cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Sarsden stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sarsden stone
regression toward the mean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regressions toward the mean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of regression to the mean.
regressions toward the mean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regression toward the mean
in point of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: […] and in that discourse, I did many times take occasion to assert the laws in point of the King […]
ref: 1679, Heneage Finch Earl of Nottingham, An Exact and Most Impartial Accompt of the Indictment, Arraignment, Trial, and Judgment (according to Law) of Twenty Nine Regicides (page 186)
text: What is the difference, in point of the quantity and wholesomeness of Spirits, between the use of Grain of the same quality when malted, and when half malted and half raw?
ref: 1782, Reports from Committees of the House of Commons:
glosses: with regard to; concerning
Related terms: in point of fact
boocoo
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: "Eat too much, Baby Commie, too much. Get boocoo fat." "You fat, Gl all fat, me get fat, too." "But Baby Commie very pretty, uh, you know, boocoo dep, before fat." "Dep no good live. Eat, fat, boocoo okay live."
ref: 1973, Wayne Karlin, Basil T. Paquet, Larry Rottmann, Free fire zone: short stories by Vietnam veterans:
text: I saw the same detective at Santa Monica and Franklin several times. He was always chatting with a neighbor lady. She wore a dark green dress one day and showed boocoo back. The zipper was stuck above her bra strap.
ref: 2010, James Ellroy, The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women, Vintage, →ISBN, page 15:
text: "There's a boocoo bunch of destruction comin' our way," one of the calmer analysts muttered to himself.
ref: 2012, Bruce Biller, The God-Man: Seed of Satan, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 113:
glosses: Alternative form of beaucoup.
boocoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boocoos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beaucoup.
NOMAPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NOMAP
boocoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boocoo
castor bean tick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castor bean ticks
Senses: synonyms: pasture tick
sheep tick
glosses: A tick of species Ixodes ricinus, a vector for Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis.
castor bean ticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castor bean tick
sheep tick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheep ticks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of castor bean tick.
synonyms: word: castor bean tick
pasture tick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pasture ticks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of castor bean tick.
synonyms: word: castor bean tick
sheep ticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheep tick
pasture ticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pasture tick
soft-sawder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soft-sawders
form: soft-sawdering
form: soft-sawdered
form: soft-sawdered
Senses: glosses: To flatter or cajole.
soft-sawdered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soft-sawder
soft-sawders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soft-sawder
soft-sawdering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soft-sawder
affair of honor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affairs of honor
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of affair of honour.
affair of honour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affairs of honour
form: affair of honor
Senses: glosses: Synonym of affaire d'honneur (“a duel”).
synonyms: word: affaire d'honneur
extra: a duel
affairs of honor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affair of honor
Mucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Muckers
Etymology: From German Mucker (“grumbler”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A follower of the religious teachings of Johann Heinrich Schönherr (1770–1826) and Johann Wilhelm Ebel (1784–1861).
Muckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mucker
non-rail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rail.
Senses: examples: text: The split in BBMC's signage output between rail and non-rail sectors is approximately 50/50. Recent major road contracts include provision of signage for the M20 motorway and A14 upgrade in Cambridgeshire.
ref: 2020 May 6, Paul Stephen, “Britain's bravest thinks big”, in Rail, page 63:
glosses: Alternative form of nonrail.
affairs of honour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affair of honour
Cochin Chinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cochin China
unamateurish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unamateurish
form: most unamateurish
Etymology: From un- + amateurish.
Senses: glosses: Not amateurish.
butterfly agave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterfly agaves
Etymology: Calqued from a Nahuan language; equivalent to Classical Nahuatl pāpālōtl (“butterfly”) + metl (“agave”). Cf. Spanish papalometl, papalomé.
Senses: synonyms: drunkard agave
glosses: A kind of agave (Agave potatorum).
amateurize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: amateurizes
form: amateurizing
form: amateurized
form: amateurized
Etymology: From amateur + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make amateur; to open up (a profession, etc.) to amateurs.
Related terms: amateurization
amateurization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amateur + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of amateurizing.
amateurizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of amateurize
amateurizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of amateurize
amateurized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of amateurize
Dordon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SK2600).
undurability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Lack of durability; the quality of being undurable.
unvaunted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvaunted
form: most unvaunted
Etymology: From un- + vaunted.
Senses: glosses: Not vaunted.
master of the schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masters of the schools
Senses: glosses: At the University of Oxford, one who conducted the first examination (responsions) for the Bachelor of Arts degree.
masters of the schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of master of the schools
blue titmouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue titmouses
form: blue titmice
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus).
synonyms: word: blue tit
extra: Cyanistes caeruleus
pickcheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickcheeses
Etymology: From pick + cheese. The bird is so called because it would steal from dairies.
Senses: glosses: The blue tit.
glosses: The fruit of the mallow.
Related terms: cheeseweed
pickcheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickcheese
watchguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watchguards
Etymology: From watch + guard.
Senses: glosses: A watchchain of any material.
watchguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watchguard
harpoon gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harpoon guns
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small gun, on a whaler, that fires harpoons
Powderham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet, castle, former manor, and civil parish (without a council) in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9684).
requiz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: requizzes
form: requizzing
form: requizzed
form: requizzed
Etymology: From re- + quiz.
Senses: examples: text: A program similar to the "computer tutor" described on page 165 could be used to requiz you on the codes you have missed.
ref: 1980, Mark Sawusch, 1001 Things to Do with Your Personal Computer, page 177:
text: At the end of your study period, or even a day or two later, review the material by requizzing yourself and going over the parts you couldn't remember.
ref: 1996, Laurel Hughes, Beginnings & Beyond: A Guide for Personal Growth & Adjustment:
glosses: To quiz or interrogate again.
requizzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of requiz
requizzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of requiz
requizzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of requiz
bokono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bokonos
form: bokonon
Etymology: From Fon bókɔ́nɔ̀ (“soothsayer”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: An exceptional diviner in the Ifá (Fá) religion and system of divination of the Fon and Yoruba people.
bokonon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bokonon
form: bokonons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bokono.
averdupois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In general commerce, improperly, ¹⁄₁₆ of an averdupois.
ref: 1836, Selection of Reports and Papers of the House of Commons, page 15:
text: Reckoning the troy ounce of gold at four pounds sterling, and the pound, equal to 5760 grains, at 48 pounds sterling, the value of an averdupois pound of gold is 58.33, or 58l. 6s. 7d.
ref: 1837, The Hundred Wonders of the Modern World, and of the Three Kingdoms of Nature, page 275:
text: The modern averdupois pound is 14 ounces, 12 pennyweights, all but 8 grains troy.
ref: 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 27, page 201:
glosses: Archaic spelling of avoirdupois.
garshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garsh
mayor of the palace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mayors of the palace
Etymology: Calque of Medieval Latin maior palātiī.
Senses: glosses: In the Merovingian kingdoms, the king’s steward and, by the 7th century, de facto regent.
Synonyms: mayor
steward
seneschal
mayors of the palace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mayor of the palace
Their Majesties
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: TM
Senses: examples: text: And we do hereby Recognize and Acknowledge, That Their Majeſties William and Mary, are, and as of Right they ought to be by the Laws of the Realm of England, our Leige Lord and Lady, King and Queen of England, France and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging, &c.
ref: 1719, Acts of Assembly passed in the Province of New York from 1691 to 1718, page 1:
text: He assisted at the coronation of Their Majesties William and Mary; and sailed with the king, as captain of the guards, to Ireland, where he proved his courage at the battle of the Boyne.
ref: 1806, A Biographical History of England, from the Revolution to the End of George I's Reign, page 29:
text: […]; by appointment of Their Majesties, William and Mary, February 6, 1690, the founder and trustee of William and Mary College; and by appointment of His Majesty William III, Escheator-General for the south side of the James River.
ref: 1910, Ancestral Records and Portraits, page 751:
text: The choir sings Agnus Dei, during which Their Majesties receive Holy Communion
ref: 2023 May 6, “Coronation order of service in full”, in BBC, archived from the original on 06 May 2023:
glosses: plural of Her Majesty and His Majesty
Donington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in South Holland district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2035).
glosses: A hamlet and civil parish near Albrighton, Shropshire, England, the parish council is joint with Boscobel parish (OS grid ref SJ8004).
Derived terms: Castle Donington
Donington le Heath
Donington on Bain
Related terms: Donnington
spirituoso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of spiritoso.
synonyms: word: spiritoso
van Beuren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: van Beurens
form: Van Beuren
form: Van-Beuren
form: van-Beuren
form: VanBeuren
form: vanBeuren
form: Vanbeuren
form: Beuren
Etymology: From Dutch van Beuren, from van+beuren.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Related terms: van Buren
van Buuren
Van Beuren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Van Beurens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of van Beuren.
laparotomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laparotomists
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A surgeon who performs a laparotomy
jerkin the gherkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jerkin the gherkins
Senses: glosses: Sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: sense: euphimistic for sexual intercourse
word: bouncy-bouncy
sense: euphimistic for sexual intercourse
word: exchange flesh
sense: euphimistic for sexual intercourse
word: discuss Uganda
Beuren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beurens
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename
A municipality of Esslingen district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
glosses: A placename
A municipality of Ulmen, Cochem-Zell district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
glosses: A placename
A municipality of Hermeskeil, Trier-Saarburg district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Derived terms: Williams-Beuren syndrome
Related terms: van Beuren
lapidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin lapis (“stone”). The sense "nubile" was an intellectual pun on the use of English stone to mean "testicle", potentially also influenced by lap (“female pudenda”).
Senses: examples: text: I bought a wench yisterday, cost me 3 taies, for w’ch she must serve 5 yeares … She is but 12 yeares ould, over small yet for trade, but yow wold littell thynke that I have another forthcominge that is mor lapedable, yet it is true, & I think a gentelwoman of your accoyntance.
ref: 1614, Richard Cocks, letter to Richard Williams, quoted in 1991, Anthony Farrington, The English Factory in Japan 1613-1623, London: The British Library, page 140
text: [T]he exspected long looked for houre [...] was now come; for that she was lapidable and ripe for man, and that all the time thenceforth she should continue a forst chastity, would be little or no cost, except what was expended in oatmeal or loam: Ventricia cheared up her self, well contented with so easie and beneficial a cure.
ref: 1660, anonymous author, The Practical Part of Love: Extracted out of the Extravagant and Lascivious Life of a Fair but Subtle Female, London:
text: Yet do thou cherish thy Partner, whilst her innocent Eyes are gazing on the Green Garment, that covereth the Surface of her Illapidable Virginity, ruminating upon the Departure of her nearest and dearest Friend [...] In that Day, thee wilt see with the Eye of Flesh; but if thee pursues it farther, to know whether she be Lapidable, or not, thee art certainly a Tyrant: For the Hammer of thy Loins, will at length beat down the Fortress of her Porto Bello; and the Pillars of her Tabernace will be spread abroad, until thee hast plundered the City, and taken the Precious Stones away.
ref: 1744, James Carson, Jemmy Carson’s collections: being a revival of his own labours and lucubrations, for thirty years past; with pieces upon different subjects, by several hands, Dublin:
glosses: Nubile, mature for sexual intercourse (of a woman).
bride's maids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bride's maid
Albrighton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːlˈbɹaɪtən/
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in eastern Shropshire, England, formerly in the old Bridgnorth district (OS grid ref SJ8104).
glosses: A small village in Pimhill parish, north of Shrewsbury, Shropshire (the parish is better known as Bomere Heath and District) (OS grid ref SJ4918).
glosses: A surname.
lapidicolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin lapis, lapid- (“stone”) + Latin -i- (linking vowel used in compound words) + Latin colō, col- (“cultivate; inhabit, dwell”) + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That lives around or under rocks or stones
osmoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osmoscopes
Etymology: From osmo- + -scope.
Senses: examples: text: Odorless air enters osmoscope through side tube where it is mixed with odorous test air which enters from end tube.
ref: 1949, Carey Pratt McCord, William N. Witheridge, Odors, Physiology and Control, page 47:
text: Test for odor, using a normal inhalation. If an osmoscope is used, insert the tube of the osmoscope to a point just above the surface of the water and test for odor as above.
ref: 1954, American Society for Testing Materials. Committee D-19 on Industrial Water, Manual on Industrial Water, page 314:
text: The osmoscope may be used by increasing the dilution of air until the odor vanishes, or decreasing the dilution until the odor is first detectable.
ref: 1957, The Journal of the American Dental Association - Volume 55, page 42:
glosses: An instrument for detecting and for measuring odors.
examples: text: The osmoscopes developed in the authors' laboratory are comparable in their basic concept with the grease-spot photometer employed by Bunsen to measure the intensity of a light source.
ref: 1935, Sewage Works Journal, volume 7, page 198:
glosses: An instrument for measuring osmosis.
laryngorrhagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: laryngeal haemorrhage
laryngostenotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to laryngostenosis
laryngostenosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laryngostenoses
Senses: glosses: narrowing of the larynx
Related terms: laryngostenotic
subalternism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From subaltern + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
qualifier: literary theory
glosses: The condition of being a subaltern.
tree surgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree surgeries
Senses: glosses: The work of a tree surgeon; arboriculture.
tree surgeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tree surgery
echelonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From echelon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to an echelon.
Riding Mill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Ryding in 1262, which became Riding, then Riding Mill.
Senses: glosses: A village in Broomhaugh and Riding parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ0161).
Related terms: Ridings Mill
Ridings Mill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Frederick County, Virginia, United States.
Related terms: Riding Mill
ultraintelligent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultraintelligent
form: most ultraintelligent
Etymology: From ultra- + intelligent.
Senses: glosses: Extremely intelligent; of utmost intelligence.
Synonyms: hyperintelligent
bridesmatrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridesmatron
Pott's fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: English physician Percivall Pott experienced this injury in 1765 and described his clinical findings in a paper published in 1769.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: Dupuytren's fracture
glosses: Any of a variety of bimalleolar ankle fractures, caused by a combined abduction external rotation from an eversion force.
Dupuytren's fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Guillaume Dupuytren.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Pott's fracture.
synonyms: word: Pott's fracture
wikipedia: Guillaume Dupuytren
Emneth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF4907).
Kewanee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The Illinois city's name is from the Winnebago word for the greater prairie chicken, which lived there. The Missouri unincorporated community was named after the Illinois city, the native home of a lumber official.
Senses: glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Henry County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in New Madrid County, Missouri.
plain weave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plain weaves
Senses: synonyms: randing
glosses: A type of textile weave where the weft goes over one warp thread then under the next.
Related terms: plain weaving
plain-woven
plain weaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plain weave
gypsification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gypsum + -ification.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Diagenetic alteration to gypsum, especially by hydration of anhydrite.
repowerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: rechargeable
glosses: Fit for repowering.
Cromdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Morayshire, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ0728).
glosses: A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Corpach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village near Fort William, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN0976).
ostrich instruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostrich instructions
Etymology: After the supposed habit of the ostrich of burying its head in the sand to avoid danger by not seeing it.
Senses: examples: text: Based on this evidence, we concluded an ostrich instruction was appropriate because a jury could reasonably conclude that he had deliberately avoided the truth.
ref: 1999, U.S. v. Craig, 178 F.3d 891 (7th Cir. 1999):
topics: law
glosses: An instruction to jurors telling them they may equate willful ignorance with actual knowledge.
all show and no go
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: all show, no go
Senses: examples: text: “You know you are, and here you are doing all you can to marry nice, rich, little Kitty Marling to a man,—a kind of piebald circus horse, curious to look at, all show and no go. A duller man I don't know. Romance and you trying your best to keep Kitty from Wrexford, who's a sort of nineteenth-century Sidney.”
ref: 1890, Cosmopolitan, Volume 8, Hearst Corporation, page 107:
text: We who could benefit from the UN's taking action felt that they were all show and no go. The UN troops appeared to be some form of international effort to solve a problem, but they were actually making the situation worse.
ref: 2008, Brigitte Gabriel, Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 82:
text: When it came to famine and suffering, he looked for the nearest exit. He failed Hell Week. He was all show and no go. In Texas they have a term for that: Big hat, no cattle.
ref: 2013, Steve Farrar, Real Valor: A Charge to Nurture and Protect Your Family, David C Cook, →ISBN, page 72:
text: The uniform of tight jeans and tube tops, slinky skirts and three-inch heels, however, is all show and no go.
ref: 2014, Tony Perez-Giese, Send More Idiots: A Novel, Archway Publishing, →ISBN, page 197:
glosses: having only superficial qualities
antiquarianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiquarianists
Etymology: From antiquarian + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: As scholar he is an antiquarianist, a specialist in a particular field, and as a teacher he is concerned with his students.
ref: 1968, Religious and Theological Abstracts:
text: […] Angelus Politianus as being an antiquarianist according to certain critics.
ref: 1990, Jozef IJsewijn, Dirk Sacré, Companion to Neo-Latin Studies: Literary, linguistic, philological, and editorial questions, Leuven University Press, page 415:
text: Within a generation after Polo, Albornoz, and Cristóbal de Molina wrote their accounts, investigation into such things became a matter for antiquarianists: No longer performed, most such rites, especially those tied to public contexts and Inca state activities, disappeared into the past, recoverable only through the writings of those closer to the events.
ref: 1998, Thomas A. Abercrombie, Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 188:
text: During this period, stirred by Burkean notions of the sublime, Anglo-Irish antiquarianists were fictionally re-creating the Irish past in droves.
ref: 1999, Margot Gayle Backus, The Gothic Family Romance, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 97:
text: In a certain respect, this is a difficult question to answer, for it has now been demonstrated that the Yahwist was not only a historian but also an antiquarianist, which means that from a modern vantage point his motives as a historian were mixed.
ref: 2000, Margot Gayle, Rethinking the Foundations: Historiography in the Ancient World and in the Bible: Essays in Honour of John Van Seters, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 279–280:
text: After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the name honzōgaku almost disappeared. It no longer indicated a recognized field of academic study, and its use was limited to a restricted number of amateurs and antiquarianists.
ref: 2015 July 16, Federico Marcon, The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 274:
glosses: A proponent of antiquarianism.
antiquarianist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiquarianist
form: most antiquarianist
Etymology: From antiquarian + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Within the framework of the ideology of antiquarianist (traditional) religion or culture, oppression is experienced sometimes as a problem, sometimes as a solution.
ref: 1996, Digging Up Our Foremothers: Stories of Women in Africa, →ISBN, page 39:
text: The cultural life around them would have been off-limits, which might explain why toward the end of the eighteenth century some Anglo-Irish men and women “awaken[ed] a new historical consciousness” (Trumpener 24) through antiquarianist scholarship that that (in true melancholist fashion) both preserved and mourned the folkloric traditions forbidden to them as children.
ref: 1999, Margot Gayle Backus, The Gothic Family Romance, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 76:
text: First, Spanish and Creole scholars developed a new kind of natural philosophy and began to share the naturalist and even antiquarianist interests of their European counterparts.
ref: 2014 July, Claudia Brosseder, The Power of Huacas: Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 192:
text: The behaviorist view has in turn spawned the antiquarianist, scientific/stylistic, and neoevolutionary approaches. The antiquarianist stresses the formal properties of a monument—the architecture, the layout, the building material, the imagery and so forth—defining the encoded behavioral meanings intended by the architect.
ref: 2019 November 6, Michael J. Kolb, Making Sense of Monuments: Narratives of Time, Movement, and Scale, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to antiquarianism.
antiquarianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiquarianist
nonsensic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonsensic
form: most nonsensic
Etymology: From nonsense + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: She saw only that he was old, and worn as he had been on the last day of the trial, bludgeoned to half-consciousness by the nonsensic clamour; that his grandeur had remained; he stood so straight, so large in that old coat of his, the one he had worn to travel here from Paris.
ref: 1936, R. C. Hutchinson, Shining Scabbard, Farrar & Rinehart, page 242:
text: What does that teacher do in the classroom? If they group low ability and they teach low ability, then we're going to get low ability product. I know it sounds terribly nonsensic, and I hope there is not too much disparity between psychology and common sense.
ref: 1973, Harvard Center for Law and Education, Classification Materials, page 364:
text: Fwyynghns (pronounced “finnies”) turned out to be dippy little characters cursed with a nonsensic mincemeat of dialogue scooped from nursery rhymes and princess myths.
ref: 1980, High Fidelity, page 30:
text: On first thought the proposition of changing the number of points in data space might seem to be nonsensic, since results of multivariate analyses will most likely be different and difficult to compare.
ref: 1983, Acta Botanica Hungarica, volume 30, page 90:
text: If truly ongoing spontaneous neuropathic pain emanates from regenerated sprouts in surviving axons, then apparently nonsensic associations will be found between (a) structurally devastated nerve distally, […]
ref: 1993, New Trends in Referred Pain and Hyperalgesia, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 322:
text: Cosmological, speculative meaning without the appended avenues for achieving it in real life, would at least be extremely frustrating and at worst appear totally nonsensic.
ref: 1989, Erich Kolig, Dreamtime Politics: Religion, World View and Utopian Thought in Australian Aboriginal Society, →ISBN, page 96:
text: During the hot summer months he had put together something he called a “nonsensic manuscript” and now he wanted to discuss it with Ramstedt.
ref: 1998, Harry Halén, Biliktu Bakshi, the Knowledgeable Teacher: G.J. Ramstedt's Career as a Scholar, →ISBN, page 165:
text: The sung word is ubiquitous in Indian music. It dominates all vocal music except rāgālāpana and tāna. Here also, nonsensic, carrier syllables have a part to play.
ref: 2004, R̥ta, the Cosmic Order, →ISBN, page 305:
text: In comparison to the LRT, one model less has to be fitted. This saves time and efforts, unfortunately on the expense of accuracy, because it may occasionally give nonsensic results.
ref: 2012 April 3, Göran Broström, Event History Analysis with R, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 164:
glosses: Rare form of nonsensical.
Worfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Worfield and Rudge Parish Council) in south-east Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO7595).
cabinetable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cabinetable
form: most cabinetable
Etymology: From cabinet + -able.
Senses: examples: text: But he will be as cabinetable after the catastrophe as he was before.
ref: 1898 July 30, Rene Doumic, “The Cabinetable Man”, in The Living Age, volume 218, number 2821, page 343:
text: The same persons in the Agrarian and Social-Democratic parties remained perpetually “cabinetable.”
ref: 1963, Joseph A. Mikuš, Slovakia: A Political History: 1918-1950, page 23:
text: But his position of cabinetable politician was protracted until after the war, for Brătianu himself was far from insensible to Saint Aulaire's arguments, and war on Germany was declared.
ref: 1977, Francisc Păcurariu, The Labyrinth, page 94:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Able to be appointed to a cabinet position of government without arousing controversy.
e-gnorant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːɡnəɹənt/
enpr: ēʹgnə-rənt
Forms: form: more e-gnorant
form: most e-gnorant
form: egnorant
Etymology: Blend of e- (abbreviation of electronic) + ignorant, after the manner of words such as e-mail or e-card.
Senses: examples: text: Are they essentially all from programmers, or are there other users in the e-gnorant zone like me?
ref: 2013, John McPhee, The New Yorker:
glosses: Ignorant of how to use computers or other digital devices or software.
egnorant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of e-gnorant.
egnorant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She was in the nattion & to my Knowledge thy were Egnorant to what they Signe
ref: c. 1750, letter recorded in the Colonial Records of Georgia:
text: The poet may rack his brains and waste his days and nights, and raise his hopes, and, after years of study, observation, and anxiety, may come at length and place his lat stake on whech his varra being depends, on the deceesion and approbriation of the idle, the egnorant, the arrogant, and the riotous, who assemble in knots, predetermined to condemn, because to damn an author is damned high fun!
ref: 1790, Thomas Holcroft, The German Hotel:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of ignorant.
cadaverize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cadaverizes
form: cadaverizing
form: cadaverized
form: cadaverized
form: cadaverise
Etymology: From cadaver + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Yet it is only by having the analyst "cadaverize" herself, as Lacan said, by making her "a total [and therefore absent] presence," that space can be created for the subject's assumption of her own story, for her coming to terms with her own desire.
ref: 1993, Lahcen Haddad, Narrative, Desire and Historicity, page 269:
text: In a way, the burial marker is an ideal metaphor for the signifiers that simultaneously immortalize and cadaverize the subject, situating subjectivity outside the material flux of transient, tangible being by condensing its essential identity into a different "material" register altogether (i.e., into elements of a symbolic order that both precedes the individuals existence and persists after his or her vanishing).
ref: 2008, Adrian Johnston, Zizek's Ontology, page 50:
text: The desire to analyse the 'absolute eye' and its tendency to 'cadaverize' has also been a central concern in work by the white South African artist Penny Siopsis.
ref: 2008, Tony Bennett, John Frow, The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis:
text: I have noted that throughout La vie la mort Derrida calls attention to this "programming machine," a machine that operates effectively to auto-reproduce biological, political, and pedagogical sameness and that in so doing, attempts to reify (“cadaverize”) the living body and the living body of language (for this, see especially Derrida's “Nietzsche and the Machine”).
ref: 2019, Dawne McCance, The Reproduction of Life Death: Derrida's La vie la mort, page 65:
glosses: To remove the life from or to make cadaverous.
cadaverizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cadaverize
cadaverizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cadaverize
cadaverized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cadaverize
cadaverise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cadaverises
form: cadaverising
form: cadaverised
form: cadaverised
Senses: examples: text: During this man's imprisonment, he had adopted every available means of reducing himself; and as his name was called for trial, he was seen thumping his elbows violently against the walls of the dock, to effect a temporary suspension of the circulation, and cadaverise his countenance.
ref: 1841 April, “The Condemned Cells”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 23, number 136, page 421:
text: The medicine of the nineteenth century was haunted by that occult eye which cadaverises life.
ref: 1994, Barry Smart, Michel Foucault, page 80:
text: Worms like words devitalise and cadaverise the body turning it into cheese-flesh.
ref: 2016, Bostjan Nedoh, Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis, page 68:
glosses: Alternative form of cadaverize.
cadaverises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cadaverise
cadaverising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cadaverise
cadaverised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cadaverise
antiquarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiquarists
Etymology: From antiquary + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Our Antiquariſts ſay, that he vvent aftervvards to Ægypt, and having Married the Kings Daughter, and vvas expelled by the Ægyptians, after the departure of Moſes (by reaſon of the great hatred they bore to all Strangers for the Hebrevvs ſake)
ref: 1682, Christopher Irvine, Historiæ Scoticæ Nomenclatura Latino-vernacula, page 38:
text: The delight of the antiquariſt (ſays Mr Pinkerton) may be called a depraved appetite of the mind, which feeds on traſh, and fills itſelf with emptineſs.
ref: 1797, Encyclopædia Britannica, Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, page 4:
text: The proof therefore of the identity of that at present standing, with the one mentioned by our great poet, would be a point equally interesting to the naturalist and antiquarist; and far be it from us to attempt to dispel so pleasing an illusion.
ref: 1844, The Monthly Review, page 90:
text: So in degrees of learning, he that cannot write might yet, perhaps, indite well; he that is no rhetorician might yet be a grammarian; he that is no poet might yet be a linguist; he that is no divine might yet be antiquarist or chronicler.
ref: 1872, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, volume 9, page 226:
text: The antiquarists, on the contrary, declare that such interpretations are illegitimate, distort the meaning of the text, bring in it concepts and methods alien to it.
ref: 1994, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, volume 151, page 249:
text: The ideal antiquarist, while analyzing the text, should rule out the use of modern colloquial language. As Rozov [1994] writes, criticizing the antiquarist’s position: / The ideal antiquarist knows the language of the texts and has no command of modern language. […] It may also help strict antiquarists to see that the argument of the socio-cultural philosophy of mathematics do not completely support their position.
ref: 1997, Philosophia Mathematica, pages 23, 29:
glosses: Synonym of antiquarian.
synonyms: word: antiquarian
Related terms: antiquarism
antiquarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiquarist
Beckington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Mendip district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST8051).
thing of the past
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: things of the past
Senses: examples: text: ‘And in fact I found something interesting in the sample of the boy you were talking about. The son of Hole’s girlfriend.’ / ‘My understanding is that their relationship is now a thing of the past.’
ref: 2010, Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett, “The Snowman”, in The Snowman (Harry Hole; 7), London: Harvill Secker, →ISBN, part 5, page 403:
glosses: Something that has gone extinct or become obsolete.
Related terms: go the way of the dinosaurs
go the way of the dodo
crème brulée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French crème brulée.
Senses: examples: text: At Chapter One, these chocolate fondants are served restaurant-style with a crème brulée ravioli and an unusual basil ice cream as well as the warm sauce given.
ref: 2005, Georgina Campbell, “Chocolate fondant”, in Irish Country House Cooking: The Blue Book Recipe Collection, Dublin: Epicure Press, →ISBN, page 62:
text: If you can’t decide which of the sumptuous desserts to order then why not go for the waist-expanding sharing platter, with its bowls of crème brulée, pistachio and cherry pavlova, cranachan, and sticky toffee pudding?
ref: 2011, Robin McKelvie, Jenny McKelvie, “Two Fat Ladies West End”, in National Geographic Traveler: Scotland, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISBN, page 281, columns 1–2:
text: She was eyeing up a little glass pot of crème brulée for dessert when the phone in her pocket rang.
ref: 2020, Michael J. Malone, chapter 46, in A Song of Isolation, London: Orenda Books, →ISBN, page 228:
glosses: Alternative spelling of crème brûlée.
antiquarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antiquary + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: We cannot help congratulating the public on this very uncommon attempt to revive the uſeful but too much neglected art of antiquariſm.
ref: 1763, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, volume 16, page 102:
text: Well, I confess my forgetfulness; but what historian, who ever gets free from mere antiquarism, can help forgetting? A modern realism surely does no greater violence to history than antiquarism.
ref: 1899, Alfred Henry Lloyd, Philosophy of History: An Introduction to the Philosophical Study of Politics, page 150:
text: Thus, absolute antiquarism, as well as an absolute presentism, exist as tendencies, and the extreme realization of either leads to absurdity.
ref: 1997, Philosophia Mathematica, page 23:
glosses: Synonym of antiquarianism.
synonyms: word: antiquarianism
Related terms: antiquarist
femcels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femcel
hide the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hides the ball
form: hiding the ball
form: hid the ball
form: hidden the ball
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To withhold evidence in a trial that may hurt one's case.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hide, ball.
Related terms: word: cherry-pick
english: nearly antonymous
translation: nearly antonymous
word: say the quiet part loud
word: selective memory
lactifugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Acting as a lactifuge, or otherwise pertaining to the control or limitation of milk secretion or consumption.
lattimo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A white opalescent glass from Murano
Space Force
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spaceforce
form: SpaceForce
form: Space-Force
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The military spaceforce of a particular armed forces.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Ellipsis of United States Space Force.
Coordinate terms: Air Force
Airforce
Army
Coast Guard
Coastguard
Marines
Marine Corps
Navy
Related terms: Aerospace Force
Aerospace Forces
Space Forces
Spaceforces
AXR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AXRs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of abdominal X-ray.
Related terms: CXR
United States Space Force
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From United States + space + force. Coined in analogy to United States Air Force.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The spaceforce of the United States. A branch of the US military dedicated to outer space activities and related support activities.
Synonyms: Space Force
SF
S.F.
S. F.
USSF
U.S.S.F.
U. S. S. F.
US Space Force
U.S. Space Force
U. S. Space Force
Space Corps
SC
S.C.
S. C.
USSC
U.S.S.C.
U. S. S. C.
US Space Corps
U.S. Space Corps
U. S. Space Corps
Air Force Space Command
United States Air Force Space Command
United States Space Command
Hypernyms: aerospace force
armed forces
military
spaceforce
Related terms: english: USAF
translation: USAF
word: United States Air Force
word: United States Army
english: USCG
translation: USCG
word: United States Coast Guard
english: USMC
translation: USMC
word: United States Marine Corps
english: USN
translation: USN
word: United States Navy
english: USSF counterpart to an airman
translation: USSF counterpart to an airman
word: guardian
butterfly crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterfly crabs
Etymology: The nickname "butterfly crab" refers to the crab's butterfly-shaped carapace.
Senses: examples: Hart, Josephine F. L. (24 May 1965), “Life History and Larval Development of Cryptolithodes typicus Brandt (Decapoda, Anomura) from British Columbia”, in Crustaceana, volume 8, number 3, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 255–276: “The turtle or butterfly crab, Cryptolithodes typicus Brandt, 1849, is a crustacean of [...] the family Lithodidae.”
Fretwell, Kelly; Starzomski, Brian (2015), “Butterfly crab • Cryptolithodes typicus”, in Biodiversity of the Central Coast, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2018: “The butterfly crab's range extends from northern Alaska to southern California.”
glosses: A species of shallow-water king crab (Cryptolithodes typicus) native to coastal regions of the northeastern Pacific Ocean
butterfly crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterfly crab
Ying-chi-sha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 英吉沙 (Ying¹-chi²-sha¹).
Senses: examples: text: Within the independent government of the East Turkestan Republic, while Sabid-da-Mulla insisted upon defending the Old City of Kashgar to the death, Mahum and Nias wanted to quit the Old City for the time being, withdraw to Ying-chi-sha, and plan a second uprising. These two at last withdrew to Ying-chi-sha and there joined the Khotan forces that had been fighting the T'ungkan troops of the New City of Kashgar. Sabid and all other important members now had no recourse but to withdraw to Ying-chi-sha. The T'ungkan troops in the New City of Kashgar entered the Old City without a fight. At that time Mahumd and Nias had already withdrawn to Yarkand. Sabid, in the middle of February, gathered the troops scattered in the vicinity of Ying-chi-sha, and attacked Kashgar. Though he recaptured the Old City he lost it again after two days, and was beaten back to Ying-chi-sha.
ref: 1946 December 5, Military Information: Sinkiang Rebellions 1931-1937, page 9:
text: The Malan loess of Late Pleistocene epoch is more widely distributed than the Li-shih and Wu-ch'eng loess. Its distribution stretches from Po-lo at the northern foothills of T'ien Shan and Ying-chi-sha at the western edge of the Tarim basin in the west toward the east through Tsaidam, Ho-hsi Corridor, Kansu, Shensi and foothills of T'ai-hsing Shan in Hopeh to Ch'ih-feng and Shantung Peninsula and reaches Ch'in Ling in the south and the Great Wall in the north.
ref: 1967 January 26, Liu Tung-sheng, “Distribution, stratigraphic and material Composition Characteristics of Chinese Loess and Loess-like Rocks”, in Collected Works on China's Loess Soil, →OCLC, page 152:
glosses: Alternative form of Yingjisha (Yengisar)
wikipedia: Aeronautical Chart and Information Center
USSF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: U.S.S.F.
form: U. S. S. F.
form: U.S. SF
form: U. S. SF
form: US S.F.
form: US S. F.
form: U.S. Soccer
form: United States Soccer Federation
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of United States Space Force.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of United States Soccer Federation.
launegild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: launegilds
Senses: glosses: In Lombard law, symbolic compensation paid in response to a donation
information literacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: information literacies
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The overall understanding of how information is produced and valued, and used to create new knowledge.
information literacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of information literacy
video calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of video call
IPPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation: the four main steps of a physical examination.
APMPPE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy.