cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
uniglot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uniglot
form: most uniglot
Etymology: From uni- + -glot.
Senses: examples: text: Organically connected they together present the most important planetary-political and social laboratory for experimentation in bringing the peoples of the world into solution that has ever been contrived by the same Almighty Power who brought confusion upon a uniglot city and dispersed mankind, mumbling and jabbering, from the plains of Shinar.
ref: 1917, John H. Finley, “New York: A Tale of Two Cities”, in American Magazine, volume 83, Colver Publishing House, page 39:
text: In such a situation there would be a danger of alienating one linguistic group by a uniglot language policy.
ref: 1956, The Educand, number 3, University of Western Australia, page 55:
text: Third, the potential recruits to the communist cause who sprang up all over the West as part of the cultural shift were slipping through the party's fingers: the 68ers in search of more relevant fields to conquer; feminists; greenies; antiwar activists; practitioners of alternative sex; students who, in the name of equality or whatever, demanded free admission to, and exam-free exit from, universities, with a degree; seminarians turned worker priests; uniglot multicultural activists; and other youthful protest-prone contra-establishmentarians.
ref: 2005, Jan S. Prybyla, The American Way of Peace: an Interpretation^([64]), University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: monoglot
uniglot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uniglots
Etymology: From uni- + -glot.
Senses: examples: text: 'Wow, a true polyglot. I'm still a struggling uniglot.'
ref: 2002, Susannah M. Smith, How the Blessed Live^([99]), Coach House Books, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: monoglot
Synonyms: monoglot
monolinguist
unilinguist
pettifogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pettifog
hynagogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hypnagogic.
unissued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + issued.
Senses: examples: text: But the mono albums can be had only in a 13-disc boxed set, “The Beatles in Mono,” for $298.98, which covers up to the White Album (the last album the group mixed in mono) and includes a mono version of the “Past Masters” singles compilation that includes previously unissued mono mixes of “Across the Universe” and songs from the “Yellow Submarine” soundtrack.
ref: 2009 September 6, Allan Kozinn, “Long and Winding Road, Newly Repaved”, in New York Times:
glosses: That has not been issued
warfighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From war + fighting.
Senses: examples: text: In addition he should announce that the so-called "tactical Trident", where some missiles carrying only one warhead for use in regional wars, will no longer be deployed – that Britain considers nuclear weapons only as a strategic deterrent against the use of nuclear forces, not as a warfighting weapon.
ref: 2009 September 24, Martin Butcher, “Brown can be bold on disarmament”, in Guardian:
text: He [Pete Hegseth] added that any general involved with D.E.I. efforts should be fired. “Either you’re in for warfighting, and that’s it,” he said. “That’s the only litmus test we care about.”
ref: 2025 February 22, Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper, Jonathan Swan, “Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The fighting of a war.
road warriors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road warrior
corridor warriors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corridor warrior
cheese dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheese dogs
Senses: glosses: A hot dog with processed cheese spread on it.
black stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the black stuff
Senses: examples: text: Chuckling, we admitted that we would probably partake in a few pints of the black stuff that evening.
ref: 2004, Brian Walters, Fallen: My Travels in Ireland and Eastern Europe, page 72:
text: Regular patrons are convinced that the pub is haunted by the restless spirit of Grace Neill herself, the former owner of the inn who died in 1916 at the age of 98. But don't let that stop your enjoying a perfect pint of the black stuff (from £2.80) and a slap-up lunch.
ref: 2009 June 14, Henry McDonald, The Observer:
glosses: The drink Guinness.
Pseudomacedonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + Macedonism. For more, see Macedonia.
Senses: examples: text: The unity of selected, falsified cultural heritages of the subjugated peoples represents the muddy historical ground for Pseudomacedonism.
ref: 2007 July 15, The Pseudomacedonian Fascism, in alt.news.macedonia, Usenet
text: […] the holy "truths" of the Pseudomacedonism, the crucial among which is the claim that today´s "Makedonci" of FYROM are direct descendants of Alexander's […]
ref: 2008 August 24, "Black Athena's" ethnic genocide of the ethnic Macedonians, in soc.culture.greek, Usenet
glosses: The practice of appropriating to Slavic Macedonia the name, symbolism and history of ancient (Greek) Macedonia.
bellowings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellowing
beneficed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of benefice
beneficed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a lewde curate,
A parson benyfyced
But nothynge well advysed.
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 35–37:
text: Sir Wycherly was not a hard drinker, like Dutton; but he was a fair drinker, like Mr. Rotherham, and most of the beneficed clergy of that day.
ref: 1842, James Fenimore Cooper, The Two Admirals:
text: I shall now look on them as beneficed, and consider their preaching.
ref: 1903, Edited by Professor Arber and Thomas Seccombe, An English Garner:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Having a benefice
Derived terms: unbeneficed
discount rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discount rates
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An interest rate that a central bank charges depository institutions that borrow reserves from it.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The interest rate used to discount future cashflows of a financial instrument; the annual interest rate used to decrease the amounts of future cashflows to yield their present value.
Synonyms: sense: central bank interest rate
word: bank rate
Related terms: policy rate
key interest rate
net present value
derma-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: See derma, dermal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dermo-.
veredas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vereda
anny
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: However seeks dhe anallogy (or natural rule) ov anny tung, must dherfore find it at home; nor wil dhe seeker seek in vain.
ref: 1813, James Elphinston (quoted), chapter 5, in The New Art of Memory, 2nd edition, page 121:
text: Ye can't get out o' this for anny less.
ref: 1870, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again:
text: I wuz buckin’ i’ the brewus an’ I should n’t a knaowed ye wuz thur, anny moer’n th’ little gurl…
ref: 1897, Hamilton Kingsford, Vigornian Monologues: A Series of Papers in Illustration of the Dialect of Worcestershire, page 18:
text: I kin lick anny man in the gang."
ref: 1916, Peggy Edmund, Harold W. Williams, compilers, Toaster's Handbook:
text: […] And Missis Moriarty looked at him, and she didn't say anny more, But she wrapped her head in her ould black shawl, and she quietly wint away.
ref: 1916, Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of any.
anythink
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: 'Well, mother told me to ride acrost and see if you wanted anythink.
ref: 1901, Henry Lawson, Joe Wilson and His Mates:
text: "Lost anythink, Matey?" said he.
ref: 1911, Herbert George Wells, The New Machiavelli:
text: Now, Alfred," she said, "you mind out for baby cryin', and if she should 'appen to want for anythink, just give a call to Mrs. Thomas through the next door."
ref: 1913, Henry W. Nevinson, Essays in Rebellion:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of anything.
Related terms: anyfink
arternoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arternoons
Senses: examples: text: This oversight of the arternoon has made me somewhat conscientious, if I can be conscientious, and my sight and hearing are now both wide awake.
ref: 1863, James Fenimore Cooper, The Crater:
text: "Good arternoon, sir," said a man who, with a short whip in his hand, trudged beside the white horse that towed the barge.
ref: 1883, George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist:
text: But, Blossy, yew better give me a chance ter talk to him this arternoon, an' mebbe I'll speak a good word fer yer."
ref: 1909, Louise Forsslund, Old Lady Number 31:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of afternoon.
artizan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artizans
Senses: examples: text: Human education joined to that of nature, may make a good citizen, a skilful artizan, or a well-bred man; but a higher power is wanting in order to produce a Bacon or a Newton.
ref: 1852, Samuel Wilderspin, The Infant System:
text: We have been artists if not artizans."
ref: 1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of artisan.
artizans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artizan
bravoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bravo
burthened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burthen
burglarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːˈɡlɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /bɝˈɡlɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: more burglarious
form: most burglarious
Etymology: From burglar + -ious.
Senses: examples: text: At nine o'clock on such a morning, the place of business of Pubsey and Co. was not the liveliest object even in Saint Mary Axe--which is not a very lively spot--with a sobbing gaslight in the counting-house window, and a burglarious stream of fog creeping in to strangle it through the keyhole of the main door.
ref: 1865, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend:
text: He felt what a great advantage it was to be forewarned of the impending danger, since being forewarned was forearmed, as with the help of the police he could prepare for his burglarious visitors.
ref: 1872, Horatio Alger, Slow and Sure:
text: One evening I was sitting at dinner in a fashionable street in New York, close to Central Park, when I was startled by a distinctly burglarious noise at the window.
ref: 1899, William Archer, America To-day, Observations and Reflections:
text: Of the various burglarious proceedings he had heard of picking the trolls’ pockets seemed the least difficult, so at last he crept behind a tree just behind William.
ref: 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit:
glosses: Being or resembling a burglar
Derived terms: burglariously
burglariousness
acrost
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: -ɒst
Etymology: From across + excrescent t.
Senses: examples: text: Now ye sling a couple o' saplings acrost the durrt ye've chucked out.
ref: 1904, Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond), The Magnetic North:
text: It's in that little brick buildin' straight acrost from the sheriff's door o' the jail--ye've been neighbors this long time!
ref: 1905, Booth Tarkington, The Conquest of Canaan:
text: I'll jest sashay acrost the track an' give 'em my regards."
ref: 1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass:
glosses: Alternative form of across.
booke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookes
Senses: examples: text: TO ALL SVCH AS HAVE receiued either pleasure or profite by the two former published bookes of this Argument: And to all beside, that desire to know the wonderfull slie deuises of this hellish crew of Conny-catchers.
ref: 1592, R. G., The Third And Last Part Of Conny-Catching. (1592):
text: Scene 10: Enter five or sixe Protestants with bookes, and kneele together.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Massacre at Paris:
text: Now in good truth I wood theis bookes were burnd That rapp men from their friends before their time, How does my uncles friend, no other name I need give him, to whom I give my selfe.
ref: 1606, anonymous author, “Sir Gyles Goosecappe”, in A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III:
glosses: Archaic spelling of book.
bowlder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowlders
Senses: examples: text: Between was the wild valley where cattle grazed among the trees and the massive bowlders.
ref: 1900, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, The Doomswoman:
text: Here lay a desolate valley—a shallow, narrow valley dotted with stunted trees and covered with many great bowlders.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 160:
text: His back humped; like a bowlder hurled down a mountain slope he made his rush, and nothing could swerve him.
ref: 1913, B. M. Bower, The Gringos:
text: The trees on the summit bent in the wind; spray leaped about the bowlders where the white foam rolled.
ref: 1920, Harold Bindloss, Lister's Great Adventure:
text: The first step in the construction was to outline the periphery of the base with bowlders of uniform size and weighing, perhaps, fifty pounds each.
ref: 1924, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 6, in Tarzan and the Ant Men, 1st edition:
glosses: Dated form of boulder.
Derived terms: bowldery
bedad
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From by dad, euphemistic form of by God.
Senses: examples: text: Lady O'Dowd is also so attached to it that, she says, if anything were to happen to Mick, bedad she'd come back and marry some of 'em.
ref: 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair:
text: But as for the party, bedad, it's rotten to the core, and won't stand another session.
ref: 1867, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:
text: "Ah, bedad, ye can finish it yourself--it's too expansive for me!"
ref: 1875, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Sketches New and Old:
text: May I tempt you to a little more filleted lemon sole, miss Dubedat? Yes, do bedad. And she did bedad.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: by God
burthensome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more burthensome
form: most burthensome
Etymology: From burthen + -some.
Senses: examples: text: All ye that, as I do, have felt this smart, Ye know how burthensome 'tis at my heart.
ref: 1662, J.T., “Grim the Collier of Croyden”, in A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition):
text: "I can, madam, but I do not love one," said Anne, thinking of her most burthensome one.
ref: 1889, Charlotte M. Yonge, A Reputed Changeling:
text: A labour-rent thus became more difficult to enforce, while the increase of wealth among the tenantry and the rise of a new spirit of independence made it more burthensome to those who rendered it.
ref: 1890, John Richard Green, History of the English People, Volume I (of 8):
glosses: Obsolete spelling of burdensome.
rewalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rewalks
form: rewalking
form: rewalked
form: rewalked
Etymology: From re- + walk.
Senses: examples: text: At the very least, rewalking a field should be able to prove that if broadly similar patterns are repeated, the original surface collection was not the product of chance.
ref: 1989, Vincent L. Gaffney, Martin Tingle, The Maddle Farm Project, →ISBN:
glosses: To walk again, specifically to walk where one has already walked.
rewalks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rewalk
rewalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rewalk
rewalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rewalk
reactiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reactivenesses
Etymology: From reactive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being reactive.
Synonyms: reactivity
airth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I've hearn some folks pretend that it comes from the bowels of the airth, but it don't; its^([sic]) a thing of the air, and I've a notion it travels a mighty long way from its startin' place afore it reaches us. "
ref: 1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes:
text: "As I was tellin' ye," he said, "I allers loved fishin' an' knowed 't was the best thing in the hull airth.
ref: 1889, Annie Trumbull Slosson, Fishin' Jimmy:
text: I guess there ain't nothin' on airth he loves better 'n that holler piece o' wood, and the toons that's inside o' it.
ref: 1901, Henry van Dyke, The Ruling Passion:
glosses: Alternative spelling of earth.
canonicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canonical
Janette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "Is Janette Lisle Miss Lisle, Walter?" "Yes, Vinnie; the eldest Miss Lisle. Janette is her name. Very pretty name, don't you think?"
ref: 1885, Justin McCarthy, Camiola. A Girl With a Fortune, Chatto and Windus, published 1885, page 149:
text: "Janette Marie de la Beauville," he said softly. "It's a good name. Did you see it on the ad? It sounds much more important than Harry Winston."
ref: 1981, Harold Robbins, Goodbye, Janette, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 190:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Janet.
Janna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Clever little sister Janna. Correction, Jane. She wasn't going to call me Janna, Jane it was and Jane it will be, to the end. How many times I have said to her, Georgie, no one calls me Jane, no one, I want to be Janna. I can't remember to, says she, making a point, and that's that. She thinks Janna is a smart little name to go with a smart little job.
ref: 1984, Doris Lessing, The Diaries of Jane Somers, Michael Joseph, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, a fanciful modern variant of Jane.
Thecla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /θɛklə/
/θiːklə/
Forms: form: Theckla
form: Thekla
Etymology: From the name of an apocryphal early Christian martyr, Ancient Greek Θεοκλεία (Theokleía), (from θεός (theós, “god”) + κλέος (kléos, “glory”)).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
examples: text: 1990, Karen Armstrong, 8: Karen Armstrong: The Acts of Paul and Thecla, Ann Loades, Feminist Theology: A Reader, page 83,
One of the first of the virgin saints to act as an important role model for women was Thecla, the legendary disciple of St Paul.
text: In the context of impending martyrdom, the beauty of Thecla’s virgin body connotes dynamis owing less to the eros she evokes and more to the chastity, piety, and resistance she promotes.⁶⁹
That Thecla is also an object of erotic desire, however, is evidenced in men's reactions to her.
ref: 2002, Mary F. Foskett, A Virgin Conceived: Mary and Classical Representations of Virginity, page 106:
text: Thecla, a saint of the Catholic church and whose feast day is celebrated on September 23, traveled with Paul on occasion and was even called “female apostle” and “equal to the apostles.”
ref: 2008, R. John Kinkel, Cinderella Church: The Story of Early Christianity, page 40:
glosses: An early Christian saint, whose life is recorded in the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla.
Theckla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Thecla.
tutelars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tutelar
Saini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sainis
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਸੈਣੀ (saiṇī).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Punjabi.
fictile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪktəl/
/ˈfɪktɪl/
/ˈfɪktaɪl/
Forms: form: more fictile
form: most fictile
Etymology: Latin fictilus, from fictus (from fingere (“to shape, form, devise”)) + -ilis
Senses: glosses: Capable of being molded into the shape of an artifact or art work
glosses: Molded of clay or earth
raw_tags: of an art work or artifact
qualifier: pottery
glosses: Of or relating to earthenware
glosses: Capable of being led or directed
Synonyms: pliable
moldable
qualis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quali
zayn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zayns
Senses: glosses: The letter ز in the Arabic script.
chillaxin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of chillax
chillaxin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of chillaxing.
senvy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛnvi/
/ˈsɛmvi/
Forms: form: senvies
Etymology: From Middle English senvey, senevey, from Old French senevé, senevei, from Vulgar Latin *sināpātium, from Latin sināpi (→ Old French senef), from Ancient Greek σίνᾱπι (sínāpi).
Senses: examples: text: The wheat seemed to have disappeared, to make room for a prodigious quantity of senvy which looked extremely well.
ref: 1759, Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (tr. John Mills), A Practical Treatise of Husbandry
glosses: The mustard plant or its seed.
senvies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of senvy
e-mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ēʹmāl
ipa: /ˈiːmeɪl/
rhymes: -iːmeɪl
Forms: form: e-mails
Senses: examples: text: I finally figured out what e-mail is for. it's for communicating with people you'd rather not talk to.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 262:
text: She had been crushed for two whole days by an e-mail from her betrothed, which had announced that he had married a British woman.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 57:
glosses: Alternative form of email.
Derived terms: e-mail address
e-mail list
e-mail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ēʹmāl
ipa: /ˈiːmeɪl/
rhymes: -iːmeɪl
Forms: form: e-mails
form: e-mailing
form: e-mailed
form: e-mailed
Senses: examples: text: In a poll released last week, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that 58 percent of drivers consider other motorists talking on a cellphone to be a very serious threat and that 87 percent consider motorists e-mailing or texting to be such a threat.
ref: 2009 August 5, Matt Richtel, “Federal Agency Plans Distracted Driving Forum”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2021:
glosses: Alternative form of email.
Derived terms: e-mailable
æmulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æmulations
Senses: examples: text: […] with what æmulation of his concurrents and feare of the Umpiers, hee strove for the Mastery, it is almost incredible. His manner was to deale with his adversaries, as if they had been but his æquals and of the same condition with him, in this sort : namely, to observe, watch and mark their […]
ref: 1552–1637, Suetonius, Philemon Holland (translator), and Charles Whibley (editor), History of Twelve Caesars, volume 2, page 117 (1899 republication; D. Nutt)
glosses: Obsolete spelling of emulation.
æmulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of æmulation
aemulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
'Aemulation' was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
glosses: Archaic spelling of emulation.
geniculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genicula
Senses: glosses: A small genu, or angular knee-like structure, especially (anatomy) a sharp knee-like bend in a small structure or organ.
nonpreservation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + preservation.
Senses: examples: text: We consider a hypothesis of missing diversity plausible if the probability of complete nonpreservation of the group is at least 0.5.
ref: 1999 February 26, Mike Foote et al., “Evolutionary and Preservational Constraints on Origins of Biologic Groups: Divergence Times of Eutherian Mammals”, in Science, volume 283, number 5406, →DOI, pages 1310–1314:
topics: sciences
glosses: Failure to preserve or be preserved
hydraulic retention times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydraulic retention time
age of judgement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
And there is also taxinomia a principle of classification and ordered tabulation.
Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
Western reason had entered the 'age of judgement'.
glosses: Alternative spelling of age of judgment.
age of judgment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ages of judgment
Senses: examples: text: The reason of the distinction between the contracts of minors under the age of 18 and the contracts of minors over 18 years is this, that a minor under the age of 18 is presumed not to have arrived at an age of judgment and discretion sufficient to protect him from the schemes of those who might take advantage of his infancy to defraud him ; and all persons who enter into a contract with a minor under the age of 18 must do so at the peril of having such a contract absolutely disowned and disaffirmed.
Civil Code, Section 35.
ref: 1903: Anthony Jennings Bledsoe, Business Law for Business Men: A Reference Book Showing the Laws of California for Daily Use in Business Affairs, page 345 (2ⁿᵈ edition; self-published)
text: The students are growing and developing at an astonishing rate mentally, physically, and morally. They are no longer children nor have they reached the age of judgment and discretion, but are in the period of transition, of vital and tremendous change.
ref: 1915: Religious Education, volume 10, page 533 (Religious Education Association)
glosses: The age at which a child is presumed to be able to judge the difference between right and wrong
examples: text: Thus if God fixes and determines the Day of Judgment, upon the foreſight of ſuch a General Impiety as will deſerve a final exciſion, God cannot reveal this to the World: For one would think it impoſſible, did the World know this beforehand, but the Age of Judgment ſhould be the moſt Devout and Religious Age, that ever had been from the beginning of the World; and then that would not be a fit time to deſtroy the World; and God could not foreſee it the propereſt time of Judgment.
ref: 1692: William Sherlock, A Practical Diſcourſe concerning a Future Judgment, page 187 (2ⁿᵈ edition; printed by M.R. for W. Rogers, at the Sun over-againſt S. Dunſtan’s Church in Fleetſtreet)
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The time of the Last Judgment
foothot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more foothot
form: most foothot
Etymology: From Middle English fot hot; equivalent to foot + hot.
Senses: examples: text: Thenne there came two knyȝtes of Northgales / that one hyghte Hewe de la montayne / and the other syr Madok de la montayne / & they chalengyd sire launcelot foote hote / Syr Launcelot not refusyng hem but made hym redy
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:
glosses: Without stopping or slowing down; immediately, at once.
labium minus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labia minora
Senses: glosses: singular of labia minora
raught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
homophone: wrought
Etymology: From Middle English raughte, raghte, from Old English rāhte, a past tense form of rǣċan (“to reach”) (compare taught and teach).
Senses: examples: text: His tayle was stretched out in wondrous length, That to the house of heavenly gods it raught, […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza XVIII, page 94:
glosses: simple past and past participle of reach
raught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
homophone: wrought
Etymology: From Middle English roughte, rought, from Old English reahte, first and third person singular preterite of reccan (“to stretch, extend, go”). More at reck.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reck
dermato-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: dermat-
Etymology: Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin”)
Senses: glosses: dermal: dermis, but also often, broadly, skin or epidermis.
Coordinate terms: cutaneous
dermal
derm-
derma-
dermo-
epidermal
Related terms: dermatosparaxis
talwege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaːlvɛçə/
Etymology: From German Talwege, plural form of Talweg.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the hypsometric curves (Text-fig. 9) and the talwege (Text-fig. 6) are not so unstable as their form might lead one to believe.
ref: 1935, Reprints, University of Sydney, page 138:
glosses: plural of talweg
talwegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talweg
ball carriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball carrier
ball girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball girl
ball games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball game
ball machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball machine
long-tailed tits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long-tailed tit
ball-peen hammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball-peen hammer
ball-pein hammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball-pein hammer
ball players
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball player
ballpoint pens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballpoint pen
ball-point pens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball-point pen
ball sacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball sack
thalwege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaːlvɛçə/
Etymology: From German Thalwege, plural form of Thalweg, obsolete (pre-1901) spelling of Talweg.
Senses: examples: text: Includes longitudinal river profiles, graded profiles, graded slopes, graded streams, thalwege, interlocking spurs.
ref: 1973: Geotitles Weekly, volume 16: № 195 – volume 17: № 203, unknown page number (Geoservices)
glosses: plural of thalweg
caricaturesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caricaturesque
form: most caricaturesque
Etymology: From French caricaturesque.
Senses: glosses: cartoon-like
glosses: in the style of a caricature
planeside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plane + -side.
Senses: examples: text: As a frequent traveler, I often take two suitcases through security but drop them off planeside before boarding, to be stored with other checked bags while in flight.
ref: 2009 July 8, “Aboard Your Next Flight: The Race for Space”, in New York Times:
glosses: Beside an airplane; particularly used of baggage check or security searches
planeside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plane + -side.
Senses: examples: text: In particular was the momentary departure for Vietnam of a brigade of the 82d Airborne Division from Fort Bragg—with LBJ shaking hands at planeside.
ref: 2012, Douglas Kinnard, Adventures in Two Worlds: Vietnam General and Vermont Professor, →ISBN:
text: If, however, the runner is required to obtain the signature of the individual at planeside to whom the package was delivered, the possibility of theft immediately lessens; individuals are less likely to steal--or be careless with--a package if they know that their signature is the last one on a receipt.
ref: 2013, Gerard Meurant, Airport, Aircraft, and Airline Security, →ISBN, page 357:
text: The team will escort the family to the ramp and planeside.
ref: 2015, Bob Buck, Well Built: Inspiring Stories from the Boardroom to the Frontline, →ISBN:
glosses: A position beside an airplane.
bonâ fide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Any bonâ fide quotations for the following : Abnegative, abnet, abnodate, abnodation, […]
ref: , Notes and Queries, page 33 (Oxford University Press)
glosses: Alternative spelling of bona fide.
acersecomic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acersecomics
Etymology: From Latin acersecomes.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:acersecomic.
glosses: A person who does not cut their hair.
autocratship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From autocrat + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state of being an autocrat; autocracy.
Jilong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jēʹlo͝ongʹ
Forms: form: Chi-lung
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese 基隆 (Jīlóng).
Senses: examples: text: Heavy industry developed in the 1970s at Taiwan's other main cities: Jilong, Taizhong, and Gaoxiung^([sic – meaning Gaoxiong]). Jilong, 25 km. east of Taipei, is located near Taiwan's main coal deposit, which has an annual yield of about 2.5 million metric tons.
ref: 1979, Frederic M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sobin, Stephen Andors, Encyclopedia of China Today, Eurasia Press, →ISBN, page 35:
text: We began to think of moving because of the low salary but also because we were getting very tired of living in Jilong. The weather there is simply terrible: it rains constantly, and the wind blows.
ref: 1987, Hill Gates, “Folk Religions, Old and New”, in Chinese Working-Class Lives, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 219:
text: The ROC made its own use out of individual refugees’ stories. As an “intellectual,” Zhang Shijie registered with ARCI for resettlement in Taiwan. On October 23, 1953, he arrived at Jilong (Keelung) Harbor in Taiwan with two to three hundred other refugees from the Rennie’s Mill camp.
ref: 2015, Meredith Oyen, The Diplomacy of Migration : Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: Synonym of Keelung.
synonyms: word: Keelung
Jiayi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 嘉義 (Jiāyì).
Senses: examples: text: About two-thirds of the island is composed of rugged uplands, and numerous peaks crest above 3,000 m. The island’s tallest mountain is Yushan (Jade Mountain). It rises 4,000 m and is located inland from Jiayi (Chia-i), almost astride the Tropic of Cancer.
ref: 1983, Clifton W. Pannell, Laurence J. C. Ma, China: The Geography of Development and Modernization, V. H. Winston & Sons, →ISBN, page 266:
text: The southern town of Jiayi cemented its reputation as the baseball capital of Taiwan when several of its sons went on to star in baseball in Japan.
ref: 2006, Baseball without Borders, New York: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Liao's father suddenly passed away the year after Retrocession. All alone, he left Jiayi for Taipei and lived on the family property, which was managed at that time by his second uncle.
ref: 2009, Guo Songfen, Running Mother and Other Stories, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: Alternative form of Chiayi.
wikipedia: :zh:周婉窈
céléripede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: céléripedes
Senses: examples: text: The frame of the céléripede was a wooden bar that was attached to two wheels.
ref: 2001, Patrick Mangan, Sports on Wheels, page 22:
glosses: Alternative spelling of celeripede.
céléripedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of céléripede
celeripede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕlĕʹrĭpēd
ipa: /sɛˈlɛɹɪpiːd/
ipa: /seɪleɪɹipɛd/
Forms: form: celeripedes
form: céléripede
Etymology: Borrowed from French céléripede.
Senses: examples: text: [… I]f Louis Philippe would read out of our book, the French would catch the infection, transmit the mails and passengers to Rennes, and thus give them that celeripede character of which they are so fond of boasting.
ref: 1835: The Mechanics’ Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, volume XXII, page 409 (J. Cunningham)
text: Celeripede and velocipede (abbreviated often into velo), both stressed “swiftness of foot.”
The Frenchman’s claim goes back to 1816. M. Niepce was a pioneer of photography. Possibly with Sivrac’s contraption in mind, he built a machine that, because of its speed, he called a celeripede. It was a simple device consisting of two equal-sized wooden wheels connected by a bar upon which the rider sat and pushed himself forward by “walking.”
ref: 1970: Rudolph Brasch, How Did Sports Begin?: A Look at the Origins of Man at Play, pages 112 and 114 (McKay)
glosses: An early form of the bicycle, consisting of two wheels of equal diameter attached by a wooden bar and lacking either pedals or a means of steering.
Related terms: velocipede
celeripedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of celeripede
ambiposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambipositions
Etymology: From ambi- + position.
Senses: examples: text: The ascribing of postpositions to Indo-European is not well founded. The elements concerned may have been ambipositions.
ref: 1981, Linguistic Typology, page 404:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An adposition that can occur either before or after its complement.
Hypernyms: word
part of speech
adposition
Hyponyms: preposition
postposition
Derived terms: ambipositional
ambipositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambiposition
debacchate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbækeɪt/
Forms: form: debacchates
form: debacchating
form: debacchated
form: debacchated
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin dēbacchātus, perfect active participle of Latin dēbacchor, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:debacchate.
glosses: To rant as if drunk.
Related terms: bacchanal
bacchante
debacchation
esquivalience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛs.kwɪˈveɪ.li.əns/
Etymology: Made up as a copyright trap in the 2001 New Oxford American Dictionary, and said to be related to French esquiver (“evade, dodge, duck”). Began to see actual use by 2006, after having been identified as fictitious in 2005. The entry is still present in the dictionary's third edition (2010).
Senses: examples: text: The New Oxford American Dictionary, for example, defines "esquivalience" as "the wilful avoidance of one's official responsibilities" […] they were "trying to make a word that could not arise in nature". But ploughing through to result 112 of 51,800 Google search hits turned up the phrase "esquivalience in the Oval Office".
ref: 2006, New Scientist, volume 192, numbers 2572-2577, page 62:
text: 'Esquivalience', McKean explained, was chosen as a reflection of how diligently the team had grafted; they wanted to catch people who displayed ultimate esquivalience by simply copying all of their hard work.
ref: 2011, Alex Horne, Wordwatching: One Man's Quest for Linguistic Immortality, page 34:
text: What? We shouldn't? We should just leave them there? Ah, and so now after a lifetime of esquivalience you wish to play the hero!
ref: 2012, Pasha Malla, People Park, House of Anansi Press, published 2012, →ISBN:
text: There'd be no “Star-Spangled Banner,” no “America the Beautiful,” and no Elvis. If you don't stop the cuts in funding for music, that—that'd be esquivalience on your part.”
ref: 2012, Kathleen O'Reilly, Beyond Seduction, Mills & Boon, published 2012, →ISBN:
text: One can say that Mr. Springfield's esquivalience in formulating a motto for his town via a well-known speech was disappointing. After all, one would think that Jebediah's investment in the region and in his own legacy would have compelled […]
ref: 2014, Dan Lewis, Now I Know More: The Revealing Stories Behind Even More of the World's Most Interesting Facts, "F+W Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: Deliberate shirking of one's official duties.
snilch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪlt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪltʃ
Forms: form: snilches
form: snilching
form: snilched
form: snilched
Senses: examples: text: “[…] I got a hankering to see it meself, and when I found I had a little time before dinner, I piked downstairs and had a peery. And it was the lummiest place, sir—I never seen nothing like it. I was so took up with looking at everything, I forgot about dinner, till I snilched the clock and saw how late it was, and I broomed it to the servants' hall.”
ref: 1994, Kate Ross, Cut to the Quick, →ISBN, page 122:
text: “There're whispers,” he said, his voice dropping. “Someone's snilching Nicco.” I stopped, the orange midway to my mouth, which had suddenly gone dry.
“Snilching?” I said. That wasn't good. No one liked spies, but Nicco was pathological about them.
ref: 2011, Douglas Hulick, Among Thieves: A Tale of the Kin, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: "You snilching me, buddy?" Brando growled.
 "What the fuck does that mean?" Jimmy screamed.
 Brando lowered his voice another notch, "Ahh, you are snilching me! Giving me the glimp eye, are you?"
ref: 2012 October 10, John Klawitter, Foul, Double Dragon Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: To eye or look or spy at any thing attentively.
vendication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin vendicatio (“claiming”), via French vendication (“claiming”).
Senses: examples: text: 1678 June 8, The Minutes of the Westconnaug Purchase, quoted in Rhode Island Historical Society, Rhode Island Historical Society Collections
We do give unto them full Power and Authority to and in our Behalf for the maintaining justifying and defending our just Rights and Property in our aforesaid Purchases above premisd and call to an Account any Person or Persons that are concernd in the aforesaid Purchase of what Monies is due from them to the Company and also to deal with Samuel Reape about a Deed of Sale which he doth obstinately detain in his Hands belonging to the Company: and to all Matters relating to the Propagation and Vendication of our aforesaid Purchases &c
text: Poſſeſſion thereof remains in the Heir, against whom the Legatar hath not only a personal Action, for payment or delivery of the Legacy but hath alſo a real Action of Vendication, againſt him, and all other havers thereof, for delivery of the ſame.
ref: 1693, The Institutions of the Law of Scotland, Deduced from Its Originals, and Collated with the Civil, Canon, and Feudal Laws, and with the Customs of Neighbouring Nations ... The Second Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Much Enlarged, Etc, page 498:
text: Vendication of a plot of ground
ref: 1868, Mauritius. Supreme Court, Decisions of the Supreme Court, Vice-Admiralty Court & Bankruptcy Court of Mauritius: Arrets de la Cour Supreme, de la Cour de Vice Admiraute & de la Cour des Faillites de l'Ile Maurice:
topics: law
property
glosses: An act of claiming property.
glosses: Misspelling of vindication.
Related terms: revendication
jellyfish baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jellyfish babies
Senses: glosses: A stillborn infant with transparent skin and without bones, resulting from radiation poisoning.
worry-wart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worry-warts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of worrywart.
circumposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumpositions
Etymology: From circum- + position. From Latin circumpositio, from circumpōno (“I put round”).
Senses: examples: text: Ho and Boothroyd (1979) studied the intraposition of a peg into a hole and the circumposition of a part with a hole onto a peg.
ref: 2007, T. Lim et al., “Factors affecting user performance in haptic assembly”, in Virtual Reality, volume 11, number 4:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: The act of positioning something around something else; or the state of being so positioned
examples: text: Ardestani has some postpositions: da "in," rd "for," and circumpositions: az.... da "from," pes... da "before," etc.
ref: 1982, Ehsan Yar-Shater, Encyclopaedia Iranica, volume 2, page 388:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A pair of adpositions that occur on either side of the complement
glosses: The act of circumposing.
Derived terms: circumpositional
Related terms: adposition
ambiposition
circumpose
infraposition
interposition
intraposition
postposition
preposition
superposition
circumpositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumposition
n.a.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of not applicable.
præsumptuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more præsumptuous
form: most præsumptuous
Senses: examples: text: 19. Præsumptuous violators or contemners of the sabbath or holie exercises /.
ref: ante''' 1588: Thomas Cartwright (probably), A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons, in Cartwrightiana (1951; edited by Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson), page 244 (George Allen & Unwin Ltd., Routledge; →ISBN, 0415319897)
glosses: Archaic spelling of presumptuous.
draw one's last breath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws one's last breath
form: drawing one's last breath
form: drew one's last breath
form: drawn one's last breath
Senses: glosses: To die.
Synonyms: breathe one's last breath
breathe one's last
give up the ghost
die
Related terms: dying gasp
with one's last breath
with one's dying breath
sowarree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sowarrees
form: sowarry
form: suwarree
Etymology: From Urdu سوار (savār, “swordsman”), borrowed from Persian سوار (savâr, “rider”), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎿𐎲𐎠𐎼 (a-s-b-a-r /⁠asabāra-⁠/, “horseman”), from Proto-Iranian *Hacwabāráh, ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Haćwabʰāras.
Senses: examples: text: The Rajah's sowarree was very grand and superb. He had twenty elephants with richly embroidered ambarrehs, the whole of them mounted by his Sirdars,—he himself riding on the largest, just in the centre.
ref: 1851, James Baillie Fraser, Military Memoir of Lieut-Col. James Skinner, C. B.:
glosses: A mounted procession; a cavalcade.
Leader of the Opposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Leaders of the Opposition
form: leader of the opposition
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: In a house of legislature following the model of the Westminster system (such as the UK House of Commons), the parliamentary leader of the largest political party not forming the government.
Synonyms: Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition in the United Kingdom
Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons
Leaders of the Opposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: More than this, however, there are various practical reasons why the system has been seen as desirable by successive Leaders of the Opposition since 1955.
Front-bench opposition: the role of the Leader of the Opposition, the Shadow Cabinet and Shadow Government in British politics, Robert Malcolm Punnett, Heinemann, 1973http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_aBCAAAAIAAJ&q=%22leaders+of+the+opposition
glosses: plural of Leader of the Opposition
bookes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booke
bowlders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowlder
afther
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: "You didn't tell mother what you're afther, did you?"
ref: 1848, Anthony Trollope, The Kellys and the O'Kellys:
text: He pronounced these words afterwards, with great solemnity:-- "Andrew Jackson, if I catch ye fightin' once more, I'll be afther givin' ye lave to lave the school."
ref: 1904, Winston Churchill, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: "Be afther goin' to it," said Olson.
ref: 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of after.