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300 | word:
absorptiveness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absorptiveness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absorptive + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
senses_topics:
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301 | word:
absentation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absentation (countable and uncountable, plural absentations)
forms:
form:
absentations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Medieval Latin absentatio, from Latin absento (“to be absent”). Equivalent to absent + -ation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of absenting oneself.
senses_topics:
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302 | word:
absorbition
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absorbition (plural absorbitions)
forms:
form:
absorbitions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[…] empty into this Valley; but where to place that concurrence of Waters or place of its absorbition, there is no authentick decision.
ref:
1912, Thomas Browne, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, volume 1, page 331
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Absorption.
senses_topics:
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303 | word:
absolvatory
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absolvatory (comparative more absolvatory, superlative most absolvatory)
forms:
form:
more absolvatory
tags:
comparative
form:
most absolvatory
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absolve + -atory.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Conferring absolution; absolutory.
senses_topics:
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304 | word:
absinthian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absinthian (comparative more absinthian, superlative most absinthian)
forms:
form:
more absinthian
tags:
comparative
form:
most absinthian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absinth + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
Tempering absinthian bitterness with sweets
ref:
1652, Thomas Randolph, Poems
type:
quotation
text:
The dim cavernous light depressed him, and the fish gaping and staring sluggishly in the tanks of absinthian green […]
ref:
1904, William Henry Rideing, How Tyson Came Home: A Story of England and America, page 70
type:
quotation
text:
The unfortunate dog will, dur- during ten minutes, have had an attack of intoxication and absinthian epilepsy ; but at the end of an hour he will have recovered completely.
ref:
1908, Charles Robert Richet, The Pros and cons of vivisection, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
The skinny shadows of symbolist poets, converts to Catholicism, linger in the absinthian green of the Boulevard trees.
ref:
1978, Thomas Merton, My Argument with the Gestapo: Autobiographical novel, page 227
type:
quotation
text:
… in the dazed course of an absinthian stupor, …
ref:
(?), quoted in the Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry (1990 and 1995)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of the nature of wormwood.
Of or pertaining to absinthe.
senses_topics:
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305 | word:
absolvable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absolvable (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absolve + -able.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
That may be absolved.
senses_topics:
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306 | word:
abnegate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abnegate (third-person singular simple present abnegates, present participle abnegating, simple past and past participle abnegated)
forms:
form:
abnegates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abnegating
tags:
participle
present
form:
abnegated
tags:
participle
past
form:
abnegated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1657.
* Perhaps from Latin abnegō (“to refuse, reject”) from ab (“away from”) + negō (“to deny”),
* Alternatively, perhaps a back-formation from abnegation.
senses_examples:
text:
To compel a state, upon theories of doubtful statutory interpretation, to appear as defendant suitor in its own courts, and to litigate with private parties as to whether it had abnegated its sovereignty of exemption, would be intolerable.
ref:
1898 December 10, “Asbell v. State”, in The Pacific Reporter, volume 55, page 339
type:
quotation
text:
All ancient and modern histories of nations abnegate God.
ref:
1875 January 24, Brownson's Quarterly Review, page 20
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience).
To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure.
senses_topics:
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307 | word:
absentaneous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absentaneous (comparative more absentaneous, superlative most absentaneous)
forms:
form:
more absentaneous
tags:
comparative
form:
most absentaneous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin absentaneus. See absent.
senses_examples:
text:
The unfortunate French captain—who by this time retained not even his nightshirt—was hiding in this forest, breast-deep in a creek, along with three other Protestants whose apparel was no less absentaneous.
ref:
2003 [1942], James Branch Cabell, The First Gentleman of America: A Comedy of Conquest, Wildside Press, page 165
type:
quotation
text:
The absentaneous nature of the job tended to mitigate expectations of single site employment.
ref:
1988, The Industrial Law Journal, Vol. 17, page 254
type:
quotation
text:
Owing to the several springs of Big Data, analytical researchers face other issues such as data which contains absentaneous inscriptions and noisy labels.
ref:
2020, Korhan Cengiz et al., “Recent Emerging Technologies for Intelligent Learning and Analytics in Big Data”, in Multimedia Technologies in the Internet of Things Environment, Springer Nature Singapore, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Galbraith thinks that making human beings ordinary and absentaneous in the development of the industry is as "the age of doubt".
ref:
2020, Mustafa Atilla Arıcıoğlu, Büşra Yiğitol, “Strategic Management in SMEs in Industry 4.0”, in Challenges and Opportunities for SMEs in Industry 4.0, IGI Global, page 206
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to absence.
senses_topics:
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308 | word:
absonous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absonous (comparative more absonous, superlative most absonous)
forms:
form:
more absonous
tags:
comparative
form:
most absonous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin absonus, from ab- (“away”) + sonus (“sound”).
senses_examples:
text:
absonous to our reason
ref:
1665, Joseph Glanville, Scepsis Scientifica
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous.
senses_topics:
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309 | word:
abortifacient
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abortifacient (comparative more abortifacient, superlative most abortifacient)
forms:
form:
more abortifacient
tags:
comparative
form:
most abortifacient
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1875. abortion + -facient (“causing an”), from Latin facere (“to make”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Producing miscarriage.
senses_topics:
medicine
pharmacology
sciences |
310 | word:
abortifacient
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abortifacient (plural abortifacients)
forms:
form:
abortifacients
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1875. abortion + -facient (“causing an”), from Latin facere (“to make”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A drug or an agent that induces an abortion.
senses_topics:
medicine
pharmacology
sciences |
311 | word:
trade wind
word_type:
noun
expansion:
trade wind (plural trade winds)
forms:
form:
trade winds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Compound of trade (“course, path (of running)”, from 14th c.) + wind, because of their consistent linear direction. Associations with transatlantic trade are a later folk etymology.
senses_examples:
text:
They rode the trade winds going west.
type:
example
text:
During the summer months, from November to April, the trade wind is less steady over large parts of the ocean.
ref:
2008, Jimmy Cornell, World Cruising Routes, A&C Black, page 365
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A steady wind that blows from east to west above and below the equator.
senses_topics:
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312 | word:
absque hoc
word_type:
phrase
expansion:
absque hoc
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin absque hoc (literally “without this”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The technical words of denial used in denying what has been alleged.
senses_topics:
law |
313 | word:
aardwolf
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aardwolf (plural aardwolves or aardwolfs)
forms:
form:
aardwolves
tags:
plural
form:
aardwolfs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Afrikaans aardwolf.
senses_examples:
text:
Today the only dog-like hyena is Africa’s termite-eating aardwolf.
ref:
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 108
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A nocturnal, insectivorous mammal, Proteles cristatus, of southern and eastern Africa, related to and resembling the hyena.
senses_topics:
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314 | word:
abaxial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abaxial (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ab- (“away from”) + axial (“axis”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a side that is facing away from the axis or central line, such as the underside of a leaf; or the back of an animal.
Not in the axis. Applied to an embryo placed out of the axis of the seed.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
315 | word:
absolutistic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absolutistic (comparative more absolutistic, superlative most absolutistic)
forms:
form:
more absolutistic
tags:
comparative
form:
most absolutistic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absolute + -istic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of absolutist
senses_topics:
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316 | word:
abstentious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abstentious (comparative more abstentious, superlative most abstentious)
forms:
form:
more abstentious
tags:
comparative
form:
most abstentious
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstention + -ous.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Characterized by abstinence; self-restraint.
senses_topics:
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317 | word:
absinthiated
word_type:
verb
expansion:
absinthiated
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of absinthiate
senses_topics:
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318 | word:
absinthiated
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absinthiated (comparative more absinthiated, superlative most absinthiated)
forms:
form:
more absinthiated
tags:
comparative
form:
most absinthiated
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
absinthiated wine
text:
Bartholin mentions a woman whose milk was become absinthiated, and rendered as bitter as gall, by the too liberal use of wormwood.
ref:
1823, Encyclopaedia Britannica
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Impregnated with wormwood.
senses_topics:
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319 | word:
absorbability
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absorbability (countable and uncountable, plural absorbabilities)
forms:
form:
absorbabilities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absorb + -ability.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state or quality of being absorbable.
senses_topics:
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320 | word:
absolutory
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absolutory (comparative more absolutory, superlative most absolutory)
forms:
form:
more absolutory
tags:
comparative
form:
most absolutory
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin absolūtōrius, from absolvō (“absolve”).
senses_examples:
text:
Finally, in the self-absolutory strategy, a negative past is seen to have produced a negative present.
ref:
1997, Dan P. McAdams, The Stories We Live by: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self, page 107
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Serving to absolve; absolving; giving absolution.
senses_topics:
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321 | word:
absinth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absinth (countable and uncountable, plural absinths)
forms:
form:
absinths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of absinthe
senses_topics:
|
322 | word:
absonant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absonant (comparative more absonant, superlative most absonant)
forms:
form:
more absonant
tags:
comparative
form:
most absonant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ab- + sonant, from Latin sonans (“sound”).
senses_examples:
text:
absonant to nature
ref:
1644-1646, Francis Quarles, “The Mourners Calamity”, in Boanerges and Barnabas—Wine and Oyle for ... afflicted Soules
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Discordant; harsh; contrary; unreasonable.
senses_topics:
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323 | word:
abortionist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abortionist (plural abortionists)
forms:
form:
abortionists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abortion + -ist.
senses_examples:
text:
Mad. Restell, the celebrated Abortionist [is arrested].
ref:
1844 March 26, New-York Daily Tribune
type:
quotation
text:
The quack abortionist, with “a little knowledge,” impudently, remorselessly, and secretly employs his craft for filthy lucre’s sake, perpetrating one crime to conceal another, at which science and charity blush.
ref:
1848 October 7, “Morals and Murder – the Case of Eliza Wilson”, in The Medical Times, volume 18, number 471, London, page 373
type:
quotation
text:
Such a fetus is perfectly viable save for the act of the abortionist.
ref:
1998, J. David Bleich, Bioethical Dilemmas: A Jewish Perspective, volume 1, Hoboken, New Jersey: KTAV Publishing House, page 277
type:
quotation
text:
According to Bray, “there is a difference between taking a retired abortionist and executing him, and killing a practicing abortionist who is regularly killing babies.” The first act is in Bray’s view retributive, the second defensive.
ref:
2003, Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, 3rd edition, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
In 1962, when abortion was still illegal, I published an anonymous interview with Dr. Robert Spencer, a humane abortionist who was known as “The Saint.”
ref:
2005, Paul Krassner, One Hand Jerking: Reports from an Investigative Satirist, page 24
type:
quotation
text:
[…] a gruesome procedure in which the abortionist dismembers a child who could survive outside the womb.
ref:
2009, Dinesh D’Souza, Letters to a Young Conservative, page 191
type:
quotation
text:
Then she asks her to go first to meet the abortionist. Then she neglects to make a reservation at the hotel the abortionist specifies. That almost sinks the arrangement: The abortionist has experience suggesting that hotel will be a safe venue, and suspects he may be set up for a police trap.
ref:
2009–2010, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook 2010, review of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, page 146
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who performs abortions, especially illegally or secretly.
A person who advocates for or supports the legality of abortion.
senses_topics:
|
324 | word:
abolitionism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abolitionism (countable and uncountable, plural abolitionisms)
forms:
form:
abolitionisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
abolitionism
etymology_text:
From abolition + -ism.
senses_examples:
text:
ABOLITIONISM
Prisons and jails have been condemned, at least by some, for as long as they have existed.[…] In the United States, the most profound statement of support for abolitionism is the document Instead of Prisons […] Abolitionism has also given emphasis to didferent strategies for change, ranging from simply abolishing prisons to abolishing the entire criminal justice apparatus, […]
ref:
2002, David Levinson, Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, SAGE, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
Abolitionism is a term that refers to a particular ideological and legal approach to prostitution. The approach has its roots in 19th-century feminism and is still a potent force […] Thus abolitionism arose as a movement against the state regulation of prostitution. The leader of the abolitionist movement was Josephine Butler, […]
ref:
2006 January 1, Melissa Hope Ditmore, Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
Abolitionism is based on the moral conviction that social life should not and, in fact, cannot be regulated effectively by criminal law …. As a social movement committed to the abolition of the prison or even the entire penal system, abolitionism originated in campaigns for prisoners' rights and penal reform.
ref:
1991, Willem de Haan, "Abolitionism and Crime Control", in Kevin Martin Stenson, David Cowell, The Politics of Crime Control, SAGE, page 203
text:
Abolitionism is still a powerful philosophy among contemporary feminists, both in the West and in the developing world.
ref:
2006, Melissa Hope Ditmore, Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 6
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists.
Support for the abolition of prisons.
Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists.
Support for the abolition (banning) of sex work.
Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists.
Support for the abolition (banning) of abortion.
Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists.
Support for the abolition of slavery.
senses_topics:
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325 | word:
above-mentioned
word_type:
adj
expansion:
above-mentioned (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
senses_topics:
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326 | word:
abstersiveness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstersiveness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstersive + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being abstersive.
senses_topics:
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327 | word:
abstinently
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abstinently (comparative more abstinently, superlative most abstinently)
forms:
form:
more abstinently
tags:
comparative
form:
most abstinently
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstinent + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
With abstinence.
senses_topics:
|
328 | word:
absenteeism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absenteeism (countable and uncountable, plural absenteeisms)
forms:
form:
absenteeisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
absenteeism
etymology_text:
From absentee + -ism.
senses_examples:
text:
The value of having in-house medical expertise is that staff with poor attendance records who have difficulty accessing NHS services can receive support from their employer, to help reduce absenteeism brought about by medical conditions.
ref:
2023 December 13, 'Industry Insider', “Delivering a robust timetable”, in RAIL, number 998, page 68
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being absent, especially frequently or without good reason; the practice of an absentee.
The practice of absenting oneself from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
senses_topics:
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329 | word:
absorpt
word_type:
verb
expansion:
absorpt
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin absorptus, perfect passive participle of absorbeō (“absorb”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of absorb
senses_topics:
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330 | word:
absorpt
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absorpt (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin absorptus, perfect passive participle of absorbeō (“absorb”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
absorbed
senses_topics:
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331 | word:
floccinaucinihilipilification
word_type:
noun
expansion:
floccinaucinihilipilification (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin floccus (“a wisp”) + naucum (“a trifle”) + nihilum (“nothing”) + pilus (“a hair”) + -fication.
A jocular coinage, apparently by pupils at Eton College, combining a number of Latin word stems. The word was inspired by a line present in various editions of William Lily's (c. 1468–1522) Latin grammars published around the 17th–19th centuries (including the Eton Latin Grammar), in which some nouns commonly used in the genitive case with some verbs like pendo and facio are listed, which express evaluating something as worthless or as previously mentioned; see the reference.
senses_examples:
text:
I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money.
ref:
1741, William Shenstone, Letters
type:
quotation
text:
There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.
ref:
1970, Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander
type:
quotation
text:
Floccinaucinihilipilification in accounting - does it matter?
ref:
2000, Raymond J. Chambers, Logic, Law, and Ethics
type:
quotation
text:
They must be taken with an air of contempt, a floccinaucinihilipilification of all that can gratify the outward man.
ref:
2006, Sol Steinmetz, The life of language
type:
quotation
text:
Some people with low self-esteem are prone to floccinaucinihilipilification, the habit of deeming everything worthless.
ref:
2009, Judith Orloff, Emotional Freedom
type:
quotation
text:
The quasi statistician would doubtlessly not know how to check this supposition, thus rendering the interpretation of the mean profit as floccinaucinihilipilification.
ref:
2011, Bruce Ratner, Statistical and Machine-Learning Data Mining
type:
quotation
text:
Let me indulge in the floccinaucinihilipilification of EU judges and quote from the book of Amos about them.
ref:
2012 February 21, Jacob Rees-Mogg, parliamentary debates, column 787
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, of having no value or being worthless.
senses_topics:
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332 | word:
abstractional
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abstractional (comparative more abstractional, superlative most abstractional)
forms:
form:
more abstractional
tags:
comparative
form:
most abstractional
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstraction + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to abstraction.
senses_topics:
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333 | word:
abstractitious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abstractitious (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
ABSTRACTITIOUS spirit is that which is drawn by distillation from vegetables, without fermentation
ref:
1788, John Berkenhout, First Lines of the Theory and Practice of Philosophical Chemistry
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obtained from plants by distillation.
senses_topics:
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334 | word:
abstemiousness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstemiousness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstemious + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing, particularly in the use of food and strong drinks.
senses_topics:
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335 | word:
abstinency
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstinency (countable and uncountable, plural abstinencies)
forms:
form:
abstinencies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstinence + -y.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of abstinence
senses_topics:
|
336 | word:
abbess
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abbess (plural abbesses)
forms:
form:
abbesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
abbess
etymology_text:
From Middle English abbesse, from Old French abeesse (French abbesse), from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abbatissa, feminine of Latin abbas, abbatis (“abbot”).
senses_examples:
text:
The abbess was always after the nuns to keep the convent immaculately clean.
type:
example
text:
So an old Abbess for the rattling Rakes, / A tempting dish of human nature makes, / And dresses up a luscious Maid: / I rather should have said, indeed, undresses, / To please a youth's unsanctified caresses.
ref:
1793, John Wolcot, A Poetical, Serious, and Possibly Impertinent, Epistle to the Pope, Ode II, page 33
type:
quotation
text:
"I mean to inform you," answered the Oxonian, with a grin on his face, "that those three nymphs, who have so much dazzled your optics, are three nuns, and the plump female is Mother .... of great notoriety, but generally designated the Abbess of .... Her residence is at no great distance from one of the royal palaces; and she is distinguished for her bold ingenuous line of conduct in the profession which she has chosen to adopt; so much so, indeed, that she eclipses all her competitors in infamy."
ref:
1881, Pierce Egan, chapter 8, in Life in London, page 205
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks.
A woman who runs a brothel; a woman employed by a prostitute to find clients.
senses_topics:
|
337 | word:
connotation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
connotation (plural connotations)
forms:
form:
connotations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
connotation
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Medieval Latin connotātiō, from connotō (“I mark in addition”), from Latin con- (“together, with”) + noto (“I note”); equivalent to connote + -ation.
senses_examples:
text:
The word "advisedly" has a connotation of "wisely", although it denotes merely "intentionally" and "deliberately."
type:
example
text:
The word "happy" has a positive connotation, while "sad" has a negative connotation.
type:
example
text:
The two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" have different connotations but the same denotation (i.e. the planet Venus).
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with denotation.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences |
338 | word:
aboral
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aboral (comparative more aboral, superlative most aboral)
forms:
form:
more aboral
tags:
comparative
form:
most aboral
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ab- (“away from”) + oral (“the mouth”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
339 | word:
absorbedly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
absorbedly (comparative more absorbedly, superlative most absorbedly)
forms:
form:
more absorbedly
tags:
comparative
form:
most absorbedly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absorbed + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
Michael O’Shea continued absorbedly gazing on the picture, till the welcome smell of a tumbler of Mr. Hoolagan’s whisky suddenly restored him to comparative serenity.
ref:
1841, R. B. Peake, “The Bequeathed Heart”, in The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 62, 1841 part 2, p. 36
type:
quotation
text:
Fanny, red-cheeked and bright-eyed from her recent mental struggles, listened interestedly, then intently, then absorbedly.
ref:
1917, Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, pages 65–66
type:
quotation
text:
Carey could see her expression. It was the face of one who was deeply and absorbedly interested.
ref:
1943, Mary Norton, chapter 8, in The Magic Bed-Knob, New York: Hyperion
type:
quotation
text:
Treslove was no Finkler. He could not lose his heart to more than one woman at a time. He loved too absorbedly for that. But he always knew when he was about to be thrown over and was quick to make provision, where he could, to love absorbedly again.
ref:
2010, Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question, New York: Bloomsbury, Part One, Chapter Four, I, p. 86
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.
senses_topics:
|
340 | word:
abactor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abactor (plural abactors)
forms:
form:
abactors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin abactor (“cattle rustler”), from abigō (“drive away”); from ab (“from, away from”) + agō (“drive”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] not only from straying, but, as in time of warr, from invaders and abactors […]
ref:
1659, H. Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon the Books of the Psalms
type:
quotation
text:
But yesterday, / it was her husband / Who’d lost his life in the fight / As he beat the abactors back, / Who tried to seize their cattle.
ref:
1992, Okkūr Mācāttiyar, translated by K.G. Seshadri, “Purananuru 279”, in Indian Literature, volume 35, number 149, page 27
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler.
senses_topics:
law |
341 | word:
abjure
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abjure (third-person singular simple present abjures, present participle abjuring, simple past and past participle abjured)
forms:
form:
abjures
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abjuring
tags:
participle
present
form:
abjured
tags:
participle
past
form:
abjured
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abjuren, from Latin abiūrō (“deny upon oath”) (possibly via Middle French abjurer), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + iūro (“swear or take an oath”), from iūs (“law, right, duty”).
senses_examples:
text:
to abjure allegiance to a prince
type:
example
text:
to abjure the realm (to swear to abandon it forever)
type:
example
text:
adore then the terrestrial influences, and abjure Mahomet.
ref:
1786, William Beckford, Vathek; an Arabian Tale
type:
quotation
text:
to abjure errors
type:
example
text:
But this rough magic I here abjure [...]
ref:
1610, Shakespeare, The Tempest, act 5 scene 1
type:
quotation
text:
Except during the season in town, she spends her year in golfing, either at St Magnus or Pau, for, like all good Americans, she has long since abjured her native soil.
ref:
1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow.
To cause one to renounce or recant.
To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim.
To abstain from; to avoid; to shun.
senses_topics:
|
342 | word:
abstrusion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstrusion (plural abstrusions)
forms:
form:
abstrusions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin abstrusio. See abstruse.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of thrusting away.
senses_topics:
|
343 | word:
absterse
word_type:
verb
expansion:
absterse (third-person singular simple present absterses, present participle abstersing, simple past and past participle abstersed)
forms:
form:
absterses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abstersing
tags:
participle
present
form:
abstersed
tags:
participle
past
form:
abstersed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English absterse, from Latin abstersus, perfect passive participle of abstergeō (“wipe off, wipe away”); formed from abs- + tergeō (“wipe”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
senses_topics:
|
344 | word:
absumption
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absumption (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin absumptionem. Compare absume.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Destruction or disintegration, especially a gradual one; wasting away.
senses_topics:
|
345 | word:
abstractedness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstractedness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstracted + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being abstracted; abstract character.
senses_topics:
|
346 | word:
abstringe
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abstringe (third-person singular simple present abstringes, present participle abstringing, simple past and past participle abstringed)
forms:
form:
abstringes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abstringing
tags:
participle
present
form:
abstringed
tags:
participle
past
form:
abstringed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin abstringō, from ab- (“away”) + stringō (“I bind, I tie”).
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:abstringe.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To unbind; to loosen.
senses_topics:
|
347 | word:
abstractiveness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstractiveness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstractive + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The property of being abstractive.
senses_topics:
|
348 | word:
abrogation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abrogation (countable and uncountable, plural abrogations)
forms:
form:
abrogations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1535. From Middle French abrogation, from Latin abrogātiō (“repealed”), from abrogo, from ab (“from”) + rogo (“ask, inquire”).
senses_examples:
text:
[…] I consider the sudden and violent abrogation of the office of Master in Chancery, by the new Constitution, as a __ premature act; inasmuch as I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years.
ref:
1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, quoted in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, published 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, page 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of abrogating.
A repeal by authority; abolition.
The act of abrogating.
The blocking of a molecular process or function.
senses_topics:
|
349 | word:
abstrusely
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abstrusely (comparative more abstrusely, superlative most abstrusely)
forms:
form:
more abstrusely
tags:
comparative
form:
most abstrusely
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstruse + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an abstruse manner.
senses_topics:
|
350 | word:
abruptly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abruptly (comparative more abruptly, superlative most abruptly)
forms:
form:
more abruptly
tags:
comparative
form:
most abruptly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abrupt + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
The professor stopped her lecture abruptly when she noticed someone fall off their seat.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly; precipitously.
senses_topics:
|
351 | word:
absorptivity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absorptivity (plural absorptivities)
forms:
form:
absorptivities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absorptive + -ity.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being absorptive; absorptiveness.
The fraction of radiation absorbed by a surface to the total radiation incident on the surface.
The constant a in the Beer's law relation A = abc, where A is the absorbance, b the path length, and c the concentration of solution. Also known as absorptive power. Formerly known as absorbency index; absorption constant; extinction coefficient.
senses_topics:
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
|
352 | word:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
English pneumono-
English ultra-
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)
Proto-Italic *-jōs
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin mīcroscopiumlbor.
Italian microscopiobor.
English microscope
English -ic
English microscopic
English silico-
English volcano
English coniosis
English pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Coined by Everett K Smith, President of the National Puzzlers' League, at their convention in 1935 as a deliberately long word. From English pneumono- (“lung”) + English ultra- (“beyond”) + English microscopic + silico- + volcano + English coniosis (“dust”), as an extension of the medical term pneumonoconiosis.
senses_examples:
text:
Call it miner's asthma, silicosis, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, coal workers' pneumoconiosis, or black lung—they are all dust diseases with the same symptoms.
ref:
1980 March, Lorin E. Kerr, “Black Lung”, in Journal of Public Health Policy, volume 1, number 1, →JSTOR, page 50
type:
quotation
text:
I say that it must be the silica dust
That we breathed through our mouths and our noses
That brought pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
ref:
1998 August 27, Smokey, “Lament for a Lung Disease”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>
type:
quotation
text:
It's either pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, or a bad cough.
ref:
2002 December 18, Pod, “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”, in alt.fan.scarecrow (Usenet), message-ID <iHSL9.2091$h43.295898@stones>
type:
quotation
text:
I still can't watch House M.D. and not have my mind wonder[…] Even I can fear of having Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis after watching it.
ref:
2011 April 28, Kurt D. Stradtman, Am I the Person My Mother Warned Me About?: A Four-year College Experience ... Only the Good Parts, Xlibris, →LCCN, page 90
type:
quotation
text:
Regarding the lack of funding and attention do you agree that there should be parity of esteem between mental conditions such as body dysmorphia and physical conditions such as pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
ref:
2017 July 31, Michael Bryan, quotee, “Boy, 16, uses 'longest word' in Parliament”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2017-08-03
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A disease of the lungs, allegedly caused by inhaling microscopic silicate particles originating from the eruption of a volcano.
senses_topics:
|
353 | word:
abstorted
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abstorted
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstort.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of abstort
senses_topics:
|
354 | word:
abstorted
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abstorted (comparative more abstorted, superlative most abstorted)
forms:
form:
more abstorted
tags:
comparative
form:
most abstorted
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstort.
senses_examples:
text:
by adopting a pure normal regimen, which strikes at the root of all quackery and causes it to die a sudden and abstorted death.
ref:
1850, American Vegetarian & Health Journal
type:
quotation
text:
[I]f coming years have in store for me any such affliction as time seems to have left on the abstorted brain of the Republican council[…]
ref:
1886 May 2, “Raked Fore and Aft”, in St. Paul Daily Globe, Saint Paul, Minnesota, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Wrested away.
senses_topics:
|
355 | word:
absurdness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absurdness (countable and uncountable, plural absurdnesses)
forms:
form:
absurdnesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absurd + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being absurd; absurdity.
senses_topics:
|
356 | word:
absis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absis (plural absides)
forms:
form:
absides
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of apsis
senses_topics:
|
357 | word:
abduct
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abduct (third-person singular simple present abducts, present participle abducting, simple past and past participle abducted)
forms:
form:
abducts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abducting
tags:
participle
present
form:
abducted
tags:
participle
past
form:
abducted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abductus, perfect passive participle of abduco (“to lead away”), from ab (“away”) + duco (“to lead”).
* (physiology): Back-formation from abduction.
senses_examples:
text:
to abduct children
type:
example
text:
I was abducted by aliens.
type:
example
text:
That same night he had by force abducted the president and the secretary of the club, and had taken them, much against their will upon a voyage in the wonderful air-ship, the “Albatross,” which he had constructed.
ref:
1904, Jules Verne, chapter 16, in The Master of the World, archived from the original on 2012-02-23
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap.
To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
358 | word:
abstrusity
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstrusity (countable and uncountable, plural abstrusities)
forms:
form:
abstrusities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstruse + -ity.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abstruseness; that which is abstruse.
senses_topics:
|
359 | word:
abuseful
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abuseful (comparative more abuseful, superlative most abuseful)
forms:
form:
more abuseful
tags:
comparative
form:
most abuseful
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abuse + -ful.
senses_examples:
text:
He scurrilously reviles the King and Parliament by the abuseful names of Hereticks and Schiamaticks
ref:
1693, Thomas Barlow, The genuine remains of that learned prelate Dr. Thomas Barlow
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Full of abuse; abusive.
senses_topics:
|
360 | word:
abrase
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abrase (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abrāsus, perfect passive participle of abrādō (“abrade”), from ab (“from, away from”) + rādō (“scrape”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rubbed smooth or blank.
senses_topics:
|
361 | word:
abrase
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abrase (third-person singular simple present abrases, present participle abrasing, simple past and past participle abrased)
forms:
form:
abrases
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abrasing
tags:
participle
present
form:
abrased
tags:
participle
past
form:
abrased
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abrāsus, perfect passive participle of abrādō (“abrade”), from ab (“from, away from”) + rādō (“scrape”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wear down; rub clean; smoothen; abrade.
senses_topics:
|
362 | word:
aam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aam (plural aams)
forms:
form:
aams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dutch aam, from Latin ama, a variant of hama, from Ancient Greek ἄμη (ámē, “bucket”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Dutch and German measure of liquids, used in England for Rhine wine, varying in different cities, being in Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, in Antwerp 36½, and in Hamburg 38¼.
senses_topics:
|
363 | word:
abstracter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstracter (plural abstracters)
forms:
form:
abstracters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstract + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
an abstractor of title
type:
example
text:
a title abstractor
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who abstracts, or makes an abstract, as in records or documents.
Someone that finds and summarizes information for legal or insurance work.
An accounting clerk who records payroll deductions.
senses_topics:
|
364 | word:
abstracter
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abstracter
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstract + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
Absurdity, which perhaps may signifie more with some Apprehensions, than an abstracter way of reasoning : It is this, That upon this Supposition it would follow, chat if God himself should impose any Command upon a Creature, […]
ref:
1698, John Norris, Treatises upon several subjects: viz.: Reason and religion, or, the grounds and measures of devotion ; reflections upon the conduct of human life ..., page 316
type:
quotation
text:
[…] bleaching, which nicely captures the partial effacement of a morpheme's semantic features, the stripping away of some of its precise content so it can be used in an abstracter, grammatical-hardware-like way.
ref:
1991, James Matisoff, quoted in Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Bernd Heine, Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers, John Benjamins Publishing, page 384
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
comparative form of abstract: more abstract
senses_topics:
|
365 | word:
abusable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abusable (comparative more abusable, superlative most abusable)
forms:
form:
more abusable
tags:
comparative
form:
most abusable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abuse + -able.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of being abused.
senses_topics:
|
366 | word:
abstractively
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abstractively (comparative more abstractively, superlative most abstractively)
forms:
form:
more abstractively
tags:
comparative
form:
most abstractively
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstractive + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an abstract manner; in the abstract.
senses_topics:
|
367 | word:
abstainer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstainer (plural abstainers)
forms:
form:
abstainers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English absteyner, equivalent to abstain + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
To one of my very nervous patients, who was an abstainer, whose fancy was fixed on his mother, and who repeatedly dreamed of climbing stairs accompanied by his mother, I once remarked that moderate masturbation would be less harmful to him than enforced abstinence.
ref:
1920, Sigmund Freud, chapter V, in M. D. Eder, transl., Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners, New York: The James A. McCann Company
type:
quotation
text:
He was a total abstainer and a nonsmoker, had no recreations except a daily hour in the gymnasium, and had taken a vow of celibacy, believing marriage and the care of a family to be incompatible with a twenty-four-hour-a-day devotion to duty.
ref:
1949, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Nineteen Eighty-Four
type:
quotation
text:
'Never himself touches a drop of the stuff, you understand. Having been an abstainer since the age of seven or something. A clerky figure even as a child.'
ref:
1990, William Trevor, “Family Sins”, in The Collected Stories, New York: Viking, published 1992, page 1105
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Agent noun of abstain; one who abstains; especially, one who abstains from something, such as the use of alcohol or drugs, or one who abstains for religious reasons; one who practices self-denial.
senses_topics:
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368 | word:
acacin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acacin (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acacia + -in.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Gum arabic.
senses_topics:
|
369 | word:
absume
word_type:
verb
expansion:
absume (third-person singular simple present absumes, present participle absuming, simple past and past participle absumed)
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form:
absumes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
absuming
tags:
participle
present
form:
absumed
tags:
participle
past
form:
absumed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin absūmō (“diminish”); formed from ab (“from, away from”) + sūmō (“take”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To consume gradually; to waste away.
senses_topics:
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370 | word:
absterge
word_type:
verb
expansion:
absterge (third-person singular simple present absterges, present participle absterging, simple past and past participle absterged)
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form:
absterges
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
absterging
tags:
participle
present
form:
absterged
tags:
participle
past
form:
absterged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French and Middle French absterger or from Medieval Latin abstergēre, present active infinitive of abstergeō (“wipe off or away”); formed from Latin abs- + tergeō (“to wipe off”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To make clean by wiping; to wipe away.
senses_topics:
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371 | word:
absoluteness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absoluteness (usually uncountable, plural absolutenesses)
forms:
form:
absolutenesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absolute + -ness.
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text:
the absoluteness of his sovereignty, the absoluteness of his convictions
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The fact of being finished or perfected; completeness.
The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope.
Absolute authority, unlimited power; absolutism, despotism.
The fact of being without qualifications or conditions; certainty, unconditionality.
Independent autonomy.
senses_topics:
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372 | word:
academial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
academial (comparative more academial, superlative most academial)
forms:
form:
more academial
tags:
comparative
form:
most academial
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
academic
senses_topics:
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373 | word:
abstersion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstersion (countable and uncountable, plural abstersions)
forms:
form:
abstersions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abstersioun, from either Old French or Medieval Latin abstertion, from Latin abstersus, past participle of abstergēo (“I wipe off or away”).
senses_examples:
text:
Waverley ... was offered the patriarchal refreshment of a bath for the feet ... He was not, indeed, so luxuriously attended upon this occasion as the heroic travellers in the Odyssey; the task of ablution and abstersion being performed, not by a beautiful damsel, trained To chafe the limb, and pour the fragrant oil, but by a smoke-dried skinny old Highland woman, who did not seem to think herself much honoured by the duty imposed upon her...
ref:
1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.
senses_topics:
|
374 | word:
abstruseness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstruseness (countable and uncountable, plural abstrusenesses)
forms:
form:
abstrusenesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstruse + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The property of being abstruse; abstrusity.
senses_topics:
|
375 | word:
abutter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abutter (plural abutters)
forms:
form:
abutters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abut + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
the abutters on a street or a river
type:
example
text:
But said corporation shall not acquire title to any land, nor enter upon any street, until all damages to the owners of land and abutters on any part of a street occupied, or to be occupied, by its structure have been paid or secured[…]
ref:
1886, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME transactions, volume 7
type:
quotation
text:
2015 April 23, James Kinsella writing in The Enterprise, Heritage Hearing Boils Over
Residents continually brought up the aerial park, which had been quickly approved by the committee a year earlier after Heritage failed to notify abutters about the proposal. And Mr. Collins continually banged his gavel to cut them off.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who, or that which, abuts, specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate.
senses_topics:
|
376 | word:
abstractness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstractness (countable and uncountable, plural abstractnesses)
forms:
form:
abstractnesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstract + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being abstract.
senses_topics:
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377 | word:
abstractly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abstractly (comparative more abstractly, superlative most abstractly)
forms:
form:
more abstractly
tags:
comparative
form:
most abstractly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abstractly; equivalent to abstract + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
Bernard Clark and Ethel were seated side by side on a costly sofa gazing abstractly at the parting guest.
ref:
1919, Daisy Ashford, chapter 5, in The Young Visiters
type:
quotation
text:
matter abstractly considered
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an abstract way or manner
separately; absolutely
senses_topics:
|
378 | word:
abstersive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abstersive (comparative more abstersive, superlative most abstersive)
forms:
form:
more abstersive
tags:
comparative
form:
most abstersive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French abstersif, from Latin abstersus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Cleansing; purging; abstergent.
senses_topics:
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379 | word:
abstersive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstersive (plural abstersives)
forms:
form:
abstersives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle French abstersif, from Latin abstersus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Something cleansing; detergent; abstergent.
senses_topics:
|
380 | word:
abeyance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abeyance (countable and uncountable, plural abeyances)
forms:
form:
abeyances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1528. From Anglo-Norman abeiance (“legal expectation”), from Old French abeance (“desire”) from abeër (“to gape at, aspire after”), abaer, abair (“to desire”), from a (“to”) + baër (“to gape”), bair (“yawn”), from Medieval Latin batō (“to yawn”).
senses_examples:
text:
The proceeds of the estate shall be held in abeyance in an escrow account until the minor reaches age twenty-one.
type:
example
text:
Yet sometimes the fee may be in abeyance, that is (as the word signifies) in expectation, remembrance, and contemplation in law; there being no person in esse, in whom it can vest and abide […]
ref:
1765, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England
type:
quotation
text:
Note: Under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 all territorial claims are held under abeyance in the interest of international co-operation for scientific purposes.
ref:
1985 [1967], John Bartholomew & Son Limited, “Antarctica”, in The Times Atlas of the World, 7th comprehensive edition, Times Books Limited, plate 123
type:
quotation
text:
Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance.
ref:
2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 376
type:
quotation
text:
[...] Prosser was instrumental in the decision in 2010 to recommence publication of an annual health and safety report, following a period when it had fallen into abeyance.
ref:
2020 July 29, Ian Prosser discusses with Paul Stephen, “Rail needs robust and strategic plans”, in Rail, page 40
type:
quotation
text:
The palace had previously that the duke’s military appointments were in abeyance after he stepped down from public duties in 2019.
ref:
2022 January 13, Ben Quinn, “Queen strips Prince Andrew of military roles and royal patronages”, in The Guardian
type:
quotation
text:
The broad pennant of a commodore first class has been in abeyance since 1958, together with the rank.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
senses_topics:
law
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381 | word:
abusiveness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abusiveness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abusive + -ness.
senses_examples:
text:
Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness
ref:
1633, George Herbert, The Temple
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person.
senses_topics:
|
382 | word:
abusively
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abusively (comparative more abusively, superlative most abusively)
forms:
form:
more abusively
tags:
comparative
form:
most abusively
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abusive + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.
senses_topics:
|
383 | word:
absorbable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absorbable (comparative more absorbable, superlative most absorbable)
forms:
form:
more absorbable
tags:
comparative
form:
most absorbable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absorb + -able. First attested in the late 18th century.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.
senses_topics:
|
384 | word:
absorbable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absorbable (plural absorbables)
forms:
form:
absorbables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absorb + -able. First attested in the late 18th century.
senses_examples:
text:
There is general agreement that nonabsorbable materials are better than absorbables. The most popular materials are polypropylene mesh and PTFE produced as a patch.
ref:
204, C. D. Johnson, I. Taylor, Recent Advances in Surgery (volume 27, page 46)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A material that can be absorbed.
senses_topics:
|
385 | word:
abolitionist
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abolitionist (comparative more abolitionist, superlative most abolitionist)
forms:
form:
more abolitionist
tags:
comparative
form:
most abolitionist
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1788. abolition + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In favor of the abolition of slavery.
senses_topics:
|
386 | word:
abolitionist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abolitionist (plural abolitionists)
forms:
form:
abolitionists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1788. abolition + -ist.
senses_examples:
text:
Both feminist and religiously inspired abolitionists have long viewed, and continue to view, male demand for commercial sex as a root cause of prostitution.
ref:
2005, Julia O'Connell Davidson, Children in the Global Sex Trade, Polity, page 107
type:
quotation
text:
Furthermore, abolitionists argue that prisons are a form of violence and should be destroyed because they reflect “a social ethos of violence and degradation" [...] Abolitionists argue that prisons should be replaced, or at least decentralized, by democratic community control and community-based treatment that would emphasize "redress" or "restorative justice."
ref:
2007, J. Robert Lilly, Francis T. Cullen, Richard A. Ball, Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences, SAGE, page 198
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who favors the abolition of any particular institution or practice.
A person who favored or advocated the abolition of slavery.
senses_topics:
|
387 | word:
abstrude
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abstrude (third-person singular simple present abstrudes, present participle abstruding, simple past and past participle abstruded)
forms:
form:
abstrudes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abstruding
tags:
participle
present
form:
abstruded
tags:
participle
past
form:
abstruded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abstrūdō (“push away, hide”). See abstruse.
senses_examples:
text:
Thus it is with regard to the elementary substance of fire; dispensed, perhaps, to every thing corporeal, but hid deepest in those substances which are most densely compacted. It is intimately abstruded in what poetical licence terms the Veins of Flint; […]
ref:
1773, Thomas Patten, A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord North, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Concerning Subscription to the 39 Articles, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
.[…] the Greeks, while they retained the purity of their language, did not, any more than the Latins, rhyme their verse, but on the contrary (Mr. Swift's very words) 'abstruded the rhyme from it by metre and quantity.'
ref:
1805, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, page 193
type:
quotation
text:
In winter, owing to the great amount of water poured into the sea, and the less amount abstruded by evaporation, the water stands some ten or twelve feet higher than at other times.
ref:
1873, William Denton, Elizabeth M. Foote Denton, The Soul of Things, Or, Psychometric Researches and Discoveries, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
The Golek". A hexagonal roll, with a row of teeth, about six inches long, abstruding from each of the sides of the hexagon; or a serrated board in place of the teeth. This implement is used in some districts instead of the plough or “chankol.”
ref:
1919, Straits Settlements. Dept, “Bulletin”, in Agriculture
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To thrust away.
senses_topics:
|
388 | word:
Abrahamic
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adj
expansion:
Abrahamic (comparative more Abrahamic, superlative most Abrahamic)
forms:
form:
more Abrahamic
tags:
comparative
form:
most Abrahamic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Abraham + -ic.
senses_examples:
text:
[T]he Noachic and Abrahamic churches are connected by Shem, and the other long-lived patriarchs, who existed before the apostasy of Noah's posterity, and survived it
ref:
1832, Issac Cullimore, “Criteria for Determining the Accuracy of Scripture Chronology”, in The Morning watch: or, Quarterly journal on prophecy, and theological review, volume 4
type:
quotation
text:
Paul's faith was at this crisis in his spiritual illumination more Abrahamic than Christlike in its character.
ref:
1896, James S. Kennedy, “Spiritual Development of St. Paul”, in The Methodist review, page 66
type:
quotation
text:
[The messianic] does not belong properly to any Abrahamic religion (even if I may here continue “entre nous” for essential reasons of language and of place, of culture, and of provisional rhetorical and historical strategy of which I will speak later, to give to it names inscribed by the Abrahamic religions).
ref:
2005, Yvonne Sherwood, Kevin Hart, quoting Jacques Derrida, Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments, page 121
type:
quotation
text:
Most anthropologists, myself at the forefront, are doubtless incredibly naive about the nature of Christianity and provincial with respect to the depth and riches of Abrahamic-based theory for the analysis of religious phenomena more broadly no less than for philosophy.
ref:
2007, Hent De Vries, Religion: Beyond a Concept, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
Christianity, not Islam, was the first of the Abrahamic cults to come to the Sudan.
ref:
2009, Stig Jarle Hansen, Atle Mesøy, Tuncay Kardas, The Borders of Islam, page 158
type:
quotation
text:
Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baháʼí Faith are all Abrahamic religions.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch.
Descended from the religious tradition of Abraham.
senses_topics:
|
389 | word:
Abrahamic
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Abrahamic (plural Abrahamics)
forms:
form:
Abrahamics
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Abraham + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of an Abrahamic religion (usually Christians and Muslims, and also Jews).
senses_topics:
|
390 | word:
watchlist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
watchlist (plural watchlists)
forms:
form:
watchlists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
watchlist
etymology_text:
From watch + list.
senses_examples:
text:
The police have hundreds of citizens on their watchlists.
type:
example
text:
The TSA provides the airlines with the “No Fly” and “Automatic Selectee” watchlists for use in identifying passengers who are to be denied boarding or who require additional scrutiny prior to boarding. The “No Fly” watchlist is a list of persons who are considered a direct threat to U.S. civil aviation.
ref:
2010, William J. Krouse, Terrorist Watchlist Checks and Air Passenger Prescreening, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A list of people or things that are assigned to receive special attention or monitoring.
senses_topics:
|
391 | word:
watchlist
word_type:
verb
expansion:
watchlist (third-person singular simple present watchlists, present participle watchlisting, simple past and past participle watchlisted)
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form:
watchlists
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
watchlisting
tags:
participle
present
form:
watchlisted
tags:
participle
past
form:
watchlisted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
watchlist
etymology_text:
From watch + list.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To add to a watchlist.
senses_topics:
|
392 | word:
GDP
word_type:
noun
expansion:
GDP (usually uncountable, plural GDPs)
forms:
form:
GDPs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
en:GDP (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref:
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
type:
quotation
text:
Or take Wikipedia. Supported by investments of time rather than money, it has left the old Encyclopedia Britannica in the dust – and taken the GDP down a few notches in the process.
ref:
2017, Rutger Bregman, chapter 5, in Elizabeth Manton, transl., Utopia for Realists, Kindle edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
Coordinate term: GTP
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of gross domestic product.
Initialism of guanosine diphosphate, a nucleotide.
senses_topics:
economics
sciences
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
393 | word:
aburst
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aburst (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + burst.
senses_examples:
text:
Never was lovers’ ecstasy like theirs. They had not killed Love with kisses. They had quickened him by denial. And by denial they drove him on till he was all aburst with desire.
ref:
1911, Jack London, “When God Laughs”, in When God Laughs, and Other Stories, New York: Macmillan, page 22
type:
quotation
text:
Despite the somber mood prevailing in most of the city, Carnegie Hall last night was aburst with sound, light and color as a rock ’n’ roll “circus” attracted about 2,000 listeners.
ref:
1968 June 8, Robert Shelton, “Sound, Light and Color Barrage Draws 2,000 at Carnegie Hall”, in The New York Times
type:
quotation
text:
On the teak table stood two slender-necked blue vases Cohn had recently potted out of some rare lumps of clay, aburst with white fruit-tree blossoms he had painted on them.
ref:
1982, Bernard Malamud, God’s Grace, New York: Avon, pages 125–126
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a bursting condition.
senses_topics:
|
394 | word:
acalephoid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acalephoid (comparative more acalephoid, superlative most acalephoid)
forms:
form:
more acalephoid
tags:
comparative
form:
most acalephoid
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Acalephae + -oid
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Belonging to or resembling the Acalephae, or jellyfishes.
senses_topics:
|
395 | word:
abstracted
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abstracted (comparative more abstracted, superlative most abstracted)
forms:
form:
more abstracted
tags:
comparative
form:
most abstracted
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstract + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
an abstracted scholar
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete.
Abstract; abstruse; difficult.
Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative.
senses_topics:
|
396 | word:
abstracted
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abstracted
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstract + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of abstract
senses_topics:
|
397 | word:
acanth
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acanth (plural acanths)
forms:
form:
acanths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acanthus.
senses_topics:
|
398 | word:
abiogenesis
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abiogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural abiogeneses)
forms:
form:
abiogeneses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not-”, the alpha privative) + βῐ́ος (bíos, “life”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”)) + γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source; manner of birth; creation”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis (“birth; production”)); equivalent to a- + biogenesis. The words biogenesis and abiogenesis were both coined by English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) in 1870 (see the quotation).
senses_examples:
text:
And thus the hypothesis that living matter always arises by the agency of pre-existing living matter, took definite shape; […] It will be necessary for me to refer to this hypothesis so frequently, that, to save circumlocution, I shall call it the hypothesis of Biogenesis; and I shall term the contrary doctrine—that living matter may be produced by not living matter—the hypothesis of Abiogenesis.
ref:
1870 September 17, [Thomas Henry Huxley], “The President’s Address”, in The Athenæum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music and the Drama, number 2238, London: Printed by Edward J. Francis, Took's Court, Chancery Lane, published at the office, 20, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C., by John Francis. [...], →OCLC, page 374, columns 2–3
type:
quotation
text:
The assertion of [Louis] Pasteur is justified, that the onus probandi [burden of proof] lies with abiogenesists, since there is no experience of any living form more than ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of an inch in diameter springing to life out of inorganic matter; it is therefore vastly improbable (needing most cogent evidence to prove), that any form less than ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of an inch in size can be made to spring into life from inorganic matter. While abiogenesis is unproved, we hold to the conclusion that vital force is not the mere outcome or resultant of any or all of the other cosmic forces.
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1872 October 3, “Societies and Academies: Philadelphia”, in Nature: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, volume VI, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 472, column 2
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Life began. There was one abiogenesis when something happened to turn inanimate matter into animate cells. And it happened only once. There are no abiogeneses today. Human life is continuous. Human persons are discontinuous and individual.
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1971, Cyril C. Means, Jr., Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates [...], volume 117, part 23, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 30820, column 3
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According to [Carl] Nägeli, the highest forms have evolved from the oldest cells produced through abiogenesis, and the lower forms are, depending on their position in the hierarchy, the descendants of respectively more recent abiogenesis.
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1997, Eric Voegelin, “Race as Biological Unit”, in Ruth Hein, transl., edited by Klaus Vondung, Race and State: Translated from the German (The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin; 2), Baton Rouge, La., London: Louisiana State University Press, part I (The Systematic Content of Race Theory), page 45
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Although abiogenesis, the spontaneous creation of a living system under appropriate conditions, must have occurred at the end of the prebiotic world, spontaneous generation of life no longer occurs.
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2014, G. Bradley Schaefer, James N. Thompson, Jr., “Genetics: Unity and Diversity”, in Medical Genetics: An Integrated Approach, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Education, page 3
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senses_glosses:
The origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents.
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399 | word:
abdication
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abdication (countable and uncountable, plural abdications)
forms:
form:
abdications
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1552. From Middle French abdication, from Latin abdicātiō (“renunciation”), from abdicō.
senses_examples:
text:
abdication of the throne, government, power, authority
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example
text:
the king’s abdication
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example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of disowning or disinheriting a child.
The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder.
The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power.
The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment.
The action of being deposed from the seat of power.
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law
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