cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
oe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊ/
ipa: /əʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: o
homophone: oh
homophone: owe
Forms: form: oes
Etymology: From Swedish ö and Danish ø. Doublet of ey.
Senses: examples: text: I love my father's northern land, / Where the dark pine-trees grow, / And the bold Baltic's echoing strand / Looks o'er each grassy oe.
ref: 1817, [Walter Scott], “Canto Third”, in Harold the Dauntless; […], Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza X.2, page 97:
glosses: A small island.
oe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊ/
ipa: /əʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: o
homophone: oh
homophone: owe
ipa: /ɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
homophone: oy
ipa: /oʊ/
ipa: /əʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: o
homophone: oh
homophone: owe
Forms: form: oes
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic ogha.
Senses: glosses: A grandchild.
Pentecostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpen.tɪˈkɒs.təl/
rhymes: -ɒstəl
Etymology: From Pentecost + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to Pentecost.
glosses: Of, or relating to a Christian religious movement that emphasizes the Holy Spirit.
Derived terms: Bapticostal
neo-Pentecostal
Pentecostally
Pentecostal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpen.tɪˈkɒs.təl/
rhymes: -ɒstəl
Forms: form: Pentecostals
Etymology: From Pentecost + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The Pentecostals had drowned them with their discotheque music, frenzied dancing and ecstatic prayer.
ref: 2014, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu, Oneworld Publications (2018), page 162:
hypernyms: Protestant
glosses: A member of a Pentecostal church.
glosses: An offering formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost.
Related terms: Pentecostalism
Pentecostalist
Charismatic Movement
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: charismatic movement
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A Pentecostal movement within mainstream Protestant and Catholic churches.
Related terms: charismatic
Charismatic
pentecostal
Pentecostal
neo-pentecostal
neopentecostal
neo-Pentecostal
Neo-Pentecostal
churches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɝt͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈtʃɜːt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of church
churches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɝt͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈtʃɜːt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of church
sapphist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapphists
form: Sapphist
Etymology: From sapphic + -ist, by analogy with Sapphist (“admirer or student of Sappho”).
Senses: synonyms: word: beanflicker
word: bulldiker
word: bulldyker
word: carpet muncher
word: chemise lifter
word: clam smacker
word: clitorist
word: crack snacker
word: donut bumper
word: dyke
word: flat cracker
word: gayelle
word: gap-lapper
word: gynecophile
word: kamp
raw_tags: in Maori communities
word: lesbian
word: lesbianist
word: lesbo
word: lezzer
word: lezzie
word: lezzo
word: lizzie
word: palone-omi
word: rug muncher
word: Sapphic
word: sapphist
word: scissor sister
word: todger dodger
word: tribade
word: tribadist
word: tribady
word: vagitarian
glosses: A lesbian.
Related terms: Sapphic
sapphism
sapphistic
APEC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Acronym of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.
Senses: examples: text: The small resource-rich Pacific nation, which is due to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in November, has long struggled with violence and lawlessness.
ref: 2018 June 18, Joshua Berlinger, “Papua New Guinea declares 9-month state of emergency due to riots”, in CNN:
text: Xi enters the APEC leaders’ summit, which officially begins Friday, having already hit his diplomatic stride in the G20 meeting in Bali earlier this week – where his aim was to cast China as an integral part of a global arena alongside Western powers after an absence from the world stage.
ref: 2022 November 17, Simone McCarthy, “With Biden and Putin absent from APEC, China’s Xi takes center stage”, in CNN:
glosses: A regional trade agreement between Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan (under the name Chinese Taipei), Hong Kong, the US, and members of ASEAN.
pores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔɹz/
rhymes: -ɔɹz
homophone: pours
homophone: pause
homophone: paws stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: examples: text: He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.
ref: 1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, Harper, page 166:
glosses: plural of pore
pores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔɹz/
rhymes: -ɔɹz
homophone: pours
homophone: pause
homophone: paws stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pore
distal goal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distal goals
Senses: glosses: A long-term or primary goal.
extrinsic reward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extrinsic rewards
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
antonyms: intrinsic reward
glosses: A reward, such as food, that is tangible and visible to others, and external.
feedforward control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mechanism in a system that monitors performance inputs rather than outputs, and reacts so as to maintain a specified state, thus preventing or minimising problems before they occur.
up against
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: If you try to change the school schedule like that, you'll be up against legions of angry parents.
glosses: Facing; challenging, or opposing.
examples: text: If the tree grows up against the garden wall then either the tree will be crowded and stunted or the wall will be pushed out.
glosses: In contact with, abutting.
Derived terms: be up against
go up against
hit up against
rub up against
run up against
stand up against
up against it
up against the wall
intermittency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermittencies
Etymology: From intermittent + -ency.
Senses: glosses: The state of being intermittent; periodicity.
Synonyms: intermittence
airbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɹ.bʌs/
Forms: form: airbusses
form: airbuses
Etymology: From air + bus.
Senses: glosses: A subsonic jet airliner, especially a wide-bodied one.
antitragus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.tɪˈtɹeɪ.ɡəs/
rhymes: -eɪɡəs
Forms: form: antitragi
Etymology: From anti- + tragus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A projection on the lower posterior portion of the auricle of the ear opposite the tragus.
Related terms: tragus
airwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airwomen
Etymology: From air + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who flies in an aircraft; a female aviator.
Related terms: airman
aviatrix
aviatress
backside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌsaɪd/
Forms: form: backsides
form: back-side
form: back side
Etymology: From back + side.
Senses: examples: text: I gazed uncomprehendedly at the unfinished backside of the wall of the next room and wondered what had happened to my face.
ref: 1987 June 17, Vic Bubbett, “Rambling Reflections: When a ‘red telephone call’ comes in, it can change one’s life forever and ever”, in The Dothan Progress, volume 16, number 48, Dothan, Ala., →OCLC, page 3-A, column 3:
glosses: The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly
examples: text: The building's backside faced an alley and was covered in grime and graffiti.
glosses: The back side of anything, the part opposite its front
The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (UK dialect, euphemistic) an outhouse.
examples: text: Having ridden the horse all day for the first time, I had painful blisters on my backside.
text: With an arrowe so broad, He shott him into the backe-syde.
ref: c. 1500, Robin Hood, Bk. ii, Ch. iv, p. 236:
text: Our toilet was an outside netty shared between two or three families, where you sat on a hole and hoped the cat wouldn't jump at your backside.
ref: 1992 May 4, The Independent, page 13:
glosses: The back side of anything, the part opposite its front
A person's buttocks.
glosses: The back side of anything, the part opposite its front
The back side of a page: a verso.
examples: text: ...to endorse him on the backside of posterity, not a golden, but a brazen Asse...
ref: 1645, John Milton, Colasterion, page 26:
glosses: The reverse or opposite of anything.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, side.
Synonyms: sense: outhouse
word: backhouse
word: outhouse
sense: buttocks
word: rear
word: buttocks
sense: verso
word: verso
Derived terms: backside throw
get off one's backside
have a sixpenny bit up one's backside
have a sixpenny bit up one’s backside
kick up the backside
my backside
pain in the backside
sit on one's backside
think the sun shines out of someone's backside
backside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌsaɪd/
Forms: form: back-side
form: back side
Etymology: From back + side.
Senses: qualifier: board sports
glosses: Approaching an obstacle backward.
antistatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-static
Etymology: From anti- + static.
Senses: glosses: Preventing the buildup of static electricity.
Derived terms: antistatically
nonantistatic
antistatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antistatics
Etymology: From anti- + static.
Senses: glosses: An agent or substance that prevents the buildup of static electricity.
agonistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agonistical
form: most agonistical
Senses: examples: text: Three words there are here together, [translated as] to follow after, to attain, to be foremost, which are all Agonistical, referring to the customes of the Graecian exercises in their Olympian, Nemaean, Isthmian, Pythian games, which are often alluded to in these Epistles.
ref: 1659, Henry Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotations upon All the books of the New Testament, London: Richard Davis, Romans 9, annotations, page 487:
glosses: agonistic (of or relating to contests that were originally participated in by the Ancient Greeks).
Sapphist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sapphists
Etymology: From Sappho + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An admirer or student of Sappho or her poetry.
Derived terms: Sapphistic
Airbus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛə.bʌs/
ipa: /ˈɛː.bʌs/
ipa: /ˈɛəɹ.bʌs/
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.bʌs/
Etymology: Trade name, from air + bus.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A European multinational commercial aircraft manufacturer.
Airbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛə.bʌs/
ipa: /ˈɛː.bʌs/
ipa: /ˈɛəɹ.bʌs/
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.bʌs/
Forms: form: Airbuses
form: Airbusses
form: Airbii
Etymology: Trade name, from air + bus.
Senses: examples: text: The new plane was the first Airbus in the airline's fleet.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aircraft produced by the Airbus consortium.
snakes and ladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snakes-and-ladders
Senses: glosses: A children's luck-based board game of Indian origin, played on a numbered grid, the aim of which is to proceed to the end, and in which ladders aid progress and snakes impede it.
examples: text: Teachers, senior teachers, and principal teachers would have built-in status and the scales would offer well-defined career prospects instead of the ambiguous and often misleading snakes-and-ladders situation which at present exists.
ref: 1970, New Scientist, volume 45, numbers 682-694, page 493:
text: His Mireille has had a snakes-and-ladders career, starting up, going down, then finally rising once more.
ref: 1983, Opera, volume 34, numbers 7-12, page 1295:
text: But his snakes and ladders career would soon take its biggest hit.
ref: 2009, Kathryn Bonella, Hotel Kerobokan: The Shocking Inside Story of Bali's Most Notorious Jail:
text: As the country continues to wrestle with one of the greatest upheavals to everyday life in recent memory, passenger numbers have had a turbulent 'snakes and ladders' journey - and continue to lag behind pre-pandemic levels.
ref: 2022 March 9, Stefanie Foster, “RAIL Supplement”, in RAIL, number 952, page 3:
glosses: Any situation in which people or events go forward and backward, seemingly at random.
Synonyms: chutes and ladders
Related terms: back to square one
swings and roundabouts
poes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pus/
rhymes: -us
Forms: form: puss
Etymology: From Afrikaans poes (“vagina”), from Dutch poes (“cat, female cat, vagina”). Doublet of puss.
Senses: glosses: The female genitalia.
glosses: A disliked person.
fallo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fallos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish fallo.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The dispositive portion of a court's ruling, coming at the end of the ruling.
toyetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tɔɪˈɛtɪk/
Forms: form: more toyetic
form: most toyetic
Etymology: From toy + -etic; coined by Bernard Loomis (1923–2006), American toy developer and marketer.
Senses: examples: text: An animation studio's licensing executive might encourage producers to modify the design of a vehicle or weapon so it's more “toyetic,” add colors to the show's palette that would make products more appealing to customers, or alter story lines slightly to strengthen the play pattern.
ref: 2004, Karen Raugust, The Animation Business Handbook:
glosses: Suitable to be made into a marketable toy.
raw_tags: of a fictional character or object
wikipedia: Bernard Loomis
tractate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tractates
Etymology: From Middle English tractate, from Latin tractātus, past participle of tractō (“discuss”), the iterative or frequentative of trahō. Doublet of treaty.
Senses: examples: text: an abstruse tractate on black magic
glosses: A treatise.
Related terms: tract
treatise
treaty
traditionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more traditionary
form: most traditionary
Etymology: From tradition + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: […] they are ready to think it an hereticall way for any man to step out of the beaten trod of their teachers traditionary religion.
ref: 1614, John Robinson, “Preface”, in Of Religious Communion Private, & Publique, n.p:
text: […] as few or no records were extant in those days, and traditionary history stuff’d with fables, it was very easy after the lapse of a few generations, to trump up some superstitious tale conveniently timed, Mahomet like, to cram hereditary right down the throats of the vulgar.
ref: 1776, Thomas Paine, “Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession”, in Common Sense, Philadelphia, page 13:
text: The reveries of the Talmud, which are a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations, are unrivalled in the regions of absurdity.
ref: 1814, Joseph Stevens Buckminster, Sermons of the Late Rev. J. S. Buckminster, Boston: J. Eliot, “Sermon 2”, p. 32
text: First you hear the bells […], or perhaps the voice of the muleteer, admonishing some tardy or wandering animal, or chanting, at the full stretch of his lungs, some traditionary ballad.
ref: 1832, Tales from the Alhambra, Washington Irving, published 1851:
text: And, with their old traditionary song, […]
ref: 1874, John Hookham Frere, “From Catullus: Carm. IV”, in The Works of the Right Hon. John Hookham Frere, volume II, London: B. M. Pickering, page 383:
text: But the literary critic must also resist the notion that the biblical text is a more or less unwitting accretion of traditionary materials […]
ref: 1991, Robert Alter, chapter 1, in The World of Biblical Literature, Basic Books, page 15:
glosses: Traditional, of or relating to tradition.
traditionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traditionaries
Etymology: From tradition + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Someone who places emphasis on traditions.
trample
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæmpəl/
rhymes: -æmpəl
Forms: form: tramples
form: trampling
form: trampled
form: trampled
Etymology: From Middle English trample, from tramp + -le (frequentative).
Attested in the original sense 'walk heavily' since early 14th century.
Senses: examples: text: to trample grass or flowers
text: Our conquering ſwords ſhal marſhal vs the way
UUe vſe to martch vpon the ſlaughtered foe:
Trampling their bowels with our horſes hoofes: […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
text: neither caſt ye your pearles before ſwine: leſt they trample them vnder their feete, […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 7:6:
text: Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: To crush something by walking on it.
glosses: To treat someone harshly.
examples: June 9, 1960, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round
[…] horses proud of the crimson and yellow shaving-brushes on their heads, and of the sharp tingling bells upon their harness that chime far along the glaring white road along which they trample […]
glosses: To walk heavily and destructively.
examples: text: to trample on our Maker's laws
ref: 1782, William Cowper, “Conversation”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
Synonyms: sense: crush or stomp underfoot
word: tread
sense: crush or stomp underfoot
word: calcate
Derived terms: trample out
trample
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæmpəl/
rhymes: -æmpəl
Forms: form: tramples
Etymology: From Middle English trample, from tramp + -le (frequentative).
Attested in the original sense 'walk heavily' since early 14th century.
Senses: examples: text: Newly harvested grapes are poured into a vast vat for everyone to have a good trample upon […]
ref: 2015, Lucy Corne, Josephine Quintero, Lonely Planet Canary Islands:
glosses: A heavy stepping.
glosses: The sound of heavy footsteps.
thump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: thumps
Etymology: Mid 16th century, probably imitative.
Senses: examples: text: ... and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other’s shoulder-blades, and be content.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 1:
text: The watchman gave so very great a thump at my door last night, that I awakened at the knock.
ref: 1710 January 4 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Richard Steele et al.], “Saturday, December 24, 1709”, in The Tatler, number 111; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume II, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC:
glosses: A blow that produces a muffled sound.
examples: text: An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 163:
glosses: The sound of such a blow; a thud.
examples: text: Where the thump have you been?!
glosses: Used to replace the vulgar or blasphemous element in "what the hell" and similar phrases.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).
synonyms: word: bump
extra: sudden movement of underground strata
Derived terms: ecky thump
kerthump
thump-cushion
thump-thump
tubthump
thump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: thumps
form: thumping
form: thumped
form: thumped
Etymology: Mid 16th century, probably imitative.
Senses: examples: text: These bastard Bretons, whom our fathers / Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit.
ref: 2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1-3 Arsenal”, in BBC:
glosses: To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.
examples: text: The cat thumped its tail in irritation.
glosses: To cause to make a thumping sound.
glosses: To thud or pound.
examples: text: Dance music thumped from the nightclub entrance.
text: Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
ref: 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
glosses: To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.
glosses: (of a rabbit) to hit the ground with the back legs to signal agitation.
Derived terms: Bible thumping
heart-thumping
Koran thumping
Quran thumping
tub-thumping
emptiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emptinesses
form: emptinesse
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English emptynesse, from Old English ǣmtiġnes. By surface analysis, empty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or feeling of being empty.
examples: text: It seems that they existed in some sort of previous incarnation of our universe, and use abstract terms to describe their existence, such as "feeding on concepts". They prepared for some sort of ascension, but then the Pattern came, which they describe at first as an all-consuming emptiness, elaborating by saying that anything that passed into it was torn asunder, subjected to a set of principles and order that grinds things down to nothing, in a process of which entropy is just one part.
ref: 2019 January 7, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: Pattern Screamers” (6:12 from the start), in The Exploring Series, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2023:
glosses: A void; a nothingness; something lacking existence.
glosses: A nonexistence; a lack of existence.
Derived terms: nonemptiness
abrazo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹɑˌsoʊ/
ipa: /ɑˈbɹɑˌsoʊ/
ipa: /əˈbɹɑˌzoʊ/
ipa: /æˈbɹæ.θo/
Forms: form: abrazos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish abrazar (“to embrace”), from a + brazo (“arm”), from Latin bracchium.
Senses: glosses: A Latin American embrace.
alambre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alambres
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish alambre (“wire”), possibly because the ingredients were originally cooked kebab-style, skewered on wires.
Senses: examples: text: At Rosa Mexicano, alambres are removed from the skewers before they are brought to the table and served on rice that is flanked with Cooked Green Salsa (page 114) and a sauce similar to Roasted Tomatillo-Chipotle Sauce (page 201), [...]
ref: 2007, Roberto Santibañez, Rosa's New Mexican Table, Artisan Books, →ISBN, page 204:
glosses: A Mexican dish, consisting of meat (usually grilled beef) topped with cheese, salsa, and chopped bacon, onion, and pepper.
caoba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish caoba.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mahogany (“wood”).
synonyms: word: mahogany
extra: wood
authorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔθəɹaɪz/
ipa: /ˈɑθəɹaɪz/
ipa: /ˈɒθəɹaɪz/
ipa: /ˈɑθəɹaɪz/
ipa: /ˈɔːθəɹaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: authorizes
form: authorizing
form: authorized
form: authorized
form: authorise
form: authourize
Etymology: From Middle English auctorisen, from Old French auctorisier, from Medieval Latin auctorizare, from Latin auctor.
See author about the orthography with ⟨h⟩. Doublet of octroy.
Senses: examples: text: The General Assembly authorized the Council to take up the matter.
text: The judge authorized the wiretapping.
text: The term “Alfredian” then is not univocal; it can mean, depending on the argument, anything from Alfred setting down words by himself, to Alfred working with a little or a lot of help in writing or dictating, or to Alfred authorizing another or others to act in his name with degrees of his personal involvement varying from much to nil.
ref: 1986, Paul E. Szarmach, “Introduction”, in Studies in Earlier Old English Prose, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 2:
text: Meese arrived back at the Justice Department at 12:45 p.m. and advised Reynolds, Cooper, and Richardson that the President had authorized him to "get his arms around the Iranian initiative."
ref: 1995, Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye, Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair, →ISBN, page 305:
text: The soundingness of hearing and voicing constitute an embodied sense of presence and of memory. Voice then authorizes identities as identities authorize voice.
ref: 2007, Patricia Kruth, Henry Stobart, Sound, page 184:
synonyms: license
permit
antonyms: ban
prohibit
deauthorize
glosses: To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to.
Derived terms: authorizable
authorization
authorisation
authorizer
disauthorize
exauthorize
misauthorize
preauthorize
reauthorize
unauthorize
unauthorized
unauthorised
suspender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈspɛndɚ/
ipa: /səˈspɛndə/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: suspenders
Etymology: From suspend + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something or someone who suspends.
synonyms: word: braces
english: outside US
translation: outside US
glosses: An item of apparel consisting of a strap worn over the shoulder and used to hold up trousers.
glosses: An item of apparel used to hold up a sock or (now especially) a stocking, such as a garter, or each of the fastening-straps attached to a corset or suspender belt.
Derived terms: suspender belt
promover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promovers
Etymology: From promove + -er.
Senses: glosses: A promoter.
equivalate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪˈkwɪvəˌleɪt/
Forms: form: equivalates
form: equivalating
form: equivalated
form: equivalated
Etymology: Back-formation from equivalent. See -ate.
Senses: examples: text: Visceral values, which I equivalate with colour values, are closely related to thermal or temperature values.
ref: 1979, Bernard Berenson, Aesthetics and history in the visual arts, page 84:
text: "The Chinese are much addicted to the doctrine of signatures," writes one author, which creates relationships on visual physical grounds (such as equivalating the seed-laden pomegranate with fertility).
ref: 2008, Patricia Bjaaland Welch, Chinese art: a guide to motifs and visual imagery, page 12:
glosses: To equate, to consider or make equal or equivalent (to, with).
examples: text: I want, however, to stress one further fact: because syncategoremata may be construed with whole sentences, the suspicion arises that they may somehow equivalate whole sentences.
ref: 1976, Herman Parret, History of linguistic thought and contemporary linguistics, page 262:
text: In a riveting analysis of this very phenomenon, The Dance of Anger, Harriet Lerner discusses at length the notion that human relationships equivalate to a "dance" where each partner learns the steps and sticks to the script, […]
ref: 2002, Janice M. Kozma, Grazia Deledda's eternal adolescents, page 131:
glosses: To equal, to be equivalent (to).
hullo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌˈləʊ/
ipa: /həˈləʊ/
Senses: examples: text: There he is, now. Bang went the front door open and shut. Harry shouted: “Hullo, you people. Down in five minutes.”
ref: 1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 126:
text: “Mr Wooster?” “Oh, hullo, Lady Wickham.”
[...] “Hullo, Bobbie,” I said. “Hullo, Bertie,” she said. “Hullo, Upjohn,” I said. The correct response to this would have been “Hullo, Wooster”, but he blew up in his lines and merely made a noise like a wolf with its big toe caught in a trap.
[...] But as I approached the [telephone] and unhooked the thing you unhook, I was far from being at my most nonchalant, and when I heard Upjohn are-you-there-ing at the other end my manly spirit definitely blew a fuse. For I could tell by his voice that he was in the testiest of moods. Not even when conferring with me at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, on the occasion when I put sherbet in the ink, had I sensed in him a more marked stirred-up-ness. “Hullo? Hullo? Hullo? Are you there? Will you kindly answer me? This is Mr Upjohn speaking.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “II, XV, AND XIX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of hello (Greeting.)
examples: text: Suddenly Sydney gave an exclamation. ‘Hullo! — The front door’s closed!’
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
text: "Hullo, there's a monkey's wedding," said my wife's niece, a girl of about twenty, born in South Africa […] She was looking out on the lawn, and it was one of those lovely April mornings with sunshine and rain alternating[…]
ref: 1939, Country Life, volume 85, page 290:
glosses: Alternative form of hello (expressing puzzlement or discovery)
hullo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌˈləʊ/
ipa: /həˈləʊ/
Forms: form: hullos
form: hulloes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hello.
hullo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌˈləʊ/
ipa: /həˈləʊ/
Forms: form: hullos
form: hulloing
form: hulloed
form: hulloed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hello.
apertura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aperturae
Etymology: Latin apertūra
Senses: examples: text: The apertura is formed of a semilunar anter and of a wide triangular rimule.
ref: 1929, Bulletin, Smithsonian Institution, page 314:
glosses: The dehiscence of anthers.
glosses: The ostiole of certain fungi.
concordia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concordias
form: concordia
Etymology: From Latin concordia.
Senses: examples: text: Points above concordia indicate uranium loss and those below indicate uranium gain.
ref: 1979, Contributions to Geology, Volumes 17-19; Volume 3, University of Wyoming, page 174:
text: 1994 [1988 Elsevier], H.-G. Attendorn, R. Bowen, Isotopes in the Earth Sciences, Chapman & Hall, page 131,
Such lower intersections of resultant discordias with U-Th-Pb concordias are not significant in terms of geological time, merely changes which took place in the Th/U ratios or lead isotope ratios through the factors alluded to above.
text: The addition of U to a carbonate sample on concordia causes the point to move off concordia in the direction of the origin.[…]The patterns that develop in the ^{₂₃₁}Pa-^{₂₃₀}Th concordia diagrams are similar to the responses of Pa-Th concordias presented in Section 10.5a.
ref: 2005, Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing, Isotopes: Principles and Applications, 3rd edition, Wiley, page 521:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A set of plotted points, appearing as a curve on a concordia diagram or isochron diagram, representing sample data from rock of the same age; the condition of being a member of said set (or on said curve).
Coordinate terms: sense: set of points on a diagram
word: discordia
Derived terms: concordia diagram
Related terms: isochron
uprising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uprisings
Etymology: By surface analysis, uprise + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
ref: 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
text: But in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, a large audience of Americans finally saw the real beta uprising in the violent Nazi rally that shut the city down, terrorized the population, and culminated in the vehicular homicide of a local leftist woman
ref: 2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die, →ISBN:
glosses: A popular revolt that attempts to overthrow a government or its policies; an insurgency or insurrection.
uprising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, uprise + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uprise
tarry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæɹ.iː/
enpr: tăr'ē
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈtæɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈtɛɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈteɹ.i/
homophone: terry
homophone: Terry stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æɹi
Forms: form: tarries
Etymology: From Middle English tarien, terien (“to vex, harass, cause to hesitate, delay”), from Old English tirian, tirġan, terġan (“to worry, exasperate, pain, provoke, excite”), from Proto-Germanic *terganą, *targijaną (“to pull, tease, irritate”), from Proto-Indo-European *derHgʰ- (“to pull, tug, irritate”). Cognate with Dutch tergen (“to provoke”), German zergen (“to vex, irritate, provoke”), Norwegian Bokmål terge (“to irritate, provoke”), Russian дёргать (djórgatʹ, “to pull, yank, jerk, pester”). Compare also Walloon tårdjî (“to be late, to be slow, to wait”).
Senses: synonyms: stay
stop
stop-over
glosses: A sojourn.
tarry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæɹ.iː/
enpr: tăr'ē
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈtæɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈtɛɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈteɹ.i/
homophone: terry
homophone: Terry stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æɹi
ipa: /ˈtɑː.ɹi/
enpr: tä'rē
rhymes: -ɑːɹi
ipa: /ˈtæɹ.iː/
enpr: tăr'ē
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈtæɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈtɛɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈteɹ.i/
homophone: terry
homophone: Terry stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æɹi
Forms: form: tarrier
form: tarriest
Etymology: From Middle English terrie, equivalent to tar + -y.
Senses: examples: text: And he led the way from the station, stopping once to gloat over the sunset across Trafalgar Square, and again to inhale the tarry scent of the warm wood-paving, which was perfume to his nostrils as the din of its traffic was music to his ears, before we came to one of those political palaces which permit themselves to be included in the list of ordinary clubs.
ref: 1909, E[rnest] W[illiam] Hornung, “An Inaugural Banquet”, in Mr. Justice Raffles, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 2:
synonyms: word: pitchy
english: in consistency
translation: in consistency
glosses: Resembling tar.
synonyms: bituminized
pitchy
glosses: Covered with tar.
tarpaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarpapers
form: tar paper
Etymology: From tar + paper.
Senses: glosses: A heavy paper, coated with tar, used to waterproof walls and roofs.
tarpaper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tarpapers
form: tarpapering
form: tarpapered
form: tarpapered
form: tar paper
Etymology: From tar + paper.
Senses: glosses: To cover with tarpaper.
tardily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tardily
form: most tardily
Etymology: From tardy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a tardy fashion; belatedly; late
glosses: slowly
Synonyms: sense: belatedly
word: lateward
word: belatedly
sense: slowly
word: ponderously
word: slowly
technocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛk.nəˈkɹæt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more technocratic
form: most technocratic
Etymology: From techno- + -cratic.
Senses: examples: text: However, given the state of actual agreed-on knowledge, central banks’ proclamations of detailed technocratic ability to manipulate delicate frictions is really not justified.
ref: 2024, John H. Cochrane, “Expectations and the neutrality of interest rates”, in Review of Economic Dynamics, number 53, page 221 of 194–223:
glosses: Of, or relating to a technocrat or technocracy.
Derived terms: antitechnocratic
nontechnocratic
technocratically
tempering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of temper
tempering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temperings
Senses: examples: text: Caron has, in fact, discovered this very curious circumstance, that a bar of steel becomes shorter under successive temperings, while it increases in size, laterally, in such a manner, that there actually is an increase of volume.
ref: 1872, Louis Emmanuel Gruner, The Manufacture of Steel, page 29:
glosses: The act by which something is tempered.
examples: text: Clay and tempering were packed around the pole together with plenty of water[.]
ref: 1983, Barry Cunliffe, chapter 6, in Danebury Hillfort, Stroud: Tempus:
topics: architecture
qualifier: pottery
glosses: A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; temper.
Coordinate terms: annealing
templon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: templons
form: templa
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek τέμπλον (témplon, “temple”).
Senses: glosses: A barrier between the nave and the altar in a Byzantine church.
tontine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒnˈtiːn/
ipa: /ˈtɒnˌtiːn/
ipa: /ˈtɒntaɪn/
Forms: form: tontines
Etymology: From French tontine, named after Lorenzo de Tonti, who introduced the scheme into France in around 1653. Thus, from Tonti + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: When Joseph Finsbury and his brother Masterman were little lads in white-frilled trousers, their father—a well-to-do merchant in Cheapside—caused them to join a small but rich tontine of seven-and-thirty lives.
ref: 1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, chapter 1, in The Wrong Box:
text: There were many speculative schemes which gambled on the expectation of an individual's life, as in the tontine system, whereby all the group's contributions went to the last survivor.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 634:
text: They were pleasantly high, but in an almost self-conscious way, as if they were members of a tontine blessed by the unexpected death of two or three of its members.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 237:
topics: business
finance
insurance
glosses: A form of investment in which, on the death of an investor, his share is divided amongst the other investors.
wikipedia: Lorenzo de Tonti
Derived terms: tontineer
tontiner
tontinier
Related terms: english: a misnomer for tontine
translation: a misnomer for tontine
word: dead pool
tills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of till
tills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of till
methodical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈθɑdɪkəl/
ipa: [mɪˈθɑɾɪkəɫ]
Forms: form: more methodical
form: most methodical
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μεθοδικός (methodikós, “going to work by rule, systematic, crafty”) + -al.
Senses: glosses: In an organized manner; proceeding with regard to method; systematic.
examples: text: the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise
text: […]methodical regularity which would have been requisite in a prose author.
ref: 1711 December 31 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, December 20, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 253; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation.
Synonyms: word: systematic
word: codified
word: methodical
word: orderly
word: regular
word: scientific
word: systemative
Hyponyms: word: businesslike
word: sequential
word: shipshape
Derived terms: amethodical
immethodical
intramethodical
methodicalness
nonmethodical
premethodical
unmethodical
Related terms: word: methodic
word: methodically
word: methodological
word: focused
snarkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From snarky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being snarky.
Related terms: snark
trituration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triturations
Senses: examples: text: In the trituration of another century or so the corners may disappear; but in the meantime, in the year of grace 1871, I was as much in a new country as if I had been walking out of the Hotel St. Antoine at Antwerp.
ref: 1871, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Cockermouth and Keswick: A Fragment: Cockermouth”, in Essays of Travel, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1905, →OCLC, page 95:
glosses: The act of triturating; grinding to a fine powder.
glosses: Something triturated, especially dental amalgam.
Related terms: triturate
specific gravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specific gravities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The ratio of the mass of a substance to that of an equal volume of water at 4°C (or to some other reference substance)
Synonyms: relative density
spanokopita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spanokopitas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spanakopita.
spanikopita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spanakopita.
rosé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊ̯zeɪ̯/
ipa: /ɹoʊ̯ˈzeɪ̯/
rhymes: -əʊzeɪ
Forms: form: rosés
Etymology: Borrowed from French rosé (“pinkish”). Doublet of roseate.
Senses: examples: text: I know many of you gaily carry on swigging rosé right through the winter, and there may be the odd day when I do, too, but I’m definitely in the mood to return to reds.
ref: 2022 September 2, Fiona Beckett, “Pinots that won’t break the bank”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation.
glosses: A serving of such wine.
Synonyms: blush
blush wine
pink wine
rosé wine
Derived terms: frosé
rosé sauce
rosé wine
protium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.tiəm/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊ.tiəm/
rhymes: -əʊtiəm
Forms: form: protiums
Etymology: From proto- + -ium. From Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”).
Senses: examples: text: So far there are no differences among the protiums extracted at various labs, except for concentration levels.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: mul:H-1
mul:¹H
hydrogen-1
hydrogen 1
normal hydrogen
light hydrogen
hypernyms: hydrogen
mul:H
coordinate_terms: mul:H-2
mul:²H
mul:D
deuterium
hydrogen-2
hydrogen 2
heavy hydrogen
;
mul:H-3
mul:³H
mul:T
tritium
hydrogen-3
hydrogen 3
;
mul:H-4
mul:⁴H
mul:Q
glosses: The lightest and most common isotope of hydrogen, having a single proton and no neutrons: ¹₁H. It is the only stable nuclide with no neutrons.
examples: text: This radioactive decay leaves behind a protium as well.
glosses: An atom of this isotope.
Related terms: proton
p
plucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: plŭkt
ipa: /plʌkt/
rhymes: -ʌkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pluck
plucked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: plŭkt
ipa: /plʌkt/
rhymes: -ʌkt
Forms: form: more plucked
form: most plucked
Senses: coordinate_terms: shaved
glosses: Having had the feathers, hair, etc. removed by plucking.
glosses: Played by plucking.
raw_tags: of the strings of an instrument
examples: text: He could scarcely contain his admiration. "What a plucked un!" he muttered; "what a plucked un! No miss," he added, "you needn't fear. Fear, says I? You never feared nothink in your life. […]
ref: 1869, George J. Whyte-Melville, M. Or N., volume 1, page 200:
glosses: Having courage and spirit; plucky.
Derived terms: pluckedness
unplucked
demerit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɛɹɪt/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪt
Forms: form: demerits
Etymology: From Old French desmerite (modern French démérite).
Senses: examples: text: [W]hatever they acquire by their Induſtry or Ingenuity […] ſhould be as much their Property, as any diviſions of Land or of Stock that are made to the Sons; and the Poſſeſſion as ſecure, unleſs forfeited by any demerit or offence againſt the cuſtoms of the Family, which grow with time to be the Orders of this little State.
ref: 1679, William Temple, “An Essay upon the Original and Nature of Government. […]”, in Miscellanea. […], London: […] A. M. and R. R. for Edw[ard] Gellibrand, […], →OCLC, page 70:
text: They see no merit or demerit in any man or any action.
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A quality of being inadequate; a disadvantage, a fault.
examples: text: A few of you have followed in the path of the perfect West Point graduate, Robert E. Lee, who never received a single demerit in four years. Some of you followed in the path of the imperfect graduate, Ulysses S. Grant, who had his fair share of demerits, and said the happiest day of his life was "the day I left West Point." (Laughter.)
ref: 2002, George W. Bush, Commencement Address at West Point
glosses: A mark given for bad conduct to a person attending an educational institution or serving in the army.
examples: text: I fall to riſe, mount to thy maker, ſpirit, /. Leaue here thy body, death ha's her demerit.
ref: c. 1610 (first performance), attributed to John Marston, and/or William Barkstead and Lewis Machin, The Insatiate Countesse. A Tragedie: […], London: […] T[homas] S[nodham] for Thomas Archer, […], published 1613, →OCLC, Act V, signature I2, recto:
text: But when firſt Cleobulus the tyrant of the Lindians, and then Periander the tyrant likewiſe of Corinth (who had neither of them any one jot of vertue or wiſdome) by the greatneſſe of their power, by the number of their friends, and by many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, acquired forcibly this reputation, in deſpite of all uſurped the name of Sages; and to this purpoſe cauſed to be ſpred ſowen and divulged throughout all Greece certaine odde ſentences and notable ſayings, as well as thoſe of others, wherewith the former Sages, above named were diſcontented.
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “What Signifieth this Word Ei, Engraven over the Dore of Apolloes Temple in the City of Delphi”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1354:
glosses: That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.
Synonyms: discredit
Derived terms: demerit good
demeritorious
demerit point