cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
creed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiːd/
ipa: /kɹid/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: creeds
form: creeding
form: creeded
form: creeded
Etymology: From Middle English crede, from Old English crēda, crēdo, from Latin crēdō (“I believe”), from Proto-Italic *krezdō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱred dʰeh₁- (“to place one's heart, i.e., to trust, believe”), a compound phrase of the oblique case form of *ḱḗr (“heart”). Creed is cognate with Old Irish creitid (“to believe”), Sanskrit श्रद्दधाति (śráddadhāti, “to have faith or faithfulness, to have belief or confidence, believe”).
Senses: examples: text: Only this I marvelled, and other men have since, whenas I, in a ſubject ſo new to this age, and ſo hazardous to pleaſe, concealed not my name, why this author, defending that part which is ſo creeded by the people, would conceal his.
ref: 1645 March 4, J[ohn] M[ilton], Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Ansvver against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. Wherein the Trivial Author of that Answer is Discover’d, the Licencer Conferr’d with, and the Opinion which They Traduce Defended, [London]: [Printed by Matthew Simmons?], →OCLC; republished in The Works of John Milton, Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous. Now More Correctly Printed from the Originals, than in Any Former Edition, and may Passages Restored, which have been hitherto Omitted. To which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings [by Thomas Birch]. In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar, in the Strand, 1753, →OCLC, page 326:
text: And ſo, no doubt, were his other Preferments as acceptable, which did require ſuch Athanaſsian Subſcriptions, &c. and which he in an Athanaſian Form ſubſcrib'd, creeded, and worſhip'd for till his dying-day.
ref: 1731, Simon Scriblerus [pseudonym], Whistoneutes: Or, Remarks on Mr. Whiston’s Historical Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Samuel Clarke, &c., London: Printed for T. Warner, at th Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row, →OCLC, page 42:
text: 'I was n't for creeding me awn e'en,' believing my own eyes.
ref: [1873, John Harland, “Creed”, in A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire (Series C (Original Glossaries, and Glossaries with Fresh Editions); 4), London: Published for the English Dialect Society, by Trübner & Co., 57 & 59, Ludgate Hill, →OCLC, page 45:
qualifier: only survives in "creeded"
glosses: To believe; to credit.
examples: text: The poor like Priests—Priests utilise the poor; / High Church the common people feeding / Exclaims—"You Low Church indolents observe / How we go about leavening and creeding!"
ref: 1872, “The Survivor” [pseudonym; Walter Rowton], “Part the Fourth”, in Hal and I. In Four Parts, London: Elliot Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 122:
text: Especially in the studies of religions less creeded than Christianity scholars have long insisted on the importance in religion of sacred stories.
ref: 1977, Peter Slater, “Religion as Story: The Biography of Norman Bethune”, in Peter Slater, editor, Religion and Culture in Canada = Religion et Culture au Canada, Toronto, Ont.: Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, →ISBN, page 290:
glosses: To provide with a creed.
liturgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈtɝd͡ʒɪkəl/
Etymology: From Latin lītūrgicus + -al. By surface analysis, liturgy + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Our almost liturgical repetition of the phrase "gay brothers and sisters" too often echoes with a hollow resonance.
ref: 1974 April 13, A. Nolder Gay, “The View from the Closet”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: Pertaining to liturgy.
Synonyms: liturgic
Derived terms: aliturgical
extra-liturgical
liturgical language
liturgically
nonliturgical
paraliturgical
unliturgical
liturgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtəd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˈlɪtɚd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: liturgies
Etymology: From Middle French liturgie, from Latin liturgia, from Ancient Greek λειτουργία (leitourgía), from λειτ- (leit-), from λαός (laós, “people”) + -ουργός (-ourgós), from ἔργον (érgon, “work”) (the public work of the people done on behalf of the people).
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: (book) breviary, missal, portal, portass, psalter
hypernyms: tradition
glosses: A predetermined or prescribed set of rituals that are performed, usually by a religion; a book in which they are recorded.
glosses: An official worship service of the Christian church.
glosses: In Ancient Greece, a form of personal service to the state.
Derived terms: aliturgic
Divine Liturgy
liturgic
liturgical
liturgics
liturgiologist
liturgiology
liturgism
liturgist
liturgistic
liturgistical
liturgize
Liturgy of the Hours
Related terms: lay
laity
Eucharist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːkəɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈjuːkɹɪst/
Forms: form: Eucharists
Etymology: From Middle English eukarist, from Old French, from Ecclesiastical Latin eucharistia, from Ancient Greek εὐχαριστία (eukharistía, “gratitude, giving of thanks”). Displaced native Old English hūsl.
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: Holy Communion
Communion
glosses: A Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper of Christ, with the physical forms of bread and usually wine which are believed by certain denominations to become Christ himself or to host his spiritual presence.
synonyms: word: Mass
topics: Western-Christianity
Christianity
word: Divine Liturgy
topics: Christianity
word: Qurbana
topics: Christianity
word: church
glosses: A Christian religious service in which this sacrament is enacted.
synonyms: word: the elements
topics: Eastern-Christianity
Christianity
word: communion
word: Communion
glosses: The substances received during this sacrament, namely the bread and wine, seen as Christ’s body and blood.
Hyponyms: topics: Roman-Catholicism
Catholicism
Christianity
sense: substances
word: Precious Blood
sense: substances
word: Body of Christ
Related terms: eucharistic
eucharistical
communion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmjuːnjən/
Forms: form: communions
Etymology: From Middle English comunioun, communyoun, from Anglo-Norman comunion or Middle French communion, from Ecclesiastical Latin commūniō (“communion”), from Latin commūnis.
Senses: examples: text: It would be uplifting to think that the ziggurat was the first expression of Near Eastern civilization, for then one could speak about humanity's fascination with the heavens, of the human quest for communion with the infinite.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 159:
glosses: A joining together of minds or spirits; a mental connection.
examples: text: It is with the day of her first communion that this narrative of mine begins.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Holy Communion; the Eucharist.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: Ecclesiastical interrecognition of belonging to the true Church.
A form of ecclesiastical unity between the Roman Catholic Church and another, so that the latter is considered part of the former.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Ecclesiastical interrecognition of belonging to the true Church.
A denomination; a high-level organised subgrouping of Christianity (now especially in Anglican Communion)
Synonyms: sense: Holy Communion
english: Mormon
translation: Mormon
word: sacrament
Derived terms: Anglican Communion
antecommunion
communionable
communional
communion cloth
communion ecclesiology
communion hall
communionism
communionist
communionlike
communion of saints
communion wafer
Holy Communion
intercommunion
noncommunion
open communion
phatic communion
precommunion
spiritual communion
still got one's communion money
World Communion Sunday
Related terms: common
communal
communicate
community
sacrament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsækɹəmənt/
Forms: form: sacraments
Etymology: From Middle English sacrament, from Old French sacrement, from Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentum (“sacrament”), from Latin sacrō (“hallow, consecrate”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”), originally sum deposited by parties to a suit.
Senses: examples: text: Priest: I'm sorry, it's Duncan Dirk Dick. I've just done it. / Father: Well, undo it. / Priest: Undo it? / Father: Yes. / Priest: This is a holy sacrament of the Church, not a bleeding hotel reservation. You can't just undo it.
ref: 1989 February 10, Stephen Fry et al., “Christening”, in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, season 1, episode 5:
topics: Christianity
coordinate_terms: ordinance
glosses: A sacred act and the attendant ceremony, considered (theology) an outward sign of divine grace, instituted by Jesus Christ.
glosses: The Eucharist.
raw_tags: in particular
glosses: The consecrated Eucharist (especially the bread).
examples: text: God ſometimes ſent a light of fire, and pillar of a cloud, and the brightneſſe of an Angel, and the luſtre of a ſtar, and the ſacrament of a rainbovve to guide his people thorovv their portion of ſorrovvs, and to lead them through troubles to reſt: […]
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “[XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […].] Sermon IX. The Faith and Patience of the Saints: Or The Righteous Cause Oppressed.”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1654, →OCLC, page 105:
text: The dots are easy to connect, because they’re so close together, and because they’re the entry and exit wounds inflicted on US society by the subculture whose sacrament is the gun.
ref: 2022 May 30, Rebecca Solnit, “US mass shootings will continue until the majority can overrule the minority”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Anything regarded as possessing a sacred character or mysterious significance.
examples: text: I'll take the sacrament on 't.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: The oath of allegiance taken by soldiers in Ancient Rome; hence, any sacred ceremony used to impress an obligation; a solemn oath-taking; an oath.
Derived terms: sacramental
sacramentality
sacramentally
sacrament of reconciliation
sacrament
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsækɹəmənt/
Forms: form: sacraments
form: sacramenting
form: sacramented
form: sacramented
Etymology: From Middle English sacrament, from Old French sacrement, from Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentum (“sacrament”), from Latin sacrō (“hallow, consecrate”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”), originally sum deposited by parties to a suit.
Senses: glosses: To bind by an oath.
Related terms: sense: Catholic and Eastern churches have seven sacraments
word: baptism
sense: Catholic and Eastern churches have seven sacraments
word: confirmation
sense: Catholic and Eastern churches have seven sacraments
word: communion
sense: Catholic and Eastern churches have seven sacraments
word: Mass
sense: Catholic and Eastern churches have seven sacraments
word: or Eucharist
sense: Catholic and Eastern churches have seven sacraments
word: penance
sense: Catholic and Eastern churches have seven sacraments
english: Anointing of the Sick, last rites
translation: Anointing of the Sick, last rites
word: extreme unction
sense: Catholic and Eastern churches have seven sacraments
word: holy orders
sense: Catholic and Eastern churches have seven sacraments
word: ordination
sense: Catholic and Eastern churches have seven sacraments
word: and matrimony
sense: Protestant churches list two sacraments
word: baptism and Lord's Supper
word: Eucharistic liturgy
word: Holy Eucharist
word: Holy Sacrament
word: Liturgy
word: Lord's Supper
Christianity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹɪstiˈænɪti/
ipa: /ˌkɹɪst͡ʃiˈænɪti/
Forms: form: Christianities
form: christianity
Etymology: From Middle English Cristiente, Cristente, borrowed from Old French crestienté, from Medieval Latin stem of Chrīstiānitās, from Latin christianus, Christianus, from Ancient Greek Χριστιανός (Khristianós), from Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ, anointed one”) + Latin -anus (“suffix for of, related to”) + one more suffix borrowed from Latin "ity" makes the final Christian + -ity. The term was respelled in the early modern English period to more closely reflect its Latin etymon.
Senses: examples: text: By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: As a result, Christianity developed as a separate religion from Judaism.
ref: 2002, The Atlas of Great Jewish Communities: A Voyage Through History, page 27:
glosses: An Abrahamic religion originating from the community of the followers of Jesus Christ.
glosses: Protestantism (in contrast to Catholicism)
Synonyms: word: Christianism
Hypernyms: religion
monotheism
Abrahamism
Coordinate terms: sense: subdivisions
word: Roman Catholicism
sense: subdivisions
word: Orthodoxy
sense: subdivisions
word: Protestantism
sense: subdivisions
word: Lutheranism
sense: subdivisions
word: Anglicanism
sense: subdivisions
word: Methodism
Derived terms: anti-Christianity
Identity Christianity
muscular Christianity
Christianity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹɪstiˈænɪti/
ipa: /ˌkɹɪst͡ʃiˈænɪti/
Forms: form: christianity
Etymology: From Middle English Cristiente, Cristente, borrowed from Old French crestienté, from Medieval Latin stem of Chrīstiānitās, from Latin christianus, Christianus, from Ancient Greek Χριστιανός (Khristianós), from Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ, anointed one”) + Latin -anus (“suffix for of, related to”) + one more suffix borrowed from Latin "ity" makes the final Christian + -ity. The term was respelled in the early modern English period to more closely reflect its Latin etymon.
Senses: glosses: Christendom, the Christian world
Related terms: Christian
consecrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnsəkɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑnsəkɹeɪt/
Forms: form: consecrates
form: consecrating
form: consecrated
form: consecrated
Etymology: First attested in the late 14ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English consecraten (“to dedicate, consecrate (an altar, church); to ordain (a bishop), anoint (a king, a pope); to devote one to religious life”), from consecrat(e) (“consecrated”, used as the past participle of consecraten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin cōnsecrātus, perfect passive participle of cōnsecrāre, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
ref: 1863 November 19, Abraham Lincoln, Dedicatory Remarks (Gettysburg Address)^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address_(Bliss_copy)), near Soldiers' National Cemetery, →LCCN, Bliss copy, page 2:
synonyms: behallow
hallow
antonyms: word: desecrate
word: defile
word: consecrate
glosses: To declare something holy, or make it holy by some procedure.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: To ordain as a bishop.
glosses: To commit (oneself or one's time) solemnly to some aim or task.
Synonyms: word: avow
word: behallow
word: bless
word: canonize
word: consecrate
word: dedicate
word: hallow
word: inaugurate
word: martyr
word: sacralize
word: saint
word: sanctify
Derived terms: consecratedness
consecratee
consecrative
deconsecrate
disconsecrate
misconsecrate
reconsecrate
unconsecrate
unconsecrated
Related terms: consecration
consecrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnsəkɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑnsəkɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɒnsəkɹət/
ipa: /ˈkɑnsəkɹət/
ipa: /ˈkɒnsəkɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑnsəkɹeɪt/
Forms: form: more consecrate
form: most consecrate
Etymology: First attested in the late 14ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English consecrat(e) (“consecrated”), used as the past participle of consecraten (“to dedicate, consecrate (an altar, church); to ordain (a bishop), anoint (a king, a pope); to devote one to religious life”); see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. Regular participial usage up until Early Modern English.
Senses: examples: text: Led to the city consecrate to Mars.
ref: 1791, William Cowper, Iliad, IV. 484:
glosses: Consecrated.
raw_tags: as a participle
examples: text: And that this body conſecrate to thee,
By Ruffian Luſt ſhould be contaminate!
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 89, column 1:
text: They were assembled in that consecrate place.
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: Consecrated, devoted, dedicated, sacred.
raw_tags: as a participial adjective
holy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊli/
enpr: hōʹlē
ipa: /ˈhoʊli/
rhymes: -əʊli
homophone: wholly
homophone: holey (in accents without the wholly-holy split)
Forms: form: holie
form: hooly
form: Holy
form: 'oly
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English holi, hali, from Old English hāliġ, hāleġ (“holy, consecrated, sacred, venerated, godly, saintly, ecclesiastical, pacific, tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *hailag, from Proto-Germanic *hailagaz (“holy, bringing health”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“healthy, whole”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”), equivalent to whole + -y and a doublet of later wholly.
Cognate with Scots haly (“holy”), West Frisian hillich (“holy”), Low German hillig (“holy”), Dutch heilig (“holy”), German heilig (“holy”), Danish hellig (“holy”), Swedish helig (“holy”). More at whole.
Senses: synonyms: holy shit
glosses: An expression of astonishment and awe.
holy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊli/
enpr: hōʹlē
ipa: /ˈhoʊli/
rhymes: -əʊli
homophone: wholly
homophone: holey (in accents without the wholly-holy split)
Forms: form: holies
form: holie
form: hooly
form: Holy
form: 'oly
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English holi, hali, from Old English hāliġ, hāleġ (“holy, consecrated, sacred, venerated, godly, saintly, ecclesiastical, pacific, tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *hailag, from Proto-Germanic *hailagaz (“holy, bringing health”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“healthy, whole”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”), equivalent to whole + -y and a doublet of later wholly.
Cognate with Scots haly (“holy”), West Frisian hillich (“holy”), Low German hillig (“holy”), Dutch heilig (“holy”), German heilig (“holy”), Danish hellig (“holy”), Swedish helig (“holy”). More at whole.
Senses: examples: text: The holy of holies, a cubical space of ten cubits on the side, was separated from the larger antechamber by four columns, which were also covered with gold and stood upon silver sockets; they bore a second curtain of four colors.
ref: 1882, Franz von Reber, Joseph Thacher Clarke, History of Ancient Art, page 146:
glosses: A thing that is extremely holy; used almost exclusively in Holy of Holies.
Derived terms: holiest of holies
Holy of Holies
divine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭ-vīnʹ
ipa: /dɪˈvaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: divines
Etymology: From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”). Displaced native Old English godcund.
Senses: examples: text: Poets were the first divines.
ref: 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning:
glosses: One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
examples: December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth
The first divines of New England […] were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.
glosses: A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
glosses: God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.
raw_tags: with 'the'
Synonyms: sense: theologian, cleric
word: clergyman
sense: theologian, cleric
word: cleric
sense: theologian, cleric
word: man of the cloth
sense: theologian, cleric
word: theologian
sense: a deity
word: deity
sense: a deity
word: god
sense: a deity
word: God
sense: a deity
word: Allah
Derived terms: archdivine
school-divine
divine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭ-vīnʹ
ipa: /dɪˈvaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: divines
form: divining
form: divined
form: divined
Etymology: Replaced Middle English devine, devin from Middle French deviner, from Latin dīvīnō.
Senses: examples: text: a sagacity which divined the evil designs
ref: 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
text: Darest thou […] divine his downfall?
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, 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 III, scene iv]:
glosses: To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
examples: text: no secret can be told
To any who divined it not before
ref: 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
text: If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 43”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, 250c:
glosses: To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
glosses: To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
examples: text: Living on earth like angel new divined.
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard,Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier. […], London: […] [Thomas Orwin] for William Ponsonby, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To render divine; to deify.
Derived terms: divinable
divined
divinement
diviner
divineress
divining
divinise
divinize
divinister
Related terms: word: divinail
word: divinal
word: divination
word: divinator
word: divinatorial
word: divinatory
word: divinatrice
word: divinify
word: divinipotent
word: divinise
word: divinize
word: divinistre
word: divinity
word: Divinópolis
word: predivine
sense: Expressions
alt: cf. a lo divino
word: a lo divino
sense: Expressions
word: baculus divinatorius
sense: Expressions
word: Divinópolis de Goiás
sense: Expressions
english: Maria Callas
translation: Maria Callas
word: La Divina
sense: Expressions
word: lectio divina
sense: Expressions
word: Liposcelis divinatorius
sense: Expressions
word: Salvia divinorum
sense: Expressions
word: São José do Divino
sense: Expressions
word: virgula divina
sense: Expressions
word: voce divinare
unholy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈhəʊli/
rhymes: -əʊli
Forms: form: unholier
form: more unholy
form: unholiest
form: most unholy
Etymology: From Middle English unholi, unhaliȝ, from Old English unhāliġ, from Proto-Germanic *unhailagaz, equivalent to un- + holy. Cognate with Scots unhaly, Dutch onheilig, German Low German unhillig, German unheilig, Danish uhellig, Swedish ohelig.
Senses: examples: text: The priest's unholy behaviour brought the church into disrepute.
text: Presently, however, this pleasing piece was interrupted. Suddenly there was a slight commotion, and a large powerful woman, whom I had noted as one of the most vigorous of the dancers, came, made mad and drunken with unholy excitement, bounding and staggering towards us, shrieking out as she came: - `I want a Black Goat, I must have a Black Goat, bring me a Black Goat!' and down she fell upon the rocky floor foaming and writhing, and shrieking for a Black Goat, about as hideous a spectacle as can well be conceived.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Essentially, the problem dates back to pre-privatisation, cost-driven British Rail practices which featured an unholy pact between management and unions, whereby management was able to employ fewer drivers and limited pension cost liabilities, while drivers were able to hoover up lots of lucrative Sunday overtime.
ref: 2022 November 16, Nigel Harris, “Endless news... little context”, in RAIL, number 970, page 3:
text: “Florida has struck an unholy bargain with the Trump administration,” one speaker said. “People are not getting food, hygiene, or medical care. These conditions are substandard and cause irreparable harm.”
ref: 2025 August 1, Jamie Guirola, “'Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2025:
glosses: Not holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted.
examples: text: What an unholy mess your room is in!
text: I've been spending an unholy amount of time trying to write a novel!
glosses: Dreadful, terrible, excessive, or otherwise atrocious.
Derived terms: unholy alliance
unholy trinity
unholy water
secular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛkjʊlə/
ipa: /ˈsɛkjələɹ/
Forms: form: seculars
form: sæcular
Etymology: From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saeculāris (“of the age”), from saeculum.
Senses: examples: text: On further examination, I found the clergy, in general, persons of moderate minds and decorous manners : I include the seculars, and the regulars of both sexes
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
glosses: A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
glosses: A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
worldly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜː(ɹ)ldli/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ldli
Forms: form: worldlier
form: more worldly
form: worldliest
form: most worldly
Etymology: From Middle English worldly, worldlich, wordly (adjective), from Old English woruldlīċ, worldlīċ, weoroldlīċ (“worldly; earthly; temporal; mundane; secular”), from Proto-Germanic *weraldilīkaz, equivalent to world + -ly. Cognate with Dutch wereldlijk (“worldly; secular”), German Low German weltlik (“worldly”), German weltlich (“worldly”), Danish verdslig (“worldly”), Swedish världslig (“worldly”), Icelandic veraldlegur (“worldly; secular”).
Senses: examples: text: 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Part Two, Chapter Twenty-four: Gossip,
These attributes, in spite of poverty and the strict integrity which shut him out from the more worldly successes, attracted to him many admirable persons, as naturally as sweet herbs draw bees, and as naturally he gave them the honey into which fifty years of hard experience had distilled no bitter drop.
text: c. 1883-1896, Vyasa, Kisari Mohan Ganguli (translator), The Mahabharata, Book 1: Adi Parva, Section LXXXV,
Thirst of enjoyment, therefore, should be given up. Indeed, true happiness belongeth to them that have cast off their thirst for worldly objects--a thirst which is difficult to be thrown off by the wicked and the sinful, which faileth not with the failing life, and which is truly the fatal disease of man.
text: The conviction that my personal, worldly life was something real and good constituted the misunderstanding, the obstacle, that prevented me from comprehending Jesus doctrine.
ref: 1889, Leo Tolstoy, chapter VIII, in Huntington Smith, transl., My Religion:
text: We have actually contrived to invent a new kind of hypocrite. The old hypocrite, Tartuffe or Pecksniff, was a man whose aims were really worldly and practical, while he pretended that they were religious. The new hypocrite is one whose aims are really religious, while he pretends that they are worldly and practical.
ref: 1910, G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, Chapter 1, part 3:
synonyms: material
mundane
sublunar
antonyms: otherworldly
spiritual
glosses: Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.
synonyms: lay
profane
antonyms: clerical
religious
sacred
glosses: Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.
examples: text: Homer and Marge have to try to explain things to children who are too worldly to fall for most excuses, the explanation trails off, and what could be a pleasant family outing to solve it all turns out to be yet another excuse for self-involvement when one public humiliation doesn’t outweigh the joys of getting busy in a windmill.
ref: 2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club:
synonyms: sophisticated
street-smart
antonyms: naive
glosses: Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.
Related terms: old-worldly
worldly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜː(ɹ)ldli/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ldli
Forms: form: more worldly
form: most worldly
Etymology: From Middle English worldly, worldliche, wordly (adverb), from Old English woroldlīċe, weoroldlīċe; equivalent to world + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Senses: synonyms: secularly
unspiritually
worldlily
glosses: In a worldly manner.
Derived terms: worldly-wise
otherworldly
this-worldly
Related terms: worldward
eternal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈtɜː.nəl/
ipa: /ɪˈtɝ.nəl/
ipa: /iˈtɝ.nəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Forms: form: eternals
form: æternal
form: æternall
form: eternall
Etymology: From Middle English eternal, from Old French eternal, from Late Latin aeternālis, from Latin aeternus (“eternal”), from aevum (“age”). Displaced native Old English ēċe.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, I want that raw power that is only offered to the eternals or creators
ref: 2012, D. E. Phoenix, Revelations of the Fallen: The Blasphemy of Astrial Belthromoto:
glosses: One who lives forever; an immortal.
supernatural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌs(j)uːpəˈnæt͡ʃəɹəl/
ipa: /ˌs(j)uːpəˈnæt͡ʃɹəl/
ipa: /ˌsupəɹˈnæt͡ʃəɹəl/
ipa: /ˌsupəɹˈnæt͡ʃɹəl/
ipa: /ˌs(j)ʉːpɘˈnɛt͡ʃɹɯ(l)/
Forms: form: more supernatural
form: most supernatural
Etymology: From Middle English supernatural, supernaturel, from Middle French supernaturel, from Latin supernātūrālis, from super (“above”) + nātūra (“nature; that which we are born with”), from nātus (“born”), perfect passive participle of nāscī (“to be born”) + adjective suffix -ālis. By surface analysis, super- + natural.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: paranatural
text: In Roman Catholic theology, sanctifying grace is considered to be a supernatural addition to human nature.
text: Stephen King's first novel is about a girl named Carrie dealing with supernatural powers.
text: We know from their literature that to our Saxon ancestors waste places of moor and forest and marshes were the resort of a host of supernatural creatures at enmity with mankind.
ref: 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 14:
text: March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary
As with the Delphic oracle of ancient Greece, physical impairment seemed compensated by almost supernatural gifts, which allowed his mind to roam the universe freely, upon occasion enigmatically revealing some of its secrets hidden from ordinary mortal view.
synonyms: supranatural#Adjective
antonyms: ordinary#Adjective
normal#Adjective
typical#Adjective
coordinate_terms: natural#Adjective
preternatural#Adjective
paranormal#Adjective
extranormal#Adjective
extraordinary#Adjective
unnatural#Adjective
glosses: Above nature; beyond or added to nature, often so considered because it is given by a deity or some force beyond that with which humans are born.
examples: text: Near-synonym: paranatural
text: The house is haunted by supernatural forces.
synonyms: supranatural#Adjective
antonyms: ordinary#Adjective
normal#Adjective
typical#Adjective
coordinate_terms: natural#Adjective
preternatural#Adjective
paranormal#Adjective
extranormal#Adjective
extraordinary#Adjective
unnatural#Adjective
glosses: Not of the usual; not natural; altered by forces that are not understood fully, if at all.
Derived terms: nonsupernatural
semisupernatural
supernaturalism
supernaturalist
supernaturalistic
supernaturality
supernaturalize
supernaturally
supernaturalness
supernatural selection
unsupernatural
Related terms: extranatural
metanatural
nonnatural
paranatural
preternatural
supernormal
supranatural
unnatural
parapsychological
supernatural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌs(j)uːpəˈnæt͡ʃəɹəl/
ipa: /ˌs(j)uːpəˈnæt͡ʃɹəl/
ipa: /ˌsupəɹˈnæt͡ʃəɹəl/
ipa: /ˌsupəɹˈnæt͡ʃɹəl/
ipa: /ˌs(j)ʉːpɘˈnɛt͡ʃɹɯ(l)/
Forms: form: supernaturals
Etymology: From Middle English supernatural, supernaturel, from Middle French supernaturel, from Latin supernātūrālis, from super (“above”) + nātūra (“nature; that which we are born with”), from nātus (“born”), perfect passive participle of nāscī (“to be born”) + adjective suffix -ālis. By surface analysis, super- + natural.
Senses: glosses: A supernatural being
examples: text: Dr Johnson defended Shakespeare's use of the supernatural from the charge of implausibility on the grounds that, "The reality of witchcraft … has in all ages and countries been credited by the common people, and in most by the learned."
ref: 2012, Blake Morrison, The Guardian:
glosses: Supernatural beings and events collectively (when used with definite article: "the supernatural")
unnatural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈnæt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəl/
Forms: form: more unnatural
form: most unnatural
Etymology: From Middle English unnatural, unnaturel, equivalent to un- + natural.
Senses: glosses: Not natural.
glosses: Not occurring in nature, the environment or atmosphere
examples: text: Time wore heavily on with Winnie Santon, after Natalie had left them. Left as she was, much in her unnatural mother's society, who seemed to be never more pleased than when she might thwart her designs, or, in some manner act so as to make those about her uncomfortable, it was not to be wondered at, if she did sigh for other days, and a confidant, to whom she might unburden her heart.
ref: 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:
text: One mother, when she heard that her daughter intended to take up medicine, retired to her room and wept, bewailing the fact that she had given birth to an "unnatural daughter."
ref: 1976 February 14, Janet Cooper, quoting unknown, “DλKE C⚢PER”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 16:
glosses: Going against nature; perverse.
Synonyms: contranatural
Derived terms: unnatural selection
unnaturally
unnaturalness
unnatural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈnæt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəl/
Forms: form: unnaturals
Etymology: From Middle English unnatural, unnaturel, equivalent to un- + natural.
Senses: examples: text: In the so-called "golden era" of science fiction, gay/lesbian characters were treated as misfits, sociopaths, villains and "unnaturals" to be pitied and scorned. Gay characters were virtually all weak, effeminate snivelers out to harm the heroes of the story. Lesbians were invariably portrayed as massive, muscular Amazons with sadistic tendencies.
ref: 1985 February 2, Tim Broadbent, “Kindred Spirits (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 28, page 10:
text: Deviants, heretics, pinks, false prophets and other unnaturals will not be spared the rod nor the stark fist of removal.
ref: 1992 October 21, Paul Harvey, “About this Measure No. 9”, in alt.slack (Usenet):
glosses: One who is unnatural, against nature, perverse.
extraordinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪksˈtɹɔː(ɹ)dɪnəɹi/
ipa: /ɪksˈtɹɔː(ɹ)dɪnɹi/
ipa: /ˌɛkstɹəˈɔː(ɹ)dɪnəɹi/
ipa: /ˌɛkstɹəˈɔː(ɹ)dɪnɹi/
ipa: /ɪks.tɹɑːˈɔː.dɪn.nə.ɹiː/
Forms: form: more extraordinary
form: most extraordinary
form: extra-ordinary
form: extraördinary
Etymology: From Latin extrāōrdinārius, from extrā ōrdinem (“outside the order”). By surface analysis, extra- + ordinary. Doublet of extraordinaire.
Senses: examples: text: Except in extraordinary circumstances, […]
text: Everybody knew I was an extraordinary person. When I was born my beard was three feet long.
ref: 1921, G. B. Shaw, Back to Methuselah:
text: The Houses may meet in extraordinary sessions at the request of the Government, of the Permanent Deputation or of the overall majority of members of either of the two Houses. Extraordinary sessions must be convened with a specific agenda and shall be adjourned once this has been dealt with.
ref: 1978, Spanish Constitution of 1978:
text: Tony Woodcock's early try and a penalty from fourth-choice fly-half Stephen Donald were enough to see the All Blacks home in an extraordinary match that defied all pre-match predictions.
ref: 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
text: From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. […] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
ref: 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
glosses: Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual.
examples: text: an extraordinary poet
glosses: Remarkably good.
examples: text: the physician extraordinary in a royal household
text: an extraordinary professor in a German university
glosses: Special or supernumerary.
Synonyms: word: exceptional
word: unparalleled
word: noteworthy
word: outstanding
word: extraordinate
Derived terms: article of extraordinary value
eggstraordinary
extraordinarily
extraordinariness
extraordinarity
extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
extraordinary form
Extraordinary Form
extraordinary general meeting
extraordinary magisterium
extraordinary optical transmission
extraordinary professor
extraordinary ray
extraordinary rendition
extraordinary session
go to extraordinary lengths
superextraordinary
unextraordinary
extraordinary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪksˈtɹɔː(ɹ)dɪnəɹi/
ipa: /ɪksˈtɹɔː(ɹ)dɪnɹi/
ipa: /ˌɛkstɹəˈɔː(ɹ)dɪnəɹi/
ipa: /ˌɛkstɹəˈɔː(ɹ)dɪnɹi/
ipa: /ɪks.tɹɑːˈɔː.dɪn.nə.ɹiː/
Forms: form: extraordinaries
form: extra-ordinary
form: extraördinary
Etymology: From Latin extrāōrdinārius, from extrā ōrdinem (“outside the order”). By surface analysis, extra- + ordinary. Doublet of extraordinaire.
Senses: examples: text: […] the sum that will probably be wanted for each head of service during the year: it is divided into the ordinary, and the extraordinaries.
ref: 1787, The New Annual Register:
glosses: Anything that goes beyond what is ordinary.
pure
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈpjʊə(ɹ)/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈpjɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpjʊɹ/
ipa: /ˈpjoɹ/
ipa: /ˈpjɚ/
ipa: /ˈpjʉːə/
ipa: /ˈpjoː/
ipa: /ˈpjuː(ə)ɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɪʊ(ə)ɹ/
ipa: /pjʉːɹ/
ipa: /pjuːɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɪʊə(ɹ)/
note: cure–fir merger, rhotic
ipa: /ˈpjɝ/
note: cure–fir merger, non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈpjɜː/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English pure, pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus (“clean, free from dirt or filth, unmixed, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Displaced native Middle English lutter (“pure, clear, sincere”) (from Old English hlūtor, hluttor), Middle English skere (“pure, sheer, clear”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr), Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr), Middle English smete, smeate (“pure, refined”) (from Old English smǣte; compare Old English mǣre (“pure”)).
Senses: examples: text: You’re pure busy.
text: I just get pure shy with the interview cats.
ref: 1996, Trainspotting (film)
qualifier: Liverpool
glosses: to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
pure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈpjʊə(ɹ)/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈpjɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpjʊɹ/
ipa: /ˈpjoɹ/
ipa: /ˈpjɚ/
ipa: /ˈpjʉːə/
ipa: /ˈpjoː/
ipa: /ˈpjuː(ə)ɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɪʊ(ə)ɹ/
ipa: /pjʉːɹ/
ipa: /pjuːɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɪʊə(ɹ)/
note: cure–fir merger, rhotic
ipa: /ˈpjɝ/
note: cure–fir merger, non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈpjɜː/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: pures
form: puring
form: pured
form: pured
Etymology: From Middle English pure, pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus (“clean, free from dirt or filth, unmixed, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Displaced native Middle English lutter (“pure, clear, sincere”) (from Old English hlūtor, hluttor), Middle English skere (“pure, sheer, clear”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr), Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr), Middle English smete, smeate (“pure, refined”) (from Old English smǣte; compare Old English mǣre (“pure”)).
Senses: examples: text: Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately.
glosses: To cleanse; to refine.
pure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈpjʊə(ɹ)/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈpjɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpjʊɹ/
ipa: /ˈpjoɹ/
ipa: /ˈpjɚ/
ipa: /ˈpjʉːə/
ipa: /ˈpjoː/
ipa: /ˈpjuː(ə)ɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɪʊ(ə)ɹ/
ipa: /pjʉːɹ/
ipa: /pjuːɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɪʊə(ɹ)/
note: cure–fir merger, rhotic
ipa: /ˈpjɝ/
note: cure–fir merger, non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈpjɜː/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: pures
Etymology: From Middle English pure, pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus (“clean, free from dirt or filth, unmixed, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Displaced native Middle English lutter (“pure, clear, sincere”) (from Old English hlūtor, hluttor), Middle English skere (“pure, sheer, clear”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr), Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr), Middle English smete, smeate (“pure, refined”) (from Old English smǣte; compare Old English mǣre (“pure”)).
Senses: examples: text: ... the establishment of an inferior College, and the consequent connexion of the many thousands of British practitioners in medicine and surgery with a subordinate institution, and one that should be subservient to the government of the pures.
ref: 1845, The Lancet, page 187:
text: Took a drop of the pure, to keep my spirits from sinking, […]
ref: c. 1870, D. K. Gavan, Rocky Road to Dublin:
text: All interpretive frames will impose their categories on the object of historical analysis, and I am not proposing that this narrative of the "pures"; be rejected in favor of some phantasmatic framework that claims to derive more purely from the sources themselves. I will show in chapter 3 that, since the "pures" possibly did not even exist […]
ref: 1998, Christopher Leigh Connery, The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: One who, or that which, is pure.
pure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈpjʊə(ɹ)/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈpjɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpjʊɹ/
ipa: /ˈpjoɹ/
ipa: /ˈpjɚ/
ipa: /ˈpjʉːə/
ipa: /ˈpjoː/
ipa: /ˈpjuː(ə)ɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɪʊ(ə)ɹ/
ipa: /pjʉːɹ/
ipa: /pjuːɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɪʊə(ɹ)/
note: cure–fir merger, rhotic
ipa: /ˈpjɝ/
note: cure–fir merger, non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈpjɜː/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
ipa: /pjʊə/
ipa: /pjʊɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈpjʊə(ɹ)/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈpjɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpjʊɹ/
ipa: /ˈpjoɹ/
ipa: /ˈpjɚ/
ipa: /ˈpjʉːə/
ipa: /ˈpjoː/
ipa: /ˈpjuː(ə)ɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɪʊ(ə)ɹ/
ipa: /pjʉːɹ/
ipa: /pjuːɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɪʊə(ɹ)/
note: cure–fir merger, rhotic
ipa: /ˈpjɝ/
note: cure–fir merger, non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈpjɜː/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: […] Dogs'-dung is called ‘Pure’, from its cleansing and purifying properties.
ref: 1851, H. Mayhew, London Labour and the London poor, vII. 142/1:
text: Mary smelled the rancid odor of the tannery on the right side of the road.[…]
"What is that, Mary?" Jake asked.
"'Tis a bag for collecting pure. That is going to be your job, Jake. You are to collect pure."
"Pure? What is pure?"
"Pure is another word for dung," Mary answered.
ref: 2001, Wendy Lawton, chapter 8, in The Tinker's Daughter:
text: […] surely there was something better for him than chasing the pure (footnote: A term, technically speaking, for dog muck, much prized by the tanneries.) […]
ref: 2013, Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of puer (“dung (e.g. of dogs)”).
impure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpjʊə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more impure
form: most impure
Etymology: From Middle French impur, from Latin impūrus.
Senses: examples: text: The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.
glosses: Not pure
Containing undesired intermixtures
glosses: Not pure
Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin
examples: text: He was thinking impure thoughts involving a girl from school.
text: “No one would marry her if she was impure, don't you see?” “Impure? Surely if a woman is forcibly deprived of her virginity, she can't be thought of as impure.”
ref: 2012, Frederick Ramsay, The Eighth Veil: A Jerusalem Mystery:
glosses: Not pure
Unchaste; obscene (not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality)
Synonyms: word: imperfect
word: tainted
word: impure
Hyponyms: word: Physical:
word: deteriorated
word: unclean
word: Moral:
word: immoral
word: obscene
Derived terms: impure name
impure s
pure-impure
Related terms: impuration
impurely
impureness
impurify
impurity
impure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpjʊə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: impures
form: impuring
form: impured
form: impured
Etymology: From Middle French impur, from Latin impūrus.
Senses: glosses: to defile; to pollute
tainted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪntɪd/
rhymes: -eɪntɪd
Forms: form: more tainted
form: most tainted
Etymology: From taint + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Hey, get that away from me! It was bought with tainted money.
text: A statement from the official Lao News Agency (KPL) Friday reported that “the consumption of tainted alcoholic beverages” was the suspected cause of the deaths.
ref: 2024 November 27, Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee, “Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers”, in CNN:
glosses: Corrupted or filled with imperfections.
examples: text: Do not use tainted values in SQL queries.
qualifier: computer security
glosses: Originating from an untrusted source.
raw_tags: of data
Synonyms: contaminated
corrupt
impure
imperfect
tainted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪntɪd/
rhymes: -eɪntɪd
Etymology: From taint + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of taint