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argumentum ad passiones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɹ.ɡuːˈmen.tum ad pas.siˈoː.neːs/
ipa: [aɹ.ɡuːˈmen.tũ ad pas.siˈoː.neːs]
enpr: ärgyo͞omĕnʹtəm ăd păsĭōʹnēz
ipa: /ɑːɡjuːˈmɛntəm æd pæsɪˈəʊniːz/
Forms: form: argumenta ad passiones
Etymology: Latin: argūmentum (“argument”, “proof”) + ad (“to”, “toward”) + passiōnēs (accusative plural of passio, “suffering”, “passion”) ≈ “appeal to the passions”
Senses: examples: text: When an argument is borrowed from any topics which are ſuited to engage the inclinations and paſſions of the hearers on the ſide of the ſpeaker, rather than to convince the judgment, this is argumentum ad paſſiones, an addreſs to the paſſions; or if it be made publicly, it is called ad populum, or an appeal to the people.
ref: 1724, Isaac Watts, “Logick: or, The Right Uſe of Reaſon”, in Works, publiſhed by himſelf, V (1753), page 154:
text: Divide your sentence into three distinct members, each member commencing with the same words, but terminating with words conveying different ideas. […] Sometimes three or more kindred words may have the same happy effect, in which case we should have a view […] to alliteration. […] This mode may be denominated argumentum ad passiones.
ref: 1825 September, Lachlan MᶜLean, “Essay on Composition” in The Glasgow Mechanics’ Magazine IV:xcv (15th October 1825), page 142
text: The argumentum ad passiones, or the argumentum ad populum, is an argument similarly irrelevant with the type of argumentum ad hominem we have just been considering. Here it is not the judgment that is convinced, but the inclinations and passions.
ref: 1908, William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein, The Problem of Logic, page 288:
text: The speaker uses the argumentum ad hominem by comparing his race with the Chosen People, an argumentum ad fidem in exploiting for the purposes of his similitude their belief in the miraculous origin of the tables of the law, and an argumentum ad passiones in his description of the browbeating of a small inspired race by the arrogant spokesman of a mighty empire.
ref: 1930, Stuart Gilbert in: Howard Russell Huse, The Illiteracy of the Literate (1933), page 175
glosses: An appeal or argument intended to convince the listener(s) by agitating the emotions, rather than by appealing to sober judgment.
Related terms: pathos
think of the children!
encumbrancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encumbrancers
Etymology: From encumbrance + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of incumbrancer.
encumbrancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encumbrancer
sortably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sortably
form: most sortably
Etymology: From sortable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Her husband, who had left the room immediately after ushering in the warrior and his sooty burthen, entered as she ws about to speak; and, in answer to her appeal to him, declared that the knight "could i' no fashion be put up sortably with the like o' them: sorry was he; but welcome should he be to a share of the supper, and a draught at the ale-jug;
ref: 1833, Edwin Atherstone, The Sea Kings in England:
text: And that peradventure examples in grammar, rethorike, and logike, might more fitly and sortably be taken from elsewhere , than from so sacred and holy a subject , as also the arguments of theatres , plots of plaies , and grounds of publike spectacles:
ref: 1891, Michel de Montaigne, Essayes - Volume 2, page 385:
glosses: suitably
examples: text: peripheral limit means to sortably remove the coins from the disc while in a "single file" on the disc, in accordance with their denominational value.
ref: 1959, Albert G. Blanchette and Victor G. Ristvedt, “2906276: Coin Sorter”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 1294:
text: First of all, since it has been postulated that it is non-standardizability that sets off the discursive from the sortably standardizable, we must try to see what it is, as far as order is concerned, that constitutes discourse.
ref: 1966, Herbert Goldhor, Proceedings of the 1966 Clinic on Library Applications of .Data Processing, page 49:
glosses: Such that (something) can be sorted.
unproselyte
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unproselytes
form: unproselyting
form: unproselyted
form: unproselyted
Etymology: From un- + proselyte.
Senses: examples: text: it happily unproselyted some inclinable to his opinions
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To revoke or undo from the state of a proselyte.
unproselyted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unproselyte
unproselytes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unproselyte
unproselyting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unproselyte
emulatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin aemulātrīx, equivalent to emulator + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: Damophila, the wife of Damophilus the philosopher, was the contemporary, relation, and emulatrix, of Sappho.
ref: 1807, Mary Hays, Female biography: Volume 2, page 193:
text: I cannot contemplate, without awe, the works of your hands; they will live as long as art itself; the emulatrix of nature and human genius shall be celebrated on earth.
ref: 1859, William Noel Sainsbury, Original unpublished papers illustrative of the life of Sir Peter Paul Rubens, page 362:
text: 2004: “Paul”, rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1960s (Google group): Review: CD, “The Hit Years”, Nancy Sinatra, the 10ᵗʰ day of December at 4:37am
Another Debbie / Nancy / MM emulatrix, though, was. An Italian girl from Detroit with reasonable pipes and a complete obsession with success, one Madonna L. V. Ciccone (or some such), became enormously successful, and there was no further denying the influence of Nancy Sinatra, in her own right and nothing to do with her father.
synonyms: emulatress
glosses: A female who emulates.
putrifacted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more putrifacted
form: most putrifacted
Etymology: See putrefy.
Senses: examples: text: vermine bred of putrifacted slime
ref: c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: putrefied
taxaspidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”) + ἀσπίς (aspís, “a shield”) + -ean.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the posterior tarsal scales, or scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; said of certain birds.
Coordinate terms: endaspidean
exaspidean
holaspidean
pycnaspidean
sciolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪələs/
Forms: form: more sciolous
form: most sciolous
Etymology: From Latin scīlus, sciolus, diminutive of scius (“knowing”), from sciō (“to know”). See science.
Senses: examples: text: I could wish, that these sciolous Zealots had more Iudgment joyn'd with their Zeal
ref: 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
text: Notwithstanding much sciolous speculation concerning slavery, […] yet by overruling Providence men have been slaves of masters in all ages and in every country.
ref: 1856, Charles Jared Ingersoll, African Slavery in America:
glosses: Knowing superficially or imperfectly.
sciomachies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sciomachy
illuminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illuminisms
Etymology: Compare French illuminisme.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Illuminism.
illuminisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illuminism
sneakingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sneaking + -ness.
Senses: glosses: sneaking or underhand behaviour; cowardly concealment
Mahound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈhuːnd/
ipa: /məˈhaʊnd/
Forms: form: Mahounds
form: Mahoun
form: Mahoune
Etymology: From Middle English Mahown, from Anglo-Norman Mahun, Old French Mahum, Mahom, shortened from Mahomed (“Muhammad”) (see Muhammad for more). Compare mammet.
Senses: examples: text: But, when he to himselfe returnd againe, / All full of rage he gan to curse and sweare, / And vow by Mahoune that he should be slaine.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: For nations tvvaine inhabite there and dvvell / Of ſundry faith, together in that tovvne [Jerusalem], / The leſſer part on Chriſt beleeued vvell, / On Termagant the more, and on Mahovvne.
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The First Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 84, page 18:
text: "Now, in faith," said Wamba, "I cannot see that the worshippers of Mahound and Termagaunt have so greatly the advantage over the people once chosen of Heaven."
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 82:
glosses: Muhammad, believed by medieval Europeans to be a demon or god that Muslims worshipped.
examples: text: And there were vessels that are wrought by magic of Mahound out of seasand and the air by a warlock with his breath that he blares into them like to bubbles.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The Devil.
glosses: A generic pagan god or idol believed by medieval Europeans to be worshipped by various villains such as Herod I.
Mahounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mahound
commemorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more commemorable
form: most commemorable
Etymology: Latin commemorabilis.
Senses: glosses: Worthy of being, or able to be, commemorated.
steatitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more steatitic
form: most steatitic
Etymology: From steatite + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing, resembling, or relating to steatite.
glosses: Of or relating to steatitis.
prenunciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prenunciations
Etymology: From Latin praenunciatio, from praenunciare (“to announce beforehand”). See pre- and announce.
Senses: synonyms: preannouncement
glosses: The act of announcing or proclaiming beforehand.
prenunciations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prenunciation
leopardskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leopardskin
enfoldment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enfoldments
form: infoldment
Etymology: From enfold + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of enfolding.
enfoldments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enfoldment
semibarbarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-barbarism
Etymology: From semi- + barbarism.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.
subdivisible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + divisible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being subdivided.
Synonyms: subdividable
subdividable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From subdivide + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being subdivided.
Synonyms: subdivisible
peirameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peirameters
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πεῖρα (peîra, “a trial”) + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: if, then, the peirameter be drawn forward, the carriage which moves the easiest will get before the other
ref: 1816, R. B. Bryan, Thomas Brown, F. Fox, “Report […] on the Experiments upon Wheel-carriages […] ”, in Philosophical Magazine:
glosses: A dynamometer for measuring the force required to draw wheel carriages on roads of different constructions.
Related terms: peirastic
peirameters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peirameter
antilyssic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + lyssic.
Senses: glosses: antirabic; antirabies
antilyssic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antilyssics
Etymology: From anti- + lyssic.
Senses: glosses: An antirabies drug or substance
antilyssics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antilyssic
dezincification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dezincifications
Etymology: From de- + zincification.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of freeing from zinc.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The undesirable removal of zinc from zinc-containing alloys by a chemical reaction, as when red rot occurs in brass due to presence of acids.
dezincifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dezincification
anacamptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνακαμπτικός (anakamptikós, “returning”), ultimately from κάμπτω (kámptō).
Senses: synonyms: word: catoptrics
english: light
translation: light
glosses: The science of reflection of light or sound
Related terms: word: anacamptic
ingluvies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ingluviēs.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The crop, or craw, of birds.
Derived terms: ingluvial
ingluvin
ingluviolith
ingluviotomy
conducibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conducibly
form: most conducibly
Etymology: From conducible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conducible manner; so as to promote.
deturn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deturns
form: deturning
form: deturned
form: deturned
Etymology: From de- + turn. Compare detour.
Senses: examples: text: the force that can deturn a feather from its course downwards, is not able to deturn a ſtone
ref: 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
glosses: To turn away; to divert.
deturned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deturn
deturning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deturn
deturns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deturn
aggest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒɛst/
Forms: form: aggests
form: aggesting
form: aggested
form: aggested
Etymology: From Latin aggestus, past participle of aggerere. See agger.
Senses: examples: text: The violence of the waters aggested the earth.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To heap up.
Related terms: aggestion
aggested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aggest
aggesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aggest
aggests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aggest
consopiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One of his Lordship’s maxims is, that a total abstinence from intemperance or business, is no more philosophy, than a total consopiation of the senses is repose ; one must feel enough of its contrary to have a relish of either.
ref: 1724 August 12, Alexander Pope, letter to Robert Digby
glosses: sleep (the act of sleeping, or of lulling to sleep).
Related terms: soporific
incumbrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incumbrous
form: most incumbrous
form: encombrous
Etymology: Compare Old French encombros.
Senses: examples: text: Incumbrous ruin
ref: 1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC:
glosses: cumbersome; troublesome
anemography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anemo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: anemology, the scientific description of wind.
glosses: The art of recording the direction and force of the wind, as by means of an anemograph.
ripidolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ripidolites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥιπίς (rhipís, “fan”) + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A translucent green chlorite mineral of micaceous structure; a hydrous silicate of alumina, magnesia, and iron.
ripidolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ripidolite
unclinch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unclinches
form: unclinching
form: unclinched
form: unclinched
Etymology: From un- + clinch.
Senses: examples: text: to unclinch the fist
text: Boudreau felt his sphincters unclinch slightly once he realized he wasn't dead.
ref: 1991, Brian Fair Berkey, Keys to Tulsa:
glosses: Alternative form of unclench.
unclinches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unclinch
unclinching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unclinch
searchableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From searchable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being searchable.
poreblind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poreblind
form: most poreblind
Etymology: See purblind; possibly the result of confusion of the first element pur- with poor, perhaps through folk etymology.
Senses: examples: text: The man that is pore blinde, cannot ſee far from hym. And as to ioke on deth we be for the moſt part pore blinde all yͭ mayny: for we cannot ſee hym til he cõe [come] very nere vs. But theſe folk be not pore blynde but ſtarke blynde: for they cãnot ſee him when he commeth ſo nere, yͭ hee putteth almoſte his finger in theyr eye.
ref: c. 1522 (date written), Thomas More, “A Treatyce (Vnfynyshed) vppon These Wordes of Holye Scrypture, Memorare Nouissima, & Ineternum non Peccabis, Remember the Last Thynges, and Thou shalt Neuer Synne. […]. Of Couertise.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, column 94:
text: The French haue a good Prouerbe. Entre les auengles, les borgnes ſont les Roys: Among the blinde, the pore blind are the Kings. And thus they vvhich haue no skill in tongues, vvill boldly ſay, that this or that man doth perfectly, and vvithout ſtamering, ſpeake many tongs.
ref: 1617, Fynes Moryson, “Of Precepts for Trauellers, which may Instruct the Vnexperienced”, in An Itinerary Written by Fynes Moryson Gent. […]: Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell through the Twelve Domjnions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Jtaly, Turky, France, England, Scotland, and Ireland. […], London: […] John Beale, […], →OCLC, book I, part III, pages 15–16:
text: Pore-blinde Men, ſee beſt in the Dimmer Lights; And likevviſe haue their Sight Stronger neere hand, than thoſe that are not Pore-blinde, And can Reade and VVrite ſmaller Letters.
ref: 1631, Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century. [Experiments in Consort Touching the Eyes, and Sight.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 870, page 223:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of purblind.
privatdozent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: privatdozents
form: privatdozenten
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Privatdozent. Doublet of private docent.
Senses: glosses: In some European countries, an academic who holds all formal qualifications (doctorate and habilitation) to become a tenured university professor.
wikipedia: privatdozent
privatdozents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of privatdozent
sanguigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sangui- + -genous, from Latin sanguis (“blood”).
Senses: glosses: Producing blood, or conducive to creation of blood.
tinkler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinklers
Etymology: From tinkle + -er.
Senses: glosses: A small bell.
examples: text: As his drawers came free, his tinkler leapt straight up. How different he was between the legs from Hindley, who had that darkness!
ref: 1983, John Wheatcroft, Catherine, Her Book, page 44:
text: Johnny felt a delicious surge of energy in his tinkler.
ref: 2006, Andrea D'Allasandra, House of the Screaming Clowns, page 42:
glosses: The penis.
tinkler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinklers
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes a herd from the hills would pass by with sheep, sometimes a tinkler or a wandering merchant, and once in a long while the laird of Heriotside on his grey horse riding to Gledsmuir.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: A tinker.
tinklers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinkler
cordialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cordializes
form: cordializing
form: cordialized
form: cordialized
Etymology: From cordial + -ize.
Senses: examples: to cordialize mankind
glosses: To make cordial.
glosses: To become friendly; to fraternize.
examples: cordialized brandy
glosses: To make into a cordial.
cordialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cordialize
cordializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cordialize
cordializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cordialize
presupposal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presupposals
Senses: examples: text: presupposal of knowledge
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: presupposition
presupposals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presupposal
shittlecock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shittlecocks
Senses: examples: text: What's the next business after shittlecock, now?
ref: 1621, Thomas Middleton, Women Beware Women:
text: Shittlecock toss'd to and fro, Diverts us, and warms the chill Blood […]
ref: 1751, John Marchant, Puerilia: or, Amusements for the young, consisting of a collection of songs, page 54:
text: Seven or eight of them, standing in a circle, were engaged in a game of shittlecock. They had in their hands no battledores. They did not employ the hand or arm, any way, in striking it. But, after taking a short race, and springing from the floor, they met the descending shittlecock with the sole of the foot, and drove it up again, with force, high into the air.
ref: 1797, George Staunton, “Cochin-china”, in An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China; […] In Two Volumes, […], volume I, London: […] G[eorge] Nicol, […], →OCLC, page 339:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of shuttlecock (“the game or the object”).
shittlecocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shittlecock
custos regni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭsʹtŏs rĕgʹnī
enpr: kŭsʹtōs rĕgʹnī
ipa: /ˈkʌstɒs ˈɹɜɡnaɪ/
ipa: /ˈkʌstəʊs ˈɹɜɡnaɪ/
Forms: form: custodes regni
Etymology: First attested in the plural in October 1644 and in the singular in 1683; Latin: custōs (“guard”, “protector”; “guardian”; “keeper”, “custodian”) + rēgnī (“of royal power”; genitive singular of rēgnum, “royal power”, “kingdom”) = “custodian of royal power” ≈ “guardian of the realm”.
Senses: examples: text: If the King be abſent, and taken captive, the People may give the Royall power to one, or to ſome few to exerciſe it as cuſtodes regni.
ref: 1644 October 7, Samuel Rutherford, Lex, Rex: The Law and the Prince, page 148:
text: It was reſolved…[to] Petition…His Majeſty, to appoint a Cuſtos Regni, or Locum tenens during his Abſence out of this Kingdom; and amongſt other things, in ſpecial to give him Power, to give the Royal Aſſent in Parliament, and to do ſuch things as the King might do if he were preſent. [It was] reſolved…that His Majeſty be likewiſe Petitioned, That an Act of Parliament may paſs to this Effect, That ſuch Commiſſion ſhall not be repealed, until His Majesties return from Scotland to the City of London or Weſtminſter, or be preſent in full Parliament.
ref: 1683, John Nalson, An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State, II, page 412:
glosses: A kind of viceregal locum tenens appointed, either alone or jointly, to execute the political duties of a monarch during his or her absence from the seat of government.
Related terms: custos rotulorum
custodes regni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭstōʹdēz rĕgʹnī
enpr: kŭstōʹdāz rĕgʹnī
ipa: /kʌsˈtəʊdiːz ˈɹɜɡnaɪ/
ipa: /kʌsˈtəʊdeɪz ˈɹɜɡnaɪ/
Etymology: Latin: custōdēs (“guards”, “protectors”; “guardians”; “keepers”, “custodians”: nominative plural form of custōs) + rēgnī (genitive singular of rēgnum) = “custodians of royal power” ≈ “guardians of the realm”
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:custodes regni.
glosses: plural of custos regni
cockfag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockfags
Etymology: From cock + -fag.
Senses: examples: text: Annoyed at the cockfags who decided it would be funny to throw a whole heap of drawing pins on the road just out of sorrento.
ref: 2006 October 17, Craig Strong, “Re: Atb”, in aus.bicycle (Usenet):
text: I'm sure you believe posting crappy song lyrics to me will endear you to me, but in reality, you're just a daft, frightened, silly little cockfag.
ref: 2007 June 26, Erwin Hessle, “Re: Update from LaBlueGirl”, in alt.magick (Usenet):
text: You're an arrogant cockfag who thinks he's a lot cleverer than he is.
ref: 2008 June 18, parris_k, “Re: Question:Are The Holocaust Deniers a small Minority?”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet):
glosses: An extremely contemptible person.
cockfags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockfag
siccar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: siker
form: siccer
form: sicker
Etymology: From Middle English siker (“secure, safe, stable, certain; gewiss, securely, safely, certainly”), from Old English sicer. For more, see sicker.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sicker: certain
glosses: Alternative spelling of sicker: secure
siccar
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: siker
form: siccer
form: sicker
Etymology: From Middle English siker (“secure, safe, stable, certain; gewiss, securely, safely, certainly”), from Old English sicer. For more, see sicker.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sicker: certainly
glosses: Alternative spelling of sicker: securely
fuck flu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fuck + flu, due to the transmission of HIV as a result of sexual intercourse.
Senses: glosses: Flulike symptoms caused by acute retroviral syndrome.
dorveille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dorveille.
Senses: examples: text: [Lancelot] has witnessed the miraculous cure of his fellow knight, but he understands nothing of what he has seen in his somnolent dorveille.
ref: 2000, Anne Marie D'Arcy, Wisdom and the Grail, page 90:
text: The poetic voice describes how, sleepless with lovesickness, he goes to the chapel, seeking respite. As he meditates there upon the cause of his "passion", he […] enters into a state of dorveille and has a vision populated with women
ref: 2008, Emily Francomano, Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature, page 71:
text: dorveille is a peculiar psychic, physical, and spiritual condition traditionally suffered by the narrator or human protagonist of the allegorical poem. Dorveille can involve the bodily exhaustion that overcomes the narrator at the outset of his text. The classic example is Dante, who, at the opening of Inferno 1, describes himself as pien di sonno – "full of sleep" (line 11). Dorveille can also involve the hypnotic lull and dizziness that overcomes the weary horseman who, as he narrates his poem, suffers from a wandering sense of attention and alertness (French rever).
ref: 2009, James J. Paxson, The Poetics of Personification, page 94:
text: the narrator is in a dreamlike state midway between sleep and wakefulness, […] "dorveille", a state that accentuates the inability to tell whether the events being recounted really happened or not.
ref: 2010, Christine de Pizan, David Hult, Debate of the Romance of the Rose, page 106:
text: Among indigenous and early peoples, the liminal state of dorveille (sleep-wake) is a time when you might stir and share dreams with whoever is available. […] Sometimes a whole poem or song is delivered within a dream or in that fluid in-between zone of sleep-wake, dorveille.
ref: 2011, Robert Moss, Active Dreaming: Journeying Beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom, pages 21, 47:
text: When sleep was divided into a two-act play, people were creative with how they spent the intermission. They didn’t have anxious conversations with imaginary doctors; they actually did something. During this dorveille, or “wake-sleep,” people got up to pee, hung out by the fire, had sex, or prayed.
ref: 2022 January 27, Derek Thompson, “Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia?”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A dreamlike semi-conscious state, such as while falling asleep or waking up, between periods of sleep, or from exhaustion; generally with reference to an altered mental state where there is no distinction between the fantastic and the familiar.
eliminatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭlĭʹmĭnātrĭks
ipa: /ɪˈlɪmɪneɪtɹɪks/
Etymology: From Latin ēlīminātrīx, modeled after eliminator. Compare the French éliminatrice. By surface analysis, eliminate + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: Elimination, whether urine or feces, is a messy process and standard toilets are barely up to the task of accomodating[sic] the eliminator’s/eliminatrix’s needs.
ref: 2001 September 8, Uncle Gargoyle, alt.peeves, “Re: ‘And a sign appeared unto them . . . ’” (see the original message)
text: surrender an eliminatrix surface
ref: 2004 August 24, Sheila Murphy, fa.fiction-of-philosophy, “I was in the cheese yard scurrying” (see the original message)
glosses: A woman or girl who eliminates; a female eliminator.
cardiagraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardiagraphs
Senses: glosses: Dated form of cardiograph.
cardiagraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardiagraph
laminarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæm.ɪˈnɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌlæ.məˈnɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: Laminaria + -an
Senses: glosses: Relating to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to the depth zone of the sea in which they grow.
laminarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæm.ɪˈnɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌlæ.məˈnɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: laminarians
Etymology: Laminaria + -an
Senses: glosses: Any seaweed of the genus Laminaria.
surbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: surbeds
form: surbedding
form: surbedded
form: surbedded
Etymology: From sur- + bed.
Senses: examples: text: Do they dip or lye in piano horizontis? Whether better surbedded, in work, or laid as they grew in the bed?
ref: 1728, John Houghton, A collection for the improvement of husbandry and trade, page 291:
text: It is a freestone, cutting in all directions; yet has something of a grain parallel with the horizon, and therefore should not be surbedded.
ref: 1836, Gilbert White, The natural history of Selborne, page 9:
text: 400mm wide X 200mm thick, bedded and jointed in 1:3:12 white cement:lime:sand mortar, all stones to be free of quarry sap and not laid surbedded.
ref: 1997, Derek Lovejoy Partnership, Spon's landscape handbook, page 165:
glosses: To set (a stone) edgewise, in a position different from that which it had in the quarry.
surbedded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of surbed
surbedding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surbed
surbeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surbed
supportation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: your right good grace to continue your noble favour and supportation to me in remedying the force done by Sir Philip Wentworth
ref: c. 1459, John Falstof, letter:
text: I shall you make relacyon
By way of apostrofacyon
Under supportacyon
Of your pacyent tolleracyon, […]
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 29–32:
text: the supportation of the king's expence
ref: c. 1598, Francis Bacon, An Account of […] Compositions for Alienations:
glosses: maintenance, aid or support
fallals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: … her ornaments were the biggest; her hats, toques, berets, marabouts, and other fallals, always the most conspicuous.
ref: 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mens Wives, HTML edition, University of Adelaide, published 2006, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2012:
glosses: ornaments; trinkets; frippery
sphery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sphery
form: most sphery
Etymology: From sphere + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Hermia's sphery eyne
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: round; spherical; starlike
examples: text: She can teach ye how to climb / Higher than the sphery chime.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: Of or relating to the celestial spheres.
pantagraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantagraphs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pantograph.
pantagraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantagraph
future-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more future-proof
form: most future-proof
form: future proof
form: futureproof
Etymology: From future + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: Videos recorded at a higher resolution are more future-proof since they can be viewed with more detail on higher resolution screens that one might own in future.
text: It’s not easy to buy a future-proof laptop because the industry is moving in the opposite direction.
ref: 2019 May 30, Jack Schofield, “Can I buy a future-proof laptop to last 10 years?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Capable of surviving changes made in the future; not liable to become outdated.
future-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: future-proofs
form: future-proofing
form: future-proofed
form: future-proofed
form: future proof
form: futureproof
Etymology: From future + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: While today’s most common image type, JPEG, had a few defenders, many believe it’s not a good candidate for future-proofing images because it is a “lossy” format.
ref: 2009 May 8, Rik Fairlie, “How Will You Future-Proof Your Photos?”, in New York Times Gadgetwise Blog, retrieved 16 Jul 2021:
text: It is written to support you as you develop your own point of view about the future—and your own path to creating a future-proofed working life.
ref: 2011, Lynda Gratton, The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 17:
text: A clear national strategy is "urgently needed" to help future-proof coastal areas from rising sea levels and extreme weather, according to a report published by the National Trust on Friday.
ref: 2014 April 11, “Future-proof UK coastal areas against rising sea levels, says National Trust”, in The Guardian:
text: Marie Leblanc, the CEO of the label, said the changes were necessary to “future-proof” the brand, which has yet to turn a profit despite being one of the most high-profile names in British fashion for the past decade.
ref: 2021 June 24, Jess Cartner-Morley, quoting Marie Leblanc, “Victoria Beckham cuts dress prices to ‘future-proof’ fashion brand”, in The Guardian, retrieved 16 Jul 2021:
text: Beeching is more disparaging about suburban services beyond the capital, and I think here lies one of the most critical shortcomings in his analysis. By not considering the potential for these cities to grow, both on their own merits and in response to London's limitations, he failed to future-proof these types of service, limiting them in favour of long-distance services.
ref: 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48:
glosses: To make ready to meet potential future requirements, or make use of potential future opportunities.
Related terms: forward compatible
stand the test of time
examplary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more examplary
form: most examplary
Senses: examples: text: The stand he made against the Ex Oficio oath, and the sufferings he endured in consequence, entitle Cartwright to be considered one of his country's most exemplary patriots
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Obsolete form of exemplary.
stuccowork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stuccoworks
Etymology: From stucco + work.
Senses: glosses: work done in stucco
stuccoworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stuccowork
lucific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /l(j)uːˈsɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more lucific
form: most lucific
Etymology: From Latin lucificus, from lux, lucis (“light”) + facere (“to make”).
Senses: examples: text: Sensations of Vision are occasioned by these lucific Pulses of the subtle Medium
ref: 1772, Benjamin Martin, The Young Gentleman and Lady's Philosophy:
glosses: Producing light.
softling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softlings
Etymology: From soft + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Effeminate men and softlings cause the stout man to wax tender.
ref: 1576, John Woolton, The Christian Manuell:
synonyms: word: cockney
word: pansy
word: sissy
word: bading
word: big girl's blouse
word: cockney
word: cot-quean
word: cupcake
word: dudelet
word: fakaleiti
word: fairy
word: femboy
word: gentleman
word: ginch
word: girl's blouse
word: girlyman
word: janegirl
word: jessie
word: nancy
word: nancyboy
word: nancy pants
word: pansy
word: Percy
word: poof
word: poofter
word: posy sniffer
word: pretty boy
word: puss-gentleman
word: quiche-eater
word: sissy
word: softling
word: soy boy
word: swish
word: twink
word: zenana
word: bon viveur
word: epicure
word: epicurean
word: hedonist
word: high-stepper
word: lapling
word: lotus-eater
word: pleasure seeker
word: pleasurist
word: sensualist
word: softling
word: sybarite
word: voluptuarian
word: voluptuary
glosses: A soft, effeminate person; a voluptuary.
softlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of softling
enmilden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕnmīlʹdə̆n
ipa: /ɛnˈmaɪldə̆n/
Forms: form: enmildens
Etymology: From en- + milden.
Senses: examples: 1603, Michel de Montaigne [aut.] and John Florio [tr.], The Essayes; or, Morall, Politike, and Millitarie Discourses of Lord Michaell de Montaigne (1st ed.), book III, chapter xii: “Of Phisiognomy”
Ut magis peccari nolim, quam satis animi ad vindicanda peccata habeam: ‘So as I had rather men should not offend, then that I should have courage enough to punish their offences.’ Some report that Aristotle, being up-braided by some of his friends that he had beene over mercifull toward a wicked man, ‘I have indeede (quoth he) beene mercifull toward the man, but not toward his wickednesse.’ Ordinary judgements are exasperated unto punishment by the horror of the crime; And that enmildens mee. The horror of the first murther makes me feare a second; And the uglinesse of one cruelty induceth me to detest all maner of imitation of it.
glosses: Render lenient or less severe.
cloyment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cloy + -ment?
Senses: examples: text: Alas, their love may be called appetite, no motion of the liver, but the palate, that suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt […]
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
glosses: satiety
alectoromachy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alectryomachy
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀλεκτορομαχία (alektoromakhía), from ἀλέκτωρ (aléktōr) + μάχη (mákhē) + -ία (-ía).
Senses: examples: text: In the long mud-barracks some of them are reading the Bible, more are playing cards, betting, swearing, yelling according to the most approved precedents of alectoromachy.
ref: 1872, Stephen Powers, Afoot and alone: a walk from sea to sea by the southern route:
glosses: cockfighting
softlifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of software + shoplifting
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: The purchasing of a single licensed copy of a software program and the loading of it on several machines, contrary to terms of agreement.
biforine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biforines
Etymology: From Latin biforis, biforus (“having two doors”), from bis (“twice”) + foris (“door”).
Senses: examples: text: The true biforines when separated from the other tissues in water, rapidly discharge the crystals from one or both ends of the cells, and often with such force as to drive the cells backwards like a rocket[…]
ref: 1871, The American Naturalist: Volume 5, page 336:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain araceous plants, with an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.
biforines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biforine
shopliftings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When we described the 80-20 rule, we mentioned that 5% of the stores in Danvers, Massachusetts, accounted for 50% of the reported shopliftings.
ref: 2012, Lawrence Fennelly, Handbook of Loss Prevention and Crime Prevention, page 171:
glosses: plural of shoplifting
postiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postillers
form: postiler
Etymology: From postil + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It hath been averred by many holy writers, commonly delivered by postillers and commentators
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A writer of notes in the margin of a book.
glosses: A preacher.
postillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postiller
haemastatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemastatics.
Pindarist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Pindar + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek poet Pindar.
Pindarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pindarists
Etymology: From Pindar + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who imitates the style of Pindar.
Pindarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pindarist
ajouré
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ajoure
Etymology: Borrowed from French ajouré (“perforated”).
Senses: examples: text: Then work 6 rows point ajouré, 4 rows in Gyps'Anny of stocking stitch, 6 rows in ficelle point ajouré, and 4 rows stocking stitch in Gyps'Anny.
ref: 1980, Scottish Field - Volume 126, page 41:
text: There are silk/cotton blends with ajouré work, multicoloured deckchair stripes, and the highly coloured stripes known as bayadère work ( see Glossary ).
ref: 2004, Textile Outlook International - Volumes 109-111, page 49:
text: ... I recently used a lot of ajouré/lace techniques and printed on top of that.
ref: 2014, Jenny Udale, Fashion Knitwear:
text: The ajouré technique, especially, was used for the white face veils (rubanda) worn in Qajar Iran because the openwork allowed the wearer to see.
ref: 2021, Medill Higgins Harvey, Andrea Achi, Deniz Beyazit, Collecting Inspiration, page 200:
glosses: A technique for creating patterns of open areas in fabric by tying woven threads together.
examples: text: The metalworkers used both inlay in silver and gold and ajouré (design produced by complete removal of metal to produce the desired pattern) (cat.88) in addition to the more common engraving (cat. 87).
ref: 1966, Smithsonian Institution, Islamic Art from the Collection of Edwin Binney 3d:
text: An inverted 'Tree'; ajouré-work with detail in low relief.
ref: 1967, Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, Georgina Herrmann, Ivories from Nimrud (1949-1963), page 37:
text: Phoenician workmanship used also specific techniques such as ajouré, cloisonné, and champlevé.
ref: 2019, Hélène Sader, The History and Archaeology of Phoenicia, page 177:
glosses: A decorative technique in which patterns are created by piercing or perforating a surface (of metal, ivory, leather, marble, etc.)
ajouré
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ajouré
form: most ajouré
form: ajoure
Etymology: Borrowed from French ajouré (“perforated”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus, among numerous varieties, he may pick out at a glance the blued and ajouré steel hilts of the Restoration;
ref: 1929, Bashford Dean, Catalogue of European Court Swords and Hunting Swords, page 5:
text: Not far from it was another ivory, an open work or ajouré sphinx, and in the same belt of debris, to the front of the stele and along the east wall of the court, there were other fragments of broken up ivory plaques engraved with processional scenes, clearly ninth century in style.
ref: 1952, Iraq - Volumes 14-15:
text: Stitches include ajouré works, prints with botanical patterns, plain or close stiches with detailed shaping.
ref: 1998, American Sportswear & Knitting Times - Volume 67, page 17:
text: Compare ajouré decoration on rim with that on soffit in [ 87 ].
ref: 2003, Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Islamic Art and Architecture 650-1250, page 308:
text: In gold leaf, ajouré fragments portray helmeted warriors back to back,72 in the semi-oriental stvle of the attachment from Knossos, fig. 1 26; also, small roundels, again showing armed.
ref: 2004, J.N. Coldstream, Geometric Greece: 900–700 BC, page 402:
glosses: Decorated using ajouré.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Depicted in the same color as the field in order to imply that one can see through the element to the field; voided of the field.
alambic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alambics
Senses: glosses: Uncommon spelling of alembic.