cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
abandonee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæn.dəˌni/
Forms: form: abandonees
Etymology: From abandon + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: But this argument is built upon an assumption that an abandonment of freight convey to the abandonee a right to the freight, in preference to the right of the abandonee, of the ship, which is assuming the whole question.
ref: 1842, Sir James Allan PARK, A System of the Law of Marine Insurances ... The second edition, page 397:
text: Does abandonee of goods take subject to shipowner's claim for freight?
ref: 1924, Sir Joseph Arnould, Arnould on the Law of Marine Insurance and Average, page 1560:
text: Obviously such things must have human attention and if the legal owner abandons them some other person, the would be abandonee, may, relying on evidence of abandonment move in and halt or reverse this sure trend toward nature, and this moving in and halting such a trend toward nature is the act that vests that person with a claim against the property. Now this evidence of abandonment is very important, without it the would-be abandonee is not justified in moving in and halting the trend toward nature. This evidence may be something that the abandonee perceives about the actions of the abandoner or some fact about the condition of the property itself to indicate abandonment.
ref: 1955, Houghton v. Collins, 344 MICH 175 (1955): Brief of the Appellant, Luther Coleman, page 20:
topics: law
glosses: One to whom something is abandoned.
abandoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbændənɚ/
ipa: /əˈbændənə/
Forms: form: abandoners
Etymology: From abandon + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Sin-hating powers, reformers of all vice,
Abandoners of euil and cruell actes,
Cease to pursue with weapons of reuenge,
Mine haynous and intollerable fact.
ref: 1595, Francis Sabie, The Fissher-mans Tale of the Famous Actes, Life and Loue of Cassander a Grecian Knight, London:
text: […] cold and constant Queene,
Abandoner of Revells, mute contemplative,
ref: 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act V, scene v, page 1:
text: […] Kate’s been left in the emotional lurch by all sorts of objectifying men, psychic abandoners who range from her husband […] to her final lover […]
ref: 1990, David Foster Wallace, “The Empty Plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress”, in Both Flesh and Not, New York: Little, Brown, published 2012:
glosses: One who abandons.
abarticulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb.ɑɹˌtɪk.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /æb.ɑˌtɪk.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /æb.ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /æb.ɑˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: abarticulations
Etymology: * From ab- + articulation.
* Compare French abarticulation. See article
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An articulation, especially one that permits free motion in the joint; a hinge joint.
glosses: The act of dislocating a joint.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A term sometimes used for diarthrosis, and also for synarthrosis. Also called dearticulation.
Synonyms: sense: an articulation, especially one that permits free motion
word: diarthrosis
Related terms: disarticulation
abased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪst/
ipa: /əˈbeɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Forms: form: more abased
form: most abased
Etymology: From abase + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Humbled; lowered, especially in rank, position, or prestige.
examples: text: The blazon will be - A fess abased potentée of Champagne towards the point. The peculiar potent of Champagne may be seen in Bouton, Nouveau Traité de Blason, p. 199 (Paris, 1863.)
ref: 1865, Notes and Queries, page 251:
text: (G) Azure 3 bells in fess, abased.
ref: 1913, Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Transactions and Journal of Proceedings, page 107:
text: Per fess abased nebuly celeste and gules fimbriated argent throughout a pile azure between two rays in point argent bearing a sword in pale point to base of the like, grip gules, […]
ref: 1984, Charles A. Ravenstein, Air Force Combat Wings: Lineage and Honors Histories, 1947-1977, page 113:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Synonym of abaissé.
synonyms: word: abaissé
Derived terms: abasedly
abasedness
self-abased
unabased
abased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪst/
ipa: /əˈbeɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Etymology: From abase + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abase
abasedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪs.ɪd.li/
ipa: /əˈbeɪs.əd.li/
Forms: form: more abasedly
form: most abasedly
Etymology: From abased + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an abased manner; abjectly.
abasement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪs.mənt/
rhymes: -eɪsmənt
Forms: form: abasements
Etymology: From Middle English abaissement, from Middle French abaissement (“astonishment”). Equivalent to abase + -ment. Compare French abaissement.
Senses: glosses: The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low.
examples: text: He was wearing cavalry twill trousers and a buff crew-neck sweater. The effect was of symbolic abasement mixed with military resolve […]
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 17, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: The state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.
Synonyms: sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: abjection
sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: debasement
sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: degeneracy
sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: degeneration
sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: degradation
sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: depravation
sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: depression
sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: deterioration
sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: discredit
sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: dishonor
sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: fall
sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: humiliation
sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: lowering
sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: perversion
sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: reduction
sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: shame
sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: subserviency
sense: synonyms of "abasement"
word: vitiation
Derived terms: self-abasement
abaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪs.ɚ/
Forms: form: abasers
Etymology: From abase + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore he that shall be disobedient to [the Deacons], shall be altogither without God, and wicked, and contemning Christe, and an abaser of his ordinance.
ref: 1587, John Bridges, A Defence of the Gouernment Established in the Church of Englande for Ecclesiasticall Matters, London: Thomas Chard, Book 3, p. 297:
text: 1887, E. H. Whinfield (translator), Masnavi I Ma’navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-’d-Dín Muhammad i Rúmi, London: Trübner, Book 6, Story 6, p. 300,
God is an Abaser and an Exalter;
Without these two processes nothing comes into being.
text: He has committed the irretrievable character fault of suffering himself to be wrenched out of manhood into slavehood, whereafter he conforms no longer to the high free true laws of his soul but moulds his being to his false state and to the compelling will of abasers.
ref: 1905, Morrison I. Swift, chapter 5, in Human Submission, Philadelphia: The Liberty Press, page 37:
glosses: One who, or that which, abases.
abash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæʃ/
ipa: /əˈbæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: abashes
form: abashing
form: abashed
form: abashed
form: abasse
Etymology: Attested from 1303, as Middle English abaisen, abaishen, abashen (“lose one's composure, be upset”), from the later 14th-century also transitive "to make ashamed, to perplex or embarrass"; from Anglo-Norman abaïss, from Middle French abair, abaisser (“lose one's composure, be startled, be stunned”), from Old French esbaïr, (French ébahir), from es- (“utterly”) + baïr (“to astonish”), from Medieval Latin *exbadō, from ex- (“out of”) + bado (“I gape, yawn”), an onomatopoeic word imitating a yawn, see also French badaud (“rubbernecker”).
Senses: examples: text: He was a man whom no check could abash
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: The stare seemed to abash Poirot.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 129:
synonyms: bewilder
confuse
confound
daunt
discompose
disconcert
discountenance
dishearten
embarrass
faze
fluster
humble
humiliate
mortify
rattle
shake
shame
snub
antonyms: abet
animate
buoy
cheer
countenance
embolden
encourage
incite
inspirit
rally
reassure
uphold
glosses: To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.
examples: text: [...] as King Uther lay by his queen, he asked her, by the faith she owed to him, whose was the body; then she sore abashed to give answer.
ref: 1485 July 31, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter III, in William Caxton, editor, Le Morte d'Arthur, volume 1:
glosses: To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.
Synonyms: word: abase
word: abash
word: bring low
word: confuse
word: confound
word: debase
word: degrade
word: demean
word: depress
word: disconcert
word: discomfit
word: embarrass
word: humble
word: humiliate
word: lower
word: mortify
word: put to shame
word: shame
Hypernyms: word: attack
word: defame
word: deride
word: insult
word: mock
Hyponyms: word: ether
word: put someone in his place
word: schlong
word: soften someone's cough
word: make a fool of oneself
word: make a spectacle of oneself
word: make an exhibition of oneself
word: put one's foot in it
word: put one's foot in one's mouth
Derived terms: abashable
abashed
abashedly
abashedness
abashing
abashless
abashment
bashful
unabashed
Related terms: word: embarrassed
abashedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæʃ.ɪd.li/
ipa: /əˈbæʃ.ɪd.li/
Forms: form: more abashedly
form: most abashedly
Etymology: From abashed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: George, at length, came forward abashedly toward him, and said, — "I have been greatly to blame, Robert, and am very sorry for what I have done.
ref: 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, page 36:
text: meanwhile, no cash. Finally, Nichan asked me abashedly if perhaps I would lend him a few hundred rubles.
ref: 1956, Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey, page 156:
text: At the punchline, Moshe snorts in laughter, then abashedly suppresses the smile. Does a self-deprecating sense of humor—a comedic trope owned by the Jews—make the Nazi more human?
ref: 2018 October 8, “The Banality of the Eichmann Trial”, in Tablet Magazine:
glosses: In an abashed manner.
Derived terms: unabashedly
abashment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæʃ.mənt/
ipa: /əˈbæʃ.mənt/
Forms: form: abashments
Etymology: From Middle English abaisshment, from Middle French abaissement (“astonishment”) alteration of esbaissement, from esbaiss + -ment. Compare French ébahissement. Equivalent to abash + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: And the lorde shall smyte the with madnesse, and blyndnesse & abashment of herte.
ref: 1540, Myles Coverdale, transl., The Byble in Englyshe, London: Thomas Berthelet, Deuteronomy 28[.28]:
text: For her faint hart was with the frosen cold
Benumbd so inly, that her wits nigh fayld,
And all her sences with abashment quite were quayld.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 521:
text: On my appearing her Spirits again took the Alarm. She scarce ventured a Glance toward me. I was greatly pained by the Abashment under which I saw she laboured, and I hastened to relieve myself as well as her from the Distress.
ref: 1768, Henry Brooke, chapter 13, in The Fool of Quality, volume 3, Dublin, pages 35–36:
text: “Did he say he would let you meet some white women if you joined the reds?”
He knew that sex relations between blacks and whites were repulsive to most white men.
“Nawsuh,” he said, simulating abashment.
ref: 1940, Richard Wright, Native Son, London: Jonathan Cape, published 1970, Book 2, p. 185:
text: […] Marc, who well knew the pangs and abashments of romantic love, recognized the emotions here as genuine and heartfelt and was encouraged.
ref: 2014, Don Gutteridge, chapter 8, in Death of a Patriot, New York: Simon & Schuster, page 104:
glosses: The state of being abashed; embarrassment from shame.
abassi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑ.si/
Forms: form: abassis
Senses: examples: text: The most current money in Perſia are the abaſſi's, worth about 1 s. 4 d. ſterling : they are of the fineſt ſilver. An abaſſi is worth two mahmoudi's, a mahmoudi two ſhais, and a ſhai ten ſingle or five double caſbeghi's.
ref: 1765, The Modern Part of an Univerſal Hiſtory, from the Earlieſt Account of Time, volume 43, page 161:
text: Accounts are kept in tomans of 50 abassis = 100 mamoodis = 200 shatrees = 1,000 dinars-bisti. The last is an imaginary money.
ref: 1819, William Anderson, The London commercial dictionary, and sea-port gazetteer, entry "Persia", page 557:
text: Only know how to set about it, and you can extract an abassi, not from every carriage, but from every gun-barrel.
ref: 1899, “The Miller”, in The romances of Alexandre Dumas, page 141:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of abbasi.
abatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪt.ə.bəl/
Forms: form: more abatable
form: most abatable
Etymology: From abate + -able.
Senses: examples: an abatable writ or nuisance.
glosses: Capable of being abated.
Derived terms: unabatable
abate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: abates
Etymology: From Middle English abaten, from Anglo-Norman abatre, from Late Latin abbattere, from Latin battere.
detailed etymology, sense derivation, and cognates
The verb is derived from Middle English abaten (“to demolish, knock down; to defeat, strike down; to strike or take down (a sail); to throw down; to bow dejectedly or submissively; to be dejected; to stop; to defeat, humiliate; to repeal (a law); to dismiss or quash (a lawsuit); to lessen, reduce; to injure, impair; to appease; to decline, grow less; to deduct, subtract; to make one’s way; attack (an enemy); (law) to enter or intrude upon (someone’s property); of a hawk: to beat or flap the wings”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman abater, abatier, abatre, abbatre, Middle French abattre, abatre, abattre, Old French abatre, abattre (“to demolish, knock down; to bring down, cut down; to lessen, reduce; to suppress; to stop; to discourage; to impoverish, ruin; to conquer; to overthrow; to kill; to remove (money) from circulation; (law) to annul”), from Late Latin abbattere (“to bring down, take down; to suppress; to debase (currency)”), from Latin ab- (prefix meaning ‘away; from; away from’) + Latin battere, from older battuere (“to beat, hit; to beat up; to fight”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to dig; to stab”)).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: [Letter to Algernon Sidney dated 13 October 1681 (Julian calendar).] There are many things make a man's life uneasy in the world, which are great abates to the pleasure of living, but scarcely one equal to that of the unkindness or injustice of friends.
ref: 1681 October 23, William Penn, chapter XIV, in Samuel M[acpherson] Janney, The Life of William Penn: With Selections from His Correspondence and Autobiography, 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., published 1852, →OCLC, page 192:
glosses: Abatement; reduction; (countable) an instance of this.
examples: text: That men weigh heavier dead than alive, if experiment hath not failed us, we cannot reaſonably grant. For though the triall hereof cannot ſo well be made on the body of Man, nor will the difference be ſenſible in the abate of ſcruples or dragmes, yet can we not confirm the ſame in leſſer animalls from whence the inference is good; […]
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Concerning Weight”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 4th book, page 167:
glosses: Deduction; subtraction; (countable) an instance of this.
abate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: abates
form: abating
form: abated
form: abated
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman abatre, probably an alteration of Anglo-Norman and Middle French embatre, enbatre (“to drive or rush into; to enter into a tenement without permission”) (compare Late Latin abatare), from Middle French, Old French em-, en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + Middle French, Old French batre (“to beat, hit, strike”) (from Latin battere, battuere, the present active infinitive of battuō (“to beat, hit; to beat up; to fight”); see further at etymology 1). The English word was probably also influenced by the verb abate.
Senses: examples: text: So, if Lands be given to Father and Son, and to the heirs of their two bodies begotten, the remainder over in fee, and afterwards the Father dieth without any Iſſue but the Son, and afterwards the Son dieth without Iſſue, and a Stranger abateth, he in the remainder ſhall have one Formedon in the remainder, although the Eſtate tails were ſeveral, […]
ref: 1680, Edward Coke, “Mich. 7 Jacobi. In the Common Pleas. Buckmere’s Case.”, in The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Kt. […], 2nd edition, London: […] H. Twyford, […], →OCLC, part VI, pages 570–571:
topics: law
glosses: To enter upon and unlawfully seize (land) after the owner has died, thus preventing an heir from taking possession of it.
abate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: abates
form: abbate
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian abate (“abbot”), from Latin abbātem, the accusative singular of abbās (“abbot”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbâs), a variant of ἀββᾱ (abbā, “father; title of respect for an abbot”), from Aramaic אַבָּא (’abbā, “father; ancestor; teacher; chief, leader; author, originator”), from Proto-Semitic *ʔabw- (“father”), ultimately imitative of a child’s word for “father”. The English word is a doublet of abbot.
Senses: glosses: An Italian abbot or other member of the clergy.
abatement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪt.mənt/
Forms: form: abatements
Etymology: From Middle English abatement, from Anglo-Norman abatre (“to abate”) (from Old French abatre), + -ment; equivalent to abate + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.
glosses: The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: The deduction of minor revenues incidental to an operation in calculating the cost of the operation.
topics: law
glosses: The action of a person that abates, or without proper authority enters a residence after the death of the owner and before the heir takes possession.
topics: law
glosses: The reduction of the proceeds of a will, when the debts have not yet been satisfied; the reduction of taxes due.
glosses: An amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed; in particular from a tax.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon; any figure added to the coat of arms tending to lower the dignity or station of the bearer.
glosses: Waste of stuff in preparing to size.
glosses: A beating down, a putting down.
glosses: A quashing, a judicial defeat, the rendering abortive by law.
glosses: Forcible entry of a stranger into an inheritance when the person seised of it dies, and before the heir or devisee can take possession; ouster.
glosses: rebatement, real or imaginary marks of disgrace affixed to an escutcheon.
Synonyms: sense: lessening
word: assuagement
word: declension
word: decline
word: decrease
word: deduction
word: depreciation
word: diminution
word: discount
word: drawback
word: ebb
word: evanishment
word: fading
word: lessening
word: lowering
word: mitigation
word: moderation
word: reduction
word: remission
word: settling
word: sinking
word: subsidence
word: waning. See also Thesaurus:diminution
sense: in tax
word: allowance
sense: in tax
word: rebate
sense: in tax
word: remission
Derived terms: abatement ab initio
defense in abatement
in abatement
photoabatement
plea in abatement
tax abatement
abater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪ.tɚ/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: abaters
Etymology: From Middle English abatere. Equivalent to abate + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This is the great Prince of Grecia, called the Knight of the Sunne, restorer of the auncient kingdome of Tinacria, & the abater and breaker of the strength of the most strongest Giants in all the world.
ref: 1583, Pedro de la Sierra, translated by Robert Parry, The Second Part of the Myrror of Knighthood, London: Thomas Este, Book 1, Part 2, Chapter 21:
text: Anodyne, or Abaters of Pain of the Alimentary Kind. Such things as relax the Tension of the affected nervous Fibres […]
ref: 1732, John Arbuthnot, Practical Rules of Diet in the Various Constitutions and Diseases of Human Bodies, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 1, section 26, p. 281:
text: 1908, John H. Wallace, Preservation of the Game, Fish and Forests of Alabama, address given before the Alabama Press Association, 23 July, 1908, State Printers and Binders, p. 6,
As a fever germ abater in a malarial district, a flock of bull-bats is worth a grove of quinine trees.
text: […] research is proving the effectiveness of trees and shrubs as noise abaters—research prompted by the growing awareness that excessive noise is a form of environmental pollution.
ref: 1972, David I. Cook, David F. Van Haverbeke, “Trees and shrubs can curb noise, but with quite a few loud ‘ifs’”, in The Yearbook of Agriculture, 972, Washington, D.C.: US Department of Agriculture, page 28:
glosses: One who, or that which, abates.
abatis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbətiː/
ipa: /ˈæbətiːz/
ipa: /ˈæbətəs/
ipa: /ˈæbətiː/
ipa: /ˈæbətiːz/
Forms: form: abatis
form: abatises
form: abattis
Etymology: From French abatis, abattis (“mass of things beaten or cut down”), from abattre. See abate.
Senses: glosses: A means of defense formed by felled trees, or sometimes by bent trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy, and more recently fortified with barbed wire.
glosses: In the Middle Ages, an officer of the stables who had the care of measuring out the provender; an avenor.
glosses: In coal-mining, walls of cord-wood piled up crosswise to keep the underground roads open so as to secure ventilation.
Derived terms: abatised
abatised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.əˌtɪst/
ipa: /ˈæb.əˌtid/
ipa: /ˈæb.əˌtɪst/
ipa: /əˈbæt.id/
ipa: /əˈbæt.ɪst/
Forms: form: abattised
Etymology: From abatis + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Their defenses at Boston Neck had been built up and greatly strengthened, and on Bunker's Hill they had built an elaborate fortress, with a thick parapet, well ditched, fraised, and abatised, of which Washington said "Twenty thousand men could not have carried it against one thousand had that work been well defended."
ref: 2011, Christopher Ward, The War of the Revolution, Skyhorse, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: Provided with an abatis.
abator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪt.ə/
ipa: /əˈbeɪt.ɚ/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: abators
Etymology: From abate (“to enter without right after the owner dies and before the heir takes over”) + -or. From Anglo-Norman.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: a person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee
abator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪt.ə/
ipa: /əˈbeɪt.ɚ/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: abators
Etymology: From abate (“do away with”) + -or. From Middle English, from Old French.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: one who abates, ends, or does away with a nuisance
Related terms: abater
abatement
abattoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.əˌtwɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈæb.əˌtwɑɹ/
ipa: /ˈæb.əˌtwɑ/
Forms: form: abattoirs
Etymology: Borrowed from French abattoir, from abattre (“to slaughter”) (cognate to abate) + -oir (“-ory”).
Senses: examples: text: Once the cows reach maturity, they're sent to the abattoir.
glosses: A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
examples: text: The army's raid on the enemy turned into a major abattoir.
text: The corridors where North Korean troops would be advancing [in a hypothetical invasion of South Korea] would almost certainly be turned into human abattoirs.
ref: 2017 April 19, Franz-Stefan Gady, “What Would the Second Korean War Look Like?”, in The Diplomat:
text: “Now, down here we have the medium security cells and the various abattoirs. Be sure to reserve your spot on the sign-in sheet 'cause the abattoirs get crazy busy.”
ref: 2021 September 2, Sam Johnson & Chris Marcil, “The Cloak of Duplication” (1:58 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 3, episode 2, spoken by The Guide (Kristen Schaal):
synonyms: bloodbath
glosses: A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.
Derived terms: abattoirlike
Related terms: knacker's yard
abature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.ə.tjʊɹ/
Forms: form: abatures
Etymology: From Old French abateure, from the verb abatre (“to knock down, to destroy”). See abate.
Senses: glosses: Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.
abatvoix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑˌbɑvˈwɑ/
Forms: form: abatvoix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of abat-voix.
abaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæˈbæk.si.əl/
ipa: /æbˈæk.si.əl/
Forms: form: abaxile
Etymology: From ab- (“away from”) + axial (“axis”).
Senses: examples: text: The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 7:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of a side that is facing away from the axis or central line, such as the underside of a leaf, or the back of an animal.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Not in the axis. Applied to an embryo placed out of the axis of the seed.
Synonyms: sense: on the back of an animal
word: dorsal
word: eccentric
Derived terms: abaxially
abay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English abay, a-bay, from Old French abai, aboi, abay (“barking”), from the verb abayer.
Senses: glosses: Barking or baying of dogs at their prey.
abb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb/
rhymes: -æb
homophone: ab
homophone: Ab
Forms: form: abbs
Etymology: From Middle English ab, abbe, from Old English āweb, āb, ōweb, from away + web (“warp thread”).
Senses: glosses: A type of yarn for the warp.
glosses: A rough wool from the inferior parts of the fleece, used for the woof or weft.
glosses: A filling pick used in weaving.
Derived terms: abb-wool
abba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.ə/
ipa: /æˈbɑ/
ipa: /ˈæb.ə/
ipa: /æˈbɑ/
rhymes: -æbə
homophone: Abba
Forms: form: abbas
Etymology: From Middle English, from Latin, from Ancient Greek, from Aramaic אבא/ܐܒܐ (ʼaḇā, “father”); see abbot.
Senses: examples: text: The abba of the coenobion went to him and told him about the brother who had slipped up.
ref: 2012, The Book of the Elders: Sayings of the Desert Fathers, →ISBN, page 135:
topics: Christianity
coordinate_terms: amma
glosses: Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period.
abba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.ə/
ipa: /æˈbɑ/
ipa: /ˈæb.ə/
ipa: /æˈbɑ/
rhymes: -æbə
homophone: Abba
Forms: form: abbas
Etymology: Variant forms.
Senses: examples: text: The rich turbans and flowing robes of the respectable merchants are finely contrasted with the rude sheepskin covering of the mountaineer, and the dark abba of the wandering Arab.
ref: 1836, Thomas Hartwell Horne, Landscape Illustrations of the Bible:
text: Around their waist, instead of a shawl, they wear a girdle fastened with monstrous silver clasps which may be ornamented, according to the owner's taste, with jewels and in which they stick not only their Koordish dagger, but a pair of great brass or silver-knobbed pistols; from this, too, hang sundry powder-horns and shot-cases, cartridge-boxes, &c. ; and over all they cast a sort of cloak, or abba, of camel's hair, white or black, or striped white brown and black, clasped on the breast, and floating picturesquely behind.
ref: 1840, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, The Dublin Review - Parts 1-2, page 420:
text: Conceiving that he had some solid reason for his refusal, which he could not with propriety disclose in presence of Omar Effendi, I did not urge him to accompany me; but laying aside my white burnous, which I had hitherto worn after the fashion of Cairo, put on a black abba of the Capo Verde which was brought me by as black a Hercules, of whom the interpreter remarked that there was only one person in Jerusalem, and that too a fellow-servant, who was piu diavolo che lui, more devil than he.
ref: 2014, Robert Richardson, Travels along the Mediterranean and Parts Adjacent, →ISBN, page 284:
glosses: Alternative form of aba (Middle Eastern garment).
abbacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.ə.si/
Forms: form: abbacies
form: abbatie
Etymology: From Middle English abbathie, from Late Latin abbātia, from abbās, abbātis (“abbot”). Doublet of abbey and Opatija.
Senses: synonyms: abbotry
abbotcy
abbotric
coordinate_terms: prioracy
curacy
parsonship
parsonhood
rectorship
vicarship
priestship
priesthood
glosses: The dignity, estate, term, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess.
Related terms: abbé
more at abbot § Related terms
abbatial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-bā′shəl
ipa: /əˈbeɪ̯.ʃəl/
ipa: /əˈbæɪ̯.ʃəl/
ipa: /əˈbe.ʃəl/
ipa: /aˈbeː.ʃal/
rhymes: -eɪʃəl
Forms: form: more abbatial
form: most abbatial
form: abbatical
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English abbacyal, derived from Middle French abbatial, derived from Late Latin abbātiāl|is, ~e, from abbā|s, ~tis (“abbot”) + -āl|is, ~e (“-ial”). Doublet of abbot.
Senses: examples: text: a possible abbatial vacancy
text: Thus the abbatial succession came to be confined to members of the clan of the founder; and although originally the abbots were elected from the "founder's kin," and were distinct from those of the clan who possessed the abbatial lands, yet in process of time ecclesiastical line was merged in the secular, and both were united in one lay official, like the successors of St. Patrick at Armagh, who were the objects of St. Bernard's denunciations
ref: 1869, John Stuart, The book of deer:
glosses: Belonging to, relating to, or pertaining to an abbey, abbot, or abbess.
abbatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈbɶtɪkə/
Senses: examples: text: It was many years since the kings of England had bothered over abbatical elections.
ref: 1962, Prudence Andrew, A Question of Choice, page 34:
glosses: Uncommon form of abbatial.
abbess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.ɪs/
ipa: /ˈæb.ɛs/
ipa: /ˈæb.ɪs/
ipa: /ˈæb.ɛs/
rhymes: -æbɪs
rhymes: -æbɛs
Forms: form: abbesses
form: abbatess
form: abbotess
Etymology: From Middle English abbesse, from Old French abeesse (French abbesse), from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abbatissa, feminine of Latin abbas, abbatis (“abbot”).
Senses: examples: text: The abbess was always after the nuns to keep the convent immaculately clean.
glosses: A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks.
examples: text: Why laſt night, as Colonel Kill'em, Sir William Weezy, Lord Frederick Foretop, and I were careleſsly ſliding the Ranelagh round, picking our teeth, after a damn'd muzzy dinner at Boodle's, who ſhould trip by but an abbeſs, well known about town, with a ſmart little nun in her ſuite.
ref: 1770, Samuel Foote, The Lame Lover, a Comedy in Three Acts. […], London: […] Paul Vaillant; and sold by P[eter] Elmsly […]; and Robinson and Roberts, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 12:
text: So an old Abbess for the rattling Rakes, / A tempting dish of human nature makes, / And dresses up a luscious Maid: / I rather should have said, indeed, undresses, / To please a youth's unsanctified caresses.
ref: 1793, John Wolcot, A Poetical, Serious, and Possibly Impertinent, Epistle to the Pope, Ode II, page 33:
text: "I mean to inform you," answered the Oxonian, with a grin on his face, "that those three nymphs, who have so much dazzled your optics, are three nuns, and the plump female is Mother .... of great notoriety, but generally designated the Abbess of .... Her residence is at no great distance from one of the royal palaces; and she is distinguished for her bold ingenuous line of conduct in the profession which she has chosen to adopt; so much so, indeed, that she eclipses all her competitors in infamy."
ref: 1881, Pierce Egan, chapter 8, in Life in London, page 205:
glosses: A woman who runs a brothel; a woman employed by a prostitute to find clients.
Synonyms: sense: female superior of a nunnery
word: mother superior
sense: woman who runs a brothel
word: bawd
sense: woman who runs a brothel
word: Covent Garden abbess
sense: woman who runs a brothel
word: lady abbess
sense: woman who runs a brothel
word: madam
Related terms: abbey
abbot
abbey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.i/
rhymes: -æbi
homophone: Abby
Forms: form: abbeys
form: abby
Etymology: From A.D. 1250 in Middle English abbey, abbeye (“convent headed by an abbot”) (compare archaic English abbaye), itself borrowed from Old French abaïe, abbaïe, abeïe, abbeïe (Modern French abbaye) from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abbātia, from Classical Latin abbās (“abbot”). Doublet of abbacy and Opatija. See abbot.
Senses: glosses: The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
examples: text: From 1199 to 1203 William Punchard was the abbot of the abbey of Rievaulx, which was part of the Cistercian order of monks.
glosses: A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
glosses: The church of a monastery.
glosses: A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
Derived terms: abbey counter
Abbey Dore
Abbey Gate
abbeylike
abbey-lubber
abbey token
Abbeytown
Abbey Wood
Bolton Abbey
Byland Abbey
Holme Abbey
Neath Abbey
New Abbey
Rosedale Abbey
Waltham Abbey
Westminster Abbey
Whiteabbey
Related terms: abbeystead
archabbey
archabbot
cloister
convent
friary
monastery
nunnery
priory
abbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.ət/
ipa: /ˈæb.ət/
homophone: Abbot
homophone: Abbott
rhymes: -æbət
Forms: form: abbots
Etymology: From Middle English abbot, abbod, abbed, from Old English abbat, abbad, abbod, from Latin abbās (“father”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbâs), from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, “father”). Doublet of abba, abbé, and bwana.
Senses: examples: text: The newly appointed abbot decided to take a tour of the abbey with the cardinal's emissary.
glosses: The superior or head of an abbey or monastery.
glosses: The pastor or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter.
glosses: A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.
glosses: A brothel-owner's husband or lover.
glosses: A ponce; a man employed by a prostitute to find clients, and who may also act as a bodyguard or equivalent to a bouncer.
Derived terms: Abbot
abbot-bishop
abbotcy
abbotess
Abbotford
abbot general
abbot-general
abbot nullius
Abbot of Misrule
abbot of the people
Abbot of Unreason
abbot on the cross
abbot primate
abbotric
abbotry
Abbots Bromley
Abbotsford
abbotship
Abbots Langley
Abbots Ripton
Abbott
Abbottford
Abbottsford
Abot
Abott
archabbot
Aston Abbotts
cardinal-abbot
croziered abbot
Hanham Abbots
Hemingford Abbots
Manningford Abbots
Milton Abbot
mitred abbot
mitered abbot
Newton Abbot
subabbot
titular abbot
Related terms: abba
abbacy
abbatial
abbé
abbess
archimandrite
monk
prior
rector
abbotship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.bət.ʃɪp/
Forms: form: abbotships
Etymology: From Middle English abboship, abbotshup; equivalent to abbot + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state, term, or office of an abbot; abbacy.
abbreviate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹiː.vi.eɪt/
ipa: /əˈbɹi.vi.eɪt/
Forms: form: abbreviates
form: abbreviating
form: abbreviated
form: abbreviated
Etymology: From Middle English abbreviaten, from abbreviat(e) (“abbreviated”, used as the participle of abbreviaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin abbreviātus, perfect passive participle of abbreviō (“to shorten”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), formed from ab- + breviō (“to shorten”), from brevis (“short”). Alternatively, a back-formation from abbreviation. Doublet of abridge.
Senses: examples: text: But it is one Thing, to Abbreuiate by Contracting, Another by Cutting off: […]
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Dispatch. XXV.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, pages 142–143:
glosses: To shorten by omitting parts or details.
glosses: To speak or write in a brief manner.
examples: text: But as delivery schedules have dwindled into hours, even the gigantic warehouse full of stuff in a central place such as the triangle is proving insufficient. Now, companies also need smaller distribution centres around the country, to respond rapidly to orders and to abbreviate the last mile as much as possible.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2019:
glosses: To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
examples: text: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is more commonly known by its abbreviated form BSE.
text: Alana abbreviated "involuntarily celibate" to "invcel", until someone suggested that "incel" was easier to say.
ref: 2018 August 29, Jim Taylor, “The woman who founded the 'incel' movement”, in BBC:
glosses: To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: simplify
glosses: To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
Synonyms: abridge
compress
condense
contract
curtail
epitomize
reduce
shorten
Derived terms: abbreviatable
abbreviately
abbreviater
abbreviative
abbreviatory
deabbreviate
unabbreviatable
unabbreviate
Related terms: abbreviation
abbreviator
abbreviate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹiː.vi.eɪt/
ipa: /əˈbɹi.vi.eɪt/
ipa: /əˈbɹi.vi.ət/
ipa: /əˈbɹi.vi.eɪt/
ipa: /əˈbriviet/
ipa: /əˈbɹiː.vi.eɪt/
ipa: /əˈbɹi.vi.eɪt/
Forms: form: more abbreviate
form: most abbreviate
Etymology: From Middle English abbreviat(e) (“abbreviated”, used as the past participle of abbreviaten); the noun is derived by subtsantivization from the adjective. See -ate (adjective forming suffix), -ate (noun forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviated.
raw_tags: as a participle
examples: text: The curt form of gent as a less ceremonious substitute for the full expression of ‘gentleman,’ had once made considerable way, but its career was blighted in a court of justice. It is about twenty years ago that two young men, being brought before a London magistrate, described themselves as ‘gents.’ The magistrate said that he considered that a designation little better than ‘blackguard.’ The abbreviate form has never been able to recover that shock.
ref: 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
glosses: Abbreviated, abridged, shortened.
raw_tags: as a participial adjective
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
abbreviate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹiː.vi.eɪt/
ipa: /əˈbɹi.vi.eɪt/
ipa: /əˈbɹi.vi.ət/
ipa: /əˈbɹi.vi.eɪt/
ipa: /əˈbriviet/
ipa: /əˈbɹiː.vi.eɪt/
ipa: /əˈbɹi.vi.eɪt/
Forms: form: abbreviates
Etymology: From Middle English abbreviat(e) (“abbreviated”, used as the past participle of abbreviaten); the noun is derived by subtsantivization from the adjective. See -ate (adjective forming suffix), -ate (noun forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
Senses: glosses: An abridgment.
abbreviated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹiːvieɪtɪd/
ipa: /əˈbɹi.viˌeɪ.tɪd/
Forms: form: more abbreviated
form: most abbreviated
Senses: examples: text: The abbreviated lesson only took fifteen minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.
glosses: Shortened; made briefer.
glosses: Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
glosses: Scanty, as in clothing.
Derived terms: abbreviatedly
abbreviated number
hyperabbreviated
unabbreviated
Related terms: abbreviate
abbreviation
abbreviating
abbreviated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹiːvieɪtɪd/
ipa: /əˈbɹi.viˌeɪ.tɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abbreviate
abbreviator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹiː.viˌeɪ.tɚ/
ipa: /-ɛɪ.tɚ/
ipa: /əˈbɹi.viˌeɪ.tɚ/
Forms: form: abbreviators
Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin abbreviātor. Compare French abbréviateur.
Senses: glosses: A person who abbreviates or shortens.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.
abbreviatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹi.vi.əˌtɔɹ.i/
Forms: form: more abbreviatory
form: most abbreviatory
Etymology: From abbreviate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
abbreviature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹi.vi.əˌt͡ʃʊɹ/
Forms: form: abbreviatures
Etymology: From Medieval Latin abbreviātūra, from Late Latin abbreviō (“shorten, abbreviate”). See also abbreviate.
Senses: examples: text: This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a Christian.
ref: a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Via Pacis:
glosses: An abridgment; a compendium; an abstract.
glosses: An abbreviated state or form.
examples: text: The hand of PROVIDENCE writes often by abbreviatures, hieroglyphicks or short characters […]
ref: 1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 37:
glosses: A shortened form of a word or phrase, used in place of the whole; an abbreviation.
glosses: The process of abbreviating.
abb wool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abb wools
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of abb-wool.
abdal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abdals
Etymology: From Arabic أَبْدَال (ʔabdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, “a substitute; a good, religious man; saint”), from بَدَلَ (badala, “to replace”).
Senses: glosses: A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.
Abderian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdɪɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /æbˈdɛɹ.i.ən/
homophone: abderian
Forms: form: more Abderian
form: most Abderian
Etymology: From Abdera (“a town in Thrace”) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or belonging to Abdera or its people.
glosses: Alternative form of abderian.
Derived terms: abderian
Abderian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdɪɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /æbˈdɛɹ.i.ən/
homophone: abderian
Forms: form: Abderians
Etymology: From Abdera (“a town in Thrace”) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: He regrets that his lines had not fallen in the pleasant places of the past — among the intelligent Abderians of whom it is said, when Hippocrates came to their city to cure Democritus of his madness, not only the men, but also the women and children […] went forth to meet him.
ref: 1872, Stephen Smith, Doctor in Medicine: and Other Papers on Professional Subjects:
synonyms: Abderite
glosses: An inhabitant or native of Abdera.
Abderite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.dəˌɹaɪt/
Forms: form: Abderites
Etymology: From Latin Abderita, Abderites, from Ancient Greek Ἀβδηρίτης (Abdērítēs).
Senses: examples: text: To that end they entered the borders of the Abderites in another part of Thrace, and wasted and spoiled the country […]
ref: 1814, Diodorus, chapter 4, in G. Booth, transl., The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian, volume 2, translation of original in Ancient Greek, page 27:
synonyms: Abderian
glosses: An inhabitant or native of Abdera, in Thrace.
glosses: Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.
Derived terms: abderite
abderitic
abderitism
Related terms: abderian
abdest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑb.dɛst/
rhymes: -ɑbdɛst
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آبدست (modern Turkish abdest), from Classical Persian آبْدَسْت (ābdast), compound of آب (āb, “water”) and دست (dast, “hand”).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: wudu
glosses: The Islamic act of washing parts of the body using water for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Qur'an.
Coordinate terms: english: place where wudu is performed
translation: place where wudu is performed
word: wazukhana
abdicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.də.kə.bəl/
Forms: form: more abdicable
form: most abdicable
Etymology: From abdicate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being abdicated.
abdicant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.dɪ.kn̩t/
Forms: form: more abdicant
form: most abdicant
Etymology: From abdicate + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: monks abdicant of their orders
ref: 1654, Richard Whitlock, Manners of the English:
glosses: Abdicating; renouncing.
abdicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.dɪ.kn̩t/
Forms: form: abdicants
Etymology: From abdicate + -ant.
Senses: glosses: One who abdicates.