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400 | word:
acaleph
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acaleph (plural acalephs)
forms:
form:
acalephs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin acalephe, from Ancient Greek ἀκαλήφη (akalḗphē, “stinging nettle”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of the former Acalephae group, now a part of the Cnidaria phylum.
senses_topics:
|
401 | word:
absolvent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absolvent (comparative more absolvent, superlative most absolvent)
forms:
form:
more absolvent
tags:
comparative
form:
most absolvent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
An adaptation of the Latin absolvēns (“absolving”, stem: absolvent-), from absolvō (“I absolve”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Absolving.
senses_topics:
|
402 | word:
absolvent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absolvent (plural absolvents)
forms:
form:
absolvents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
An adaptation of the Latin absolvēns (“absolving”, stem: absolvent-), from absolvō (“I absolve”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An absolver.
senses_topics:
|
403 | word:
abusage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abusage (countable and uncountable, plural abusages)
forms:
form:
abusages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abuse + -age.
First appeared in Middle English, c. 1450–1475, meaning “sexual misconduct”: cf. abuse (“forcing of undesired sexual activity”). Later in the 16th century, a general synonym of abuse. The word was partly repopularized after the appearance of a grammar titled Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English in 1942.
senses_examples:
text:
We will trace the history of the term’s usage and abusage.
type:
example
text:
The usage and abusage of land originally covered with southern temperate grassland has led in all four regions to profound changes in floristic composition of the modified vegetation. Invasions of pest animals and introduced weeds have followed, often with disastrous consequences […]
ref:
2000, R. H. Groves, “Temperate Grasslands of the Southern Hemisphere”, in Surrey W. L. Jacobs, Joy Everett, editors, Grasses: Systematics and Evolution, page 358
type:
quotation
text:
She loved her papa, Hans Hubermann, and even her foster mother, despite the bucketings, abusages and verbal assaults.
ref:
2007 [2005], Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
Lawson’s position [is] that mathematical formalism alone is the problem, rather than a particular usage (or abusage) of it that can be characterized as neoclassical […]
ref:
2016, Steve Keen, “Is neoclassical economics mathematical? Is there a non-neoclassical mathematical economics?”, in Jamie Morgan, editor, What Is Neoclassical Economics?: Debating the Origins, Meaning and Significance, page 239
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of abuse.
senses_topics:
|
404 | word:
abusion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abusion (countable and uncountable, plural abusions)
forms:
form:
abusions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abusioun, from Old French abusion, from Latin abūsiō (“abuse, misuse”), from abūtor (“misuse”). Doublet of abusio.
senses_examples:
text:
Such tunges unhappy hath made great diviſion
In realmes, in cities, by ſuche fals abuſion;
Of fals fickil tunges ſuche cloked colluſion
ref:
c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
roman:
Hath brought nobil princes to extreme confuſion.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misuse, abuse; in particular, illegal behaviour; verbal, physical or sexual abuse.
Deceit; abuse of the truth.
Catachresis.
senses_topics:
|
405 | word:
abstractedly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abstractedly (comparative more abstractedly, superlative most abstractedly)
forms:
form:
more abstractedly
tags:
comparative
form:
most abstractedly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstracted + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
Doubtlesse, in the Idaea, or mentall shape before it come as it were into act, by beeing painted, cut, or carued, those terminating, and truly Mathematical lines, abstractedly considered, are manifest, adhering (or inhering rather) without any possibility of separation from the conceaued Image.
ref:
1610, Edmund Bolton, chapter 15, in The Elements of Armories, London: George Eld, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
[…] as the head of a beast is to be placed only upon its shoulders, so neither is a plant, however abstractedly treated, to be placed root uppermost […]
ref:
1852, John Pollard Seddon, chapter 3, in Progress in Art and Architecture, London: David Bogue, page 38
type:
quotation
text:
Leaning abstractedly over a hogshead of tallow, her dark dishevelled tresses waved in opposite directions, and a Muse (as she was) appeared to vulgar eyes, a Fury!
ref:
1806, Isaac D'Israeli, chapter 38, in Flim-Flams!, 2nd edition, volume 2, London: John Murray, page 219
type:
quotation
text:
In Montreal, George Stephen was also thinking about money while he walked in sober mood from the Bank to the Canadian Pacific offices; one of the best-known figures in the city […] his passage along St. James Street was noted by many, and he nodded abstractedly to innumerable acquaintances.
ref:
1935, Alan Sullivan, chapter 10, in The Great Divide, London: Lovat Dickson & Thompson
type:
quotation
text:
She looked up over the page, ran her eye abstractedly across the room, but gave no sign at all of seeing him.
ref:
2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, London: Picador, section 3, 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an abstracted manner; separately; in the abstract.
With absence of mind .
senses_topics:
|
406 | word:
acanthopterous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acanthopterous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀκανθο- (akantho-, “spine”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Spiny-winged.
Acanthopterygious
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
407 | word:
acanthopodious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acanthopodious
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀκανθο- (akantho-, “spine”) + Ancient Greek πούς (poús, “foot”) + -ious.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having spinous petioles.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
408 | word:
acanthopterygious
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acanthopterygious
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny-finned.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
409 | word:
portmanteau
word_type:
noun
expansion:
portmanteau (plural portmanteaus or portmanteaux)
forms:
form:
portmanteaus
tags:
plural
form:
portmanteaux
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
portmanteau
etymology_text:
table
From Middle French portemanteau (“coat stand”), from porte (“carries”, third-person singular present indicative of porter (“to carry”)) + manteau (“coat”), literally “[that which] carries coat”.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative forms: portemanteau, (obsolete) portmantua
text:
Rodolphus therefore finding such an earnest Invitation, embrac'd it with thanks, and with his Servant and Portmanteau, went to Don Juan's; where they first found good Stabling for their Horses, and afterwards as good Provision for themselves.
ref:
1667, Charles Croke, Fortune's Uncertainty
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections.
A schoolbag.
A hook on which to hang clothing.
senses_topics:
|
410 | word:
portmanteau
word_type:
adj
expansion:
portmanteau (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass
portmanteau
etymology_text:
table
First used by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass to describe the words he coined in “Jabberwocky”.
senses_examples:
text:
The overall narrator of this portmanteau story - for Dickens co-wrote it with five collaborators on his weekly periodical, All the Year Round - expresses deep, rational scepticism about the whole business of haunting.
ref:
2002 December 14, Nicholas Lezard, “Spooky tales by the master and friends”, in The Guardian (London), page 30
type:
quotation
text:
We're so bombarded with images, it's a struggle to preserve our imaginations.' In response, he's turned to cinema, commissioning 11 film-makers to contribute to a portmanteau film, entitled '11'09"01' and composed of short films each running 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame.
ref:
2002 December 11, Nick Bradshaw, “One day in September”, in Time Out, page 71
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Made by combining two (or more) words, stories, etc., in the manner of a linguistic portmanteau.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences |
411 | word:
portmanteau
word_type:
noun
expansion:
portmanteau (plural portmanteaus or portmanteaux)
forms:
form:
portmanteaus
tags:
plural
form:
portmanteaux
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass
portmanteau
etymology_text:
table
First used by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass to describe the words he coined in “Jabberwocky”.
senses_examples:
text:
His long-awaited portmanteau, which premiered in Cannes on Monday, is the most Anderson of all Anderson films. It's Anderson distilled, Anderson squared, Anderson to the nth degree.
ref:
2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A portmanteau word.
A portmanteau film.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
412 | word:
portmanteau
word_type:
verb
expansion:
portmanteau (third-person singular simple present portmanteaus, present participle portmanteauing, simple past and past participle portmanteaued)
forms:
form:
portmanteaus
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
portmanteauing
tags:
participle
present
form:
portmanteaued
tags:
participle
past
form:
portmanteaued
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass
portmanteau
etymology_text:
table
First used by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass to describe the words he coined in “Jabberwocky”.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To create a portmanteau word.
senses_topics:
|
413 | word:
abridgment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abridgment (countable and uncountable, plural abridgments)
forms:
form:
abridgments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1494. From Middle English abrygement, from Middle French abrégement. Equivalent to abridge + -ment.
senses_examples:
text:
an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses
text:
When the goal is simply to be as faithful as possible to the material—as if a movie were a marriage, and a rights contract the vow—the best result is a skillful abridgment, one that hits all the important marks without losing anything egregious.
ref:
2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club
type:
quotation
text:
What abridgment have you for this evening? What masque? what music?
ref:
1605, Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, V-i
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of abridging; reduction or deprivation
The state of being abridged or lessened.
An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation.
That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly
Any of various brief statements of case law made before modern reporting of legal cases.
The leaving out of certain portions of a plaintiff's demand, the writ still holding good for the remainder.
senses_topics:
law
law |
414 | word:
academist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
academist (plural academists)
forms:
form:
academists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French académiste, from académie (“academy”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An academic philosopher.
An academician.
an academic.
senses_topics:
|
415 | word:
acanthocephalous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acanthocephalous
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From translingual Acanthocephala + -ous.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
416 | word:
patronage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
patronage (countable and uncountable, plural patronages)
forms:
form:
patronages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English patronage, from Old French patronage (modern French patronage). Equivalent to patron + -age.
senses_examples:
text:
His vigorous patronage of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives.
type:
example
text:
The restaurant had an upper-class patronage.
type:
example
text:
The improved service to and from Taunton is fully justified by the passenger patronage to and from this town, which is a railhead for a large surrounding area.
ref:
1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 590–591
type:
quotation
text:
In addition to employment in the area, once you factor in the patronage of people visiting the various sites, it's not difficult to see why it's being redeveloped. The current station building is tiny in comparison to other stations with a similar patronage.
ref:
2021 July 28, Peter Plisner, “The race to the Games has begun”, in RAIL, number 936, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
The restaurant had "Thank you for your patronage!" printed on its take-out bags.
type:
example
text:
Patronage, nepotism, cronyism, abuse of power, and criminal activity flourish, sometimes for decades, in numerous town halls, police stations, and special-purpose government agencies in the suburbs.
ref:
2015, Thomas J. Gradel, Dick Simpson, Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality, University of Illinois Press, page 117
type:
quotation
text:
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
ref:
1864, Eliza Farnham, Woman and Her Era
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
Customers collectively; clientele; business.
The act or state of being a customer of some business.
A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.
Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.
Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
The right of nomination to political office.
The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
senses_topics:
government
politics
law |
417 | word:
patronage
word_type:
verb
expansion:
patronage (third-person singular simple present patronages, present participle patronaging, simple past and past participle patronaged)
forms:
form:
patronages
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
patronaging
tags:
participle
present
form:
patronaged
tags:
participle
past
form:
patronaged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English patronage, from Old French patronage (modern French patronage). Equivalent to patron + -age.
senses_examples:
text:
Mingdi continued the policy of his father who had patronaged Confucian learning.
ref:
2003, Hubert Michael Seiwert, Popular Religious Movements and Heterodox Sects in Chinese History, BRILL, page 62
type:
quotation
text:
Table 5.4 reveals the role of criminal gangs’ patron under each crime category. From this, we can understand that 74 percent of the mercenaries are patronaged and supported by the politicians either of the ruling or opposition party.
ref:
2004, C.K. Gandhirajan, Organized Crime, APH Publishing Corporation, page 147
type:
quotation
text:
To summarize: a person with a party political background is thus defined as ‘a person that has served in (a) […] and/or (b) a non-elective position inside the party administration of patronaged position in another organisation, i.e. the political functionary’.
ref:
2007, Stefaan Fiers, Ineke Secker, “6, A Career through the Party”, in Maurizio Cotta, Heinrich Best, editors, Democratic Representation in Europe, Oxford University Press, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
This house is largely patronaged by the professors and students of many of the Educational Institutions of New England and the Middle States; and all perons visiting New York, either for business or pleasure, will find this an excellent place at which to stop.
ref:
c. 1880, The Primary Teacher, volume 3, New-England Publishing Company, page 63
type:
quotation
text:
Mr. F. A. Welch, of the Oak View Poultry Farm, Salem, starts an add with us this issue. […] Our readers will be treated well, if they patronage Mr. Welch.
ref:
1902 May 24, Oregon Poultry Journal, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
Most public establishments catered to Blacks, and Whites actively patronaged some black-owned businesses (Martin 1982, 6, 9–11; Slingsby 1980, 31–32).
ref:
2002, Kevin Fox Gotham, Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development, SUNY Press, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To support by being a patron of.
To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize
senses_topics:
|
418 | word:
acalycine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acalycine (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + Latin calyx + -ine. By surface analysis, a- + calycine.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
419 | word:
acaridan
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acaridan (plural acaridans)
forms:
form:
acaridans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From translingual Acaridae + -an, from Ancient Greek ἀκαρί (akarí, “mite”). By surface analysis, acarid + -an.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of acarid
senses_topics:
|
420 | word:
acanthocarpous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acanthocarpous (comparative more acanthocarpous, superlative most acanthocarpous)
forms:
form:
more acanthocarpous
tags:
comparative
form:
most acanthocarpous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acantho- (“having thorns”) + -carpous (“relating to fruit”), from Ancient Greek ἄκανθος (ákanthos) and κᾰρπός (karpós) respectively.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the fruit covered with spines.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
421 | word:
acaulous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acaulous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- (“not”) + Latin caulis (“stalk”). See cole.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
acaulescent
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
422 | word:
abstractive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abstractive (comparative more abstractive, superlative most abstractive)
forms:
form:
more abstractive
tags:
comparative
form:
most abstractive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abstractif, from Medieval Latin abstractivus, from Latin abstractus (“drawn away”) + -ivus (“-ive”). Equivalent to abstract + -ive.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having an abstracting nature or tendency; tending to separate; tending to be withdrawn.
Derived by abstraction; belonging to abstraction.
senses_topics:
|
423 | word:
ablation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ablation (countable and uncountable, plural ablations)
forms:
form:
ablations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ablation
etymology_text:
From Late Middle English ablacioun (“removal”), from Late Latin ablātiō (“a taking away”), from auferō (“to take away, carry off, withdraw, remove”) + -tiō (“-tion”, nominal suffix); equivalent to ablate + -ion. Doublet of ablatio. Compare French ablation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A carrying or taking away; removal.
The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation.
The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as melting or vaporization under heat or chipping.
The removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of several means, as in wind erosion or mass wasting.
The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as melting or vaporization under heat or chipping.
The depletion of surface snow and ice from a spacecraft or meteorite through melting and evaporation caused by friction with the atmosphere.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
surgery
geography
geology
natural-sciences
sciences
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
sciences |
424 | word:
acaroid
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acaroid
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin acarus (“member of the former inclusive genus of mites”) + -oid (“likeness”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Shaped like or resembling a mite.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
425 | word:
accensor
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accensor (plural accensors)
forms:
form:
accensors
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin accēnsor, from accendō (“light, kindle”) + -tor (agent noun suffix). Compare accend.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.
senses_topics:
Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism |
426 | word:
acceptableness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acceptableness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acceptable + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.
senses_topics:
|
427 | word:
abnormality
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abnormality (countable and uncountable, plural abnormalities)
forms:
form:
abnormalities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abnormal + -ity.
senses_examples:
text:
Taylor said that her fame makes her "sometimes" miss the normality of being able to hang out with friends but that she's had to get used to "the abnormality of my life".
ref:
2015 May 26, “Taylor Swift: Pop stardom is made out to be harder than it is”, in BBC News
type:
quotation
text:
I want a full genetic analysis. We're going to examine any abnormality we find no matter how insignificant it seems.
ref:
1991, Brannon Braga, “Identity Crisis”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 18, spoken by Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.
Something abnormal; an aberration; an abnormal occurrence or feature.
senses_topics:
|
428 | word:
acapsular
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acapsular (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + capsular.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having no capsule.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences |
429 | word:
acceptancy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acceptancy (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Here's a proof of gift, But here's no proof, sir, of acceptancy.
ref:
1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, book 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
acceptance
senses_topics:
|
430 | word:
acanthaceous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acanthaceous (comparative more acanthaceous, superlative most acanthaceous)
forms:
form:
more acanthaceous
tags:
comparative
form:
most acanthaceous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From translingual Acanthaceae + -ous.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a member of the Acanthaceae family.
Armed with prickles, as a plant.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
|
431 | word:
abysmally
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abysmally (comparative more abysmally, superlative most abysmally)
forms:
form:
more abysmally
tags:
comparative
form:
most abysmally
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abysmal + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
Abysmally ignorant
ref:
1879, George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such
type:
quotation
text:
Am I alone in feeling smug (if slatternly) about the news that super-clean homes are a breeding ground for infection? Apparently, all that bleach is bad not just for germs but for children's immune systems, too, and paradoxically causes more disease than it prevents. Not round my gaff. Oh no. My standards of housekeeping are so abysmally low that my eldest daughter was three years old before she even developed a temperature.
ref:
2015 April 4, Judith Woods, “I knew it! Spring cleaning is bad for your family's health [print version: Vindicated at last! It's healthier to be a slatternly housewife, p. 28]”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 2015-04-09
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Very; incredibly; profoundly; to an extreme degree; dreadfully.
senses_topics:
|
432 | word:
hyponym
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hyponym (plural hyponyms)
forms:
form:
hyponyms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From hyp- + -onym or hypo- + -nym; from Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó, “under”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma) ("appellation"), a Doric specific dialectal form of ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).
senses_examples:
text:
The words “dog”, “cat”, and “human” are hyponyms of “animal” because dogs, cats, and humans are types of animal.
type:
example
text:
Woman itself has as other hyponyms, sculptress and waitress, but is itself a hyponym of adult.
ref:
1977, Ruth Kempson, Semantic Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 86
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A more specific term; a subordinate grouping word or phrase; a term designating a subclass of another more general class described by the given word.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics |
433 | word:
accessarily
word_type:
adv
expansion:
accessarily (comparative more accessarily, superlative most accessarily)
forms:
form:
more accessarily
tags:
comparative
form:
most accessarily
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accessary + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the manner of an accessary.
senses_topics:
|
434 | word:
Simplified Chinese
word_type:
name
expansion:
Simplified Chinese
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Chinese written using the forms of Chinese characters introduced by the PRC as script reform. The characters are simplified (with a reduced number of strokes, etc.) compared to their pre-reform shapes.
senses_topics:
|
435 | word:
abuttal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abuttal (plural abuttals)
forms:
form:
abuttals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abut + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
The land is set forth by bounds and abuttals.
ref:
1596, Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; buttals.
An abutment.
The act of abutting.
senses_topics:
|
436 | word:
abuttal
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abuttal (third-person singular simple present abuttals, present participle abuttalling or abuttaling, simple past and past participle abuttalled or abuttaled)
forms:
form:
abuttals
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abuttalling
tags:
participle
present
form:
abuttaling
tags:
participle
present
form:
abuttalled
tags:
participle
past
form:
abuttalled
tags:
past
form:
abuttaled
tags:
participle
past
form:
abuttaled
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abut + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To describe a piece of land in terms of its abuttals.
senses_topics:
|
437 | word:
accend
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accend (third-person singular simple present accends, present participle accending, simple past and past participle accended)
forms:
form:
accends
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accending
tags:
participle
present
form:
accended
tags:
participle
past
form:
accended
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English accenden, from Latin accendere (“to kindle”), formed from ad- + candere (“to shine”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To set on fire; to kindle.
senses_topics:
|
438 | word:
absurdly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
absurdly (comparative more absurdly, superlative most absurdly)
forms:
form:
more absurdly
tags:
comparative
form:
most absurdly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absurd + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
He orated absurdly.
type:
example
text:
Absurdly, he concluded his oration with a song.
type:
example
text:
By the year 1765, Richard `Dickie' Tattersall, the absurdly romantic self-styled soldier of fortune and indulged son of an obscenely well-off Yorkshire squire, was brimming with gratitude[.]
ref:
1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 245
type:
quotation
text:
The critics were absurdly extravagant with their praise.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an absurd fashion.
To an extreme degree.
senses_topics:
|
439 | word:
acanthine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acanthine (comparative more acanthine, superlative most acanthine)
forms:
form:
more acanthine
tags:
comparative
form:
most acanthine
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acanthinus, from acanthus + English -ine (“relating to”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus, or its leaves.
senses_topics:
|
440 | word:
absentee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absentee (plural absentees)
forms:
form:
absentees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
absentee
etymology_text:
From absent + -ee.
senses_examples:
text:
My trustees are going to lend Earl Blessington sixty thousand pounds (at six per cent.) on a Dublin mortgage. Only think of my becoming an Irish absentee!
ref:
1840, Lord Byron, “Letter 374: to Mr. Moore (24 May 1820)”, in John Murray, editor, The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, page 317
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.
A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which his estate is situated.
One that is nonexistent or lacking.
A voter that is not present at the time of voting; absentee voter.
senses_topics:
|
441 | word:
absentee
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absentee (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
absentee
etymology_text:
From absent + -ee.
senses_examples:
text:
absentee father, absentee landlord, absentee freeholder
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to someone who is absent, for example does not live in the relevant local area, sometimes implying that they are difficult to contact, unresponsive, avoiding their responsibilities, etc.
senses_topics:
|
442 | word:
accessoriness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accessoriness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accessory + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.
senses_topics:
|
443 | word:
abrade
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abrade (third-person singular simple present abrades, present participle abrading, simple past and past participle abraded)
forms:
form:
abrades
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abrading
tags:
participle
present
form:
abraded
tags:
participle
past
form:
abraded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Perseverance (rover)
etymology_text:
From Latin abrādō (“scrape off”), from ab (“from, away from”) + rādō (“scrape”). First attested in 1677.
senses_examples:
text:
“Wildcat Ridge” is the name given to a rock about 3 feet (1 meter) wide that likely formed billions of years ago as mud and fine sand settled in an evaporating saltwater lake. On July 20, the rover abraded some of the surface of Wildcat Ridge so it could analyze the area with the instrument called Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals, or SHERLOC.
ref:
2022 September 15, “NASA’s Perseverance Rover Investigates Geologically Rich Mars Terrain”, in Sean Potter, editor, NASA.gov, archived from the original on 2022-09-15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To rub or wear off; erode.
To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate.
To irritate by rubbing; chafe.
To cause the surface to become more rough.
To undergo abrasion.
senses_topics:
|
444 | word:
abrade
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abrade (third-person singular simple present abrades, present participle abrading, simple past and past participle abraded)
forms:
form:
abrades
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abrading
tags:
participle
present
form:
abraded
tags:
participle
past
form:
abraded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
Perseverance (rover)
etymology_text:
From Middle English abraiden. See abraid.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of abraid.
senses_topics:
|
445 | word:
academian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
academian (plural academians)
forms:
form:
academians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From academia + -n (“belonging to”).
senses_examples:
text:
A Young Academian having run himſelfe into deepe Arerages, inſomuch that his credit began to be queſtioned, and knowing his Father to be cloſe fiſted, had long deviſed with himſelfe, which way to fetch over the old man for money, and having caſt many projects in his head and finding that none of them would take, at the length he very learnedly concluded upon one, which was this, he wrote unto his father a very lamentable letter, to certifie him that he was dead, and earneſtly deſired him, to ſend him up money to defray the charges of the buriall.
ref:
1633, A Banqvet of Jests: or, Change of Cheare. Being a collection, of Moderne Ieſts. Witty Ieeres. Pleaſant Taunts. Merry Tales. The Second Part newly publiſhed, pages 27–28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A follower of Plato.
A member of an academy, university, or college.
senses_topics:
|
446 | word:
accessariness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accessariness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accessary + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being accessary.
senses_topics:
|
447 | word:
acantha
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acantha (plural acanthas)
forms:
form:
acanthas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἄκανθα (ákantha, “thorn”), from ἀκή (akḗ, “thorn”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”).
senses_examples:
text:
Moreover, all the outgrowths which I have said constitute the acantha are not of equal size in all the vertebrae, and Nature has done this with wonderful forethought.
ref:
1968, Margaret Tallmadge May, Galen on the usefulness of the parts of the body, translation of original by Galen, page 581
type:
quotation
text:
Individual vertebral bodies (right) as seen from the side and from above. The acantha is the spiney projection on the right of each illustration: in the lower illustration the boney spinal canal is shown between the acantha and the vertebral body.
ref:
1980, Renate Zauner, Speaking of Children's Posture Problems and the Injuries They Cause, page 55
type:
quotation
text:
Rotary strokes or stationary circles in the direction of the flank / Alternate from the acantha of the vertebral column in the direction of the flank (medial to lateral)
ref:
2005, Michael Foeldi, Roman Strossenreuther, Foundations of Manual Lymph Drainage, page 73
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A prickle.
A spine or prickly fin.
A spinous process of a vertebra.
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
448 | word:
academe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
academe (plural academes)
forms:
form:
academes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Akademos
Plato
etymology_text:
From New Latin academia, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía); Doublet of academy. Academe (frequently capitalized) is a poetic name for the garden or grove near ancient Athens where Plato taught, supposedly named for its former owner, the hero Ἀκάδημος (Akademos; Ἑκάδημος, Hekademos).
senses_examples:
text:
Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; / Our court shall be a little Academe,/ Still and contemplative in living art.
ref:
1603, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
type:
quotation
text:
If it did nothing else, Homosexuality: Social, Psychological, and Biological Issues shows that the basic tenet of gay liberation—that is, viewing gayness as having an intrinsic validity—has finally entered and taken root in the groves of academe.
ref:
1983 December 3, Michael Bronski, “Homosexuality: Social, Psychological and Biological Issues (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 10
type:
quotation
text:
His father expected him to enter the government or a major corporation upon graduation from the university, but Noboru Wataya chose to remain in academe and become a scholar.
ref:
1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, page 74
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The garden in Athens where the academics met.
An academy; a place of learning.
The scholarly life, environment, or community.
A senior member of the staff at an institution of higher learning; pedant.
senses_topics:
|
449 | word:
acardiac
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acardiac (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἀκάρδιος (akárdios, “without a heart”) + -ac, after cardiac; by surface analysis, a- + cardi- + -ac.
senses_examples:
text:
The fact of a perfect circulation in acardiac fœtuses and acardiac animals, seems strongly to indicate an important influence in the arteries.
ref:
1831, Marshall Hall, A Critical and Experimental Essay on the Circulation of the Blood, page 76
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Lacking a heart.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
450 | word:
acarine
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acarine (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
By surface analysis, acar- + -ine; either coined as such, or perhaps predating the prefix per se; see acarid § Etymology.
senses_examples:
text:
acarine diseases
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or caused by acari or mites.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
451 | word:
acarine
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acarine (plural acarines)
forms:
form:
acarines
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
By surface analysis, acar- + -ine; either coined as such, or perhaps predating the prefix per se; see acarid § Etymology.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of acarid.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
452 | word:
ablative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ablative (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
ablative
etymology_text:
From Middle English ablative, ablatife, ablatyf, ablatif, from Old French ablatif (“the ablative case”), from Latin ablātīvus (“expressing removal”), from ablātus (“taken away”), from auferō (“I take away”). The engineering/nautical sense originates from ablate + -ive.
senses_examples:
text:
Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth.
ref:
1622, Joseph Hall, The Works of Joseph Hall: Sermons, page 123
type:
quotation
text:
The inner layer of warship protection consists of ablative armor plate designed to "boil away" when heated. The vaporized armor material scatters a DEW beam, rendering it ineffectual.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Weapons: Ablative Armor Codex entry
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
Pertaining to taking away or removing.
Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry. .
Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
medicine
sciences
geography
geology
natural-sciences |
453 | word:
ablative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ablative (plural ablatives)
forms:
form:
ablatives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
ablative
etymology_text:
From Middle English ablative, ablatife, ablatyf, ablatif, from Old French ablatif (“the ablative case”), from Latin ablātīvus (“expressing removal”), from ablātus (“taken away”), from auferō (“I take away”). The engineering/nautical sense originates from ablate + -ive.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The ablative case.
An ablative material.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
|
454 | word:
absorptive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
absorptive (comparative more absorptive, superlative most absorptive)
forms:
form:
more absorptive
tags:
comparative
form:
most absorptive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absorb + -tive.
senses_examples:
text:
In practice, from that date onwards until recent times, the economic absorptive capacity of the country has been treated as the sole limiting factor […]
ref:
1939, British White Paper of Palestine of 1939
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.
senses_topics:
|
455 | word:
absorptive
word_type:
noun
expansion:
absorptive (plural absorptives)
forms:
form:
absorptives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From absorb + -tive.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any substance that absorbs.
senses_topics:
|
456 | word:
academism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
academism (plural academisms)
forms:
form:
academisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From academy + -ism.
senses_examples:
text:
For art, academism is death. Academism is the painting in the manner of some one else, whether that other be Greek or Florentine, […]
ref:
1912, Haldane Macfall, A History of Painting: The Modern Genius Part Eight, T. C. and E. C. Jack, page 87
type:
quotation
text:
Contemporary Canadian art suffers from new academisms. […], her reaction is through Keats, Shelley and Byron. Her writing, based on these is perfection itself but still an academism and therefore non-contributive.
ref:
1935, “The Artist and His Means of Expression”, in The Canadian Author, volumes 13-15, Canadian Authors Association, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of academicism
senses_topics:
|
457 | word:
acceptedly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
acceptedly (comparative more acceptedly, superlative most acceptedly)
forms:
form:
more acceptedly
tags:
comparative
form:
most acceptedly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accepted + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
Therefrom Boshy's saving propensities, being but the idiosyncrasies of the rich, were mercifully endured and spoken of by Mr. Civil. Even his amazing miserliness was passed over acceptedly, for of such are the kingdom of shepherd millionaires.
ref:
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 195
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an accepted manner; admittedly.
senses_topics:
|
458 | word:
ablution
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ablution (countable and uncountable, plural ablutions)
forms:
form:
ablutions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English ablucioun (“cleansing of impurities”), from Old French ablution, and its source, Late Latin ablūtiō (“a washing away”), from abluō (“wash away”), from ab- (“away”) + lavō (“wash”).
senses_examples:
text:
Let water be brought to perform my ablutions, and let the pious Fakreddin be called to offer up his prayers with mine.
ref:
1786, William Beckford, Vathek; an Arabian Tale
type:
quotation
text:
He followed the steps of Bella, who soon conducted him to his chamber, and left him to those ablutions which a long ride along a sandy road had rendered particularly necessary.
ref:
1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter II, page 25
type:
quotation
text:
She treats him not as a doddering old fool but as a man hampered in his movements by injury. Patiently, without baby-talk, she helps him through his ablutions.
ref:
2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Four”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, page 28
type:
quotation
text:
There are now indications that it has caused some Americans to become more spartan when it comes to ablutions.
ref:
2021 May 6, Maria Cramer, “See Fewer People. Take Fewer Showers.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of washing something.
Originally, the purifying of oils and other substances by emulsification with hot water; now more generally, a thorough cleansing of a precipitate or other non-dissolved substance.
The act of washing something.
The act of washing or cleansing the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
The act of washing something.
Washing oneself; bathing, cleaning oneself up.
The act of washing something.
The rinsing of the priest's hand and the sacred vessel following the Communion with, depending on rite, water or a mix of it and wine, which may then be drunk by the priest.
The liquid used in the cleansing or ablution.
The ritual consumption by the deacon or priest of leftover sacred wine of host after the Communion.
The location or building where the showers and basins are located.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Christianity
Western-Christianity
government
military
politics
war |
459 | word:
abdal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abdal (plural abdals)
forms:
form:
abdals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic أَبْدَال (ʔabdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, “a substitute; a good, religious man; saint”), from بَدَلَ (badala, “to replace”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.
senses_topics:
|
460 | word:
accessional
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accessional
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accession + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to accession; additional.
senses_topics:
|
461 | word:
Accadian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Accadian (comparative more Accadian, superlative most Accadian)
forms:
form:
more Accadian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Accadian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Accad (alternative spelling of Akkad) + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Akkadian
senses_topics:
|
462 | word:
Accadian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Accadian (plural Accadians)
forms:
form:
Accadians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Accad (alternative spelling of Akkad) + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Akkadian
senses_topics:
|
463 | word:
Accadian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Accadian
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Accad (alternative spelling of Akkad) + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of Akkadian
senses_topics:
|
464 | word:
crude oil
word_type:
noun
expansion:
crude oil (usually uncountable, plural crude oils)
forms:
form:
crude oils
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Further west, in Pembrokeshire, the Esso Petroleum Co. refinery at Milford Haven, opened last November, is designed to berth the world's largest tankers and to process, initially, 4,500,000 tons of crude oil a year.
ref:
1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 494
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Unrefined oil; as it is found underground, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons.
senses_topics:
|
465 | word:
accessorily
word_type:
adv
expansion:
accessorily (comparative more accessorily, superlative most accessorily)
forms:
form:
more accessorily
tags:
comparative
form:
most accessorily
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accessory + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the manner of an accessory; auxiliarily.
senses_topics:
|
466 | word:
academically
word_type:
adv
expansion:
academically (comparative more academically, superlative most academically)
forms:
form:
more academically
tags:
comparative
form:
most academically
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From academical + -ly or academic + -ally.
senses_examples:
text:
academically disadvantaged demographic group
type:
example
text:
Academically, the football team is counter-productive.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an academic style or way; from an academic perspective.
senses_topics:
|
467 | word:
acceptive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acceptive (comparative more acceptive, superlative most acceptive)
forms:
form:
more acceptive
tags:
comparative
form:
most acceptive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accept + -ive.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fit for acceptance.
Ready to accept.
Receptive.
senses_topics:
|
468 | word:
abstractionist
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abstractionist (comparative more abstractionist, superlative most abstractionist)
forms:
form:
more abstractionist
tags:
comparative
form:
most abstractionist
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstraction + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Related or tending to abstractionism, particularly art.
senses_topics:
|
469 | word:
abstractionist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abstractionist (plural abstractionists)
forms:
form:
abstractionists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abstraction + -ist.
senses_examples:
text:
She punishes abstractionists, and will only forgive an induction which is rare and casual.
ref:
1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nominalist and Realist”, in Essays, Second Series
type:
quotation
text:
If you come near them and see what conceits they entertain,—they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme, built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.
ref:
1850, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Montaigne; or, the Skeptic”, in Representative Men
type:
quotation
text:
In this all-important respect I do not hesitate to say we theorists and abstractionists of the North, throughout that long anti-slavery discussion which ended with the 1861 dash of arms, were thoroughly wrong.
ref:
1913, Charles Francis Adams, ’Tis Sixty Years Since, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 15
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An idealist.
Someone who supports or creates abstract art.
senses_topics:
art
arts |
470 | word:
acarus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acarus (plural acari or acarina)
forms:
form:
acari
tags:
plural
form:
acarina
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from New Latin acarus, from Ancient Greek ἀκαρί (akarí, “cheese mite, tick”).
senses_examples:
text:
water strongly boiled; wherein the Seeds are extinguished by fire and decoction, and therefore last long and pure without such alteration, affording neither uliginous coats, gnatworms, Acari, hairworms, like crude and common water
ref:
1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 205
type:
quotation
text:
The number of Acari found in raw sugar is sometimes exceedingly great, and in no instance is the article quite free from either the insects or their ova (eggs).
ref:
1868, Robert Niccol, The Sugar Insect, "Acarus Sacchari", Found in Raw Sugar, page 4
type:
quotation
text:
2003, G. Leigheb, Mite bites, Andreas D. Katsambas, European Handbook of Dermatological Treatments, Springer, page 342,
Besides the acarus of human scabies (Sarcoptes scabiei hominis) (0.3-0.5 mm), many other acari which are parasitic on animals or which infest various plant species, foods, organic waste or soil may occasionally attack man (facultative parasitism vs. obligatory parasitism in the case of scabies).
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any member of the subclass Acari (aka Acarina): thus, a mite or a tick; specifically, any mite of the genus Acarus.
senses_topics:
acarology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
471 | word:
abashed
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abashed (comparative more abashed, superlative most abashed)
forms:
form:
more abashed
tags:
comparative
form:
most abashed
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.
senses_topics:
|
472 | word:
abashed
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abashed
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of abash
senses_topics:
|
473 | word:
accessibly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
accessibly (comparative more accessibly, superlative most accessibly)
forms:
form:
more accessibly
tags:
comparative
form:
most accessibly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accessible + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an accessible manner.
senses_topics:
|
474 | word:
acceptilation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acceptilation (countable and uncountable, plural acceptilations)
forms:
form:
acceptilations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin acceptilatio (“entry of a debt collected, acquittance”), from past participle of accipere (compare accept) + latio (“a carrying”), from latus, past participle of ferre (“to carry”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.
The doctrine, laid down by Duns Scotus and maintained by the Arminians, that the satisfaction rendered by Christ was not in itself really a true or full equivalent, but was merely accepted by God, through his gracious goodwill, as sufficient.
senses_topics:
lifestyle
religion
theology |
475 | word:
accommodately
word_type:
adv
expansion:
accommodately (comparative more accommodately, superlative most accommodately)
forms:
form:
more accommodately
tags:
comparative
form:
most accommodately
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accommodate + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
suitably; fitly
senses_topics:
|
476 | word:
acceptably
word_type:
adv
expansion:
acceptably (comparative more acceptably, superlative most acceptably)
forms:
form:
more acceptably
tags:
comparative
form:
most acceptably
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From acceptable + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction.
To an acceptable degree.
senses_topics:
|
477 | word:
accombination
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accombination (plural accombinations)
forms:
form:
accombinations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin; the first part is equivalent to ad; the second part to combination.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A combining together.
senses_topics:
|
478 | word:
acclivitous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acclivitous (comparative more acclivitous, superlative most acclivitous)
forms:
form:
more acclivitous
tags:
comparative
form:
most acclivitous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
shut in on both sides and behind by an acclivitous half-circle of rugged summits
ref:
1831, Isaac Taylor, The Temple of Melekartha
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acclivous
senses_topics:
|
479 | word:
acclimature
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acclimature (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
From this we must except the attack of fever, denominated acclimature or seasoning, to which they are usually subject in the first or second summer after their arrival.
ref:
1823, Charles Caldwell, “Thoughts on the probable destiny of New Orleans”, in The Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences, volume 6, page 3
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated.
senses_topics:
|
480 | word:
acclivous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
acclivous
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Latin acclivis and acclivus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
sloping upward; rising like a hillside.
senses_topics:
|
481 | word:
academicism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
academicism (countable and uncountable, plural academicisms)
forms:
form:
academicisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From academic + -ism.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.
Traditional or orthodox formalism; conventionalism.
Speculative thoughts and attitudes.
A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
senses_topics:
classical-studies
history
human-sciences
sciences
art
arts
literature
media
publishing
|
482 | word:
accessive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accessive (comparative more accessive, superlative most accessive)
forms:
form:
more accessive
tags:
comparative
form:
most accessive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
additional.
Relating to an act of access.
senses_topics:
|
483 | word:
accessive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accessive
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of excessive.
senses_topics:
|
484 | word:
accoast
word_type:
verb
expansion:
accoast (third-person singular simple present accoasts, present participle accoasting, simple past and past participle accoasted)
forms:
form:
accoasts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
accoasting
tags:
participle
present
form:
accoasted
tags:
participle
past
form:
accoasted
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[…] whether high towering or accoasting low […]
ref:
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of accost (“sail along the coast or lie alongside”).
senses_topics:
|
485 | word:
accommodateness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accommodateness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accommodate + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Fitness.
senses_topics:
|
486 | word:
acclimatation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acclimatation (countable and uncountable, plural acclimatations)
forms:
form:
acclimatations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French acclimatation.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acclimatization.
senses_topics:
|
487 | word:
acception
word_type:
noun
expansion:
acception (plural acceptions)
forms:
form:
acceptions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English accepcioun, from Middle French accepcion (Modern French acception) and Latin acceptiō, acceptiōnis (“acceptance”). By surface analysis, accept + -ion.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acceptation; received meaning.
acceptance
senses_topics:
|
488 | word:
accordantly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
accordantly (comparative more accordantly, superlative most accordantly)
forms:
form:
more accordantly
tags:
comparative
form:
most accordantly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accordant + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably.
senses_topics:
|
489 | word:
accordment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accordment (plural accordments)
forms:
form:
accordments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English accordement, from Old French acordement.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Agreement; reconcilement.
senses_topics:
|
490 | word:
accordancy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accordancy (usually uncountable, plural accordancies)
forms:
form:
accordancies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
This mention of alms and offerings certainly brings the narrative in the Acts nearer to an accordancy with the epistle […]
ref:
1790, William Paley, Horae Paulinae, or the Truth of the Scripture History of St Paul
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
accordance
senses_topics:
|
491 | word:
accountableness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accountableness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accountable + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.
senses_topics:
|
492 | word:
Traditional Chinese
word_type:
name
expansion:
Traditional Chinese
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Chinese written using the traditional form of Chinese characters, as opposed to Simplified Chinese (introduced by the PRC as script reform).
senses_topics:
|
493 | word:
aardvark
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aardvark (plural aardvarks)
forms:
form:
aardvarks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Afrikaans aardvark (obsolete), erdvark, from aarde (“earth”, from Middle Dutch aerde) + vark (“pig”, from Middle Dutch varken). Early European colonists in South Africa noticed that the animal was similar to a pig, while aarde hints at the animal's habit of burrowing.
senses_examples:
text:
The aardvark burrows in the ground and feeds mostly on termites, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The nocturnal, insectivorous, burrowing, mammal Orycteropus afer, of the order Tubulidentata, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
senses_topics:
|
494 | word:
accrementitial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accrementitial
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to accrementition.
senses_topics:
medicine
physiology
sciences |
495 | word:
abolition
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abolition (plural abolitions)
forms:
form:
abolitions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested in 1529. Either from Middle French abolition, or directly from Latin abolitiō, from aboleō (“destroy”). Compare French abolition. Equivalent to abolish + -tion.
senses_examples:
text:
the abolition of debts; the abolition of laws; the abolition of slavery; the abolition of police; the abolition of taxes
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of abolishing; an annulling; abrogation.
The state of being abolished.
The ending of the slave trade or of slavery.
The ending of convict transportation.
An amnesty; a putting out of memory.
senses_topics:
|
496 | word:
accessorial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
accessorial
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accessory + -al.
senses_examples:
text:
accessorial agency; accessorial guilt
type:
example
text:
The pope sits upon a draped throne chair, robed in full pontificals, holding the keys in one hand, and giving the benediction with the other. His action is dignified and natural, and the accessorial ornaments about the marble background, and upon the large console which supports the statue, are tasteful, and carefully sculptured.
ref:
1868, Charles Callahan Perkins, Italian sculptors, page 121
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to an accessory, e.g. to a crime.
Of or relating to an accession.
Assessorial.
senses_topics:
|
497 | word:
accessorial
word_type:
noun
expansion:
accessorial (plural accessorials)
forms:
form:
accessorials
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From accessory + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An assessorial charge.
senses_topics:
|
498 | word:
aboriginal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aboriginal (comparative more aboriginal, superlative most aboriginal)
forms:
form:
more aboriginal
tags:
comparative
form:
most aboriginal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See Aboriginal.
senses_examples:
text:
Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / […] / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.
ref:
1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Longman et al., page 277
type:
quotation
text:
Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan?
ref:
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 2
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans.
Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal
senses_topics:
|
499 | word:
aboriginal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aboriginal (plural aboriginals)
forms:
form:
aboriginals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See Aboriginal.
senses_examples:
text:
It may be welldoubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.
ref:
1839, Charles Darwin, Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle
type:
quotation
text:
Every one of the groups of islands in the Pacific, many of them only a few days' sail from Australia, have their own customs, religious, political and social, and yet Australia has none, and the aboriginals have imbibed nothing from their intercourse with other nationalities.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 244
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An animal or plant native to a region.
Alternative letter-case form of Aboriginal
senses_topics:
|