cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
auspicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more auspicate
form: most auspicate
Etymology: From Latin auspicatus, past participle of auspicari "to take auspices", from auspex "bird seer", "augur", a contraction of avispex; avis "bird" + specere, spicere, "to view".
Senses: examples: text: For by reason that the whole day beside was ominous and dismall, there was no time thereof thought more auspicate and convenient than it, to enter upon the Empire;
ref: 1606, Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, The Historie of Twelve Cæsars, Emperours of Rome, page 182:
text: For mee thinks it is not an auspicate beginning of a feast, nor agreeable to amity and good fellowship, to snatch or lurch one from another , to have many hands in a dish at once, to crosse one another with the elbow, and to bee with hand or arme in his fellows way, striving a vie who should be more nimble with his fingers;
ref: 1657, Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonly Called, the Morals, Written by the Learned Philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea, page 557:
text: Thalaßto was used at Bridals or Weddings in Rome, as an auspicate or lucky word; like this among the Greeks , Hymen O Hymenae , Hymen , &c..
ref: 1670, Thomas Blount, Glossographia, page 644:
text: Henry, by Mary Queen of Scots, had Issue James the Sixth , King of Brittain , by the propitious Grace of the Eternal God, born in a most auspicate and lucky Hour, to knit and unite in one Body of an Empire, the whole Island of Brittain, divided as well in it self, as it was heretofore from the rest of the World, and to lay a most sure Foundation of an everlasting Security, for our Heirs and the Posterity.
ref: 1695, William Camden, A Second Edition of Camden's Description of Scotland, page 94:
text: In a fast running world, such as the one in which we are all living, the tendency and the will to speed it up to reach an auspicate “time 0” between two actions (send a message/receive an answer, leave home/reach the office, etc.) is undeniable.
ref: 2015, I. Apostol, J. Mamasakhlisi, D. Subotta, Engaging the Public to Fight the Consequences of Terrorism, page 14:
glosses: Auspicious.
Derived terms: inauspicate
lucubrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluː.kjə.bɹeɪt/
Forms: form: lucubrates
form: lucubrating
form: lucubrated
form: lucubrated
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin lūcubrātus, perfect passive participle of lūcubrō (“to work by candlelight”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from lūx (“light”).
Senses: examples: text: Instead, as Oklahoma’s tenure committee lucubrated over Hill’s future, […]
ref: December 1991, K. Boo, “The organization woman”, in The Washington Monthly, volume 23, number 12, page 44:
glosses: To work diligently by artificial light; to study at night.
examples: text: 1846, Nathaniel Chipman, in Daniel Chipman, The Life of Hon. Nathaniel Chipman, LL.D., p. 261,
[…] I shall not hesitate to repeat some of my former thoughts, when lucubrating upon the same subject.
glosses: To work or write like a scholar.
Synonyms: sense: work diligently
word: burn the midnight oil
sense: work diligently
word: elucubrate
sense: work diligently
word: pull an all-nighter
Derived terms: word: lucubrated
Related terms: word: elucubrate
word: lucubration
word: lucubratist
word: lucubrator
word: lucubratory
auspicial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more auspicial
form: most auspicial
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to auspices; auspicious.
go the whole hog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes the whole hog
form: going the whole hog
form: went the whole hog
form: gone the whole hog
form: go whole hog
Etymology: Likely a folk term from the practice of livestock and butchery; “whole hog” or (“snout to tail”) refers to letting no portion of the animal carcass go to waste. For example, skin is tanned for leather, sweetbreads are harvested, and commonly cast off pieces such as hooves are pickled. The phrase the whole hog appears in Cowper’s poem “The Love of the World Reproved” (1779), a poem teasing Muslims about suggested ambiguity over their religious prohibition on eating pork. By 1830 the phrase had become popular across America, being used in newspapers and political campaigns. At this time, it migrated across to Britain, where the phrase was adopted.
Senses: examples: text: If you can afford a new computer, you might as well go the whole hog and get it custom built.
text: "Just for a moment. We had a glimpse of a Swann tremendously agitated. In a state of nerves. You see, Odette had left." "You mean to say that she has gone the 'whole hog' with him; that she has 'burned her boats'?" inquired the Doctor cautiously, testing the meaning of his phrases.
ref: 1922, C. K. Scott Moncrieff, transl., Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time), translation of Du Côté de Chez Swann by Marcel Proust:
text: And then, today, she went the whole hog, sacking her chancellor and abandoning even more of her plan.
ref: 2022 October 14, Tom McTague, “The Liz Truss Travesty Becomes Britain’s Humiliation”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: go the entire animal
glosses: To do something as entirely or completely as possible; to reserve or hold back nothing.
wikipedia: William Cowper
Synonyms: sense: to do something unreservedly
word: go all out
sense: to do something unreservedly
word: pull out all the stops
Related terms: all the way
full throttle
totus porcus
whole hog
the whole nine yards
loyalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔɪəlɪst/
Forms: form: loyalists
Etymology: From loyal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Most estimates place one-third of Americans as loyalist, one-third on the fence, to be swayed by whomever was winning, and one-third rebel.
ref: 1999, Harry M. Ward, The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 35:
text: Cobble Hill’s “first hipster bar” sports a “funky living room-ish setting” with “interesting” artwork on the walls and a “low-key” vibe in the air; a “cool” back garden and occasional “dorktastic trivia” contests lead loyalists to label it “one of the best on Atlantic” Avenue.
ref: 2008, Curt Gathje, editor, New York City Nightlife 2008/09, New York, N.Y.: Zagat Survey, →ISBN, page 122:
text: In this sense, a new loyalist aesthetic can also be perceived in simplistic works such as anticommunist literature and melancholic works such as nostalgic fiction and prose.
ref: 2013, Shu-mei Shih, Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 101:
text: An obvious characteristic of a kakistocrat is inserting unqualified loyalists into positions of power. Nepotism and kakistocracy go hand-in-hand.
ref: 2024 November 17, Howie Klein, “A Plurality Of American Voters Have Embraced Kakistocracy As Their Preferred Form Of Governance”, in DownWithTyranny, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2024:
text: President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate firebrand loyalist Kash Patel to serve as FBI director, an extraordinary move that would put a self-described enemy of the so-called deep state as the head of the nation’s top law enforcement agency — a role that would give Patel power to carry out Trump’s threats to go after his political opponents.
ref: 2024 November 30, Holmes Lybrand, Zachary Cohen, Evan Perez and Kristen Holmes, “Trump plans to replace current FBI director with firebrand Kash Patel, drawing bipartisan fire”, in CNN, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2025:
glosses: A person who is loyal to a cause, generally used as a political affiliation.
Derived terms: superloyalist
ultraloyalist
Related terms: loyalism
lowness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊnəs
Forms: form: lownesses
Etymology: From Middle English lownesse; equivalent to low + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Then I was forced to rest; and, sitting down on the ground, saw that the glimmering streak of light had faded, and that the awful blackness of the previous night was creeping up again. And now I had no heart to face it, being cowed with hunger, thirst, and weariness; and so flung myself upon my face, that I might not see how dark it was, and groaned for very lowness of spirit.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, “In the Vault”, in Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC, page 65:
text: My attention was attracted to the next box [booth] by a conversation which was, from its lowness, evidently intended not to be heard.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 19:
glosses: The property of being low.
examples: text: lownesses of expression
glosses: Something that is low or vulgar.
latchkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæt͡ʃˌki/
Forms: form: latchkeys
form: latch key
form: latch-key
Etymology: From latch + key.
Senses: synonyms: check key
glosses: A key, especially to an outside door.
glosses: Ellipsis of latchkey kid.
latchkey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæt͡ʃˌki/
Forms: form: latch key
form: latch-key
Etymology: From latch + key.
Senses: glosses: Equipped with a key; generally in the phrase latchkey kid.
Derived terms: latchkey child
latchkey kid
latchkey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæt͡ʃˌki/
Forms: form: latchkeys
form: latchkeying
form: latchkeyed
form: latchkeyed
form: latch key
form: latch-key
Etymology: From latch + key.
Senses: glosses: To open something by means of a latchkey.
power box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power boxes
Senses: glosses: A box that is the source that sends the electricity to the houses in that part of the neighborhood.
tough-skinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tough-skinned
form: most tough-skinned
Senses: examples: text: She's tough-skinned, if she can work for slave-drivers like those guys.
glosses: Resilient; able to endure hardship or criticism, with no apparent adverse effects.
Related terms: tough-skinnedness
punks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌŋks/
rhymes: -ʌŋks
Senses: glosses: plural of punk
punks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌŋks/
rhymes: -ʌŋks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of punk
precentor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: precentors
form: præcentor
form: precentour
Etymology: From French précenteur, from Latin praecentor, from praecentus (“sung before”), from praecinō (“I sing before”).
Senses: glosses: The person who leads songs or prayers in a cathedral, church, monastery, or synagogue and generally facilitates worship.
Related terms: succentor
prepone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: prepones
form: preponing
form: preponed
form: preponed
form: pre-pone
Etymology: Blend of pre- + postpone, 1913.
Senses: synonyms: advance
bring forward
hasten
antedate
expedite
move up
antonyms: postpone
glosses: To reschedule to a time earlier than the current scheduled time.
prepone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: prepones
form: preponing
form: preponed
form: preponed
Etymology: From Latin praepōnō.
Senses: examples: text: I do pꝛepone and ſet the Loꝛd alwaye befoꝛe myne eyes: He is ſtyll at my right hande, leaſte I fall in anye wyſe.
ref: 1549 September 30 (Gregorian calendar), Robert Crowley, transl., “The .xvi. Psalme”, in The Psalter of Dauid Newely Translated into Englysh Metre in Such Sort that It Maye the More Decently, and wyth More Delyte of the Mynde, Be Reade and Songe of Al Men. […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton and Stephen Mierdman for] Robert Crowley […], signature [C.iv.], verso:
text: When theſe Characters curt, and ſhort Essayes, / Right Worſhipfull, vnworthie of Your view, / At ſome ſucceſſiue Hours, on ydle dayes, / My Pen, for Pinſell; Coale, for Colours, drew, / I ſtood, and ſtudi’d, whoſe præponed Name / Should dye in Graine, and Luſter lend to Them.
ref: 1625, Alexander Garden, “To the Truely Honored, and Worthily Worshipfull, Sir Alexander Gordon, Knight-Baronet of Clunie, &c.”, in Characters and Essayes, Aberdeen: […] Edward Raban, […], page 5:
text: If then by this inviolable tie we are one, your endowments entitle me joinct owner; a riches, I prepone to Monarchies.
ref: 1653 October 9 (Gregorian calendar), D. W., “XLIX. A further reply.”, in Thomas Blount, The Academie of Eloquence. Containing a Compleat English Rhetorique, Exemplified, with Common-Places, and Formes, Digested into an Easie and Methodical Way to Speak and Write Fluently, According to the Mode of the Present Times, Together with Letters Both Amorous and Moral, upon Emergent Occasions., London: […] T. N. for Humphrey Moseley, […], published 1654, page 197:
text: Words and Sentences of Indentures, Acts of Parliament, and other Specialties and Writings ought to be rendred out of Engliſh into Latin, in the same Order as they are expreſs’d in the ſame, not preponing or poſtponing any of them with Intent to make the Latin more elegant; for tho’ ſuch diſplacing of words, not altering the Senſe, vitiates not the Pleadings, yet it hinders the ready Examination of the Latin with the Engliſh, and obſcures the true knowledge of the Deeds.
ref: 1701, Will[iam] Brown, Tutor Clericalis Instructus: or, The Clerk’s Tutor Improv’d. […], London: […] R. Basset […], page 25:
text: Firſt, Find what Decimal of a Pound .625 will Repreſent, which is eaſily done if you prepone a Cypher [i.e., zero], and half the Number is the Decimal of a Pound. The Number with a Cypher preponed is .0625, ½ is .03125.
ref: 1716, John Hill, Arithmetick Both in the Theory and Practice, Made Plain and Easie, in All the Common and Useful Rules, Both in Whole Numbers, and Fractions, Vulgar and Decimal. […], 2nd edition, London: […] D. Midwinter, […], page 185:
synonyms: prefix
prepose
glosses: To place or set (something) before.
Related terms: prepose
prior knowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The defendant was convicted because the prosecutor proved the defendant's prior knowledge of the victim's particular vulnerability.
qualifier: criminal law
glosses: Knowledge of a set of circumstances sufficient to make actions based on those circumstances wrongful.
examples: text: All our policies require a declaration of no prior knowledge as a matter of routine.
topics: business
insurance
law
coordinate_terms: pre-existing condition
glosses: Prior to the inception of an insurance policy, knowledge of specific extant circumstances that could reasonably give rise to a claim under that policy.
examples: text: I had no prior knowledge of linguistics, but that didn't stop me from writing a dictionary.
text: The impact of prior knowledge on the acquisition of knowledge is certanly not a new finding.
ref: 1995, Jan Elen, Blocks on the Road to Instructional Design Prescriptions, →ISBN, page 217:
text: Most constructivist-inspired instruction attempts to make contact with students' prior knowledge so students will learn better.
ref: 2007, Marsha Lovett, Priti Shah, Thinking with Data, →ISBN, page 319:
text: Half the students in the study were encouraged to activate prior knowledge (i.e., they wrote down everything they knew about the topic before reading the relevant passage), and half read the to-be-acquired content without opportunity for activation.
ref: 2012, Wolfgang Schneider, Franz E. Weinert, Interactions Among Aptitudes, Strategies, and knowledge in Cognitive Performance, →ISBN:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see prior, knowledge.
auster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːstɚ/
ipa: /ˈɒstɚ/
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Auster (“the south wind”).
austerely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔˈstiɹli/
Forms: form: more austerely
form: most austerely
Etymology: From austere + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "You'd better hurry," said Hetty austerely.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: In an austere manner.
austereness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From austere + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being austere
harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.
examples: text: VVho will beleeue thee Iſabell? / My vnſoild name, th' auſteereneſſe of my life, / My vouch againſt you, and my place i'th State, / VVill ſo your accuſation ouer-vveigh, / That you ſhall ſtifle in your ovvne report, / And ſmell of calumnie.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 70, column 1:
glosses: The state of being austere
severity; strictness; austerity.
austerity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔˈstɛɹɪti/
enpr: ôstĕr′ǐtē
Forms: form: austerities
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐστηρότης (austērótēs, “bitter, harsh”). Morphologically austere + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The most rigid and noted of the English ladies resident in the French capital acknowledged and countenanced her; the virtuous Lady Elderbury, the severe Lady Rockminster, the venerable Countess of Southdown—people, in a word, renowned for austerity, and of quite a dazzling moral purity:—so great and beneficent an influence had the possession of ten (some said twenty) thousand a year exercised upon Lady Clavering’s character and reputation
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
examples: text: One critic [Madeleine Schwartz] recently noted that the politics of Rooney’s novels were largely “gestural,” with airy mentions of Gaza or austerity protests but not much radical substance.
ref: 2019 April 12, Annalisa Quinn, “The Small Rebellions of Sally Rooney’s Normal People”, in The Atlantic:
text: The war-torn first half of the 20th century, together with the railway grouping of 1923, ushered in further austerity in design.
ref: 2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 56:
glosses: Freedom from adornment; plainness; severe simplicity.
examples: text: He said France clearly wanted to "close one page and open another". He reiterated his opposition to austerity alone as the only way out of Europe's crisis: "My final duty, and I know I'm being watched from beyond our borders, is to put Europe back on the path of growth and employment."
ref: 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A policy of deficit-cutting, which by definition requires lower spending, higher taxes, or both.
glosses: Sourness and harshness to the taste.
Derived terms: antiausterity
austeritarian
Related terms: austere
austerely
austeriate
producibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: producibilities
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being producible.
glosses: The measure of the relative ease of manufacturing.
australize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: australizes
form: australizing
form: australized
form: australized
Etymology: From austral + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: They [magnets] do septentrionate at one extreme, and australize at another.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudoloxia Epidemica:
text: A loadstone placed upon a small trencher of wood, floating on water, does instantly in one determinate point australize […]
ref: 1922, Paul Fleury Mottelay, Bibliographical history of Electricity and Magnetism:
glosses: To tend toward the south pole, as a magnet.
austromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin auster (“south wind”); austro- + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: Soothsaying or divination from observing the winds or clouds.
Hypernyms: aeromancy
Related terms: anemoscopy
nephomancy
authentical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more authentical
form: most authentical
Etymology: From Classical Latin authenticus + -al. By surface analysis, authentic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: He graunted it: and streight his warrant made, / Under the Sea-gods seale autenticall[…].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: The curious and exact care he had of his body, is an authenticall witneſſe of it, forſomuch as hee vſed the moſt laſcivious meanes that then were in vſe, […]
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “The History of Spurina”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 418:
text: The Holie Bible faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin.
ref: 1609, Douay–Rheims Bible, title page:
glosses: Authentic.
Derived terms: authenticalness
unauthentical
authentically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more authentically
form: most authentically
form: authentickly
form: authenticly
Etymology: From authentic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an authentic manner; genuinely
authenticalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From authentical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being authentic; authenticity.
Slutsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsluːtskiː/
ipa: /ˈslʌtski/
Forms: form: Slutskys
Etymology: From Russian Слуцкий (Sluckij).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Слу́цкий (Slúckij).
glosses: A surname from Russian.
Derived terms: Slutsky diamond
Slutsky equation
Slutsky matrix
Slutsky's theorem
Related terms: Marshallian
Hicksian
authenticate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈθɛn.tɪ.keɪt/
ipa: /ɔˈθɛn.tɪ.keɪt/
ipa: /ɑˈθɛn.tɪ.keɪt/
Forms: form: authenticates
form: authenticating
form: authenticated
form: authenticated
Etymology: From Medieval Latin authenticō. By surface analysis, authentic + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.
examples: text: He didn’t manage to authenticate the portrait: it’s probably a fake.
text: The server could not authenticate the request.
glosses: To prove authentic; to determine as real and true.
Synonyms: english: which is a less common synonym
translation: which is a less common synonym
word: authentify
Coordinate terms: identify
Derived terms: authenticatable
authentication
authenticator
deauthenticate
reauthenticate
self-authenticating
unauthenticated
Related terms: authentification
authenticate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈθɛn.tɪ.keɪt/
ipa: /ɔˈθɛn.tɪ.keɪt/
ipa: /ɑˈθɛn.tɪ.keɪt/
Forms: form: more authenticate
form: most authenticate
Etymology: From authentic + -ate (adjective-forming suffix)
Senses: glosses: Synonym of authentic.
synonyms: word: authentic
authenticly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more authenticly
form: most authenticly
form: authentickly
Etymology: From authentic + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of authentically.
authenticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From authentic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being authentic; authenticity.
authentics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called on account of its authenticity.
Senses: qualifier: civil law
glosses: A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author.
promissory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑmɪsɔɹi/
Etymology: From Middle English promissorye, from Medieval Latin prōmissōrius. By surface analysis, promise + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Containing or consisting of a promise.
topics: law
glosses: Stipulating the future actions required of the parties to an insurance policy or other business agreement.
raw_tags: of a contractual provision
Derived terms: promissory note
psalmist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psalmists
Etymology: From psalm + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.
ref: 1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, chapter 7, in The Return of the Native […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC, book I (The Three Women), page 157:
glosses: A composer of psalms.
examples: text: The hunter is taken in his own snare, as the great Psalmist says.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 25, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
text: Either man is the creature whom the Psalmist described as "a little lower than the angels," crowned with glory and honor, holding "dominion over the works" of his Creator; or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification.
ref: 1955 January 6, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Third State of the Union Address:
text: More than 2,500 years ago, the Psalmist of the Old Testament, for example, wrote that “the days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow.”
ref: 2025 October 25, Stephen Cave, “Threescore and many more”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
related: word: Psalmist
glosses: A composer of one of the Biblical Psalms.
pyogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpaɪ.əˈdʒɛnɪk/
Forms: form: more pyogenic
form: most pyogenic
Etymology: From pyo- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Referring to bacterial infections that make pus.
forgetfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɡɛtfʊlnɪs/
Forms: form: forgetfulnesses
Etymology: From Middle English forgetfulnes, forgetfulnesse, forȝetfulnesse, equivalent to forgetful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being forgetful; proneness to let slip from the mind.
glosses: Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.
examples: text: forgetfulness of duty
glosses: Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention.
Derived terms: unforgetfulness
Related terms: amnesia
memory loss
implicature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈplɪkət͡ʃə/
ipa: /ɪmˈplɪkət͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: implicatures
Etymology: Coined by British philosopher Paul Grice before or in 1967.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
glosses: An implied meaning that does not semantically entail.
Related terms: implicate
implication
paraphrastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Forms: form: more paraphrastic
form: most paraphrastic
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a paraphrase.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of a Latin conjugation: composed of the verb sum with participial forms of the verbs conjugated (as in e.g. amaturus sum).
Derived terms: paraphrastically
organza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈɡæn.zə/
ipa: /ɔɹˈɡæn.zə/
rhymes: -ænzə
Forms: form: organzas
Etymology: Attested since about 1820, of uncertain origin. Suggestions include: alteration of Lorganza (supposedly a trade name at the time for such a fabric) and/or ultimate derivation from Urgench or Old Urgench (supposedly associated with fabric production).
Senses: examples: text: But Pinky, at night, toward the morning, to become a woman, was that it? How the white legs would glow against the fire-colored chiffon and bright pink organza, Pinky's white white legs.
ref: 2004, Monika Fagerholm, Translator Kathleen Tucker, The American Girl, Other Press, published 2009, page 202:
glosses: A thin, stiff, sheer fabric that is made from silk or a synthetic yarn, which resembles organdy, and is used in dressmaking.
ooid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊˌɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈoʊˌɔɪd/
Forms: form: ooids
Etymology: From oo- (“egg”) + -id.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small calcium carbonate or iron coated grain found on the seafloor.
Synonyms: oolith
Derived terms: ooidal
Related terms: oolite
ooid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊˌɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈoʊˌɔɪd/
Forms: form: more ooid
form: most ooid
Etymology: From oo- (“egg”) + -id.
Senses: examples: text: One thinks of everything from amphitheaters like the Colosseum to Buckminster Fuller in his more ooid modes
ref: 2001, George L. Hersey, The Monumental Impulse: Architecture's Biological Roots, page 152:
glosses: Shaped like an egg; ovoid; ovate.
hypercapnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypercapnias
Etymology: From hyper- + capn- + -ia; more at capno- § Etymology.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The condition of abnormally elevated carbon dioxide in the blood.
Synonyms: hypercarbia
Derived terms: hypercapnic
kulan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kulans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of koulan.
kanten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 寒天 (kanten).
Senses: glosses: agar
arctophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːktəfaɪl/
ipa: /ˈɑɹktəˌfaɪl/
Forms: form: arctophiles
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos
Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos)lbor.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰil-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *bʰil-o-s
Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos)bor.
Latin -philalbor.
English -phile
English arctophile
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”) + English -phile.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand I am appalled by the ways these "arctophiles" seem to feel for their childhood friends not an informed, reminiscent emotion, but exactly what they felt at 6 with no development at all.
ref: 1969 October 15, Gillian Tindall, “The bear facts”, in The Guardian (Woman’s Guardian section), London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2, “Love letters”:
glosses: One who has a fondness for teddy bears, usually a collector of them.
Related terms: arctophilia
arctophily
ursophile
impeached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impeach
qualifier: United States Law
glosses: Removed from office in accordance with Article II, Section 4 of the United States Constitution.
Derived terms: unimpeached
attorney-client privilege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attorney-client privileges
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: legal professional privilege
solicitor-client privilege
glosses: A legal doctrine that protects certain confidential communications between a lawyer and his or her clients.
solicitor-client privilege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Synonym of attorney-client privilege.
synonyms: word: attorney-client privilege
choo choo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choo choos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of choo-choo.
linoleate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linoleates
Etymology: From linoleic + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: glosses: Any salt or ester of linoleic acid.
Derived terms: trilinoleate
renewal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renewals
Etymology: From renew + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The renewal of track by cranes and special tracklaying machines which lift out entire 60 ft. lengths of old track and lay in pre-assembled 60 ft. lengths of new, allows the process of renewal to proceed at a considerably faster rate than possible by older methods.
ref: 1953 September, “Restoring British Permanent Way to Prewar Standards”, in Railway Magazine, page 587:
glosses: The act of renewing.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: An offensive action made immediately after a parried one.
Synonyms: renew
Derived terms: Markov renewal process
nonrenewal
non-renewal
renewal theory
urban renewal
occasional table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occasional tables
Etymology: From occasional (“for an occasion”) + table.
Senses: examples: text: A cushion-covered divan; three-piece lounge-suite; occasional table, writing table and radio constituted the principal pieces[.]
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XI, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 119:
topics: furniture
lifestyle
hypernyms: table
coordinate_terms: coffee table
end table
side table
glosses: Any small table, such as an end table, which has no particular function and may typically be folded away.
Related terms: occasional bookcase
occasional furniture
Rabia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic رَابِعَة (rābiʕa), the feminine of رَبِيع (rabīʕ, “spring”) as well as رَابِع (rābiʕ, “fourth”), from أَرْبَعَة (ʔarbaʕa, “four”). Hence Rabia means both "spring" and "the fourth female".
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic, meaning spring, meant to symbolize the beginning of life, hope and the advent of happiness after a dark winter. The name of the first female Sufi saint, Rabia El Basri.
Nathan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪθən/
Forms: form: Nathans
Etymology: From Hebrew נָתָן (natán, “gave”). Also short for Jonathan.
Senses: examples: text: And Dauids anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liueth, the man that hath done this thing, shall surely die. And he shall restore the Lambe fourefold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pittie. And Nathan said to Dauid, Thou art the man: […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 12:5–7:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An Old Testament prophet who advised King David.
examples: text: the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 5:14:
glosses: The fourth son of King David and father of Mattatha
examples: text: I used to envy my brother his name, and recall once accusing my mother of having favored him, else why did she name me Nathan and him Philip, tell me that, ma, tell me that. He had king Philip and if day-dreaming that association wasn't pleasure enough, there was the then movie star, Phillips Holmes. All I had was Nathan Hale. Admittedly, Nathan Hale would have been fine — except among our schoolyard ditties was the couplet: Nathan Hale, / Nathan Hale, / He shit in a pail, / Shit in a pail. Being a Nathan was sometimes trying.
ref: 1972, Nate Perlmutter, A Bias of Reflections: Confessions of an Incipient Old Jew, Arlington House, →ISBN, page 27:
text: He was so proud he'd had a son. He talked me into naming him Nathan saying he had always loved that name. I was surprised to see when I looked it up in a name book it meant gift from God. And yes that was a very appropriate name.
ref: 2007, Rose Lamatt, Lifeline Online, →ISBN, page 128:
text: Near the end of Sasquatch Sunset, the gloriously weird feature from David and Nathan Zellner, Riley Keough wordlessly conveys a slowly creeping moment of profound existential despair that crushes your heart with its bleakness.
ref: 2024 June 16, Wendy Ide, “Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, of Biblical origin.
related: word: Nation
glosses: An English surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: An Ashkenazi surname from Hebrew [in turn originating as a patronymic], a variant of Natan.
glosses: A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; named for Matthew Nathan, 13th Governor of Queensland.
Derived terms: sense: given name diminutives
word: Nat
sense: given name diminutives
word: Nate
Related terms: Jonathan
Nathanael
Nathaniel
Nathan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪθən/
Forms: form: Nathans
Etymology: From a 2014 meme which suggested that white people should replace the word nigga in rap songs with Nathan. The present meaning of the term dates from around 2017.
Senses: examples: text: A Nathan is a stereotype who usually listens to white rappers like Eminem,logic and NF, and hates new rap
ref: 2019 November 25, u/Szillar, “Mumble rappers be like:”, in Reddit, r/dankmemes, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2023:
text: Nathans are infinitely worse than mumble/trap fans
ref: 2022 February 28, u/uselessrart, “Mummble acceptance in dhh.”, in Reddit, r/IndianHipHopHeads, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2023:
text: it would be nice if the new fans would go away or at least change who they are completely. i love seeing bladee & company win but these 100 gec ass nathans are like locusts going from one artist's chronically online fanbase to the next. sematary went down quick lol. once fantano reviewed rb3 it was over
ref: 2022 December 19, “Hiphop 10 years from now?”, in Reddit, r/hiphopheads, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2023:
topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A white hip-hop fan, especially one who listens to white rappers and looks down on mumble rap.
IVA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IVAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of individual voluntary arrangement.
glosses: Initialism of individual vehicle approval.
coordinate_terms: EVA
EVA suit
IVA suit
ship suit
flightsuit
pressure suit
EMU
qualifier: space flight
glosses: Initialism of intravehicular activity.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of in-vitro activation.
Related terms: sense: spaceflight
word: EVA
gorget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɔːdʒɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡoɹ.d͡ʒɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡoɹ.d͡ʒɛt/
ipa: /ˈɡoɹ.d͡ʒət/
ipa: /ˌɡoɹˈʒeɪ/
Forms: form: gorgets
Etymology: From Middle English gorget, from Old French gorgete, from gorge (“throat”).
Senses: examples: text: About his neck a threefold gorget, / As rough as trebled leathern target
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
text: Unfix the gorget's iron clasp.
ref: 1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Hawkmoon whipped his sword from the scabbard, leaped forward, and drove the blade into the throat of the warrior just below his gorget.
ref: 1968, Michael Moorcock, The Mad God's Amulet, Gollancz, published 2003, page 209:
text: Renly lifted his chin to allow Brienne to fasten his gorget in place.
ref: 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 500:
text: I heard he presented Hygd with a gorget,
the priceless torque that the prince's daughter
Wealhtheow, had given him.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 69:
synonyms: word: neckplate
word: hausse-col
word: gorgerin
word: gorgerette
glosses: A piece of armour protecting the throat and/or the upper part of the chest.
glosses: A crescent-shaped ornamental metal plate suspended around the neck from the crescent's points by a length of chain or ribbon, used to indicate rank or authority and was worn as part of a dress military uniform by officers.
synonyms: word: gorgerette
glosses: A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple.
glosses: An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
synonyms: word: gorgeret
glosses: A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
glosses: A grooved instrument used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.
examples: text: There was […] the golden-winged woodpecker, with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage […]
ref: 1917, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
glosses: A hake caught in a net set for other fish.
Derived terms: gorget hummer
gorgeted
Related terms: gorge
gorgelet
pettifoggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛti.fɒɡ.ə.ɹi/
Forms: form: pettifoggeries
Etymology: From pettifogger + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: He was capable of using lawyerly rhetoric, at times, to the brink of pettifoggery.
text: Yet even Harlan was to prove capable of grievous pettifoggery on the racial issue.
ref: 2011, Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality, Knopf Doubleday (2011), p. 82
text: [Frankfurter's reasoning in Beauharnais v. Illinois] struck Black and the other three Roosevelt appointees who joined his dissent as noxious pettifoggery[.]
ref: 2011, Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality, Knopf Doubleday (2011), p. 601
text: The idea that a minor bureaucratic restructuring could have made any difference in the time of Trump reflected how immune bureaucratic pettifoggery is to reality.
ref: 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 317:
glosses: The actions of a pettifogger; a trivial quarrel.
Synonyms: fuss
quibble
spat
squabble
tiff
infeasible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infeasible
form: most infeasible
Etymology: From in- + feasible. Cognate to French infaisable.
Senses: examples: text: "With magic in limited use and hidden, it was possible to enhance the various magic resistances of humans, and to keep certain forms of magic from being possible. If magic enters common usage, this interference becomes infeasible."
ref: 2018 February 21, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Feb 21, 2018:
text: Labour's Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said: "There is a cost-of-living crisis, and the Prime Minister blew nearly £1m of public money on an utterly infeasible vanity project. That's enough to fill 18,000 potholes. This shows the Tories' sheer disrespect for public money."
ref: 2022 February 9, “Network News: Prime Minister "blew nearly £1m" on Northern Ireland bridge study”, in RAIL, number 950, page 20:
antonyms: feasible
glosses: Not feasible.
wikipedia: The Economist
Derived terms: infeasibility
infeasibleness
infeasibly
Zaum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian за́умь (záumʹ, literally “nonsense”).
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
synonyms: beyonsense
transreason
glosses: Linguistic experiments in sound symbolism and language creation, associated with futurist poets of the Russian Empire.
toom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːm
Forms: form: more toom
form: most toom
Etymology: From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English tōm (“empty”), from Proto-West Germanic *tōm(ī), from Proto-Germanic *tōm(ij)az (“free, available, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *doma- (“to tame”), *dema- (“to build”). Cognate with Danish and Swedish tom (“empty, vacant”), Icelandic tómur (“empty”).
Senses: examples: text: Gin she was toom afore, she's toomer now,
Her heart was like to loup out at her mou'.
ref: 1778, Alexander Ross, Fortunate Shepherdess, page 62:
text: Then hie to the Custom House, add to your pleasures, Now you're well cover'd, so toom the new measures: It ne'er will be finish'd, I'll wager a groat, Till they've cut a canal te admit five-men boats!
ref: 1825, The Tyneside Songster:
text: Every time Gavin's cup went to his lips Nanny calculated (correctly) how much he had drunk, and yet, when the right moment arrived, she asked in the English voice that is fashionable at ceremonies, "if his cup was toom."
ref: 1895, James Matthew Barrie, The Little Minister, page 135:
text: "You saw it was toom. The lamp had gone out itself, or else — what's that?"
ref: 1896, Scribner's Magazine, volume 20:
text: It seemed to him that his soul had gone from him, and he was as toom as a hazel shell.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: Bare is much better. 'When she got there, the cupboard was bare' does call up the distress of those with naked larders. 'The cupboard was empty' would not be poignant at all. But 'the cupboard was toom' would utter the voice of real despair.
ref: 1951, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, I break my word, page 120:
text: His tabard was 'toom' — bare or empty — and Balliol, the unmade king, became 'Toom Tabard'.
ref: 1974, Ranald Nicholson, Scotland: the later Middle Ages, page 50:
synonyms: word: vacant
word: void
word: empty
word: empty as a pauper's purse
word: empty as the tomb on Easter
word: clean
word: leer
word: toom
word: unfilled
word: vacant
word: vacuumlike
word: vacuous
word: void
glosses: Empty; bare.
Derived terms: toom-handed
toomly
toom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːm
Forms: form: tooms
Etymology: From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English tōm (“empty”), from Proto-West Germanic *tōm(ī), from Proto-Germanic *tōm(ij)az (“free, available, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *doma- (“to tame”), *dema- (“to build”). Cognate with Danish and Swedish tom (“empty, vacant”), Icelandic tómur (“empty”).
Senses: glosses: A piece of waste ground where rubbish is deposited.
toom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -uːm
Forms: form: tooms
form: tooming
form: toomed
form: toomed
Etymology: From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English tōm (“empty”), from Proto-West Germanic *tōm(ī), from Proto-Germanic *tōm(ij)az (“free, available, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *doma- (“to tame”), *dema- (“to build”). Cognate with Danish and Swedish tom (“empty, vacant”), Icelandic tómur (“empty”).
Senses: glosses: To empty; teem.
toom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːm
Forms: form: tooms
Etymology: From Middle English toom, tome, tom, from Old Norse tóm (“vacant time, leisure”), from Proto-Germanic *tōmą (“vacant time, leisure”). Related to Old Norse tómr (“vacant, empty”).
Senses: examples: text: He had exhausted Bath, but his connections and introductions made the transition easy. There was toom for two in the capital.
ref: 1978, Art and Artists:
glosses: Vacant time, leisure.
Zaun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zauns
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zaun.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Zwilling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zwillings
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zwilling.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
tegula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tegulae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tegula (“a tile”), from tegō (“to cover”). Doublet of tile.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small sclerite situated above the base of the costal vein in the wings of various insects, and attached to the anterolateral portion of the mesonotum.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A flat Roman roof tile with raised edges, joined together by an imbrex.
topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any sea snail in the genus Tegula.
Derived terms: subtegula
religiosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˌlɪd͡ʒɪˈɒsɪti/
ipa: /ɹɪˌlɪd͡ʒɪˈɑsəti/
Forms: form: religiosities
Etymology: From religio(u)s + -ity, from Latin religiositas.
Senses: examples: text: “At least part of the stir over Carter’s shirtsleeve religiosity is that he seems to practice what he preaches,” Newsweek magazine mused a few days after the “born again” question made headlines across the country. “Kennedy went to Mass and Richard Nixon spoke affectionately of his Quaker mother, but neither appeared to be truly religious.”
ref: 1976, Newsweek Magazine, quoted in: Harry Bruinius, For Jimmy Carter, a life of service, defined by faith, in: The Christian Science Monitor, December 29 2024
glosses: The quality of being religious or pious, especially when zealous.
Synonyms: devoutness
piety
religiousness
sanctimoniousness
Related terms: irreligiosity
religiose
Zipfel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zipfels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zipfel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.