cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
outtravel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outtravels
form: outtraveling
form: outtravelling
form: outtraveled
form: outtraveled
form: outtravelled
form: outtravelled
Etymology: From out- + travel.
Senses: glosses: To travel more or greater than
outtraveled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outtravel
outtraveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outtravel
outtravelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outtravel
outtravelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outtravel
outtravels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outtravel
out-paramour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: out-paramours
form: out-paramouring
form: out-paramoured
form: out-paramoured
Etymology: From out- + paramour.
Senses: examples: text: So when some wild deceiving boy / Assaults th' unspotted virgin, / At first the lass is very coy, / And long resists his urging. / But after she is fairly won, / And the foul deed is over, / The wanton gypsy, not half done, / Out-paramours her lover.
ref: 1757, John Maclaurin, The Philosopher's Opera, Edinburgh, →OCLC; chapter 21, in James Fieser, editor, Early Responses to Hume’s Life and Reputation: I, second revised edition, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2005, →OCLC, page 110:
glosses: To exceed in the number of romantic affairs.
Derived terms: out-paramour the Turk
grapholite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grapholites
Etymology: From grapho- + -lite, from Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “writε”) and λίθος (líthos, “stone”).
Senses: examples: text: grapholite chalkboards
glosses: Any variety of slate suitable to be written on.
grapholites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grapholite
kirtled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəːt(ə)ld/
ipa: /ˈkɚt(ə)ld/
ipa: /-ɾ(ə)ld/
Etymology: From kirtle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I have oft heard
My mother Circe with the Sirens three,
Amidſt the flowery-kirtled Naiades,
Culling their potent herbs, and baleful drugs,
Who, as they ſung, would take the priſon'd ſoul,
And lap it in Elyſium; […]
ref: 1637, [John Milton], A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: On Michaelmasse Night, before the Right Honorable, Iohn Earle of Bridgewater, Vicount Brackly, Lord Præsident of Wales, and One of His Maiesties Most Honorable Privie Counsell, London: Printed [by Augustine Mathewes] for Humphrey Robinson, at the signe of the Three Pidgeons in Pauls Church-yard, →OCLC; republished as “Comus, a Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle”, in Thomas Wharton, editor, Poems upon Several Occasions, English, Italian, and Latin, with Translations, by John Milton. Viz. Lycidas, L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, Comus, Odes, Sonnets, Miscellanies, English Psalms, Elegiarum Liber, Epigrammatum Liber, Sylvarum Liber. With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and Other Illustrations, by Thomas Wharton, B.D. …, 2nd edition, London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, 1791, →OCLC, pages 170–172, lines 252–257:
text: And bounding hand in hand, man link'd to man,
Yelling their uncouth dirge, long daunced the kirtled clan
ref: 1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
text: From out that beaming look, to know what thoughts
Within the barb-leaved hart's-tongue dwell—
The purple eye petalled with snow, that floats
So gracefully:—dost think the damosel,
Young Hope, kirtled with Chastity, there fell
Into the stream, and grew a flower so fair?
ref: 1845, Thomas Cooper, “Book the Fourth”, in The Purgatory of Suicides. A Prison-rhyme. In Ten Books, London: Printed for Jeremiah How, 209, Piccadilly, →OCLC, stanza III, page 128:
text: […] [W]e had more recently an importation of wild Albanians kirtled to the knee, some eleven hundred of them, the forerunners of larger detachments,—on their way to the Hedjoz on service,—and these things, some folks said, were significant.
ref: 1854, Henry W[hitelock] Torrens, James Hume, “Idle Days in Egypt”, in A Selection from the Writings, Prose and Poetical, of the Late Henry W. Torrens, Esq., B.A., Bengal Civil Service, and of the Inner Temple; with a Biographical Memoir. By James Hume, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-law, volume II, Calcutta: R. C. Lepage and Co., British Library; London: R. C. Lepage & Co., Whitefriars St. Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 440:
glosses: Clothed or covered with, or as if with, a kirtle.
Derived terms: unkirtled
kirtled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəːt(ə)ld/
ipa: /ˈkɚt(ə)ld/
ipa: /-ɾ(ə)ld/
Etymology: From kirtle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kirtle
unappalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unappalled
form: most unappalled
Etymology: From un- + appalled.
Senses: examples: text: [...] ſome yell'd, ſome ſhriek'd, / Some bent at thee thir fiery darts, while thou / Sat'ſt unappall'd in calm and ſinleſs peace.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 100, lines 420–422:
glosses: Not appalled or frightened; undaunted.
unflexible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unflexible
form: most unflexible
Etymology: From un- + flexible.
Senses: synonyms: inflexible
glosses: Not flexible.
jetteau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jetteaus
Senses: examples: text: For this reason there is nothing that more enlivens a prospect than rivers, jetteaus, or falls of water […]
ref: 1712 June 21, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, number 412:
glosses: Alternative form of jet d'eau.
jetteaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jetteau
wirework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wireworks
Etymology: From wire + work.
Senses: glosses: Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The use of wires to suspend actors in otherwise impossible positions.
Derived terms: wire fu
wireworker
wireworking
wirework
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wireworks
form: wireworking
form: wireworked
form: wireworked
Etymology: From wire + work.
Senses: glosses: To create or work with wire, such as electric wire.
glosses: To construct something using wire, such as a mesh or trellis.
wireworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wirework
wireworks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wirework
unfeudalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfeudalizes
form: unfeudalizing
form: unfeudalized
form: unfeudalized
Etymology: From un- + feudalize.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless the Austrian Kaiser answers that his German Princes, for their part, cannot be unfeudalised; that they have Possessions in French Alsace, and Feudal Rights secured to them, for which no conceivable compensation will suffice.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter V, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (Parliament First), page 229:
glosses: To cause to no longer be feudal.
unfeudalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unfeudalize
unfeudalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unfeudalize
godlily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒdlɪli/
Forms: form: more godlily
form: most godlily
Etymology: From godly + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] enjoyning them upon the severest Penalties to live godlily, holily and righteously in this present World […]
ref: 1688, Henry Wharton, Sermon III preach'd at Lambeth Chapel:
glosses: In a godly fashion; righteously.
mispraise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mispraises
form: mispraising
form: mispraised
form: mispraised
Etymology: From mis- + praise. Compare to French mépriser.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hough I spend my nights, and dayes, and thoughts, and spirits, and words, and preaching, and writing, upon Princes, and Judges, and Magistrates . . . I have not paid a farthing of my debt to God; I have not praised him, but I have praised them, till not only my selfe, but even they, whom I have so mispraised, are the worse in the sight of God, for my over-praising.
ref: 1623, John Donne, The sermons of John Donne, Sermon 12 (Google preview):
text: We look upon it not so much as a strangely overpraised, but as a mispraised composition. It is a torrent of abuse.
ref: 1845, Morgan Rattler, "Touching Antony the Triumvir and Cicero the Orator," Fraser's Magazine (September), p. 326 (Google preview)
text: Anaximander's interest in cosmogony has been vastly overestimated, and his achievements consistently mispraised.
ref: 2010, Paul F. O'Rourke (quoting Jonathan Barnes), Offerings to the Discerning Eye, Sue D'Auria (ed.), p. 247 n.25 (Google preview)
glosses: To praise falsely, injudiciously, or without good reason.
examples: text: On hearing the Duke of Wellington mispraised he defends him, in a sonnet.
ref: 1949, Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: To slander, blame, or disparage.
mispraised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mispraise
mispraises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mispraise
mispraising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mispraise
nonlimitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + limitation.
Senses: glosses: Lack of limitation; failure to limit.
overwary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overwary
form: most overwary
Etymology: From over- + wary.
Senses: glosses: Too wary; excessively cautious.
reassimilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reassimilates
form: reassimilating
form: reassimilated
form: reassimilated
Etymology: From re- + assimilate.
Senses: glosses: To assimilate again.
Related terms: reassimilation
reassimilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reassimilate
reassimilates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reassimilate
reassimilating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reassimilate
doxological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to doxology.
Derived terms: doxologically
glottological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glottology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of glossological.
synonyms: word: glossological
nonusance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + usance.
Senses: examples: text: nonusance of legal powers
glosses: Failure to use; nonusage.
Neronian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈɹəʊnɪən/
Forms: form: more Neronian
form: most Neronian
Etymology: From Latin Nerōniānus.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Roman emperor Nero, notorious for debauchery and barbarous cruelty.
unextricable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unextricable
form: most unextricable
Etymology: From un- + extricable.
Senses: examples: text: Which ſuppoſition we ſhall finde involved in unextricable difficulties.
ref: 1659, Dr. Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul:
glosses: Not extricable.
joyancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From joy + -ancy.
Senses: examples: text: One heard too, often enough, that in Irving there was visible a certain joyancy and frankness of triumph[.]
ref: 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences:
glosses: Alternative form of joyance (“joy, enjoyment”).
melancholist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melancholists
Etymology: From melancholy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: the Melancholist was afraid to ſit down for fear of being broken, ſuppoſing himself of Glass
ref: 1676, Joseph Glanvill, The Usefulness of Real Philosophy to Religion:
glosses: One affected with melancholy or dejection.
melancholists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melancholist
overjealous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overjealous
form: most overjealous
Etymology: From Middle English overgelous, equivalent to over- + jealous.
Senses: glosses: Excessively jealous.
overjealous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English overgelous, equivalent to over- + jealous.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of overzealous.
underlease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌliːs/
ipa: /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈliːs/
Forms: form: underleases
Etymology: From under- + lease.
Senses: topics: law
property
synonyms: word: sublease
word: subtenancy
word: undertenancy
word: subletting
word: underletting
word: sublet
word: underlet
word: sublease
glosses: Synonym of sublease.
underlease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌliːs/
ipa: /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈliːs/
Forms: form: underleases
form: underleasing
form: underleased
form: underleased
Etymology: From under- + lease.
Senses: topics: law
property
synonyms: word: sublet
word: underlet
word: sublease
word: subtenant
word: sublet
glosses: Synonym of sublet.
underleases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underlease
underleases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underlease
unmovably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unmovably
form: most unmovably
Etymology: From unmovable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: immovably
goodless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʊdləs/
Etymology: From Middle English goodles (“poor, without goods or property”), from Old English gōdlēas (“without good, miserable, bad, evil”), equivalent to good + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I have therefore declared that it is all one whether a man says "God" or "good:" he is saying the same thing in substance, and cannot be called "godless" until he is goodless.
ref: 1892, Horace Traubel, The conservator:
text: It may be an exaggeration to suppose that the country deliberately injures itself a little in order to hurt the goodless town more, but it is certainly true that the peasants, farmers and landlords (where these survive) refuse to regard it as any part of their patriotic duty to make the least effort, [...]
ref: 1922, Henry Noel Brailsford, After the peace:
text: Punishment conceived as the logical nemesis of the criminal's principle is embedded in a goodless normative framework; that is its home.
ref: 2009, Alan Brudner, Punishment and Freedom:
glosses: Without goods or property; destitute.
glosses: Worthless.
examples: text: If there are souls to whom this world seems a goodless realm, who fail to find divine tokens of love anywhere, you and I are partly responsible.
ref: 1887, William Channing Gannett, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, The faith that makes faithful:
glosses: Lacking or devoid of good or goodness.
Derived terms: goodlessness
meritedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more meritedly
form: most meritedly
Etymology: From merited + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By merit; deservedly; meritously
overheavy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overheavy
form: most overheavy
Etymology: From over- + heavy.
Senses: glosses: Excessively heavy.
Derived terms: overheavily
splashboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splashboards
Etymology: From splash + board.
Senses: examples: text: The old driver was hanging over the splash-board like some grotesque scarecrow, his arms dangling absurdly in front of him.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Reluctantly Cora handed up the basket and was hauled up over the splash-board herself, and bumped down on the chaffbags as Ted Farrell clicked up the horse again.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 168:
glosses: A guard towards the front of a horse-drawn vehicle, to prevent splashing by mud or water from the road.
splashboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splashboard
disobediencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disobediency
disobediency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disobediencies
Etymology: From dis- + obediency.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of disobedience.
musculospiral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin musculus (“muscle”) + English spiral.
Senses: examples: text: musculospiral palsy
text: musculospiral paralysis
text: musculospiral trunk
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the radial nerve (also called the musculospiral nerve)
musculospiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musculospirals
Etymology: Latin musculus (“muscle”) + English spiral.
Senses: glosses: The radial nerve.
nonconstat
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non constat.
overtedious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overtedious
form: most overtedious
Etymology: From over- + tedious.
Senses: glosses: Excessively tedious.
lightful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: lītʹfo͝ol
Forms: form: more lightful
form: most lightful
Etymology: From Middle English lightful, lihtful (“luminous, providing enlightenment”), from light, liht (noun) + -ful (“full of (a feeling)”, suffix forming adjectives). See more at light (noun).
Senses: examples: text: formlesse eyes doe faile / To see the sun, though brought to lightfull land.
ref: a. 1599 (date written), Mary Sidney, “Psalm LVIII”, in The Psalmes of David […], London: From the Chiswick Press by C[harles] Whittingham, for Robert Triphook, […], published 1823, →OCLC, page 101:
text: His lightfull Lamp reflected on my head, / Whereby I walkt through Darkneſs
ref: a. 1619 (date written), [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “A Divine and True Tragi-comedy; Iob Triumphant in His Triall: Or The Historie of His Heroicall Patience. In a Measured Metaphrase. The Third Book..”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], London: […] Robert Young, published 1633, →OCLC, page 470:
text: [The door] had a gloomy and surly aspect, but the hall within was lightful and airy
ref: 1889, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke: […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co […], →OCLC, page 164:
glosses: Full of light; bright.
Derived terms: word: lightfulness
lightful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: lītʹfo͝ol
Forms: form: more lightful
form: most lightful
Etymology: From light (“not weighed down”, adjective) + -ful (“full of, having”, adjective).
Senses: glosses: Light; cheerful.
Derived terms: word: lightfulness
outcompass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outcompasses
form: outcompassing
form: outcompassed
form: outcompassed
Etymology: From out- + compass.
Senses: examples: text: "It is manifest that there is no danger at all in the proportion or quantity of knowledge, how large soever, lest it should make it swell or out-compass itself; no, but it is merely the quality of knowledge, which, be it in quantity more or less, if it be taken without the true corrective thereof, hath in it some nature of venom or malignity, and some effects of that venom, which is ventosity or swelling."
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning:
glosses: To exceed the compass or limits of.
Synonyms: exceed
surpass
transcend
outcompassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outcompass
outcompasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outcompass
outcompassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outcompass
supersecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supersecular
form: most supersecular
Etymology: From super- + secular.
Senses: examples: text: Let us (ſaith he [Gregory of Nazianzus]) celebrate this feaſt, not in a panegyrical but divine, not in a vvorldly but ſuperſecular manner; not regarding ſo much our ſelves or ours, as the vvorſhip of Chriſt, &c.
ref: a. 1657, Joseph Hall, “A Letter for the Observation of the Feast of Christ’s Nativity”, in The Shaking of the Olive-Tree. The Remaining Works of that Incomparable Prelate Joseph Hall, D.D. […], London: […] J. Cadwel for J[ohn] Crooke, […], published 1660, →OCLC, page 302:
glosses: Above the world, or secular things.
vociferators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vociferator
like cheese at fourpence
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the mill towns of Lancashire, where fourpence was considered expensive for cheese and hence cheese for sale at that price would not be bought.
Senses: examples: text: Don't stand there like cheese at fourpence.
ref: 1989, Colin Dunne, Hooligan, page 38:
text: "Why are you standing there like cheese at fourpence?"
ref: 2003, Rachel Wyatt, Time's Reach, page 75:
text: Then you can stay sat there like cheese at fourpence till Mrs Henshaw gets back with her lawyer.
ref: 2010, Ruth Hamilton, Mersey View, page 89:
glosses: Of a person: waiting idly or timewasting.
sensable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sensable
form: most sensable
Etymology: From sense + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Although his mind remained aware that he was physically seated within a sensable booth, all his senses told him that he was experiencing the story that was happening around him.
ref: 2011, E.E. 'Doc' Smith, Stephen Goldin, Getaway World:
glosses: Capable of being sensed; perceptible, tangible.
examples: text: Put on your thinking cap and go see an intellegent, intensly well thought out noir/science fiction film with a plot that makes sensable, practical use of phenominal special effects.
ref: 2010, "American" (username), Great, Intellegent Brain Twister, Yahoo Movies, 2010-07-20, accessed on 2011-10-26
glosses: Misspelling of sensible.
cremators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cremator
disaccordant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disaccordant
form: most disaccordant
Etymology: From dis- + accordant.
Senses: examples: text: It is disacordaunt vnto other wryters.
ref: 1494, Robert Fabyan, Fabyan's Chronicle:
glosses: Not accordant.
fordless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ford + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Between our human nature and the nature they desiderate there is a deep and fordless river, over which they can throw no bridge, and all their talk supposes that we shall be able to fly or wade across it […]
ref: 1879, William Hurrell Mallock, Is Life Worth Living?:
text: 2006, Maha-bhárata, Book 7, Volume 1, Clay Sanskrit Library, edited and translated by Vaughan Pilikian, New York University Press, p. 185,
Drona poured forth a river of death. […] Not fish but swords swam in its fordless waters, and elephants and horses were where sharks might have been.
glosses: Without a ford.
operculiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more operculiform
form: most operculiform
Etymology: From Latin operculum (“a cover”) + -form. Compare French operculiforme.
Senses: examples: text: operculiform appendage
text: operculiform ring
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the form of a lid or cover.
oppositipetalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See opposite and petal.
Senses: examples: text: oppositipetalous stamens
text: […] cells 5 oppositipetalous, subincomplete at apex; […]
ref: 1880, Henri Baillon, The Natural History of Plants, volume 6, page 43:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Facing a petal.
unworship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English unworship, unworschip, unworschipe, unworschippe, from Old English unworþsċyp, unworþsċype, unweorþsċipe, equivalent to un- + worship.
Senses: examples: text: Some might think that I do little worship to Martha, that special saint, for I liken her words of complaining of her sister unto these worldly men's words, or theirs unto hers : and truly I mean no unworship to her nor to them.
ref: 1946, E.Underhill, The Cloud of Unknowing, page 137:
text: But whatever the world might think about such men, they are judged 'right shameful before God and all the company of heaven', for before them all sin is shame and 'unworship'.
ref: 2011, J. Arnold, S. Brady, What is Masculinity?:
text: Whoe'er he be, who on my Queen hath laid
Stress of unworship: […]
ref: 2017, Madison Cawein, Accolon of Gaul, with Other Poems:
text: They hold God in great unworship [contempt] when all day and for nought him call to witness of all that is said, for swearing is no other thing but calling God to witness, and his mother and his holy ones [halzen].
ref: 1340, Dan Michel, Ayenbite of Inwyt (overall work in Middle English); quoted in Ashley Montagu, “The History of Swearing”, in The Anatomy of Swearing (paperback), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1967, published 2001, page 123:
glosses: Lack of worship or respect; dishonour; failure or refusal to worship; irreverence.
opercular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: opercular bone
text: opercular cavity
text: opercular flap
text: opercular plate
text: opercular pouch
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: relating to the operculum
Derived terms: abopercular
cingulo-opercular
inopercular
opercularization
opercularly
preopercular
subopercular
supraopercular
opercular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operculars
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The principal opercular bone or operculum of fishes.
operculars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opercular
outguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outguards
Etymology: From out + guard or out- + guard.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy.
glosses: Anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended.
outguard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outguards
form: outguarding
form: outguarded
form: outguarded
Etymology: From out + guard or out- + guard.
Senses: examples: text: The defense complex itself, not unlike that organized in and around Abu Ageila, consisted of several batallion strongpoints outguarded and flank protected by platoon, detachment, and company sized units.
ref: 1962 May-June, Stuart A. Beckley, “"Operation Kadesh", Mobility Masterpiece”, in Armor, page 60:
text: To most of them Dong Tre was only a place somewhere other than the port that they outguarded.
ref: 1992, S. L. A Marshall, The Fields of Bamboo:
text: Slanting in echelon NE, the three Jap perimeters outguarded four P Perimeters some distance south which had defeated the Aussie tank attack 12 Jan.
ref: 1997, Dr. Hargis Westefield, Joe Murphy, “Infighting at Sanananda”, in 41st Infantry Division: Fighting Jungleers, page xxxix:
glosses: To serve as an outguard at.
examples: text: He outguessed, outscored, and outguarded the Tiger, though the latter in a guard position showed that he was a real basketball man.
ref: 1921, The Colorado School of Mines Magazine - Volumes 11-13, page 22:
text: Whereas, the Bulls outgunned, outguarded and outplayed the Los Angeles Lakers Wednesday, June 12, to claim their fourth victory in the best-of seven series for the National Basketball Association title; […]
ref: 1991, Illinois. General Assembly. Senate, Journal of the Senate, page 2421:
text: The Wildcats outplayed, outfought, outgarded and, greatest of all, outscored Waterloo.
ref: 2008, Dick Burdette, The Waterloo Wonders, page 171:
glosses: To do a better job of guarding than.
outguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outguard
-uret
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Coined in 1788 by translator of de Morveau, Lavoisier et al.'s 1787 book Méthode de nomenclature chimique James St. John, from Modern Latin -uretum and French -ure.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: -ide.
outstink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outstinks
form: outstinking
form: outstank
form: outstunk
Etymology: From out- + stink.
Senses: examples: text: You could outstink a herd of goats!
glosses: To smell worse than; to surpass in stench.
unhap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English unhap, onhap, equivalent to un- (“lack of”) + hap (“fortune”).
Senses: examples: text: the cause of her unhap
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: Ill luck; misfortune.
unprofit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + profit.
Senses: glosses: Lack of profit; unprofitableness.
vernacularism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vernacularisms
Etymology: From vernacular + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A vernacular word, phrase, or manner of speaking.
glosses: A vernacular music.
glosses: The belief that texts should be published in the vernacular.
vernacularisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vernacularism
outstank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of outstink
outstinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outstink
outstunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of outstink
outstinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outstink
nondeposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + deposition.
Senses: examples: text: Unconformities are surfaces of erosion or nondeposition of sediments that separate younger rocks from older ones.
ref: 2013, Sreepat Jain, Fundamentals of Physical Geology:
glosses: The act of not depositing; the lack of deposition.
outbray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outbrays
form: outbraying
form: outbrayed
form: outbrayed
Etymology: From out- + bray.
Senses: examples: text: […] could outbray a donkey.
ref: 1972, Frances Marion, Off with Their Heads: A Serio-comic Tale of Hollywood (paeg 195)
glosses: To exceed in braying.
examples: text: The ſnake (that on his creſt hot fire out braid, […]
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Tenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 179:
glosses: To exhale; outbreathe.
glosses: To emit with great noise; bray out.
outbrayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outbray
outbraying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outbray
outbrays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outbray
overking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌkɪŋ/
Forms: form: overkings
Etymology: From Middle English oferrking, over-king. By surface analysis, over- + king.
Senses: examples: text: the King of Connaught, who was recognized as overking of the island by the rest of the tribe[…]
ref: 1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People:
text: "They have given me five-and-twenty overkings," protested John, and he at once turned to seek a way of evasion.
ref: 1907, Katharine Coman, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A History of England, for High Schools and Academies, The Macmillan Company, page 122:
text: The latter asked the aid of Cond the overking, who took up their cause, and a fierce war arose, in which Cond was beaten and compelled to divide Ireland with his rival.
ref: 1908, Henry Smith Williams, Scotland, Ireland, England since 1792, Hooper & Jackson, →ISBN, page 335:
text: Celtic law, however, explicitly specified that any member of a tribe, including overkings/overqueens of provinces and Druid high priests/priestesses, could be stripped of their legal rights if they failed to execute the legal obligations of their stations.
ref: 1996, Jack George Thompson, Women in Celtic Law and Culture, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page 39:
text: The difference between a dux bellorum and an overking is not clear, and it may be that the two concepts were elided into a single role.
ref: 2000, Don Nardo, Rodney Castleden, King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend, Routledge, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: A king who has sovereignty over inferior kings or ruling princes; a ruler of an overkingdom; a king that is truly superior or supreme; an emperor.
overkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overking
aspectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /æsˈpɛktəbəl/
Forms: form: more aspectable
form: most aspectable
Etymology: From Latin aspectabilis.
Senses: examples: text: Now to this uſe and purpoſe of informing us what is abroad round about us in this aſpectable World, we ſhall find this Structure and Mechaniſm of the Eye, and every Part thereof ſo well fitted and adapted, as not the leaſt Curioſity can be added.
ref: 1691, John Ray, “Of Bodies Endued with a Sensitive Soul, or Animals”, in The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC, page 170:
text: [T]he hungry beggar-boy […] / Contains, himself, both flowers and firmaments / And surging seas and aspectable stars, / And all that we would push him out of sight / In order to see nearer.
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sixth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC, pages 235–236:
glosses: Capable of being seen; visible.
astrologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒdʒɪk
Forms: form: astrologick
Etymology: From French astrologique or Latin astrologicus. By surface analysis, astrology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of astrological.
disquietful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disquietful
form: most disquietful
Etymology: From disquiet + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: love and pity of ourselves should persuade us to forbear it as disquietful, incommodious , and mischievous to us
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of Evil-speaking in general”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: Producing inquietude or uneasiness; stressful.
leafcup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafcups
Etymology: From leaf + cup.
Senses: glosses: A coarse American composite weed, Smallanthus uvedalia.
glosses: A perennial herb, Polymnia canadensis
glosses: A rare perennial or annual herb found only in Tennessee and Georgia, Polymnia laevigata
glosses: A rare herb, Polymnia johnbeckii found only in patches along the Tennessee River.
glosses: An annual wildflower found only in Arkansas, Polymnia cossatotensis.
Derived terms: Beck's leafcup
hairy leafcup
small-flowered leafcup
whiteflower leafcup
yellow flower leafcup
leafcups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leafcup
nonregent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonregents
Etymology: From non- + regent.
Senses: qualifier: universities
glosses: A master of arts or other subjects whose regency has ceased, and therefore is no longer obliged to lecture.
glosses: Someone who is not a member of the Board of Regents, especially in the Smithsonian Institution
Related terms: regent
nonregents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonregent
optigraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optigraphs
Etymology: Compare French opticographe.
Senses: glosses: A telescope with a diagonal eyepiece, suspended vertically in gimbals by the object end beneath a fixed diagonal plane mirror. It is used for delineating landscapes by means of an attached pencil.
optigraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of optigraph
outsoar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊtˈsɔː(ɹ)/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /aʊtˈsoə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: outsoars
form: outsoaring
form: outsoared
form: outsoared
Etymology: From out- + soar.
Senses: examples: text: [T]here's plenty hint / Your pinions have received of late a shock— / Out-soar them, cobswan of the silver flock!
ref: 1840 March, Robert Browning, “Book the Second”, in Sordello, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 83:
glosses: To soar beyond or above.
outsoared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outsoar
outsoaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outsoar
outsoars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outsoar
overglad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overglad
form: most overglad
Etymology: From over- + glad.
Senses: glosses: Excessively or unduly glad.
thanksgiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thanksgivers
Etymology: From thanks + giver.
Senses: examples: text: the devout thanksgiver , David , continually declaring the great price he set on the divine favors
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Duty of Thanksgiving”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: One who gives thanks, or acknowledges kindness.
Related terms: thanksgiving
thanksgivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thanksgiver
vaulty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vaulty
form: most vaulty
Etymology: From vault + -y.
Senses: examples: text: the vaulty heaven so high above our heads
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
glosses: Arched, concave, or containing vaults.
outbowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more outbowed
form: most outbowed
Etymology: From out (“outward”) + bowed.
Senses: examples: text: The convex or outbowed side of a vessel will hold nothing;
ref: 1613, Bishop Joseph Hall, An Holy Panegyrick:
glosses: Bowed outward, curved outward.
Synonyms: convex
outbowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See outbow (verb).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outbow
unmuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmuffles
form: unmuffling
form: unmuffled
form: unmuffled
Etymology: From un- + muffle.
Senses: glosses: To take a covering from, as the face; to uncover.
examples: text: But when returning from the graveyard, the band would unmuffle the drum and launch into up-tempo, jazzlike popular compositions.
ref: 2015, Henry Martin, Keith Waters, Jazz: The First 100 Years, Enhanced Media Edition, page 62:
glosses: To remove the muffling of, as a drum.
glosses: To throw off one's concealments.
unmuffles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unmuffle
unmuffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unmuffle
reaugment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reaugments
form: reaugmenting
form: reaugmented
form: reaugmented
Etymology: From re- + augment.
Senses: glosses: To augment again.
Related terms: reaugmentation
reaugmentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reaugmentations
Etymology: From re- + augmentation.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent augmentation
Related terms: reaugment
unnumerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unnumerable
form: most unnumerable
Etymology: From un- + numerable.
Senses: examples: text: Indenteth with reversed streame: even so of winding wayes Unnumerable Daedalus within his worke convayes
ref: 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), Metamorphoses (originally by Ovid)
glosses: Obsolete form of innumerable.
état major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: états major
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French, from état (“state”) + Latin major (“greater”).
Senses: examples: text: At length seeing the strife between that body and the councils settled, and guessing what would be the issue of it, the General felt that he would lose himself by his silence, without saving Pichegru, and being particularly pressed by his chef d'état Major […]
ref: 1814, Paul Svinine, Some Details concerning General Moreau, page 123:
text: An officer from the dragoons and an officer from the chasseurs joined the état major and were used by the General to take orders to their respective regimental commanders.
ref: 1914, Journal of the United States Cavalry Association, page 435:
text: The key conditions, however, were that Russia had to immediately commence the construction of the strategic lines for which France had long been clamoring, in accordance with plans drawn up by the États-Major of France, and the peacetime preparedness and effectiveness of the Russian army had to be augmented.
ref: 2012, Jennifer Siegel, For Peace and Money: French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars, page 120:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, and judge advocates, and their noncommissioned assistants.
outquench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outquenches
form: outquenching
form: outquenched
form: outquenched
Etymology: From out- + quench.
Senses: examples: text: And makes huge hauocke, whiles the candlelight / Out quenched, leaues no skill nor difference of wight.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16:
glosses: To quench entirely; to extinguish.
outquenched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outquench
épergne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: épergnes
Senses: examples: text: They made there, on the breakfast-table, a patch, as it were, of mosaic among the silver chafing dishes, silver épergnes filled with peaches in pyramids, and great silver rose-bowls […].
ref: 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 80:
glosses: Alternative spelling of epergne.
épergnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of épergne
amplificatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amplificatory
form: most amplificatory
Senses: examples: text: […] the latter expresses something respecting the former which, instead of being a mere analysis of its meaning, indicates an actual increase of our knowledge concerning it, on which account such judgments were termed by Kant amplificatory, as adding something to our former ideas on the question.
ref: 1846, John Daniel Morell, An Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century:
glosses: Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative.
Derived terms: autoamplificatory
displacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: displacers
Etymology: From displace + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, displaces.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement.
displacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of displacer
hydruret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrurets
Etymology: From hydro- + -uret.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary compound of hydrogen; a hydride.
hydrurets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydruret
inconformities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inconformity
inconformity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inconformities
Etymology: Compare French inconformité.
Senses: examples: text: Original sin is the habitual inconformity of our natures to the holiness of God; in actual sin is our inconformity to God and his holiness expressed in the particular commands of the law.
ref: 1808, John Owen, Pneumatologia: A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit Abridged by George. Burder., page 179:
text: When they encounter the first false node and the node is in level l (1<l<n), inconformity exists between the level 1 and n nodes.
ref: 2004, Masakazu Takahashi, Noriyoshi Mizukoshi, Kazuhiko Tsuda, “Efficient Program Verification Using Binary Trees and Program Slicing”, in Mircea Gh. Negoita, Robert J. Howlett, L. C. Jain, editor, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering, page 489:
text: On the other hand, however, China's socialist reform still has long way to go in that the basic socialist economic-political system and its corresponding econoic-political system needs to be further improved; at the same time, even if the basic socialist economic-political system and its corresponding economic political system be in place, with the development of social productivity and society, new inconformity and imperfection will emerge. Therefore, the contradictions of both conformity and inconformity between socialist economic base and superstructure and between the relations of production and productivity will exist for a long time.
ref: 2015, Wang Weiguang, Social Change in Contemporary China and the Theory of Social Contradictions, page 76:
text: However we understand the defect, most divine determinists will likely wish to say that the relation of inconformity between act and law obtains (when it does obtain) merely in virtue of the intrinsic natures of the relata. In other words, the relation of inconformity follows merely upon the nonrelational characteristics of the relata
ref: 2019, Peter Furlong, The Challenges of Divine Determinism: A Philosophical Analysis, page 94:
glosses: Lack of conformity; inconsistency.
obsignatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: You seem in your letter to make the principal end and effect of all sacraments to be obsignation, and all sacraments to be merely obsignatory signs […]
ref: 1643, Samuel Ward, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Ratifying; confirming by sealing.
gemmated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gemmated
form: most gemmated
Senses: examples: text: gemmated spores
glosses: Having buds.
examples: text: gemmated tooth
glosses: Adorned with gems or jewels.
lapling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laplings
Etymology: From lap + -ling.
Senses: synonyms: word: hedonist
word: pleasure seeker
word: bon viveur
word: epicure
word: epicurean
word: hedonist
word: high-stepper
word: lapling
word: lotus-eater
word: pleasure seeker
word: pleasurist
word: sensualist
word: softling
word: sybarite
word: voluptuarian
word: voluptuary
glosses: One who has been fondled to excess; one fond of ease and sensual delights.