cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
f
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛf/
ipa: /f/
Forms: form: F
form: fs
form: f's
Etymology: Old English lower case letter f, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case f of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚠ (f, “fe”).
Senses: glosses: The sixth letter of the English alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.
Derived terms: f-block
fboy
ff-hole
f-hole
f-number
f-value
f
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛf/
ipa: /f/
Forms: form: F
Etymology: Old English lower case letter f, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case f of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚠ (f, “fe”).
Senses: glosses: The ordinal number sixth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.
raw_tags: number
Derived terms: f-number
f-slur
f-stop
f-word
go f oneself
f
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛf/
ipa: /f/
Etymology: Abbreviations.
f
# (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of for.
# (Stenoscript) prefix for-.
# (Stenoscript) suffix/sequence for(e).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F♯) is a tone intermediate between F and G.
Derived terms: english: the bass clef. See under clef
translation: the bass clef. See under clef
word: F clef
f
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛf/
ipa: /f/
Etymology: Abbreviations.
f
# (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of for.
# (Stenoscript) prefix for-.
# (Stenoscript) suffix/sequence for(e).
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
synonyms: F
fo
glosses: Folio, paper and book size (10"-12.5" x 15"-20")
examples: text: What the f do you think you're doing?
glosses: Abbreviation of fuck.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
related: word: f.
coordinate_terms: m
n
glosses: Abbreviation of feminine.
Derived terms: effing and blinding
Related terms: F
c
m
n
fa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɑ/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: fas
form: fah
Etymology: From Glover's solmization, from Middle English fa (“fourth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian fa in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin famulī (“servants”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.
Senses: examples: text: And now Mrs. Waters (for we muſt confeſs ſhe was in the ſame Bed) being, I ſuppoſe, awakened from her Sleep, and ſeeing two Men fighting in her Bed-chamber, began to ſcream in the moſt violent Manner, crying out Murder! Robbery! and more frequently Rape! which laſt, ſome, perhaps, may wonder ſhe ſhould mention, who do not conſider that theſe Words of Exclamation are uſed by Ladies in a Fright, as Fa, la, la, ra, da, &c. are in Muſic, only as the Vehicles of Sound, and without any fixed Ideas.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing the Arrival of an Irish Gentleman, with very extraordinary Adventures which ensued at the Inn”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book X, pages 11–12:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.
Related terms: sense: musical notes
word: do
sense: musical notes
word: la
sense: musical notes
word: mi
sense: musical notes
word: re
sense: musical notes
word: so
sense: musical notes
word: ti
fa
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɑ/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: fah
Senses: examples: text: Do ya wanna be a dope fiend fa krist’s sake?
ref: 2000, Requiem for a Dream, spoken by Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto):
glosses: Alternative spelling of for.
Derived terms: fa shizzle
Related terms: sense: other terms with "fa", etymologically unrelated
word: fa cai
sense: other terms with "fa", etymologically unrelated
word: fa jin
sense: other terms with "fa", etymologically unrelated
word: fa-la
sense: other terms with "fa", etymologically unrelated
word: fi fa
sense: other terms with "fa", etymologically unrelated
word: Pha̍k-fa-sṳ
fabaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈbeɪʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more fabaceous
form: most fabaceous
Etymology: From Latin fabaceus, from faba (“bean”).
For sense 2, from translingual Fabaceae + -ous, from Faba.
Senses: examples: text: The fabaceous plants rank second only to the grasses in value as ministrants to the economy of animal life, for they produce food for man and beast in vast abundance, and generally speaking, the aliments derived from this family are of the highest character in point of nourishing power, all of them contributing largely to the nourishment, not only of the muscular and bony framework, but in a peculiar degree also to the nervous system, owing to their richness in nitrogen and salts of phosphorus. In a majority of cases the fabaceous or leguminous plants have pinnated leaves, that is to say, each separate leaf consists of a series of symmetrical divisions united by a common stem.
ref: 1870, Shirley Hibberd, Field Flowers a Handy-book for the Rambling Botanist ..., page 78:
glosses: Having the nature of a bean; like a bean.
glosses: Belonging to the taxonomic family Fabaceae.
fabella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈbɛlə/
Forms: form: fabellae
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin fabella, diminutive of Latin faba (“bean”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.
Fabian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fā′bē-ən
ipa: /ˈfeɪ.biː.ən/
ipa: /ˈfeɪ.bi.ən/
ipa: /ˈfæɪ.biː.ən/
ipa: /ˈfe.bi.ən/
ipa: /ˈfeː.biː.an/
rhymes: -eɪbiən
Forms: form: more Fabian
form: most Fabian
form: fabian
Etymology: From Latin Fabiānus (“belonging to Fabius”), derived from Fabius + -ānus.
Senses: examples: text: Hood complained behind his commander's back to Richmond of Johnston's Fabian strategy.
ref: 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2004, page 745:
text: “This is how I know you've never had an adult relationship. If I say no, then I will be required to say yes to something else in the future, and the stakes in the future might be higher.” “Then say yes.” “If I give in, then I'm no longer the alpha in my house. Before you know it, she'll have me wearing jeans and reading fiction!” “Yeah, well, yes and no are kind of your only two choices.” “For most men, sure. But there is a third option. The Fabian strategy.” “I know this. If an apple and a feather fall at the same time--” “The Fabian strategy derives its name from the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus. He ran away, Lemon. Rather than engage in battle, he would retreat and retreat until the enemy grew fatigued and eventually made a mistake. Although I abhor it as a military strategy, it is the basis for all of my, uh, personal relationships.” “So Avery is your enemy. That sounds healthy.” “You're in no position to judge.”
ref: 2010 September 23, Tina Fey, “The Fabian Strategy” (5:03 from the start), in 30 Rock, season 5, episode 1, spoken by Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin):
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Pertaining to or reminiscent of Roman general Fabius Maximus, whose tactics against Hannibal during the Second Punic War famously consisted of delaying or avoiding combat, focusing instead on weakening the enemy by cutting off supply lines.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Advocating that social reforms be reached through a series of gradual and moderate stages rather than sudden revolution; specifically, relating to the Fabian Society, a British socialist society advocating reformist socialism.
glosses: Cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest.
Fabian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fā′bē-ən
ipa: /ˈfeɪ.biː.ən/
ipa: /ˈfeɪ.bi.ən/
ipa: /ˈfæɪ.biː.ən/
ipa: /ˈfe.bi.ən/
ipa: /ˈfeː.biː.an/
rhymes: -eɪbiən
Forms: form: Fabians
Etymology: From Latin Fabiānus (“belonging to Fabius”), derived from Fabius + -ānus.
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: gradualist
reformist
social democrat
glosses: A Fabian socialist, a gradualist socialist; a member of the Fabian Society.
Related terms: Fabianism
Fabian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: fā′bē-ən
ipa: /ˈfeɪ.biː.ən/
ipa: /ˈfeɪ.bi.ən/
ipa: /ˈfæɪ.biː.ən/
ipa: /ˈfe.bi.ən/
ipa: /ˈfeː.biː.an/
rhymes: -eɪbiən
Etymology: From Latin Fabiānus (“belonging to Fabius”), derived from Fabius + -ānus.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: San Fabian
fable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fā′bəl
ipa: /ˈfeɪbəl/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: fables
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French fable, from Latin fābula, from fārī (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”). See ban, and compare fabulous, fame. Doublet of fabula.
Senses: synonyms: morality play
glosses: A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
examples: text: But refuſe prophane and olde wiues fables, and exerciſe thy ſelfe rather vnto godlineſſe.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 4:7, column 1:
text: […]we grew / The fable of the city where we dwelt.
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 19:
synonyms: legend
glosses: Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
examples: text: I say it would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away all which is the overplus of a great fortune by secret methods to other men.
ref: 1712 January 13 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, January 2, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 264; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 316:
glosses: Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
examples: text: For the moral (as Bossu observes,) is the first business of the poet, as being the groundwork of his instruction. This being formed, he contrives such a design, or fable, as may be most suitable to the moral;
ref: 1695, John Dryden, A Parallel betwixt Painting and Poetry:
glosses: The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
Derived terms: word: fabledom
word: fablelike
word: fablemaker
word: fablemonger
word: fablist
word: fabulist
english: may be etymologically unrelated
translation: may be etymologically unrelated
word: have a fable for
word: outfable
word: personal fable
word: semifable
Related terms: english: celebrated in fable
translation: celebrated in fable
alt: equivalent to fable + -ous but actually derived from Latin fābulōsus
word: fabulous
fable
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fā′bəl
ipa: /ˈfeɪbəl/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: fables
form: fabling
form: fabled
form: fabled
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French fable, from Latin fābula, from fārī (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”). See ban, and compare fabulous, fame. Doublet of fabula.
Senses: examples: text: He Fables not, I heare the enemie: / Out ſome light Horſemen, and peruſe their Wings.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 111, column 2:
text: Vain now the Tales which fab’ling Poets tell, / That wav’ring Conqueſt ſtill deſires to rove; / In Marlbrô’s Camp the Goddeſs knows to dwell: / Long as the Hero’s Life remains her Love.
ref: 1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “An Ode, Humbly Inscrib’d to the Queen”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, stanza XVII, page 287:
text: 1852, Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, Act II, in Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems, London: B. Fellowes, p. 50,
He fables, yet speaks truth.
glosses: To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
examples: text: […] erre not that ſo ſhall end / The ſtrife of Glorie: which we mean to win, / Or turn this Heav’n itſelf into the Hell / Thou fableſt […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 288–292:
text: THE Poets Fable, That Apollo being enamoured of Caſſandra, was by her many ſhifts and cunning ſlights ſtill deluded in his Deſire […]
ref: 1691, “Cassandra, or, Divination”, in Arthur Gorges, transl., The Wisdom of the Ancients, London, translation of [De Sapientia Veterum] by Francis Bacon, page 1:
text: Fabled by the daughters of memory. And yet it was in some way if not as memory fabled it. A phrase, then, of impatience, thud of Blake’s wings of excess.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 2: Nestor]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 24:
synonyms: make up
invent
feign
devise
glosses: To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.
Derived terms: fabler
a-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
Etymology: From Middle English a- (“up, out, away”), from Old English ā-, originally *ar-, *or-, from Proto-West Germanic *uʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out-”), from Proto-Indo-European *uds- (“up, out”). Cognate with Old Saxon a-, German er-.
Senses: examples: text: arise, await
glosses: Forming verbs with the sense away, up, on, out.
examples: text: abide, amaze
glosses: Forming verbs with the sense of intensified action.
a-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
Etymology: * From Middle English a- (“on”), derived from unstressed Middle English an (“on”), from Old English an (“on”).
* See a (preposition, on, to, in, etc.)
Senses: examples: text: aglow, apace, afire, aboil, a-bling, abluster
glosses: In, on, at; used to show a state, condition, or manner. Also passing into sense 2.
examples: text: asunder
glosses: In, into. Also passing into sense 5.
examples: text: astern, abeam
glosses: In the direction of, or toward.
examples: text: Come a-morning we are going hunting.
glosses: At such a time.
examples: text: hits a-poppin
text: doins a-transpirin
ref: 1777, Thomas Arne, A-Hunting We Will Go:
text: The twelfth day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Twelve lords a-leaping,
…
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
ref: 1780, The Twelve Days of Christmas
text: circa 1850, Here We Come A-wassailing/Here We Come A-caroling
Here we come a-wassailing
Among the leaves so green;
Here we come a-wand’ring
So fair to be seen.
text: Oh waste no words a-wooing
The soft sleep to your bed;
ref: 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, XIII, lines 6-7:
text: The hay is a-cutting now. You're a-wanting.
ref: 1947, A NORTH-COUNTY DUBLIN CLOSSARY
text: The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'
ref: 1964, Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are a-Changin' " (recorded 1963, released 1964)
text: If the van’s a-rockin’, don’t come a-knockin’.
ref: circa 1970, bumper sticker
glosses: In the act or process of. Used in some dialects before a present participle.
a-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
Forms: form: i-
Etymology: From Middle English a-, a variant form of y-, from Old English ġe-, from Proto-West Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with”).
Senses: examples: text: aware, alike
glosses: Alternative form of y- (archaic and dialectal) In dialect, it is sometimes conflated with sense 5 of the previous definition, and is used as a general indicator of a participle.
examples: text: I have a-gone.
text: I have a-seen a bird.
glosses: Used to form the past participle of a verb.
a-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman a-, from Old French e-, from Latin ex-.
Senses: examples: text: abash
glosses: Forming words with the sense of wholly, or utterly out.
a-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
ipa: /eɪ/
ipa: /æɪ/
ipa: /ə/
ipa: /a/
ipa: /ə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) (ἀν- (an-) immediately followed by a vowel).
Senses: examples: text: amoral, asymmetry, atheism, asexual, acyclic, atypical
text: When invited to believe in the Chimaera, the horse-centaurs, or the winged horse Pegasus, all of them straightforward Pelasgian cult-symbols, a philosopher felt bound to reject them as a-zoölogical improbabilities ….
ref: 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber 1999, page 7
text: If aroused outside the proper outlet of marriage, [female lust] could range out of control, turning its possessor into an a-feminine monster: that is what happened to fallen women.
ref: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 191:
glosses: Not, without, opposite of.
Synonyms: sense: not
word: an-
sense: not
word: dys-
sense: not
word: i-
sense: not
word: il-
sense: not
word: im-
sense: not
word: in-
sense: not
word: ir-
sense: not
word: mal-
sense: not
word: non-
sense: not
word: un-
a-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
ipa: /eɪ/
ipa: /æɪ/
ipa: /ə/
ipa: /a/
Etymology: From Middle English a-, from Middle French a-, from Latin ad (“towards”).
Senses: examples: text: ascend, aspire, amass, abandon, avenue
glosses: Towards; Used to indicate direction, reduction to, increase to, change into, or motion.
a-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
ipa: /eɪ/
ipa: /æɪ/
ipa: /ə/
ipa: /a/
Etymology: From Latin ab (“of, off, from, away”).
Senses: examples: text: avert, aperient, abridge, assoil, assoilzie
glosses: Away from.
a-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
ipa: /eɪ/
ipa: /æɪ/
ipa: /ə/
ipa: /a/
Etymology: From Middle English a-, o- (“of”). See a (preposition, of).
Senses: examples: text: anew, afresh, athirst
glosses: Of, from.
a-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
ipa: /eɪ/
ipa: /æɪ/
ipa: /ə/
ipa: /a/
Senses: examples: text: A-tisket a-tasket,
A green and yellow basket
glosses: Alternative form of -a (“empty syllable added to songs, poetry, verse and other speech”).
a-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə/
ipa: /eɪ/
ipa: /æɪ/
ipa: /ə/
ipa: /a/
Senses: examples: text: a-be, a-going
text: Let that choilt a-be, wilt ta.
translation: Let that child alone, will you.
english: Let that child alone, will you.
qualifier: Chester
glosses: Used as a prefix to verbs in the sense of remaining in the same condition. Actively doing something.
A 1
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of A1.
aam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːm/
ipa: /ɔːm/
ipa: /ɑm/
ipa: /ɔm/
rhymes: -ɑːm
rhymes: -ɔːm
Forms: form: aams
form: aum
form: awm
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch aam, from Latin ama, a variant of hama, from Ancient Greek ἄμη (ámē, “bucket”).
Senses: glosses: A Dutch and German measure of liquids, used in England for Rhine wine, varying in different cities, being in Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, in Antwerp 36½, and in Hamburg 38¼.
aardvark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːd.vɑːk/
ipa: /ˈɑɹd.vɑɹk/
Forms: form: aardvarks
form: aard-vark
form: erdvark
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans aardvark (obsolete), erdvark, from aarde (“earth”, from Middle Dutch aerde) + vark (“pig”, from Middle Dutch varken). Early European colonists in South Africa noticed that the animal was similar to a pig, while aarde hints at the animal's habit of burrowing.
Senses: examples: text: The aardvark burrows in the ground and feeds mostly on termites, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.
text: If ‘aardvark lover’ has that syntactic structure, then it determinately means “lover of aardvarks.
ref: 2007 August 15, Wayne A. Davis, “Replies to Green, Szabó, Jeshion, and Siebel”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 137, number 3, →DOI:
synonyms: African anteater
antbear
ant bear
anteater
earth pig
glosses: The nocturnal, insectivorous, burrowing, mammal Orycteropus afer, of the order Tubulidentata, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
Derived terms: aardvark cucumber
aardvarking
aardvarklike
Brazilian aardvark
aardvark to zymurgy
aardwolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːdˌwʊlf/
ipa: /ˈɑɹdˌwʊlf/
Forms: form: aardwolves
form: aardwolfs
form: aard-wolf
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans aardwolf.
Senses: examples: text: Today the only dog-like hyena is Africa’s termite-eating aardwolf.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 108:
glosses: A nocturnal, insectivorous mammal, Proteles cristatus, of southern and eastern Africa, related to and resembling the hyena.
Related terms: aardvark
earthwolf
proteles
Aaronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æɹˈɒn.ɪk/
ipa: /ɛːˈɹɒn.ɪk/
ipa: /æɹˈɑn.ɪk/
ipa: /ɛˈɹɑn.ɪk/
Forms: form: Aaronical
Etymology: From Aaron + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Aaron (elder brother of Moses).
glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of a high priest; priestly.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the lower order of priests.
Aaron's rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛəɹ.ənz ɹɒd/
ipa: /ˈæɹ-/
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.ənz ɹɑd/
ipa: /ˈɛəɹ-/
ipa: /ˈæɹ-/
Forms: form: Aaron's rods
Etymology: A reference to Numbers 17:8, the Authorized / KJV translation of which is "And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds." (spelling modernized).
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants with a tall flowering stem, especially:
Verbascum thapsus, the great mullein, common mullein, or hag-taper.
synonyms: torchwort
hag-taper
common mullein
great mullein
Adam's flannel
Jacob's staff
Jupiter's staff
cow's lungwort
glosses: Any of various plants with a tall flowering stem, especially:
Goldenrod, the Solidago genus of North American plants with yellow flowers.
glosses: Any of various plants with a tall flowering stem, especially:
Hylotelephium telephium (syn. Sedum telephium; orpine, livelong, or live-forever).
topics: architecture
glosses: A rod-shaped molding decorated with an entwined snake, and sometimes leaves, vines, and/or scrolls.
glosses: A rod with one serpent twined around it, as used by Aaron (differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two serpents).
aard-vark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aard-varks
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of aardvark.
ab-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: a-
form: abs-
Etymology: From Latin ab-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo (“off, away”) (English off, of). Doublet of apo- and off-.
Senses: examples: text: ab- + sorb → absorb
glosses: From.
examples: text: ab- + normal → abnormal
text: ab- + axial → abaxial
glosses: Away from; outside of.
Synonyms: sense: away from
word: out-
sense: away from
word: off-
sense: away from
word: apo-
sense: away from
word: de-
sense: away from
word: away
sense: away from
word: off
ab-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Abbreviation of absolute.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of electromagnetic charge in the centimeter-gram-second system: the abcoulomb.
ab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb/
rhymes: -æb
homophone: abb
homophone: Ab
Forms: form: abs
Senses: examples: text: The bikinied models in most of the ESPN2 shows have abs. Many of the malnourished bikinied models in the commercials have visible rib cages. How did the two get conflated into a shared vision of beauty?
ref: 2006, H. Peter Steeves, The Things Themselves, page 75:
text: When possible, do your ab workout on a day when you're not training a major muscle group […] .
ref: 2010, Bill Geiger, "6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks", Reps! 17:106
glosses: Clipping of abdominal muscle .
Derived terms: ab roller
ab roller wheel
ab wheel
ab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb/
rhymes: -æb
homophone: abb
homophone: Ab
Forms: form: abs
Etymology: Abbreviation of abscess.
Senses: glosses: An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.
ab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb/
rhymes: -æb
homophone: abb
homophone: Ab
Forms: form: abs
form: abbing
form: abbed
form: abbed
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: examples: text: I had a climbing rope in my pack, set up an abseil with it, and abbed down to him.
ref: 1998, Climbing, numbers 178-180, page 22:
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To abseil.
glosses: Abbreviation of abort.
ab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb/
rhymes: -æb
homophone: abb
homophone: Ab
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of abortion.
ab
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb/
rhymes: -æb
homophone: abb
homophone: Ab
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of about.
ab
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb/
rhymes: -æb
homophone: abb
homophone: Ab
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of about.
ab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb/
rhymes: -æb
homophone: abb
homophone: Ab
Forms: form: abs
Etymology: From the spelling books and the fact that it was the first of the letter combinations.
Senses: glosses: The early stages of; the beginning process; the start.
abaca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.əˌkɑː/
ipa: /ˈæb.əˌkə/
ipa: /ˈæb.əˌkɑ/
Forms: form: abacas
form: abacá
form: abáca
form: abaka
form: abaká
Etymology: From Spanish abacá, from Tagalog abaka.
Senses: synonyms: Manila Hemp
Manilla hemp
textile banana
glosses: Musa textilis, a species of banana tree native to the Philippines grown for its textile, rope- and papermaking fibre.
synonyms: Manila hemp
Manilla hemp
glosses: The fiber of this plant, used in rope, fibers, and cloth.
abacinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈæsɪneɪt/
Forms: form: abacinates
form: abacinating
form: abacinated
form: abacinated
Etymology: From Late Latin abacinātus, perfect passive participle of abacinō; possibly formed from ab (“off”) + bacīnum (“a basin”) or bacīnus. Probably cognate with modern Italian abbacinare (“to dazzle”).
Senses: examples: text: "You young scapegrace," said Dandolo, "I will myself abacinate you — in the Venetian way." "How's that?" "Blind your eyes with the glare, not of hot irons, but of new ducats. Count your pile."
ref: 1905, James M. Ludlow, Sir Raoul, page 233:
text: Their straining eyes abacinated by the cup of terror, their throats stopped, their powers dead within them, they hung breathless, motionless.
ref: 1945, Robert Hardy Andrews, Burning Gold, page 196:
text: Abacinate, eyes that bleed, praying for the end of your wide awake nightmare.
ref: 1986, Jeff Hanneman, “Angel of Death”, in Reign in Blood, performed by Slayer:
text: This chiasmic image of the subject's imperviousness suggests a sensory deprivation beyond sublimity, like that of abacinated anti-epistemology.
ref: 1999, Srinivas Aravamudan, Tropicopolitans, →ISBN, page 220:
glosses: To blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes
Derived terms: abacination
abacination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌbæsɪˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: abacinations
form: abbacination
Etymology: From abacinate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: That blind general lost his sight by the process of abacination.
ref: 1902, James Meeker Ludlow, Incentives for Life, Personal and Public, page 144:
text: Her warmth and radiance had blinded him, a self-inflicted abacination.
ref: 1972, Trevanian (pseud.), The Eiger Sanction, Ballantine, published 1984, →ISBN, page 105:
text: I, who had seen so many brandings and abacinations, and had even used the iron myself (among the billion things I recall perfectly is the flesh of Morwenna's cheeks blistering), could scarcely force myself to go and look at him.
ref: 1982, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXIV, in The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun; 3), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: The act of abacinating, of blinding with the light from hot metal
abaciscus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.əˈsɪs.kəs/
ipa: /ˌæb.əˈsɪs.kɪs/
ipa: /ˌæb.əˈkɪs.kəs/
ipa: /ˌæb.əˈkɪs.kɪs/
Forms: form: abacisci
form: abaciscuses
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀβακίσκος (abakískos, “a coloured stone for laying mosaic”), diminutive of ἄβαξ (ábax, “board”). See abacus.
Senses: glosses: One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.
abacist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.ə.sɪst/
ipa: /ˈæb.ə.səst/
ipa: /ˈæb.ə.kəst/
ipa: /əˈbæ.kəst/
ipa: /əˈbɑ.kəst/
Forms: form: abacists
Etymology: From Middle English abaciste, from Medieval Latin abacista, from abacus + -ista (“-ist”).
Senses: glosses: One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.
aback
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæk/
ipa: /əˈbæk/
ipa: /aˈbak/
rhymes: -æk
Etymology: From Middle English abak, from Old English onbæc, equivalent to a- (“towards”) + back. Compare West Frisian tebek (“aback”, adverb, literally “to/at back”), Swedish tillbaka (idem.).
Senses: examples: text: The mild, though licentious reign, of Louis the Sixteenth, threw France far aback, in her ambitious career; but it gave birth to that revolution, wherein, her warlike propensities and territorial resources were unfolded with tenfold efficacy.
ref: 1815, David Laurie, A Treatise on Finance, under which, the General Interests of the British Empire are Illustrated, Glasgow: Chapman, page 322:
text: Then stopped, and bounded aback, and away as if in fear, / That I saw her no more; then I wondered though sitting close anear / Was a she-wolf great and grisly.
ref: 1889, William Morris, A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark, London: Reeves & Turner, page 31:
text: hoyed aback o' the fire
ref: 1970, SCOTT DOBSON, Advanced Geordie Palaver:
glosses: Towards the back or rear; backwards.
examples: text: There are so many canes upon Reliance that the labourers could not cut those aback, as they prefer cutting those in front. The cane fields aback were in cultivation last year.
ref: 1840, “Proceedings of an Inquiry held at plantation Reliance, in the county of Essequibo”, in Papers Relative to the West Indies, 1841: British Guiana, London: H.M.S.O., published 1841, page 201:
glosses: In the rear; a distance behind.
examples: text: I would rather board a hundred of the enemy's frigates, than steer my boat into a fleet of modest women, for a modest woman never fails to take me aback.
ref: 1808, The Post-Captain: A View of Naval Society and Manners, 3rd edition, London: Thomas Tegg, page 165:
glosses: By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage)
examples: text: Q. Was not the Trident at that time aback with one or more Top-sails? A. To the best of my Knowledge she had both Top-sails aback.
ref: 1757, Charles Fearne, The Trial of the Honourable Admiral John Byng, at a Court Martial, London: Manby, et al, page 89:
text: As the anchor fetches her up, she will swing head to wind, bringing the head sails aback.
ref: 1841, Benjamin J. Totten, Naval Text-book, Boston: Little & Brown, page 144:
text: Then the sails on the mainmast were backing and we started getting stern way. Eagle was caught aback.
ref: 2001, Russell Drumm, The Barque of Saviors, Houghton Mifflin, page 91:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Backward against the mast; said of the sails when pressed by the wind from the "wrong" (forward) side, or of a ship when its sails are set that way.
Synonyms: unawares
Derived terms: aback of
abackward
Related terms: back
aback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæk/
ipa: /əˈbæk/
ipa: /aˈbak/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: abacks
Etymology: From Latin abacus.
Senses: examples: text: In the Centre, or midst of the Pegm, there was an Aback, or Square, wherein this Elogy was written.
ref: 1604, Ben Jonson, “Part of the King's Entertainment in Passing to His Coronation”, in The Works of Ben Jonson, London: Printed by Thomas Hodgkin, published 1692, page 306:
glosses: An inscribed stone square.
abactinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æˈbæk.tə.nl̩/
ipa: /ˈæˌbæk.tə.nl̩/
ipa: /ˌæˌbækˈtaɪ.nl̩/
ipa: /ˈæˌbækˌtaɪ.nl̩/
Etymology: From ab- + actinal.
Senses: examples: text: The so-called mouth is always placed at one end of these poles, and from it radiate the most prominent organs, in consequence of which I have called this side of the body the oral or actinal area, and the opposite side the aboral or abactinal area.
ref: 1857, Louis Agassiz, Contributions to Natural History, volume 4, page 376:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
antonyms: actinal
glosses: Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal.
Derived terms: abactinally
abaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æˈbækʃən/
Etymology: From Latin abāctiō.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Carrying away by force, especially of animals.
glosses: Stealing cattle on a large scale.
Related terms: abactor
abactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæˌbæk.tɚ/
ipa: /æˈbæk.tɚ/
Forms: form: abactors
form: abacter
Etymology: From Late Latin abactor (“cattle rustler”), from abigō (“drive away”); from ab (“from, away from”) + agō (“drive”).
Senses: examples: text: […] not only from straying, but, as in time of warr, from invaders and abactors […]
ref: 1659, H. Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon the Books of the Psalms:
text: But yesterday, / it was her husband / Who’d lost his life in the fight / As he beat the abactors back, / Who tried to seize their cattle.
ref: 1992, Okkūr Mācāttiyar, translated by K.G. Seshadri, “Purananuru 279”, in Indian Literature, volume 35, number 149, page 27:
topics: law
synonyms: word: abactor
word: duffer
word: rustler
glosses: One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler.
Hyponyms: word: horse thief
word: sheepstealer
word: napper
abaculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæk.jə.ləs/
rhymes: -ækjʊləs
Forms: form: abaculi
Etymology: From Latin abaculus, diminutive of abacus.
Senses: glosses: A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements; abaciscus.
abada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abadas
Etymology: From Portuguese abada (“female rhinoceros”), from Malay badak (“rhinoceros”).
Senses: glosses: The rhinoceros.
examples: text: It is certain that the unicorn is not to be confounded with the abada, about which they usually dispute; this one may see by the difference of their names, as well as by the difference of their body and parts […]
ref: 1864, William Winwood Reade, Savage Africa, page 373:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A herbivorous mythological creature of the Central African Congo, similar to the unicorn. Its horns are said to be an antidote to poisons, and it has brown fur, two crooked horns and a boar's tail.
Abaddon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæ.dn̩/
ipa: /æbədɒːn/
Forms: form: Abaddan
form: Abadon
Etymology: From the Middle English Abadon, Abbadon, Labadon, Laabadon, from the Late Latin Abaddōn, from the Ancient Greek Ἀβαδδών (Abaddṓn), from the Biblical Hebrew אבדון (ʾăḇaddōn, literally “destruction, abyss”), from אבד (ʾāḇaḏ, “to be lost, to perish”).
Senses: glosses: The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; Apollyon;
examples: text: In all her gates, Abaddon rues Thy bold attempt.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: Hell; the bottomless pit; a place of destruction.
Derived terms: abaddon
abaft
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑːft/
ipa: /əˈbæft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
rhymes: -æft
Forms: form: baft
Etymology: From Middle English obaft, baft, baften, from Old English beæftan; be (“by”) (modern English by) + æftan (“behind”) (modern English after). See also aft.
Senses: examples: text: The captain stood abaft the wheelhouse.
text: […] two drunken Turkes, that were in the Frigot with twelue others, discharged two Calieuers, with which they killed two Souldiours, that stood abaft our Gally.
ref: 1620, Miguel de Cervantes, chapter 63, in Thomas Shelton, transl., The Second Part of the History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha, London: Edward Blount, page 432:
text: 1773, James Cook, An Account of a Voyage Around the World, Book 3, Chapter 5, in John Hawkesworth (ed.), An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty: for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 3, p. 558,
[…] we could hear the water rush in a little abaft the foremast, about three feet from the keel: this determined me to clear the hold intirely.
text: “[…] Read the sign up there—NO SMOKING ABAFT THE WHEEL!”
ref: 1869, Mark Twain, chapter 3, in The Innocents Abroad, Hartford: The American Publishing Company, page 35:
text: The bulkhead that separates ladies’ country from the rough characters who shave is not necessarily No. 30 but, by tradition, it is called “bulkhead thirty” in any mixed ship. […] Male officers had a lounge called the cardroom just abaft thirty.
ref: 1959, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 13, in Starship Troopers, New York: Ace, published 2010, page 260:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: abaft of
glosses: Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of.
abaft
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑːft/
ipa: /əˈbæft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
rhymes: -æft
Forms: form: more abaft
form: most abaft
form: baft
Etymology: From Middle English obaft, baft, baften, from Old English beæftan; be (“by”) (modern English by) + æftan (“behind”) (modern English after). See also aft.
Senses: examples: text: We drifted with the wind abaft.
text: The mate sleeps abaft.
text: The Exchange also being farther from the fire, afterward was more easily cleared, and fell off from abaft.
ref: 1599, Nicholas Downton, “The firing and sinking of the stout and warrelike Carack called Las Cinque Llaguas”, in Richard Hakluyt, editor, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, London, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 200:
text: By clapping the sails to the mast, and lightening the ship abaft, we swayed her off with little damage.
ref: 1785, John Rickman, Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage, London: E. Newbery, Part 1, p. 103:
text: Stubb was struck by a shower of outcries and anathemas proceeding from the Captain’s round-house abaft;
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “'”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 452:
text: We cover our anterior nakedness with some philosophy—Christian, Marxian, Freudo-Physicalist—but abaft we remain uncovered, at the mercy of the winds of circumstance.
ref: 1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, New York: Perennial, published 1970, page 72:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: On the aft side; in the stern.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Backwards.
Related terms: aft
after
astern
abaisance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪzəns/
Forms: form: abaisances
Etymology: From Middle English abeisans, from Old French abaissance.
Senses: examples: text: Haman can find no gust in all the sensualities of the Persian Court, because a poor despicable Jew denies his abaisance.
ref: 1675, Richard Allestree, The art of contentment:
glosses: Obsolete form of obeisance .
abaiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪ.sɚ/
Senses: glosses: Ivory black; animal charcoal.
abalienate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈeɪl.jəˌneɪt/
ipa: /æbˈeɪ.li.əˌneɪt/
Forms: form: abalienates
form: abalienating
form: abalienated
form: abalienated
Etymology: From Latin abaliēnātus, perfect passive participle of abaliēnō (“alienate; remove”); from ab- (“by, from; away”) + aliēnō (“alienate, estrange”); from aliēnus (“foreign, alien”), from alius (“other, another”). Equivalent to ab- + alienate.
Senses: examples: text: Thereat the holy mother took grief; for, if I died before my profession, what would become of the goodly hereditaments that were to be abalienated to the monastery.
ref: 1861, Anne Manning, The chronicle of Ethelfled, page 153:
text: In addition, compelling to sell was not necessary either, because the foreigner, led by economic logic and his own interests, would try hard to abalienate the objects and means of work which are not used in production or in some other type of […]
ref: 1994, Yugoslav law, page 46:
qualifier: civil law
glosses: To make another's that which was once yours; to transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
examples: text: […] serves for nothing else than to abalienate the Infidels from the Christian Church.
ref: 1698, A voyage to the East-Indies, page 43:
text: National distinction did not, indeed, exist in patriarchal times, but by the formation of the theocracy the other races of men were formally abalienated from Israel, and no doubt their own vices and idolatry justified their exclusion.
ref: 1883, A commentary on the Greek text of the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians, page 165:
glosses: To estrange in feeling; to cause alienation of.
examples: text: The devil and his deceitful angels do so bewitch them, and fill their hearts with vain cogitations, so abalienate their minds, and trouble their memory, that they cannot tell what is said: it is forgotten by that it is spoken.
ref: 1841, Edwin Sandys, The sermons of Edwin Sandys, volume 4, page 300:
glosses: To to cause loss or perversion of intellect.
Derived terms: abalienation
Related terms: alienate
abalienation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæbˌeɪl.jəˈneɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌæbˌeɪ.li.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: abalienations
Etymology: From Latin abalienatio. Equivalent to abalienate + -ion.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement; transferring a legal title.
glosses: The transfer of property, such as land, goods, or chattels, from one to another.
abalone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb.əˈləʊ.ni/
ipa: /æb.əˈloʊ.ni/
ipa: /ˈæb.əˌloʊ.ni/
Forms: form: abalones
form: avalone
Etymology: From American Spanish abulón, from an indigenous language of the Monterey Bay area such as Rumsen/Southern Ohlone aūlun (“red abalone”)
Senses: examples: text: After he had brought it close to the canoe, he looked down and saw that it was a great live abalone caught in the flesh. Its color shone out of the water. As it ascended it was so big that all the canoes seemed to come inside of it, and it shone in every one's face
ref: 1909, John Reed Swanton (translator), edited by John Reed Swanton, Tlingit Myths and Texts, The Poor Man who Caught Wonderful Things:
glosses: An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl.
glosses: The meat of the aforementioned mollusc.
Synonyms: word: ear shell
word: ormer
word: paua
word: pawa
word: perlemoen
Derived terms: word: ass's-ear abalone
taxonomic: Haliotis asinina
word: ass's ear abalone
taxonomic: Haliotis iris
word: Australian abalone
taxonomic: Haliotis crachedorii
word: black abalone
taxonomic: Haliotis rubra
word: blacklip abablone
alt: Concholepas concholepas
word: Chilean abalone
taxonomic: Haliotis fulgens
word: green abalone
taxonomic: Haliotis kamtschatkana
word: northern abalone
taxonomic: Haliotis corrugata
word: pink abablone
taxonomic: Haliotis kamtschatkana
word: pinto abalone
taxonomic: Haliotis iris
word: rainbow abalone
taxonomic: Haliotis rufescens
word: red abalone
taxonomic: Haliotis scalaris
word: ridged ear abalone
taxonomic: Haliotis scalaris
word: staircase abalone
taxonomic: Haliotis varia
word: variable abalone
taxonomic: Haliotis iris
word: virgin abalone
taxonomic: Haliotis sorenseni
word: white abalone
word: withering abalone syndrome
Related terms: paua
aband
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbænd/
ipa: /əˈbænd/
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: abands
form: abanding
form: abanded
form: abanded
Etymology: Clipping of abandon
Senses: glosses: To desist in practicing, using, or doing; to renounce.
examples: text: Two brethren were their Capitaines, which hight
Hengiſt and Horſus, well approov’d in warre,
And both of them men of renowmed might;
Who making vantage of their civill iarre,
And of thoſe forreiners, which came from farre,
Grew great, and got large portions of land,
That in the Realme ere long they ſtronger arre,
Then they which ſought at firſt their helping hand,
And Vortiger enforc’t the kingdome to aband.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Fairie Queene, Second Booke, Canto X., page 108:
glosses: To desert; to forsake.
abandon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæn.dən/
Forms: form: abandons
Etymology: From Middle English abandoun, from Old French abandon, from Old French abondonner.
Senses: examples: text: with gay abandon, with wild abandon
text: The Italian painters have an abandon in their chiar' oscuro which mellows up their flesh tints in a way that no other school can imitate : the frigidity of their outline is another remarkable feature, and the harmony of their impasto is unique.
ref: 1846, The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register, page 453:
text: I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon: 'I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.'
ref: 1954, Gore Vidal, Messiah:
text: They needed to have an abandon in their performance that you just can’t get out of people in the middle of the night when they’re barefoot.
ref: 2007 November 4, David M. Halbfinger, “The City That Never Sleeps, Comatose”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: wantonness
unrestraint
libertinism
abandonment
profligacy
unconstraint
glosses: A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. (Now especially in the phrase with abandon.)
glosses: Abandonment; relinquishment.
Derived terms: abandonly
abandonness
abandoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæn.dənd/
ipa: /əˈbæn.dənd/
Etymology: From Middle English abandoned, equivalent to abandon + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abandon
abandonedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæn.dn̩.əd.li/
ipa: /əˈbæn.dn̩.əd.li/
Forms: form: more abandonedly
form: most abandonedly
Etymology: From abandoned + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this—and rightly ascribed it—to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 28”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: In the first days of their love she had been his slave; she had admired him abandonedly.
ref: 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, Part 4, Chapter 1:
synonyms: unrestrainedly
glosses: With abandon, without restraint.