cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tentmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tentmakers
Etymology: From tent + maker.
Senses: examples: text: And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 18:3:
text: "Yes, psychic power in its varied manifestations is found in humble quarters, but surely that has been its main characteristic from the beginning - fishermen, carpenters, tent-makers, camel drivers, these were the prophets of old."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: His [Paul's] profession as a tentmaker (Acts 18:3) may have been in the family for generations and was fairly lucrative […]
ref: 2001, Edward Beckstrom, King of the Jews: Jesus and the Messianic Age:
glosses: A manufacturer of tents.
Related terms: tentmaking
tentmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tentmaker
myncheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mynchery
mynchery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myncheries
Etymology: From minch + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A nunnery.
heroner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heroners
Etymology: From Middle English heroner, from Anglo-Norman heroner. By surface analysis, heron + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Brough-mill, which in the reign of Edward III. belonged to the family of Strelley, was then held by the service of attending the King on horseback whenever he should come into Derbyshire, carrying a heroner (or heron-falcon [footnote: Falco heronarius]).
ref: 1817, Daniel Lysons, Samuel Lysons, Magna Britannia, volume 5: Derbyshire, page 184:
text: Whilst the sound yet lingered above their heads, came another band, of falconers and huntsmen, prickers and varlets, with hawk and heroner, hound and spaniel, so many and well-appointed, that they seemed like a little army.
ref: 1845, The Metropolitan, volume 42, London: Saunders and Otley, page 101:
text: Old Joan was a noted heroner. She was never flown at any other quarry, and she had been brought out on the chance of finding a heron at siege.
ref: 1897, D. H. Madden, The Diary of Master William Silence: A study of Shakespeare & of Elizabethan sport, published 1969, page 213:
glosses: A hawk used in hunting herons.
heroners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heroner
duncish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more duncish
form: most duncish
form: dunceish
Etymology: From dunce + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of the nature of a dunce; duncelike.
Derived terms: duncishly
duncishness
Related terms: duncely
disdainous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disdainous
form: most disdainous
Etymology: From Middle English disdeynous, from Old French desdeignos, desdaigneux (French dédaigneux).
Senses: examples: text: whom thou hast lost by thy unkind words, by thy scorns, mocks, and other disdainous words and behaviours
ref: a. 1556 (date written), Hugh Latimer, “The Second of Master Hugh Latimer’s Two Sermons of the Card.”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, and Constant Martyr of Jesus Christ, Hugh Latimer, Some Time Bishop of Worcester, […], volume I, London: […] James Duncan, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: disdainful
Derived terms: disdainously
cofferwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coffer + work.
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: rubblework faced with stone
decurrently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkʌɹəntli/
ipa: /dɪˈkʊɹəntli/
Forms: form: more decurrently
form: most decurrently
Etymology: From decurrent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a decurrent manner.
passengerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From passenger + -less.
Senses: examples: text: After completing its daily route, the bus returns passengerless to the depot.
glosses: Without passengers.
forisfamiliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: forisfamiliations
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The act of forisfamiliating.
forisfamiliations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forisfamiliation
hygrodeik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hygrodeiks
Etymology: From hygro- + Ancient Greek δείκνυμι (deíknumi, “point out”).
Senses: glosses: A form of hygrometer having wet and dry bulb thermometers, with an adjustable index showing the percentage of moisture in the air, etc.
hygrodeiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hygrodeik
lieutenantship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lieutenantships
Etymology: From lieutenant + -ship.
Senses: glosses: lieutenancy
lieutenantships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lieutenantship
infraocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + ocul- + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: the infraocular antennae of certain insects
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
synonyms: subocular
antonyms: supraocular
coordinate_terms: preocular
presubocular
glosses: Situated below the eyes.
Related terms: ocular
flincher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flinchers
Etymology: From flinch + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who flinches.
flinchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flincher
desiderable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪˈzɪdəɹəbəl/
/dɪˈzɪdɹəbəl/
Forms: form: more desiderable
form: most desiderable
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dēsīderābilis.
Senses: examples: text: And moſt men verily are of the ſame nature, who paſſing by good and deſiderable things, which be (as a man would ſay) the pleaſant and potable liquors that they have, betake themſelves to thoſe that be harſh, bad, and unſavoury.
ref: 1657, Plutarch, “Of the Tranquillity and Contentment of Mind”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophy, Commonly Called, The Morals […], revised edition, London: […] S[arah] G[riffin] for J. Kirton, […], →OCLC, page 124:
glosses: Desirable.
misjoin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misjoins
form: misjoining
form: misjoined
form: misjoined
Etymology: From mis- + join.
Senses: glosses: To join wrongly or improperly.
misjoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misjoins
Etymology: From mis- + join.
Senses: examples: text: We first searched for large-scale misassemblies, looking for gene duplication errors, phasing errors and interchromosomal misjoins[.]
ref: 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313:
synonyms: misjoining
misjuncture
glosses: A wrong or erroneous join or juncture.
Related terms: misjoinder
misjoined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misjoin
misjoining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misjoin
misjoins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misjoin
duncishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From duncish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being duncish.
informities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of informity
impersuadable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impersuadable
form: most impersuadable
Etymology: From im- + persuadable. Compare impersuasible.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of impersuasible.
synonyms: word: impersuasible
observative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: observatives
Senses: examples: text: Taking these observations as a basis for his experiments, Westphalen tried placing patients with habitual constipation on the regular peasant diet, with marked substantiation of the original hypothesis deduced from his general observatives, that the vegetable diet serves as a marked stimulus to intestinal action.
ref: 1904, Massachusetts Medical Society, Medical Communications - Volume 19, page 536:
text: The observatives on which the totality of our empirical knowledge rests are themselves the result of the transformation of perceptual habits through initiation into the discursive community.
ref: 2015, Carl B Sachs, Intentionality and the Myths of the Given, page 146:
text: PARISIAN TEENAGE WRITER: "I am writing a book about the Paris Riots and Student Revolution in 1968 and need some personal observatives.”
ref: 2022, Andrew J. Farrara, The Modern Divine Comedy Book 8:
glosses: An observation.
examples: text: Now consider an observative that does not immediately raise the problem of ellipsis: "Willard is on the mat!" Unlike "Lo, a rabbit!," or even just "A rabbit!," this observative utterance takes the form of a proposition that can function as a purely declaratival expression.
ref: 2009, Rebecca Kukla, Mark Lance, Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’:
text: Yet, Kukla and Lance notice, the entitlement to an observative is essentially agent-relative and expresses an unsharable perceptual state, for of course no one else can be entitled to such an expression but the one who actually is in that state.
ref: 2017, Giacomo Turbanti, Robert Brandom's Normative Inferentialism, page 55:
topics: human-sciences
language
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An utterance that describes or calls attention to something that the speaker observes.
muciparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muciparous
form: most muciparous
Etymology: From mucus + Latin parere (“to produce”).
Senses: examples: text: muciparous gland
glosses: Secreting, or producing, mucus or mucin.
Synonyms: blennogenous
mucigenous
mucogenic
moderable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moderable
form: most moderable
Etymology: Latin moderabilis.
Senses: glosses: moderate; temperate; not excessive
pseudocarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocarps
Etymology: From pseudo- + -carp.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An accessory fruit.
pseudocarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudocarp
priedieu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priedieus
form: priedieux
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prie-dieu.
priedieux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of priedieu
priedieus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of priedieu
inefficaciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inefficaciously
form: most inefficaciously
Etymology: From inefficacious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without efficacy or effect.
frostweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frostweeds
Etymology: From frost + weed. Late in autumn, crystals of ice shoot from the cracked bark at the root.
Senses: glosses: An American species of rockrose (Crocanthemum canadense, syn. Helianthemum canadense).
glosses: Verbesina virginica (white crownbeard)
Synonyms: frostwort
frostweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frostweed
frostwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frost + wort.
Senses: glosses: frostweed
interveined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interveined
form: most interveined
Etymology: From inter- + veined.
Senses: examples: text: from his ſide two rivers flow'd, / Th' one winding, the other ſtrait and left between / Fair Champain with leſs rivers interveind, / Then meting joyn'd thir tribute to the Sea
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 67, lines 255–257:
glosses: intersected with, or as if with, veins
laminary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laminary
form: most laminary
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of laminar.
protosomite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protosomites
Etymology: From proto- + somite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the primitive segments, or metameres, of an animal.
protosomites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protosomite
alike-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alike-minded
form: most alike-minded
Senses: examples: text: I doubt not, but in the then Roman church, at the time when this epistle was written, the strong agreed well enough among themselves, and were all alike-minded, and so the weak among themselves, all alike-minded too
ref: July 1638, Robert Sanderson, sermon at Theobalds:
text: And, I would to God, not you only, that hear me this day, but all our brethren of this land were alike-minded: we should not have such libellous presses[…]
ref: 1641, Joseph Hall, The Mischief of Faction, and the Remedy of it (sermon):
glosses: like-minded
scripturalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scriptural + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And, of course, it is not startling news that the Zwickau prophets had questioned the scripturalness of the practice as early as 1521.
ref: 1996, William R Estep, The Anabaptist Story, 3rd edition, Eerdmans, page 20:
glosses: The quality of being scriptural; scripturality.
celebrious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more celebrious
form: most celebrious
Etymology: From Latin celebr-, celeber + English -ious.
Senses: examples: text: For vvhat elſe did Hubert Archbiſhoppe of Canterbury, […] vvhen in that ſacred and celebrious Aſſembly of all the States, addreſſing for the roiall Inauguration, hee […] perſvvading them by a cunning, but diſloyall ſpeech (vvhich yet ſome by tranſforming, haue more deformed) that the Engliſh Crovvne vvas meerely Arbitrary and Electiue at the peoples deuotion?
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Iohn Duke of Normandie, Guyen and Aquitaine, &c. […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 5, page 484, column 2:
glosses: Famous, well-known.
Related terms: celebrate
celebrated
celebrity
minacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minacities
Etymology: From Late Latin minacitas, from Latin minax (“threatening”) + -itas (“-ity: forming abstract nouns”).
Senses: examples: text: ...Nor is the district without its historical minacities...
ref: 1864, Leigh Hunt, The Seer, or, Common-Places Refreshed, volume II, page 278:
glosses: Synonym of menace: The action or process of threatening or the tendency to threaten.
synonyms: word: menace
extra: The action or process of threatening or the tendency to threaten
Related terms: minacious
minacy
pnigalion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin pnīgalion, from Ancient Greek πνῑγαλίων (pnīgalíōn, “nightmare”), from πνῑ́γω (pnī́gō, “to throttle, strangle”).
Senses: examples: text: Because the Greeks considered being choked or strangled to be one consequence of a night-mare attack, the entity was also called pnigalion (“throttler”).
ref: 2011, Shelley R. Adler, Sleep Paralysis, page 41:
text: Their guest list of night-time intruders includes: […] the Greek ephialtes ( one who leaps upon ) , mora ( the night 'mare' or monster), pnigalion ( the choker ) and barychnas (the heavy breather); […]
ref: 2012, Arthur Goldstuck, The Ghost That Closed Down The Town:
text: Greeks had the pnigalion (the choker) and the barychnas (the heavy breather) troubling the sleepers (Keissling, 1977).
ref: 2015, Nandita Chaube, Spirituality and Human Psyche:
glosses: A nocturnal monster in Ancient Greece that would choke its victims; incubus; nightmare.
examples: text: Incubus (synonyms, Pnigalion, ephialtes, epibole ) .— It is an elementary form of epilepsy .
ref: 1936, James Richard Whitwell, Historical Notes on Psychiatry, page 170:
text: Themison names it pnigalion, from the Greek word for suffocating.
ref: 1991, George Mora, Benjamin G. Kohl, Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance:
text: It was not merely unconsciousness, it was as if the mind were being smothered by some malign force, a pnigalion, throttling restfulness into a state of paralysis.
ref: 2022, Lucas Lex DeJong, Unmapped Darkness: The Journals of the Red Raider:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: sleep paralysis; nightmare
viripotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more viripotent
form: most viripotent
Etymology: From Latin vir (“man”) + potens (“fit for”).
Senses: examples: text: He would not suffer his sonne to marrie hir, being not of ripe yeares nor viripotent or mariable.
ref: 1577, Holinshed, Henry II:
text: Mesmer attributed all the phenomena of animal magnetism to the efflux and the influx of a subtle fluid conceived of as specifically localised in the magnet, but radiating also from stars and planets, sun and moon, the earth and the sky, and most effectively of all from the bodies of healthy and viripotent men.
ref: 1858, Samuel Brown, Lectures on the atomic theory and essays scientific and literary:
text: It has only been done in times past to supply a peculiar class of servants devoted to the care of the women of viripotent men — or, as in the middle ages, to supply alto voices for the religious services in the Roman Church.
ref: 1872, The Truth about Love:
glosses: Able to sire children; sexually mature.
examples: text: Of giving potions to make people love or hate as they please, making the strength of youth impotent, and dead bodies viripotent.
ref: 1822, William Johnson Fox, Witchcraft:
text: All now spent which should have seeded viripotent May.
ref: 1955, Shenandoah, volumes 7-8, page 55:
text: Have you, aged, settled into lesser lights, or have you retained all your viripotent powers?
ref: 1964, Gertrude Jobes, James Jobes, Outer space, page 384:
text: Through their fiction all these writers proclaim the sexual emancipation of women. Their heroines, albeit to a lesser extent than the viripotent Lea of La Bicyclette bleue, experience sexuality as enabling.
ref: 1988, Judith Graves Miller, Françoise Sagan, page 124:
text: In recent centuries, the austere Jewish sexual code has fallen on hard times in Christendom, because it cuts athwart the passionate desire of the viripotent human male, especially when young but past adolescence,
ref: 1995, Lyon Sprague De Camp, The Ape-man Within, page 121:
text: "Seventh Heaven" Kathmandu Temple Kiff (tm); a viripotent cannabis alternative for blissful regressions of vexatious depressions.
ref: 2004, Jonathan Land, The Spam Letters, page 23:
glosses: Lusty; virile; full of life and sexual energy.
pantophagist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantophagists
Etymology: See pantophagous and -ist.
Senses: antonyms: fussy eater
glosses: One who eats all kinds of food.
pantophagists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantophagist
semichaotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + chaotic.
Senses: glosses: Partially chaotic.
binocularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From binocular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a binocular manner; using two eyes.
divulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more divulsive
form: most divulsive
Senses: examples: text: divulsive action
text: divulsive effect
glosses: Tending to tear or pull apart.
traitoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traitoresses
form: traitoresse
form: traitress
form: traitresse
form: traytoress
form: traytoresse
form: traytress
form: traytresse
Etymology: From Middle English traitresse, traytouresse, from Middle French traitresse, Anglo-Norman traiteresse, treiteresce; equivalent to traitor + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Rather than heed her warnings, those who hear her words name her a traitoress or a woman insane.
ref: 2005, Lynda Rue Duerksen Jordan, Risking Apollo’s Kiss: Stories of Academically-Talented Women Teachers Naming Themselves (quotation in English; overall work in English), page 4:
glosses: A female traitor.
traitoresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traitoress
glosses: plural of traitoresse
petaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: petalline
Etymology: Compare French pétalin.
Senses: examples: text: petaline segments
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: petalous (pertaining to, attached to, or resembling a petal)
escritorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Despite his patronage of the escritorial arts, he was not a reader, so he tried storytellers and soon became bored.
ref: 1987, Ernest Kellogg Gann, The Triumph, page 292:
text: The escritorial component is a writing of attenuated comfort, atomistic consciousness echoing one form of holocaust or the other.
ref: 1992, Joseph McMinn, The Internationalism of Irish Literature and Drama, page 76:
text: The clichés and the tropisms seem to play the roles of the escritorial Scylla and Charybdis . The writing vacillates constantly between one and the other, without being able to settle down anywhere.
ref: 2004, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Marianne Ping Huang, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Reinventions of the Novel, page 236:
text: In addition to food and clothing I was carrying another bag full of treats for the locals, and writing materials necessary for my escritorial duties.
ref: 2009, John Vaughn, Unconfirmed Reports, page 183:
text: Ruling this confined estate as if it were an escritorial fiefdom must be a drag. Or so I would imagine.
ref: 2013, Raúl Salinas, Louis G. Mendoza, raúlrsalinas and the Jail Machine: My Weapon Is My Pen, page 71:
glosses: Of or pertaining to writing.
dueful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dueful
form: most dueful
Etymology: From due + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: her lives Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deserved, as his duefull meed, / Her love, her service, and her utmost wealth […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Suitable, appropriate.
single-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more single-hearted
form: most single-hearted
form: singlehearted
Etymology: From single + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: There are two hundred and eighty men, perhaps more, in that body, as honest, straightforward, singlehearted reformers as ever were assembled within four walls.
ref: 1835 April-July, Sydney Smith, “State of Parties, Speech of Henry, Lord Brougham, on the Address in the House of Lords, on Tuesday, 17 Feb, 1835”, in The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal, volume 61, page 248:
glosses: Having an honest heart; straightforward, free from duplicity.
examples: text: All this is a foolish trick of the South Korean authorities to impair the daily rising authority of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and undermine the great singlehearted unity of the people around the respected General Kim Chong-il ...
ref: 1996, Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific, Issues 2771-2783:
glosses: Devoted; unambivalent and dedicated.
Related terms: single-minded
canorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkænəɹəsnəs/
Etymology: From canorous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of meaning.
ref: 1876, James Russell Lowell, “Spenser”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 184:
glosses: The quality of being musical; melodiousness.
milken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English milken, from Old English *mylcen, milcen (“of milk”), equivalent to milk + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Then the old woman filled her jar with milk, and went on her way rejoicing at her good fortune. But as she journeyed she met with the King of that country, who, having been a-hunting, had lost his way in the pathless plain. 'Give me a drink of water, good mother,' he cried, seeing the jar; 'I am half dead with thirst!' 'It is milk, my son,' replied the old woman; 'I got it yonder from a milken pond.'
ref: 1894, Flora Annie Steel, Tales of the Punjab, volume 1:
glosses: Consisting of milk.
glosses: Milky; resembling milk.
Synonyms: sense: resembling milk
word: milky
word: lactescent
word: lacteous
Christabel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Christabella
form: Christabelle
form: Christobel
Etymology: From Middle English Cristabell, Cristabelle, from Crist (“Christ”) + -bel (“beauty”) (see Belle).
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
antecedency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antecedencies
Senses: examples: text: […] for, vnity is before any multiplied number. Which antecedencie of Vnity, in the same place, he [Dionysius] applieth vnto the Deitie.
ref: a. 1621, Martin Fotherby, chapter 10, in Atheomastix, book 2, London, published 1622, page 308:
text: Most of thy reflections, particularly that, which respects the difference as to the joys to be given by the Virtuous and the Libertine of the sex, are fitter to come in as after-reflections, than as antecedencies.
ref: 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, volume 3, letter 75, London: for the author, pages 347–348:
text: The dependence of the Understanding on the representations of the Senses, and its consequent posteriority thereto, as contrasted with the independence and antecedency of Reason, are strikingly exemplified in the Ptolemaic System […] compared with the Newtonian […]
ref: 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, London: Taylor and Hessey, pages 227–228:
text: Much of the antecedency of the movement had grown out of what one historian called “an errand of mercy” […]
ref: 1976, Martin E[mil] Marty, chapter 4, in A Nation of Behavers, University of Chicago Press, page 97:
glosses: Antecedence (various senses).
Synonyms: anteriority
Hottentotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hottentotisms
Etymology: From Hottentot + -ism.
Senses: examples: Hottentotisms in Afrikaans
glosses: A word or phrase adopted from the Hottentot language.
glosses: A kind of stammer in which the words become unintelligible.
Hottentotisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hottentotism
Khoikhoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Khoikhois
form: Khoikhoi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Khoekhoe.
Khoikhoi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Khoekhoe.
Khoikhois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Khoikhoi
voceru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voceri
Etymology: From Corsican.
Senses: examples: text: Often, the voceru would be followed by a dance called the caracolu, in which the women would process around the table in darkness. And woe betide any of the men who failed to heed their wives' and daughters' call to arms
ref: 2003, David Abram, Rough guide to Corsica:
text: The voceru for a victim of violent death belongs to the world of the vendetta, which dominated village life in Corsica until the 1930s.
ref: 2003, Tullia Magrini, Music and gender: perspectives from the Mediterranean:
glosses: A traditional lament from Corsica.
bearherd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛəhɜːd/
ipa: /ˈbɛəɹˌhɜɹd/
Forms: form: bearherds
Etymology: From bear + herd, probably a variant of bearard, itself a variant of bearward, the second element being treated as herd (“keeper of a number of domestic animals assembled together”) as in shepherd.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bearward (“someone who handles and keeps bears (and sometimes other animals such as apes and bulls), especially for use in public entertainments such as baiting or dancing displays”).
synonyms: word: bearward
extra: (“someone who handles and keeps bears (and sometimes other animals such as apes and bulls), especially for use in public entertainments such as baiting or dancing displays”)
bearherds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bearherd
duskness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English duskenes, dusknesse; equivalent to dusk + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Darkness had spread her raven pall;
Dank, lurid duskness covered all.
ref: 1887, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Wandering Jew:
glosses: duskiness
reconjoin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconjoins
form: reconjoining
form: reconjoined
form: reconjoined
Etymology: From re- + conjoin.
Senses: examples: text: Some have said that there was a generall soule, like unto a great body, from which all particular, soules were extracted, and returned thither; alwayes reconjoyning and entermingling themselves unto that universall matter[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Whether the propos'd Water, being in Glass-Vessels exactly luted together slowly and warily abstracted to a thickish substance; This being reconjoin'd to the distill'd Liquor, the Mineral Water will be redintegrated
ref: 1685, Robert Boyle, Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters:
glosses: To join or conjoin again.
reconjoined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconjoin
reconjoining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconjoin
reconjoins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconjoin
scribbet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskɹɪbɪt/
Forms: form: scribbets
Senses: glosses: A painter's pencil.
scribbets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scribbet
fluvialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluvialists
Etymology: From fluvial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who explains geological phenomena by the action of streams.
Coordinate terms: diluvialist
fluvialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluvialist
rebrace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebraces
form: rebracing
form: rebraced
form: rebraced
Etymology: From re- + brace.
Senses: glosses: To brace again.
rebraced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebrace
rebraces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebrace
rebracing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebrace
tawer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tawers
form: tawyer
Etymology: From taw + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who taws
tawers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tawer
complier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compliers
Etymology: From comply + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a great complier with every court
ref: c. 1713, Jonathan Swift, Remarks on the Characters of the Court of Queen Anne:
glosses: One who complies or obeys.
Derived terms: noncomplier
compliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complier
yieldy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yieldy
form: most yieldy
Etymology: From yield + -y.
Senses: glosses: yielding
dotardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dotardly
form: most dotardly
Etymology: From dotard + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: To direct our Adoration toward a supernatural and unimitable Transplendency of the Divine Presence, or to any visible corporeall nature that is hypostatically united with the Divinity, most assuredly is not that sunk and sottish, that dull and dotardly sin of Idolatry.
ref: 1669, Henry More, An exposition of the seven epistles to the seven churches together with a brief discourse of idolatry, with application to the Church of Rome:
text: Now can any one, free from prejudice, imagine that if infant baptism had been from the beginning a primitive apostolic usage, such a superannuated dotardly affair as this Carthage decision could possibly have occurred, or that such a question should have been debatead as late as the last half of the 3d century?
ref: 1848, The Millennial Harbinger, volume 5, page 307:
text: During his one reconnaissance visit—affable, dotardly, returning a fork which had somehow got missed from his breakfast tray—he had seen a tall stool standing in the niche.
ref: 2015, Peter Dickinson, One Foot in the Grave:
glosses: Like a dotard; foolish and weak.
Benthamism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bentham + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The utilitarianist doctrines of Jeremy Bentham.
utilitarianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /jʊtɪlɪˈtɛːɹiənɪst/
/jutɪlɪˈtɛːɹiənɪst/
Forms: form: utilitarianists
Etymology: From utilitarian + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast to the egoist, the utilitarianist defines acceptable behavior as that which maximizes the principle of utility — the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
ref: 2001, K. Douglas Hoffman, John E. G. Bateson, Essentials of Services Marketing: Concepts, Strategies and Cases:
text: Like the utilitarianist, the egoist tries to maximise good over evil as an intrinsically good moral end. In difference, he strives only for his greatest pleasure.
ref: 2007, Christian Bacher, Corporate Codes of Ethics, page 6:
text: Traditionally he has been considered a consequentalist or a utilitarianist; the famous Taylor–Warrender thesis (Taylor 1938; Warrender 1957) has sought to show that Hobbes's moral philosophy is deontological; […]
ref: 2012, Juhana Lemetti, Historical Dictionary of Hobbes's Philosophy, page 221:
synonyms: utilitarian
glosses: One who subscribes to the philosophy of utilitarianism.
utilitarianist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /jʊtɪlɪˈtɛːɹiənɪst/
/jutɪlɪˈtɛːɹiənɪst/
Forms: form: more utilitarianist
form: most utilitarianist
Etymology: From utilitarian + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: utilitarian
glosses: Relating to utilitarianism.
utilitarianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of utilitarianist
diseasedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diseased + -ness.
Senses: examples: 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
that State of Indigency and Misery, and Diseasedness, which we languish under at present
glosses: The state of being diseased; sickness.
pantologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantologists
Etymology: From pantology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One versed in pantology.
glosses: A writer of pantology.
pantologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantologist
barkantine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barkantines
Senses: topics: nautical
sailing
transport
glosses: Alternative spelling of barquentine.
barkantines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barkantine
barpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barperson
caramusa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caramusas
Etymology: From Corsican.
Senses: glosses: A traditional bagpipe from Corsica.
evidentiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: evidentiates
form: evidentiating
form: evidentiated
form: evidentiated
Senses: glosses: To provide evidence, especially in order to support a claim, theory etc
Related terms: evidentiary
macroparameters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroparameter
nanogear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanogears
Etymology: From nano- + gear.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale gear
nanogears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanogear
nanohoneycomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanohoneycombs
Etymology: From nano- + honeycomb.
Senses: glosses: A material that has a nanoscale honeycomb structure
deceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deceptors
Senses: qualifier: nonstandard outside religion
glosses: A deceiver (weaver of deceptions).
Related terms: deceptress
nanohoneycombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanohoneycomb
Caribbean Netherlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌkæɹɪˈbiːən ˈnɛðə(ɹ)ləndz/
/kəˈɹɪbi.ən ˈnɛðə(ɹ)ləndz/
Etymology: From Caribbean + Netherlands, calque of Dutch Caribisch Nederland.
Senses: glosses: The three special municipalities of the Netherlands that are located in the Caribbean: Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba.
Synonyms: BES Islands
Related terms: ABC Islands
BES Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Dutch BES-eilanden.
Senses: glosses: Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba; the Caribbean Netherlands.
Related terms: ABC Islands
marginaliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marginalisers
Etymology: From marginalise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of marginalizer.
connivence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connivencies
Senses: glosses: connivance
dissite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪˈsaɪt/
Forms: form: more dissite
form: most dissite
Etymology: From Latin dissitus.
Senses: examples: text: lands far dissite and remote asunder
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: Lying apart.
eminenter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of eminent: more eminent
lodgepole pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lodgepole pines
Senses: examples: text: I was there early in the season, when the snow still lay in thick drifts and steam wreathed through the lodgepole pines from the least thermal outlet.
ref: 2011, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, page ix:
glosses: A pine tree native to northwest America, Pinus contorta.
lodgepole pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lodgepole pine
fethers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fether
explicature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈsplɪkətʃə/
ipa: /ɪkˈsplɪkətʃə/
ipa: /ˈɛksplɪkətʃə/
ipa: /ɛkˈsplɪkət͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ɪkˈsplɪkət͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: explicatures
Etymology: From explicate + -ure, after implicature.
Senses: examples: text: In relevance theory terms, he must construct a hypothesis about the explicit content of Ally's utterance;that is, he mustrely upon both the words she uses in this utterance and an inferencing process to construct an explicature.
ref: 2012, Jodie Clark, Language, Sex and Social Structure:
text: If the speaker was your flat-mate and you had a habit of borrowing her property without permission, she might be asking you if you'd 'borrowed' the book she owned (explicature) and the utterance might be taken as a demand for its return.
ref: 2013, Peter Grundy, Doing Pragmatics, page 136:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Something explicitly expressed in an utterance, as opposed to what is implicit.
fatiscent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fatiscent
form: most fatiscent
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having chinks or openings; rimose.
foraminose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foraminose
form: most foraminose
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Perforated by holes.
Related terms: foramen
artly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more artly
form: most artly
Etymology: From art + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With art or skill; artfully.
bromatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromatologists
Etymology: From bromatology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An expert in bromatology; food scientist.
bromatologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bromatologist
empearl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: empearls
form: empearling
form: empearled
form: empearled
Etymology: From em- + pearl.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of impearl.
empearled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of empearl
empearling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of empearl
empearls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of empearl
glucogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gluco- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: glycogenesis of glucose
Derived terms: neoglucogenesis
impalatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impalatable
form: most impalatable
Etymology: From im- + palatable.
Senses: glosses: unpalatable
Rumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌmpə/
ipa: /ˈɹʌmpɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Rumpers
Etymology: From rump + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The "Red-coats" as the military were nicknamed, soon taught their masters, "the Rumpers," silence and obedience: the latter having raised one colossal man for their own purpose, were annihilated by him at a single blow.
ref: 1791, Isaac Disraeli, Curiosities of Literature:
glosses: A member or supporter of the Rump Parliament.
Rumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rumper
thienone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thienones
Etymology: From thienyl + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A ketone derivative of thiophene obtained as a white crystalline substance, C₄H₃S)₂.CO, by the action of aluminium chloride and carbonyl chloride on thiophene.
thienones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thienone
adolescency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: adolescence
ephippial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ephippial
form: most ephippial
Senses: examples: text: The posterior part of the ovary , showing the little balls into which the embryonic ephippial egg often breaks up
ref: 1858, Philosophical Transactions:
glosses: Saddle-shaped; occupying an ephippium.
phosphorogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phosphorogenic
form: most phosphorogenic
Etymology: From phosphor + -o- + -genic.
Senses: examples: phosphorogenic rays
glosses: Generating phosphorescence.
propheticalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prophetical + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: propheticality
glosses: The quality or state of being prophetical; power or capacity to foretell.
punitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpju.nɪ.tɔɹ.i/
Forms: form: more punitory
form: most punitory
Senses: examples: text: God […] may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and punitory.
ref: 1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued:
text: the former, a simply imperative law; the other a punitory: but the punitory, if it commands the punishment to be inflicted, and does not merely permit it, is as truly imperative as the other
ref: 1780, Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation:
glosses: punitive; serving to punish
allignment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allignments
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of alignment.
allignments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allignment
divertingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diverting + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being diverting.
prateful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prateful
form: most prateful
Etymology: From prate + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: A train promiscuous gathers o'er the lee,
Prateful and noisy , full of jollity
ref: 1763, William Perfect, A Bavin of Bays:
glosses: talkative
Allhallowtide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Allhallow + tide.
Senses: glosses: The time at or near All Hallows.
maudlinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maudlinisms
Etymology: From maudlin + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: At this precise period of his existence, Mr. Benjamin Allen had perhaps a greater predisposition to maudlinism than he had ever known before[…]
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: A maudlin condition.
maudlinisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maudlinism
truismatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more truismatic
form: most truismatic
Etymology: From truism + -atic.
Senses: examples: text: truismatic exposition
text: truismatic fact
glosses: Relating to, or consisting of, truisms.
Related terms: axiomatic
reannexation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reannexations
Etymology: From re- + annexation.
Senses: glosses: The act of reannexing; a subsequent annexation.
reannexations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reannexation
pterygomaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛ.ɹɪɡ.ə(ʊ).makˈsɪl.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˌtɛɹ.əɡ.oʊˈmæk.səˌlɛɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɪləɹi
rhymes: -æksɪlɛəɹi
Etymology: From pterygo- + maxillary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the pterygoid process of the sphenoid bone and the maxilla.
Derived terms: pterygomaxillary fissure
pterygomaxillary fossa
statutably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From statutable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: statutably elected
text: statutably matriculated
text: statutably settled
glosses: In line with a statute.
frizette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frizettes
form: frisette
Etymology: From French frisette (“curl”).
Senses: glosses: A fringe of hair or curls around a woman's forehead.
glosses: A pad of frizzed hair or silk formerly worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.
frizettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frizette
demicircle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɛmɪˈsɜːkəɫ]
Forms: form: demicircles
Etymology: From demi- + circle. Compare French demi-cercle.
Senses: glosses: A semicircle.
glosses: An instrument for measuring angles in surveying etc., resembling a protractor with an alidade, sights, and compass.
demicircles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demicircle
spoutless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spout + -less.
Senses: examples: text: There the pitcher stands,
A fragment, and the spoutless teapot there
ref: 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having no spout.
hydrophoby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hydrophobia.
disreputation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disreputations
Etymology: From dis- + reputation.
Senses: examples: text: a disreputation of piety
ref: 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:
glosses: Loss or lack of reputation or good name; dishonour; disrepute.
boustrophedonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From boustrophedon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the boustrophedon mode of writing.
Synonyms: boustrophedic
boustrophedon
Derived terms: boustrophedonically
incongealable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incongealable
form: most incongealable
Etymology: From Latin incongelabilis. Compare Portuguese incongelável. See congeal.
Senses: examples: text: an incongealable liquid
synonyms: uncongealable
glosses: Not congealable; incapable of being congealed.