cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
vocabulist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vocabulists
Etymology: From Latin vocābulum (“vocable”) + -ist. In sense 3, probably after Middle French vocabuliste or its etymon New Latin vocābulista (“vocabulary”). With sense 1, compare French vocabuliste with the same meaning.
Senses: glosses: The writer or maker of a vocabulary (dictionary or glossary); a lexicographer.
examples: text: There is not the least mystery about the meaning of the name of this river, the greenest vocabulist in the Algonquin tongue knows its meaning.
ref: 1853 April 23, The Daily Scioto Gazette, Chillicothe, Oh., →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Truth […] is easily discerned in the most floreate verbal fabric of the most prodigal vocabulist.
ref: 1911 June 17, Musical Standard, London, →OCLC, page 373, column 2:
text: Some words remain for me elusive and are probably jokes I’m not getting or neologisms of Wallace’s: contuded, hulpil, egregulous , ascapartic, gumlet. This is a virtuoso vocabulist at work, performing busily, somewhat aggressively demonstrating his skill.
ref: 2000 May, Frank Louis Cioffi, “‘An Anguish Become Thing’: Narrative as Performance in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest”, in James Phelan, editor, Narrative, volume 8, number 2, Columbus, Oh.: Ohio State University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 168:
synonyms: vocabularian
glosses: One who cultivates a large or impressive vocabulary.
glosses: A dictionary or glossary.
vocabulists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vocabulist
grassatores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grassatore
gravedo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːdəʊ
Forms: form: gravedines
Etymology: From Latin gravedo.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A cold in the head, or nasal catarrh.
discussional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discussional
form: most discussional
Etymology: From discussion + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to discussion.
exonerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exonerative
form: most exonerative
Etymology: From exonerate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Journalist Radley Balko has coined the term “exonerative tense” for […] language structures [specifically designed to diminish the central, active role of police officers in the killings] to highlight their apparent aim of dampening negative judgments about the appropriateness of the officers’ actions.
ref: 2025 January 24, Jonathan Moreno-Medina, Aurelie Ouss, Patrick Bayer, Bocar A. Ba, “Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings”, in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, →DOI:
glosses: exonerating; tending to exonerate.
Synonyms: exculpatory
Derived terms: past exonerative
fennish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fennish
form: most fennish
Etymology: From fen + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: fennish meadow
glosses: Abounding in fens; fenny.
Synonyms: hoggy
quaggy
swampy
marshy
insooth
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From in + sooth.
Senses: examples: text: Insooth, good friend, your father might have kept
This Calfe, bred from his Cow from all the world
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: Said a smile to a tear.
⁠On the cheek of my dear,
That becam'd like the sun in spring weather
⁠Insooth, love Tear,
⁠It strange must appear,
That we should be both here together.
ref: 1822, The smile and the tear:
text: I could render an account, but the tale would be over long,—having insooth surprised them there together, had the twain of them slain by men appointed thereto.
ref: 1922, Alfred Richard Allinson translating Pierre de Bourdeille, Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies, Volume I/First Discourse:
glosses: truly
jurisprudent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jurisprudent
form: most jurisprudent
Etymology: Compare French jurisprudent.
Senses: examples: text: For if belligerent rights were worthy to be gravely discussed by conferences and commissions of very jurisprudent gentlemen, why shall not expectorant rights — never until now discussed or settled, but existing only in the great common or unwritten law of usage—be once for all clearly confirmed, settled, and defined?
ref: 1875 April, “Nebulæ”, in The Galaxy, volume 19, page 580:
text: 'Adieu!' he says, 'I am going to my tutor's lectures on one Puffendorf, a very jurisprudent author as you shall read on a summer's day.'
ref: 1878, George Birkbeck Norman Hill, Dr. Johnson, His Friends and His Critics, page 82:
glosses: Understanding law; skilled in jurisprudence.
examples: text: By this, I wanted to point out how subtle and conscientious our judgment of jurisprudent ideas should be, and what kind of historic approach we have to cherish towards them.
ref: 1985, La Mét[h]odologie du droit, page 97:
text: The jurisprudent psychology analysis is designed to ensure that the results of clinical and forensic interventions for each individual comport with the law's emphasis on principles of justice and fairness.
ref: 2009, John Parry, Criminal Mental Health and Disability Law, Evidence and Testimony, page 51:
text: It is much more prudent and therefore also much more jurisprudent to endeavour to understand what really happens in law and legal theory.
ref: 2018, Scott Veitch, Emilios Christodoulidis, Marco Goldoni, Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts:
text: “And you can't be drinking alcohol on the community stairs, either,” he added, very jurisprudent.
ref: 2020, Alberto Rueda, The Moai who Dreamed of a Jukebox:
glosses: Pertaining to jurisprudence.
jurisprudent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jurisprudents
Etymology: Compare French jurisprudent.
Senses: examples: text: Nobody should imagine that the fitness of the jurisprudent for rule raises him to the status of prophecy or of Imams because our discussion here is not concerned with status and rank but with the actual task.
ref: 2013, Lawrence Davidson, Islamic Fundamentalism: An Introduction:
text: Both the official and the jurisprudent can make mistakes; they can go wrong.
ref: 2017, Martin P. Golding, Legal Reasoning, Legal Theory and Rights, page 191:
text: According to Shaun McVeigh, the persona of the jurisprudent 'is presented in terms of dissent from the (major) jurisprudences of rationalist legal traditions and state authority.
ref: 2022, Christos Marneros, Human Rights After Deleuze: Towards an An-archic Jurisprudence:
glosses: Someone skilled in law or jurisprudence.
jurisprudents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: jurisprudence
Senses: glosses: plural of jurisprudent
legioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From legion + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Formed into a legion or legions
narrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more narrable
form: most narrable
Etymology: From Latin narrabilis, from narrare (“to narrate”).
Senses: examples: text: narrable tale
glosses: Capable of being narrated or told.
succinamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: succinamates
Etymology: From succinamic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of succinamic acid.
succinamates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of succinamate
trophied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trophied
form: most trophied
Etymology: From trophy + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The trophied arches, storied halls invade,
ref: 1734, Alexander Pope, “Epistle IV”, in An Essay on Man, line 303; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 154:
glosses: Adorned with trophies.
trophied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From trophy + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trophy
whitebill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitebills
Etymology: From white + bill.
Senses: glosses: An American coot (Fulica americana)
whitebills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitebill
redemise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redemises
Etymology: From re- + demise.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The transfer of an estate back to the person who demised it; reconveyance.
redemise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redemises
form: redemising
form: redemised
form: redemised
Etymology: From re- + demise.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To demise back; to convey or transfer back, as an estate.
redemises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redemise
gentianine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gentian + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A crystalline alkaloid solid obtained from gentian.
hymnologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hymnologists
Etymology: From hymnology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology.
Related terms: hymnology
hymnologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hymnologist
imputers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imputer
ulcerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ulcerable
form: most ulcerable
Etymology: From ulcer + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of, or suspect to, ulcerating.
vulturism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulturisms
Etymology: From vulture + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being like a vulture; rapaciousness.
fisci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiscus
blushful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈblʌʃfəl/
Forms: form: more blushful
form: most blushful
Etymology: From blush (adjective) + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: [F]rom his [Summer's] ardent look the turning Spring / Averts her blushful face; and earth, and ſkies, / All-ſmiling, to his hot dominion leaves.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 47, lines 6–8:
text: She was particularly pleased with the wine, which at not infrequent intervals she tasted. Beyond all doubt it promised to be of vintage quality. Clearly the long hot summer had put more than a little pep into the berries. Yes, she told herself as she tasted it again, this was the true, the blushful, the real McCoy.
ref: 1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren:
glosses: Full of blushes.
Derived terms: blushfully
blushfulness
flourisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flourishers
Etymology: From flourish + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is not that the sword-flourisher threatens himself only by calling forth another sword-flourisher to challenge him. That is only half the picture.
ref: 1936, The Universalist Leader, volume 39, number 23, page 712:
glosses: One who flourishes.
flourishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flourisher
inoccupation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unoccupation
Etymology: From in- + occupation.
Senses: examples: text: The whole strength of Evadne's mind was exerted to support the failing spirits of her husband. Loss of property, hopelessness as to his future prospects, the inoccupation to which poverty condemned him, combined to reduce him to a state bordering on insanity.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 235:
text: The hours dragged on in a dreary inoccupation. Towards dusk she sat down beside him and he laid his hand on hers. The touch startled her. He seemed to be calling her from far off. She looked at him helplessly and his smile went through her like a physical pang.
ref: 1889, Edith Wharton, A Journey:
glosses: Lack of occupation (being busy); lack of something to do.
orthognathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orthognathic
form: most orthognathic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) + Ancient Greek γνᾰ́θος (gnắthos, “jaw”) + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: orthognathous
glosses: straight-jawed
examples: text: orthognathic surgery
text: orthognathic procedure
glosses: Of or pertaining to the correction of the jaws
orthopterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Orthoptera + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the Orthoptera.
tricrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tricrotic
form: most tricrotic
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to tricrotism; characterized by tricrotism.
noiseful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more noiseful
form: most noiseful
Etymology: From noise + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done / In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale, / Whom Arthur and his knighthood call'd The Pure, / Had pass'd into the silent life of prayer,
ref: 1874, Alfred Tennyson, “The Holy Grail”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VI), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 102:
synonyms: noisy
glosses: Loud; clamorous.
Derived terms: noisefully
urostege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urosteges
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: subcaudal
glosses: One of the plates on the underside of a snake's tail.
urosteges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urostege
folliculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more folliculated
form: most folliculated
Senses: examples: text: folliculated mass
text: folliculated oocyte
text: folliculated ovary
glosses: Having follicles.
Derived terms: defolliculated
baladins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baladin
ehlite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: For the German village of Ehl (near the type locality Linz, Austria) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of pseudomalachite; a green pearly mineral, hydrous phosphate of copper.
exceptless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exceptless
form: most exceptless
Etymology: From except (“to leave out”) + -less, a rather unexpected formation as -less is usually attached to nouns.
Senses: examples: text: my general and exceptless rashness
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: 17 February 1788, Edmund Burke, speech in the impeachment of Warren Hastings
a general (almost exceptless) confiscation
text: Let each proud sinner learn himself to know, / Nor be exceptless all the world his foe!
ref: 1834, Charles Frederick Bennett, Donjon, Prospect and Reflection, London, page 72:
glosses: That makes no exception; universal, unexcepting.
stepstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepstones
Etymology: From step + stone.
Senses: glosses: A stone laid before a door as a stair to step on when entering or leaving the house; a doorstep.
glosses: A stepping stone
stepstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepstone
fruiteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruitery
thenadays
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: At that time; then; in those days.
Coordinate terms: nowadays
vehicled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vehicle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a vehicle.
vehicled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From vehicle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vehicle
Jung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /jʊŋ/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Jung. Doublet of Young.
Senses: glosses: Jung, a surname of German origin
glosses: Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology.
Coordinate terms: Freud
Derived terms: Jungian
Jung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /jʊŋ/
/d͡ʒʌŋ/
/jʊŋ/
Etymology: Transliteration of Korean 정 (jeong).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Korean.
actiniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From actin- + -iform.
Senses: synonyms: radiate#Adjective
coordinate_terms: raylike
glosses: Having a radiated form; ray-shaped.
annoyful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more annoyful
form: most annoyful
Etymology: From annoy + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: For as much as this new fortress is an annoyful neighbour to your Majesty's town of Boulogne, and county of the same […]
ref: 1815, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; Thomas Wyatt, “From the Earl of Surrey to the King” (chapter XIV), in George Frederick Nott, editor, The Works of Henry Howard, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, page 192:
text: The immediate and annoyful physical effects of mental irritation are strikingly displayed in those of a nervous and sensitive temperament, […]
ref: 1850, William Sweetser, “Anger, Concluded” (chapter XV), in Mental Hygiene, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 156:
glosses: annoying
bookcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bo͝okʹ-krăft'
ipa: /ˈbʊkˌkɹæft/
rhymes: -ʊkkɹæft
Etymology: From book + -craft. Compare Old English bōccræft (“book-learning, literature”).
Senses: glosses: Authorship; literary skill.
disinvestiture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + investiture.
Senses: examples: text: The Marxist ideology postulates the total control of the economy in the name of the collectivity , and party control ranges from penetration and imposition to total disinvestiture and direct management
ref: 1986, Roy C. Macridis, Modern Political Regimes:
glosses: The act of depriving of investiture.
japanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: japanners
Etymology: From japan + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who varnishes with japan.
glosses: A bootblack.
japanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of japanner
omnicorporeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From omni- + corporeal.
Senses: examples: text: He is both incorporeal, and omnicorporeal, for there is nothing of any body which he is not
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: omnipresent
;
universal#Adjective
catholic#Adjective
;
pervasive#Adjective
comprehensive#Adjective
glosses: Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance.
somnambular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more somnambular
form: most somnambular
Senses: examples: text: And while the palpitating peaks break out
Ecstatic from somnambular repose
With answers to the presence and the shout,
We, poets of the people, who take part
With elemental justice, natural right,
Join in our echoes also, nor refrain.
ref: 1859, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Napoleon III in Italy:
glosses: sleepy; asleep or as if asleep
excusers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excuser
lentitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin lentitudo, from lentus (“slow”). Compare Old French lentitude.
Senses: examples: text: lentitude of temperament
glosses: Slowness; sluggishness.
Related terms: lentitudinous
transportment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transportments
Etymology: From transport + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: If so, regardless of how it looks, you should love and appreciate it; enabling you to feel happiness, physical transportment, and ecstasy is the best thing a body can do for you.
ref: 1996, Helen Eisenbach, Lesbianism Made Easy:
glosses: The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; transportation.
transportments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transportment
hurryingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hurryingly
form: most hurryingly
Etymology: From hurrying + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: hurriedly
glosses: In a hurrying manner.
jatrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Jatropha + -ic
Senses: examples: text: jatrophic acid
glosses: Of or pertaining to physic nuts, the seeds of plants of the genus Jatropha.
retainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retain + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being retained.
floodage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflʌdɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology: From flood + -age.
Senses: examples: text: This place, my Dryasdust informs me, had many accidents by floodage and by fire
ref: 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: flooding; inundation
ideographics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The system of writing in ideographic characters.
glosses: Anything written in ideographic characters.
irreceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irreceptive
form: most irreceptive
Etymology: From ir- + receptive.
Senses: glosses: Not receiving or receptive, or incapable of receiving.
vined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Etymology: From vine + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having leaves like those of the vine
examples: text: vined and figured Columnes
ref: 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
glosses: decorated with vine leaves.
wooingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wooingly
form: most wooingly
Etymology: From wooing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Smells wooingly here; no jutty, frieze,
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi]:
text: "Yes," I cried, startled at her candor, "to win your love." Hope slowly rekindled within my breast, and then with half-closed eyes, and wooingly, she said:
"No drooping Clytie could be more constant than I to him who strikes the chord that is responsive in my soul."
ref: 1902, John Philip Sousa, The Fifth String, Chapter V:
text: 'Sing to me, Bernardino,' she whispered wooingly, 'sith the cloud is gone from our moon, and I am in the will to love.'
ref: 1905, Bernard Capes, A Jay of Italy, Chapter 2:
glosses: In a wooing manner; enticingly; with persuasiveness or seduction.
imbox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imboxes
form: imboxing
form: imboxed
form: imboxed
Etymology: From im- + box.
Senses: glosses: To enclose in a box, or as if in a box.
imboxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbox
imboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbox
imboxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbox
neuropter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuropters
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A lacewing of the order Neuroptera
neuropters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuropter
thick-skulled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thick-skulled
form: most thick-skulled
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thickheaded.
synonyms: word: thickheaded
vower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vowers
Etymology: From vow + -er.
Senses: examples: text: he was a chast vower
ref: 1546, John Bale, The Actes of Englysh Votaries:
glosses: One who makes a vow.
vowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vower
phocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: foca
Senses: examples: text: they wended their way westward to fields of blood and phocal carnage
ref: 1885, Gordon Stables, Wild Adventures round the Pole:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: phocine
glosses: Pertaining to seals
upskip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upskips
Senses: examples: text: If you should ever see any of the King's Judges taking upon them a legislative, instead of a judicial, Power; dispensing with, denying, or withholding the known, established Laws, or executing the Dictates of any foreign Legislature, or Jurisdiction, unapproved by our Parliament; if any such should presume to influence, or over-awe JURIES , by Threats, or other illicit Measures; or unlawfully to strip Juries of their Power, or Pivileges, or to censure, or abuse them, for making any just and lawful Presentment; for finding or rejecting any Bill, or for finding any true Verdict; or, if any of these Officers, in any other Manner commits a breach of his Oath and Duty; that Grand Jury, that does not, on the first fair Opportunity , present such an upskip, hireling Tyrant, as a Traitor and an Enemy to his King and Country; is purjured and infamous.
ref: 1748, Charles Lucas, A thirteenth address to the free citizens and freeholders of the city of Dublin., page 31:
text: Nobody can tell that yet, of course; it is too soon; in a month, in two months, perhaps, we shall know whether Mussolini is a real leader or an upskip.
ref: 1922, THE VILLAGER - Volume 6, page 33:
text: Concern was also expressed for the King's thin and weak physique, and Bishop Latimer was worried that he was coming too much under the influence of “velvet coats and upskips" –frivolous and upstart courtiers who fawned upon the boy.
ref: 2011, Alison Weir, Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558, page 125:
glosses: An upstart.
examples: text: Someone reading the following aloud, The normal course will have one to three hour-examinations per term and a three-hour examination at the end of each term. will feel a need to put a pause after the first three and resume on hour with an abrupt upskip and also possibly a glottal stop plus head and hand gestures , to avoid the suggestion of three-hour as a constituent at that point.
ref: 1989, Dwight Le Merton Bolinger, Intonation and Its Uses: Melody in Grammar and Discourse, page 84:
text: Three tests are administered, in which aspects of pitch trajectories analysed as allphonic in the phonemic system turn out to have more importance than the supposedly phonemic distinctions; the second of these tests finds that upglides and upskips in a sequence that Trager & Smith (1951) would presumably transcribe /32||/ are categorically distinguished.
ref: 1976, Dafydd Gibbon, Perspectives of Intonation Analysis, page 222:
text: Pitch-squeeze tone modifier (sign :) is manifested by a pitch range narrowing over the whole tone cadence; hence no pitch upskip or downskip or evenskip is noticeable.
ref: 1997, Ashok Ramchandra Kelkar, Language in a Semiotic Perspective:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A raise in pitch with no perceptible glide connecting the tone to the previous sound
upskip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upskips
form: upskipping
form: upskipped
form: upskipped
Senses: examples: text: With rags and leathers in his hands Upskips be ostentatiously; Anon he at the summit stands, And window cleans vivaciously.
ref: 1893, Judy - Volume 53, page 29:
text: Come tumbling on to steal And gorge and gorge and gorge do bumble bees, Which, stalwart strong, rob ; while, praying some service, Upskips the weakly butterfly whose purse The good she does not get repays.
ref: 1915, Charles Anthony Lynch, Gladys Klyne and More Harmony, page 62:
text: Suddenly the flame upskips As the seething log falls in;
ref: 1942, Robert Nichols, Such was My Singing: Being a Selection from Poems Written Between the Years 1915 and 1940:
glosses: To spring or skip up.
upskips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upskip
upskips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upskip
breeding ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breeding grounds
Senses: examples: text: Like those many works before it, Saltburn plays with the idea that these enormous bastions of privilege and power are unique breeding grounds for strangeness – and, crucially, magnets for it too.
ref: 2023 November 13, Rosalind Jana, “Saltburn and the bizarre life of Britain's stately homes”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative form of breeding-ground.
brightsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brightsome
form: most brightsome
Etymology: From bright + -some.
Senses: examples: text: But rather let the brightsome heavens be dim,
And nature's beauty choke with stifling clouds,
Than my fair Abigail should frown on me.
ref: c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act II:
text: [A]ll the shifts of cloud and sun, all the difference between black death and brightsome liveliness, scarcely may suggest or equal Lorna's transformation.
ref: 1869, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 45, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor:
text: This is a brightsome blaze you've lit good friend, to-night!
ref: 1922, Thomas Hardy, “The Wood Fire”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier:
text: The few chairs and the low table had been stripped of paint to reveal the brightsome grain of pine wood.
ref: 2008, Paul S. Sunga, Red Dust, Red Sky, →ISBN, page 117:
text: Her hair it was of a brightsome color, [...]
ref: 2010, William Bay, Fun with Strums Mandolin:
text: “[...] this point, characteristically, the speaker writes himself into the relation: his dull skin requires the “brightsome Colours” of Joseph's coat but more especially of Christ's blood and glory.”
ref: 2014, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric:
glosses: Marked by brightness or brilliance; resplendent in appearance; shining.
Synonyms: brilliant
luminous
Derived terms: brightsomeness
icens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of icen
human microphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: By linking the word to the body and the crowd, the human microphone transformed an obstacle into an important asset for the social movements in the street.
ref: 2013 January 8, Rossana Reguillo, “Human Mic: Technologies for Democracy”, in North American Congress on Latin America, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2021:
topics: communication
communications
synonyms: people's mic
people's microphone
glosses: A means of delivering a speech to a large group of people, wherein persons gathered around the speaker repeat the speaker's words, thus amplifying the voice of the speaker without the need for amplification equipment.
people's microphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of human microphone.
synonyms: word: human microphone
imaginator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imaginators
Etymology: From Latin imāginātus (past participle of imāginārī) + English -or. Compare Middle English ymagynatourys (“?schemers or plotters”).
Senses: examples: text: Secondly, hee would teach, that hee was as hee ſeemed to bee, true very man, fleſh, bloud, and bone as wee truely are; which the Divell denyed in the Docitæ [read Docetæ] or Imaginators, who held nothing reall, what hee [Christ] was, what hee did, what hee ſuffered, but all onely ſeeming ſo and in appearance.
ref: 1642, Richard Montagu, The Acts and Monuments of the Church Before Christ Incarnate, London: […] Miles Flesher and Robert Young, page 491:
text: Suppose, if it be possible, that such a proposition had been made, or that such a prophecy had been ventured, in May 1834, as that in the spring of 1835 a Whig cabinet should be formed without thinking of Lord Brougham, and that some minor office should have been tossed to him, as you throw a bone to a dog! Would not the imaginator of such a thing have been treated as a maniac or a fool?
ref: 1835 May, “The State and Prospects of Toryism in May, 1835”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XI, London: James Fraser, […], page 612, column 2:
text: We may add, and our author has knowledge of the fact, that not even the Germans, those masterly delineators and imaginators of fairy-land, have shown greater or more exquisite insight into the lives and ways of elfs and fays than that which was shown by George Cruikshank.
ref: 1882 October 7, “The Life of George Cruikshank: in Two Epochs. By Blanchard Jerrold. […]”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama, number 2867, London: […] John C. Francis, […], page 471, column 1:
text: The musicological dancer and the historyteller inspired each other, sometimes in conspiracy also with Tessa the critical stage manager and Beni their imaginator of set and costumes.
ref: 1996, Jonathan Bayliss, Gloucestertide, Rockport, Mass.: Protean Press, →ISBN, page 260:
glosses: One who imagines.
Synonyms: imaginer
imaginate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imaginate
form: most imaginate
Senses: glosses: imaginative
people's mic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Clipping of people's microphone.
NBSP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NBSPs
Senses: examples: text: > I get the feeling that when you use the phrase "corporate criminals",
> it's not actually a phrase, but a word that just happens to have a
> NBSP in the middle.
ref: 2003 January 26, Ed Dravecky III, “Nestle Boycott”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet):
text: (There was probably a bug before where an NBSP in Unicode text was treated as part of a word.)
ref: 2007 June 12, bugzilla-daemon@mozilla.org, “superreview requested: [Bug 383542] Odd text selection behavior with new textframe”, in mozilla.dev.super-review (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of nbsp.
-nomics
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -omics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos, “law”). The addition of an English prefix thus indicates the "laws" of the discipline or area denoted by the prefix. By surface analysis, -nomy + -ics.
Senses: glosses: The rules of a discipline.
-nomics
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Back-formation from economics.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Used to form nouns meaning the economics, economic practises, or economic philosophy of a specified person or state
heigh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /heɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: hey
form: hi
form: hegh
form: hech
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English heigh, hey, hay, hei, heh, probably of imitative origin. Compare hey, eh.
Senses: examples: text: Heigh, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: An exclamation designed to call attention, give encouragement, etc.
Derived terms: heigh-day
heigh-ho
improbate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: improbates
form: improbating
form: improbated
form: improbated
Etymology: First attested in 1656; borrowed from Latin improbātus, perfect passive participle of improbō (“to disapprove”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“not”) + probō (“to approve”).
Senses: glosses: To disallow, disqualify, or annul.
overween
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overweens
form: overweening
form: overweened
form: overweened
Etymology: From Middle English overwēnen (“to be presumptuous, be over-confident; presume”), from Old English oferwennan and oferwenian (“to be proud, become insolent, or presumptuous”), equivalent to over- + ween.
Senses: examples: text: and they that overween, / And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen,
ref: 1644, Milton, Sonnet IX:
text: The clouds on Futurity Day bore out in a general way this prognostication. But he overweened himself.
ref: 2005, A. J. Liebling, Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer, page 327:
glosses: To think too highly or arrogantly of (oneself).
examples: text: There is, I suppose, the cheap drama of man sticking his nose into an area where it does little good except to expand his already overweened vanity.
ref: 1987 October, Field & Stream, volume 92, number 6, page 24:
text: Sometimes we manage to come up with original ways of viewing a world hardened, stratified, overweened by its own power, a world which believes itself as omnipotent as its technological achievements might seem to imply.
ref: 2009, Ariel Dorfman, The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds, page 6:
glosses: To make or render arrogant and overweening.
examples: text: The invasion of a vast enemy host upon the unprepared is unstoppable; the huge phalanx of tanks overweens our small army of trucks and rifles; […]
ref: 2003, Michael Gelven, What happens to us when we think: transformation and reality, page 44:
glosses: To overwhelm.
Derived terms: overweener
overweening
flushness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flushnesses
Etymology: From flush + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being flush or well supplied; abundance.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The state of being flush: smoothly aligned, not sticking out.
godsib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: godsibs
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Middle English godsib; doublet of gossip; see those entries for more.
Senses: examples: text: The fireplace also heated water for the godsibs to wash their hands with as they were instructed by the rubric to do before leaving the church.
ref: 1920, Courtenay Frederic William Dunn, The Natural History of the Child: A Book for All Sorts and Conditions of Men, Women, and Children, page 233:
text: […] the Bumgardners' maid, with Preston and Penelope in tow, was exchanging defamatory gossip with her godsib Ofelia Gomez, Luke Regan's scullion.
ref: 1965, Willard Marsh, Week with No Friday:
text: The Vicosino then went to his godsib and then to the Cornell Peru Project field director for confirmation of […]
ref: 1966, Henry F. Dobyns, Paul L. Doughty, Allan R. Holmberg, Cornell Peru Project, Peace Corps Program Impact in the Peruvian Andes: Final Report:
text: After a man's kin and godsibs, the next allegiance is to his paisanos (fellow countrymen) or […]
ref: 1968, Paul L. Doughty, Mary F. Doughty, Huaylas: An Andean District in Search of Progress, page 37:
text: […] to members of their own family, intimates (especially their godsibs), and ideally the priest, who usually is too busy to accept all invitations.
ref: 1968, Earl W. Morris, Coming Down the Mountain: The Social Worlds of Mayobamba:
text: […] where 34 % of testators who mentioned godchildren were homonymous with those godsibs.
ref: 2006, David Postles, Joel Thomas Rosenthal, Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales (Western Michigan Univ.)
text: The most important people in the baptismal party that processed from Newbold Revel to the church porch were the three people who had undertaken to support the baby's introduction into the Christian faith. […] Godsibs, as godparents were called, were chosen with care and took their responsibilities seriously. […] since a baby was almost always given the Christian name of the most important godsib, his name must provide a clue.
ref: 2007, Christina Hardyment, Malory: The Knight Who Became King Arthur's Chronicler, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 50:
text: Holinshed's Chronicle says: 'James Earl of Desmond being suffered and not controlled, during the government of Richard Duke of York his godsib and of Thomas Earl of Kildare his kinsman, did put upon the King's subjects […]'
ref: 2013, Edmund Curtis, A History of Medieval Ireland (Routledge Revivals): From 1086 to 1513, Routledge, →ISBN, page 306:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: One's sibling or kin via a godfamily tie: one's or one's child's godparent, or one's godchild's parent, or one's godparent's child.
jockeyship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jockeyships
Etymology: From jockey + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Go flatter Sawney for his jockeyship.
ref: a. 1770, Thomas Chatterton, The Resignation:
text: Where can at last his jockeyship retire?
ref: 1782, William Cowper, “Conversation”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
text: With his ever-improving horsemanship skills, Dawkins drove Hot Ice to victory by three parts of a length for trainer Patrick Fong to have a third success from 55 starts this season. This performance closed the four-timer with authoritative jockeyship on the part of Dawkins who achieved a similar feat earlier this year on June 18.
ref: 2022 July 22, Wes Martin, “RACE REVIEW — SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022”, in Jamaica Observer:
glosses: The art, character, or state, of a jockey; the personality of a jockey.
jockeyships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jockeyship
landreeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landreeves
Etymology: From land + reeve.
Senses: glosses: A subofficer overseeing an area of land, a kind of bailiff or steward.
landreeves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landreeve
oliganthous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligo- + -anthous.
Senses: examples: text: oliganthous inflorescence
text: oliganthous raceme
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having few flowers.
disgracious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disgracious
form: most disgracious
Etymology: Compare French disgracieux.
Senses: examples: text: If I be so disgracious in your fight, let me march on
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
glosses: Lacking grace; ungraceful
glosses: disgraced.
metalepsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μετάληψις (metálēpsis). Compare metalepsis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis.
trilobitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trilobite + -ic.
Senses: examples: trilobitic rocks
glosses: Of, pertaining to or containing, trilobites.
assessorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assessorships
Etymology: From assessor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or function of an assessor.
assessorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assessorship
sycophantize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sycophantizes
form: sycophantizing
form: sycophantized
form: sycophantized
Etymology: From sycophant + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To act like a sycophant.
sycophantized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sycophantize
sycophantizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sycophantize
water pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water pigs
form: water-pig
Senses: glosses: The capybara.
glosses: The gourami.
water pigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water pig
Wendic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wendic
form: most Wendic
Etymology: From Wend + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Wendish.
synonyms: word: Wendish
Wendic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wend + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Wendish (language)
floatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more floatingly
form: most floatingly
Etymology: From floating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I closed my eyes, stood there, and had a remarkably relaxed and floatingly nice time, during which I dreamed.
ref: 2009, Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Influx Press, page 179:
glosses: In a floating manner; so as to float or to appear to float.
Jesuitries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jesuitry
Jesuitry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jesuitries
Etymology: From Jesuit + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: The poor Girondins, many of them, under such fierce bellowing of Patriotism, say Death; justifying, motivant, that most miserable word of theirs by some brief casuistry and jesuitry.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VII, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book II (Regicide), page 142:
glosses: Jesuitism; subtle argument.
knackish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more knackish
form: most knackish
Etymology: From knack + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Trickish; artful.
prejudicately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prejudicately
form: most prejudicately
Etymology: From prejudicate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With prejudice.
noviceship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noviceships
Etymology: From novice + -ship.
Senses: synonyms: novicehood
glosses: The state or position of being a novice.
noviceships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noviceship
terminus ad quem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: termini ad quos
Etymology: From Latin terminus (“limit”) + ad (“up to”) + quem (“which”), the accusative of quī (“what”). Literally meaning “the limit up until which”.
Senses: glosses: the latest possible date of a non-punctual event (period, era, etc.)
examples: text: What I do regret is the non-intelligent and almost superstitious way in which baptism is still regarded by many of our people. They think of it too much as a mere terminus ad quem which should call forth their energies up till the time it is obtained, and then leaves them waiting to see what sort of substantial worldly good may afterwards come along.
ref: 1915, William Campbell, Sketches from Formosa, Marshall Brothers Limited, page 31:
glosses: an objective or goal
Related terms: terminus ante quem
terminus post quem
terminus a quo
termini ad quem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terminus ad quem
seventh chord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seventh chords
Etymology: The interval between the tonic and the top note is a seventh.
Senses: examples: text: Four seventh chords (C7 F7 D7 G7):
{2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a chord that contains four notes that make three thirds
Derived terms: augmented seventh
augmented seventh chord
diminished seventh
diminished seventh chord
dominant seventh
dominant seventh chord
half-diminished seventh chord
major seventh
major seventh chord
minor major seventh
minor seventh
minor seventh chord
seventh chords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seventh chord
major triad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: major triads
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a triad that has a major third between the root and the third and a minor third between the third and the fifth
major triads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of major triad
minor triad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minor triads
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a triad with a minor third between the root and the third, and a major third between the third and the fifth