examples:
text:
It is certain that the unicorn is not to be confounded with the abada, about which they usually dispute; this one may see by the difference of their names, as well as by the difference of their body and parts […]
ref:
1864, William Winwood Reade, Savage Africa, page 373
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The rhinoceros.
A herbivorous mythological creature of the Central African Congo, similar to the unicorn. Its horns are said to be an antidote to poisons, and it has brown fur, two crooked horns and a boar's tail.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences |
254 | word:
abditory
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abditory (plural abditories)
forms:
form:
abditories
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin abditorium, from abdō (“to hide”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A concealed location used for storage or to hide items.
senses_topics:
|
255 | word:
abdest
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abdest (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آبدست (modern Turkish abdest), from Classical Persian آبْدَسْت (ābdast), compound of آب (āb, “water”) and دست (dast, “hand”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Islamic act of washing parts of the body using water for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Qur'an.
senses_topics:
Islam
lifestyle
religion |
256 | word:
rain cats and dogs
word_type:
verb
expansion:
rain cats and dogs (third-person singular simple present rains cats and dogs, present participle raining cats and dogs, simple past and past participle rained cats and dogs)
forms:
form:
rains cats and dogs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
raining cats and dogs
tags:
participle
present
form:
rained cats and dogs
tags:
participle
past
form:
rained cats and dogs
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Unknown, but see examples of early use in Citations.
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:rain cats and dogs.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rain very heavily.
senses_topics:
|
257 | word:
abruption
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abruption (plural abruptions)
forms:
form:
abruptions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
abruption
etymology_text:
From abrupt + -ion. From Latin abruptio, from abrumpo (“to break off”).
senses_examples:
text:
By this abruption posterity lost more instruction than delight.
ref:
1837, Samuel Johnson, The Life of Cowley
type:
quotation
text:
After a startling abruption and a slow recovery, the canonic process is resumed at [7], with a whole slew of redundant entries on the last phrase.
ref:
1996, Richard Taruskin, Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, page 336
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sudden termination or interruption.
A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies.
senses_topics:
|
258 | word:
abroach
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abroach (third-person singular simple present abroaches, present participle abroaching, simple past and past participle abroached)
forms:
form:
abroaches
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abroaching
tags:
participle
present
form:
abroached
tags:
participle
past
form:
abroached
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach.
senses_examples:
text:
on the crosse a pike / Did set again abroach
ref:
1633, George Herbert, The Agonie
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.
senses_topics:
|
259 | word:
abroach
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abroach (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach.
senses_examples:
text:
1709, Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 146, 16 March, 1709, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1754, p. 115,
Jupiter, in the beginning of his reign, finding the world much more innocent than it is in this iron age, poured very plentifully out of the tun that stood at his right hand; but as mankind degenerated, and became unworthy of his blessings, he set abroach the other vessel, that filled the world with pain and poverty […]
text:
[…] hogsheads of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers.
ref:
1820, Walter Scott, chapter 11, in Ivanhoe, volume 3, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, page 285
type:
quotation
text:
1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 6, 20 August, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 1, p. 64,
When a person of high rank is destined for the victim, an emissary is dispatched to set the story abroach at some obscure coffee-house in the city, whence it speedily marches to its head quarters near the court:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.
In a state to be diffused or propagated.
senses_topics:
|
260 | word:
abroach
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abroach (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Tapped; broached.
Astir; moving about.
senses_topics:
|
261 | word:
antidisestablishmentarianism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
antidisestablishmentarianism (usually uncountable, plural antidisestablishmentarianisms)
forms:
form:
antidisestablishmentarianisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From anti- + disestablishmentarian + -ism.
senses_examples:
text:
Jed Rubenfeld, who actually may not have been recycling a Boerne Court- rejected argument into a law review article,⁴⁵⁰ reasoned that RFRA indeed lacked constitutionality, but because of First Amendment antidisestablishmentarianism, and not the reasons offered by the Court.⁴⁵¹
ref:
1998, University of Oklahoma College of Law, American Indian Law Review
type:
quotation
text:
The establishmentarianism of Hatch's alliance-building strategy undermined by the disestablishmentarianism of Wiglesworth's treachery triggers an antidisestablishmentarianism in Hawk — but the negation of Wiglesworth's 'dis' coupled with the counter-negation of Hawk's 'anti' does not simply generate a synthetic affirmation of Hatch's 'establishmentarianism'. Instead, Hawk's antidisestablishmentarianism, like a cancerous wart on the end of the nose, is perched at the fuzzy border separating ontology from oncology, malignity from malignancy.
ref:
2002, Angela Hague, David Lavery (credited as editors, but actually authors of the compiled fictional reviews), Teleparody: predicting/preventing the TV discourse of tomorrow
type:
quotation
text:
As we said yesterday, the case for antidisestablishmentarianism has never been more threadbare.
ref:
2005 April 9, “Crowning nonsense”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A political philosophy opposed to the separation of a religious group (church) and a government (state), especially the belief held by those in 19th-century England opposed to separating the Anglican church from the civil government or to refer to separation of church and state.
senses_topics:
|
262 | word:
abscind
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abscind (third-person singular simple present abscinds, present participle abscinding, simple past and past participle abscinded)
forms:
form:
abscinds
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abscinding
tags:
participle
present
form:
abscinded
tags:
participle
past
form:
abscinded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abscindere, present active infinitive of abscindō (“cut off”), from ab (“from, away from”) + scindō (“cut, rend”).
senses_examples:
text:
Two syllables... abscinded from the rest.
ref:
January 26 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 90
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut off.
senses_topics:
|
263 | word:
abscondence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abscondence (plural abscondences)
forms:
form:
abscondences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abscond + -ence.
senses_examples:
text:
Security as a result became a thing of the past, and as a corollary, abscondences rose dramatically.
ref:
1976, Henry R. Rollin, “The care of the mentally abnormal offender and the protection of the public”, in Journal of Medical Ethics, →DOI
type:
quotation
text:
The staff feared that earlier transfer to unlocked units would increase the abscondence.
ref:
1998, Compulsory treatment for alcohol use disorders, page 315
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of absconding, or illicitly escaping; hiding of a fugitive.
senses_topics:
|
264 | word:
portmanteau word
word_type:
noun
expansion:
portmanteau word (plural portmanteau words)
forms:
form:
portmanteau words
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First used by Lewis Carroll in 1871, based on the concept of two words packed together, like a portmanteau (“a travelling case having two halves joined by a hinge”).
senses_examples:
text:
He found the blend "tomax" in "a collection of gratulatory verses presented by the President and Fellows of Harvard College 1 to the new King, George III," dated 1761. A note by the owner of the volume explains the word as a combination of tomahawk and axe: "It is a portmanteau word, which must have been as clear to the average reader in England of 1761 — as clear to George III himself - as brillig and slithy would have been to us, had not Humpty Dumpty kindly explained them."
ref:
1938, Joane Chaffe Miller, Conversion and Fusion in Modern English: A Concise History of the Scholarly Recognition of These Linguistic Processes
type:
quotation
text:
1. Portmanteau Words and Allomorphy - This paper is primarily concerned with the theoretical implications of what have been called portmanteau words (Hockett, 1947)
ref:
1985, Carlos Piera of Cornell University, “On the Representation of Higher Order Complex Words”, in Selected Papers from the XIIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Chapel Hill, N.C., 24-26 March 1983, page 287
type:
quotation
text:
One reason for the popularity of portmanteau words in naming language hybrids may be the fact that the names themselves embody a type of hybridity.
ref:
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A word which combines the meaning of two words (or, rarely, more than two words), formed by combining the words, usually, but not always, by adjoining the first part of one word and the last part of the other, the adjoining parts often having a common vowel.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
265 | word:
abjurer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abjurer (plural abjurers)
forms:
form:
abjurers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abjure + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
To thys Iames Morden with other moe abiurers, it was enioyned by Bishoppe Smith, for seuen yeares, to visite the church of Lincolne twise a yeare from Amersham.
ref:
1583, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments, 4th edition, London: John Daye, Volume 2, Book 7
type:
quotation
text:
[…] to force him by tedious uncomfortable imprisonments, and extreame penury to turn a practicall Apostate and perjured abjurer of all his former Orthodox loyall Principles […]
ref:
1655, William Prynne, A New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny, London: for the author, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
[N]o man can pretend to be a Believer in Love, who is an abjurer of wine—'tis the Test by which a Lover knows his own Heart
ref:
1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, III.iii
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who abjures.
senses_topics:
|
266 | word:
abactinal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abactinal (comparative more abactinal, superlative most abactinal)
forms:
form:
more abactinal
tags:
comparative
form:
most abactinal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ab- + actinal.
senses_examples:
text:
The so-called mouth is always placed at one end of these poles, and from it radiate the most prominent organs, in consequence of which I have called this side of the body the oral or actinal area, and the opposite side the aboral or abactinal area.
ref:
1857, Louis Agassiz, Contributions to Natural History, volume 4, page 376
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
267 | word:
mouse potato
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mouse potato (plural mouse potatoes)
forms:
form:
mouse potatoes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of mouse + couch potato.
senses_examples:
text:
Lady Miss Kier is a mouse potato. 'I wake up, I go and turn the computer on before I wash my face or brush my teeth. I'll be sitting there in my underwear, and before I know it, four hours have passed. Then I pick up the phone, push some more buttons and the food delivery arrives, and then 16 hours have passed in front of the computer. It leaves you completely drained.'
ref:
1994 July 14, Ruth Shurman, “Me and my Gizmo: No. 8”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The internet, the authors say, affords the average mouse-potato the opportunity to experience a Naipaul-esque enigma of arrival in far-away lands without ever leaving the shores of Trinidad.
ref:
2001 December 7, Aniruddho Sanyal, “The Trini Trinity Is Found On De Line”, in The Times Higher Education Supplement
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who spends excessive amounts of time using a computer.
senses_topics:
|
268 | word:
punkin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
punkin (plural punkins)
forms:
form:
punkins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock[…]
ref:
1911, James Whitcomb Riley, When the Frost is on the Punkin
type:
quotation
text:
There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”
ref:
1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Nonstandard form of pumpkin.
senses_topics:
|
269 | word:
absciss
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absciss (plural abscisses)
forms:
form:
abscisses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abscissa, feminine of abscissus, perfect passive participle of abscindō (“cut asunder”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of abscissa
senses_topics:
|
270 | word:
absciss
word_type:
verb
expansion:
absciss (third-person singular simple present abscisses, present participle abscissing, simple past and past participle abscissed)
forms:
form:
abscisses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abscissing
tags:
participle
present
form:
abscissed
tags:
participle
past
form:
abscissed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Back-formation from abscission.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To cut off by abscission.
To separate (as a leaf from a twig) by abscission.
senses_topics:
|
271 | word:
Abaddon
word_type:
name
expansion:
Abaddon
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the Middle English Abadon, Abbadon, Labadon, Laabadon, from the Late Latin Abaddōn, from the Ancient Greek Ἀβαδδών (Abaddṓn), from the Biblical Hebrew אבדון (ʾăḇaddōn, literally “destruction, abyss”), from אבד (ʾāḇaḏ, “to be lost, to perish”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; Apollyon;
Hell; the bottomless pit; a place of destruction.
senses_topics:
|
272 | word:
absinthate
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absinthate (plural absinthates)
forms:
form:
absinthates
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absinth + -ate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
273 | word:
abduce
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abduce (third-person singular simple present abduces, present participle abducing, simple past and past participle abduced)
forms:
form:
abduces
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abducing
tags:
participle
present
form:
abduced
tags:
participle
past
form:
abduced
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
(1530's) From Latin abdūcō (“lead away”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + dūcō (“lead”).
* See duke, and compare abduct.
senses_examples:
text:
If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate.
ref:
(Can we date this quote?), Sir T. Browne, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To draw; to conduct away; to take away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part; to move a limb out away from the center of the body; abduct.
To draw a conclusion, especially in metanalysis; to deduce.
senses_topics:
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274 | word:
abay
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abay (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abay, a-bay, from Old French abai, aboi, abay (“barking”), from the verb abayer.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Barking or baying of dogs at their prey.
senses_topics:
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275 | word:
abecedary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abecedary (plural abecedaries)
forms:
form:
abecedaries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abscedary, from Medieval Latin abecedārium (“alphabet, ABC primer”), from Late Latin abecedārius (“of the alphabet”), formed from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -ārius. Doublet of abecedarium.
senses_examples:
text:
I finish writing the alphabet on both napkins. There's room for more abecedaries, but […]
ref:
2014 July 18, Caity Weaver, “My 14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday's Endless Appetizers”, in Gawker, archived from the original on 2022-05-16
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The alphabet, written out in a teaching book, or carved on a wall; a primer; abecedarium.
One that teaches or learns the alphabet or the fundamentals of any subject; abecedarian.
senses_topics:
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276 | word:
abecedary
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abecedary (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin abecedārius. Doublet of abecedarius.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Referring to the alphabet; alphabetical; related to or resembling an abecedarius; abecedarian.
senses_topics:
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277 | word:
abasement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abasement (countable and uncountable, plural abasements)
forms:
form:
abasements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abaissement, from Middle French abaissement (“astonishment”). Equivalent to abase + -ment. Compare French abaissement.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low.
The state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.
senses_topics:
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278 | word:
abaca
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abaca (countable and uncountable, plural abacas)
forms:
form:
abacas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Musa textilis
etymology_text:
From Spanish abacá, from Tagalog abaka.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Musa textilis, a species of banana tree native to the Philippines grown for its textile, rope- and papermaking fibre.
The fiber of this plant, used in rope, fibers, and cloth.
senses_topics:
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279 | word:
abscission
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abscission (countable and uncountable, plural abscissions)
forms:
form:
abscissions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
abscission
etymology_text:
From Latin abscissiō, from abscindō (“I cut, I tear”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or process of cutting off.
The state of being cut off.
A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
280 | word:
absentment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absentment (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absent + -ment.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being absent; withdrawal
senses_topics:
|
281 | word:
absinthial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absinthial (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absinth + -ial.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian.
senses_topics:
|
282 | word:
absentness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absentness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absent + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being absent-minded.
senses_topics:
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283 | word:
absistence
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absistence (plural absistences)
forms:
form:
absistences
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absist + -ence.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A standing aloof
senses_topics:
|
284 | word:
absinthic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absinthic (comparative more absinthic, superlative most absinthic)
forms:
form:
more absinthic
tags:
comparative
form:
most absinthic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absinth + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
285 | word:
wares
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wares
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of ware
senses_topics:
|
286 | word:
wares
word_type:
noun
expansion:
wares pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The square was filled with booths, with vendors offering their wares.
type:
example
text:
I call on the Minister to ensure good regulation is applied to moneylenders and so-called independent money advisers, many of whom are former bankers peddling their wares
ref:
2011 October 26, “Report of the Interdepartmental Working Committee on Mortgage Arrears”, in Dáil Éireann
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Goods or services that are for sale.
senses_topics:
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287 | word:
abraid
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abraid (third-person singular simple present abraids, present participle abraiding, simple past and past participle abraided or abraid)
forms:
form:
abraids
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abraiding
tags:
participle
present
form:
abraided
tags:
participle
past
form:
abraided
tags:
past
form:
abraid
tags:
participle
past
form:
abraid
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abraiden, abreiden (“to start up, awake, move, reproach”), from Old English ābreġdan (“to move quickly, vibrate, draw, draw from, remove, unsheath, wrench, pull out, withdraw, take away, draw back, free from, draw up, raise, lift up, start up”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + *bregdaną (“to move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrēḱ-, *bʰrēǵ- (“to shine”), equivalent to a- + braid. Related to Dutch breien (“to knit”), German bretten (“to knit”).
senses_examples:
text:
But from his study he at last abray'd, / Call'd by the hermit old[…]
ref:
1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, l
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wrench (something) out.
To unsheathe a blade, draw a weapon.
To wake up.
To spring, start, make a sudden movement.
To shout out.
To rise in the stomach with nausea.
senses_topics:
|
288 | word:
abraid
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abraid (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abrede. More at abread.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of abread
senses_topics:
|
289 | word:
abatis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abatis (plural abatis or abatises)
forms:
form:
abatis
tags:
plural
form:
abatises
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
abatis
etymology_text:
From French abatis, abattis (“mass of things beaten or cut down”), from abattre. See abate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A means of defense formed by felled trees, or sometimes by bent trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy, and more recently fortified with barbed wire.
In the Middle Ages, an officer of the stables who had the care of measuring out the provender; an avenor.
In coal-mining, walls of cord-wood piled up crosswise to keep the underground roads open so as to secure ventilation.
senses_topics:
|
290 | word:
abord
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abord (plural abords)
forms:
form:
abords
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French abord, from aborder (“to aboard”).
senses_examples:
text:
He entered with an air so immensely conceited and affected, and, at the same Time, so uncommonly bold, that I could scarce stand his Abord […].
ref:
1777, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 77
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of approaching or arriving; approach.
A road, or means of approach.
senses_topics:
|
291 | word:
abord
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abord (third-person singular simple present abords, present participle abording, simple past and past participle aborded)
forms:
form:
abords
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abording
tags:
participle
present
form:
aborded
tags:
participle
past
form:
aborded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Alternative forms.
senses_examples:
text:
Mrs Hurstpierpoint aborded her with a smile.
ref:
1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, hardback edition, Duckworth, page 82
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of aboard
senses_topics:
|
292 | word:
absinthiate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
absinthiate (third-person singular simple present absinthiates, present participle absinthiating, simple past and past participle absinthiated)
forms:
form:
absinthiates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
absinthiating
tags:
participle
present
form:
absinthiated
tags:
participle
past
form:
absinthiated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin absinthium: compare absinthiatus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To impregnate with wormwood.
senses_topics:
|
293 | word:
abbreviator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abbreviator (plural abbreviators)
forms:
form:
abbreviators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who abbreviates or shortens.
One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.
senses_topics:
Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism |
294 | word:
absey-book
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absey-book (plural absey-books)
forms:
form:
absey-books
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
And then comes answer like an Absey book
ref:
c. 1590s, William Shakespeare, King John, act 1, scene 1
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An ABC book; a primer.
senses_topics:
|
295 | word:
absinthism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absinthism (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absinthe + -ism.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinthe.
senses_topics:
|
296 | word:
bpd
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bpd (plural bpd)
forms:
form:
bpd
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
For now, the Dagang refinery processes locally produced crude from the nearby oilfield with the same name. Its crude throughput was steady in 2006 versus 2005 at about 3.5 million tonnes, 70,000 bpd, said the official.
ref:
2007 February 5, Chen Aizhu, “PetroChina plant expands, awaits Russian JV plan”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-09-12, Market News
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of barrels per day.
senses_topics:
|
297 | word:
absist
word_type:
verb
expansion:
absist (third-person singular simple present absists, present participle absisting, simple past and past participle absisted)
forms:
form:
absists
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
absisting
tags:
participle
present
form:
absisted
tags:
participle
past
form:
absisted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin absistere, present active infinitive of absistō (“desist”); from ab (“from, away from”) + sistō (“stand”).
senses_examples:
text:
1603-16, Walter Raleigh, The History of the World.
They promise to absist from their purpose of making a war.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To stand apart from; to leave off; to desist.
senses_topics:
|
298 | word:
absently
word_type:
adv
expansion:
absently (comparative more absently, superlative most absently)
forms:
form:
more absently
tags:
comparative
form:
most absently
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absent + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
When he is in company he will sit absently muttering over a heap of Arabick, or in a Ciceronian attitude, declaim with all the vehemency of eloquence […]
ref:
1773 June, P.L.B., “A Character”, in The Sentimental Magazine, page 179
type:
quotation
text:
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Phase the Fourth, Chapter 34,
[…] his wife, flinging a shawl round her, had come to the outer room and was listening to the man's narrative, her eyes resting absently on the luggage and the drops of rain glistening upon it.
text:
Absently, he picked a dew-wet leaf from the hibiscus shrub, crushed it in his palm, put it in his mouth and came towards her, chewing.
ref:
1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Penguin, published 1992, Part One, Chapter 1, p. 38
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an absent-minded or abstracted manner.
senses_topics:
|
299 | word:
absinthin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absinthin (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin absinthium.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The principal compound found in wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), having a bitter taste: C₁₅H₂₀O₄
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |