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oblige
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈblaɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -aɪdʒ
ipa: /əˈbliːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ɒˈbliːd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: obliges
form: obliging
form: obliged
form: obliged
Etymology: From Middle English obligen, from Old French obligier, obliger, from Latin obligō, obligāre, from ob- + ligō. Doublet of obligate, taken straight from Latin.
Senses: examples: text: I am obliged to report to the police station every week.
text: Tho' he was some time awake before me, yet did he not offer to disturb a repose he had given me so much occasion for; but on my first stirring, which was not till past ten o'clock, I was oblig'd to endure one more trial of his manhood.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
examples: text: He obliged me by not parking his car in the drive.
text: The singer obliged with another song.
text: In the mean time I have another trouble to give you, if you will oblige me in it; and that is to get me a sight of the famous Orrery, which I have heard you and others so often speak of; and which I think was made by Mr. Rowley, the famous Mathematical Instrument-Maker.
ref: 1719, John Harris, Astronomical dialogues between a gentleman and a lady, page 151:
glosses: To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).
examples: text: I am obliged to you for your recent help.
glosses: To be indebted to someone.
Derived terms: disoblige
misoblige
obligable
obligement
reoblige
Related terms: much obliged
noblesse oblige
obligate
obligation
obligatory
obligee
obligor
obliged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈblaɪd͡ʒd/
Forms: form: more obliged
form: most obliged
Senses: examples: text: All employees are obliged to complete a tax return every year.
glosses: Under an obligation to do something.
examples: text: I'm greatly obliged for your help with this problem.
glosses: Grateful or indebted because of a favor done.
Synonyms: sense: under obligation
word: obligated
Derived terms: much obliged
obligedly
obligedness
unobliged
obliged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈblaɪd͡ʒd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oblige
obliging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈblaɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdʒɪŋ
Forms: form: more obliging
form: most obliging
Senses: glosses: Happy and ready to do favours for others.
Synonyms: accommodating
willing
Derived terms: obligingly
obligingness
unobliging
obliging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈblaɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdʒɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oblige
obliging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈblaɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdʒɪŋ
Forms: form: obligings
Senses: examples: text: Many were the finings, and excommunications, and the obligings to do penances, that took place at this time.
ref: 1840, Alexander MacDonald, Summary of the Catholic Religion:
glosses: The imposition of an obligation.
obliteration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: obliterations
Etymology: From obliterate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: This illustration depicts exoplanet Kepler-1658b (left), doomed to eventual obliteration by its aging host star.
ref: 2022 December 19, Ashley Strickland, “Doomed exoplanet will be obliterated as it spirals into a star”, in CNN:
text: Stark before-and-after images reveal the obliteration of Bakhmut [title]
ref: 2023 May 18, Matt Fidler, “Stark before-and-after images reveal the obliteration of Bakhmut”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: “Everyone knows what happens when you drop 14 30,000-pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”
ref: 2025 June 24, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt, Ronen Bergman, Maggie Haberman, quoting Karoline Leavitt, “Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The total destruction of something.
examples: text: Winter, in coming to the country hereabout, advanced in well-marked stages, wherein might have been successively observed the retreat of the snakes, the transformation of the ferns, the filling of the pools, a rising of fogs, the embrowning by frost, the collapse of the fungi, and an obliteration by snow.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter XI, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: The concealing or covering of something.
examples: text: Whitman did censor himself often enough, changing pronouns in some passages, excising others, learning, in short, the "strategies of concealment" forced on him by the nineteenth century. None of these obliterations, however, can excuse the endeavors of literary critics, who have tried to deny the importance of "sexuality" in the poetry by focusing on its "mystical" or its "universal" aspects.
ref: 1974 February 2, Rudy Kikel, “The Good Grey and Great Gay Poets”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 17:
text: Because he refused to protect his brother's name from obliteration, he acquires a derogatory nickname.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber and Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 1134:
glosses: The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The cancellation of the function, structure, or both of a vessel or organ; for example, the occlusion of the lumen of a duct, blood vessel, or lymphatic vessel, be it solely functional (as when squeezed by nearby mass effect or inflammation) or both structural and functional (as when clogged with thrombus, embolus, or fibrosis).
Derived terms: abliteration
angioobliteration
disobliteration
obliterationism
vasoobliteration
Related terms: word: obliterate
word: obliviation
word: oblivion
sense: medical sense
word: ablation
sense: medical sense
word: cauterization
sense: medical sense
word: sclerotherapy
sense: medical sense
word: abrogation
obscene
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsiːn/
enpr: əb-sēnʹ
ipa: /əbˈsin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: obscenes
form: obscening
form: obscened
form: obscened
Etymology: From Middle French obscene (modern French obscène (“indecent, obscene”)), and from its etymon Latin obscēnus, obscaenus (“inauspicious; ominous; disgusting, filthy; offensive, repulsive; indecent, lewd, obscene”).
The further etymology is uncertain, but may be from ob- (prefix meaning ‘towards’) + caenum (“dirt, filth; mire, mud”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyn- (“to make dirty, soil; filth; mud”)) or scaevus (“left, on the left side; clumsy; (figurative) unlucky”) (from Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂iwo-). If so, the unexpected extra -s- may be from a variant form of the original PIE root; a similar -s- exists in ex-.
Senses: examples: text: They passed the little stenchy cubicles shared by two families to a floor, and the graffiti gratuitously graven onto the walls, obscening the world and telling it, them, those, the fuzz, and everyone to go and . . .
ref: 1960 October, Sol Yurick, “The Annealing”, in The Noble Savage, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Meridian Books, Inc., →LCCN, page 111:
text: That always came as a final apotheosis, showing Phil deep in hell, growling through Greek fire and blue smoke – that is to say, locked upstairs in the bathroom, obscening at her as he never in his life obscened at anybody in public, strangling her with his two fists, shoving her head down into the W.C. and pulling the chain on her for good and all.
ref: 1970, Sean O’Faolain, “Hymeneal”, in The Talking Trees and Other Stories, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 49:
text: “Fucked up, is what they are,” the priest obscened. “Pardon my language, but this is par for the course of the Catholic Church. What kind of bullshit is this?”
ref: 2004, Edward Lee, The Bighead, Hiram, GA: Overlook Connection Press, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: To act or speak in an obscene manner; to offend.
obscenity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obscenities
Etymology: From obscene + -ity, from Latin obscenitas.
Senses: examples: text: Martha wouldn't go into the art museum because, as she put it, "They have obscenities just sitting out, on display!"
glosses: Something that is obscene.
examples: text: Bestiality was outlawed as an obscenity in the strongly conservative community.
glosses: An act of obscene behaviour.
examples: text: Eliza couldn't stand her daughter's music; as she saw it, it was just shouted obscenities and a heavy drum beat.
text: Her mother favored a multiyear project: obscenities carved in intricate and clever juxtapositions, descending every finger, curling in lettered whorls across the palm, fanning in offensive rays across the opisthenar, which is the name for the back of the hand, a word that Leilani knew because she had studied the structure of the human hand in detail, the better to understand her difference.
ref: 2001, Dean R. Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven, Random House, →ISBN, page 497:
glosses: Specifically, an offensive word; a profanity; a dirty word.
examples: text: The coalition of religious conservatives was campaigning against, in their view, rampant obscenity in the entertainment industry.
text: Over three and a half decades, "Deep Throat" has been damned by religious groups, decried by feminists, defended by First Amendment advocates, derided by critics and debated by social scientists. It dragged for years through local and federal courts around the country in a welter of obscenity trials in which it was variously banned, unbanned and rebanned.
ref: 2008 October 29, Margalit Fox, “Damiano, 80, directed 'Deep Throat'”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Lewdness, indecency, or offensive behaviour or material.
examples: text: Henia Flint Goodman, a Holocaust survivor,spoke in outrage against the obscenity of anti-abortion literature which compares a woman's free choice to have an abortion with the crimes of the Nazi state.
ref: 1983 February 5, Shawn Towey, “Philly Women Convict Right”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 28, page 1:
glosses: The fact of being obscene.
Derived terms: antiobscenity
obscurity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈskjʊəɹɪti/
ipa: /əbˈskjɔːɹɪti/
ipa: /əbˈskjʊɹɪti/
ipa: /əbˈskjɝɪti/
Forms: form: obscurities
Etymology: From Middle English obscurite, obscuryte, from Middle French obscurité and its etymon Latin obscūritās. By surface analysis, obscure + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 6, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: I walked in, and Stroeve followed me. The room was in darkness. I could only see that it was an attic, with a sloping roof; and a faint glimmer, no more than a less profound obscurity, came from a skylight.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 24”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
glosses: Darkness; the absence of light.
examples: text: The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments[…]; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown.
glosses: The quality of being difficult to understand; a thing that is difficult to understand.
Synonyms: sense: the state of being unknown
word: unknownness
Derived terms: nonobscurity
security through obscurity
semiobscurity
Related terms: obscure
obsolescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒb.səˈlɛs.əns/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌɑb.səˈlɛs.əns/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌɒb.səˈlɛs.əns/
ipa: /ˌɔb.səˈles.əns/
ipa: /ˌɒb.səˈles.əns/
rhymes: -ɛsəns
Forms: form: obsolescences
Etymology: From Latin obsolēscēns past participle of obsolēscere.
Senses: examples: text: Apart from this feature the Trichoptera also differ from the typical Neuroptera in the relatively simple, mostly longitudinal neuration of the wings, the absence or obsolescence of the mandibles and the semi-haustellate nature of the rest of the mouth-parts.
ref: 1911, “Caddis-fly and Caddis-worm”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
text: One way is to legislate extended warranties on products, so washing machines and refrigerators last for 30 years instead of 10. Another is to ban planned obsolescence, so manufacturers can’t create products that are designed to fail.
ref: 2019, Jason Hickel, “Climate breakdown is coming. The UK needs a Greener New Deal”, in Guardian.:
glosses: The state of being obsolete—no longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected.
examples: text: Shared obsolescences can be of some significance when connected with a functional replacement. If two languages replace an earlier word for 'nose' with some other term and also lose the traditional term, this double agreement is of significance for judging the existence of a common historical period.
ref: 2005, Joseph Harold Greenberg, William Croft, Genetic Linguistics:
glosses: The process of becoming obsolete, outmoded or out of date.
Synonyms: english: much less common
translation: much less common
word: obsoleteness
word: obsoletion
Derived terms: built-in obsolescence
nonobsolescence
planned obsolescence
programmed obsolescence
Related terms: expiration
expiry
lifespan
obsolescent
obsolete
shelf life
fumble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: fumbles
form: fumbling
form: fumbled
form: fumbled
form: famble
form: fimble
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Low German fummeln, fommeln, fammeln (German fummeln), or Dutch fommelen.
Or, perhaps from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source; compare related Old Norse fálma, Icelandic fálma, Danish fumle, especially Swedish fumla, famla, with variants: fumbla (“fumble”), fambla (“famble”), related to Swedish fim, fem (Danish fim, Norwegian fim, feima), with a root meaning of “cover, coating of foam or figuratively ditto”, cognate to German Feim (“surf”) and English foam. Possibly has (a more or less unconscious) connection to fathom (via Old Norse faðmr, Swedish famn) in the sense of “embrace”.
The ultimate origin for either could perhaps be imitative of fumbling. Or, from Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to shake, swing”), see also Latin palpo (“I pat, touch softly”), and possibly Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan (“to feel”).
Senses: examples: text: Waiting for the interview, he fumbled with his tie.
text: He fumbled the key into the lock.
glosses: To handle nervously or awkwardly.
examples: text: He fumbled for his keys.
text: He fumbled his way to the light-switch.
text: Adams novv began to fumble in his Pockets, and ſoon cried out, O la! I have it [a sermon] not about me— […]
ref: 1742, Henry Fielding, “In which the Gentleman Relates the History of His Life”, in The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. […], volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book III, page 52:
glosses: To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
examples: text: He fumbled through his prepared speech.
glosses: To blunder uncertainly.
examples: text: to fumble for an excuse
text: My understanding stutters, and my memory fumbles.
ref: 1711 August 12, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, letter to Dr. Chevenix:
text: Alas! how he fumbles about the domains.
ref: 1800, Wordsworth, Written in Germany on one of the coldest days of the century:
glosses: To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
examples: text: Henderson's best strike on goal saw goalkeeper Kingson uncomfortably fumble his measured shot around the post.
ref: 2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
examples: text: I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
glosses: Of a man, to sexually underperform.
Synonyms: sense: grope awkwardly
word: grubble
word: poke
word: feel around
Derived terms: fumble-fingered
fumblefingers
fumbler
fumblesome
fumble the bag
fumblingly
fumblingness
outfumble
unfumbled
unfumbling
fumble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: fumbles
form: famble
form: fimble
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Low German fummeln, fommeln, fammeln (German fummeln), or Dutch fommelen.
Or, perhaps from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source; compare related Old Norse fálma, Icelandic fálma, Danish fumle, especially Swedish fumla, famla, with variants: fumbla (“fumble”), fambla (“famble”), related to Swedish fim, fem (Danish fim, Norwegian fim, feima), with a root meaning of “cover, coating of foam or figuratively ditto”, cognate to German Feim (“surf”) and English foam. Possibly has (a more or less unconscious) connection to fathom (via Old Norse faðmr, Swedish famn) in the sense of “embrace”.
The ultimate origin for either could perhaps be imitative of fumbling. Or, from Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to shake, swing”), see also Latin palpo (“I pat, touch softly”), and possibly Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan (“to feel”).
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident.
fumble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: fumbles
form: famble
form: fimble
Etymology: Blend of fool + crumble.
Senses: glosses: A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble.
filigree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪl.ɪ.ɡɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: filigrees
form: filigreeing
form: filigreed
form: filigreed
form: filagree
form: fillagree
form: filligree
Etymology: From French filigrane, from Italian filigrana, from Latin fīlum (“thread”) + grānum (“grain”).
Senses: glosses: To decorate something with intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire.
sacerdotalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacerdotalisms
Etymology: From sacerdotal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The spirit of the priesthood; devotion to priestly interests; priestcraft.
examples: text: [T]hey tell fortunes, which practice, confined to a certain caste but forbidden to others, seems to be a kind of sacerdotalism.
ref: a. 1891 (date written), Richard F[rancis] Burton, “II. The Gypsy. Chapter V. The Gypsy in Asia.”, in W[illiam] H[enry] Wilkins, editor, The Jew, the Gypsy and El Islam […], London: Hutchinson & Co […], published 1898, →OCLC, part II (Topographical Notes on the Gypsies and the Jats), § 4 (The Gypsies of Syria), page 223:
text: You make me hate Christianity, or mysticism, or Sacerdotalism, or whatever it may be called, if it’s that which has caused this deterioration in you.
ref: 1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, chapter III, in Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC:
text: This was the phrase of that interesting mystic St. Paul (Saul) of Tarsus […] who did so much to pervert and enlarge the simpler cosmopolitan fraternalism of Jesus of Nazareth […] before it was finally overwhelmed and lost in the sacrificial sacerdotalism of formal Christianity.
ref: 1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “A New Phase in the History of Life”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, 5th book (The Modern State in Control of Life), footnote *, page 429:
glosses: The belief that priests can act as mediators between God and humankind.
grand-aunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand-aunts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grandaunt.
espouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈspaʊz/
ipa: /ɪˈspaʊs/
rhymes: -aʊz
rhymes: -aʊs
Forms: form: espouses
form: espousing
form: espoused
form: espoused
Etymology: From Middle English espousen, borrowed from Old French espouser, from Latin spōnsāre (frequentative of spondeō), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-.
Senses: examples: text: For I am iealous ouer you with godly iealousie, for I haue espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 11:2:
text: Now the birth of Iesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Ioseph (before they came together) shee was found with childe of the holy Ghost.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 1:18:
text: Philip and Henry terminated hostilities by a mutual restitution of all places taken during the course of the war; and Philip espoused the princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of France, formerly betrothed to his son Don Carlos.
ref: 1759, David Hume, “[Elizabeth I.]”, in The History of England, under the House of Tudor. […], volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 414:
text: He espoused several wives, and besides kept a considerable number of concubines in his harem.
ref: 1922, Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 232:
glosses: To marry.
examples: text: Although Dowty’s proposal is attractive from the point of view of the alternative argument linking theory that I am espousing, since it eschews the use of thematic roles and thematic role hierarchies, […], but it still has some drawbacks.
ref: 1998, William Croft, “The Projection of Arguments”, in Miriam Butt, Wilhelm Geuder, editors, Event Structure in Argument Linking, page 37:
text: Those that espoused this ideology […]
ref: 2011, Donald J. van Vliet, “Letter: Republicans espouse ideology over national welfare”, in The Eagle-Tribune, retrieved 18 Dec 2013:
text: Among those leavers who believe Brexit has not gone well, many blame politicians for handling it badly – a narrative espoused by the former Ukip leader Nigel Farage, who recently claimed that “Brexit has failed”.
ref: 2023 June 22, Heather Stewart, “Only 18% of leave voters think Brexit has been a success, poll finds”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
qualifier: modern usage
glosses: To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
Derived terms: disespouse
espousable
Related terms: espousal
sponsor
spouse
Miltiades
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
off the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more off the wall
form: most off the wall
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of off-the-wall.
ethnocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕth'nō-sĕn'trĭz'əm
ipa: /ˌɛθ.nəʊˈsɛn.tɹɪzm̩/
Forms: form: ethnocentrisms
Etymology: From ethno- + -centrism.
Senses: glosses: The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
Plutarch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpluː.tɑːk/
ipa: /ˈplu.tɑɹk/
Etymology: Via Latin Plūtarchus from Ancient Greek Πλούτᾰρχος (Ploútărkhos).
Senses: examples: text: I am indebted to […]those masterly pen and ink portraits of many of our deceased ministers drawn by the lamented Professor Stoever, in the Evangelical Review, whom I designated some years ago as the Plutarch of the Lutheran Church of America.
ref: 1878, John G. Morris, Fifty Years in the Lutheran Ministry, →OL, page 11:
text: Some day a Plutarch, without a Plutarch's prejudice will arise, and with malice toward none but charity for all, he will write the life of the statesman, Gladstone.
ref: 1895, Elbert Hubbard, Gladstone, →OL, page 100:
text: I must in candor admit that the Plutarch of piracy is sometimes more edifying than entertaining.
ref: 1903, Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader, →LCCN, →OL, page 132:
glosses: The classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 C.E.). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch.
Derived terms: Plutarchan
Plutarchian
Plutarchic
Plutarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpluː.tɑːk/
ipa: /ˈplu.tɑɹk/
Forms: form: Plutarchs
Etymology: Via Latin Plūtarchus from Ancient Greek Πλούτᾰρχος (Ploútărkhos).
Senses: examples: text: Both these English Plutarchs are here, two folios printed at London in 1657, and they once belonged to William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and have his book-plates.
ref: 1895, O.A. Bierstadt, The Library of Robert Hoe, page 164:
glosses: Any specific edition of a work by Plutarch, often specifically Plutarch's Lives
baseline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪslaɪn/
homophone: bassline
Forms: form: baselines
Etymology: From base + line.
Senses: examples: text: A laser level generates a convenient baseline for interior work.
glosses: A line that is a base for measurement or for construction.
examples: text: We used the last doctor visit to provide baselines for vital statistics.
text: Currently, about fifty million square miles of land on the planet are ice-free, and this is the baseline that's generally used for calculating human impacts.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: A datum used as the basis for calculation or for comparison.
examples: text: Several characters typically have descenders below the lower baseline.
topics: media
publishing
typography
coordinate_terms: beardline
midline
capline
topline
glosses: A line used as the basis for the alignment of glyphs.
examples: text: The umpire missed the call. The ball hit the baseline.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: The line at the farthest ends of the court indicating the boundary of the area of play.
examples: text: The baseline configuration includes unsupported components.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A configuration of software, hardware, or a process that is established and documented as a point of reference.
Hypernyms: line
Derived terms: baselined
baseline driver
baseline game
baseliner
nonbaseline
postbaseline
prebaseline
rebaseline
shifting baseline syndrome
very-long-baseline interferometry
baseline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪslaɪn/
homophone: bassline
Forms: form: baselines
form: baselining
form: baselined
form: baselined
Etymology: From base + line.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, the test was baselined by evaluating the best and poorest catalysts of their respective types by this protocol.
ref: 1993, M.M. Mitchell et al., “Residual Feed Cracking Catalysts”, in Magee & Mitchell, editors, Fluid Catalytic Cracking, →ISBN, page 320:
text: To ensure Lojban remains stable while people learn it, the language definition is being closely controlled; the grammar and core vocabulary have already been baselined (frozen) for several years.
ref: 2025 October 14 (last accessed), “Chapter 1. Questions and Answers on Lojban”, in lojban.org:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To provide a baseline for measurement.
examples: text: By the time Maggie, who is eight years younger than Manuela, started playing, baselining was no longer enough to win points, so she learned to move around the court more …
ref: 2002, Susan Orlean, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, →ISBN, page 260:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: To play from the baseline.
quiddity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪdɪti/
Forms: form: quiddities
Etymology: From Middle English quidite, from Old French quidité, and its source, Late Latin quidditas, from Latin quid (“what”) + -itas (“-ness”).
Senses: examples: text: A tub of butter, contemplated by him, amounts to a Platonic idea. He understands a leg of mutton in its quiddity. He stands wondering, amid the commonplace materials of life, like primæval man, with the sun and stars about him.
ref: October 1822, Charles Lamb, “The Old Actors”, in London Magazine, Mr. Munden:
text: My vision reeked with truth. It had the tone,
The quiddity and quaintness of its own
Reality.
ref: 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
text: He represented my quiddity I suppose – the part which, thanks to you, has converted a black pessimism about life into a belief in cosmic absurdity.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 352:
text: When I send a card, it has to be right. Something that sums up the essential quiddity of being me, right here, right now.
ref: 2023 December 8, The Big Issue, Melbourne, page 35, column 1:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The essence or inherent nature of a person or thing.
topics: law
glosses: A trifle; a nicety or quibble.
examples: text: They have ſwallowed and digeſted all the Fathers, the Codes, Provincials, Decretals, Pandects, Councils, Canons ; are Maſters of all the Schoolmen, not to fill their Heads and ſtuff their Writings with Quiddities and Quoddities, and far-fetched unintelligible Diſtinctions, but to be able to reaſon cloſely, to argue ſolidly, to rebuke, to confute, to reply, to rejoind, to ſyllogize, to criticize, to apologize, to advertize, to ſermonize, to decypherize, to――
ref: 1744, A Dialogue Between the Rev. Mr. Jenkin Evans and Mr. Peter Dobson, concerning Bishops., London: M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noſter-row, →OCLC, page 37:
glosses: An eccentricity; an odd feature.
Synonyms: sense: essence
word: nature
word: quintessence
word: whatness
Coordinate terms: sense: essence
word: quality
word: quoddity
Derived terms: quidditative
Related terms: urls: https://www.onelook.com/?w=quiddity&ls=a
word: in .
cubby house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubby houses
form: cubbyhouse
Senses: synonyms: Wendy house
play house
toyhouse
glosses: A child's play house.
copha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kō'fə
ipa: /ˈkəʊfə/
rhymes: -əʊfə
Etymology: From a trademark.
Senses: glosses: A vegetable shortening made of coconut oil, used in cooking.
nonexistent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-existent
form: non-existant
form: nonexistant
Etymology: From non- + existent.
Senses: examples: text: "Hrunk" is a nonexistent word.
text: His social skills are nonexistent: he chewed with his mouth open all through dinner.
text: In the 1995 Test Census, the Bureau plans to test the use of Postal Service letter carriers to identify vacant and nonexistent units when it mails census questionnaires.
ref: 1994, William Martin Hunt, Decennial Census: 1995 Test Census Presents Opportunities to Evaluate New Census-Taking Methods, US General Accounting Office, page 4:
text: If there is anything of philosophical significance to be taken at face value in ordinary thought and language it is the reference and attribution of properties to existent and nonexistent objects.
ref: 1996, Dale Jacquette, Meinongian Logic: The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence, Walter de Gruyter, page 7:
text: Conversely, to return to the point at hand, nonexistent entities can be known, even by a Buddha, without being, thereby, substantial.
ref: 2015, Jonathan Gold, “Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy”, in Paperback, Columbia University Press, published 2016, page 275:
synonyms: word: inexistent
word: beingless
word: extinct
word: inessential
word: inexistent
word: nonexistent
word: null
word: zilch
glosses: Not existent or existing; not real.
examples: text: Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.]
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 111:
text: The opposite issue emerges in the summer when students face scorching temperatures with unreliable or nonexistent air conditioning.
ref: 2018 January 4, Janie Tankard Carnock, “Frigid Baltimore City schools: The racism we haven’t confronted”, in CNN:
glosses: Not present or occurring.
Related terms: nonexistence
nonexistential
lost to the world
nonexistent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonexistents
form: non-existent
form: non-existant
form: nonexistant
Etymology: From non- + existent.
Senses: examples: text: By showing that no true statements were about nonexistents, he dismissed any facts or knowledge about the so-called beingless.
ref: 2011, Carolyn Swanson, Reburial of Nonexistents, page 5:
glosses: Something that does not exist.
broadband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɔːdbænd/
ipa: /ˈbɹɔdbænd/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑdbænd/
rhymes: -ɔːdbænd
Forms: form: broadbands
Etymology: From broad + band.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A wideband of electromagnetic frequencies.
glosses: An Internet connection provisioned over an existing service using alternate signal frequencies such as ADSL or a cable modem.
Derived terms: voice over broadband
broadband
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɔːdbænd/
ipa: /ˈbɹɔdbænd/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑdbænd/
rhymes: -ɔːdbænd
Etymology: From broad + band.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or carrying a wide band of electromagnetic frequencies
Derived terms: nonbroadband
prebroadband
Related terms: band
baseband
hyperband
narrowband
ultrabroadband
ultrawideband
wideband
bandwidth
cable modem
DSL
ADSL
adamantanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adamantane + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Having an extended tetrahedral configuration, as in diamond, or adamantane.
sig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭg
ipa: /sɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
homophone: cig
Forms: form: sigs
Etymology: Clipping of signature.
Senses: examples: text: Your sig should ideally be four or five lines long, six or seven at the maximum. Since it will be repeated on hundreds of messages, a long signature wastes bandwidth and is therefore rude.
ref: 1995, Vince Emery, How to grow your business on the Internet:
text: Posting good content is the best way to get people clicking your sig link.
ref: 2004, Brad Hill, Building Your Business with Google For Dummies, page 48:
glosses: A signature, especially one on emails or newsgroup postings.
Derived terms: cut sig
sigblock
sigfile
siggy
sigless
sig tune
sig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭg
ipa: /sɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
homophone: cig
Forms: form: sigs
form: sigging
form: sigged
form: sigged
Etymology: Clipping of signify (“to boast, brag, insult”).
Senses: examples: text: And it is a matter of pride. No Black person wants to be "sigged" about or capped all over.
ref: 1969 September, Carolyn M[arie] Rodgers, “Black Poetry—Where It's At”, in Negro Digest, volume XVIII, number 11, Chicago, I.L.: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 16:
text: Clearly, signifying ain't lost a beat on the bumpy ride from Africa to America. In fact, it seem like brothas been sigging since they stepped off the boat.
ref: 2005, Kermit Ernest Campbell, Gettin' Our Groove On: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation, Detroit, M.I.: Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 29:
text: Those siggin' are also master wordsmiths. They have a variety of concepts to choose from in their rhetorical tool bags.
ref: 2010, Ronald L. Jackson II, editor, Encyclopedia of Identity, Thousand Oaks, C.A.: SAGE Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 730, column 1:
synonyms: banter
jone
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To good-naturedly make fun of someone; to signify.
Related terms: burn
diss
rib
roast
sig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭg
ipa: /sɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
homophone: cig
Forms: form: sigs
Etymology: Clipping of sigma.
Senses: examples: text: Sig Chi; Kappa Sig; Sig Nu
text: Outright banning fraternities, however, is a tough move for a university president to make. Greek alums tend to be big donors. [Phil] Hanlon has shied away from making his reform all Greek life, no doubt to avoid the ire of deep-pocketed former Sig Chis.
ref: 2014 April 17, Allie Jones, “After Years of Bad Press, the Great Fraternity Crackdown Is Here”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023:
text: Here are 6 of the most cartoonishly sexist, aggressive, and straight-up nuts fraternity and sorority email chains ever released to the public. Let them be a warning to young Kappa Sigs everywhere.
ref: 2014 May 29, Prachi Gupta, “Your fraternity email chain will come back to haunt you”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2023:
text: My time at Sig Nu was quite brief, unfortunately, so I'll do my best with the data I gathered.
ref: 2022 October 6, Eliza Josephson, “POV: You're dancing at a Yale Frat, or not”, in Yale Daily News, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2022:
qualifier: university slang
glosses: Sigma (in the names of Greek-letter organizations).
Derived terms: SigEp
sig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭg
ipa: /sɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
homophone: cig
Forms: form: zigg
Etymology: From Middle English sige. Cognate with Middle Dutch seic, seike, Middle Low German seyche. Related also to sink (“to fall”).
Senses: glosses: Urine.
puppy love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They're only teenagers; it's hard to take their puppy love seriously.
text: How does a little girl in the second grade who was raised upper-middle class begin to explain that she's fallen into undeniable puppy love with her second grade teacher, Mrs. Dawson?
ref: 1984 December 15, Cindy Rivas, “With a Little Help...”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 22, page 12:
synonyms: calf love
glosses: A childish or youthful infatuation with another person.
Derived terms: puppy-lovey
Related terms: crush
capability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.ti/
ipa: /ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.ti/
ipa: [ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /ˌkæɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.ti/
ipa: [ˌkæɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /ˌkæɪ.pəˈbəl.ə.ti/
ipa: [ˌkæɪ.pəˈbəl.ə.ɾi]
rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Forms: form: capabilities
Etymology: Formed in Modern English as capable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: And that sight will become more common in the coming years, as the city’s police pursue an ambitious campaign to install thousands of cameras to elevate their surveillance capabilities.
ref: 2024 October 5, Jessie Yeung, “Hong Kong plans to install thousands of surveillance cameras. Critics say it’s more proof the city is moving closer to China”, in CNN:
glosses: The power or ability to generate an outcome.
examples: text: A file descriptor can be considered a capability that can only be leveraged using the appropriate system calls, passing it as an argument.
text: Enforcing a security policy means controlling the rights users can acquire to data. In a capability machine, a user’s rights are defined by the capabilities he (or a process acting on his behalf) can obtain and the access rights conferred by those capabilities.
ref: 1987 November, Richard Y. Kain, Carl E. Landwehr, “On Access Checking in Capability-Based Systems”, in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, volume SE-13, number 2, archived from the original on 03 May 2019, pages 202–207:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object that is subject to access control.
Derived terms: capability overhang
capernosity
immunocapability
incapability
limited-capability
negative capability
Related terms: word: capable
'hood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'hoods
Etymology: Clipping of brotherhood
Senses: glosses: brotherhood
'hood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'hoods
Etymology: Clipping of neighborhood
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hood, neighborhood
house sitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house sitters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of house-sitter.
caption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæp.ʃən/
Forms: form: captions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin captiō (“deception, fraud”), from the past participle of capiō (“I take, I seize”) (English capture). Compare Middle English capcioun (“seizure, capture”).
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
examples: text: Some of the photographs are new and interesting, but many captions are amateurish, uninformative or simply careless.
ref: 1964 September, “New Books: The History of Railways. By Erwin Berghaus. Barrie & Rockcliff. 35s.”, in Modern Railways, page 222:
glosses: A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.
examples: (theater, performance production) By analogy, text in a similar system used in a performance venue for transcription of a live event.
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.
topics: law
glosses: The section on an official paper (for example, as part of a seizure or capture) that describes when, where, and what was taken, found or executed, and who authorized the act.
examples: 1919 Thomas Welburn Hughes. A treatise on criminal law and procedure. The Bobbs-Merril Co., Indianapolis, IN, USA. Sec. 557 (p. 378).
The caption and asportation must be felonious.
topics: law
glosses: A seizure or capture, especially of tangible property (chattel).
glosses: A story that is embedded in a pre-existing image (sometimes with image manipulation)
Derived terms: word: captionable
word: captioned
word: captioner
word: captioning
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
television
broadcasting
media
word: closed caption
word: closed-caption
word: closed captions
word: closed captioned
word: closed-captioned
word: close captioned
word: close-captioned
word: closed captioning
word: closed-captioning
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
television
broadcasting
media
word: open caption
word: open-caption
word: open captions
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
television
broadcasting
media
word: real time caption
word: real-time caption
word: real time captioning
word: real-time captioning
word: manipper
sense: Unsorted terms
word: captionless
sense: Unsorted terms
word: encaption
sense: Unsorted terms
word: miscaption
sense: Unsorted terms
word: recaption
sense: Unsorted terms
word: subcaption
sense: Unsorted terms
word: supercaption
Related terms: captious
captivate
captive
capture
subtitle
supertitle
surtitle
caption
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæp.ʃən/
Forms: form: captions
form: captioning
form: captioned
form: captioned
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin captiō (“deception, fraud”), from the past participle of capiō (“I take, I seize”) (English capture). Compare Middle English capcioun (“seizure, capture”).
Senses: examples: text: Only once the drawing is done will the letterer caption it.
glosses: To add captions to a text or illustration.
glosses: To add captions to a film or broadcast.
captivate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæptɪvət/
ipa: /ˈkæptəˌvət/
ipa: /ˈkæptɪvət/
ipa: /ˈkæptəˌvət/
Forms: form: more captivate
form: most captivate
Etymology: See Etymology 1. Equivalent to captive + -ate (adjective-forming suffix)
Senses: examples: text: Tuſh, vvomen haue bene captiuate ere novv.
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 V, scene v], page 116, column 1:
text: VVhat is Gods houſe in Caſtle pent, but like that Arke of bliſſe / In Balaims temple Captivate? Ech place a priſon is.
ref: 1610, William Camden, “Wilshire”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, page 247:
glosses: Made captive; taken prisoner; captured, subdued.
Mauser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mausers
Etymology: Named after the original designers, Wilhelm and Paul Mauser.
Senses: examples: text: The war has begun, confrontations are escalating across the region, and all his men own are old Mausers.
ref: 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 101:
glosses: Any of the firearms made or designed by the German company Mauser, notably automatic pistols and bolt action rifles.
carat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.ɹət/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈkɛɹ.ət/
homophone: karat
homophone: carrot
homophone: caret (weak vowel merger)
rhymes: -æɹət
Forms: form: carats
Etymology: From Middle French carat, from Italian carato, from Arabic قِيرَاط (qīrāṭ, “carat, similarly small units such as inches”), from Ancient Greek κεράτιον (kerátion, “hornlet, carob seed”), from κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix). Doublet of quilate.
Senses: meronyms: grain
glosses: A metric unit of mass equal to exactly 200 mg, chiefly used for measuring precious stones and pearls.
glosses: Any of several small units of mass used for measuring precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 189–212 mg.
examples: text: 18-carat gold is 75% gold by mass. 24-carat gold is pure.
related: word: karat
glosses: A 24-point scale used to measure the purity of gold.
Hyponyms: english: SI unit equal to 0.2 g exactly
translation: SI unit equal to 0.2 g exactly
word: metric carat
english: historical Iberian and Latin American contexts
translation: historical Iberian and Latin American contexts
word: quilate
Derived terms: caratage
carater
metric carat
multicarat
purity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjʊəɹɪti/
ipa: /ˈpjɔːɹɪti/
ipa: /ˈpjʊɹɪti/
ipa: /ˈpjɝɪti/
Forms: form: purities
Etymology: From pure + -ity, from Old French purete, from Latin puritas.
Senses: examples: text: The purity of the water was tested in a laboratory.
text: She admired the purity of the child’s laughter.
text: Gold is valued according to its level of purity.
antonyms: impurity
glosses: The state or degree of being pure.
Derived terms: nonpurity
purity ball
purity pledge
purity ring
purity spiral
purity test
racial purity
radiopurity
unscriptural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unscriptural
form: most unscriptural
Etymology: From un- + scriptural.
Senses: examples: text: The continuance of these unscriptural terms, without an exact application of them in sermons and catechisms, heathenizes all the common people, nay and great numbers of not unlearned persons.
ref: 1698, Stephen Nye, An account of Mr. Firmin's religion:
glosses: Not scriptural.
scriptural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: skrĭpˈ-chə-rəl
enpr: -cho͝o-rəl
enpr: -shrəl
ipa: /ˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃəɹəl/
ipa: /ˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃʊɹəl/
ipa: /ˈskɹɪp.ʃɹəl/
Etymology: From scripture + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or in accordance with scripture.
Synonyms: biblical
orthodox
Derived terms: scripturalism
scripturalist
scripturality
scripturally
scripturalness
scuffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scuffers
Etymology: From scuff + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who scuffs the feet.
glosses: A London policeman (of the Victorian era).