OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# unconstrained
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English, equivalent to un- +‎ constrained.

### Adjective

unconstrained (not comparable)
* not constrained.
** 1931, Robert Henry Joseph Steuart, March, Kind Comrade, page 217:One sometimes regrets that the War is over— thinking of the gipsy life that one led, of the unstaling interests and the bigness of it all, but above everything of the unconstrained friendliness that was bom and fostered in days of instant peril and in trench and dug-out and ramshackle billet.

#### Synonyms

* sans gêne

#### Translations
### References

* James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Unconstrained”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume X, Part 1 (Ti–U), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 101, column 1.
# larme
## Danish
### Etymology

Verbal noun to larm (“noise”), a contraction of alarm, from French alarme (“alarm”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /larmə/, [ˈlɑːmə], [ˈlɑːm̩]

### Verb

larme (imperative larm, infinitive at larme, present tense larmer, past tense larmede, perfect tense har larmet)
* noise (make noise)

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlarme]
* Rhymes: -arme
* Hyphenation: lar‧me

### Adverb

larme
* tearily

#### Related terms

* larma (“teary”)
* larmo (“tear”)

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French larme, lerme, from Latin lacrima, from Old Latin lacruma, dacrima, dacruma, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laʁm/
* Audio (France):(file)
* Homophone: larmes

### Noun

larme f (plural larmes)
* tear; teardrop
** 2014, Fréro Delavega, Le chant des sirènes:Quand les souvenirs s’en mêlent, les larmes me viennent, et le chant des sirènes me replonge en hiverWhen memories come into it, tears come to my eyes, and the sirens' song plunges me back into winter
** 1979, “Nicolas”, performed by Sylvie Vartan:Nicolas, Nicolas, ma première larme ne fût que pour toi.Nicolas, Nicolas, my first tear was for no one but you.
* drop (small amount of a beverage)
    Synonym: goutte

#### Derived terms

* avoir la larme à l’œil
* fondre en larmes
* larmes de crocodile
* larmoyant
* larmoyer
* pleurer à chaudes larmes
* pleurer toutes les larmes de son corps
* rire aux larmes

#### Related terms

* lacrymal

#### See also

* dacryorrhée
* pleur

### Further reading

* “larme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* “larme” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.

### Anagrams

* Armel, lamer

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlarme]

### Noun

larme f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of larmă
# whimberry
## English
### Alternative forms

* whinberry, wimberry, winberry, windberry

### Etymology

From earlier winberry, apparently a variant of wineberry (Middle English winberie) with regular shortening of the first vowel before a consonant cluster; in wineberry, this was prevented or reversed due to analogy.
The assimilation of /nb/ to /mb/ seen in some forms is to be expected (compare hemp < Old English henep). Other forms show the influence of unrelated words; the consonantism of forms with initial wh- is probably due to the influence of whin, while windberry clearly represents remodelling as wind +‎ berry.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʍɪmˌbɛɹi/, /ˈʍɪmbəɹi/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (wine–whine merger) IPA: /ˈwɪmˌbɛɹi/, /ˈwɪmbəɹi/

### Noun

whimberry (plural whimberries)
* (dialectal) The bilberry or whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus).
** 1871, C. S. Gregson, “Varieties and Aberrations of Lepidoptera”, in Edward Newman, editor, The Entomologist‎, volume V, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., page 75:Another variable species: when fed upon whimberry or cowberry it is a most distinct-looking insect, often with the white patches placed in a triangle, one on the disk, one on the hind margin, and the usual one: no band.
** 1900, Helen Brierley, Morgan Brierley, a Memoir: With a Selection from His Writings‎, Rochdale: James Clegg, page 260:The lovely pink bloom of the whimberry stalk drops on the turf as the inner part knits itself into hard, green, beady fruit, whilst the leafage changes from a soft green to yellowish brown.
** 2011 December 30, Nina Bawden, In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography‎, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN, page 38:She made whimberry tarts and we ate them with thick, yellow cream until we were tight as drums.

### References

* James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Whimberry”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume X, Part 2 (V–Z), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 49, column 1.
# rangle
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɹæŋɡl̩/
* Rhymes: -æŋɡəl

### Etymology 1

From range +‎ -le (frequentative suffix).

#### Verb

rangle (third-person singular simple present rangles, present participle rangling, simple past and past participle rangled)
* (obsolete, UK, intransitive) To range about in an irregular manner.
** 1567, Catherine Bates, quoting George Turberville, Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets, fols. 14v–15v, quoted in Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser, Oxford UP, published 2013, page 157:And such as knowe the luring voice of him that feedes them still: / And neuer rangle farre abroade against the keepers will…
** 1591, Ludovico Ariosto, translated by Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso, London: G. Miller, translation of original in Italian, published 1634, book XIX, stanza 56, page 150:She bath’d her blade in blood up to the hilt, / And with the ſame their bodies all ſhe mangled, / All that abode her blowes, their bloud was ſpilt, / They ſcaped beſt that here and thither ranged, / Or thoſe whoſe horſes overthrown at tilt, / Lay with their maſters on the earth intangled.
** 1594, Henry Willobie, edited by Charles Hughes, Willobie His Avisa, London: Sherratt and Hughes, published 1904, page 138:The rangling rage that held from home Ulisses all too long, / Made chast Penelope complaine of him that did her wrong.

#### References

* “rangle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

rangle (uncountable)
* Stones or gravel eaten by birds of prey to improve digestion; gastroliths [from 17th c.]
** 1982, Jorge L. B. Albuquerque, “Observations on the use of rangel by the Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus tundrius) wintering in southern Brasil”, in Raptor Research, volume 16, number 3, pages 91–92:Previously she was seen eating on 1 pigeon fledgling 2 days before swalling the rangle

#### References

* James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Rangle”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VIII, Part 1 (Q–R), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 141, column 3.

### Anagrams

* Rangel, angler, Erlang, Arleng, Largen, Algren, langer, Nergal, largen, regnal, Nagler, gen'ral, Langer, erlang

## Hunsrik
### Etymology

From Rangel (“tendril”) +‎ -e.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈraŋlə/
* Rhymes: -aŋlə
* Hyphenation: ran‧gle

### Verb

rangle
* (transitive, with accusative, of plants) to creep; to climb (to grow across a surface)

#### Conjugation
### References

* ↑ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “rangle”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 129
# hydrobromide
## English
### Etymology

From hydro- +‎ bromide.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /haɪdɹə(ʊ)ˈbɹəʊmaɪd/

### Noun

hydrobromide (plural hydrobromides)
* (organic chemistry) A compound of hydrobromic acid with an organic base (distinguished from a bromide, in which only the bromine unites with the base).

#### Derived terms

* dihydrobromide

#### Translations
### Further reading

* James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Hydrobromide”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume V (H–K), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 486, column 1.
# mahone
## English
### Alternative forms

* mahume

### Etymology

From Middle French mahonne, mahomme.

### Noun

mahone (plural mahones)
* (historical) A large Turkish warship. [from 16th c.]
** 1680, Paul Rycaut, The History of the Turkish Empire […] :In this Charge one of the Turks Mahones was sunk , and two disabled

#### Translations
### References

* James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Mahone”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 38, column 3.
* “mahone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.ɔn/

### Noun

mahone f (plural mahones)
* Alternative spelling of mahonne
# subingression
## English
### Etymology

From sub- +‎ ingression.

### Noun

subingression (uncountable)
* (obsolete) The act of ingressing or entering subtly or unobservedly. [17th c.]
** 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, “[Experiment 37]”, in New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC, pages 312–313:[T]vvo very volatile Liquors, vvhich being gently put together are as clear as Rock-vvater, and yet vvill almoſt in a moment, vvithout the ſub-ingreſſion of Air to turn them into Bubbles, ſo alter the diſpoſition of their inſenſible parts, as to become a vvhite and conſiſtent Body.

### Further reading

* James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Subingression”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IX, Part 2 (Su–Th), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 20, column 1.
# squiry
## English
### Alternative forms

* squyry

### Etymology

From Middle English squierie, that from Old French escuierie, esquierie. See also squire.

### Noun

squiry (uncountable)
* (obsolete) The body of squires, collectively; squirarchy. [14th–16th c.]
** 1525, Jean Froissart, translated by John Bourchier, Lord Berners, Les Chroniques de Froissart [The Chronicle of Froissart]‎, volume 5, published 1902, page 409:It was nedefull for them within to make good defence, for against them was the floure of chyvalry and squyry.
** 1819 April 10, William Cobbett, “To the Governor and Company of the Bank of England”, in Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, volume 34, number 29, page 909:The squiry, too, that mass of base loggerheads, joined in the resolution to support the fraud with all their might.
** 1821, John Wade, A Political Dictionary, page 105:Squire: A species of animal belonging to the aldermanic genus. Authors are not exactly agreed what constitutes the generic difference betwixt squireens (the Irish abbreviation for squire), and the next inferior order of bipeds. The Liverpool squiry are distinguished from the mobility of the town by the former selling a hundred weight and the latter a pound weight of tobacco.

### References

* James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Squiry”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IX, Part 1 (Si–St), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 751, column 1.
# onfangen
## Middle English
### Etymology

From Old English onfōn, equivalent to on- (derivational prefix) +‎ fangen (“grasp, take, carry away”).

### Verb

onfangen
* to receive; to accept [9th–13th c.]
* to conceive (a child) [10th–13th c.]

### References

* “onfō̆ngen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Onfang”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 125, column 3.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /onˈfɑn.ɡen/, [onˈfɑŋ.ɡen]

### Participle

onfangen
* past participle of onfōn
# dignyte
## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* dignete, dignite, dignitee, dignytee, dingnete, dingnytee, dyngnete, dygnyte, dyngnyte

### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French dignite, from Latin dignitās, dignitātem; equivalent to digne +‎ -ite. Doublet of deynte and deynteth.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdi(n)ɡniteː/

### Adjective

dignyte
* Worth; value or excellence.
* High regard; great honour.
* High rank, title, or position.
* A privilege, right, or prerogative.
* (astrology) The heightened influence of a planet.
* (rare) That which provides worth or honour.
* (rare) A dignitary; one of high rank.

#### Descendants

* English: dignity

#### References

* “dignitẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Dictionary”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 356, column 2.
# Mulciberian
## English
### Etymology

From Latin Mulciber (“an epithet of Vulcan, the Roman god of blacksmithing”) +‎ -ian.

### Adjective

Mulciberian (comparative more Mulciberian, superlative most Mulciberian)
* (archaic) Pertaining to metalworking.
    Synonym: Vulcanian
** 1832 November 10, Edgar Allan Poe, “A Decided Loss”, in Saturday Courier, volume II, number 35, Philadelphia:and, like the Mulciberian bellows, roared loudly the huge sea-coal fire
** 1837, John Holland, The Tour of the Don‎, page 282:Yon black clouds are the fume / Of that great crucible, in which, with torturing fire, / The Mulciberian artist, practice-taught, / Transmutes, with skill ne'er known to th' alchemist, / Each sordid metal into price of gold.
** 1847, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Curates' Walk‎:What powerful Mulciberian fellows they must be, those Goldbeaters, whacking and thumping with huge mallets at the precious metals all day.

### Further reading

* Joseph T. Shipley (1955) “Mulciberian”, in Dictionary of Early English, →ISBN, page 442
* James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Mulciberian”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 748, column 2.
# brunswyn
## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* brunswyne

### Etymology

From broun (“brown, dark”) +‎ swyn (“pig”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbrunˌswiːn/

### Noun

brunswyn
* (Late Middle English, hapax) porpoise (cetacean of family Phocoenidae)
    Synonyms: mereswyn, porpeys

#### References

* James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Brown-swine”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1137, column 2.
# middle-age
## English
### Alternative forms

* middleage

### Adjective

middle-age (not comparable)
* (quasi-adjective) attributive form of Middle Ages
** 1840, Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc., volume V, page 31:With the same precaution that they would have consorted with the evil spirits of middle-age romance.
** 1853, Ruskin, Lect. Archit., chapter iv, page 217:That child is working in the middle-age spirit — the other in the modern spirit.
** 1869, F. W. Newman, Misc., page 46:Perhaps it incapacitated the Arabs and the middleage Schoolmen for all but formal reasoning.

### Further reading

* James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Middle age, sb.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 421, column 2: “3. attrib., quasi-adj. (with hyphen). Belonging to the Middle Ages; mediæval.”
# livume
## Esperanto
### Etymology

* livuma + -e

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [liˈvume]
* Rhymes: -ume
* Hyphenation: li‧vu‧me

### Adverb

livume
* counter-clockwise, anti-clockwise

#### Antonyms

* dekstrume
# synonymous
## English
### Etymology

From Medieval Latin synōnymus, from Ancient Greek συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos). By surface analysis, synonym +‎ -ous.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /sɪˈnɒnɪməs/
* (US) IPA: /sɪˈnɑnɪməs/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

synonymous (not comparable)
* (construed with with, narrower sense) Having an identical meaning.
** 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXVII. Lady Marchmont to Sir Jasper Meredith.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 243:He was not far wrong, for nothing strikes me more forcibly than the universal tendency to grumble: conversation and complaint are synonymous terms.
** 2019 July 17, Talia Levin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ‎:Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry.
* (construed with with, broader sense) Having a similar meaning.
* (construed with with) Of, or being a synonym.
* (genetics, of a SNP) Such that both its forms yield the same sequenced protein.

#### Synonyms

* synonymal (obsolete), synonymic, synonymical
* (narrower sense, having identical meaning): homosemous, homosemic

#### Antonyms

* antonymous
* asynonymous
* nonsynonymous
* unsynonymous
* (antonym(s) of “genetics”): nonsynonymous

#### Derived terms

* asynonymous
* nonsynonymous
* nonsynonymously
* parasynonymous
* synonymously
* synonymousness
* unsynonymous

#### Related terms

* synonym
* synonymity

#### See also

* Wiktionary:Semantic relations

### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “synonymous (adj.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary: “from Medieval Latin synonymus, from Greek synonymos”
* ↑ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Synonymous (sinǫ·niməs), a.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IX, Part 2 (Su–Th), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 385, column 1: “f. med.L. synōnymus, ad. Gr. συνώνυμος: see Synonym and -ous.”
# manducatory
## English
### Etymology

From Latin mandūcāt- +‎ -ory.

### Adjective

manducatory (not comparable)
* Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
    manducatory organs
** 2011, Fred Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds, An Uncertain Place: A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 344:[…] they hadn’t just been killed but annihilated, and more especially their thumbs, teeth and feet. That their functional, spiritual and manducatory organs had been systematically destroyed.

#### Related terms

* manducate
* manducation
* manducator

### References

* ↑ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Manducatory (mæ·ndiŭkătəri), a.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 114: “f. L. mandūcāt- (see Manducate) + -ory.”
* “manducatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
# powldoody
## English
### Alternative forms

* pouldoody, pouldowdy, powldowdy

### Etymology

From Pouldoody (name of the inner part of a creek near Corcomroe Abbey in County Clare), possibly from Irish poll Dubhda (literally “O’Dowd’s hole”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paʊlˈduːdi/
* Rhymes: -uːdi

### Noun

powldoody (plural powldoodies)
* (rare) A variety of Irish oyster, eaten as a delicacy.

### References

* ↑ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Powldoody”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1215, column 3.
# decanate
## English
### Etymology 1

Of decan +‎ -ate. Attested from the 17th century.
* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “is the suffixation to be understood from the rank or office meaning ? as in: "the realm in which are divided the decans"”

#### Noun

decanate (plural decanates)
* (astrology) Face, one of three parts into which each zodiac sign is divided; a decan.
** 1852, William Lilly, An Introduction to Astrology‎, page 70:If any planet be in his decanate, or face, he has the least possible essential dignity
** 2007, Kris Brandt Riske, Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Astrology‎, page 31:Each 30° sign is divided into three 10° sections called decanates (figure 11 and chart 5).

### Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin decānātus, from Latin decānus. Equivalent to Latin decānus +‎ -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, here the concrete charge of it). Compare dean.

#### Noun

decanate (plural decanates)
* (Anglicanism) A group of parishes over which a dean presides; a deanery.
** 1844, Rev. F.C. Ewald, “Bavaria”, in The Missionary Chronicle‎, page 18:These parishes are divided into 80 decanates or chapters. In each decanate there are from ten to eighteen parishes. At the head of each decanate stands the dean,

#### See also

* deaconate

### References

* ↑ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Decanate, n.$^1$”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
* ↑ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Decanate, n.$^2$”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* tea dance
# vinaigrous
## English
### Etymology

From French vinaigre (“vinegar”) +‎ -ous.

### Adjective

vinaigrous (comparative more vinaigrous, superlative most vinaigrous)
* (archaic) vinegary
** 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Lafayette”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women), page 275:The fair Palace Dames publicly declare that this Lafayette, detestable though he be, is their saviour for once. Even the ancient vinaigrous Tantes admit it; […]

### References

* ↑ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Vinaigrous, a.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume X, Part 2 (V–Z), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 210, column 1.
# nugacious
## English
### Etymology

From Latin nūgax, nūgācis (“trifling”) +‎ -ous.

### Adjective

nugacious (comparative more nugacious, superlative most nugacious)
* (now rare) Trivial, trifling or of little importance.
** 1652, John Gaule, “From the testimony of Authority”, in Πῦς-μαντία [Pûs-mantía]. The Mag-Astro-Mancer, or, The Magicall-Astrologicall-Diviner Posed, and Puzzled., London: […] Joshua Kirton […], page 57:How many are the ſpurious Authors of theſe Arts; that have uſurped to themſelves the names and titles of holy men, and of men more famous in their own way; on purpoſe to vend their nugacious fables, and preſtigious impoſtures with more eſteem?
** 1661, Joseph Glanvill, “Chap[ter] XVII. […]”, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 165:’Tis theſe nugacious Diſputations, that have been the great hinderance to the more improveable parts of Learning: […]
** 1829, Robert Southey, “Colloquy [X.] Part II. The Reformation.—Dissenters.—Methodists.”, in Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 61:Like the Monastic Orders, which were continually subdividing upon some quarrel of reform, .. for the restoration of old observances, or the introduction of new; sometimes for things as nugacious as the colour of a habit, or the shape of a cowl.

#### Related terms

* nugacity
* nugatory

### References

* ↑ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Nugacious”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 253, column 1.