cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
damn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæm/
ipa: [dɛəm]
ipa: [deəm]
ipa: [dɛːm]
homophone: dam
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: damns
form: damning
form: damned
form: damned
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: damn
form: damn
form: damned
form: damn
form: damnest
form: damned
form: damnedst
form: damns
form: damneth
form: damned
form: damn
form: damned
form: damn
form: damned
form: damn
form: -
form: damning
form: damned
Etymology: From Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnāre (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”).
Senses: examples: text: The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.
text: Only God can damn.
text: I damn you eternally, fiend!
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: To condemn.
examples: text: He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: Lack of access to support services can damn children with disabilities and lesser means to lives where they never harness their full range of abilities.
ref: 2018 May 12, Stephanie Sinclair, “'What I Learned From Adopting Two Children With Rare Genetic Conditions'”, in Time:
synonyms: convict
doom
glosses: To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
examples: text: I’m afraid that if I speak out on this, I’ll be damned as a troublemaker.
glosses: To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
examples: text: 1708 November 8, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell
You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] […] without hearing.
text: Homosexuality and suicide have some common characteristics. Both are damned by the Western Judeo-Christian culture as sins (although the latter has only been considered such since the sixth century).
ref: 1976 February 14, David Brill, “Suicide”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 11:
synonyms: anathematize
demonize
excoriate
vilify
glosses: To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
examples: text: That man stole my wallet. Damn him!
synonyms: comminate
execrate
imprecate
glosses: To curse; put a curse upon.
examples: c. 1767-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury
[…] while I inwardly damn.
synonyms: ban
execrate
point the bone
glosses: To invoke damnation; to curse.
damn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæm/
ipa: [dɛəm]
ipa: [deəm]
ipa: [dɛːm]
homophone: dam
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: From Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnāre (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”).
Senses: examples: text: Shut the damn door!
text: Damn freaks!
text: Damn psychos!
text: The whole damn building came down!
text: Damn cultists are psychotic.
text: Where's that damn FOURTH Chaos Emerald!
ref: 2005, Sonic Team, Sega Studios USA, Shadow the Hedgehog, Sega, PS2, GameCube, Xbox:
synonyms: word: 4ucking
word: accursed
word: bally
word: blasted
word: bleeding
word: bleeping
word: blessed
word: blimming
word: blinking
word: bloody
word: blooming
word: confounded
word: consarned
word: cotton-picking
word: cowson
word: cursed
word: dadburn
word: dadgum
word: dagnabbed
word: damn
word: damnable
word: damned
word: dang
word: danged
word: darn
word: darned
word: dashed
word: deuced
word: doggone
word: dratted
word: effing
word: ever-loving
word: fecking
word: flaming
word: flipping
word: freaking
word: fricking
word: frigging
word: fucking
word: fudging
word: fugging
word: furshlugginer
word: jiggered
word: goddam
word: goddamn
word: goddamned
word: goddarned
word: godforsaken
word: goldurn
word: gormed
word: goshdarn
word: goshdarned
word: hecking
word: infernal
word: living
word: mollyfogging
word: motherfucking
word: pissing
word: plain
word: raasclaat
word: ruddy
word: sniggered
word: sodding
word: stinking
glosses: Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
damn
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæm/
ipa: [dɛəm]
ipa: [deəm]
ipa: [dɛːm]
homophone: dam
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: From Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnāre (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”).
Senses: examples: text: That car was going damn fast!
text: How are you damn quick?
text: You must be so damn rapid.
text: I damn well hope you never come back.
text: We're begging, damn near down on our knees, and not getting one red cent.
ref: 1989 December 10, John Zeh, quoting Tony Allen, “AIDS Groups' Execs Arrested In D.C.”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 1:
synonyms: word: acutely
word: awfully
word: beyond
word: damn
word: drastically
word: exceedingly
word: extraordinarily
word: highly
word: hugely
word: immensely
word: insanely
word: intensely
word: jolly
word: murrain
word: severely
word: strikingly
word: terribly
word: violently
word: wicked
word: wildly
glosses: Very; extremely.
damn
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæm/
ipa: [dɛəm]
ipa: [deəm]
ipa: [dɛːm]
homophone: dam
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: From Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnāre (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”).
Senses: synonyms: word: 4uck
word: ay
word: chihuahua
word: blast
word: bugger
word: bummer
word: byrlady
word: consarn it
word: crap
word: crud
word: curses
word: dammit
word: damn
word: dadgummit
word: dagnabbit
word: dang
word: dang it
word: darn
word: darn it
word: dash
word: dash it
word: dizamn
word: d'oh
word: doggone
word: doggonit
word: drat
word: fark
word: feck
word: fiddle
word: fiddlefart
word: fiddlestick
word: fiddlesticks
word: fook
word: frak
word: frick
word: fuck
word: fuck me
word: fudge
word: goddamn
word: goshdarn
word: goddammit
word: goshdarnit
word: good grief
word: gorblimey
word: hang it all
word: heck
word: hell
word: hell's bells
word: hell's bloody bells
word: hell's bloody bells and damnation
word: Holy Mother
word: Holy Mother of God
word: ish
word: Mother of God
word: nuts
word: phooey
word: piss
word: poo
word: raasclaat
word: rats
word: shit
word: shoot
word: shucks
word: son of a bitch
word: son of a gun
word: sugar
glosses: Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or surprise, etc. See also dammit.
damn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæm/
ipa: [dɛəm]
ipa: [deəm]
ipa: [dɛːm]
homophone: dam
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: damns
Etymology: From Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnāre (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”).
Senses: examples: text: He said a few damns and left.
glosses: The word "damn" employed as a curse.
examples: text: The new hires aren't worth a damn.
synonyms: word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.
raw_tags: in the negative
examples: text: I don't give a damn.
glosses: The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
raw_tags: in the negative
Derived terms: word: a damn sight
word: ah, damn
word: bedamn
word: be damned
word: Billy-be-damned
word: damage
word: dammit
word: dammit all to hell
word: dammit to hell
word: damnability
word: damnable
word: damn all
word: damn and blast
word: damnation
word: damnatory
word: damn by association
word: damned
word: damned if I care
word: damned if I know
word: damned if one does and damned if one doesn't
word: damned well
word: damnfool
word: damn if I care
word: damn if I know
word: damn it
word: damnit
word: damn luck
word: damn lucky
word: damn my eyes
word: damn right
word: damn skippy
word: damn straight
word: damn sure
word: damn the torpedoes
word: damn well
word: damn with faint praise
word: damnworthy
word: damn Yankee
word: damn you
word: damn you all to hell
word: damn your eyes
word: damn your hide
word: dang
word: darn
word: darn well
word: dayum
word: dizamn
word: ever-damned
word: foredamn
word: fore-damned
word: give a damn
word: give a flying damn
word: give a good damn
word: give a tinker's damn
word: goddammit
word: god damn
word: goddamned
word: God damn
word: goddamn
word: goddamn you all to hell
word: gods damn
word: holy damn
word: hot damn
word: I'll be damned
word: may God damn you
word: near as damn it
word: oh, damn
word: predamn
word: pursuer rigged and parish damned
word: the damn
word: tinker's damn
word: undamn
word: well, damn
clef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɛf/
rhymes: -ɛf
Forms: form: clefs
form: cleff
form: cliff
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French clef, from Latin clāvis (“a key”). Doublet of clave and clavis.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff
Derived terms: word: alto clef
word: baritone clef
word: bass clef
alt: C-clef
word: C clef
word: cleffer
word: cleflike
word: F clef
alt: G-clef
word: G clef
word: neutral clef
word: octave clef
word: tenor clef
word: treble clef
word: viola clef
clave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kleɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Senses: examples: text: And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 22:3:
text: And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 1:14:
text: Sir Launcelot put his shield afore him, and put the stroke away of the one giant, and with his sword he clave his head asunder.
ref: 1868, Thomas Malory, chapter 11, in Le Morte D'Arthur:
text: Suddenly a peal of thunder, resonant even above the din of the swinish revelry, clave the very roof and laid a hush of feat upon the boisterous company.
ref: 1917, H. P. Lovecraft, The Tomb:
glosses: simple past and past participle of cleave
clave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kleɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
ipa: /ˈklɑːveɪ/
rhymes: -ɑːveɪ
ipa: /kleɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: claves
Etymology: From Spanish clave, from Latin clāvis (“key”). Doublet of clavis and clef.
Senses: glosses: singular of claves
clave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kleɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
ipa: /ˈklɑːveɪ/
rhymes: -ɑːveɪ
ipa: /kleɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: claves
Etymology: From Spanish clave, from Latin clāvis (“key”). Doublet of clavis and clef.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.
clave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kleɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
ipa: /ˈklɑːveɪ/
rhymes: -ɑːveɪ
Forms: form: claves
Etymology: Clipping of autoclave.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of autoclave.
clave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kleɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
ipa: /ˈklɑːveɪ/
rhymes: -ɑːveɪ
Forms: form: claves
form: claving
form: claved
form: claved
Etymology: Clipping of autoclave.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of autoclave.
clavis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkleɪ.vɪs/
ipa: /ˈklɑv.ɪs/
rhymes: -eɪvɪs
rhymes: -ævɪs
Forms: form: clavises
form: claves
Etymology: From Latin clāvis (“a key”). Doublet of clave and clef.
Senses: examples: text: Iron clavis, the solid web-shaped at the edges to fit the wards in the lock, and having a pointed broach and a kite-formed looped haft.
ref: 1873, “Proceedings of the Association”, in Journal of the British Archaeological Association, volume 29, April 9th, page 202:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: key
glosses: A Roman key.
examples: text: His hands were restrained by means of a clavis and bolt (of iron), appropriated to each wrist, and united by a padlock.
ref: 1904, B. O. Flower, “Editorials”, in B. O. Flower, editor, The Arena, volume 32, VI. Dr. Bell shows how hopeless insanity was a fruit of public parsimony, page 540, column 2:
synonyms: shackles
glosses: A device for restraint of the hands.
examples: text: Homer, with a clavis, I have had possession of some years.
ref: 1784 July 12, William Cowper, “To the Rev. William Unwin.”, in Robert Southey, editor, The Works of William Cowper, with a Life of the Author, volume 5, published 1836, page 54:
glosses: Synonym of glossary: a key to the meaning of various terms.
synonyms: word: glossary
extra: a key to the meaning of various terms
examples: text: There are many disadvantages in using a clavis intended for another country, which necessarily includes plants that are absent from our islands while it omits some that are present and neglects the peculiarities of our island flora.
ref: 1921, Alexander Irvine, “Short Notes: Rosa spinosissima×rubiginosa×f. cantiana, forma nova”, in Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, volume 59, number 702, page 180:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: identification guide
conspectus
key
glosses: A key; an identification guide; a series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
Related terms: clavichord
agglomeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: agglomerations
Etymology: From Latin agglomerātiō. By surface analysis, agglomerate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
glosses: State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: An extended city area comprising the built-up area of a central city and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mass of large volcanic fragments bonded under heat.
Derived terms: agglomerational
deagglomeration
disagglomeration
heteroagglomeration
homoagglomeration
reagglomeration
wiglomeration
agglutination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: agglutinations
Etymology: Multiple origins. The oldest usage, in relation to tissues adhering or healing in medical contexts, appears in the 16th century, from French agglutination. The linguistic sense derived from this usage during the early 19th century. The sense of gluing or cementing objects together in other contexts is from New Latin agglutinatio, from Latin agglūtinō (“glue; fasten to”) + -iō (a suffix used to form nouns). Compare Spanish aglutinación (“uniting; (linguistic) agglutination”), French agglutiner (“to paste together”, verb), and German Agglutination (“(linguistic) agglutination”) and Agglutinierung (“(biological) adhering, clumping”).
Senses: glosses: The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See agglutinative.
examples: text: It may resemble the factor 5 in Salmonella, a heat-labile determinant on the endotoxin molecule which, because of its superficial location, blocks the agglutination reaction of the deeper heat-stable O antigens in the same way as do the Vi and K antigens.
ref: 1966, Karina Dzintars Burda, A Study of Heat-labile Superficial Somatic Antigen of Vibrio Fetus, page 41:
glosses: The clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria, usually in response to a particular antibody.
Derived terms: autoagglutination
coagglutination
erythroagglutination
haemagglutination
hemagglutination
immunoagglutination
leucoagglutination
leukoagglutination
macroagglutination
microagglutination
polyagglutination
seroagglutination
Related terms: agglutinate
agglutinative
agglutinant
aggravation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɡɹəˈveɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: aggravations
Etymology: From Middle French aggravation.
Senses: examples: text: Adrian, whose health had always been weak, now suffered considerable aggravation of suffering from the effects of his wound.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, in The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: exacerbation
glosses: The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
glosses: Exaggerated representation.
glosses: An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
examples: text: A little less conversation, a little more action please / All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me
ref: 1968, Mac Davis, Billy Strange, “A Little Less Conversation”, performed by Elvis Presley:
glosses: Provocation, irritation, annoyance.
Derived terms: overaggravation
reaggravation
Related terms: aggravate
senior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsinjɚ/
ipa: /ˈsiːnjə(r)/
Forms: form: more senior
form: most senior
form: seniour
Etymology: From Middle English senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”); see senate. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.
Senses: examples: text: senior citizen
glosses: Older.
examples: text: senior member; senior counsel
glosses: Higher in rank, dignity, or office; superior.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.
examples: text: senior hockey
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players above a certain age or level of experience.
Synonyms: sense: older
word: geriatric
word: long in the tooth
word: on in years
word: elderly
topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: masters
topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: veteran
Related terms: senile
senate
sir
senior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsinjɚ/
ipa: /ˈsiːnjə(r)/
Forms: form: seniors
form: seniour
Etymology: From Middle English senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”); see senate. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.
Senses: examples: text: Grave and reverend seniors seemed to have caught the prevailing spirit as badly as the students, and I saw white-bearded men rising and shaking their fists at the obdurate Professor.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘Question!’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 77:
synonyms: word: senior citizen
word: ager
word: antique
word: badge-cove
word: cheeser
word: coffin dodger
word: crinkly
word: eld
word: elder
word: elderly
word: geriatric
word: genarian
word: geezer
word: grayhead
word: greyhead
word: hoarhead
word: mzee
word: old
word: no spring chicken
word: old timer
word: old-timer
word: oldtimer
word: older adult
word: oldie
word: oldster
word: senior
word: senior citizen
word: silver top
word: twirly
word: weazen
word: wrinkly
glosses: An old person.
examples: text: He was four years her senior.
glosses: Someone older than someone else (with possessive).
glosses: Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age.
examples: text: Then Peter full of the holy gooſt ſayd vnto them. Ye ruelars of the people / and ſeniours of iſrahel[…].
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts :[8], folio clviij, recto:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An elder or presbyter in the early Church.
glosses: Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office.
glosses: A final-year student at a high school or university; a finalist.
Derived terms: senior bond
senior captain
senior chief petty officer
senior chief warrant officer
senior college
senior colonel
senior high
senior higher
senior high school
senior hurling
senior infant
seniority
senior lecturer
seniorlike
seniorly
senior moment
senior note
senior patrol leader
senior researcher
senior school
senior ship of the line captain
senior ship-of-the-line captain
senior status
senior synonym
senior theater
senior warrant officer
junior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːniə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuniɚ/
rhymes: -uːniə(ɹ)
Forms: form: juniors
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative of iuvenis (“young”); see juvenile.
Senses: examples: text: four years his junior
text: Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.
ref: 1922, Angela Brazil, Monitress Merle:
text: The last man I met who was at school with me, though some years my junior, had a long white beard and no teeth.
ref: 1939, P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime:
antonyms: senior
glosses: A younger person.
glosses: A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).
coordinate_terms: junior miss
misses
glosses: A clothing size for girls or women.
glosses: A third-year student at a high school or university.
examples: text: My son is now a junior at another, bigger school; but our hopes for his schooling have really remained the same. Of course, we want him to be able to read and keep up at maths but the fact that he is still so enthusiastic about his school and his teacher and his classmates
ref: 2013 December 19, Michelle MacGrath, The Art of Peaceful Teaching in the Primary School: Improving Behaviour and Preserving Motivation, Routledge, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: infant
glosses: A student in a junior school or the second part of a primary school.
topics: law
glosses: A junior barrister.
junior
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːniə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuniɚ/
rhymes: -uːniə(ɹ)
Forms: form: juniors
form: junioring
form: juniored
form: juniored
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative of iuvenis (“young”); see juvenile.
Senses: examples: text: Greenspan had juniored the Demeter murder trial with defence lawyer Joe Pomerant and was, by 1980, well on his way to becoming the most renowned criminal lawyer in Canada.
ref: 2013, Mick Lowe, Conspiracy of Brothers, page 325:
text: Stephens brought with him a general manager, Bob Rodgers. Bob […] never let adversity faze him. He was always in charge. Mr. Rodgers could dance just enough to do some junioring, but acted primarily as a sales manager.
ref: 2016, Rainier George Weiner, Living on Lifesavers:
glosses: To work in a junior role (on something).
examples: 2006, Jim and Leann Rathbone, James Mitose and the Path of Kenpo
The technique of "junioring" beginners and the first five lesson plan and private lessons were adaptations developed at that time. They are credited with the Americanization of Karate as a business as well as a martial art.
glosses: To have juniors (more advanced students) assist in instructing (beginners).
tautology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔˈtɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /tɔˈtɑl.ə.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: tautologies
Etymology: From Late Latin tautologia, from Ancient Greek ταὐτολογία (tautología) from ταὐτός (tautós, “the same”) + λόγος (lógos, “explanation”). By surface analysis, tauto- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: It is tautology to say, "Forward Planning".
glosses: Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.
examples: text: The expression "raze to the ground" is a tautology, since the word "raze" includes the notion "to the ground".
text: Pure mathematics consists of tautologies, analogous to ‘men are men’, but usually more complicated.
ref: 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy:
glosses: An expression that features tautology.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: propositional logic
glosses: A statement that is true for all truth values of its propositional variables.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: first-order logic
glosses: A statement that is true for all truth values of its Boolean atoms.
Coordinate terms: sense: in logic
word: contingency
sense: in logic
word: contradiction
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from tautology (noun)
word: tautological
sense: terms derived from tautology (noun)
word: tautologically
sense: terms derived from tautology (noun)
word: tautologise
sense: terms derived from tautology (noun)
word: tautologist
sense: terms derived from tautology (noun)
word: tautologous
sense: terms derived from tautology (noun)
word: tautologously
Related terms: pleonasm
redundancy
gluggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlʌɡi/
Forms: form: gluggier
form: gluggiest
Etymology: From glug + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The jelly was not yet set, but quite gluggy.
glosses: Liquid and viscous; moving slowly when poured.
synonyms: guzzly
glosses: Easy to guzzle. (of a wine)
examples: text: The morning after the party I felt gluggy.
glosses: Lazy or sluggish.
Derived terms: gluggily
glugginess
pogrom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒɡɹəm/
ipa: /pəˈɡɹoʊm/
ipa: /ˈpoʊɡɹəm/
ipa: /pəˈɡɹʌm/
ipa: /pəˈɡɹɑm/
ipa: /poʊ-/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒɡɹəm
rhymes: (General American) -oʊɡɹəm
rhymes: (General American) -oʊm
Forms: form: pogroms
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish פּאָגראָם (pogrom), from Russian погро́м (pogróm).
Senses: glosses: A riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews.
examples: text: More strikingly, when blood ran on the streets of Pittsburgh after the pogrom at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, Trump did not meet with community leaders of the Pittsburgh Jewish community, nor the family members of the dead, nor even the city’s mayor. He spoke with Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States.
ref: 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ:
glosses: An antisemitic hate crime with a large death toll, irrespective of the number of perpetrators.
Derived terms: pogromist
pogromization
pogromize
pogrom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒɡɹəm/
ipa: /pəˈɡɹoʊm/
ipa: /ˈpoʊɡɹəm/
ipa: /pəˈɡɹʌm/
ipa: /pəˈɡɹɑm/
ipa: /poʊ-/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒɡɹəm
rhymes: (General American) -oʊɡɹəm
rhymes: (General American) -oʊm
Forms: form: pogroms
form: pogroming
form: pogromed
form: pogromed
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish פּאָגראָם (pogrom), from Russian погро́м (pogróm).
Senses: glosses: To persecute or massacre a particular group of people.
Sikh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːk/
ipa: /sɪk/
rhymes: -iːk
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: seek
homophone: sick
Forms: form: Sikhs
form: Seek
form: Seekh
form: Seik
form: Seikh
form: Sicque
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਸਿੱਖ (sikkha).
Senses: examples: text: Last year, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he had credible information linking the Indian government to the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, an Indian-born Canadian national and Sikh dissident who was an outspoken supporter of Khalistan, a proposed autonomous homeland for Sikhs in northern India.
ref: 2024 November 29, Lex Harvey, “Clashes erupted outside a Hindu temple near Toronto. They’re the latest sign of Canada and India’s spiraling relations”, in CNN:
glosses: An adherent of Sikhism.
Hypernyms: religionist
Sikh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːk/
ipa: /sɪk/
rhymes: -iːk
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: seek
homophone: sick
Forms: form: more Sikh
form: most Sikh
form: Seek
form: Seekh
form: Seik
form: Seikh
form: Sicque
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਸਿੱਖ (sikkha).
Senses: examples: text: A year earlier, the Canadian leader was seen at a Sikh event in Toronto where separatist flags and posters depicting an extremist Sikh leader killed in a 1984 Indian Army operation were displayed.
ref: 2024 November 29, Lex Harvey, “Clashes erupted outside a Hindu temple near Toronto. They’re the latest sign of Canada and India’s spiraling relations”, in CNN:
glosses: of, or relating to the Sikhs or to Sikhism.
Derived terms: Sikh Empire
AstroTurf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæstɹoʊˌtɝf/
Forms: form: Astroturf
form: astroturf
Etymology: From astro- + turf, from its namesake trademark, in turn a reference to the Astrodome stadium in Houston, the first major sports venue to install artificial turf in 1966. The venue was named by its developer Roy Hofheinz, presumably a reference to the emerging identity of Houston as Space City.
Originally marketed as ChemGrass.
Senses: examples: text: And then there's AstroTurf. Invented in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and patented by Monsanto in 1965, AstroTurf is the world's first synthetic turf used as a sports playing surface, coming to fame—and its name—when it was put into the Houston Astrodome in 1966.
ref: 2011, Rick Horrow, Karla Swatek, Beyond the Scoreboard: An Insider's Guide to the Business of Sport, Human Kinetics, →ISBN:
synonyms: artificial turf
glosses: A synthetic material used in sports grounds as a durable substitute for natural grass.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Alternative form of Astroturf.
Derived terms: Astroturf
astroturf
Astroturfing
astroturfing
AstroTurfing
clamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæmbə/
ipa: /ˈklæmbɚ/
ipa: /ˈklæmɚ/
rhymes: -æmbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: clambers
Etymology: From Middle English clambren, clameren, clemeren (“to climb, clamber; to crawl, creep”), then either:
* possibly from clam, clamb, clemb, past tense of climben (“to climb, get over; to ascend, rise”), and influenced by Old English clæmman (“to press”); or
* from Old English *clambrian, from Proto-Germanic *klambrōną or *klambizōną.
The English word is cognate with Low German klemmern, klempern (“to climb”), Scots clammer (“to clamber”); and compare also Danish klamre (“to cling”), Icelandic klambra, klembra (“to pinch closely together; clamp”), Swedish klamra (“to cling”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: Against intruding uncalled, and without a proper Sybilline conductress, into the realms of grim Pluto, he might have objections, not easily removed; but against a clamber to the scene of Jove's own Court [Mount Olympus], no objection could possibly lie, except the danger of breaking his neck, in coming down again;—much too trivial to deter a true virtuoso adept.
ref: 1814 February, J[ohn] C[am] Hobhouse, “A Journey through Albania, and Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the Years 1809 and 1810”, in The Literary Panorama […], volume XV, London: Printed by Jones and Hatfield, […], for C. Taylor, […], →OCLC, column 147:
text: The entrance to the caves is not far from the further gate of the park. Their position is truly disappointing. I had anticipated a clamber half up the side of the mountain, and then some vast rift of chasm, not attainable without difficulty and danger.
ref: 1847 April 1–7, William Bennett, “Letter X. Dublin—Cahirciveen.”, in Narrative of a Recent Journey of Six Weeks in Ireland, […], London: Charles Gilpin, […]; John Hatchard & Son, […]; Dublin: J. Curry, Jun. & Co., →OCLC, page 108:
text: Beyond these woods were crags covered with purple heather, gleaming crimson in the light. Tired as I was, I could not resist going out of my way to enjoy a clamber over the wild moor, and its fresh breezy air.
ref: 1863 October 3, Mary Eyre, “Saumur. Les Pierres Couvertes. Le Carrousel.”, in [Samuel Lucas], editor, Once a Week. An Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science, & Popular Information, volume IX, number 223, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, page 418, column 2:
text: They [the author's cats] loved a large Ordnance Survey map above all things, or a clamber across the electric typewriter (though they never succeeded in typing their names, as my Chiltern cat Pip, in a moment of serendipitous dancing, very nearly did).
ref: 2005, Richard Mabey, “Lair”, in Nature Cure, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN; republished Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: The act of clambering; a difficult or haphazard climb.
Derived terms: climber
credophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛd.ə.faɪl/
Forms: form: credophiles
Etymology: Coined by L. Sprague de Camp from Latin credo (“I believe”) + -phile (“liker, lover”).
First known use is in a personal letter from de Camp to James Randi (which is thought to still exist in Randi's archives but is not readily available for study).
The word "credophile" and the adjective form "credophilic" were used by L. Sprague de Camp at least as early as 1952 in "Lands Beyond" which he co-authored with Willie Ley (De Camp, L. Sprague & Willie Ley. Lands Beyond. NY: Rinehart, 1952, pp. 268, 272
Senses: glosses: One who gets positive pleasure from belief and pain from doubt; one who collects beliefs not for utility but for glitter and for whom, once he or she has embraced a belief, it takes something more than mere disproof to make to let go.
examples: text: The mere advent of the Spiritual Science Chair seemed to have been received as a beacon of opportunity for all manner of credophiles, so I guessed, rightly, that Miriam would come a-running if I dangled the prospect of an alternative analysis of the efficacy of homeopathic remedies.
ref: 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: One who is especially gullible.
sexy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛk.sɪ/
enpr: sĕkʹsē
ipa: /ˈsɛk.si/
rhymes: -ɛksi
Etymology: From Latin sex (“six”) + -y, intended as a pun.
Senses: examples: text: (73,79) is a sexy prime pair.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Used to describe prime numbers that differ from each other by six.
Synonyms: word: alluring
word: arousing
word: attractive
word: bangable
word: beautiful
word: beddable
word: bedworthy
word: bonable
word: bonerific
word: buff
word: delicious
word: desirable
word: doable
word: dreamy
word: effable
word: fanciable
word: fappable
word: fapworthy
word: fine
word: fit
word: fuckable
word: gorgeous
word: hittable
word: horny
word: hot
word: humpable
word: peng
word: provocative
word: raunchy
word: rootable
word: salacious
word: screwable
word: seductive
word: sensual
word: sexable
word: sexalicious
word: sexy
word: shaggable
word: swoonsome
word: tasty
word: toothsome
Hyponyms: word: High degree
word: blazing
word: smoking
word: Usually or always for masculine referent:
word: dishy
word: hunksome
word: hunky
word: studly
word: Usually or always for feminine referent:
word: babealicious
word: foxy
word: juicy
word: luscious
word: lush
word: milfy
word: nubile
word: voluptuous
Derived terms: sexy prime
Related terms: word: heroin chic
word: OMFG
word: aroused
word: pleasure
aggregation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æɡɹəˈɡeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: aggregations
Etymology: From Latin aggregātiō, from aggregō (“aggregate”).
Senses: glosses: The act of collecting together, of aggregating.
glosses: The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or (aggregated) sum.
glosses: A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Summarizing multiple routes into one route.
topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
examples: text: The difference between an association and an aggregation is entirely conceptual and is focused strictly on semantics.
ref: 2002, Kirk Knoernschild, edited by Addison-Wesley Professional, Java Design: Objects, UML, and Process:
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A component of natural language generation that entails combining syntactic elements.
Derived terms: aggregational
aggregation number
antiaggregation
autoaggregation
bootstrap aggregation
coaggregation
deaggregation
heteroaggregation
homoaggregation
hypoaggregation
immunoaggregation
macroaggregation
microaggregation
misaggregation
nanoaggregation
overaggregation
preaggregation
reaggregation
state of aggregation
superaggregation
thermoaggregation
Related terms: gregariousness
gregarization
coup d'état
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ko͞o' dā-täʹ
ipa: /ˌku deɪˈtɑ/
ipa: /ˌkuː deɪˈtɑː/
Forms: form: coups d'état
form: coup d'états
form: coup d'etat
form: coup de tat
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French coup d'État (literally “strike (or blow or cut) of state”).
Senses: examples: text: The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his closest allies are among dozens of people formally accused by federal police of being part of a criminal conspiracy designed to obliterate Brazil’s democratic system through a rightwing coup d’état.
ref: 2024 November 21, Tom Phillips, “Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro charged with plotting coup d’état”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: coup
putsch
glosses: The sudden overthrow of a government, differing from a revolution by being carried out by a small group of people who replace only the leading figures.
aggressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggressors
form: aggressour
Etymology: From Latin aggressor (“attacker, assailant, aggressor”).
Senses: examples: text: Hitler and the Japanese generals miscalculated badly, 10 years ago, when they thought we would not be able to use our economic power effectively for the defeat of aggression. Let would-be aggressors make no such mistake today.
ref: 1950 September 1, Harry S. Truman, 2:37 from the start, in MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
glosses: The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
Derived terms: bioaggressor
cyberaggressor
microaggressor
nonaggressor
passive-aggressor
agio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæ.d͡ʒoʊ/
/ˈɑː.d͡ʒoʊ/
/ˈæ.d͡ʒiˌoʊ/
Forms: form: agios
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian aggio.
Senses: examples: text: 1989, Isaac Levy, translator, The Pentateuch (translation of, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Der Pentateuch, ubersetzt und erlautert), second edition, volume 2, Exodus, Judaica Press, →ISBN, page 582 (commentary to Exodus 30:16),
Owing to the enormous number of half-shekel coins required each year in Adar, these were greatly in demand, and the money-changers made a small fixed charge of an agio for changing whole into half shekels.
text: The money of such banks being better than the common currency of the country, necessarily bore an agio, which was greater or smaller, according as the currency was supposed to be more or less degraded below the standard of the state.
ref: 1776, Adam Smith, An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations:
topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
glosses: The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.
agiotage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agiotages
Etymology: From French agiotage, from agioter (“to practice stockjobbing”), from agio.
Senses: topics: business
finance
trading
glosses: Stock exchange business; especially, stockjobbing, manipulation of securities prices.
agitator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agitators
form: agitatour
Etymology: From agitate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: instigator; see also Thesaurus:troublemaker
text: In addition, they kept a watch on political agitators and foreigners arriving and departing at the port.
ref: 1998, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, Imperial Power and Popular Politics, page 208:
text: I’m only aware of one anti-ICE raid incident in California over the summer in which a single agitator pointed a pistol at federal agents, and that person is apparently still at large.
ref: 2025 September 23, Patrick G. Eddington, “On Trump’s Anti-Antifa Executive Order”, in Cato Institute:
synonyms: agitant
glosses: One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others, for example political reformers.
glosses: An implement for shaking or mixing.
synonyms: adjutator
glosses: One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Oliver Cromwell's time, to look after their interests.
Derived terms: silent agitator
agere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪdʒˈɹiː/
ipa: /eɪdʒˈɹi/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: ageres
Senses: glosses: Clipping of age regression.
glosses: Clipping of age regressor.
Related terms: agere sequitur esse
babe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪb/
enpr: bāb
rhymes: -eɪb
Forms: form: babes
Etymology: From Middle English babe, a variant of earlier baban, perhaps from Old English *baba (“boy, child”), from Proto-West Germanic *babō, from Proto-Germanic *babô, reduplicated variant of *ba-, *bō- (“father, brother, close male relation”).
cognates and related terms
Related to Old Frisian bobba (“child”) (whence North Frisian babbe, babb, babe (“child”)), Old High German Babo (a male forename), see boy. Otherwise, origin obscure. Compare mama, dada, papa. Welsh baban (“baby”), believed by Skeat to be a mutation of maban, a diminutive of mab (“son”), is probably rather a borrowing from English. Cognate also with English bub.
Senses: examples: text: These events came to pass when he was but a babe.
text: Though he possess sweet babes and loving wife,
A home of peace by loyal friendships cheered,
And love them more than death or happy life,
ref: 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
glosses: A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
examples: text: She's a real babe!
text: During the 1980s, its vivid streetlife became a symbol of the “consumer socialism” that distinguished Hungary from other Eastern Bloc states, but Budapesters today are rather less enamoured of Váci: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle.
ref: 2002, Charles Hebbert, Dan Richardson, The Rough Guide to Budapest, 2nd edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: An attractive person, especially a young woman.
examples: text: Hey, babe, how's about you and me getting together?
text: But, Babe, you don't have to meet 'em if you don't want to.
ref: 1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post:
text: But they don't know that your sweet loving, babe
Was here when all my friends were gone
ref: 1968 December 8, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder, “I’d Be a Fool Right Now”, in For Once in My Life, performed by Stevie Wonder, Tamla Records:
glosses: Darling (term of endearment).
Synonyms: sense: infant
word: baby
sense: infant
word: child
sense: infant
word: infant
sense: woman
word: hottie
word: doll
word: fox
word: See: Thesaurus:beautiful woman
sense: attractive person
word: looker
word: beautiful person
sense: darling
word: darling
sense: darling
word: dear
sense: darling
word: love
sense: darling
word: sweetheart
Derived terms: babealicious
babehood
babe-in-a-cradle
babe in arms
babe in the wood
babe in the woods
babeish
babelet
babelike
babe magnet
babeship
babish
bikini babe
Blair's babes
booth babe
Busby Babe
Cumberbabe
cyberbabe
grandbabe
hog-babe
innocent as a newborn babe
innocent as the babe unborn
out of the mouths of babes
out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
pit babe
scare-babe
spokesbabe
superbabe
saint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪnt/
rhymes: -eɪnt
note: UK, as an unstressed, capitalised title
ipa: /sən(t)/
note: UK, as an unstressed, capitalised title
ipa: [sn̩(t)]
note: UK, as an unstressed, capitalised title
ipa: [sɨn(t)]
rhymes: -ənt
ipa: /sɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: sent
homophone: cent
homophone: scent
Forms: form: saints
form: sainting
form: sainted
form: sainted
Etymology: From Middle English saynten, seinten, sonten, partly from Anglo-Norman saintir and partly from the noun Middle English seint, seynt (see above).
Senses: examples: text: Many Catholics wished to see Pope John Paul II sainted immediately after his death.
glosses: Synonym of canonize: to honor, formally name, or revere as a saint.
synonyms: word: canonize
extra: to honor, formally name, or revere as a saint
saint
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪnt/
rhymes: -eɪnt
note: UK, as an unstressed, capitalised title
ipa: /sən(t)/
note: UK, as an unstressed, capitalised title
ipa: [sn̩(t)]
note: UK, as an unstressed, capitalised title
ipa: [sɨn(t)]
rhymes: -ənt
ipa: /sɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: sent
homophone: cent
homophone: scent
Forms: form: St
form: St.
Etymology: From the pattern of naming various parishes and other places for Christian saints.
Senses: glosses: Capitalized and placed before another term, particularly personal names, to create placename without direct association to any religious character.
Coordinate terms: word: san
word: sainte
word: santa
sanctus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Egypt, however, developed its own unique supplicatory use of the sanctus.
ref: 1991, Bryan D. Spinks, The Sanctus in the Eucharistic Prayer, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Sanctus.
Related terms: black sanctus
sanctus bell
Agnus Dei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɡnəs ˈdeɪ.i/
ipa: /ˌɑːnjus ˈdeɪ.i/
Forms: form: Agnus Deis
form: Agnus Dei
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Agnus Deī (“Lamb of God”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
Western-Christianity
glosses: A liturgical chant recited as part of the Mass, beginning with those words, or the music to which it is set.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A small model, picture, or heraldic representation of a lamb with a cross and sometimes a flag (usually white with a red cross).
examples: text: Matilda continued her incantations; at intervals she took various items from the basket, the nature and name of most of which were unknown to the friar: but among the few which he distinguished, he particularly observed three human fingers, and an agnus dei, which she broke in pieces.
ref: 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 194:
text: The most common of these amulets was the agnus dei, a small wax cake, originally made out of paschal candles and blessed by the Pope, bearing the image of the lamb and flag.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 28:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A bar of wax imprinted with a similar shape and blessed by the Pope.
Related terms: Lamb of God
dei
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dey (“informal term of address used when trying to get someone's attention.”).