cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
abhorrent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈ(h)ɒɹ.ənt/
ipa: /əbˈ(h)ɒɹ.ənt/
ipa: /æbˈhɔɹ.ənt/
ipa: /æbˈhɑɹ.ənt/
rhymes: -ɒɹənt
Forms: form: more abhorrent
form: most abhorrent
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin abhorrēns, abhorrēntis, present active participle of abhorreō (“abhor”). Equivalent to abhor + -ent.
Senses: examples: text: abhorrent thoughts
text: The persons most abhorrent from blood, and treason, and arbitrary confiscation, might remain silent spectators of this civil war between the vices.
ref: 1803, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France:
glosses: Inconsistent with, or far removed from, something; strongly opposed.
examples: text: This legal, and, as it should seem, injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to out stricter principles, was received with a very faint murmur, ...
ref: 1827, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire:
text: In establishing his ideal state he expressed some opinions utterly abhorrent to our customs and ways of living. He believed, for instance, that all wives should be held in common ... with the result that no one could tell his own children from those of a perfect stranger.
ref: 1990, James Hankins, Plato in the Italian Renaissance:
glosses: Contrary to something; discordant.
glosses: Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing.
examples: text: If Pride, abhorrent as it is, and if Ambition, ...
ref: 1833, Isaac Taylor, Fanaticism:
text: That, I protest, is a doctrine psychologically impossible and ethically abhorrent.
ref: 1936, Paul E. More, On Being Human:
text: The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn, abhorrent; in a spotless heart I look for pleasure.
ref: 1822, Richard Clover, Leonidas:
glosses: Detestable or repugnant.
Related terms: abhor
abhorred
abhorrence
abhorrency
abhorrently
abhorrer
abhorrible
abhorring
abhorrently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈhɔɹ.ənt.li/
ipa: /æbˈhɑɹ.ənt.li/
Forms: form: more abhorrently
form: most abhorrently
Etymology: From abhorrent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: From a basic belief that dropping a nuclear bomb would be an abhorrently immoral act, the bishop has taken the next step: he has tried to make a case that there is only one right way and one wrong way to avoid nuclear catastrophe.
ref: 1982 June 23, Texas Monthly, volume 10, number 6, page 168:
glosses: In a manner, or to a degree, that is abhorrent; with abhorrence.
Related terms: abhor
abhorred
abhorrence
abhorrency
abhorrent
abhorrer
abhorrible
abhorring
abhorrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈhɔː.ɹə/
ipa: /æbˈhɔɹ.ɚ/
Forms: form: abhorrers
Etymology: From abhor + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Be they what they may, the barbarities of the Catholics of those times had their limits: but of this abhorrer of Catholic barbarities, the barbarity has, in respect of the number of intended victims, no limits other than those of time.
ref: 1839, Jeremy Bentham, edited by John Bowring, The works of Jeremy Bentham, now first collected; under the superintendence of his executor, John Bowring, page 450:
text: The “even be killed” is not comic, for Thoreau the individualist must have found it in theory as difficult to imagine himself dying for others as Thoreau the abhorrer of violence found it difficult to imagine himself killing another individual.
ref: 1948, Joseph Wood Krutch, Henry David Thoreau, page 236:
text: Hate, detester, abhorrer. Enemy, ennemi. With her tongue curled over her lip, she copied them in her notebook, then made them into sentences.
ref: 1959, Dorothy Sterling, Mary Jane, page 83:
text: Thus, chiefly through the efforts of this lover of peace and abhorrer of war, the art of maiming and killing became ever more efficient.
ref: 1970, Robert Leckie, Warfare, page 128:
text: The problem of usage comes in for abhorrer in various ways: There are 63 entries with the root abhor, including 3 abhorrer, 17 abhorrence.
ref: 1999, Guy A. J. Tops et al., Thinking English Grammar: to honour Xavier Dekeyser, page 59:
glosses: One who abhors.
examples: text: Pretty much as Lincoln is thus supposed to arise out of the word fleas, so (according to Rapin) do the words Whig and Tory arise out of addresser and abhorrer[…]
ref: 1890, Thomas de Quincey, edited by David Masson, The Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, page 389:
text: Whether “Petitioner” or “Abhorrer”, his opinion was asked and use of his undistinguished name was requested […]
ref: 1949, Felix Morley, The Power in the People, page 76:
text: He might be assimilated to a madman, but the honourable Gentleman himself was an abhorrer, and an abhorrer could not reason.
ref: 1966, Robert Gourlay, General Introduction to Statistical Account of Upper Canada, page 1:
text: The terms petitioners and abhorrers in this context were later superseded by Whig and Tory.
ref: 1999, Guy A. J. Tops et al., Thinking English Grammar: to honour Xavier Dekeyser, page 59:
glosses: A nickname given in the early 17ᵗʰ century to signatories of addresses of a petition to reconvene parliament, addressed to Charles II.
Related terms: abhor
abhorred
abhorrence
abhorrency
abhorrent
abhorrently
abhorrible
abhorring
abhorrible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈhɑ.ɹɪb.l̩/
ipa: /æbˈhɔɹ.ɪb.l̩/
Forms: form: more abhorrible
form: most abhorrible
Etymology: From abhor + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Detestable.
Related terms: abhor
abhorred
abhorrence
abhorrency
abhorrent
abhorrently
abhorrer
abhorring
abhorring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈhɔɹ.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: abhorrings
Etymology: From abhor + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Detestation.
examples: text: Rather a ditch in Egypt / Be gentle grave unto me! rather on Nilus' mud / Lay me stark-nak'd, and let the water-flies / Blow me into abhorring!
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: A detested thing.
abhorring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈhɔɹ.ɪŋ/
Etymology: From abhor + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abhor
Related terms: abhor
abhorred
abhorrence
abhorrency
abhorrent
abhorrently
abhorrer
abhorrible
Abib
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑˈviv/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.bɪb/
ipa: /ˈɑ.bib/
rhymes: -iːv
Etymology: From Hebrew אָבִיב (avív, literally “ears of barley”), hence “the season of beginning barley-crop”, because the grains start ripening at that time of year.
Senses: glosses: The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to the Gregorian April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan.
abidance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbaɪd.n̩s/
ipa: /əˈbaɪd.n̩ts/
Forms: form: abidances
Etymology: From Middle English abiden, from Old English ābīdan (“wait”), from ā + bīdan (“to bide, remain”) + ance.
* abide + -ance.
Senses: glosses: The act of abiding or continuing; abode; stay; continuance; dwelling.
examples: text: No wonder then, though the Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine (though this I confess, is but the bark of the text), driving that trade wherewith none ever thrived, the breaking of promises; wherewith one may for a way fairly spread his train, but he will moult his feathers soon after.
ref: 1840, Thomas Fuller, The history of the holy war, page 262:
text: A judicious abidance by rules, and holding to the results of experience, are good; but not less so, are a judicious setting aside of rules, and a declining to be bound by incomplete experience.
ref: 1862, Sir Arthur Helps, Organization in daily life: an essay, page 78:
glosses: Adherence; compliance; conformity.
abider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑɪ.dɚ/
Forms: form: abiders
Etymology: From abide + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Hee sayde, they were the Maisters of warre, and ornaments of peace : speedy goers, and strong abiders : triumphers both in Camps and Courts.
ref: c.''' 1583, Philip Sidney with Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, An Apologie for Poetrie, published 1891, page 1:
glosses: One who abides, or continues.
examples: text: But although it had everything 'to content the purse, the heart, the eye', there was a local proverb saying: 'What is best for the Abider is worst for the [Traveler]
ref: c.''' 1610, John Speed with Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales: 40 plates from John Speed's pocket atlas, published 1951, page 27:
text: 1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 150,
Much spends the traveller more than the abider.
glosses: One who dwells or stays; a resident.
Derived terms: law abider
abiding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbaɪ.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: more abiding
form: most abiding
Etymology: Present participle or participial adjective from abide (verb) + -ing; or, from Middle English participle form of abiden, abyden (“to abide”).
Senses: examples: text: an abiding belief
text: a deep and abiding hatred of wealth
text: However, one abiding weakness with such data collection is that people’s beliefs about their speech habits may not necessarily tally with reality.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 9:
glosses: Continuing or persisting in the same state: lasting, enduring; steadfast.
Synonyms: diuturnal
prolonged
lasting
Derived terms: abidingly
abidingness
nonabiding
unabiding
abiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbaɪ.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Etymology: Present participle or participial adjective from abide (verb) + -ing; or, from Middle English participle form of abiden, abyden (“to abide”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abide
Derived terms: abiding-place
abiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbaɪ.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: abidings
Etymology: From Middle English abydynge, abidynge, -inge [verbal noun of abiden, abyden (“to abide”)], from Old English abīdung; or, verbal noun from abide (verb) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The action of one who abides; the state of an abider.
glosses: An abode.
abidingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbaɪ.dɪŋ.li/
Forms: form: more abidingly
form: most abidingly
Etymology: From abiding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an abiding manner; permanently.
Synonyms: at length
enduringly
protractedly
lastingly
abietene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.i.əˌtin/
Forms: form: abietenes
Etymology: * abietic + -ene
* From Latin abies (“silver fir (tree)”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana).
abietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.iˈɛt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: From Latin abies (“silver fir”) + -ic (“pertaining to”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from fir trees
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to abietic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: abietene
dehydroabietic
hydroabietic
neoabietic
abietin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abietine
Etymology: See abietene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A resin obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether.
Derived terms: abietinic
dehydroabietin
abietinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From abietin + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to abietin.
Derived terms: word: abietinic acid
abietite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Abies and + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies alba).
abigail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈa.bɪ.ɡeɪl/
ipa: /ˈa.bɪ.ɡeɪl/
Forms: form: abigails
Etymology: From the name Abigail, as given to a waiting-maid in Beaumont and Fletcher's play The Scornful Lady.
Senses: examples: text: It was therefore concluded that the Abigails should, by turns, relieve each other on one of his lordship’s horses, which was presently equipped with a side-saddle for that purpose.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, page 415:
text: In the servants’ hall two coachmen and three gentlemen’s gentlemen stood or sat round the fire; the abigails, I suppose, were upstairs with their mistresses; the new servants, that had been hired from Millcote, were bustling about everywhere.
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:
glosses: A lady's maid.
wikipedia: The Scornful Lady
Derived terms: abigailship
abiliment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abiliments
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of habiliment.
abime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abimes
form: abyme
Etymology: From French abime.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of abysm.
abiogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪ.bai.oʊ.d͡ʒəˈnɛt.ɪk/
Etymology: From abiogenesis + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to abiogenesis, originated by abiogenesis.
Derived terms: abiogenetically
Related terms: abiogenic
abiogenous
abiosis
abiotic
abiogenist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪ.baiˈɑ.d͡ʒɛ.nəst/
Forms: form: abiogenists
Etymology: From abiogenesis + -ist.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent life.
abiogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb.iˈɑd͡ʒ.ə.nəs/
Etymology: From abiogenetic + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Produced by spontaneous generation.
Related terms: abiogenetic
abiogenic
abiotic
abiogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: biopoiesis
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: abiogenesis.
abiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪ.baɪ.əˈlɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.kl̩/
ipa: /ˌeɪ.baɪ.əˈlɑd͡ʒ.ə.kl̩/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɪkəl
Etymology: From a- (“without”) + biological (“relating to life”) or abiologic + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to inanimate things; not produced by organisms.
Derived terms: abiologically
abirritant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈɪɹ.ɪ.tn̩t/
Forms: form: more abirritant
form: most abirritant
Etymology: From ab- (prefix from Latin ab (“from”)) + irritant, from French irritant, from Latin irrītō (“to irritate”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acting to diminish irritation; soothing.
abirritant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈɪɹ.ɪ.tn̩t/
Forms: form: abirritants
Etymology: From ab- (prefix from Latin ab (“from”)) + irritant, from French irritant, from Latin irrītō (“to irritate”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A medicine that diminishes irritation.
abirritate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈɪɹ.ɪˌteɪt/
Forms: form: abirritates
form: abirritating
form: abirritated
form: abirritated
Etymology: From ab- + irritate.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate; to soothe.
Derived terms: abirritation
abirritative
Related terms: abirritant
abirritation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.ɪɹ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃn̩/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: abirritations
Etymology: From abirritate + -ion.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; asthenia; atony.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Decreased response to stimuli.
abirritative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.ɪɹ.ɪˈteɪ.tɪv/
Forms: form: more abirritative
form: most abirritative
Etymology: From abirritate + -ive.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Characterized by abirritation or debility.
abit
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a bit.
Related terms: alot
awhile
abject
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăbʹjĕkt
ipa: /ˈæbd͡ʒɛkt/
enpr: ăbʹjĕkt
ipa: /ˈæbˌd͡ʒɛkt/
enpr: ăbjĕktʹ
ipa: /æbˈd͡ʒɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
enpr: ăbʹjĕkt
ipa: /ˈæbd͡ʒɛkt/
enpr: ăbʹjĕkt
ipa: /ˈæbˌd͡ʒɛkt/
Forms: form: abjects
form: abjecting
form: abjected
form: abjected
Etymology: From Late Middle English abjecten (“to cast out, expel”) [and other forms], from abiect, abject (adjective) (see etymology 1).
Sense 3 (“of a fungus: to give off (spores or sporidia)”) is modelled after German abschleudern (“to give off forcefully”).
Senses: examples: text: […] Dauid durſt not touch Saul, though he vvas abiected by God.
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Elizabeth Queene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 104, page 848, column 1:
text: Rather than abjecting her own fat body, the Ipecac-taking fat girl is abjecting diet culture.
ref: 2001, Le’a Kent, “Fighting Abjection: Representing Fat Women”, in Jana Evans Braziel, Kathleen LeBesco, editors, Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression, Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.; London: University of California Press, →ISBN, part I (Revaluing Corpulence, Redefining Fat Subjectivities), page 141:
glosses: To cast off or out (someone or something); to reject, especially as contemptible or inferior.
examples: text: What phrases of abjecting themselves, in respect of the prince, can exceed David's humble expressing of himself to Saul?
ref: a. 1632 (date written), John Donne, “Sermon IX. Preached on Candlemas Day.”, in Henry Alford, editor, The Works of John Donne, D.D., […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 182:
glosses: To cast down (someone or something); to abase; to debase; to degrade; to lower; also, to forcibly impose obedience or servitude upon (someone); to subjugate.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a fungus: to (forcibly) give off (spores or sporidia).
Derived terms: word: abjected
word: abjectedness
abjectedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæbˈd͡ʒɛkt.əd.nəs/
Etymology: From abjected + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being abjected.
abjection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: abjections
Etymology: From Middle English abjeccioun, from either Middle French abjection or Late Latin abiectiōn-, from Latin abiectus (“cast down”).
* See abject.
Senses: examples: text: an abjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever
glosses: A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
glosses: Something cast off; garbage.
examples: text: The abjection of the king and his realm.
glosses: The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down.
glosses: The act of casting off; rejection.
examples: text: The disclosure of tolerance's hidden phobic lining fits in well with queer theory's embrace of the abject as exhorted by Michael Warner, David Halperin, and Lee Edelman. Embracing difference or culturally ascribed abjection with the aim of overcoming or dissipating it would be both naive and ineffective.
ref: 2009 September 10, W. C. Harris, Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 98:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The fact of being marginalized as deviant.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The act of dispersing or casting off spores.
abjectly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈd͡ʒɛktli/
ipa: /ˈæbd͡ʒɛktli/
ipa: /æbˈd͡ʒɛktli/
ipa: /-ˈd͡ʒɛkli/
Forms: form: more abjectly
form: most abjectly
Etymology: From Middle English abjectli (“with great humility”), from abject (“outcast, rejected; wretched; humble, lowly; of poor quality, worthless; menial”) + -li (suffix forming adverbs); analysable as abject + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I abjectly apologise for the damage I have done.
text: A deceitful man is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He will appear innocent, cheerful, polite, attentive, kind, obliging, and abjectly condescending; but let him once get you into his power and he becomes more ferocious, more cruel, and more destructive than the most savage animals that ever trod in deserts uninhabited by rational beings.
ref: 1806, Thoughts on Deceit, Margate, Kent: Printed by J. Warren, […], →OCLC, pages 15–16:
text: So, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a clumsy landsman again; hopelessly eyeing the uncertain changeful height he could hardly hope to attain.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Leg and Arm. The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London.”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 486:
antonyms: word: proudly
english: somewhat
translation: somewhat
glosses: In an abject fashion; with great shame; desperately.
examples: text: Never ask a man his opinion of a woman's dress when he is desperately and abjectly in love with the wearer.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 85:
glosses: Intensely; to the utmost extreme.
Related terms: abject
abjection
abjectness
abjectness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈd͡ʒɛkt.nəs/
Forms: form: abjectnesses
Etymology: From abject + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.
abjudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbˌd͡ʒəd͡ʒ/
ipa: /æbˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -æbdʒədʒ
rhymes: -ʌdʒ
Forms: form: abjudges
form: abjudging
form: abjudged
form: abjudged
Etymology: * ab- + judge, from Latin abiudicare. Doublet of abjudicate.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To confiscate by judicial decision.
Synonyms: abjudicate
abjudicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: abjudicates
form: abjudicating
form: abjudicated
form: abjudicated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin abiūdicātus, perfect passive participle of abiūdicō (“deprive or take away by judicial sentence”), from ab (“from, away from”) + iūdicō (“pass judgement; determine, conclude”). Doublet of abjudge. See judge.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To reject by judicial sentence.
glosses: To abjudge.
Derived terms: abjudication
Related terms: adjudicate
abjudication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˌd͡ʒuː.dɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: abjudications
Etymology: From abjudicate + -ion or from Latin abiūdicātiō. First attested in 1623.
Senses: examples: text: However, an appeal lay from the Council against any sentence, abjudication or removal, to the Court of Directors, within one calendar month from date of such sentence or abjudication, upon the aggrieved party giving security sufficient to cover the cost of the appeal.
ref: 1904, Claude George, chapter 11, in The Rise of British West Africa, Houlston & Sons, page 135:
text: Abjudication of the freedom of Richard Northbury, and restitution thereof[…]
ref: 1861, City of London Corporation, edited by Henry Thomas Riley, compiled by John Carpenter, Liber Albus, page 496:
text: In the abjudication of all or certain rights of civil honor, decreed as a criminal penalty, one can trace the old "Rechtlosigkeit" due to crime, and the Roman "infamia iuris mediata."
ref: 1918, Rudolf Hübner, Paul Vinogradoff, William Emanuel Walz, A History of Germanic Private Law, Little, Brown, page 108:
topics: law
glosses: Rejection or confiscation by judicial sentence.
abjugate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.d͡ʒə.ɡeɪt/
Forms: form: abjugates
form: abjugating
form: abjugated
form: abjugated
Etymology: From Latin abiugātus, perfect passive participle of abiugō (“remove, separate from”); from ab- (“away from”) + iugō (“bind, connect”).
Senses: glosses: To unyoke; set free; uncouple.
Related terms: abjugation
abrogate
abjunctive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈd͡ʒʌŋktɪv/
Forms: form: more abjunctive
form: most abjunctive
Etymology: From Latin abiūnctus, past participle of abiungō (“remove, separate”); from ab (“of, from, by”) + iungō (“join, connect, attach”).
Senses: examples: text: It is this power which leads on always from the less perfect, towards the more perfect; — from the accidental and abjunctive, to the universal ; or from […]
ref: 1883, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening, J.P. Haven, page 270:
text: The therapeutic programs provided include chemotherapy, electroshock, Individual, group and family psychotherapy, abjunctive therapy, medical and nursing
ref: 1973, United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, U.S. G.P.O, page 268:
text: The authors present their experience concerning 47 patients: 27 were surgical treated with subcutaneous subtotal mastectomy and 18 had an abjunctive liposuction treatment with good results.
ref: 1996, Cianchetti E, Legnini M, Ucchino S, Ricci A, Scipione P, Grossi S, Scotti U, Napolitano L, “Gynecomastia (report)”, in Annali italiani di chirurgia, page 499:
glosses: Exceptional, isolated, disconnected, separate,
abjuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.d͡ʒʊˈɹeɪ.ʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌæb.d͡ʒəˈɹeɪ.ʃn̩/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: abjurations
Etymology: First attested around 1439. From Middle English abjuracioun, from Latin abiūrātiō (“forswearing, abjuration”), from ab (“from, away from”) + iūrō (“swear or take an oath”), from iūs (“law, right, duty”). Compare French abjuration.
Senses: glosses: A solemn recantation or renunciation on oath; as, an abjuration of heresy.
glosses: A repudiation on oath of a religious or political principle.
glosses: The act of abjuring.
Derived terms: abjuration oath
abjuration of the realm
Oath of Abjuration
abjuratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈd͡ʒʊɹ.əˌtɔɹ.i/
Forms: form: more abjuratory
form: most abjuratory
Etymology: From abjure + -atory.
Senses: glosses: Involving abjuration.
abjurement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)mənt/
ipa: /æbˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)mənt/
Forms: form: abjurements
Etymology: From abjure + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Renunciation.
Related terms: abjured
abjuring
abjurer
abjurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈd͡ʒʊɹ.ɚ/
Forms: form: abjurers
form: abjuror
Etymology: From abjure + -er.
Senses: examples: text: To thys Iames Morden with other moe abiurers, it was enioyned by Bishoppe Smith, for seuen yeares, to visite the church of Lincolne twise a yeare from Amersham.
ref: 1583, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments, 4th edition, London: John Daye, Volume 2, Book 7:
text: […] to force him by tedious uncomfortable imprisonments, and extreame penury to turn a practicall Apostate and perjured abjurer of all his former Orthodox loyall Principles […]
ref: 1655, William Prynne, A New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny, London: for the author, page 25:
text: [N]o man can pretend to be a Believer in Love, who is an abjurer of wine—'tis the Test by which a Lover knows his own Heart—
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, III.iii:
glosses: One who abjures.
ablactate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæblækˈteɪt/
Forms: form: ablactates
form: ablactating
form: ablactated
form: ablactated
Etymology: From Latin ablactātus, perfect passive participle of ablactō (“wean”), from ab + lactō (“suckle”), from lac (“milk”).
Senses: examples: text: Clausenamide (p.o., consecutive days) increased the density of hippocampal synapses and the number of mossy nerve fibre buddings in ablactated mice and adult rats (Zhang et al. 2001).
ref: 2012, T. K. Lim, Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants, volume 4:
glosses: To wean.
Related terms: ablactation
ablactation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.lækˈteɪ.ʃn̩/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: ablactations
Etymology: From Middle English ablactacioun from Late Latin ablactatio, ablactō (“to wean”) from ab (“without”) + lacto (“suckle”), from lac (“milk”); equivalent to ab- + lactation.
Senses: glosses: The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young animals from their dam.
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: Inarching.
glosses: a tempest
ablaqueate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ablaqueates
form: ablaqueating
form: ablaqueated
form: ablaqueated
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ablaqueātus (“loosened, dug up”), past participle of ablaqueō (“to disentangle”), formed from ab- + laqueō (“noose”).
Senses: examples: text: After the autumnal equinox they were to be ablaqueated like the vines. Every third year they were to be dunged, and after some years (generally the eighth) to be pruned; for there was an old saying, to wit, eum qui aret olivetum rogare fructum; qui stercoret exorare; qui caedat cogere.
ref: 1847, Thomas Keightley, The Bucolics and Georgics of Virgil:
glosses: To lay bare, as the roots of a tree, by loosening or removing soil.
Derived terms: ablaqueation
ablaqueation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ablaqueātiō (“the process or act of digging or loosening the soil around the roots of a tree”), from ablaqueō (“disentangle”), from ab (“from, away from”) + laqueō (“entangle, ensnare”).
Senses: glosses: The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water.
ablastemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.blæˌsti.mɪk/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.blæˌstɛ.mɪk/
ipa: /ˌeɪ.blæˈsti.mɪk/
ipa: /ˌeɪ.blæˈstɛ.mɪk/
Etymology: From a- (“not”) + blastemic (“offspring, offshoot”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Non-germinal; unable to form a blastema or offspring.
ablation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-blā'-shən
enpr: ăb-lā'-shən
ipa: /əˈbleɪ.ʃn̩/
ipa: /æbˈleɪ.ʃn̩/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: ablations
Etymology: From Late Middle English ablacioun (“removal”), from Late Latin ablātiō (“a taking away”), from auferō (“to take away, carry off, withdraw, remove”) + -tiō (“-tion”, nominal suffix). Doublet of ablatio. Compare French ablation. By surface analysis, ablat(e) + -ion.
Senses: glosses: A carrying or taking away; removal.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as melting or vaporization under heat or chipping.
The removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of several means, as in wind erosion or mass wasting.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as melting or vaporization under heat or chipping.
The depletion of surface snow and ice from a spacecraft or meteorite through melting and evaporation caused by aerodynamic heating.
Derived terms: ablational
ablation study
ablative
aquablation
atheroablation
chemoablation
cryoablation
cycloablation
cytoablation
electroablation
hemiablation
immunoablation
locoablation
lymphoablation
myeloablation
periablation
photoablation
postablation
preablation
radioablation
reablation
rotablation
thermoablation
Related terms: ablatable
ablate
ablator
ablatitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ablatitious
form: most ablatitious
Senses: examples: text: the ablatitious force
text: The whole Operation of the said Example you have in the next page, where you may observe, that for the more certain and easie placing, as well of the Numbers, which constitute the several Divisors, as of those which constitute the Ablatitious Numbers to be subtracted from the several and respective Resolvends […]
ref: 1676, Thomas Binning, A Light to the Art of Gunnery […], pages 86–7:
text: Now the former of these Causes, the Eccentricity of the Orbit […] Remits us to the Aphelia and Perihelia for an Equation of Time, which answers to the Quantity of that Eccentricity, and is once a Year addititious, (or to be added to the true, that is, the apparent Time,) and once ablatitious, (or to be taken from it.)
ref: 1728, William Whiston, Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Publick Schools at Cambridge […], page 119:
text: This part of M’s action is termed the ablatitious force, because it tends to diminish the gravity of P towards S; […]
ref: 1834, John Herschel, A Treatise on Astronomy, page 330:
topics: sciences
glosses: Subtractive or tending to diminish.
Related terms: ablate
ablative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.lə.tɪv/
ipa: /əˈbleɪ.tɪv/
Forms: form: abl.
form: Abl.
Etymology: From Middle English ablative, ablatife, ablatyf, ablatif, from Old French ablatif (“the ablative case”), from Latin ablātīvus (“expressing removal”), from ablātus (“taken away”), from auferō (“I take away”). The engineering/nautical sense originates from ablate + -ive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
examples: text: Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth.
ref: 1622, Joseph Hall, The Works of Joseph Hall: Sermons, page 123:
glosses: Pertaining to taking away or removing.
examples: text: The inner layer of warship protection consists of ablative armor plate designed to "boil away" when heated. The vaporized armor material scatters a DEW beam, rendering it ineffectual.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Weapons: Ablative Armor Codex entry:
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
glosses: Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry. .
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
Derived terms: ablatival
ablatively
ablativeness
ablativity
atheroablative
cryoablative
cytoablative
immunoablative
locoablative
lymphoablative
myeloablative
neuroablative
non-ablative
nonablative
periablative
phosphoablative
postablative
ablative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.lə.tɪv/
ipa: /əˈbleɪ.tɪv/
Forms: form: ablatives
form: abl.
form: Abl.
Etymology: From Middle English ablative, ablatife, ablatyf, ablatif, from Old French ablatif (“the ablative case”), from Latin ablātīvus (“expressing removal”), from ablātus (“taken away”), from auferō (“I take away”). The engineering/nautical sense originates from ablate + -ive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The ablative case.
glosses: An ablative material.
Derived terms: ablative absolute
loose ablative
partitive ablative
partitive dative
partitive genitive
ablaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑbˌlaʊt/
ipa: /ˈɑpˌlaʊt/
ipa: /ˈæbˌlaʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: ablauts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ablaut (“sound gradation”), which is from ab- or ab (“down, off”), + Laut (“sound”). Ab is used here in the sense of “deviating, varying” as in Abgott (“god other than the true God”), Abart (“different sort, variety, anomality”).
Senses: examples: text: I declare to you that Literature was not written for schoolmasters, nor for schoolmistresses. I would not exchange it for a wilderness of schoolmasters. It should be delivered from them, who, with their silly Ablauts and ‘tendencies,’ can themselves neither read nor write.
ref: 1920, Arthur Quiller-Couch, On The Art of Reading:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: alternation
hypernyms: gradation
apophony
glosses: The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation, distinct from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel.
Derived terms: ablauting
Related terms: umlaut
ablaut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑbˌlaʊt/
ipa: /ˈɑpˌlaʊt/
ipa: /ˈæbˌlaʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: ablauts
form: ablauting
form: ablauted
form: ablauted
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ablaut (“sound gradation”), which is from ab- or ab (“down, off”), + Laut (“sound”). Ab is used here in the sense of “deviating, varying” as in Abgott (“god other than the true God”), Abart (“different sort, variety, anomality”).
Senses: examples: text: This root must once have ablauted, given the associated nominal derivatives prthii- 'broad', prthivl- 'earth'. However, it does not ablaut at all in its verbal forms.
ref: 1983, Stephanie W. Jamison, Function and Form in the -áya-formations of the Rig Veda and ..., page 209:
text: What we find is that one cannot predict which members of V a given member of E will cause to ablaut
ref: 1985, Michael E. Krauss, Yupik Eskimo prosodic systems: descriptive and comparative studies, page 241:
text: It is these co-opted verbs that tend to ablaut variably in the different Dakotan dialects and that forced morphological restructuring
ref: 2006, Felix K. Ameka, Alan Charles Dench, Nicholas Evans, Catching language: the standing challenge of grammar writing, page 536:
text: This allomorph also causes the back vowel to ablaut to a low vowel.
ref: 2012, Bernard Comrie, Zarina Estrada Fernández, Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A Typological Overview, page 219:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To undergo a change of vowel.
raw_tags: of a vowel-containing linguistic component
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To cause to change a vowel.
Derived terms: unablauted
ablaze
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbleɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
Forms: form: more ablaze
form: most ablaze
Etymology: From a- (“on, in”) + blaze (“flame”).
Senses: examples: text: […] with the spontaneous combustion the house smouldered ablaze.
ref: 1969, Ray Bradbury, “The Haunting of the New”, in I Sing the Body Electric!, New York: Knopf, page 143:
glosses: On fire; in a blaze.
glosses: Lit up brightly and with color, gleaming.
glosses: In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
able
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.bl̩/
ipa: [ˈeɪ̯.bɫ̩]
note: L-Vocalisation
ipa: [ˈeɪ̯.bw]
note: Indic
ipa: /ebl̩/
ipa: [eːbɐl]
ipa: [eːbɨɭ]
homophone: Abel (most accents)
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: ables
form: abling
form: abled
form: abled
form: hable
Etymology: From Middle English ablen, from Middle English able (adjective).
Senses: glosses: To make ready.
glosses: To make capable; to enable.
glosses: To dress.
glosses: To give power to; to reinforce; to confirm.
examples: text: None does offend, none....I’ll able ’em.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
glosses: To vouch for; to guarantee.
examples: text: I might be able to go.
text: I have been able to go, since I was seven.
text: I had been able to go before.
text: I will be able to go tomorrow.
glosses: present participle and gerund of can
Derived terms: abled
able
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.bl̩/
ipa: [ˈeɪ̯.bɫ̩]
note: L-Vocalisation
ipa: [ˈeɪ̯.bw]
note: Indic
ipa: /ebl̩/
ipa: [eːbɐl]
ipa: [eːbɨɭ]
homophone: Abel (most accents)
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: hable
Etymology: From the first letter of the word. Suggested in the 1916 United States Army Signal Book to distinguish the letter when communicating via telephone, and later adopted in other radio and telephone signal standards.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The letter "A" in Navy Phonetic Alphabet.
able-bodied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.bl̩ˌbɑ.did/
Forms: form: more able-bodied
form: most able-bodied
Etymology: From able body + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: A servant determinately idle, leaving his work, or an able-bodied vagrant, roaming the country without means of honest self-support and without seeking employment, was to be brought before the two nearest magistrates.
ref: 1893, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada:
glosses: Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust; fit for service.
examples: text: Unfair discrimination between the able-bodied and the disabled is illegal in many places.
synonyms: abled
enabled
antonyms: disabled
glosses: Not disabled; having no physical disability.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Capable of performing all requisite duties as a seaman, specifically in the Royal Navy, a rating between leading and ordinary.
Derived terms: able-bodiedism
able-bodiedness
able-bodied seaman
non-able-bodied
temporarily able-bodied
Related terms: ableism
ablegate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.lə.ɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˈæb.lə.ɡət/
Forms: form: ablegates
form: ablegating
form: ablegated
form: ablegated
Etymology: Borrowed from French ablégate, from Latin ablēgātus, perfect passive participle of ablēgō (“I send off or away; banish”), from ab (“from, away from”) + lēgō (“I dispatch, send on a commission”). See legate.
Senses: examples: text: Thou hellish Dog, Depart, or I will amand, ablegate, and send thee to some vast and horrid Desert.
ref: c. 1660, R. Carpenter, Pragmatical Jesuit 64:
text: The evil which you imav gine, therefore, is so far from being really felt, that we are now sufferers by the bad policy of our ancestors, in ablegating their poor to till the wilds of America; and maintaining them there at an enormous expence
ref: 1795, Elisa Powell, Elisa Powell, or Trials of sensibility:
text: Couriers were ablegated from all points of the vicinage, to secure the adjuments of pharmacopolists, chirurgeons, and even of amethodists; but their prescriptions had no consimilitude.
ref: 1870, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant: In the East:
glosses: To send abroad.
ablegate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.lə.ɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˈæb.lə.ɡət/
Forms: form: ablegates
Etymology: Borrowed from French ablégate, from Latin ablēgātus, perfect passive participle of ablēgō (“I send off or away; banish”), from ab (“from, away from”) + lēgō (“I dispatch, send on a commission”). See legate.
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.
glosses: An elected representative of a Hungarian royal free city, charged to be a speaker at the Diet of Hungary and to express the opinion of the city.
ablegation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ablegations
Etymology: From Latin ablēgātio (“a sending away, banishment”).
Senses: examples: text: Now of all Passions whatever, excess of Desire is fittest for this more harmless and momentary Ablegation of the Soul from the Body
ref: 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul:
glosses: Expulsion; banishment.
Related terms: ablegate
able-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more able-minded
form: most able-minded
Senses: glosses: Having unimpaired mental capability.
Derived terms: able-mindedness
ableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.bl̩.nəs/
Forms: form: ablenesses
Etymology: From Middle English abilnes; equivalent to able + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […]not that we are ſufficient of oure ſelues to thynke eny thinge, as of oure ſelues, but oure ableneſſe commeth of God,[…]
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, II. Corinthians iij:[5], folio lxxviij, verso, column 2:
text: […] in ſtead of a brother ſhe [Empress Matilda] had a ſonne grew vp to be of more eſtimatiõ with the Nobilitie, and ſhortly after of ablenes to vndergo the trauailes of warre.
ref: 1612, Samuel Danyel [i.e., Daniel], “The Raigne of King Stephen”, in The First Part of the Historie of England, London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, page 225:
text: […] the true use and function of property […] as also of honors, titles, preferments, and place, and all favor and acquaintance of persons of quality or ableness, are but to get money.
ref: 1906, Ambrose Bierce, “income”, in The Cynic’s Word Book, London: Arthur F. Bird […], →OCLC, page 183:
text: She knew how to do things and make things and even her good looks were competent, a straightforward sort of ableness, open and clear-eyed, with a smatter of fading freckles and a dirty-minded smile.
ref: 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, New York: Scribner, Part 5, Chapter 3, p. 549:
synonyms: force
power
vigour
glosses: Ability of body or mind.
examples: text: In academic discourse, hybridity is out; intersectionality is in. People are imagined as the sum of their race, gender, sexuality, ableness, and other identities.
ref: 2018 December 3, Louis Menand, “Literary Hoaxes and the Ethics of Authorship”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2023:
text: The card's release is presented as part of a broader effort to demonstrate that inclusiveness, and addressing discrimination across race, sex or degrees of ableness isn't just a social marketing good—it's good for business.
ref: 2021 October 26, David Kaplan, “Mastercard's Touch Card Continues Brand's Marketing Efforts to Engage All Consumers—and Their Senses”, in Adweek, New York, N.Y.: Adweek, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2023:
glosses: The degree to which one is abled or disabled.
examples: text: For [Peter] Morriss abilities are the capacities we have which we may use under particular conditions (power in a generic sense). Ablenesses are the abilities when those particular conditions obtain (power in a particular sense).
ref: 1991, Keith Dowding, chapter 4, in Rational Choice and Political Power, Aldershot, Hants: E. Elgar, page 52:
synonyms: ability
capacity
competency
glosses: Something one is able to do.
Related terms: ability
abledness
ablepsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of ablepsia.
abler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.blɚ/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.bə.lɚ/
rhymes: -eɪblə(ɹ)
rhymes: -eɪbələ(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of able: more able
ablet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ablets
form: Ablen
Etymology: From French ablet, ablette, a diminutive from Late Latin abula, for albula, diminutive of albus (“white”). Compare abele.
Senses: glosses: A small fresh-water fish (Alburnus alburnus); the bleak.