cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fornicatresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fornicatress
guffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guffers
Senses: glosses: The eelpout
examples: text: In many respects, this is what marks out the true fartsmith from the amateur guffer[…]
ref: 2012, Dougie Brimson, Art of Fart:
glosses: A farter; someone who farts
guffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guffer
isogonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + gon- + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The quality of having similar sexual zooids or gonophores and dissimilar hydrants; said of certain hydroids.
isogonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + -gon + -ism.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: plesiomorphism
glosses: The property of certain substances of crystallizing in similar forms while differing in chemical composition.
labiose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more labiose
form: most labiose
Etymology: From labium + -ose.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the appearance of being labiate; said of certain polypetalous corollas.
epistoler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epistolers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of epistler
epistolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epistoler
perfit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perfit
form: most perfit
Senses: examples: text: … as if he would make a fire the more vehement, by sprinkling water upon the coales, so to wrap a hote fever in cold Melancholy, least the fever alone should not destroy fast enough, without this contribution nor perfit the work (which is destruction) except we joynd an artificiall sicknes, of our owne melancholy, to our natural, our unnaturall fever.
ref: 1624, John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation I., in The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, ed. Charles M. Coffin, New York: Modern Library (1952), pp. 415-416
glosses: Obsolete form of perfect.
sterquilinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /stɜː(ɹ)ˈkwɪlɪnəs/
Forms: form: more sterquilinous
form: most sterquilinous
Etymology: From Latin sterquilinium (“a dung pit”), from stercus (“dung”), + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a dunghill
examples: text: every tressis agaso, any sterquilinous Rascal, is licens'd to throw dirt in the faces of Sovereign Princes in open printed language
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To Dr. D. Featly”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: mean; dirty; paltry.
elsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛlzɪn/
Forms: form: elsins
form: elsen
Etymology: From Middle English aslen, elsen (“an awl or some other pointed instrument or tool”), either from Middle Dutch elsene, alsene, from Old High German alansa, from Proto-Germanic *alasnō, or from an unrecorded Old English form.
Senses: glosses: A shoemaker's awl.
elsins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elsin
harvestry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harvestries
Etymology: From harvest + -ry.
Senses: glosses: The act of harvesting.
examples: text: Thus in your field my seed of harvestry
Thrives, for the fruit is like me that I set;
God bids me tend it with good husbandry;
This is the end for which we twain are met.
ref: 1878, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Ballad written for a Bridegroom […] ”, in Poems and Ballads Second Series:
glosses: That which is harvested.
regence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: massacres
Of spiritual Affidavit-makers,
That swore to any human regence
Oaths of supremacy and allegiance
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: rule
Related terms: regal
regency
thankworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: thankworthier
form: more thankworthy
form: thankworthiest
form: most thankworthy
Etymology: From Middle English thankworthy, thank-worthy, þankeworþi, probably an alteration (with -y) of earlier Middle English thanke worth, thankworth, þancwurðe (“thankworthy”), from Old English þancwyrþe, þancweorþ (“thankworthy, deserving thanks, acceptable”), equivalent to thank + -worthy. Cognate with German dankwürdig (“worthy of thanks”).
Senses: glosses: Deserving thanks; worthy of gratitude.
Derived terms: thankworthiness
undefeasible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undefeasible
form: most undefeasible
Etymology: From un- + defeasible.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of indefeasible.
giantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more giantly
form: most giantly
Etymology: From giant + -ly. Compare giantlike.
Senses: examples: text: What meanes this deuiliſh ſhepheard to aſpire
With ſuch a giantly preſumption.
To caſt vp hils againſt the face of heauen:
And dare the force of angry Iupiter.
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 II, scene vi:
text: Ten of the twelve sent to spie out the land, by speaking ill of the country, and the barrennesse thereof, and withall, magnifying the cities for their strength, and the giantly stature of the men therein; disheartened the people from marching any further towards it.
ref: 1658, James Ussher, The Annals of the World:
text: Hard by was a formidable race of savages inhabiting the gentle region watered by the Susquehanna, of whom the following mention is made by Master Hariot in his excellent history: – "The Susquesahanocks are a giantly people, strange in proportion, behaviour, and attire – [...]
ref: 1850, Diedrich Knickerbocker, A history of New-York – Page 241:
text: There may be a giant sea-liner feeling its way down to the sea and it would be a very awkward obstruction, even for the giantliest of giant air liners.
ref: 1937, Aeroplane and commercial aviation news – Page 96
glosses: Characteristic to, resembling, or relating to a giant or giants; giantlike.
giantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more giantly
form: most giantly
Etymology: From giant + -ly. Compare giantlike.
Senses: examples: text: Lexa dropped her book. “Okay, that was giantly huge!”
ref: 2012, Braden Bell, The Kindling: Middle School Magic – Page 5:
text: Why should I keep on playing a game that was so giantly stupid, named after people dead a million years, during which I was obliged to do giantly boring things like hold the end of the sheet while my sister wrap-twirled into a mummy?
ref: 2012, Leni Zumas, The Listeners – Page 200:
glosses: In a giant or gigantic manner; gigantically; enormously; immensely.
mythologue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪθəlɒɡ/
Forms: form: mythologues
Etymology: From mytho- + -logue.
Senses: examples: text: May we not […] consider his history of the fall as an excellent mythologue, to account for the origin of human evil?
ref: 1797, Alexander Geddes, The Holy Bible, or the Books accounted sacred by Jews and Christians, otherwise called the books of the Old and New Covenant; faithfully translated from corrected texts of the originals. With various readings, explanatory notes, and critical remarks:
glosses: A mythical narrative; a myth.
mythologues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mythologue
gorgelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorgelets
Senses: examples: text: The head mottled with brownish-black; spots of the same colour, descending in a line from the lower mandible to the upper part of the breast, forming an interrupted gorgelet.
ref: 1831, John James Audubon, Ornithological Biography, volume 2, The Canada Flycatcher:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A small gorget of a bird.
examples: text: It seemed to be warmer here at nights than farther upriver, probably because of the southern exposure through the nine gorgelets leading to the South rim.
ref: 2000, Lewis S. Keizer, Eugene E. Whitworth, Astral Man to Cosmic Christ:
glosses: A small gorge.
gorgelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gorgelet
overgloom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overglooms
form: overglooming
form: overgloomed
form: overgloomed
Etymology: From over- + gloom.
Senses: examples: text: overgloomed by memories of sorrow
ref: 1845, Thomas De Quincey, On Wordsworth's Poetry:
glosses: To cause gloom on; to make gloomy.
overgloomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overgloom
overglooming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overgloom
overglooms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overgloom
wekeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wekeens
Senses: glosses: A bird, the meadow pipit.
wekeens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wekeen
histoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more histoid
form: most histoid
Etymology: From histo- + -oid.
Senses: examples: histoid tumours
glosses: Resembling the normal tissues of the body.
Synonyms: histioid
illure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪˈlʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: illures
form: illuring
form: illured
form: illured
Etymology: From il- + lure.
Senses: examples: text: The devil ensnareth the souls of many men, by illuring them with the muck and dung of this world.
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To deceive; to entice; to lure.
illured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of illure
illures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of illure
illuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of illure
mucivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mucivores
Etymology: From Latin mucus (“slime, mucus”) + -vore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An insect that feeds on mucus, or the sap of plants, such as certain Diptera like aphids.
Related terms: mucivorous
mucivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mucivore
billman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billmen
Etymology: From bill + -man.
Senses: examples: text: each class had its peculiar head - covering , - a steel cap or scull distinguished the archer ; a salade the billman ; while the musketeer wore a morion[…]
ref: 1859, John Harland, The Lancashire Lieutenancy Under the Tudors and Stuarts […] :
text: He is staggering as the other billmen lash their pikes at him.
ref: 2014, Toby Clements, Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims: (Book 1):
glosses: A man who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked axe.
billmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billman
petralogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of petrology.
reticularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reticularly
form: most reticularly
Etymology: From reticular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reticular manner.
neurility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurilities
Etymology: From neurile + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: This property is stimulated into activity by the Neurility of the nerves, but is not stimulated by those mechanical irritations which suffice to stimulate the nerves.
ref: 1859, George Henry Lewes, Physiology of Common Life, volume 2:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The special properties and functions of the nerves; the nervous capacity for transmitting a stimulus.
bedizenment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedizenments
Etymology: From bedizen + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Something which bedizens.
glosses: The act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, gaudily.
bedizenments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedizenment
iconophilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iconophilists
Etymology: From icono- + -philist.
Senses: glosses: A student or enthusiast of iconography.
iconophilists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iconophilist
irregulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irregulous
form: most irregulous
Etymology: From ir- + Latin rēgula (“rule”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Thou Conspir'd with that irregulous devil
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: lawless or profane
uniseriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + seriate.
Senses: examples: text: uniseriate filament
text: uniseriate ray
text: uniseriate trichomes
text: uniseriate stalk
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: unilinear
uniserial
unbranched
glosses: Having a single line or series
Related terms: uniseriately
wangan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wangans
form: wangun
form: wanigan
form: wannigan
Etymology: From Abenaki waniigan (“pit trap, container for sundries”); liken klahigan (“wooden trap”), Ojibwe waanikaan (“pit, excavated hole”).
Senses: examples: text: Wanigan or wangan was the Indian name for boathouse or houseboat, and the wanigans, carrying the cook shacks and supplies, floated down the rivers when the pioneer log drives were underway.
ref: 1942 August, “They Play Jackstraws with Trees”, in Popular Mechanics, page 88:
qualifier: lumber trade
glosses: A boat for conveying provisions, tools, and so forth.
examples: text: I should explain "wangan." It is an Indian word, and can mean almost anything, like the Latin res. It can mean a camp or building. Pond-in-the-River wangan—or Pondy wangan, as the drivers call it—is a long, low shack a third of a mile above us, where the Rapid River crew lives during the drive. There is a sign in the bunk-house that reads, "Wangan open an hour after supper." That refers to the store where the cook sells candy, tobacco, snuff, and clothing. (It really is a big box in the kitchen [...].) The cook may say, "I lost my wangan when the work boat swamped," and that means that his dishes are at the bottom of the lake. Or he may complain, "The wangan's runnin' low," meaning this time that he's short of food. Or a man may take his wangan and fly—leave the job with his little bundle of personal belongings. You can tell only by the context what the word means, and it's a very convenient word to know."
ref: 1942, Louise Dickinson Rich, We Took to the Woods, JB Lippincott Co, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 183–184:
qualifier: lumber trade
glosses: Any location or cache of equipment, such as a camp, building, or chest of supplies or tools.
qualifier: lumber trade
glosses: The company store debt of a lumberman.
wangans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wangan
rugate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːɡeɪt/
/ˈɹuːɡət/
Forms: form: more rugate
form: most rugate
Etymology: From Latin rugatus, past participle of rugare (“to wrinkle”), from ruga (“a wrinkle”).
Senses: examples: text: Unifacial, superior surface transversely rugate, with minute oririmes at the bottom of the furrows
ref: c. 1848, James Dwight Dana, Zoophytes:
glosses: Having alternate ridges and depressions; wrinkled.
examples: text: Rugate coatings typically consist of a single layer deposited onto a substrate where the refractive index of the layer continuously changes as a function of depth.
ref: 2002, Bruce E. Perilloux, Thin-film Design, page 7:
text: Researchers have focused on various manufactured periodically nonhomogeneous dielectric materials, including rugate filters and periodically multilayered materials.
ref: 2013, John Polo, Tom Mackay, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Electromagnetic Surface Waves: A Modern Perspective, page 193:
glosses: Having a varying refractive index.
Synonyms: bewrinkled
rugose
wrinkly
wrinkled
unroost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unroosts
form: unroosting
form: unroosted
form: unroosted
Etymology: From un- + roost.
Senses: examples: text: Give her the bastard,
Thou dotard; thou art woman-tired, unroosted
By thy Dame Partlet here.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: To remove from the roost.
unroosted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unroost
unroosting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unroost
unroosts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unroost
disordinance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disordinances
Etymology: From Middle English disordinaunce.
Senses: glosses: disorder or disturbance
experimentator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: experimentators
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: An experimenter.
experimentators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of experimentator
intromit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌɪntɹəˈmɪt/
Forms: form: intromits
form: intromitting
form: intromitted
form: intromitted
Etymology: From Latin intrōmittō.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.
examples: text: this Bird has been often observ’d, by means of his crooked Bill intromitted into the Anus, to inject salt Water, as with a Syringe, into its own Bowels, and thereby to exonerate its Paunch when too much obstructed.
ref: 1705, Thomas Greenhill, Νεκροκηδεία or The Art of Embalming:
glosses: To send in or put in; to insert or introduce.
examples: text: Glass in the window […]intromits Light, without Cold.
ref: 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: […], London: […] T. N[ewcomb] for J[ohn] Martyn printer to the R[oyal] Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To allow to pass in; to admit.
Derived terms: intromitter
unintromitted
intromits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intromit
intromitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intromit
intromitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intromit
hippomobile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hippomobiles
Etymology: From French hippomobile.
Senses: glosses: An early automobile invented by Étienne Lenoir in 1863.
anarchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈnɑː(ɹ)kəl/
Forms: form: more anarchal
form: most anarchal
Senses: examples: text: We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence.
ref: 1824, Walter Savage Landor, “George Washington and Benjamin Franklin”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume II, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: lawless; anarchic
ernest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of earnest.
executorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: Latin executorialis.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to an executive (branch of government etc.).
examples: text: After all, Robin Redbreast seems no match for the hunter, who can write and thus manipulate Will's testament to reflect his executorial and authorial status to produce a cookbook for other humans who enjoy eating deer.
ref: 2015, Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England, page 287:
glosses: Of or relating to an executor.
Derived terms: executorial trustee
hylobate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hylobates
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Hylobates of gibbons.
hylobates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hylobate
intercommonage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The right or privilege of intercommoning (sharing grazing land).
lanciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lance + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a lance
subpetiolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + petiolar.
Senses: examples: text: The leaf buds of the plane tree are subpetiolar.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: subpetiolate
glosses: Concealed within the base of the petiole.
examples: text: subpetiolar process
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Underneath, or at the base of, the petiole
pudical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: pudical artery
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: pudic
unconversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + conversion.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The state of being unconverted; impenitence.
examples: text: Once the conversion has taken place, there is no unconversion process.
ref: 2008, Lisa Donald, James Chellis, MCSA/MCSE: Windows XP Professional Study Guide: Exam 70-270, page 332:
glosses: The reversal of a conversion; a change back to a previous format.
appellancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, the faculty seems to have acquired something of a reputation for supporting appellancy.
ref: 2013, E. C. Spary, Eating the Enlightenment, page 36:
text: . At this point Jansenism truly becomes synonymous with a political “movement,” and “appellancy” becomes a new form of politics, not theology, whose actual core is ambiguous apart from its notable destabilizing character.
ref: 2016, Ulrich L. Lehner, Richard A. Muller, A.G. Roeber, The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600-1800:
glosses: Capability of appeal.
examples: text: As Paul Strohm argues, the absence of evidence to suggest that Usk was formally charged with any crime at this juncture indicates a creative use of the concept of appellancy, which typically enabled felons to mitigate their punishment through confession and the provision of testimony contributing to the conviction of their accomplices.
ref: 2016, Elizabeth Elliott ·, Remembering Boethius:
topics: law
glosses: A form of plea bargain in which someone is granted immunity or a reduced sentence in return for providing testimony to convict their accomplices.
Related terms: appellant
unkent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unkent
form: most unkent
Etymology: From un- + kent, from ken (“to know”).
Senses: examples: text: Go, little book, thyself present, As child whose parent is unkent, To him, that is the president Of nobleness and chivalrie.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
text: as a swain unkent fed on the plains
ref: 1613–1616, William Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. (please specify |book=1 or 2), London: […] George Norton:
glosses: unknown; strange
mystificator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mystificators
Senses: glosses: One who mystifies; mystifier.
mystificators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mystificator
fidicinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin fidicen, fidicinis (“lute player”) + -al.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: stringed (of or pertaining to a stringed instrument).
genty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnti
Forms: form: more genty
form: most genty
Etymology: From French gentil. Compare jaunty.
Senses: examples: text: Sae jimply lac'd her genty waist, / That sweetly ye might span.
ref: 1789, Robert Burns, Beware o' Bonnie Ann:
glosses: neat; trim
vigintivirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vigintivirates
Etymology: From Latin vīgintivirātus, from vīgintivir + -ātus (“-ate”).
Senses: glosses: A group of twenty people, especially (politics) a council of twenty men sharing an office or rule and particularly (historical) such an administrative council in ancient Rome.
Synonyms: government
Coordinate terms: government
Related terms: vigintivir
vigintiviral
vigintivirates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vigintivirate
nugacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin nūgācitās (“trifling”), from nūgāx, -itās. Further from nūgor, from nūgae.
Senses: examples: text: For the first time in his life of twenty-five years, Leigh Newcomber was seriously thinking of personal and practical matters; and this mental state being an untrained one, he jumped from impulse to impulse, and from reason to nugacity; and after a while reason and impulse became so commingled as to leave him in a bewildering maze of mental and moral incertitude.
ref: 1901, William Lee Howard, The Perverts, page 22:
text: In the poem "Among School Children" Yeats gives the nugacity of temporal life a bittersweet rendering.
ref: 1980, Carl A. Raschke, The Interruption of Eternity: Modern Gnosticism and the Origins of the New Religious Consciousness, page 120:
glosses: futility; trifling talk or behaviour; drollery
Related terms: nugacious
nugation
nugatory
overinform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overinforms
form: overinforming
form: overinformed
form: overinformed
Etymology: From over- + inform.
Senses: glosses: To provide with too much information.
overinformed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overinform
overinforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overinform
overinforms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overinform
hyperdicrotous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperdicrotous
form: most hyperdicrotous
Etymology: From hyper- + dicrotous.
Senses: glosses: hyperdicrotic
Related terms: hyperdicrotism
stagehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stagehouses
Etymology: From stage + house.
Senses: glosses: A house where a stagecoach regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A playhouse.
stagehouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stagehouse
pollutingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pollutingly
form: most pollutingly
Etymology: From polluting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to pollute; in a polluting manner.
enbattled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enbattled
form: most enbattled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of embattled.
wernerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wernerites
Etymology: See Wernerian.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The common greyish or white variety of scapolite.
wernerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wernerite
confessaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confessary
confessary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confessaries
Etymology: Latin confessarius.
Senses: examples: 1708, Dr. George Hickes, preface to Thomas Brett, The Divine Right of Episcopacy Asserted
God hath left power to the Church, that is, to the Priests of the Church, to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in Him; and therefore directs the Confessary to absolve the confessing penitent of all his sins in the name, &c.
glosses: One who makes a confession.
arbored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: arboured
Etymology: From arbor + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: an arbored walk
text: an arbored path that provides access to my back yard from the driveway
ref: 2017, Bobbie Schwartz, Garden Renovation:
synonyms: treelined
glosses: Furnished with an arbor; lined with trees.
otoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From otoscopy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: relating to otoscopy or otoscopes
Derived terms: otoscopically
sympode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sympodes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of sympodium.
sympodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sympode
tellural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin tellus (“the earth”), -uris.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the earth.
Related terms: telluric
customably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more customably
form: most customably
Etymology: From customable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: lukewarmness and sloth , are not seldomer wont to cloak themselves under the affected name of moderation , than true and lively zeal is customably disparaged with the term of indiscretion , bitterness , and choler
ref: 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
glosses: usually; as per custom or habit.
Gallican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Gallicānus (“pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallican”), from Gallicus (“Gaulish, French”) (from Gallia (“Gaul”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
Senses: glosses: Relating to Gaul or France; Gallic; French.
examples: text: the Gallican church or clergy
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: Relating to the French Roman Catholic church, especially before the late 19th century.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
synonyms: Cisalpine
glosses: Relating to Gallicanism.
Derived terms: Antigallican
Gallican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gallicans
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Gallicānus (“pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallican”), from Gallicus (“Gaulish, French”) (from Gallia (“Gaul”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
Senses: synonyms: Cisalpine
glosses: An adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism.
Gallicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gallican
impartibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French impartibilité.
Senses: examples: text: The impartibility, or indivisibility of the Godhead.
ref: 1656, Henry Jeanes, Reasonable Christianity:
glosses: The quality of being incapable of division into parts; indivisibility.
impartibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the impartibility of estates
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being impartible; communicability.
clodhopping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clodhopping
form: most clodhopping
form: clod-hopping
Senses: examples: text: There is actually at this instant, at the Blue Dragon in this village—an alehouse observe; a common, paltry, low-minded, clodhopping pipe-smoking alehouse—an individual, of whom it may be said, in the language of the Poet, that nobody but himself can in any way come up to him; who is detained there for his bill.
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “In which Mr. Chevy Slyme asserts the Independence of his Spirit; and the Blue Dragon loses a Limb”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 78:
text: What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane!—a clod-hopping messenger would never do at this juncture.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter V, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 126–127:
text: She greeted me with a smacking kiss, consigned the baby to the charge of the eldest child, a big girl of fourteen, and seizing upon my trunks as though they were feather-weight, with heavy clodhopping step disappeared into the house with them.
ref: 1901, Miles Franklin, “To Life”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 233:
text: a clodhopping mortal who lived on a lower plane of existence.
ref: 2011, Kate Ellis, A Painted Doom:
glosses: boorish; rude or awkward.
Derived terms: clodhoppingly
Related terms: clodhopper
enfamish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enfamishes
form: enfamishing
form: enfamished
form: enfamished
Etymology: From Middle English (verb forms) enfamecht, enfamyched, enfamyschist, enfamyscht, probably from Anglo-Norman; compare Old French afamer, enfaminer.
Senses: glosses: To famish; to starve.
enfamished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enfamish
enfamishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enfamish
enfamishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enfamish
distrustless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distrustless
form: most distrustless
Etymology: From distrust + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Poets , ever void
Of guile, distrustless, scorn the treasured gold
ref: a. 1763, William Shenstone, Economy: A Rhapsody, addressed to young poets:
glosses: Without distrust; trusting or gullible.
prelatess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prelatesses
Etymology: From prelate + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female prelate.
examples: text: rheumatic old prelatess, with all her young Corinthian laity
ref: 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
glosses: The wife of a prelate.
prelatesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prelatess
boughty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boughty
form: most boughty
Senses: examples: text: this boughty corce of myne
ref: 1571, Arthur Golding Gentleman, Metamorphosis:
glosses: bending
doctrinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doctrinable
form: most doctrinable
Etymology: From doctrine + -able.
Senses: examples: text: But if the question be for your owne vse and learning, whether it be better to haue it set downe as it should be, or as it was: then certainely is more doctrinable the fained Cirus of Xenophon then the true Cyrus in Iuftine
ref: a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Henry Olney, […], published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: [Alexander Murray & Son], 1 April 1868, →OCLC:
glosses: Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine.
generability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And I am not disposed to enlarge my treatise with those dark, but important enquiries, so often affording scope to the figments and whimsies of men of sense - the genealogy of the passions, the origin of ideas, and the generability of mind
ref: 1800, John Johnstone, Medical Jurisprudence: On Madness:
glosses: Capability of being generated.
oversure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oversure
form: most oversure
Etymology: From over- + sure.
Senses: glosses: Excessively sure.
gadolinia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin gadolinia. See gadolinite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The rare earth gadolinium oxide
heartstricken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heartstricken
form: most heartstricken
Etymology: From heart + stricken.
Senses: glosses: heartbroken; dismayed
sophisticator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sophisticators
Etymology: From sophisticate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that sophisticates, that makes sophisticated.
sophisticators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sophisticator
cephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”), with the suffix -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a head; applied chiefly to the former division of mollusks Cephalata, or Cephalophora (mollusks with a head).
megalopsychy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: Excessive self-confidence
Related terms: megalopsychia
megalopsychos
dispunge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dispunges
form: dispunging
form: dispunged
form: dispunged
Etymology: From Latin dispungere.
Senses: glosses: To expunge; to erase.
dispunge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dispunges
form: dispunging
form: dispunged
form: dispunged
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of disponge.
dispunged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispunge
dispunges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dispunge
dispunging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dispunge
torril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torrils
Etymology: From Spanish toril.
Senses: examples: text: At the waving of the president's handkerchief, the bugles strike up amidst thunders of applause; the torril-gate is open, and the first king of the herd rushes wildly into the midst of the arena.
ref: 1836, Thomas Roscoe, The Tourist in Spain Andalusia, page 186:
text: A trumpet sounds; the president tosses the key of the torril to the alguazil, who unlocks and opens the door, leaping aside the instant he has done so, to escape being knocked down and gored by the bull.
ref: 1892, Young Folks Pictorial Tour of the World:
text: Gavino Gasataya had to build a torril in the plaza to accommodate all the cattle given him as reward for the information).
ref: 1999, National Centennial Commission, Philippine revolution: the making of a nation, page 233:
text: Suddenly, at a given signal, the gate of the torril was opened, and a bull, embolado, rushed into the arena.
ref: 2019, Gustave Aimard, The Red Track, page 170:
glosses: Alternative form of toril.
torrils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torril
faucial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːʃəl/
Forms: form: faucal
Etymology: From (the stem of) Latin faucēs + -al.
Senses: examples: text: I could find, indeed, but one vulnerable point […]; my rival had a weakness in the faucial or guttural organs, which precluded him from raising his voice at any time above a very low whisper.
ref: 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.
Derived terms: faucial tonsil
circumfluence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumfluences
Senses: glosses: A flowing around on all sides; an enclosing with fluid.
ionidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ionidiums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the former genus Ionidium of violaceous plants, chiefly found in tropical America.
ionidiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ionidium
appraisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appraisable
form: most appraisable
Etymology: From appraise + -able.
Senses: examples: text: appraisable student outcomes
glosses: Capable of being appraised.
Derived terms: appraisability
omphalode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omphalodes
Etymology: From the post-classical Latin omphalodium from Ancient Greek ὀμφαλοειδής (omphaloeidḗs, “navel-like”) itself from Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós, “navel”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The central part of the hilum of a seed, through which the nutrient vessels pass into the raphe or chalaza.
Synonyms: omphalodium
omphalodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omphalode
lesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French laissées, from laisser (“to leave”). See lease (transitive verb).
Senses: glosses: animal dung
glosses: lessees.
preadvertise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preadvertises
form: preadvertising
form: preadvertised
form: preadvertised
Etymology: From pre- + advertise.
Senses: glosses: To advertise beforehand
preadvertised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preadvertise
preadvertises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preadvertise
preadvertising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preadvertise
heliochromy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From helio- + chromo- + -y.
Senses: glosses: The art of producing colour photographs, especially using a certain, now obsolete, technique.
Derived terms: heliochrome
heliochromic
hypothetist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypothetists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypothesist.
hypothetists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypothetist
wastor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wastors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of waster.
wastors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wastor
leisurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leisurable
form: most leisurable
Etymology: From leisure + -able.
Senses: examples: text: a leisurable departure
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Leisurely.
examples: text: about seven years past, with some others of affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction, I had at leisurable hours composed
ref: 1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC:
glosses: Without employment; idle.
Derived terms: leisurably
cyanometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanometers
Etymology: From cyano- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring the intensity of blue colour by comparing it against a set of reference shades.
cyanometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanometer
cothurni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cothurnus
wastour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wastours
Senses: examples: text: For though knights are not more needed now to protect the husbandmen against wastours and wicked men,[…].
ref: 1829, Robert Southey, “Colloquy XIII. The River Greta.—Trade.—Population.—Colonies.”, in Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 297:
glosses: Alternative form of waster.
wastours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wastour
categorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: categorists
Etymology: From category + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Strictly speaking, Swedenborg’s revelation is a confounding of planes,—a capital offence in so learned a categorist.
ref: 1850, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Swedenborg; or, the Mystic”, in Representative Men:
text: A man—and for Pinter the male now tends to become the categorist — is baffled by the presence of a filthy old matchseller who stands at the bottom of the lane near his house daily.
ref: 1971, Walter Kerr, God on the Gymnasium Floor, and Other Theatrical Adventures, page 150:
text: For categorists, general principles 'express the essential qualities of juridical truth itself, in short of Law'.
ref: 2008, Andrew D. Mitchell, Legal Principles in WTO Disputes:
synonyms: categorizer
glosses: Someone who categorizes.
examples: text: The concept of path of arrows is what the categorist uses instead of the concept of word or string of symbols.
ref: 1988, Michael Main, Austin Melton, Michael Mislove, Mathematical Foundations of Programming Language Semantics, page 498:
text: This mapping is regarded by the categorist as an inclusion, even though in fact it may change what the integer really is.
ref: 1995, Michael Barr, Charles Wells, Category Theory for Computing Science - Volume 1, page 48:
text: Four among them were Walter Feit (of Feit-Thopson simple group fame), John Isbell (who, God forgive him, became a categorist), Karel de Leeuw (an excellent harmonic analyst, brutally murdered in his middle age by a psychotic student) , and Sterling Berberian.
ref: 2013, P.R. Halmos, I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography:
glosses: A mathematician who specializes in category theory.
categorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of categorist
dichroous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ.kɹəʊ.əs/
Etymology: from Ancient Greek δίχρως (díkhrōs, “two-coloured”), (from δι- (di-, “two”) + χρώς (khrṓs, “colour, complexion”)) + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of dichroic.
horner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horners
Etymology: From Middle English horner, hornere, equivalent to horn + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The skin of any Bulls Forehead, either for its toughness, or other cause, is the only part of the Hyde made use of by Horners, whereupon they shave their Hornes […]to fit them for Lamphorns
ref: 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:
text: As also all patents for new inventions not put in practice within three years, likewise the several grants of incorporation to hatband makers, gutstring makers, spectacle makers, comb makers, tobacco-pipe makers, butchers, and horners.
ref: 1873, Calendar of State Papers:
glosses: Someone who works or deals in (animal) horn or horns.
glosses: Someone who blows a horn (for communication or musical purposes); a hornblower.
examples: text: Sir, from the party, / The lady you should truck with, the lord's wife / Your worship is to dub, or to make free / Of the company of the horners.
ref: 1624, Philip Massinger, “The Parliament of Love”, in William Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger, published 1845, act 4, scene 3, page 164:
glosses: Someone who cuckolds.
glosses: The British sand lance or sand eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus.
glosses: Someone from the Horn of Africa.
horners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horner
guardage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑː(ɹ)dɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology: Compare Old French wardage. Equivalent to guard + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom of such a thing as thou, to fear, not to delight.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: wardship