cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
particularist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɪkjʊləɹɪst/
Forms: form: more particularist
form: most particularist
Etymology: From particular + -ist, after French particulariste.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Adhering to particularism.
examples: text: And what does the moderate Left have to offer? Only more redistribution, more public assistance, and particularist concern for particular groups that can claim victim status, from the sublime peak of elderly, handicapped, black lesbians down to the merely poor.
ref: 1994 April 7, Edward Luttwak, “Why Fascism is the Wave of the Future”, in London Review of Books, volume 16, number 07, →ISSN:
text: The province's identity was fixed on traditionalist and historical attachment to particularist privilege.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 272:
synonyms: partisan
glosses: Showing excessive devotion to one's own region, nation, party etc.
Related terms: particularistic
particularists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of particularist
negoce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French négoce. See negotiate.
Senses: examples: text: He was part of that time a Publican , or Collecter of Taxes and Customs : Could not that perpetual negoce and converse with Dorians bring his mouth , by degrees , to speak a little broader ?
ref: 1699, A Dissertation Upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Richard Bentley:
glosses: business; occupation or enterprise
Marcian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Marcian
form: most Marcian
Etymology: Compare Martian, martial.
Senses: glosses: Under the influence of Mars; courageous; bold.
Marcian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Compare Martian, martial.
Senses: glosses: A saint born in Cyrus who became an anchorite in Chalcis and died in 388.
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A minor fourth century Greek geographer from Heraclea (an ancient city on the coast of Bithynia).
glosses: Roman emperor of the East from 450 to 457, born 392.
glosses: Son of Anthemius, grandson of the Emperor Marcian, who led an unsuccessful rebellion in 479.
docimology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δοκιμή (dokimḗ, “a test”) + -ology.
Senses: glosses: scientific testing, as in assaying metals, etc.
pelau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelaus
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pilaf (“dish of browned rice etc.”).
glosses: A Trinidadian dish of meat, rice, and peas cooked together in one pot.
one and one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one and ones
Senses: examples: text: Tonight the long procession for the fish and chip shop, 'Two one and ones, Mister Savallo, and plenty of salt and vinegar.'
ref: 1979, Dominic Behan, Teems of Times and Happy Returns, page 86:
glosses: A serving of fish and chips.
crubeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɹəˈbiːn/
Forms: form: crubeens
Etymology: From Irish crúibín.
Senses: examples: text: In each hand he holds a parcel, one containing a lukewarm pig's crubeen, the other a cold sheep's trotter, sprinkled with wholepepper.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An Irish food made from pigs' feet, usually boiled.
Hypernyms: trotter
crubeens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crubeen
Wentworth scale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Introduced by C. K. Wentworth in a 1922 paper.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A particle classification system, classifying based on diameter.
Related terms: colloid
clay
silt
mud
sand
gravel
granule
pebble
cobble
boulder
black cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black cakes
Senses: examples: text: ‘She was telling her daughter the best way to soak the fruit for black cake one Christmas.’
ref: 2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 177:
glosses: A Caribbean fruitcake based on the English plum pudding, with plums and raisins soaked in rum.
Iroquoians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Iroquoian
boxties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boxty
loture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lotures
Etymology: From Latin lotura. See lotion.
Senses: examples: text: Lead doth yeeld from it selfe a certaine substance by way of loture, which is of right great and manifold vse in physicke.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book II.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: A lotion.
lotures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loture
rappage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rap + -age.
Senses: glosses: The enlargement of a mould caused by rapping the pattern.
prescale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prescales
form: prescaling
form: prescaled
form: prescaled
Etymology: From pre- + scale.
Senses: glosses: To scale in advance.
prescaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prescale
prescales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prescale
prescaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prescale
presbyterships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presbytership
elance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪˈlæns/
/ɪˈlɑːns/
Forms: form: elances
form: elancing
form: elanced
form: elanced
Etymology: From French élancer (Old French eslancier), from es- (Latin ex) + French lancer (“to dart, throw”), from lance.
Senses: examples: text: Iö! while thy unerring hand elanc'd / Another, and another dart; the people / Joyfully repeated Iö! Iö Pean! / Elance the dart, Apollo: for the ſafety, / And health of man, gracious thy mother bore thee.
ref: a. 1722 (date written), Matthew Prior, “The Second Hymn of Callimachus to Apollo”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC, page 338:
glosses: To throw like a lance; to hurl.
elanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of elance
elances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of elance
elancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of elance
cosmoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmolines
Etymology: Probably from cosmetic + Latin oleum (“oil”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffins.
cosmoline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cosmolines
form: cosmolining
form: cosmolined
form: cosmolined
Etymology: Probably from cosmetic + Latin oleum (“oil”).
Senses: examples: text: With the Model 1917 tripod, the pintle should be removed from the socket from time to time, wiped clean and lightly oiled or cosmolined where there is friction between it and the socket.
ref: 1930, The R.O.T.C. Manual, Infantry: 1st-2nd year advanced, page 178:
text: Now, as I understand it you testified that that would lead to the inference that they did not fear an attack and you said that they had the guns themselves there on the ships but they were cosmolined and could not fire.
ref: 1946, United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Pearl Harbor Attack: Hearings, Seventy-ninth Congress:
text: Its howitzers were turned in to "ordnance and to cosmoline" on the next day, for the war in Europe was ending.
ref: 1966, Ulysses Lee, The Employment of Negro Troops, →ISBN, page 654:
text: It told in English and German, how an American Ordinance worked, such as receiving the items, giving them numbers, assigning the storage locations, cleaning and cosmolining or applying grease to them.
ref: 2003, John Rich, My Awakening, →ISBN:
glosses: To coat with cosmoline.
cosmolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmoline
cosmolines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cosmoline
epineuston
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epi- + neuston.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: All the organisms that float on top of the water
Related terms: neuston
hyponeuston
hyponeuston
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + neuston.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: All the organisms that live just beneath the surface of the water
Related terms: neuston
epineuston
phainopepla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phainopeplas
Etymology: Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “shine”) + πέπλος (péplos, “robe”)
Senses: glosses: A small crested passerine bird, Phainopepla nitens.
phainopeplas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phainopepla
roughscuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rough + scuff.
Senses: glosses: The lowest class of people; the rabble.
meiobenthos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meio- + benthos.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
synonyms: meiofauna
glosses: A group of marine or freshwater benthic organisms that are intermediate in terms of size between macrobenthos and microbenthos, and which can pass through a 1 mm sieve, but are retained by a 45 μm sieve.
inclave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See inclavated.
Senses: examples: text: Per Fess, (or party per Fess) Pattee, (or Inclave) Argent and Azure. […] Gules, a Chief ingrail'd, Or. Tho' this Line is form'd after the Manner of the invecked, yet it very much differs therefrom, because […]
ref: 1735, Francis Nichols, The British Compendium: Or, Rudiments of Honour ..., page 23:
text: PLATE VII. CHIEFS. Fig. 1 Chief, the base masoned. […] 7 With one embattlement. 8 Inclave. 9 Arched. In base a Point impaled.
ref: 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia heraldica, or Complete dictionary of heraldry: Reference to the plates:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Resembling a series of dovetails; said of a line of division, such as the border of an ordinary.
inclave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inclaves
Etymology: See inclavated.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of enclave.
microbenthos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + benthos.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: benthic organisms that are less than .1 mm in size and thus microscopic.
zoobenthos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + benthos.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: benthic organisms that are animals or zoomorphic protists
phytobenthos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyto- + benthos.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Benthic organisms that are plants or algae.
Derived terms: macrophytobenthos
microphytobenthos
Related terms: benthophyte
epibenthos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epi- + benthos.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: benthic organisms that live on top of the sediment
Related terms: epibenthic
ahungered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ahungered
form: most ahungered
form: anhungered
Etymology: From Middle English a-hungred, a hungryd, equivalent to a- + hungered.
Senses: examples: text: To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, […]
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 264:
text: May be my strength on which they lean; / My voice! Oh, may each wanderer heed; / My table those ahungered feed.
ref: 1907, Helen Elizabeth Coolidge, Poems:
glosses: Pinched with hunger; very hungry.
Related terms: ahungry
cameration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin cameratio.
Senses: glosses: A vaulting or arching over.
glosses: The quality of having chambers or hollow spaces.
skout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skouts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of scout (“guillemot”).
skout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skouts
Senses: examples: text: We were all shipped in open skouts or boats
ref: 1637, Monro, Exped. i 45
text: [His] breach of the Sabbath in carying turf … in a skout to Rothesay
ref: 1694, Kingarth Par. Rec., section 175:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shout (“boat”).
skouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skout
hyperbenthos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + benthos.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: benthic organisms that live just above the sediment
stoicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of French stoïcité. Only attested in the writing of Ben Jonson, poet and playwright. By surface analysis, stoic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Talk me of pins, and feathers, and ladies, and rushes, and such things, and leave this stoicity alone till thou mak'st sermons
ref: 1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Stoicism.
concubinages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concubinage
holoplankton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holoplankton
form: holoplanktons
Etymology: From holo- + plankton.
Senses: examples: text: Holoplanktons are consumed by a wide variety of marine organisms, ranging from small invertebrates to large fish and marine mammals.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Plankton”, in Biology Online:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that spends all of its life-cycle as plankton.
Derived terms: holoplanktonic
pietra dura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Italian, literally "hard stone".
Senses: examples: text: A Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A decorative art, the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly polished colored stones to create images.
holoplanktonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holo- + planktonic or holoplankton + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to holoplankton
pelagic zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelagic zones
Senses: glosses: The mass of water in a lake or ocean not close to the bottom and not near the shore.
schismatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: schismatizes
form: schismatizing
form: schismatized
form: schismatized
Etymology: Compare French schismatiser.
Senses: glosses: To cause to break apart by way of schism.
glosses: To take part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.
schismatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of schismatize
schismatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of schismatize
schismatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of schismatize
Walkyr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Walkyrs
Senses: glosses: A valkyrie.
Walkyrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Walkyr
sleevehand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleevehands
Etymology: From sleeve + hand.
Senses: examples: text: you would think a / smock were a she-angel, he so chants to the sleevehand / and the work about the square on't.
ref: c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, act 4, scene 4:
glosses: The part of a sleeve nearest the hand; a cuff or wristband.
sleevehands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleevehand
Secchi disk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Secchi disks
form: Secchi disc
Etymology: Secchi + disk. From Italian Secchi, from Angelo Secchi.
Senses: glosses: A circular disk used to measure water transparency (and thus turbidity)
wikipedia: en:Angelo Secchi
Related terms: Secchi depth
Secchi disks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Secchi disk
lactescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactescences
Etymology: Compare French lactescence.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of producing milk, or milky sap.
examples: text: [T]his Lacteſcence, if I may ſo call it, does alſo commonly enſue vvhen […] fair VVater is ſuddenly pour'd upon the Tincture or Solution.
ref: 1664, Robert Boyle, “Experiment XII”, in Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours. […], London: […] Henry Herringman […], →OCLC, part II (Of the Nature of Whiteness and Blackness), page 169:
glosses: Resemblance to milk; a milky colour.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The latex of certain plants.
lactescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lactescence
spilter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spilters
Etymology: From spill (noun).
Senses: examples: text: The little furrowes that run a long the head of a deer; The spilters, or broches of a deers head
ref: 1660, James Howell, Lexicon Tetraglotton:
glosses: Any of the small branches on a stag's head.
spilters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spilter
cuttlefish bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuttlefish bone
Gorgonean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gorgonean
form: most Gorgonean
form: gorgonian
Etymology: From gorgon + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Gorgons.
impasture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impastures
form: impasturing
form: impastured
form: impastured
Etymology: From im- + pasture.
Senses: examples: text: to impasture cattle
glosses: To place in a pasture
examples: text: Adulterie[…] impastures griefe in his [man's] heart
ref: 1618, Thomas Adams, The Diuells Banket:
glosses: to foster.
impastured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impasture
impastures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impasture
impasturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impasture
inodiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪˈnəʊdieɪt/
Forms: form: inodiates
form: inodiating
form: inodiated
form: inodiated
Etymology: From in- (“in”) + Latin odium (“hatred”). Doublet of annoy.
Senses: examples: text: he inflicts them for quite other Ends ; as partly to give the World fresh Demonstrations of his hatred of Sin , and partly to inodiate and inbitter Sin to the chastised Sinner
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To make odious or hateful.
inodiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inodiate
inodiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inodiate
inodiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inodiate
supplantation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supplantations
Etymology: * supplant + -ation
* Contrast French supplantation, Latin supplantatio (“hypocritical deceit”)
Senses: examples: c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Measure for Measure
Habitual supplantation of immediate selfishness.
glosses: The act of supplanting.
glosses: The condition of having been displaced.
Synonyms: displacement
supplantment
supplantations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supplantation
gynecocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gynecocracy
gyneocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyneocracy
gyneocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyneocracies
Etymology: According to the Poly-Olbion project coined by John Selden in 1612 as gynaeocracy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gynecocracy.
hematoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hematoid
form: most hematoid
form: haematoid
Etymology: From hemato- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: hematoid carcinoma
text: hematoid quartz
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling blood.
precognosce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precognosces
form: precognoscing
form: precognosced
form: precognosced
Etymology: Latin praecognoscere (“to foreknow”).
Senses: examples: 1858-1880, David Masson, Life of Milton in Connexion with the History of His Own Time
a committee of nine precognoscing the chances
topics: law
glosses: To examine (e.g. witnesses or evidence) beforehand.
precognosced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of precognosce
precognosces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of precognosce
precognoscing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precognosce
cloudage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cloud + -age.
Senses: examples: text: a scudding cloudage of shapes
ref: 1838, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Essay on Faith:
glosses: Mass of clouds; cloudiness or cloud cover.
transcension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transcensions
Etymology: See transcend.
Senses: examples: text: Many a shady hill,
And many an echoing valley; many a field
Pleasant and wishful did his passage yield
Their safe transcension.
ref: c. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624:
glosses: The act of transcending, or surpassing.
glosses: The act of passing over something.
transcensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transcension
poteens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poteen
potheen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potheens
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of poteen.
potheens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potheen
craniates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craniate
ringman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringmen
form: ring-man
Etymology: From ring + -man.
Senses: glosses: A male entertainer who works in the ring of a circus.
glosses: A man within the betting ring of a racecourse; a bookmaker who works in the ring.
glosses: A male boxer or prizefighter.
glosses: A man who works in a ring where animals are exhibited.
glosses: An auctioneer's assistant who spots bids and communicates information back to the auctioneer.
examples: text: And when a man shooteth, the might of his shoote lyeth on the foremost finger, and on the ringman
ref: 1545, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole of Shootinge […], London: […] Edouardi Whytchurch, →OCLC:
glosses: The ring finger.
ringmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringman
tunhoof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English tun-hōve, from Old English tūnhōfe from tūn + hōfe (“ground ivy”).
Senses: glosses: ground-ivy (Glechoma hederacea)
combatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One of the things I have observed about many of those who train in combatives is the tendency to feel superior when they compare themselves to those who train in other martial arts systems.
ref: 2015, Neal Martin, Self Defense And Combatives 3 Book Boxset Collection:
glosses: self-defense techniques
adscriptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin adscriptivus. See adscript.
Senses: examples: text: Many estates peopled with crown peasants have been, according to an ukase of Peter the Great, ceded to particular individuals on condition of establishing manufactories; these peasants called adscriptive (pripisneeye) working at the manufactories on certain fixed terms.
ref: 1842, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy:
glosses: Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.
unsteel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsteels
form: unsteeling
form: unsteeled
form: unsteeled
Etymology: From un- + steel.
Senses: examples: text: Thou hast his conqu’ring Sword unsteel’d,
His Valour turn’d to shameful Flight.
ref: 1696, Nahum Tate, Nicholas Brady, A New Version of the Psalms of David, London: The Company of Stationers, Psalm 89, Part 2, v. 43, p. 185:
text: Why then should this enervating pity unsteel my foolish heart?
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume V, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 215:
text: The more we drown the disabled in tea and lip gratitude the more we unsteel his soul, and the harder we make it for him to win through, when, in the years to come, the wells of our tea and gratitude have dried up.
ref: 1919, John Galsworthy, “The Sacred Work”, in Another Sheaf, London: Heinemann, page 9:
glosses: To disarm; to soften.
unsteeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unsteel + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsteel
unsteeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + steeled.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever this portent occurs, my steward telegraphs to me, that I, as head of the family, be not unsteeled against the shock of a bereavement […]
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter 5, in Zuleika Dobson, London: Heinemann, published 1922, page 60:
glosses: Not having been steeled.
unsteeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsteel
unsteels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsteel
Panthalassa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From pan- + Ancient Greek θάλασσα (thálassa, “sea”).
Senses: synonyms: Panthalassan Ocean
Panthalassic Ocean
glosses: The prehistoric ocean surrounding Pangaea.
punctus percontativus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin: punctus (“point”) + percontativus (“percontative”) = “percontative point”
Senses: examples: text: punctus percontativus A reversed, but not inverted punctus interrogativus […] used in the 16th and 17th centuries to indicate the end of a percontatio.
ref: 1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect, glossary, pages 306-307:
text: These include Middleton’s […] idiosyncratic placing of apostrophes and deployment of punctuation marks — exclamation marks, question marks and a form of reversed question mark which Malcolm Parkes classifies as “punctus percontativus,” associated […] with rhetorical questions.
ref: 1995, Julia Briggs, “‘The Lady Vanishes’: Problems of Authorship and Editing in the Middleton Canon” in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society II: 1992–1996 (1998), ed. William Speed Hill, page 115
text: Sometimes we may be encountering the punctus percontativus, used to indicate a rhetorical question.
ref: 1998, Alastair Fowler, Paradise Lost, 2nd edition, page 9, note 4:
text: The medieval question mark had an additional function that has since been lost: a mirror-reversed question mark (called punctus percontativus) signified a rhetorical question that did not expect a direct answer.
ref: 2002, Torbjörn Lundmark, Quirky QWERTY, page 147:
text: The percontation-mark (or punctus percontativus), the standard Arabic question-mark, indicated ‘percontations’, questions open to any answer or (more loosely) ‘rhetorical questions’, in various books of c.1575–c.1625.
ref: 2005, John Lennard, The Poetry Handbook, 2nd edition, page 121:
text: question mark in Arabic (؟) — Unicode U+061F: A similar mark has been proposed for Unicode that would be identical to the punctus percontativus found in some medieval Western manuscripts whose purpose was to indicate a merely rhetorical question rather than one requiring or at least expecting an answer: “What was the use of sending you to school⸮” (Michael Everson et al., “Proposal to add Medievalist and Iranianist punctuation characters to the UCS” (p. 2).
ref: 2008, Alexander Humez, Nicholas D. Humez, On the Dot, page 207:
glosses: A reversed question mark (⸮), visually almost identical to the Arabic question mark (؟ (?)), used to mark the end of a percontative statement.
Related terms: percontation
percontative
percontatorial
urochordates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urochordate
menagogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menagogues
Etymology: French ménagogue, from Ancient Greek μήν (mḗn, “month”) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “leading”).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of emmenagogue.
menagogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menagogue
exhereditation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin exhereditare, exhereditatum (“disinherit”).
Senses: examples: text: James Crichton's mother was a Douglas of Strathbrock, and the earl of Douglas would aid Robert Douglas at some point before June 1455 in the exhereditation of the king and his successors' from the lands
ref: 2001, Roland Tanner, The Late Medieval Scottish Parliament: Politics and the Three Estates, 1424-1488:
glosses: A disinheriting; disherison.
capillament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capillaments
Etymology: From Latin capillamentum, from capillus (“hair”). Compare French capillament.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A filament.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fibre or filament, as of the nerves.
capillaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capillament
percontative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the Latin percontativus.
Senses: examples: text: Some [grammatical writers] call these affections of the verb moods; others call them divisions, qualities, states, species, &c.; and as to the various appellations of each mood we have the personative and impersonative, the indicative, declarative, definitive, modus finiendi, modus fatendi, the rogative, interrogative, requisitive, percontative, assertive, enunciative, vocative, precative, deprecative, responsive, concessive, permissive, promissive, adhortative, optative, dubitative, imperative, mandative, conjunctive, subjunctive, adjunctive, potential, participial, infinitive, and probably many others.
ref: 1845, Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, and Henry John Rose [eds.], Encyclopædia Metropolitana I: “Universal Grammar and Philology”, pages 50–51
text: ‘Perfect Dicibles are of various sorts: Interrogative; Percontative; Adjurative; Optative; Imprecative; Execrative; Substitutive; Compellative; Hypothetical; and, lastly, Dubious.’
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi II (1922 reprint), page 285
text: Destined for internal consumption, these three words nevertheless provoked the reply which you see here: who doesn’t? With an interrogation point, for the reply was percontative.
ref: 1960, Raymond Queneau [aut.] (+ unknown tr.), Zazie, page 128
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: That is, expressed in, or having the character of the grammatical mood (mode) of rhetorical questioning; percontatorial.
Related terms: word: percontation
word: percontatorial
english: rhetorical question mark
translation: rhetorical question mark
word: punctus percontativus
secularities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secularity
secularisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secularism
secularizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secularizers
form: seculariser
Etymology: From secularize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who secularizes.
secularizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secularizer
emication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emications
Etymology: From Latin emicatio, from emicare (“to spring out or forth”), from e (“out”) + micare (“to move quickly to and fro, to sparkle”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus Iron in Aqua fortis will fall into ebullition, with noise and emication, as also a crasse and fumide exhalation, which are caused from this combat of the sulphur of Iron, with the acide and nitrous spirits of Aqua fortis
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, Chapter V:
glosses: A spark, flickering or scintillation.
emications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emication
tenebrious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tenebrious
form: most tenebrious
Senses: examples: text: tenebrious light
ref: 1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of tenebrous.
eavedrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈiːvdɹɒp/
Forms: form: eavedrops
Etymology: From eave + drop.
Senses: examples: text: Then I rise, the eavedrops fall,
And the yellow vapours choke
ref: 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A drop falling from the eaves of a building; an eavesdrop.
eavedrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eavedrop
plagiostome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plagiostomes
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Plagiostomi, a former group of sharks
plagiostomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plagiostome
incivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsɪvɪzəm/
Forms: form: incivisms
Etymology: From in- (“not”) + civism. Compare French incivisme.
Senses: examples: 1836, Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Barère", in (probably) Edinburgh Review
Every lady who adorned herself with the relics of criminals might justly be suspected of incivism.
glosses: Lack of civism or patriotism; unfriendliness to one's state or government.
gobline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goblines
Etymology: From gob + line.
Senses: examples: text: The gobline helps prevent the tug from being tripped or capsized when working on a towline especially if the tug is being towed stern first.
ref: 1986, George H. Reid, Shiphandling with Tugs, page 66:
text: This is not so important if the towline is bowsed to the stern of the tug with a gobline.
ref: 1996, Graham Danton, The Theory and Practice of Seamanship:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: One of the ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit.
examples: text: At Mine C, the future tailgate entry was 184 ft away from the longwall gobline and under a cover depth of 900 ft.
ref: 2002, Proceedings ... International Conference on Ground Control in Mining, page 16:
text: They serve as the gobline supports for the space between the canopy tip and faceline as shields are removed one by one from the tail end to head end.
ref: 2019, Syd S. Peng, Longwall Mining:
topics: business
mining
glosses: The outer extent of the gob (waste material) in an old mine.
Synonyms: gobrope
gaubline
gobline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goblines
Senses: examples: text: So, my dear Yudhishthira, the observance of the fast on the Jaya Ekadahee day saves the observer from falling into the low strata of ghosts, gobline and fiends, affords all the merits attainable by sacrifices, charities and penances and ensures pleasurable life in the Heaven for thousands of years.
ref: 1991, Swami Ganeshdas, Katha-ratnam:
text: In the paintings of the Ajanta caves, executed when Buddhism dominated north India, "the female, or Rākshasi, is represented as a gobline in the shape of a handsome woman, red, fair, or dark, with flowing hair, killing men and feeding on their flesh and blood" (Crooke 1907:238).
ref: 2004, Scott Atran, In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion, page 285:
text: The gobline tilted her head.
ref: 2013, T.J. Sidebottom, Contract Made After Death, page 406:
glosses: Goblin.
goblines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gobline
balayage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balayages
Etymology: Borrowed from French balayage.
Senses: topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
glosses: A hair colouring technique in which colour is applied by hand.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A method for reconstructing a harmonic function.
Derived terms: balayaged
smicket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smickets
Etymology: From a diminutive of smock.
Senses: examples: text: Chase her, and praise her, if fair or brown,
Sooth her , and smooth her,
And teaze her , and please her ,
And touch but her Smicket, and all's your own
ref: 1719, Thomas D'Urfey, Wit and Mirth; Or, Pills to Purge Melancholy:
glosses: A woman's undergarment; a smock.
smickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smicket
Plotinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Plotinian
form: most Plotinian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Plotinus, the Plotinists or their doctrines
Plotinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Plotinians
Senses: glosses: A Plotinist.
almond furnace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almond furnaces
Etymology: Probably a corruption of Almain furnace (“a German furnace”).
Senses: synonyms: sweep
glosses: A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter.
almond furnaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almond furnace
recumb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recumbs
form: recumbing
form: recumbed
form: recumbed
Etymology: From Latin recumbō, from re- (“back”) + *cumbō, akin to cubō (“to lie down”).
Senses: examples: text: Of a faith, which consists in lolling, rolling, and recumbing upon Christ
ref: July 19 1761, John Allen, No Acceptance with God by Faith only (sermon)
glosses: To lean; to recline; to repose.
Related terms: recumbent
recumbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recumb
recumbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recumb
recumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recumb
verbnoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verbnouns
Etymology: A calque of the Welsh berfenw: berf → verb + enw → noun.
Senses: qualifier: Welsh grammar
glosses: A verb form which acts as a defective noun, having functions similar to the English infinitive and gerund, and the Latin supine.
verbnouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verbnoun
predacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predaceans
Etymology: Latin praeda (“prey”).
Senses: examples: text: Predaceans or Zoophagans
ref: 1835, William Kirby, William Spence, On the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God. As Manifested in the Creation of Animals and in Their History, Habits and Instincts:
glosses: Any carnivorous animal.
predaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predacean
illimited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illimited
form: most illimited
Etymology: From il- + limited.
Senses: examples: text: To an illimited power, what difference is there betwixt a mountain and an ant-heap, betwixt one and a million?
ref: 1646, Bishop Joseph Hall, Satan's Fiery Darts Quenched: Or, Temptations Repelled in Three Decades:
synonyms: unlimited
glosses: Not limited; interminable.
Derived terms: illimitedly
Related terms: illimitedness
illimitedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From illimited + -ness.
Senses: examples: The absoluteness and illimitedness of his commission was generally much spoken of. — Clarendon.
glosses: Absence of bounds or limits.
anthropomorphitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthropomorphitisms
Senses: examples: text: I select these writers in preference to those of ancient Greece and Rome , because the anthropomorphitism of the Pagan religion subjected the minds of the greatest poets in those countries too much to the bondage of definite form; from which the Hebrews were preserved by their abhorrence of idolatry.
ref: 1815, William Wordsworth, “Preface”, in Poems […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], published 1815, →OCLC, pages xxix–xxx:
glosses: Alternative form of anthropomorphism.
anthropomorphitisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthropomorphitism
harim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harims
Senses: glosses: Dated form of harem.
devitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devitations
Etymology: Latin devitatio.
Senses: examples: text: Selection of Good, and Devitation of Evil
ref: 1698, Timothy Childe, A phisico-theological Discourse on the Divine Being […] :
glosses: An avoiding or escaping.
glosses: A warning.
devitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devitation
estuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estuations
Etymology: From Middle English estuacioun, estuation, from Latin aestuātiō. By surface analysis, estuate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: So is it with men in ambition, when fayling of the meane to exalt their Nature, they are in a perpetuall eſtuation to exalte theyr Place.
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 74, recto:
text: [T]he nearer vve come to this confixture unto that ſtability, the leſs obnoxious vve ſhall be to the eſtuations of joys and fears, or the anxiety of vvonder in all contingencies: […]
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Sixteenth Treatise. Considerations upon the Unsuccessfulness of a Good Cause. §. V. The Infirmity of Our Nature Comforted by Examples, Holy and Prophane; and the Acquiescence to Gods Order with Constancy, Perswaded.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 305:
text: He that looks no higher than the course of affairs in the world, can never have any firm peace in his own soul; but trust easeth of all fears, cares, and estuations of mind
ref: c. 1677, Thomas Manton, “a sermon”, in The Complete Works of Thomas Manton:
glosses: An agitation or commotion.
Related terms: estuate
estuations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estuation
strowl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strowls
form: strowling
form: strowled
form: strowled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of stroll.
strowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strowls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of stroll.
strowled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strowl
strowling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strowl
strowls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strowl
tilma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tilmas
Senses: glosses: An indigenous Mexican outer garment for men, worn on the front like a long apron, or fastened over the shoulders as a cloak.
melanocomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek μελανοκόμης (melanokómēs), alternative form of μελαγκόμης (melankómēs, “black-haired”) + -ous; from μέλας (mélas, “black”) + κόμη (kómē, “hair”).
Senses: examples: text: The melanocomous races of men are analogous to animals with black hair
ref: 1813, James Cowles Prichard, Researches Into the Physical History of Man:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Dark-haired or black-haired.
proller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prollers
Etymology: From proll + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There is argued in your sight
A worth that works not men for benefit,
Like prollers or impostors; of which crew,
The gentle black earth feeds not up a few
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “The Eleventh Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: A prowler; a thief.
prollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proller
tilmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tilma
actinozoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actinozoan
glosses: plural of actinozoon
actinozoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinozoa
form: actinozoons
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Actinozoa.
esculic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin aesculus, generic name of the horse-chestnut, from Latin aesculus a kind of oak.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid obtained from the horse chestnut
inturbidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inturbidates
form: inturbidating
form: inturbidated
form: inturbidated
Etymology: From in- + turbid + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: c. 1815-1833?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Donne
The confusion of ideas and conceptions under the same term painfully inturbidates his theology.
glosses: To cause to be turbid or cloudy; to darken; to confuse.
inturbidated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inturbidate
inturbidates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inturbidate
inturbidating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inturbidate
aesculic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of esculic acid.
superfoliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superfoliations
Etymology: From super- + foliation.
Senses: examples: text: the disease of[…]εμφυλλισμός , Or superfoliation mentioned by Theophrastus
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: excess of foliation
superfoliations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superfoliation
exheredation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exheredations
Etymology: Latin exheredatio: compare French exhérédation.
Senses: glosses: A disinheriting; disherison.
Related terms: exheredate
exheredations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exheredation
malamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of malic + amic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid intermediate between malic acid and malamide, known only by its salts.