cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
elocute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: elocutes
form: elocuting
form: elocuted
form: elocuted
Etymology: Back-formation from elocution.
Senses: glosses: To speak, declaim, etc., in an elocutionary manner.
examples: text: The girl, now 13, wore a green dress. She was somber as [Rudy Lozano] required Beith to elocute – state the charges against him and account for his role in the crime.
ref: 2002 July 2, Steve Walsh, “‘Because I’m Guilty’: Maximum sentence is 15 years in prison and fine”, in The Post-Tribune, Gary, Indiana, page A1:
text: “If the defendant gets up and elocutes today that he’s sorry – the facts show that he is not sorry, that he doesn’t believe he committed any crimes,” York County Deputy District Attorney Justina McGettigan told the court.
ref: 2013 March 21, Seth Koenig, “Mark Strong gets 20 days in Kennebunk Zumba prostitution case, sent directly to jail”, in Bangor Daily News, Bangor, Maine:
text: Does anybody really think that Newt Gingrich[…] let alone people such as Dennis Hastert, who later elocuted in court to abusing young boys sexually,[…] does anybody think that these people really went all Aunt Pittypat with shock at Bill and Monica having a little after-hours fun?
ref: 2018 January/February, Telly Davidson, “Monica’s Lingering Legacy”, in The American Conservative, volume 17, number 1, page 12:
text: Yes, Manafort pled guilty to essentially these charges in federal court. He elocuted to them and he also admitted that he was guilty of the counts that hung where the jury didn’t reach a verdict.
ref: 2019 March 13, The Beat with Ari Melber, spoken by Daniel Alonso, via MSNBC:
topics: law
glosses: To state, assert or admit.
Related terms: elocution
perfect octaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perfect octave
minor ninths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minor ninth
emendicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emendicates
form: emendicating
form: emendicated
form: emendicated
Etymology: From Latin emendicatus, past participle of emendicare (“to obtain by begging”). See mendicate.
Senses: examples: text: And therefore the Temple was built , and the Arke set therein , in the dayes of Salomon , when there was not an emendicated or borrowed peace , depending upon the courtesie of the neighbour Nations
ref: 1642, Edward Reynolds, An Explication of the Hundreth and Tenth Psalme:
glosses: To beg.
klet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klets
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Clipping of kletterschuh.
major ninth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: major ninths
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An interval that is one chromatic semitone wider than a minor ninth.
major ninths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of major ninth
euripus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /jəˈɹaɪpəs/
Forms: form: euripuses
form: euripi
Etymology: From Latin euripus, from Ancient Greek εὔριπος (eúripos); from εὖ (eû, “well”) + ῥιπή (rhipḗ, “rushing motion”).
Senses: glosses: A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide or a current flows and reflows with violence, like the ancient firth of this name between Euboea and Boeotia.
examples: text: They have ordained that the provision of this establishment might be as stable as the earth on which it stands , and should not fluctuate with the Euripus of funds and actions
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A flux and reflux.
exauctorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exauctorates
form: exauctorating
form: exauctorated
form: exauctorated
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of exauthorate.
exolete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksəliːt/
Forms: form: exolet
Etymology: From the Latin exolētus, the perfect passive participle of exolescō, from ex + olēscō (from oleō + -ēscō).
Senses: examples: text: A Greeke inscription which I could not understand by reason of the antiquity of those exolete letters.
ref: 1611, Thomas Coryat, Coryat’s Crudities, page 178:
text: In which [apothecaries’ shops] many…exolete, things out of date are to be had.
ref: 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, part II, section iv, member i, subsection 5
text: Paganism is ridiculous, Judaism exolete.
ref: 1651, George Digby, chapter IV, in Letters between Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelm Digby, Knt. concerning Religion, page 125:
text: Plautus exolet phrases have been [exploded] from the eloquent orations of Cicero.
ref: 1652, Thomas Urquhart, Ἐκσκυβαλαυρον; or, The Jewel in his Works (1834), page 211
text: I declaimed…against the use of exolete and interpolated repetitions of old fables.
ref: 1705, Abraham Cowley, translated by Nahum Tate, Cowley’s History of Plants: A Poem in Six Books, published 1795, Preface, page 20:
glosses: That has gone out of use; disused, obsolete.
examples: text: The vulgar Carpobalſame…being…faint, rancid, exolet.
ref: 1657, Richard Tomlinson (translator), Jean de Renou (author), A Medicinal Diſpenſatory, page 283:
text: How exolete Blood falls asunder.
ref: 1676, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, XI, page 708:
text: These Exoticks…are now and then deprived partly of their virtues and exolete.
ref: 1684, an unknown translator of Théophile Bonet (author), Mercurius Compitalitius, chapter x, page 358
glosses: That has lost its virtue; effete, insipid.
examples: text: Exolete, faded, or withered, as flowers.
ref: 1730–6, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (folio edition), “Exolete”
glosses: (of flowers) Faded.
exornate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exornates
form: exornating
form: exornated
form: exornated
Etymology: From Latin exōrnātus.
Senses: glosses: To embellish, adorn, decorate.
expressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expressures
Senses: examples: text: I vvill drop in his vvay ſome obſcure Epiſtles of loue, vvherein by the colour of his beard, the ſhape of his legge, the manner of his gate, the expreſſure of his eye, forehead, and complection, he ſhall finde himſelfe moſt feelingly perſonated.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 261, column 2:
text: An operation more divine / Than breath or pen can give expressure to.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: Expression; utterance; representation.
recombobulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recombobulates
form: recombobulating
form: recombobulated
form: recombobulated
Etymology: Jocular formation from re- and discombobulate.
Senses: examples: text: 1992, Natty Bumppo Lonely Hearts
Please allow me to recombobulate you. Your portrait “Oneside of Natty” frightens me as much as Amy’s sketch.
text: 2002 April 14, Jeff Westbrook, “The 30% Iron Chef”, Futurama, season 3, episode 22, Fox Broadcasting Company
Zoidberg: Aw, I’ll never recombobulate this ship!
text: I was watching the little birdies fly in front of my eyes, so it took me a second to re-combobulate myself.
ref: 2011, Nicole Peeler, Eye of the Tempest: Jane True Series: Book Four, unnumbered page:
glosses: To cause to think clearly again; to reorient; to put back into working order.
examples: text: 2005, Stephin Merritt, The Paris Review Book of People with Problems
You need a little time to recombobulate is all.
text: Luckily I was in the car when I drove in, so I had time to recombobulate before I got out, and didn't make any comment about the bible verses.
ref: 2010 September 13, Rumpelstiltskin, “Bashing Bush and Boehner Won’t Work”, in soc.retirement (Usenet):
text: Before I talk about specific tips to recombobulate, I want to emphasize something: We are so much more than doctors tell us we are.
ref: 2011, Dena Mendes, A Survivor's Guide to Kicking Cancer's Ass, page 99:
glosses: To (come to) think clearly again; to reorient oneself; to get (oneself) back into working order.
Synonyms: combobulate
Related terms: recombobulation
halflings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halfling
pedantism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedantisms
Etymology: From pedant + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Behaving or acting in the manner of a pedant.
Synonyms: word: pedanticism
word: pedantry
wurzel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wurzels
Etymology: From German Wurzel (“root”), via mangelwurzel, a root crop cultivated for livestock feed beginning in the 18th century.
Senses: glosses: A rural, unsophisticated person; a bumpkin.
glosses: A mangelwurzel.
windest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: wind + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of wind
tastest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: taste + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of taste
personal life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personal lives
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: daily life, real life
text: Meronyms: dream life, nightlife, love life, sex life
text: Balotelli, in recognition of those latest chaotic events in his personal life, then revealed a T-shirt bearing the slogan "Why Always Me?". Despite the evident good humour of the gesture, he was booked by referee Mark Clattenburg.
ref: 2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: private life
antonyms: work life
glosses: The part of an individual's life regarded as private and separate from his or her persona
50-50
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 50-50s
form: 50 50
form: 50/50
form: 50.50
Senses: examples: text: Arsenal players protested about the free-kick awarded against Laurent Koscielny for a foul on Crouch but they failed to defend it properly, losing three 50-50s in their own box as the visitors restored parity.
ref: 2011 October 23, Jefferson Lake, “Arsenal 3 - 1 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Alternative form of fifty-fifty.
50-50
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 50 50
form: 50/50
form: 50.50
Senses: examples: text: “I give him a 50-50 shot,” said 72-year-old Tom Caywood, who didn’t want Biden to step aside.
ref: 2024 July 28, Simone Pathe, “Tammy Baldwin looks to maintain edge over top of the ticket in battleground Wisconsin”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative form of fifty-fifty.
world champion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world champions
Senses: examples: text: New Zealand were crowned world champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point.
ref: 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The winner of a world cup or world championship.
face down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of face-down.
face down
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of face-down.
face down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: faces down
form: facing down
form: faced down
form: faced down
Senses: examples: text: That old philosopher grew cross, / Who could not tell what motion was; / Because he walked against his will, / He faced men down, that he stood still.
ref: 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC:
text: An already febrile atmosphere within the ground before the start had been stoked still further when France's players formed an arrow formation to face down the haka, and then advanced slowly over halfway as the capacity crowd roared.
ref: 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To confront; to abash by stern looks.
glosses: To persist in confronting impudently.
stand-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stand-offs
Etymology: Deverbal from stand off.
Senses: examples: text: France's own stand-in stand-off Trinh-Duc missed with a drop-goal when well set but then set off on a curving run through a scattered defensive line which carried him deep into enemy territory until Weepu's desperate tap-tackle finally brought him down.
ref: 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: fly-half
glosses: Alternative form of standoff (sense 2).
tap-tackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tap-tackles
form: tap tackle
Senses: examples: text: France's own stand-in stand-off Trinh-Duc missed with a drop-goal when well set but then set off on a curving run through a scattered defensive line which carried him deep into enemy territory until Weepu's desperate tap-tackle finally brought him down.
ref: 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A tackle made from behind the running ball-carrier, where the tackler dives to touch the player's ankle and trips him up.
Synonyms: ankle tap
tap-tackle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tap-tackles
form: tap-tackling
form: tap-tackled
form: tap-tackled
form: tap tackle
Senses: examples: text: Farrell drilled home a 46-metre penalty and should have had another when Pollard, attempting to jink his way out of defence, was tap-tackled by Anthony Watson and penalised for not releasing.
ref: 2019 November 2, Robert Kitson, “Rugby World Cup: South Africa surge to glory as England fall short”, in The Observer:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: to tackle with a tap-tackle
make ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes ground
form: making ground
form: made ground
form: made ground
Senses: examples: text: Replacement Damien Traille burgled a high ball from Israel Dagg and made good ground, the All Blacks scrum coming under increasing pressure and the crowd falling silent as their World Cup dream threatened to become a nightmare.
ref: 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
text: Today the territory carved out for the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk "peoples' republics" is shrinking fast as the Ukrainian army makes ground.
ref: 2014, The Telegraph, Ukraine's rebels prepare to defend Donetsk to the death:
glosses: gain ground; make progress.
takes charge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take charge
taking charge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take charge
took charge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of take charge
taken charge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take charge
euripi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euripus
takes command
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take command
taking command
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take command
took command
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take command
taken command
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take command
adjectitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin adiectīcius.
Senses: examples: text: An adjective, so called because adjectitious, or added to a substantive, denotes some quality or accident of the substantive to which it is joined […]
ref: a 1799, John Parkhurst, A Hebrew and English lexicon without points, page 25
text: Circumstances by which the obligations and rights, as well principal and essential as adjectitious, established by the species of contract in question, are respectively made to cease.
ref: 1827, Jeremy Bentham, Rationale of Judicial Evidence: Specially Applied to English Practice: in Five Volumes, volume 2, page 484:
text: Such matter is ordinarily either omitted or else inserted in the preamble; but it has here crept on to the end of a section, and appears as an adjectitious thought. It has no effect there which it would not have had if it had been inserted in a preamble or omitted altogether.
ref: 1870, A. C. Bradley, E. C. Benedict, “Insurance Company v. The Treasurer”, in United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, volume 78, page 207:
glosses: Added; additional.
Derived terms: adjectitiously
Related terms: adjunct
adjunctive
aganglionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + ganglionic.
Senses: examples: text: aganglionic rectum
text: aganglionic segment of the colon
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Without ganglia.
alderliefest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːldəˈliːfɪst/
ipa: /ˈɒldəliːfɪst/
ipa: /ˈɔldəɹˌlifɪst/
ipa: /ˈɑl-/
Forms: form: alder-liefest
form: alderlievest
Etymology: From Middle English alderlevest (“dearest of all”), from alder- (“of all, very”, prefix forming the superlative of adjectives or adverbs) (the genitive plural of al (“all, entirely, utterly, very”)) + lefest, levest (“dearest, most beloved”) (from lef, leve (“beloved or dear to someone”) (from Old English lēof (“beloved, dear”, adjective), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“to admire, praise; to covet, desire; to love”)) + -est (suffix forming the superlative of adjectives and adverbs)). The English word is analysable as alder- ((archaic) prefix meaning ‘having the greatest degree of something, of all’) + lief (“(archaic) beloved, dear”, adjective) + -est (suffix forming the superlative of adjectives and adverbs).
Cognates
* Dutch allerliefst
* German allerliebst
Senses: examples: text: VVith you mine Alder liefeſt Soueraigne, / Makes me the bolder to ſalute my King, / VVith ruder termes, ſuch as my vvit affoords, / And ouer ioy of heart doth miniſter.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second 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 I, scene i], page 120, column 1:
text: Ye alderliefeſt Dublin hills! / On leaving you my full heart fills, / And fill mine eyes with tears, […]
ref: 1879, John Kingston James, Day Dreams, […], London: […] [Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press] for private circulation, →OCLC, page 31:
text: It would be "my alderliefest this" and "my alderliefest that", enough to make even a dog's toes curl.
ref: 1983, Leon Rooke, chapter 1, in Shakespeare’s Dog […], Don Mills, Toronto, Ont.: Stoddart, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: Often used as an epithet when addressing someone: most beloved.
Hypernyms: beloved
alimentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From alimental + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: not only alimentally in a substantial mutation
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: In such a way that serves for nourishment or food.
allochroous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more allochroous
form: most allochroous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀλλόχροος (allókhroos, “changed in color”) (from ἄλλος (állos) + χρώς (khrṓs, “color”)) + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Changed in color, as plumage after moulting
almsfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alms + folk.
Senses: examples: text: And on the northside of the churchyard there, he founded a faire large almeshouse for an almose priest or schoolemaister, and thirteene poore almes folke
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: Persons supported by alms; almsmen.
antihydropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antihydropic
form: most antihydropic
Etymology: From anti- + hydropic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Countering dropsy (edema or swelling.
antihydropic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antihydropics
Etymology: From anti- + hydropic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A remedy for dropsy.
antiloimic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + loimic.
Senses: glosses: remedial against the plague
antiloimic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiloimics
Etymology: From anti- + loimic.
Senses: examples: text: In this view muriatic, nitric, and acetic acids are preferable antiloimics to chlorine, which acts so injuriously on the lungs.
ref: 1844, Pharmaceutical Journal:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A remedy against the plague.
antitypal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitypal
form: most antitypal
Senses: glosses: antitypical
appeacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appeachers
Etymology: From appeach + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But sure my conscience, if so my guilt deserve, / For an appeacher, witness, and a hangman, eke should serve;
ref: 1562, Arthur Brooke, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet, lines 2887–2888; republished as John James Munro, editor, Brooke's 'Romeus and Juliet' being the original of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', London: Chatto and Windus, 1908, page 107:
text: […]but even the Angels would plead against you, and your own self, in despight of your self, be your own most sharp appeacher.
ref: a. 1618, Walter Raleigh, Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh; Viz. Maxims of State:
glosses: An accuser.
appearingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more appearingly
form: most appearingly
Etymology: From appearing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a flourishing branch […]shall grow out of his appearingly sere and sapless root
ref: 1633, Joseph Hall, A paraphrase upon the hard texts of Scripture:
glosses: apparently
arthroderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthroderms
Etymology: From arthro- + -derm.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The exoskeleton of an arthropod.
aspish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aspish
form: most aspish
Etymology: From asp + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: aspish tongue
text: aspish bite
glosses: Pertaining to, or like, an asp (the snake).
autochthonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state of being autochthonal.
Related terms: sense: see
word: autochthonous
barbated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: barbated lobes
text: barbated antennae
text: I cannot lay so much stress on a plate and description given by Plot, of a dart uncommonly barbated
ref: 1782, Thomas Warton, The History and Antiquities of Kiddington:
glosses: Having barbed points.
Derived terms: barbated skullcup
betorn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From betear, or from be- + torn.
Senses: synonyms: torn up
glosses: Torn in pieces; tattered.
Related terms: betear
biliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈlɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more biliferous
form: most biliferous
Etymology: From bili- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: biliferous canal
text: biliferous tubule
text: biliferous gland
glosses: Generating bile.
bleaky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bleaky
form: most bleaky
Senses: examples: text: bleaky plains
ref: 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: bleak
breadthless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more breadthless
form: most breadthless
Etymology: From breadth + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without breadth.
Derived terms: breadthlessness
browsewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From browse + wood.
Senses: glosses: Shrubs, trees, and bushes upon which animals browse.
casualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casualisms
Etymology: From casual + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that all things exist, or are based on, randomness.
examples: text: Avoid casualisms when writing business letters.
text: Try and is, in AmE, a casualism for try to […] In BrE, however, try and is a standard idiom.
ref: 2000, The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style, page 335:
synonyms: colloquialism
glosses: A casual (informal) word or phrase.
topics: art
arts
glosses: An art movement characterized by an unpolished esthetic, incorporating such elements as rough or torn edges, exposed staples, etc.
Related terms: casualist
chalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalons
Senses: glosses: A bed blanket.
chemiglyphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chemi- + glyphic.
Senses: examples: text: This I have great expectation of determining to be a practicable method of producing a chemiglyphic line-engraving; but the essential idea of this is probably due to M. Gaudin instead of myself.
ref: 1855, Annual Report of the Director, United States Coast Survey, page 55:
text: Twenty-five years later the germs of the collotypic processes were just being hatched out, and to-day the brood of photographic, collotypic, and chemiglyphic processes has become so numerous that only a Special Committee of some future Pan-Graphic Convention will ever manage to get their very names disentangled.
ref: 1910, Louis Edward Levy, “The Pictorial Age”, in Process Photogram, volume 17, page 242:
glosses: Engraved by chemical etching.
coadjutant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + adjutant.
Senses: examples: text: By Thracia's coadjutant and the roar Of loud Euroclydon's tumultuous gusts
ref: 1706, John Philips, Cerealia:
glosses: Mutually assisting or operating; helping.
coadjutant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coadjutants
Etymology: From co- + adjutant.
Senses: examples: text: The approaching winter and its coadjutants, rain, snow, and cold, have dictated the necessity for closing the 'Teatro del Soldato' up at the Front.
ref: 1917, “Musical Notes from Abroad”, in The Musical Times:
glosses: An assistant.
coadventurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coadventurers
Etymology: From co- + adventurer.
Senses: glosses: A fellow adventurer.
collaud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: collauds
form: collauding
form: collauded
form: collauded
Etymology: From Latin collaudāre, from col- + laudāre (“to praise”).
Senses: examples: text: Beaſts wild and tame, / whom lodgings yield, / houſe, dens, or field, / Collaud his Name.
ref: 1628 August 11 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XII. To Captain Tho. B. from York. [A Gradual Hymn of a Double Cadence, Tending to the Honour of the Holy Name of GOD.]”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section V, page 194:
glosses: To join in praising or worshiping.
condensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more condensible
form: most condensible
Etymology: From condense + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: a gas condensible to a liquid by cold
glosses: Capable of being condensed; condensable.
Derived terms: noncondensible
congressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more congressive
form: most congressive
Etymology: From congress + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: congressive behavior
text: congressive people
text: if it be understood of Sexes conjoined , all plants are Female ; and if of disjoined and congressive generation , there is no Male or Female in them at all
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Encountering, or coming together.
Derived terms: congressively
contrariously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contrariously
form: most contrariously
Etymology: From contrarious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: To one consent, may work contrariously:
 As many arrows, loosed several ways,
 Come to one mark.
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, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Thou might not chaunge but if thou from rule of reason varye, in whiche variaunce to come to thilke blysse desyred contrariously thou werches
ref: c. 1384, Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love:
glosses: Contrarily; oppositely.
corrigibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From corrigible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being corrigible; corrigibility.
corymbosely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more corymbosely
form: most corymbosely
Etymology: From corymbose + -ly.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In corymbs.
cyclobranchiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyclo- + branchiate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets do.
czarinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more czarinian
form: most czarinian
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the czar or the czarina.
Synonyms: czarish
tsarian
debonairity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debonarety
form: debonarity
Etymology: Old French debonaireté.
Senses: examples: text: This so high-raised courage, so swelling and so obstinate against sorow, death and povertie, was it nature or arte made it relent, even to the utmost strai ne of exceeding tendernesse and debonarety [translating debonnaireté] of complexion?
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.1:
glosses: The quality of being debonair; debonair character, graciousness.
defibrination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defibrinations
Etymology: From de- + fibrination.
Senses: examples: defibrination of blood
glosses: The act or process of depriving of fibrin.
Related terms: defibrinate
delineatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more delineatory
form: most delineatory
Etymology: From delineate + -ory?
Senses: examples: text: delineatory feature
text: delineatory property
glosses: That delineates; descriptive; delineating.
demonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more demonial
form: most demonial
Senses: examples: text: no man, who acknowledges demonial things, can deny demons
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a demon.
denominationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -eɪʃənəli
Etymology: From denominational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect.
denominatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From denominative + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: denominationally
glosses: By denomination.
derival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈɹaɪvəɫ]
rhymes: -aɪvəl
Forms: form: derivals
Etymology: Of derive + -al. Attested from the 1870s.
Senses: examples: text: As to the origin of all the forms in the above list, it clearly cannot belong to English philology to do much more than indicate the source from which we received them. Their derival into French from Latin has therefore been only slightly touched upon.
ref: 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue, page 295:
text: 3.4 Derival morphology
[…] However, in the Turfan dialect as well in the speech of some of the younger generation in Urumchi, -ŋza seems to function as a nominal derivative suffix, deriving nouns from some kin terms and adding a clear, haughty, arrogant hue, see the lexicon.
ref: 2005, Abdurishid Yakup, The Turfan Dialect of Uyghur, page 152:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The derivation of a word.
destinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destinists
Etymology: From destiny + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A believer in destiny; a fatalist.
deuterozooid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deuterozooids
Etymology: From deutero- + zooid.
Senses: examples: text: In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations.
Related terms: protozooid
tritozooid
devolvement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devolvements
Etymology: From devolve + -ment.
Senses: synonyms: devolution
glosses: The act or process of devolving.
topics: banking
business
synonyms: devolution
glosses: The act or process of devolving.
A process whereby if an investment issue is undersubscribed, an underwriter is required to subscribe to the remaining shares; the outstanding unsubscribed amount devolves onto the underwriter.
diplostemony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being diplostemonous.
disassimilative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disassimilative
form: most disassimilative
Etymology: From dis- + assimilative.
Senses: examples: 1888-1889, John Gray McKendrick, A Text Book of Physiology
Disassimilative processes constitute a marked feature in the life of animal cells.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Having power to disassimilate; of the nature of disassimilation.
discipless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disciplesses
Etymology: From Middle English disciplisse; equivalent to disciple + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female disciple.
discure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkjʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: discures
form: discuring
form: discured
form: discured
Etymology: See discover.
Senses: examples: text: I will, if please you it discure, assay / To ease you of that ill, so wisely as I may.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 42:
glosses: To discover; to reveal.
disencharm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disencharms
form: disencharming
form: disencharmed
form: disencharmed
Etymology: From dis- + encharm.
Senses: examples: text: the fear of a sin had disencharmed him, and caused him to take care lest he lose the substance
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “[XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […].] ”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1654, →OCLC:
glosses: To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
disponee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disponees
Etymology: From dispone + -ee.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The person to whom any property is legally conveyed.
Related terms: disponer
disputeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disputeless
form: most disputeless
Etymology: From dispute + -less.
Senses: glosses: Admitting no dispute; undisputed.
glosses: Without a dispute; without an argument.
disreputability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disreputabilities
Senses: examples: text: […] with all his bogus diabolism and his vanity of pretending to disreputability, he is genuinely superstitious and disreputable.
ref: 1937, T. S. Eliot, “Byron”, in On Poetry and Poets, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published 1961, page 239:
text: […] a faint air of disreputability always clung to him.
ref: 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 5:
glosses: The state of being disreputable.
dissertator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissertators
Etymology: Latin: compare French dissertateur.
Senses: examples: text: Our dissertator learnedly argues
ref: 1698, Charles Boyle Orrery, Dr. Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and the fables of Æsop, examin'd by the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esq:
text: The dissertators usually begin with famous words, which symbolize the mainstream of viewpoints in their specific field. The words and sentences, as in these, could even be used to cover the whole of discourse in the field.
ref: 2018, Kiyoung Kim, Piece to Text on the Monument and One:
glosses: Someone who writes or performs a dissertation or speech.
dissolvability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissolvabilities
Etymology: From dissolve + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: the dissolvability of any one foundation
ref: 1989, Theresa R. Richardson, The Century of the Child: The Mental Hygiene Movement and Social Policy in the United States and Canada:
synonyms: solubility
glosses: Capacity of being dissolved; the state of being dissolvable
diuretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: he found it diuretical
ref: 1663, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in Some Considerations Touching the Vsefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall printer to the University, for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, part I:
glosses: diuretic
divergingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more divergingly
form: most divergingly
Etymology: From diverging + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: divergently
glosses: In a diverging manner; so as to diverge.
dochmiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δοχμιακός (dokhmiakós, “dochmiac”), from δόχμιος (dókhmios) (see dochmius).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Pertaining to, or containing, the dochmius.
dochmiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dochmiacs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δοχμιακός (dokhmiakós, “dochmiac”), from δόχμιος (dókhmios) (see dochmius).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A verse in dochmiac metre.
doorcase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doorcases
Etymology: From door + case.
Senses: glosses: The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.
Synonyms: doorframe
duncery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunceries
Etymology: From dunce + -ery.
Senses: glosses: stupidity or idiocy
embronze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embronzes
form: embronzing
form: embronzed
form: embronzed
Etymology: From em- + bronze.
Senses: glosses: To embody in bronze (e.g. with a bronze statue); to make a bronze representation of (e.g. a person)
glosses: To colour in bronze or an imitation.
emperess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emperesses
Senses: examples: text: He ſends this Souldans daughter rich and braue,
To be my Queene and portly Empereſſe, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of empress.
enginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɛnd͡ʒɪnəs/
Forms: form: more enginous
form: most enginous
Etymology: From Old French engignos. See ingenious.
Senses: examples: text: That one act gives, like an enginous wheel,
Motion to all.
ref: 1607, Thomas Dekker, The Whore of Babylon:
glosses: Pertaining to an engine.
examples: text: the mark of all their enginous drifts
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
glosses: Contrived with care; ingenious.
ensphere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: enspheres
form: ensphering
form: ensphered
form: ensphered
form: ensphear
form: insphear
form: insphere
Etymology: From en- + sphere.
Senses: examples: text: shee whose eies enspheard
Star-light inough, t’haue made the South controll,
(Had shee beene there) the Starfull Northern Pole,
ref: 1612, John Donne, “The Second Anniuersarie. Of the Progres of the Soule”, in The First Anniuersarie. An Anatomie of the World, London: S. Macham, page 8:
text: c. 1624, George Chapman (translator), “Hymn to Hermes” by Homer in The Hymns of Homer; The Batrachomyomachia; and Two Original Poetical Hymns, Chistnick: C. Whittingham, 1818, p. 64,
His ample shoulders in a cloud enspher’d
Of fiery crimson.
text: 1634, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, 1637, p. 1,
Before the starrie threshold of Ioves Court
My mansion is, where those immortall shapes
Of bright aëreall Spirits live insphear’d
In Regions mild of calme and serene aire,
text: Virgins of equall birth, [...] / Shall draw thy picture, and record thy life; / One ſhall enſphere thine eyes, another ſhall / Impearl thy teeth[,] a third thy white and ſmall / Hand ſhall beſnow, a fourth incarnadine / Thy roſie cheek, [...]
ref: 1640 (first publication), Thomas Carew, “Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay”, in Poems, with a Maske, […], 3rd edition, London: […] H[umphrey] M[oseley] and are to be sold by J[ohn] Martin, […], published 1651, →OCLC, page 91:
text: The girl for whom he was beginning to nourish an extraordinary tenderness was at this time ensphered by the same harmonies [those of the church choir and organ] as those which floated into his ears; and the thought was a delight to him.
ref: 1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Part 2, Chapter 3:
text: It was afternoon […] which meant that all the ample, high, soft-blue leather desks along the spokes of the great wheel that radiated from the Superintendent’s desk, ensphered by the Catalogue, were taken, and he had to be content with one of the minimal flat triangular ends of the late-come segments inserted between the spokes.
ref: 1990, A. S. Byatt, chapter 3, in Possession, New York: Random House, page 31:
synonyms: engulf
envelop
glosses: To place in a sphere; to surround in all directions (as if) by a sphere (one of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth).
examples: text: Virgins of equall birth, of equall years,
Whose vertues held with thine an emulous strife,
Shall draw thy picture, and record thy life;
One shall ensphere thine eyes, another shall
Impearl thy teeth; a third thy white and small
Hand shall besnow, a fourth, incarnadine
Thy rosie cheek,
ref: 1651, Thomas Carew, “Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay”, in Poems, with a Maske, London: H.M, page 91:
text: 1938, T. F. Higham (translator), Song 142 (“The Moon”) by Sappho, in The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation, Oxford University Press, p. 140,
Bright stars, around the fair Selênê peering,
No more their beauty to the night discover
When she, at full, her silver light ensphering,
Floods the world over.
glosses: To form into a sphere.
entosthoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entosthoblasts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔντοσθεν (éntosthen, “from within”) (possibly due to association with superlatives in -ιστος (-istos)) + -blast.
Senses: examples: 1857-1862, Louis Agassiz, Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America
when this [nucleolus] contains a still smaller body , this is called entosthoblast
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell.
equipaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɛkwɪpɪd͡ʒd/
Etymology: From equipage + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Well dressed, well bred,
Well equipaged, is ticket good enough
To pass us readily through every door
ref: 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Furnished with equipage.
euchlorine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈkloːɹɪn/
ipa: /juːˈklɔːɹɪn/
Etymology: Compare French euchlorine. See euchloric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare emerald-green sulfate mineral found as a natural sublimate in fumaroles around volcanic eruptions, and having the chemical formula KNaCu₃(SO₄)₃O).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow or greenish-yellow gas, supposed to consist of chlorine dioxide with some free chlorine.
eulytite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eulytites
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?]
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: agricolite
culytine
glosses: A mineral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth.
eventuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eventuations
Etymology: From Latin ēventus (“an event, happening”) + -ation, equivalent to eventuate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: And yet there is one sense in which the past improves upon the present, for "history" remains its own laboratory of process and eventuation.
ref: 1978, E. P. P. Thompson, Poverty of Theory, page 48:
text: The proposition on the left side (if eventuated) would motivate the eventuation of the proposition on the right side.
ref: 2012, Ephraim Nissan, Computer Applications for Handling Legal Evidence, Police Investigation and Case Argumentation, page 438:
text: These intellectual constructs of alternative futures serve to indicate what steps should be taken to increase the probability of the eventuation of a preferred future while minimizing the likelihood of the eventuation of the dystopias .
ref: 2013, W.M. Reisman, The Quest for World Order and Human Dignity in the Twenty-first Century:
glosses: The act of eventuating or happening as a result;
examples: text: For the present, at all events, he must content himself with the tangible results he had already obtained; deuputing to some good genius who appeared to be interested in his welfare, the eventuation of his more dazzling hopes.
ref: 1876, Herman Ludolph Prior, Overmatched:
text: I feel particularly happy in being able to communicate to you the fortunate eventuation of my expedition to the Tallapoosa .
ref: 1887, John Robert Irelan, The Republic:
text: To the eventuation there unfolds the uniqueness of the essence of the human being, as that essence is understood with respect to the history of beyng.
ref: 2013, Martin Heidegger, The Event, page 138:
text: Eventuations are terminations (completions) rather than parts of nature's processes.
ref: 2013, Nicholas Rescher, Process Philosophical Deliberations, page 62:
glosses: A final result or outcome; an eventual occurrence.
excerption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪkˈsɜː(ɹ)pʃən/
Forms: form: excerptions
Etymology: Latin excerptio.
Senses: glosses: The act of excerpting or selecting.
examples: text: his excerptions out of Fathers
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.
excheator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excheators
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of escheator.