cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
abdication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.dəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌæb.dəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: abdications
Etymology: First attested in 1552. From Middle French abdication, from Latin abdicātiō (“renunciation”), from abdicō.
Senses: glosses: The act of disowning or disinheriting a child.
glosses: The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder.
examples: text: abdication of the throne, government, power, authority
text: the king’s abdication
text: So yes: the abdication was when the Windsors opened the gate. After that it was – and will be – whack-a-mole. Every crisis will draw significant numbers of people out who would ask why you couldn’t cut off whoever was displeasing them in that moment.
ref: 2025 October 31, Marina Hyde, “Now Andrew has been fired from the Firm, a nation wonders: who’ll be next?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power.
topics: law
glosses: The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment.
glosses: The action of being deposed from the seat of power.
Derived terms: abdicational
nonabdication
abdicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.dəˌkeɪ.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈæb.dəˌkə.tɪv/
Forms: form: more abdicative
form: most abdicative
Etymology: From abdicate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Causing, or implying, abdication.
abdicative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.dəˌkeɪ.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈæb.dəˌkə.tɪv/
Forms: form: abdicatives
Etymology: From Latin abdicativus.
Senses: examples: text: The fourth mood is that which brings together directly a particular abdicative from a particular dedicative and a universal abdicative, e.g., Some just thing is honourable, no honourable thing is base, therefore some just thing is not base.
ref: 1987, David Londey, The Logic of Apuleius:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A reasoning from the negative
abdicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.dɪˌkeɪ.tɚ/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈæb.dəˌkeɪ.tɚ/
Forms: form: abdicators
Etymology: From abdicate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person supporting the abdication of another.
examples: text: King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom was an abdicator.
glosses: One who abdicates.
abditive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.dɪ.tɪv/
Etymology: From Latin abditīvus (“removed or separated from”), from abdō (“hide, conceal”).
Senses: examples: text: There is also a species of wit which may be termed abditive; for it conceals or lessens the dignity attached to rank or character.
ref: 1789, Philip Withers, Alfred's Apology, page 51:
text: Concepts are either abditive or inabditive; the former being those that do, and the latter those that do not, hide the plurality of the kind they symbolise.
ref: 1882, Edmund R. Clay, The alternative: a study in psychology, page 229:
text: The abditive nature of the heavy foliage protected the nest.
ref: 2004, Michael Sheehan, Words to Wise, page 207:
glosses: Having the quality of hiding
abditory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.dɪt.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈæb.dɪt.ɹi/
Forms: form: abditories
Etymology: From Medieval Latin abditorium, from abdō (“to hide”).
Senses: glosses: A concealed location used for storage or to hide items.
abdomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.də.mən/
ipa: /æbˈdəʊ.mən/
ipa: /ˈæb.də.mən/
ipa: /æbˈdoʊ.mən/
rhymes: -əʊmən
Forms: form: abdomens
form: abdomina
Etymology: First attested in 1541. Borrowed from Middle French abdomen, from Latin abdomen, possibly from abdō (“conceal”), from ab (“away”) + -dō (“put, place”).
Senses: glosses: The fat surrounding the belly.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: belly
word: tummy
word: stomach
word: abdomen
word: belly
word: midriff
word: stomach
word: tum
word: tummy
word: tum-tum
word: ventrum
glosses: The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis, not including the back; or in some lower vertebrates, the portion between the cardiac and caudal regions.
examples: text: He was all bent over complaining of pains in the abdomen.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the viscera; often restricted in humans to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.
Derived terms: acute abdomen
boat-shaped abdomen
carinate abdomen
hemiabdomen
navicular abdomen
obstipum abdomen
pendulous abdomen
postabdomen
preabdomen
scaphoid abdomen
surgical abdomen
Related terms: abdominal
abdominally
abdominous
abdominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdɒm.ə.nl̩/
ipa: /əbˈdɒm.ə.nl̩/
ipa: /æbˈdɑm.ə.nl̩/
ipa: /əbˈdɑm.ə.nl̩/
Forms: form: more abdominal
form: most abdominal
Etymology: First attested in 1746. From New Latin abdōminālis, from Latin abdōmen. Equivalent to abdomin- + -al. Compare French abdominal.
Senses: examples: text: abdominal muscles
text: abdominal cavity
glosses: Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral.
topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the ventral fins under the abdomen and behind the pectoral fins.
topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Ventral, in describing a fin.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the order Abdominales of fish.
Synonyms: sense: of or pertaining to the abdomen
word: ventral
Derived terms: abdominal aorta
abdominal breathing
abdominal cavity
abdominal decompression
abdominal etching
abdominal evisceration
abdominal fin
abdominal gestation
abdominal inguinal ring
abdominally
abdominal migraine
abdominal muscle
abdominal pore
abdominal pouch
abdominal quadrant
abdominal reflex
abdominal region
abdominal respiration
abdominal rib
abdominal ring
abdominal section
abdominal-thrust maneuver
abdominal typhus
abdominal vacuum
abdominal wall
abs
cervicothoracoabdominal
circumabdominal
costoabdominal
dorsoabdominal
endoabdominal
extraabdominal
femoroabdominal
hemiabdominal
inguinoabdominal
intraabdominal
intra-abdominal
intrabdominal
lumbo-abdominal
lumboabdominal
midabdominal
musculoabdominal
nephroabdominal
nonabdominal
pelviabdominal
phrenicoabdominal
postabdominal
rectoabdominal
retroabdominal
subabdominal
thoracoabdominal
transabdominal
uteroabdominal
vaginoabdominal
vesicoabdominal
Related terms: abdomin-
abdomino-
coelo-
abdominal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdɒm.ə.nl̩/
ipa: /əbˈdɒm.ə.nl̩/
ipa: /æbˈdɑm.ə.nl̩/
ipa: /əbˈdɑm.ə.nl̩/
Forms: form: abdominals
Etymology: First attested in 1746. From New Latin abdōminālis, from Latin abdōmen. Equivalent to abdomin- + -al. Compare French abdominal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A fish of the order Abdominales.
glosses: An abdominal muscle.
Synonyms: topics: fish
ichthyology
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: Cypriniformes
abdominalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.dɑ.mɪˈneɪ.li.ə/
ipa: /ˌæb.dɒ.mɪˈneɪ.li.ə/
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A group of cirriped crustaceans having abdominal appendages.
abdominoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˌdɑm.ɪnˈɑs.kə.pi/
rhymes: -ɒskəpi
Etymology: From abdomino- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease, using an endoscope.
Derived terms: abdominoscopic
abdominothoracic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˌdɑm.ɪ.noʊ.θɔɹˈæs.ɪk/
ipa: /æbˌdɑm.ɪ.noʊ.θəˈɹæs.ɪk/
Etymology: * abdomino- (“abdomen”) + thoracic (“chest”)
Senses: glosses: Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.
Derived terms: abdominothoracic arch
abdominous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdɒm.ə.nəs/
ipa: /æbˈdɑm.ə.nəs/
Forms: form: more abdominous
form: most abdominous
Etymology: From abdomin- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan
ref: 1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error:
glosses: Having a protuberant belly; potbellied.
abduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈdjuːs/
ipa: /əbˈd͡ʒuːs/
ipa: /æbˈdus/
ipa: /əbˈdus/
ipa: /əbˈdjʉs/
ipa: /əbˈd͡ʒʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: abduces
form: abducing
form: abduced
form: abduced
Etymology: (1530's) From Latin abdūcō (“lead away”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + dūcō (“lead”).
* See duke, and compare abduct.
Senses: examples: text: If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Sir T. Browne, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To draw; to conduct away; to take away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part; to move a limb out away from the center of the body; abduct.
glosses: To draw a conclusion, especially in metanalysis; to deduce.
Related terms: abduct
abduction
abductive
abduct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdʌkt/
ipa: /əbˈdʌkt/
rhymes: -ʌkt
Forms: form: abducts
form: abducting
form: abducted
form: abducted
Etymology: From Latin abductus, perfect passive participle of abduco (“to lead away”), from ab (“away”) + duco (“to lead”).
* (physiology): Back-formation from abduction.
Senses: examples: text: to abduct children
text: I was abducted by aliens.
text: That same night he had by force abducted the president and the secretary of the club, and had taken them, much against their will upon a voyage in the wonderful air-ship, the “Albatross,” which he had constructed.
ref: 1904, Jules Verne, chapter 16, in The Master of the World, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2012:
glosses: To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body.
Synonyms: carry off
drag away
kidnap
run away with
seize
spirit away
stretch
take away
Derived terms: abductee
abductive
hyperabduct
Related terms: abduce
abducens
abducent
abduction
abductor
abduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈdʌk.ʃn̩/
ipa: /æbˈdʌk.ʃn̩/
ipa: /æbˈdək.ʃn̩/
ipa: /əbˈdək.ʃn̩/
ipa: /ˈeɪˈbiː.dʌk.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: abductions
Etymology: From Latin abductiō(n) (“robbing; abduction”), from abdūcō (“take or lead away”), from ab (“away”) + dūcō (“to lead”). By surface analysis, abduct + -ion or abduce + -tion.
* (physiology): From French, from Latin abductus.
* Compare French abduction.
Senses: glosses: Leading away; a carrying away.
examples: text: Abduction is performed by asking the patient to raise the arm at the side as high as they can with the examiner stabilizing the scapula by holding it down.
ref: 2013, Jain MD, MSPH with Wilcox, PT, Katz, MD, MS, and Higgins, MD, “Clinical Examination of the Rotator Cuff”, in PM&R Journal:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
examples: text: The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction, and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning.
ref: 2005, Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson, Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction, page 256:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
examples: text: the abduction of a child
topics: law
glosses: The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
examples: text: But fear of abduction never stopped a good ufologist.
ref: 2010, Monte Dwyer, Red in the Centre: Through a Crooked Lens, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 122:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
ufology
glosses: Alien abduction.
Synonyms: topics: legal
law
sense: carrying off of human being
word: appropriation
topics: legal
law
sense: carrying off of human being
word: kidnapping
topics: legal
law
sense: carrying off of human being
word: seizure
topics: legal
law
sense: carrying off of human being
word: withdrawal
topics: logic
mathematics
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: retroduction
topics: logic
mathematics
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: abstraction
Derived terms: abductional
alien abduction
hyperabduction
milab
military abduction
Related terms: abduce
abduct
abductive
abductor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdʌk.tɚ/
Forms: form: abductors
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin abductor, By surface analysis, abduct + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who abducts; a kidnapper.
Derived terms: abductin
abductor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdʌk.tɚ/
Forms: form: abductors
form: abductores
Etymology: From Medieval Latin abductor, from abdūcō + -tor.
Senses: examples: the abductor oculi draws the eye outward.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or from the median line of the body
Derived terms: abductor pollicis longus
abeam
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbiːm/
ipa: /əˈbim/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: more abeam
form: most abeam
Etymology: From a- (“in the direction of”) + beam (“keel”).
Senses: examples: text: We were heading S.S.W., and had a steady breeze abeam and a quiet sea.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “'”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part II (The Sea Cook), page 83:
text: […] waves striking the ship abeam pushed her always south of their new course, and rolled her, and filled her with water so that bailing must be ceaseless […]
ref: 1968, Ursula K. LeGuin, chapter 2, in A Wizard of Earthsea, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, published 2012, page 36:
topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: aircraft
glosses: On the beam; at a right angle to the centerline or keel of a vessel or aircraft; being at a bearing approximately 090 Degrees or 270 Degrees relative.
topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: aircraft
glosses: Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft.
Related terms: athwartships
abeam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbiːm/
ipa: /əˈbim/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: more abeam
form: most abeam
Etymology: From a- (“in the direction of”) + beam (“keel”).
Senses: examples: text: The island was directly abeam of us.
text: The sound shifted its place markedly, but without coming nearer. It even grew a little more distant right abeam of the lighter, and then ceased again.
ref: 1904, Joseph Conrad, chapter 8, in Nostromo, New York: Harper, page 311:
text: The attack on the abeam ship, Louisville, killed Commander Cruiser Division Four […]
ref: 2005, William Thomas Generous, Sweet Pea at War: A History of USS Portland, →ISBN, page 178:
topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: aircraft
glosses: Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft.
abeam
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbiːm/
ipa: /əˈbim/
rhymes: -iːm
Etymology: From a- (“in the direction of”) + beam (“keel”).
Senses: examples: text: She came abeam the crippled ship.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alongside.
abeam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbiːm/
ipa: /əˈbim/
rhymes: -iːm
Etymology: From a- + beam (“to emit beams of light”).
Senses: examples: text: 1876, William Davidson, Sermons on the Parables, Cincinnati: Western Tract Society, Sermon 1, p. 41,
[…] the hearts of the saints [will] be all attention and their faces all abeam for the consolation;
text: […] the waiters fly about abeam with good will and on excellent terms with those they serve […]
ref: 1906, Miriam Michelson, chapter 9, in A Yellow Journalist,, New York: D. Appleton, page 199:
text: […] since he refused to be intimidated, stage two of their introduction consisted of Sheba sitting round in attitudes of beleaguered desperation while Seeley, his face abeam with adulation, sat determinedly beside her.
ref: 1970, Doreen Tovey, chapter 6, in The New Boy, Chicago: Summersdale, published 2006, page 55:
text: When we met for another lunch […] he was all abeam with pride as he handed me a newly minted paperback reissue of Wodehouse […]
ref: 2011, Christopher Buckley, “Christopher Hitchens”, in But Enough About You: Essays, New York: Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 227:
glosses: Beaming, shining (especially with reference to a person's face or eyes).
abear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛə/
ipa: [əˈbɛː]
ipa: /əˈbɛɹ/
ipa: [əˈbɛɚ]
ipa: /əˈbeː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /əˈbeə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /əˈbiə/
ipa: /əˈbeɹ/
ipa: [əˈbeːɹ]
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /əˈbɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: abears
form: abearing
form: abore
form: aborn
form: aborne
Etymology: From Middle English aberen, from Old English āberan (“to bear, carry, carry away”), from ā- (“away, out”), a- + beran (“to bear”), from Proto-Germanic *uzberaną (“to bear off, bring forth, produce”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to a- + bear. Cognate with Old High German irberan, Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (usbairan).
Senses: examples: text: Hunder-cook, indeed! which it's what I never abore yet, and never will abear.
ref: 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
text: And he seems sweet on Miss Hazel though she can’t abear him, though when I ask her about him she snaps my head off and tells me to mind my own business.
ref: 1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 6, in Lud-in-the-Mist, London: Millennium, published 2000, page 68:
glosses: To put up with; to endure; to bear.
glosses: To bear; to carry.
examples: text: So did the Faerie knight himselfe abeare, / And stouped oft his head from shame to shield […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.12:
glosses: To behave; to comport oneself.
Derived terms: abearance
abearing
abear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛə/
ipa: [əˈbɛː]
ipa: /əˈbɛɹ/
ipa: [əˈbɛɚ]
ipa: /əˈbeː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /əˈbeə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /əˈbiə/
ipa: /əˈbeɹ/
ipa: [əˈbeːɹ]
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /əˈbɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: abears
Etymology: From Middle English aberen, from Old English āberan (“to bear, carry, carry away”), from ā- (“away, out”), a- + beran (“to bear”), from Proto-Germanic *uzberaną (“to bear off, bring forth, produce”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to a- + bear. Cognate with Old High German irberan, Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (usbairan).
Senses: glosses: Bearing, behavior.
abearance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛɹ.əns/
Etymology: From abear + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: The other species of recognizance, with sureties, is tor the good abearance or good behaviour.
ref: 1769, Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England:
glosses: Behavior.
abearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛɹ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: abearings
Etymology: From abear + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Behaviour.
abearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛɹ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Etymology: From abear + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abear
abecedarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪ.biː.siːˈdɛː.ɹɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌeɪ.biˌsiˈdɛ.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌeɪ.biˌsiˈdæɹ.i.ən/
Forms: form: abecedarians
form: abecedary
Etymology: From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius). Equivalent to abecedary + -an. Compare abecedary.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is learning the alphabet.
examples: text: A man may alwaies continue his studie, but not schooling. O fond-foolish for an old man to be ever an Abcedarian [translating abecedaire].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 28, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 404:
glosses: An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning.
glosses: Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning.
examples: text: This formal organization is most likely to create obscurity in such elaborate and artificial forms as: palindromes (words, phrases, or verses which read the same backward or forward), abecedarians (poems in which the initial letters of lines or stanzas are arranged to[…])[…].
ref: 1996, Mediaevalia, volume 19, Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies of the State University of New York at Binghamton, page 133:
text: Abecedarian verses are chanted stichoi/stichera verses in which the first letter of each verse follows an alphabetical order.[…]The Amomos, an abecedarian, is the longest psalm in the Psalter[…].
ref: 2007, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music Collection of the National Library, →ISBN, page 590:
text: An Abecedarian is any poem constrained by alphabetical order.
ref: 2008, Erich J. Goller, Groovy, page 165:
glosses: A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.
abecedarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪ.biː.siːˈdɛː.ɹɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌeɪ.biˌsiˈdɛ.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌeɪ.biˌsiˈdæɹ.i.ən/
Forms: form: more abecedarian
form: most abecedarian
form: abecedary
Etymology: From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius). Equivalent to abecedary + -an. Compare abecedary.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to someone learning the alphabet or basic studies; elementary; rudimentary.
examples: text: The professor [...] had several other translations or feats of antiquarian deciphering to his credit. Indeed, I was extremely fortunate to find him in at the museum, for he planned to fly within the week to Peru where yet another task awaited his abecedarian talents.
ref: 1971, Brian Lumley, Rising with Surtsey:
glosses: Pertaining to the alphabet, or several alphabets.
glosses: Arranged in an alphabetical manner.
glosses: Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.
Derived terms: abecedarian insult
abecedarian jigsaw
abecedarian psalms
abecedary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪ.biːˈsiː.də.ɹi/
ipa: /ˌeɪ.biˈsi.dɚ.i/
ipa: /ˌeɪ.biˈsi.də.ɹi/
Forms: form: abecedaries
Etymology: From Middle English abscedary, from Medieval Latin abecedārium (“alphabet, ABC primer”), from Late Latin abecedārius (“of the alphabet”), formed from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -ārius. Doublet of abecedarium.
Senses: examples: text: I finish writing the alphabet on both napkins. There's room for more abecedaries, but […]
ref: 2014 July 18, Caity Weaver, “My 14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday's Endless Appetizers”, in Gawker, archived from the original on 16 May 2022:
glosses: The alphabet, written out in a teaching book, or carved on a wall; a primer; abecedarium.
glosses: One that teaches or learns the alphabet or the fundamentals of any subject; abecedarian.
abecedary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪ.biːˈsiː.də.ɹi/
ipa: /ˌeɪ.biˈsi.dɚ.i/
ipa: /ˌeɪ.biˈsi.də.ɹi/
Etymology: From Late Latin abecedārius. Doublet of abecedarius.
Senses: glosses: Referring to the alphabet; alphabetical; related to or resembling an abecedarius; abecedarian.
Related terms: Abecedarian
abecedarian
abed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛd/
ipa: /əˈbɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Etymology: From Middle English abedde, o bedde, from Old English on (“in”) + bedde (“bed”). Equivalent to a- (“in, on”) + bed.
Senses: examples: text: Not to be abed after midnight
ref: c. 1564–1616, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II, iii:
text: [She] is sick abed.
ref: 1883, Adele Marion Fielde, “倒 (tó̤)”, in A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, Arranged According to Syllables and Tones, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 560:
text: The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
text: Who can lie peacefully abed, while the darkness holds some secret?
ref: 1948, Alan Paton, chapter 12, in Cry, the Beloved Country, London: Jonathan Cape:
glosses: In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.
examples: text: I mean, she's brought a-bed
ref: c. 1564–1616, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, IV, ii:
glosses: To childbed
Derived terms: lie-abed
pissabed
sick-abed
slugabed
abegge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: abegges
form: abegging
form: abought
form: abought
form: abegged
form: abegged
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aby.
abele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbiːl/
ipa: /əˈbeɪl/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.bl̩/
ipa: /əˈbil/
ipa: /əˈbeɪl/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.bl̩/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -iːl
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: abeles
form: arbeal
Etymology: From Middle English abelle, albell, aubel, from Old French aubel, aubiel, from Medieval Latin albellus (“white poplar”), diminutive of Latin albus (“white”). Some forms after Middle Dutch abeel, from Old French.
Senses: examples: text: But I account for my predilection, by the kind of pensive and melancholy peasure I used to feel, when in my childhood and early youth, I walked alone, in a long avenue of arbeal […].
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 114:
text: Six abeles i' the churchyard grow
ref: 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browing, The Rhyme of the Duchess May, line 5:
glosses: The white poplar (Populus alba).
abelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbi.li.ən/
ipa: /əˈbil.jən/
ipa: /əˈbiːlɪən/
rhymes: -iən
rhymes: -ɪljən
rhymes: -iːliən
Etymology: Name of the Norwegian mathematician Abel + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The interesting aspect here is that U₃ is irreducible, even though all irreps over the complexes are one-dimensional because ℤ₄ is abelian.
ref: 1996, Barry Simon, Representations of Finite and Compact Groups, page 50:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of an algebraic structure (usually a group or algebra), having a commutative defining operation.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a binary function, commutative.
Derived terms: abelian algebra
abelian category
abelian group
abelianization
abelianize
abelianness
abelian operation
abelian ring
anabelian
metabelian
nonabelian
pre-abelian category
quasiabelian
semiabelian
Related terms: Tauberian
abelmosk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪbəlmɒsk/
ipa: /ˈeɪblmɒsk/
ipa: /ˈeɪbəlˌmɑsk/
ipa: /ˈeɪblmɑsk/
rhymes: -eɪbəlmɒsk
rhymes: -eɪblmɒsk
rhymes: -eɪbəlmɑsk
rhymes: -eɪblmɑsk
Forms: form: abelmosks
form: abelmusk
form: abelmosch
Etymology: From New Latin abelmoschus, from Arabic حَبّ الْمِسْك (ḥabb al-misk, “pills of musk”).
Senses: examples: text: Egyptian Ketmia, with a perfumed or Musk-Seed..., called Abelmosch of Morison.
ref: 1719, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, The Compleat Herbal, volume I, page 70:
text: Abelmosk grains are the seeds of a plant... indigenous to Central Africa, Arabia, and India.
ref: 1892, William Theodore Brannt, translated by Carl Deite, A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery, page 230:
glosses: The edible and aromatic seed pods (properly, capsules) of the Abelmoschus moschatus.
examples: text: Abelmosk, Abelmosch, or Abelmusk, the Syrian mallow, or musk okro, a species of hibiscus (H. abelmoschus).
ref: 1846, W. M. Buchanan, A Technological Dictionary, page 4:
text: The same description fits abelmosk, the Hibiscus abelmoshus, better known to the world as the East Indian dwarf okra plant.
ref: 1992, Richard A. Spears, Language & Civilization, volume I, page 43:
glosses: The tropical evergreen shrub Abelmoschus moschatus itself.
glosses: Other members of the genus Abelmoschus, such as okra.
Synonyms: word: annual hibiscus
word: tropical jewel hibiscus
word: ambrette
word: muskdana
word: musk mallow
word: musk okra
word: ornamental okra
word: rose mallow
word: Yorka okra
word: musk seed
aberr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɜː(ɹ)/
ipa: /əˈbɝ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: aberrs
form: aberring
form: aberred
form: aberred
Etymology: From Latin aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from, away from”) + errō (“stray”).
Senses: glosses: To go astray; to err.
glosses: Distort; aberrate.
aberrance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.bɛɹ.n̩s/
ipa: /æˈbɛɹ.n̩ts/
Forms: form: aberrances
form: aberrancy
Etymology: From aberr (“to stray”), from Latin aberrō (“to wander from the way”) + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: Like Miller, George Lionel married briefly and unsuccessfully, and during the McCarthy era was blacklisted for political aberrance.
ref: 1980 August 16, Duncan Mitchel, “Memoirs of a Survivor”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 14:
glosses: State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude.
aberrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛɹ.ənt/
ipa: /ˈæb.ə.ɹənt/
ipa: /əˈbɛɹ.ənt/
ipa: /ˈæb.ə.ɹənt/
ipa: /əˈbeɹ.ənt/
ipa: /ˈæb.ə.ɹənt/
Forms: form: more aberrant
form: most aberrant
Etymology: From Latin aberrāns, present active participle of aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from”) + errō (“to wander”). See aberr.
Senses: synonyms: word: abnormal
word: exceptional
word: unusual
word: aberrant
word: abnormal
word: alien
word: anomalous
word: as queer as Dick's hatband
word: bizarre
word: curious
word: deviant
word: discrepant
word: eerie
word: eldritch
word: errant
word: exceptional
word: extraordinary
word: fey
word: forby
word: freak
word: freakish
word: freaky
word: fremd
word: funny
word: heteroclite
word: hinky
word: incongruous
word: incongruitous
word: irregular
word: kooky
word: monstrous
word: nonstandard
word: odd
word: outlandish
word: out of the ordinary
word: outré
word: peculiar
word: quaint
word: queer
word: queer as a clockwork orange
word: queer as a nine bob note
word: queer as a three dollar bill
word: queer as a coot
word: queer as Dick's hatband
word: rare
word: rum
word: rummy
word: selcouth
word: seld
word: singular
word: strange
word: trippy
word: uncanny
word: uncommon
word: unconventional
word: unearthly
word: unexpected
word: unreasonable
word: unusual
word: unwonted
word: weird
word: weirdsome
word: yampy
antonyms: word: normal
word: regular
word: true
word: conspicuous
word: different
word: egregious
word: exceptional
word: historic
word: interesting
word: memorable
word: notable
word: noteworthy
word: outstanding
word: remarkable
word: special
word: strange
word: unique
glosses: Differing from the norm.
synonyms: word: devious
word: errant
word: immoral
word: aberrant
word: corrupt
word: corrupted
word: depraved
word: dirty-handed
word: dissolute
word: effete
word: errant
word: indecent
word: indecorous
word: immodest
word: immoral
word: improper
word: incontinent
word: iniquitous
word: iniquous
word: licentious
word: obscene
word: perverse
word: perverted
word: profligate
word: unduteous
word: undutiful
word: unethical
word: ungodly
word: unjust
word: unprincipled
word: unrighteous
word: unseemly
word: unscrupulous
word: unworthy
word: wrong
antonyms: word: correct
word: right
word: straight
word: bad
word: dishonest
word: immodest
word: immoral
word: incontinent
word: indecent
word: obscene
word: reprehensible
word: risque
word: shameless
word: unchaste
word: wicked
glosses: Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.
examples: text: The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated.
ref: 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of the Species:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
antonyms: continuous
glosses: Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
Derived terms: aberrance
aberrancy
aberrant conduction
aberrantly
aberrant salience
aberration
aberrational
nonaberrant
aberrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛɹ.ənt/
ipa: /ˈæb.ə.ɹənt/
ipa: /əˈbɛɹ.ənt/
ipa: /ˈæb.ə.ɹənt/
ipa: /əˈbeɹ.ənt/
ipa: /ˈæb.ə.ɹənt/
Forms: form: aberrants
Etymology: From Latin aberrāns, present active participle of aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from”) + errō (“to wander”). See aberr.
Senses: glosses: A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.
examples: text: Also I think other birders realise you are struggling a bit when you start talking about aberrants[.]
ref: 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 87:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.
Synonyms: sense: thing deviating from the group
word: deviant
word: freak
word: anomaly
aberrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən.l̩/
ipa: /ˌæb.əˈɹeɪ.ʃnl̩/
Forms: form: more aberrational
form: most aberrational
Etymology: From aberration + -al.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by aberration.
Derived terms: aberrationality
aberrationally
aberuncate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæbəɹʌŋˈkeɪt/
Forms: form: aberuncates
form: aberuncating
form: aberuncated
form: aberuncated
Etymology: From Late Latin aberuncare, from Latin averruncare.
Senses: examples: text: His nefarious repercussion of obloquy must contaminate, and obumbrate, and who can tell but it may even aberuncate his feculent and excrementitious celebrity.
ref: 1782, James Thomson Callender, Deformities of Dr Samuel Johnson: Selected from his works:
text: The deprivation of abbacy reduced the auld abbey-lubber to an aberrant state, devoid of adjument; and sad reverse! from the soft indulgence of accubation, his feet were daily abraded, in arenulous situations, in aberuncating roots for his sustenance, on sectivous mountains.
ref: 1808, John MacDonald, A treatise on talegraphic communication, navel, military, and political:
text: those embryonical conceits which quaversally disposed intellects too often neglect, abort and aberuncate for clamouring projects more fully formed […].
ref: 1983, Alasdair Gray, “Logopandocy”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 136:
glosses: To eradicate; to pull up by the roots.
aberuncator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aberuncators
Etymology: From averruncate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A pruning device mounted on a pole, so as to reach high branches; a weeding machine.
abet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: abets
Etymology: From Middle English abetten, abette, from Old French abeter (“to entice”), from a- (“to”) + beter (“hound on, urge, to bait”), either from Middle Dutch bētan (“incite”) or from Old Norse beita (“to cause to bite, bait, incite”), from Proto-Germanic *baitijaną (“to cause to bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”). Cognate with Icelandic beita (“to set dogs on; to feed”).
Alternate etymology traces the Middle English and Old French words through Old English *ābǣtan (“to hound on”), from ā- + bǣtan (“to bait”), from the same source (Proto-Germanic *baitijaną).
See also bait, bet.
Senses: glosses: Fraud or cunning.
glosses: An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.
abetment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛt.mənt/
Forms: form: abetments
Etymology: First attested from 1350 to 1470, from Middle English abettement, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French abeter + -ment. See abet.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The act of abetting or assisting in a crime, wrongdoing etc.
glosses: Encouragement or assistance.
abettal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛt.l̩/
Forms: form: abettals
Etymology: From abet + -al.
Senses: glosses: abetment
abetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛt.ə/
ipa: /əˈbɛt.ɚ/
Forms: form: abetters
Etymology: From abet + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of abettor
abevacuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb.iˌvæk.juˈeɪ.ʃn̩/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: abevacuations
Etymology: From Latin ab (“from”) + evacuare (“evacuation”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal evacuation.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Metastases.
abeyance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪ.əns/
Forms: form: abeyances
Etymology: First attested in 1528. From Anglo-Norman abeiance (“legal expectation”), from Old French abeance (“desire”) from abeër (“to gape at, aspire after”), abaer, abair (“to desire”), from a (“to”) + baër (“to gape”), bair (“yawn”), from Medieval Latin batō (“to yawn”).
Senses: examples: text: The proceeds of the estate shall be held in abeyance in an escrow account until the minor reaches age twenty-one.
text: Yet sometimes the fee may be in abeyance, that is (as the word signifies) in expectation, remembrance, and contemplation in law; there being no person in esse, in whom it can vest and abide […]
ref: 1765, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England:
text: Note: Under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 all territorial claims are held under abeyance in the interest of international co-operation for scientific purposes.
ref: 1985 [1967], John Bartholomew & Son Limited, “Antarctica”, in The Times Atlas of the World, 7th comprehensive edition, Times Books Limited, →ISBN, plate 123:
topics: law
glosses: Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
examples: text: Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 376:
text: [...] Prosser was instrumental in the decision in 2010 to recommence publication of an annual health and safety report, following a period when it had fallen into abeyance.
ref: 2020 July 29, Ian Prosser discusses with Paul Stephen, “Rail needs robust and strategic plans”, in Rail, page 40:
text: The palace had previously that the duke’s military appointments were in abeyance after he stepped down from public duties in 2019.
ref: 2022 January 13, Ben Quinn, “Queen strips Prince Andrew of military roles and royal patronages”, in The Guardian:
text: Friday’s announcement that Andrew’s dukedom, other titles and his Order of the Garter knighthood would be put in abeyance with immediate effect – extant but inactive, much as his HRH title has been since the Virginia Giuffre scandal broke six years ago – may be seen by some within Buckingham Palace as a solution.
ref: 2025 October 20, Caroline Davies, “Dealing with ‘Andrew problem’ could help ease William’s accession to the throne”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
examples: text: The broad pennant of a commodore first class has been in abeyance since 1958, together with the rank.
glosses: Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
Derived terms: abeyancy
in abeyance
abeyancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪ.ənt.si/
Forms: form: abeyancies
Etymology: From abeyance + -y.
Senses: examples: text: What a change in his lot would have been here, for there seemed to be some pretensions to a title, too, from a barony which was floating about and occasionally moving out of abeyancy!
ref: a. 1865 (date written; first published 1872 January–August), Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited by Una Hawthorne, Septimius Felton; or The Elixir of Life, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, published 1872, →OCLC, page 190:
glosses: Abeyance.
abeyant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪ(ə)nt/
Forms: form: more abeyant
form: most abeyant
Etymology: Back-formation from abeyance + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: This statute, and that in favour of the heirs general before mentioned, would of themselves, it is submitted, establish that the barony of Slane, was neither a peerage in fee nor a palatine honor. Had it been the former, it would have become abeyant between the heirs general: had it been the latter, it would have been annihilated by the non-possession of the lands.
ref: 1835, Richard Bligh (reporter), “Slane Peerage Case”, in New Reports of Cases Heard in the House of Lords, on Appeals and Writs of Error; and Decided during the Session 1836, volume X, London: Saunders and Benning, law booksellers, (successors to J. Butterworth and Son,) […], published 1838, →OCLC, page 87:
text: In abeyant intractable conflicts violence is suspended, or "frozen" (i.e., they have gone into remission), usually because a third party is willing and able to guarantee the terms of a negotiated cease-fire—a cease-fire that may also include the broad outlines of a political settlement.
ref: 2005, Chester A[rthur] Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, Pamela R. Aall, “Introduction: Mapping the Nettle Field”, in Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, Pamela Aall, editors, Grasping the Nettle: Analyzing Cases of Intractable Conflict, Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, →ISBN, page 11:
text: So even where extraordinary circumstances render civilian courts abeyant, the civilian law must be reintroduced as soon as the emergency ends.
ref: 2013, William Nester, “Total War”, in The Age of Lincoln and the Art of American Power, 1848–1876, Lincoln, Neb.: Potomac Books, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, part 2 (Civil War, 1861–1865), page 202:
text: Having placed an abeyant death sentence on Corde's head, he turned his attention to Bose, who, for his part, looked vapid and without a shred of malice or machinatory instinct about him, a soft toy in the great department store of life.
ref: 2013 October, Jonathan L. Howard, “In which there is a Battle and Cabal Makes It Quick”, in Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 200:
synonyms: word: dormant
word: inactive
word: latent
word: abeyant
word: at rest
word: cessant
word: dormant
word: dull
word: fallow
word: idle
word: inactive
word: inert
word: languid
word: latent
word: nonactive
word: quiescent
word: silent
word: sedent
word: sedentary
word: slow
word: suspended
word: torpid
word: unactive
word: unbusy
word: unemployed
word: unoccupied
glosses: Being in a state of abeyance; suspended.
abhal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abhals
Etymology: From Arabic أَبْهَل (ʔabhal).
Senses: glosses: The berry of the juniper, Juniperus communis.
abhominable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈhɒmɪnəbəl/
ipa: /əˈbɒmɪnəbəl/
Forms: form: more abhominable
form: most abhominable
Etymology: First attested in the 1300s, a variant of abominable, influenced by Latin ab + homine (“man”); compare abhominal. The unnecessary addition of h to words was once common; compare abholish (abolish). Abandoned by the 1600s. Compare also abhomination.
Senses: examples: text: This is abhominable, which he [Don Armado] would call abominable.
ref: 1597, Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act 5, scene I:
text: [...] your Lordship [is] twice guilty of treachery both in withholding the dominion of Narnia from the said Caspian and in the most abhominable, —don’t forget to spell it with an H, Doctor— bloody, and unnatural murder of your kindly lord and brother King Caspian Ninth of that name.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, chapter XIII:
glosses: Obsolete form of abominable.
abhominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more abhominal
form: most abhominal
Etymology: From Latin abhominalis, from ab (“away from”) + hominis (“man”), but in practice from English abominable, which was erroneously folk-etymologized as this word, leading to this spelling and abhominable, which see for more.
Senses: examples: text: Tyrrel was, on the accession of Henry VII. arraigned, and after a full confession beheaded on Tower hill; and King Richard himself, "after this abhominal dede dooen never was quiet in his minde, he never ...
ref: 1826, Thomas Wright (of Ludlow.), The history and antiquities of ... Ludlow; with lives of the presidents, and accounts of gentlemen's seats, &c, page 65
text: Reader, what could I have written more fully and freely in the cordial detestation of such abhominal* libels?
[…]
This is one of Fuller's humorous exemplifications of verbal criticisms, deriving our common word "abominable" from ab and homo, homonis, and thus converting it into the very expressive term abhominal, "unworthy of a man," "unmanly,", "inhuman."—EDIT.
ref: 1840, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, London: Printed for T. Tegg by J. Nichols, page 517:
glosses: Inhuman; obsolete form of abominable.
abhorrence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈhɒɹ.n̩(t)s/
ipa: /æbˈhɔɹ.n̩(t)s/
ipa: /æbˈhɑɹ.n̩(t)s/
Forms: form: abhorrences
Etymology: From abhorrent + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: My abhorrence of this fiend cannot be conceived.
ref: 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 9, in Frankenstein, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2012:
text: The recognition of what pollutes evidently reflects deep-seated abhorrences, whose cause and origin are difficult to discover.
ref: 2018, Dr. Philip J. Budd, David Allen Hubbard, Glenn W. Barker, Numbers, volume 5, page 55:
glosses: Extreme aversion or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike or loathing.
glosses: An expression of abhorrence, in particular any of the parliamentary addresses dictated towards Charles II.
examples: text: All of them are תובעות abhorrences or abominations, although “adultery and bestiality” are branded as “unclean” (אמט) activities. Because “homosexuality” is classified as one of the “abhorrences,” Milgrom believes the practice was “widespread."
ref: 2022, Sabine Dievenkorn, Shaul Levin, [Re]Gained in Translation I: Bibles, Theologies, and the Politics of Empowerment, page 276:
glosses: A person or thing that is loathsome; a detested thing.
Synonyms: abhorrition
Related terms: abhor
abhorred
abhorrency
abhorrent
abhorrently
abhorrer
abhorrible
abhorring
abhorrency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɔɹɪnsi/
Forms: form: abhorrencies
Etymology: From abhorrence + -y.
Senses: glosses: Aberrancy.
glosses: Quality of being abhorrent; feeling of abhorrence.
glosses: something that elicits abhorrence; a detestable thing.
Related terms: abhor
abhorred
abhorrence
abhorrent
abhorrently
abhorrer
abhorrible
abhorring