cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
JavaScript
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɑː.və.skɹɪpt/
Forms: form: JavaScripts
form: Javascript
form: javascript
Etymology: From Java (“a programming language”) + script, although the language is not closely related to Java and was originally to be called LiveScript.
Senses: examples: text: By examining lots of examples, you will learn how to make use of JavaScript in your own Web pages, and through these examples you will learn some new coding practices for writing JavaScripts. […] Thousands of free JavaScripts are already out there on the Web, and before you start writing a script to do anything you are best off looking on some of these sites to see if someone has already done all of the hard work for you.
ref: 2004, Jon Duckett, “Creating a JavaScript Library”, in Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Wiley, →ISBN, page 549:
text: To use JavaScripts, you need to understand basic HTML and typically have access to a Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser. You do not have to be a programmer to develop and embed useful JavaScripts into your Website! In fact, many Websites offer free JavaScripts that you can just cut and paste into your website.
ref: 2005, Al Kernek, Put Your Business Online, 2nd edition, Pacifica Endeavors, →ISBN, page 138:
text: Access thousands of JavaScripts, complete with tutorials and open discussions with the more than 500,000 registered users at this site.
ref: 2006, Joe Kraynak, Que’s Official Internet Yellow Pages, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 469:
text: You don’t need to put JavaScripts inside a page. JavaScripts generally should be placed in an external file — a tag in the Web page “calls” a script that is pulled from another file on the Web server — for various reasons: […]
ref: 2008, Peter Kent, Search Engine Optimization For Dummies, 3rd edition, Wiley, →ISBN:
text: EVER WEB SITE IS A POTENTIAL RISK. You know the exploits: malware, infected downloads, spyware, fraudulent Web sites, rogue JavaScripts…the list goes on.
ref: 2016, June Jamrich Parsons, New Perspectives on Computer Concepts 2016, Introductory, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 511:
text: Appropriate placement of stylesheets and JavaScripts improves the perceived page load times and prevents browsers getting blocked.
ref: 2019, Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar, Sourabhh Sethii, Building Digital Experience Platforms: A Guide to Developing Next-Generation Enterprise Applications, Apress, →ISBN, page 237:
glosses: A JavaScript script.
Related terms: ECMAScript
Java
JScript
reclining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a reclining armchair
glosses: Capable of being reclined, or moved into a more horizontal position.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bending away from the perpendicular; recumbent.
Derived terms: reclining board
reclining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recline
reclining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reclinings
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Disbrowe was reclining on a well-worn horsehair-covered sofa, his frequent reclinings on which piece of furniture had stamped a deep and quite ineffaceable impression of his weighty form upon the cushion.
ref: 1865, Edward Dutton Cook, Sir Felix Foy, Bart., page 233:
glosses: The act of one who reclines.
normalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: normalises
form: normalising
form: normalised
form: normalised
Etymology: From normal + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Secondly, there is a tendency to undertranslate, viz. to normalise by generalising, to understate, in all translation but particularly in literary translation.
ref: 1991, Peter Newmark, About Translation, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 104:
text: While in most cases salivary cortisol concentration is normalised within a two-week period after delivery, an abnormal adjustment to this state may result in a persistent HPA-axis suppression and hypocortisolemia, which is believed to increase the susceptibility to PPD.
ref: 2015 September 1, “Prenatal and Postpartum Evening Salivary Cortisol Levels in Association with Peripartum Depressive Symptoms”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: “It is clear from our review that criminalisation of sex work normalises violence and reinforces gender, racial, economic and other inequalities.
ref: 2018 November 12, Sarah Boseley, “Criminalisation of sex work normalises violence, review finds”, in The Guardian:
text: For all that her character has been created in the interests of reassuring the audience and normalising and straightwashing the story, she has an excellent moment in the climactic scene when Hogancamp declares his feelings for her.
ref: 2018 December 19, Peter Bradshaw, “Welcome to Marwen review: Steve Carell on icky form in straightwashed misfire”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of normalize.
Derived terms: denormalise
nonnormalised
normalisable
normalisation
orthonormalised
renormalise
Voortrekker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɹ.tɹɛk.əɹ/
Forms: form: Voortrekkers
Etymology: Dutch voor (“advance”) + trekken (“to travel”).
Senses: examples: text: The Voortrekkers left the Cape Colony because of dissatisfaction with English rule.
glosses: A Boer pioneer, who trekked into the hinterland of South Africa during the 1830s.
glosses: A member of the Afrikaans scouting movement.
chronons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chronon
redshirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛd.ʃəː(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: redshirts
Etymology: Calque of Italian camicia rossa, equivalent to red + shirt. In later senses with reference to the uniforms or outfits worn by such people. The fandom slang sense emerged from the tendency of red-uniformed Starfleet officers to die in episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series.
Senses: examples: text: Loyal regiments from Naples and other provinces of the mainland fought valiantly and were victorious un several skirmishes against the redshirts near Capua.
ref: 2011, David Gilmour, The Pursuit of Italy, Penguin, published 2012, page 196:
glosses: A supporter of the Italian nationalist leader Giuseppe Garibaldi, especially a member of his thousand-man army which conquered Sicily.
glosses: A revolutionary or anarchist.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A college athlete who spends a year not participating in official athletic activities, but does not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.
examples: text: Sensing danger, Captain Kirk decided to beam down to the surface with Spock, McCoy, and a couple of redshirts.
text: I am not a goddamn redshirt! I have a purpose!
ref: 2017, 42m, in 12 Monkeys, season 3, episode 6:
topics: fiction
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An unimportant character introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril to the important characters; an expendable character.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A person responsible for loading and unloading weapons, artillery, and equipment from aircraft.
examples: text: As armoured personnel carriers rumbled on to Bangkok's deserted streets, thousands of troops fanned out in a cordon across the city, surrounding the redshirts' fortified protest camp.
ref: 2010 May 19, Ben Doherty, “Thai soldiers arrest protest leaders in bloody 'final crackdown'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of Red Shirt (“member of the UDD”).
Derived terms: medical redshirt
redshirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛd.ʃəː(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: redshirts
form: redshirting
form: redshirted
form: redshirted
Etymology: Calque of Italian camicia rossa, equivalent to red + shirt. In later senses with reference to the uniforms or outfits worn by such people. The fandom slang sense emerged from the tendency of red-uniformed Starfleet officers to die in episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series.
Senses: examples: text: The university decided to redshirt the freshman linebacker to give him an extra year to build up his bulk.
text: Being asked whether I was going to be redshirted had some status associated with it.
ref: 2004, George R. Mills -, A View from the Bench, →ISBN:
qualifier: collegiate sports
glosses: To place an athlete in a status wherein the athlete will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities, but will not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.
examples: text: Hillman, who had come to Indiana without a scholarship (he now had one) from a Los Angeles suburb, wanted to redshirt so that he would have two years of eligibility left after Alford graduated. Smith didn't want to redshirt, he wanted to play.
ref: 2012 -, John Feinstein, Season on the Brink, →ISBN, page 62:
qualifier: collegiate sports
glosses: To take on a status wherein one will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities.
examples: 1985, March 1, "Some Educators Oppose Redshirting 5-Year-Olds," The Omaha World-Herald
Parents who redshirt their 5-year-olds instead of enrolling them in kindergarten are a concern to some Nebraska educators who are trying to reverse the trend of holding children back until age 6 to start school.
glosses: To hold a child out of kindergarten for one year in the hope that the child will do better academically and socially.
Related terms: redskirt
innovate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnəveɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪno.veʈ/
Forms: form: innovates
form: innovating
form: innovated
form: innovated
Etymology: First attested in 1548; borrowed from Latin innovātus, perfect passive participle of innovō (“to renew”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered […].
ref: , New York 2001, p.80
text: From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.
examples: text: Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
ref: 2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change, page 319:
glosses: To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
examples: text: to innovate a word or an act
text: The Russian defense industrial base (DIB) continues to innovate military equipment and weapons for Russian forces to use in Ukraine.
ref: 2025 February 4, Nicole Wolkov, Christina Harward, Olivia Gibson, Grace Mappes, Kateryna Stepanenko, George Barros, Frederick W. Kagan, Nate Trotter, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 4, 2025”, in Ukraine Project, Institute for the Study of War:
synonyms: invent
glosses: To introduce (something) as new.
Synonyms: word: boldly go where no man has gone before
word: break new ground
word: innovate
word: novelize
word: pioneer
Derived terms: innovent
uninnovated
Related terms: innovation
innovative
innovator
innovatory
recapture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æptʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: recaptures
Etymology: From re- + capture.
Senses: examples: text: The recapture of the escaped prisoner made the news.
synonyms: recatch
glosses: The act of capturing again.
glosses: That which is captured back; a prize retaken.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The retroactive collection of taxes that were not collectible at the time.
recapture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æptʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: recaptures
form: recapturing
form: recaptured
form: recaptured
Etymology: From re- + capture.
Senses: examples: text: The warden hoped to recapture the escaped prisoners before they reached the town.
text: New engine designs permit the vehicle to recapture the kinetic energy lost through braking.
text: On the other hand, in Eritrea (once our Forces had recaptured Kassala on January 19) the drive was generally eastward towards the capital, Asmara, and the Red Sea port of Massaua.
ref: 1941 August, Charles E. Lee, “Railways of Italian East Africa—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:
text: One specimen of milberti was recaptured after being at liberty for ten years, and it had grown only twenty inches.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 118:
text: Seeking to recapture the laughter of life through correspondence.
ref: 1991 December 8, William S. Hoggard, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 14:
text: Gerrard was replaced by Michael Carrick at the start of the second half and a sloppy passage of play followed in which England struggled to recapture the momentum and rhythm of their earlier work.
ref: 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To capture something for a second or subsequent time, especially after a loss.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: To capture an opponent's piece immediately after it has captured on the same square.
chickenhawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪkɪnˌhɔk/
Forms: form: chickenhawks
Etymology: From chicken + hawk. The political sense is derived from figurative meanings of “coward” and “militant” respectively.
Senses: glosses: Any of the North American hawk species (Cooper's hawk, sharp-shinned hawk and red-tailed hawk), or counterparts elsewhere, mistakenly believed to be pests.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A draft dodger, especially in the Vietnam War, who nonetheless currently supports United States overseas military engagements.
examples: text: For every instance of Saul's good-humoredly putting one over on the criminal justice system […] to free his younger lover from his latest legal trouble, Rogers recounts callous treatment at the hands of the older man. In addition, Sinbad suffers brutal depredations from the city's other chicken hawks.
ref: 1985 August 24, Mark McHarry, “Adult/Youth Sex as Fiction, Fact, and Fate”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 8:
topics: LGBT
glosses: An older, usually more powerful man who preys on adolescent boys for sex.
prepay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: prepays
form: prepaying
form: prepaid
form: prepaid
Etymology: From pre- + pay.
Senses: examples: text: to prepay postage
text: to prepay phone credit
glosses: To pay in advance, or beforehand
Synonyms: forepay
prepenial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + penial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated in front of, or anterior to, the penis.
prepense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈpɛns/
rhymes: -ɛns
Etymology: Back-formation from prepensed, probably from Anglo-Norman prepenser.
Senses: glosses: Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.
Related terms: malice prepense
prepense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈpɛns/
rhymes: -ɛns
Forms: form: prepenses
form: prepensing
form: prepensed
form: prepensed
Etymology: Back-formation from prepensed, probably from Anglo-Norman prepenser.
Senses: examples: text: All these thinges prepensed and gathered together seriously
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
text: submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To weigh or consider beforehand; to intend.
glosses: To deliberate beforehand.
prepensely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prepensely
form: most prepensely
Etymology: From prepense + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a premeditated manner.
prepollence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepollency
Senses: examples: text: Those who hold this uncomfortable and gloomy opinion, would do well to consider what such men as Cudworth, archbishop King, Hutcheson, and Balguy, have so strongly urged in confutation of this opinion of the prepollence of evil in the world.
ref: 1693, Joseph Warton, Note on Dryden's translation of Juvenal's Tenth Satire:
glosses: The quality or state of being prepollent; superiority of power; predominance; prevalence.
chronon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronons
Etymology: From chrono- + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical quantum or particle of time.
prepollent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin praepollēns, present participle of praepollēre (“to surpass in power”).
Senses: examples: text: But the prepollent Gravity of some, being sufficient to give comparative Lightness or Gravity to Bodies, we must deny Nature this Prerogative.
ref: 1686, Robert Boyle, A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature:
glosses: Having superior influence or power; prevailing; predominant.
prepollent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepollents
Etymology: From Latin praepollēns, present participle of praepollēre (“to surpass in power”).
Senses: glosses: An extra first digit, or rudiment of a digit, on the preaxial side of the pollex.
preponder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: preponders
form: prepondering
form: prepondered
form: prepondered
Senses: examples: text: As the democrat preponders over the aristocrat, so oxygen prevails over iron, the power of gravity is as much greater than that of magnetism, as regular democracy is superior to haphazard aristocracy .
ref: 1814, Simon Willard, The Columbian Union, page 76:
text: As it is, the embellishments preponder over constructive ability, and one sadly reflects here, more than anywhere else, how small in great, and how great in small, things the Japanese really are.
ref: 1893 June, Robert Blum, “An Artist in Japan”, in Scribner's Magazine, volume 13, number 6, page 749:
text: Plaintiff has the burden of presenting a case which fairly preponders over the defendant's case.
ref: 1949, Supreme Court, page 370:
text: However, research preponders towards practical applications, for example, evaluation of two advertising appeals.
ref: 2009, K. N. Krishnaswamy, Appa Iyer Sivakumar, M. Mathirajan, Management Research Methodology:
text: Sometimes the thirst for pleasure predominates, then the wish to grow preponders. Back and forth we struggle, from dearth to sterility.
ref: 2017, Traumear, Beck, page 283:
text: The gurgling sound of the falls preponders the air.
ref: 2019, Murli Menon, Travel Guide 2019 South East Asia, page 68:
glosses: To preponderate.
preponderant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preponderant
form: most preponderant
form: praeponderant
Etymology: From Latin praeponderāns, present participle of praeponderō (“I outweigh”).
Senses: examples: text: The judge gave preponderant weight to the physical evidence.
text: Women continue to play a preponderant role in caregiving.
text: […] if the Oyle and Water being in an Aequilibrium, you gently lift up the Pipe, […] the depth of the water being lessend, the oyle in the Pipe will grow praeponderant, and therefore will fall out in Drops or Globuls, which by the greater Specifick Gravity of the water, will be buoy’d up to the Top of the Liquor, and there flote:
ref: 1666, Robert Boyle, Hydrostatical Paradoxes, Oxford: Richard Davis, Paradox I, page 28:
text: Behold the balanc’d Scales suspended stand,
Neither a jot inclin’d to either hand:
But place the smallest grain of weight in one,
Straight the fraternal equipoise is gone;
The loaded scale, preponderant, downward flies,
Drags down the chain, and makes it’s [sic] partner rise.
ref: 1767, George Canning, “Anti-Lucretius”, in Poems, London: for the author, page 281:
text: For the present, however, the Swedes were the preponderant party in the neighbourhood; they had fortified the chateau of Falkenberg, and made it a very strong military post;
ref: 1832, Thomas De Quincey, chapter 7, in Klosterheim: or, The Masque, London: T. Cadell, pages 109–110:
text: The place was much like any ordinary lab., crowded with jars, test-tubes, retorts and so on. It evidently served for work on both the physical and the biological sciences, but the biological was preponderant.
ref: 1936, Olaf Stapledon, chapter 20, in Odd John, New York: Galaxy Publishing, page 136:
synonyms: dominant
overriding
predominant
glosses: Having greater or the greatest weight, quantity, importance or force.
Related terms: preponderance
preponderantly
preponderate
preponderate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preponderates
form: preponderating
form: preponderated
form: preponderated
Etymology: From Latin praeponderatus, past participle of praeponderāre (“to outweigh”).
Senses: examples: text: an inconsiderable weight by virtue of its distance from the Centre of the Ballance, will preponderate much greater magnitudes
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica:
synonyms: overbalance
glosses: To outweigh; to be heavier than; to exceed in weight.
examples: text: That is the preponderating consideration to which everything else has to yield.
ref: 1898, William Graham Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain”, in War and Other Essays, Yale, page 359:
glosses: To overpower by stronger or moral power.
examples: text: The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace.
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, and the Profane State:
glosses: To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
examples: text: Anxiety preponderated over hope; and it was scarcely possible for Evelyn to encounter a danger not previously conjured up by the alarmed fancy of his mistress.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 22:
text: […] if the principle of utility is good for anything, it must be good for weighing these conflicting utilities against one another, and marking out the region within which one or the other preponderates.
ref: 1861, John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism:
text: Train journeys were not long in terms of distance, and having regard to these factors, the tank engine inevitably preponderated.
ref: 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 161:
glosses: To exceed in weight or influence; hence, to predominate.
Related terms: preponder
preponderance
preponderant
prepositive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: præpositive
Etymology: From Latin praepositivus, past participle of praepono (“to place before, to place ahead of”).
Senses: examples: text: a prepositive adjective
text: a prepositive cone
text: a prepositive object
text: a prepositive particle
text: a prepositive verb
antonyms: postpositive
glosses: Put before; prefixed.
Derived terms: prepositive adjective
prepositively
Related terms: postpose
postposed
postposition
prepose
preposed
preposition
preposterous
prepositive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepositives
form: præpositive
Etymology: From Latin praepositivus, past participle of praepono (“to place before, to place ahead of”).
Senses: glosses: A prepositive word.
prepositor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepositors
form: præpositor
form: prepostor
Etymology: Conjunction of pre- + posit and suffixed with ‐or, from Latin praepositus.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A scholar appointed to inspect other scholars; a monitor or prefect.
prepositure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepositures
Senses: glosses: The office or dignity of a provost; a provostship.
prepossessing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prepossessing
form: most prepossessing
Etymology: From pre- + possess. Attested in 1610s with the meaning of "getting possession of (ground or land) beforehand". The meaning "to possess (a person) beforehand with a feeling, notion, etc." developed in 1630s, acquiring by the 40s of the same century the meaning of "to cause (someone) to have a favorable opinion of something, preoccupy the mind or heart of".
Senses: examples: text: an unprepossessing manner
text: "I am a great advocate for timidity—and I am sure one does not often meet with it.—But in those who are at all inferior, it is extremely prepossessing."
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 15:
text: Our curate is a young gentleman of such prepossessing appearance, and fascinating manners, that within one month after his first appearance in the parish, half the young-lady inhabitants were melancholy with religion, and the other half, desponding with love.
ref: 1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “The curate. The old lady. The half-pay captain”, in Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC:
text: These natural graces in the quadroon are often united with beauty of the most dazzling kind, and in almost every case with a personal appearance prepossessing and agreeable.
ref: 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “chapter 2”, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
text: In repose the faces of the men were intelligent and dignified, those of the women ofttimes prepossessing.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 126:
text: He was a frank, prepossessing fellow, but I saw that he could add nothing to his original account.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 3, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
text: The stations are generally very poor, even for a branch line; some are mere wooden shacks, and Moniaive itself is one of the least prepossessing terminal stations I have ever seen.
ref: 1944 January and February, E. R. McCarter, “The Cairn Valley Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 48:
glosses: Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive
glosses: Causing prejudice.
prepossession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹiːpəˈzɛʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌpɹipəˈzɛʃən/
rhymes: -ɛʃən
Forms: form: prepossessions
Etymology: From pre- + possession.
Senses: examples: text: I am fully sensible to the greatness of that freedom, which I take with you on the present occasion; a liberty which seemed to me scarcely allowable, when I reflected on that distinguished and dignified station in which you stand, and the almost general prejudice and prepossession, which is so prevalent in the world against those of my complexion.
ref: 1791 August 19, letter from Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson
text: It opens his designs to his family, it introduces you among them, it diffuses through the party those pleasantest feelings of our nature, eager curiosity and warm prepossession.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
glosses: Preoccupation; having possession beforehand.
examples: text: The spontaneous intellect of man always defines the divine which it feels in ways that harmonise with its temporary intellectual prepossessions.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture XVIII: Philosophy”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 455:
glosses: A preconceived opinion, or previous impression; bias, prejudice.
prepossessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepossessors
Senses: glosses: One who possesses, or occupies, previously.
agathodemon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agathodemons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of agathodaemon.
prepotency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepotencies
Etymology: From pre- + potency.
Senses: glosses: The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.
prepotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈpoʊtənt/
Etymology: From Latin praepotens.
Senses: examples: text: To ordre his subiectes after true iustice / As a prepotent prince
ref: 1521, Henry Bradshaw, The Holy Lyfe and History of saynt Werburge, London: Richard Pynson, Book 1, Chapter 16:
text: […] Jeff’s eyes were dry, though his face was discharged of all its prepotent impudence.
ref: 1897, William Dean Howells, chapter 49, in The Landlord at Lion’s Head, New York: Harper, page 392:
text: […] if they had subordinated themselves, docilely and automatically, to the prepotent social and academic figures of the society about them, that in no wise detracted from the favorable impression they had made on her.
ref: 1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 33, in Bertram Cope’s Year, Chicago: R.F. Seymour, page 306:
text: […] the exigencies of awareness are that we focus on certain dimensions of the objects before us, make certain ways of seeing them prepotent.
ref: 1975, Charles Taylor, Hegel, Cambridge University Press, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 142:
glosses: Very powerful; superior in force, influence, or authority; predominant.
examples: text: When one parent alone displays some of the newly-acquired and generally inheritable character, and the offspring do not inherit it, the cause may lie in the other parent having the power of prepotent transmission.
ref: 1868, Charles Darwin, chapter 13, in The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, volume 2, London: John Murray, page 28:
text: […] the mother strain, if not prepotent in the sense of science, seems to me to have outweighed that of any other relative of whom we have record.
ref: 1916, C. Alphonso Smith, O. Henry Biography, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, Chapter 3, p. 45:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Characterized by prepotency.
preprovide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preprovides
form: preproviding
form: preprovided
form: preprovided
Etymology: From pre- + provide.
Senses: glosses: To provide beforehand.
Related terms: preprovision
prepubis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepubes
Etymology: From pre- + pubis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bone or cartilage, of some animals, situated in the middle line in front of the pubic bones.
preputial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: præputial
Senses: examples: text: If removing the preputial tissue curbs sexuality of both sexes and if, on the basis of curbing female sexuality, the removal of the female prepuce is misogynistic, then the removal of the male foreskin should be viewed as misandristic.
ref: 2006, David Benatar, Cutting to the Core, page 36:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the prepuce.
Derived terms: balanopreputial
subpreputial
preraphaelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + Raphael + -ism.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The doctrine or practice of a school of modern painters who profess to be followers of the painters before Raphael. Its adherents advocate careful study from nature, delicacy and minuteness of workmanship, and an exalted and delicate conception of the subject.
preraphaelite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + Raphael + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pre-Raphaelite.
preraphaelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preraphaelites
Etymology: From pre- + Raphael + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pre-Raphaelite.
preregnant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preregnants
Etymology: From pre- + regnant.
Senses: glosses: One who reigns before another; a sovereign predecessor.
preremote
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + remote.
Senses: antonyms: postremote
glosses: More remote in previous time or prior order.
prerequire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: prerequires
form: prerequiring
form: prerequired
form: prerequired
Etymology: From pre- + require.
Senses: glosses: To require beforehand.
preresolve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹiː.ɹɪˈzɒlv/
ipa: /ˌpɹi.ɹɪˈzɑlv/
ipa: /-ˈzɔlv/
rhymes: -ɒlv
Forms: form: preresolves
form: preresolving
form: preresolved
form: preresolved
Etymology: From pre- + resolve.
Senses: glosses: To resolve beforehand; to predetermine.
prerogatived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prerogatived
form: most prerogatived
Etymology: From prerogative + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a prerogative, or exclusive privilege.
prerogatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From prerogative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By prerogative.
presageful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more presageful
form: most presageful
Etymology: From presage + -ful.
Senses: synonyms: word: foreboding
word: portentous
word: augurous
word: baleful
word: bodeful
word: boding
word: dire
word: disastrous
word: fatal
word: foreboding
word: ill-boding
word: ill-fated
word: ill-omened
word: ill-starred
word: inauspicate
word: inauspicious
word: nefastous
word: omenic
word: ominous
word: brooding
word: portentous
word: presageful
word: presagious
word: prodigious
word: sinister
word: star-crossed
word: sullen
glosses: Full of presages; ominous.
presagement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presagements
Etymology: From presage + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The falling of Salt is an authenticke preſagement of ill lucke, nor can every temper contemne it, from whence notwithſtanding nothing can be naturally feared: […]
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “Compendiouſly of many queſtionable cuſtomes, opinions, pictures, practiſes, and popular obſervations”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 5th book, paragraph 3, page 265:
glosses: The act or art of presaging; a foreboding.
glosses: That which is presaged, or foretold.
presager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presagers
Etymology: From presage + -er.
Senses: examples: text: O let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast […]
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 23”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder.
presagious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more presagious
form: most presagious
Senses: synonyms: word: inauspicious
word: portentous
word: augurous
word: baleful
word: bodeful
word: boding
word: dire
word: disastrous
word: fatal
word: foreboding
word: ill-boding
word: ill-fated
word: ill-omened
word: ill-starred
word: inauspicate
word: inauspicious
word: nefastous
word: omenic
word: ominous
word: brooding
word: portentous
word: presageful
word: presagious
word: prodigious
word: sinister
word: star-crossed
word: sullen
glosses: Foreboding; ominous.
Related terms: presage
presbyope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presbyopes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πρέσβυς (présbus, “old”) and ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: One who has presbyopia: a farsighted person
Related terms: amblyope
myope
presbyopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛzbiˈɒpɪk/
ipa: /pɹɛsbiˈɒpɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more presbyopic
form: most presbyopic
Etymology: From presbyopia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: the Moms, bent way down to me, hand reaching, her lowering face with its presbyopic squint, suddenly stopped, froze, beginning to I.D. what it was I held out […]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Affected by or pertaining to presbyopia.
presbyopic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛzbiˈɒpɪk/
ipa: /pɹɛsbiˈɒpɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: presbyopics
Etymology: From presbyopia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: These experiments prove that some alteration has taken place in the eye equivalent to a lengthening of the eye, or a shortening of the principal focus, which enables presbyopics to read without glasses.
ref: 2014, Walter J. Kilner, The Human Atmosphere:
glosses: A person who has presbyopia.
Related terms: myopic
presbyteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more presbyteral
form: most presbyteral
Etymology: From presbyter + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a presbyter or presbytery; presbyterial.
presbyterate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presbyterates
Etymology: From Medieval Latin presbyterātus. By surface analysis, presbyter + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a body of people involved with it).
Senses: glosses: presbytership, eldership
glosses: The order of presbyters.
glosses: A body of presbyters or elders of the Church.
presbyterate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presbyterates
form: presbyterating
form: presbyterated
form: presbyterated
Etymology: From presbyter + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Discipline..was not to bee exercised by the minister alone and his people, but by a united power of ministers presbyterated (or their delegates, prudent chosen men for such an affaire).
ref: 1657, John Humphrey, letter in the: Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter, Vol. 2:
glosses: To constitute or organize according to the Presbyterian system, or along Presbyterian lines.
presbyterate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From presbyter + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Constituted of presbyters or elders.
presbyteress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presbyteresses
Etymology: From Medieval Latin presbyterissa. By surface analysis, presbyter + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Even a special blessing was included within the liturgy for the wives of married men on the day of their husband's ordination in the sixth century. These women were called presbyteresses (presbyterissae) and were entitled to wear special dress.
ref: 1972, Charles A. Frazee, “The Origins of Clerical Celibacy in the Western Church”, in Church History, volume 41, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 157:
glosses: A presbyter or priest's wife.
examples: text: Age was doubtless a requisite in presbyters, as it is here stated to have been in presbyteresses, with a view to their influence on the younger persons of their sex. They were supported by the Church, but not the only widows so supported.
ref: 1863, Robert Jamieson, Andrew Robert Fausset, David Brown, A Commentary, Critical and Explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments:
glosses: A female presbyter (elder of the congregation in early Christianity).
Synonyms: sense: priest's wife
word: presbytera
sense: priest's wife
word: priestess
presbyterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more presbyterial
form: most presbyterial
Etymology: From Late Latin presbyterium + -al. By surface analysis, presbyter + -ial or presbytery + -al.
Senses: glosses: Presbyterian.
Derived terms: presbyterially
presbyterial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presbyterials
Etymology: From Late Latin presbyterium + -al. By surface analysis, presbyter + -ial or presbytery + -al.
Senses: glosses: A presbytery run by the Women's Missionary Society.
presbyterian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more presbyterian
form: most presbyterian
Etymology: From Late Latin presbyterium + -an. By surface analysis, presbyter + -ian or presbytery + -an.
Senses: synonyms: presbyterial
glosses: Of or pertaining to a presbyter, or to ecclesiastical government by presbyters; relating to those who uphold church government by presbyters; also, to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of a communion so governed.
Derived terms: Pan-Presbyterian
Presbyterian
presbyterianism
Presbyterianism
Presbyterianization
Presbyterianize
presbyterianly
Presbyterianly
presbyterianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From presbyterian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: That form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches, taken collectively.
Derived terms: Presbyterianism
presbytership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presbyterships
Etymology: From presbyter + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.
presbytia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Presbyopia.
presbytism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of presbyopia.
prescapula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + scapula.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.
prescapular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + scapular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the prescapula; supraspinous.
pyrethrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrethrines
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pyrethrin.
pyretology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, if the pyretology of Europe includes some five or six fevers, it is not improbable that the pyretology of the tropics includes as many, if not more.
ref: 1893, “On African Haemoglobinuric Fever”, in Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London:
glosses: A discourse or treatise on fevers; the doctrine of fevers.
Related terms: pyretic
agathodaimon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agathodaimons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of agathodaemon.
agathodaemon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agathodaemons
form: agathodaimon
form: agathodemon
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀγαθοδαίμων (agathodaímōn).
Senses: glosses: A benevolent spirit, as opposed to a cacodemon (an evil daemon).
Related terms: eudaemon
pyrophane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrophanes
Etymology: From pyro- + Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “I show or shine”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral which is opaque in its natural state, but is said to change its color and become transparent by heat.
piccanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piccanins
Senses: examples: text: 1964. Credo Vusa'mazulu Mutwa: Indaba, My Children. This edition 1999. Grove Press →ISBN Page 667.
The piccanin stands at the gate. There are tears in his eyes and hunger in his belly. He is puzzled and scared by what he saw happening the previous night in the place he knows as home. His mother and father had quarreled and he had been awakened by the noise.
text: And then one boy came back into the water to help me, a Black piccanin, I believe his name was Mpilo […].
ref: 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 57:
glosses: Alternative form of pickaninny.
adductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adductive
form: most adductive
Senses: glosses: Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.
Derived terms: adductively
adducible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adducible
form: most adducible
Etymology: From adduce + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being adduced.
addle-patedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of addlepatedness.
tidivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tidivates
form: tidivating
form: tidivated
form: tidivated
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of titivate.
addible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more addible
form: most addible
form: addable
Etymology: From add + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being added; thus:
Capable of being added on (introduced to the context).
glosses: Capable of being added; thus:
Capable of being added up (counted/summed).
Derived terms: addibility
inaddibility
inaddible
unaddible
gold-bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gold-bearing
form: most gold-bearing
Senses: glosses: containing or producing gold
raw_tags: of a mineral or ore
Synonyms: auriferous
chloraurate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chloraurates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aurochloride.
cyanaurate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanaurates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aurocyanide.
tittivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tittivates
form: tittivating
form: tittivated
form: tittivated
Senses: examples: text: "Didn't you see how Joe had been tittivating […] ?"
ref: 1912, Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman at the Store" (from "Selected Short Stories")
glosses: Alternative spelling of titivate; to spruce up.
beat the crap out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats the crap out of
form: beating the crap out of
form: beat the crap out of
form: beaten the crap out of
form: beat the crap out of
Senses: examples: text: If you ever call my husband again, I'll beat the crap out of you!
glosses: To beat really badly.
Synonyms: clobber
beat the shit out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats the shit out of
form: beating the shit out of
form: beat the shit out of
form: beaten the shit out of
form: beat the shit out of
Senses: examples: text: He had beat the shit out of her. Almost broke her jaw.
ref: 1994, Eric Wilson, Strands, →ISBN, page 54:
text: “Just a bunch of scumbags out to wreck Dublin city. The gardaí [police]^([sic]) should have free rein to beat the shit out of them.”
ref: 2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, “‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To beat (someone) severely.
examples: text: I think if it was one game, winner take all, and everyone was in shape... I would have to go with Dream Team I. To tell you the truth, I think they would beat the shit out of us.
ref: 1999, Reggie Miller with Gene Wojciechowski, I Love Being the Enemy, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: To defeat (someone) decisively in a fight or a competition.
Synonyms: clobber