cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
epilogize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: epilogizes
form: epilogizing
form: epilogized
form: epilogized
Etymology: See epilogism and -ize.
Senses: glosses: To speak an epilogue to.
glosses: To utter as an epilogue.
glosses: To write an epilogue.
epilogized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of epilogize
epilogizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of epilogize
epilogizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of epilogize
pseudohyperaldosteronism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + hyperaldosteronism.
Senses: examples: text: Eating large amounts of liquorice can lead to pseudohyperaldosteronism.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A medical condition that mimics hyperaldosteronism.
Synonyms: pseudoaldosteronism
pseudohypoaldosteronism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + hypoaldosteronism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medical condition that mimics hypoaldosteronism.
ferrocholinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ferro- + choline + -ate.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A chelate prepared from ferric chloride and choline citrate; used to treat iron deficiency
SAK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SAKs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: secure attention key (such as ctrl+alt+delete for Windows operating systems) (not in general use but used in topic-relevant online discussions).
glosses: Swiss Army knife (not in general use but used in topic-relevant online discussions).
ferrocytochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrocytochromes
Etymology: From ferro- + cytochrome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the form of a cytochrome containing reduced (ferrous) iron
Related terms: ferricytochrome
ferroheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ferro- + heme.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of heme containing reduced (ferrous) iron
Related terms: ferriheme
ferrokinetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ferro- + kinetics.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The study of the kinetics of iron metabolism, typically by using a radioactive iron isotope
ferroporphyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferroporphyrins
Etymology: From ferro- + porphyrin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any porphyrin containing ferrous iron
Related terms: ferriporphyrin
ferroproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferroprotein
ferroprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferroproteins
Etymology: From ferro- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any protein that contains iron in a prosthetic group
prosthetic group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosthetic groups
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The non-protein component of a conjugated protein.
ferroprotoporphyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferroprotoporphyrins
Senses: glosses: heme
ferrosoferric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ferroso- (“ferrous”) + ferric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That of which contains both ferrous and ferric ions
ferrotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ferro- + therapy.
Senses: topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: The therapeutic use of iron compounds
ferrozine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular ferroin that is used as an indicator for the presence of iron
prevet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prevets
form: prevetting
form: prevetted
form: prevetted
Etymology: From pre- + vet.
Senses: examples: text: The first is that, in part, Nominet took over the operation of .uk precisely because prevetting of domain names was not working.
ref: 2009, Lee A. Bygrave, Jon Bing, Internet governance: infrastructure and institutions, page 210:
glosses: To vet or check in advance.
prevetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prevet
prevetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prevet
prevets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prevet
overfold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəfəʊld/
Forms: form: overfolds
Etymology: From over- + fold; in the geological sense, after German Überfaltung (“overfolding”).
Senses: examples: text: Thrusts were directed there; major overfolds bulged outwards towards the north.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 95:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fold whereby the strata are forced through an angle of more than 90 degrees, so that younger strata lie below older ones.
overfold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəfəʊld/
Forms: form: overfolds
form: overfolding
form: overfolded
form: overfolded
Etymology: From over- + fold; in the geological sense, after German Überfaltung (“overfolding”).
Senses: examples: text: The trick is to not overfold the ingredients; doing so causes the egg whites to deflate, resulting in a flat or soggy soufflé.
ref: 2012, Culture Magazine, Cheese For Dummies, page 305:
glosses: To fold excessively.
overfolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overfold
sermonish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sermonish
form: most sermonish
Etymology: From sermon + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a sermon.
Europewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Europe + -wide.
Senses: glosses: Throughout Europe.
excommunion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛkskəˈmjuːnjən/
Senses: examples: text: Excommunion is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature.
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A shutting out from communion; excommunication.
amentiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æmənˈtɪfəɹəs/
ipa: /eɪmənˈtɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From amentum + -iferous.
Senses: examples: text: Amentiferous forms, such as Myrica, Betula, Alnus
ref: 1872, John Hutton Balfour, Introduction to Palaeontological Botany:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing catkins.
commeasurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare commensurable.
Senses: examples: text: She being now removed by death, a commeasurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had done.
ref: 1670, Izaak Walton, The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert. […], volume I, London: […] Tho[mas] Newcomb for Richard Marriott, […], →OCLC:
text: East, West And South, where'er their gathered multitudes Urged by the speed of vigorous tyranny, With more than with commeasurable strength Haste to prevent the danger, crush the hopes Of rising Spain, and rivet round her neck The eternal yoke,
ref: 1818, Robert Southey, Roderick, the Last of the Goths, page 65:
text: The Priest Ronge took it, and very modestly remarked that he was fully aware of the high value of the present, that his gratitude was commeasurable with the magnitude of the gift, but that he thought best to answer by deed of inestimable hint.
ref: 1845 June 7, “Religious Movements in the Old World”, in Portland Transcript, volume 9, number 8, page 62:
glosses: Commensurate; proportional.
examples: text: The square Root of a mix'd Number that is commeasurable to its Root, is thus found out, viz. reduce the mix'd Number to an inproper Frađion, and then extract the square Root of the Numerator, and the square Root of the Denominator, for a new Numerator, and a new Denominator, as in the last Rule.
ref: 1684, E. Cocker, Cocker's Decimal Arithmetick, page 85:
text: If AB and AE are commeasurable, let AG be the common measure;
ref: 1836, John Playfair, The Element of Geometry, page 71:
glosses: Synonym of comeasurable.
synonyms: word: comeasurable
examples: text: Can we not conceive that the Deity has expressly created us, to manage for his own good purpose that which is exhibited according to measured, appreciable rules; —in a word, the purely commeasurable, just as we, in our turn build saw-mills and spinning machines,as the mechanical superintendents of our wants?
ref: 1844, E. T. W. Hoffmann, “The Jesuits' Church in G—”, in Tales from the German: Specimens from the Most Celebrated Authors, page 422:
text: Straight lines and commeasurable numbers are the most favourable conditions for the application of given force; but in politics, when the force exists, it has generally anticipated the diagrams of statesmen by making channels for itself.
ref: 1846, The Foreign Quarterly Review - Volumes 36-37, page 33:
glosses: Capable of being measured.
Related terms: comeasurable
syssarcosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The junction of bones by intervening muscles.
suprabranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + branchial.
Senses: examples: text: suprabranchial cavity
text: suprabranchial chamber of fish or mollusks
text: suprabranchial organ
text: suprabranchial pores of fish
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Situated above the branchiae.
horseworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseworms
Etymology: From horse + worm.
Senses: glosses: The larva of a botfly.
horseworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horseworm
soniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more soniferous
form: most soniferous
Etymology: From Latin sonus (“sound”) + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Producing or conveying sound; sonorous.
plications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plication
cipherhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cipher + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore God , to confute him , and to bring him to his native cypherhood, threateneth to bring a sword against him and all his glory
ref: a. 1680, Thomas Goodwin, The Work of the Holy Ghost in Our Salvation:
glosses: nothingness
lochial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lochia + -al.
Senses: examples: text: lochial discharge
text: lochial bleeding
glosses: Of or pertaining to the lochia.
unmember
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmembers
form: unmembering
form: unmembered
form: unmembered
Etymology: From un- + member.
Senses: examples: text: ["Non-confoederate persons, in their sense are "Non members of the Church, &c.] and consequently their children have no title to Baptisme, (which is one of our Authours arguments in pag. 10 of his book, borrow'd from Mr. Hooker, part. 2, p. 24, whereby he unmembers and unchurches all not so constituted.
ref: 1652, Daniel Cawdrey, A sober answer to a serious question propounded by mr. G. Firmin:
text: Ques. Suppose a man does not choose to pay his fine? Ans. Then he is unmembered, and if he goes to see and comes to an accident, he gets no benefit.
ref: 1826, John Beveridge, Evidence in favor of the Seamen, page 15:
text: Or, that the people have become their enemies and burdens, when they first make and account them enemies, unmember and unchurch them, as very little better then heathens.
ref: 2012, Daniel Cawdrey, C. Matthew McMahon, A Discourse on Church Discipline and Reformation, page 79:
text: The speaker moves "Into a world where sound shaded the sight" and where he hears "the dull hooves again"; the horsemen, he says, come Again, all but the leader: it was night Mmemntly and I feard: eleven same Jesus-Christers unmembered and unmade, Whose Corpse had died again in dirty shame.
ref: 2016, John V. Glass III, Allen Tate, page 311:
text: The goal of what follows is to examine this tension in greater detail and with reference to the specific cases of individuals and groups of individuals caught once in a network of risk-induced behavior and then in a world of risk-informed rehabilitation, implying them in a logic designed to reestablish order and ensure survival, in which members of the legal/legitimat national community are dis-membered, rememberd, and unmembered either because of ethnicity, poverty, borders, warfare, or a combination of the four, yet rarely because of their histories, names, or singular lives.
ref: 2019, Maria Boikova Struble, The Politics of Bodies at Risk, page 13:
glosses: To deprive of membership, as for example in a church.
examples: text: Beneath thy hand we lie— Unmembered, broken, bleeding hearts, Nor dare to question why.
ref: 1881, Drummond Welburn, Memoir of William Kendrick, page 117:
text: Who curse the knives That unmembered them .
ref: 1968, El Corno emplumado: The Plumed horn, page 72:
text: I says to myself 'You've gone and unmembered this man .'
ref: 1987, David Carkeet, I Been There Before, page 33:
glosses: To dismember.
unmember
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unmembers
Etymology: From un- + member.
Senses: examples: text: Friday evening around 8:30, you'd toil up the rickety stairs at 37 East 8th Street, perhaps stopping off for a chat in James Rosati's studio—halfway up—and watch him work on his bust of Lewitin, who was the domestic Cerberus, with a pale blue eye cocked for unwelcome unmembers.
ref: 1975 January 6, Thomas B. Hess, “When Art Talk was a Fine Art”, in New York Magazine, volume 8, number 1, page 83:
text: Calcutta the temperature-taker, the dispenser of aspirins, the receiver of Medicaid payments, the unmember of the A.M.A., the husband of a woman who can't read the arrows in parking lots because she can't see over the dashboard because she's so fat from having so many kids paid for by American tax dollars, whispered, "Adam and Eve were Hindus."
ref: 1988, Dallas E. Wiebe, Going to the Mountain, page 18:
text: The values that her family and culture held were very important to Lisa, and she fretted over the prospect of becomming an "unmember” of her family, were she to become pregnant outside marriage.
ref: 2010, Jerrold S. Greenberg, Clint E. Bruess, Sarah C. Conklin, Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality:
text: Many groups (younger people, the unwaged, the unmembers) will not belong to any organization that might possibly be involved; many of the members of the committee (e.g. clergy) cannot be said to “represent” any constituency, even if they have a valuable contribution to make to consultation.
ref: 2023, Michael Keith, Race, Riots and Policing:
glosses: A non-member.
unmembered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmembered
form: most unmembered
Senses: examples: text: Up to this stage, the inner nature of man is still an unmembered unity, void of manifoldness.
ref: 1885, Friedrich Froebel, The Education of Man, page 28:
text: There is something excessively clumsy in the heavy and unmembered side piers, in the exterior transition between the cupola and the square, and in the many squat buttresses.
ref: 1887, Franz von Reber, History of Mediaeval Art, page 59:
text: Besides, it is to be considered that such an illusion of the sight and touch can be caused no only by the interposition of some smooth unmembered body, but also by the summoning to the fancy or imagination of certain forms and ideas latent in the mind, in such a way that a thing is imagined as being perceived then for the first time.
ref: 2019, Heinrich Kramer James Sprenger, The Malleus Maleficarum Revised, page 77:
glosses: Lacking members; undifferentiated.
examples: text: Perchance the unmember'd, unmemorial'd mass Of cold corruption that I tread upon May be a seraph with wild waving wings, And eyes whose intellectual fire outbeams The material splendors of the blue concave,
ref: 1869, John H. Hanson, Poems of Rev. John H. Hanson, page 81:
text: But the source is precisely that point where the rememberable and the immemorial (the sacred) meet, and the danger is thus that in remembering the source, the demigod may be tempted to transgress his earthly limits and aspire to know what cannot be recalled, to remember what is necessarily unmembered in the mediating time of memory.
ref: 1995, Ortwin de Graef, Titanic Light: Paul de Man's Post-romanticism, 1960-1969, page 14:
text: To a life unmembered, she is saying, "I will remember. I will remember as long as I can make art."
ref: 2022, Michael J. Tan Creti, On Giving My Word:
glosses: Unremembered; lost to memory.
unmembered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unmember
unmembering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unmember
unmembers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unmember
unmembers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unmember
claimless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From claim + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no claim; without claims
Derived terms: claimlessness
deintegrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deintegrates
form: deintegrating
form: deintegrated
form: deintegrated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēintegrātus, perfect passive participle of dēintegrō (“to impair, diminish, lessen”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To disintegrate.
deintegrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deintegrate
deintegrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deintegrate
deintegrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deintegrate
aerocyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerocysts
Etymology: From aero- + cyst.
Senses: glosses: An air vesicle.
aerocysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerocyst
misenter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: misenters
form: misentering
form: misentered
form: misentered
Etymology: From mis- + enter.
Senses: examples: to misenter a charge in an account
glosses: To enter or insert wrongly.
misentered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misenter
misentering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misenter
misenters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misenter
calendarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkælənˈdɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˌkælənˈdɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Etymology: From calendar + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a calendar.
agush
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Etymology: From a- + gush.
Senses: examples: text: The cider-making of New England is far more picturesque; the great heap of golden or rosy apples under the trees, and the cider-mill worked by a circumgiratory horse, and all agush with sweet juice.
ref: 1858 September 23 (date written), Nathaniel Hawthorne, “September 23rd, [1858]”, in Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, volume II, London: Strahan & Co., […], published 1871, →OCLC, page 179:
glosses: In a gushing manner; gushingly.
emaculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + maculation.
Senses: examples: text: [amid a discussion of the correction of errors in Bible translations] It is very evident indeed that his attention was directed to the emaculation of the more antient, or Philadelphian version; and not of that translation, of later date, which Usher supposes to have been communicated by Herod to Cleopatra. If the purity of the latter had been the final object of his labours, there is much reason in the question of Baronius.
ref: 1823, William Grant Broughton, An Examination of the Hypothesis advanced in a recent publication, entitled "Palæoromaica", Maintaining ... that the text of the Elzevir Greek Testament is not a translation from the Latin, page 152:
text: The article has some good points, but its English exhibits several examples of what the writer's great exemplar has called 'palpable fractures of the skull of Priscian;' and we have no time, even if the subject were acceptable, to attempt its emaculation.
ref: 1836 January, “Editors' Table”, in Knickerbocker:
text: Under the pretence of not permitting anything denominational in the schools, the Bible was taken out of the hands of the Protestant pupils, and every paragraph and sentence, and every word, in which any reference to religion, or even the Divine Being was made in the school books, was crossed or blotted out. I have in my possession a specimen of this system of school-book emaculation in order to conciliate (as it was supposed) Bishop Hughes and his followers.
ref: 1857, E. Ryerson, “Dr. Ryerson's Reply to the Rev. J. M. Bruyere”, in Controversy Between Dr. Ryerson, Chief Superintendent of Education in Upper Canada, and Rev. J.M. Bruyere, Rector of St. Michael's Cathedral, Toronto, on the Appropriation of the Clergy Reserves Funds:
glosses: The act of ridding something of its flaws or errors.
tactable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [T]he decree, that women / Should not neglect the service of their lovers, / But pay them from the exchequer they were born with, / Was good and laudable; they being created / To be both tractable and tactable, / When they are useful: […]
ref: 1624 November 3 (first performance), Philip Massinger, “The Parliament of Love”, in W[illiam] Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger, […], volume II, London: […] G[eorge] and W[illiam] Nicol; […] by W[illiam] Bulmer and Co. […], published 1805, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 249:
glosses: Capable of being touched; tangible.
exhaustment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhaustments
Etymology: From exhaust + -ment.
Senses: glosses: exhaustion (tiredness, of draining of a supply)
exhaustments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhaustment
immeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɪmiəˈbɪlɪti/
Etymology: From im- (“not”) + Latin meabilis (“passable”), from meare (“to pass”).
Senses: examples: text: From this phlegm proceed white cold tumours, viscidity, and consequently immeability of the juices.
ref: 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:
text: Immeability of the Blood in the extream Capillaries
ref: 1747, Robert Douglas, An Essay Concerning the Generation of Heat in Animals:
glosses: Inability to pass through or to permit passage.
Synonyms: impassableness
counterjumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterjumpers
form: counter-jumper
Etymology: From counter + jumper.
Senses: examples: text: [...] and the chastest women thought it no shame for their pictures to be exposed in every stationer's shop or to decorate the chimney-piece of a platonic counter-jumper.
ref: 1905, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter V, in The Merry-Go-Round:
text: Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “ch. 15”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
synonyms: sales clerk
glosses: A salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk.
counterjumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterjumper
disgarland
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disgarlands
form: disgarlanding
form: disgarlanded
form: disgarlanded
Etymology: From dis- + garland.
Senses: examples: text: thy locks disgarland
ref: 1616, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Poems: Amorous, Funerall, Divine, Pastorall: in Sonnets, Songs, Sextains, Madrigals:
glosses: To strip of a garland, or of some positive attribute.
disgarlanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disgarland
disgarlanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disgarland
freehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freehoods
Etymology: From free + -hood. Probably modelled after German Freiheit (“freedom”), Dutch vrijheid (“freedom”). More at freedom.
Senses: examples: text: Here the citizens of Ghent took the oath of allegiance to each new Count on his accession, after they had compelled him to swear in good old Teutonic style "to uphold and see upheld all the standing wits (laws), fore-rights (regulations), freehoods, and wonts of the Countship and town of Ghent."
ref: 1897, Grant Allen, Cities of Belgium:
text: Freedom is not Freitum, but Freiheit, literally freehood.
ref: 1957, John Steinbeck, Holiday:
text: "Stop him once, George, he shouldn't swallow!" Leonid, supine, had decided to wave one arm and sing as he expired. "Releasedom! Freehood! Death to Selfity!"
ref: 1981, John Barth, Giles goat-boy:
text: A more proper term would be 'freehood', as something attained in a manner not dissimilar to the principle of a required development to achieve knighthood.
ref: 2000, Lyman C. Jackson, Donna Hickey-Jackson, Jan Duncan, Your Yellow Brick Road - Grab Toto and Run!:
glosses: The state or condition of being free; freedom.
bateless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bateless
form: most bateless
Etymology: From bate + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Haply the name of chaste unhapp'ly set / This bateless edge on his keen appetite,
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, lines 8–9:
glosses: Not to be abated or subdued; impossible to blunt, curtail, or reduce to anything other than full strength or intensity.
Synonyms: immutable
relentless
incommodement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incommodements
Etymology: From incommode + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: […] I perſiſted in my ordinary Courſe of Living and Buſineſs, tho' vvith ſevere Incommodement, and daily Aggravations from Cold: […]
ref: 1732 October 1 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Dr. Cranstoun, “The Objections against a Regimen, Especially a Milk, Seed, and Vegetable Diet, Considered. The Case of the Learned and Ingenous Dr. Cranstoun, in a Letter to the Author at His Desire, in Dr. Cranstoun’s Own Words.”, in George Cheyne, The English Malady: Or, A Treatise of Nervous Diseases of All Kinds, […], London: […] G[eorge] Strahan […]; Bath, Somerset: J. Leake, published 1733, →OCLC, part III (Containing Variety of Cases that Illustrate and Confirm the Foregoing Method of Cure. […]), page 315:
glosses: The act of being incommoded; discomfort
incommodements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incommodement
skulpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skulpins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sculpin (“fish”).
skulpins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skulpin
topiarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtəʊ.piˈɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌtoʊ.piˈɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From topiary + -an.
Senses: examples: text: the topiarian artist
ref: 1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
text: [T]he southern court of the ballium had become a flower-garden, with quaint terraces, statues, knots of flowers, clipped yews and hollies, and all the pedantries of the topiarian art.
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, “The True and Tragical History of Mr. John Oxenham of Plymouth”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 209:
glosses: Of or pertaining to topiary.
doudous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doudou
pestiferously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pestiferously
form: most pestiferously
Etymology: From pestiferous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships, long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 24”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: In a pestiferous manner.
swapportunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swapportunities
Etymology: Blend of swap + opportunity
Senses: examples: text: He looked up at the Club's chaotic Hopscotch Board, aglow with swapportunities, people wanting to rent a muscular body for a few days of hard labor, old men and women willing to pay for a week's vacation in a young and healthy physique, the usual sex ads searching for a two-night stand, once as a male, once as a female, or a blur of alternations before, during, and after.
ref: 2002 January 29, Kevin J. Anderson, Hopscotch, Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 1–2:
text: A “Swapportunity” is an opportunity to swap
something bad for something that is good.
A Swapportunity is an opportunity to stop
doing bad things and to do things we should.
ref: 2009 May 7, Symphony, “Humor in Truth.01”, in alt.philosophy (Usenet), message-ID <ea5e904f-1e9a-4785-976c-81834fbd1f63@z7g2000vbh.googlegroups.com>:
glosses: an opportunity to make a swap
millifold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin mille thousand + English -fold times.
Senses: examples: text: Yet ere he parts, his kisses millifold,
ref: 1609, John Davies of Hereford, The Holy Roode:
glosses: thousandfold
enterlace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enterlaces
form: enterlacing
form: enterlaced
form: enterlaced
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of interlace.
enterlaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enterlace
enterlaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enterlace
enterlacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enterlace
superexaltation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + exaltation.
Senses: examples: text: The proud man will haue his against all reason; There's his superexaltation of him aboue all that is called God
ref: 1624, Daniel Cawdrey, Humilitie, the Saints Liuerie:
text: There are none of his enemies but carry with them their own destruction. Thus didst thou, O Son of David, foil Satan with his own weapon : that, whereby he meant destruction to thee and us, vanquished him through thy mighty power, and raised thee to that glorious triumph and superexaltation, wherein thou art, wherein we shall be with thee.
ref: 1863, Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter, The Works, Oxford University Press, page 386:
text: For months they had been preparing for this day, the crowning experiment and test, and all seemed of a type carefully chosen for their part, soldiers who had turned land sailors, cool and phlegmatic like the monsters which they directed. Each one having given himself up to fate, the rest was easy in these days of war's superexaltation, which makes men appear perfectly normal when death hovers near. Not one would have changed places with any infantryman.
ref: 1917, Frederick Palmer, My Second Year of the War, Toronto McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, page 386:
glosses: Supreme or excessive exaltation.
rhizotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhizo- + taxis.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The arrangement of the roots of plants.
metamorphosic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metamorphosic
form: most metamorphosic
Etymology: From metamorphosis + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: […] all the metamorphosic fables of the Ancients turning policied and commercial people into horrid and savage monsters, will, like clouds before the sun, dispel and evaporate before the light of truth.
ref: 1782, Thomas Pownall, A treatise on the study of antiquities as the commentary to historical learning, sketching out a general line of research:
glosses: Changing form; transforming.
incognizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incognizable
form: most incognizable
Etymology: From in- + cognizable.
Senses: examples: text: 1658, Thomas Saintserf (translator), Entertainments of the Cours: or, Academical Conversations, compiled by Melchior de Marmet, London, p. 104,
A dead Body is always incognizable, not only because it is ordinarily changed, but because it neither speaks, nor acts; and for that the qualities of its Soul, which we should know, are departed with her, and have left nothing but a trunk, and a lump without motion.
text: The lettish race […] was not a primitive stock, as the finnish, the germanic, or slavonian, but a distinct branch, now become incognizable, of the Slavi […]
ref: 1799, William Tooke, View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine II and to the close of the present Century, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Book 2, p. 455:
text: […] if therefore position is, to the nascent intelligence, incognizable except as the position of something that produces an impression on the organism; how is it possible for the idea of position ever to be dissociated from that of body?
ref: 1855, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Part 2, Chapter 13, § 62, p. 233:
text: All this time the incognizable nouveau was smoking slowly and calmly, and looking at nothing at all with his black buttonlike eyes.
ref: 1922, E. E. Cummings, chapter 7, in The Enormous Room, New York: Boni and Liveright, page 153:
glosses: Not cognizable; incapable of being recognised.
interreign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interreigns
Etymology: Compare French interrègne.
Senses: examples: text: there could not be any interreign or suspension of title
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: An interregnum.
interreigns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interreign
aftercasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aftercast
cerebric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cerebric
form: most cerebric
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from the brain; cerebral.
Related terms: cerebric acid
hard-fisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-fisted
form: most hard-fisted
form: hardfisted
Senses: examples: a hard-fisted labourer
glosses: Having hard or strong hands.
examples: text: It is easy to observe, that none are so gripple and hard fisted, as the childless […]
ref: 1646, Jos[eph] Hall, The Balme of Gilead: Or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for Nat[haniel] Butter, →OCLC:
glosses: covetous; niggardly
Derived terms: hardfistedness
radicule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radicules
Senses: glosses: A radicle.
radicules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radicule
subnarcotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + narcotic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Moderately narcotic, or not powerful enough to produce narcosis.
subnarcotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subnarcotics
Etymology: From sub- + narcotic.
synarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synarchy
synarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪnɚki/
ipa: /ˈsɪnəki/
Forms: form: synarchies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συναρχίᾱ (sunarkhíā). By surface analysis, syn- + -archy.
Senses: examples: text: The synarchies, or joint reigns of father and son, in these times, have rendered the chronology a little difficult […]
ref: 1767, Thomas Stackhouse, A new history of the Holy Bible (book VI)
glosses: Joint rule or sovereignty.
Derived terms: synarchism
synarchist
monesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A vegetable extract originating from South America, believed to be derived from the bark of the tree Pradosia lactescens, and used as an alterative and astringent.
Derived terms: monesin
blankable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blankable
form: most blankable
Etymology: From blank + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being blanked.
thulia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin thūlia. Named in 1879 by Swedish chemist Per Teodor Cleve.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The rare earth thulium oxide, Tm₂O₃.
wikipedia: Per Teodor Cleve
discontenting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discontenting
form: most discontenting
Senses: examples: text: Your discontenting father strive to qualify
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, 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):
glosses: discontented
examples: text: how unpleasing and discontenting the society of body must needs be between those whose mindes cannot bee fociable
ref: 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: Causing discontent; dissatisfying.
nudification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nudifications
Etymology: From Latin nudus (“naked”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). See -fy.
Senses: glosses: The act of making nude or bare.
Related terms: nudify
diswitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diswitted
form: most diswitted
Etymology: From dis- + wit + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: She […] ran herself away alone;
Which when they heard, there was not one
But hasted after to be gone,
As she had been diswitted.
ref: 1627, Michael Drayton, Nymphidia, published 1819, page 21:
glosses: Deprived of wits or understanding.
anthokyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: anthocyanin
swapportunities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swapportunity
antizoning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antizoning
form: most antizoning
Etymology: From anti- + zoning.
Senses: examples: text: a strong antizoning coalition, including real estate groups
ref: 1988, Joe R. Feagin, Free enterprise city: Houston in political-economic perspective:
glosses: Opposing zoning.
laryngoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From laryngoscopy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
Derived terms: laryngoscopically
microlaryngoscopic
videolaryngoscopic
tarsotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarsotomy
tarsotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarsotomies
Etymology: From tarso- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The operation of cutting or removing the tarsal cartilages (of the eye).
crustaceousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crustaceous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being crustaceous, or having a crust-like shell.
archiblastula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From archi- + blastula.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hollow blastula, purported to be the primitive form.
chromophotography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From chromo- + photography.
Senses: glosses: colour photography
naiver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of naive: more naive
off-split
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off-splits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offsplit.
off-split
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: off-splits
form: off-splitting
form: off-split
form: off-split
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offsplit.
G.I. party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: G.I. parties
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of GI party.
GI party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GI parties
form: G.I. party
Senses: glosses: A thorough cleaning of a military barracks by its inhabitants.
GI parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GI party
iatromechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iatro- + mechanical.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing a school of thought that maintained that physiology and pathology could be explained in terms of physics.
Synonyms: iatromathematical
iatrophysical
iatromelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: ineffective or negligent medical treatment
iatrophysicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˌæt.ɹoʊˈfɪz.ə.sɪst/
Forms: form: iatrophysicists
Etymology: From iatro- + physicist.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A physician who was a follower of iatrophysics.
iatrotechnique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /aɪˌætɹəʊtɛkˈniːk/
Etymology: From iatro- + technique.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The art of medicine and surgery
iodal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound triiodoacetaldehyde, CI₃-CHO
Related terms: bromal
chloral
fluoral
fluoral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound trifluoroacetaldehyde, CF₃-CHO
Related terms: bromal
chloral
iodal
erototoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˌɹɒtəʊˈtɒksɪn/
Forms: form: erototoxins
Etymology: From eroto- + toxin.
Senses: examples: text: Judith Reisman of the California Protective Parents Association suggested that more study of "erototoxins" could show how pornography is not speech-protected under the First Amendment.
ref: 2004 November 19, Ryan Singel, “Internet Porn: Worse Than Crack?”, in Wired, →ISSN:
text: As we saw in the previous chapter, pornographic erototoxins always bypass cognition and speech, reaching the right brain instantly to trigger excitatory transmitters and to overcome inhibitory transmitter functions.
ref: 2005, Ron Luce, Battle Cry for a Generation: The Fight To Save America's Youth, Colorado Springs: Cook Communications Ministries, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 99:
text: And the winner is...Sam Brownback, who considered spending more tax money to explore the “addictive,” “mind-altering,” porn poisons that one witness called “erototoxins.”
ref: 2005 May/June, Jack Hitt, “The Diddly Award”, in Mother Jones, →ISSN:
text: There is no such thing as an "erototoxin", of course, but there are pleasure chemicals that are released in the brain called endorphins and they are released in a wide range of activities, including physical exercise, laughter and — surprise, surprise — sex itself.
ref: 2005 July 25, Ed Brayton, “Robert O'Brien Trophy Awarded to Judith Reisman”, in Dispatches from the Creation Wars, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2012:
text: Not Reisman: erototoxins aren’t about pleasure; they’re a “fear-sex-shame-and-anger stimulant.”
ref: 2007 October 1, Mark Pilkington, Far Out: 101 Strange Tales from Science's Outer Edge, New York: The Disinformation Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL:
text: But there is no good evidence to support the claims of pseudo-experts like Dr Judith Reisman that pornography is what she calls [an] 'erototoxin', producing an addictive drug cocktail of testosterone, oxytocin, dopamine and serotonin, which cause the brain to be ‘structurally’ changed.
ref: 2010, Bettina Arndt, What Men Want in Bed, Melbourne University Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 53:
glosses: An addictive chemical said to be released in the brain from looking at pornography.
erototoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erototoxin
nola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊlə
Etymology: From Latin nola, traditionally derived from Nola in Italy, from its having been the supposed location of St Paulinus's introduction of bells to Christian ceremony, but possibly Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: A very small bell used in the choir during consecration.
shirtdresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shirtdress
IBB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IBBs
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of intentional base on balls, an intentional walk.
Coordinate terms: BB
ancient astronaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ancient astronauts
Senses: examples: text: Is it possible for scientists to demonstrate that ancient astronauts have ever been here? No.
ref: 2001, Charles M. Wynn, Arthur W. Wiggins, Sidney Harris, Quantum leaps in the wrong direction: where real science ends-- and pseudoscience begins, Joseph Henry Press, page 58
text: Although academics have spent many hours showing the errors in von Däniken's reasoning, the Ancient Astronaut notion remains alive.
ref: 2002, Michael Shermer, The Skeptic encyclopedia of pseudoscience, Volume 2, ABC-CLIO, page 530:
text: According to certain authors, intelligent extraterrestrial beings called ancient astronauts or ancient aliens have visited Earth, and this contacts is connected with the origins or development of human cultures, technologies, and religions.
ref: 2011, George Romero, The Rescue, George Romero, page 32:
glosses: Any of the extraterrestrial beings that, according to the pseudoscientific belief of paleocontact, visited Earth in the distant past, influencing human culture, technology, or religion.
Synonyms: ancient alien
Related terms: paleocontact
as-is
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of as is.
as-is
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Discovery of the as-is provides a starting point by defining the current business environment, state of operations, security posture, and other relevant aspects to the project. Comparing the as-is to the to-be provides a gap analysis between where the organization is and where it wants to be.
ref: 2008, Keith D. Willett, Information Assurance Architecture, page 49:
glosses: current status
Synonyms: now
present
denize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈnaɪz/
Forms: form: denizes
form: denizing
form: denized
form: denized
Etymology: Back-formation from denizen.
Senses: examples: text: There was a private act made for denizing the children of Richard Hills.
ref: 1721, John Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation of It, and the Emergencies of the Church of England, under King Henry VIII. King Edward VI. and Queen Mary the First. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] John Wyat, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make a denizen; to confer the rights of citizenship upon; to naturalize.
dorsad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dorsad
form: most dorsad
Etymology: From dorso- + -ad.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Toward the dorsal side.
Derived terms: ventro-dorsad