cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
doctrinarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɒk.tɹɪˈnɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌdɑk.tɹɪˈnɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: doctrinarians
Senses: examples: text: Protestantism is embodied in a system; so is Popery: but when a man takes up this Via Media, he is a mere doctrinarian—he is wasting his efforts in delineating an invisible phantom; and he will be judged, and fairly, to be trifling, and bookish
ref: 1872, John Henry Newman, Discussions and Arguments:
glosses: A doctrinaire.
Derived terms: doctrinarianism
doctrinarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doctrinarian
pseudorhabdite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudorhabdites
Etymology: From pseudo- + rhabdite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the rod-like corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria, filled with a soft granular substance.
pseudorhabdites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudorhabdite
chromatosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromatospheres
Etymology: From chromato- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: A chromosphere.
chromatospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromatosphere
macrencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macrencephalic
form: most macrencephalic
Etymology: From macro- + encephalic.
Senses: glosses: Having a large brain.
Synonyms: macrencephalous
Related terms: macrencephaly
macrencephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + encephalous.
Senses: glosses: macrencephalic
Related terms: macrencephaly
macrencephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmækroʊɛnˈsɛfəli/
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: macro- + encephal- + -y.
Senses: glosses: The condition of having an enlarged brain, usually as a component of any of various congenital syndromes of altered development.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Synonyms: megalencephaly
megalocephalia
megalocephaly
megaloencephaly
Related terms: macrencephalic
macrencephalous
macroadenoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroadenomas
form: macroadenomata
Etymology: From macro- + adenoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An adenoma that is larger than about a centimetre.
macroaggregated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + aggregated.
Senses: glosses: aggregated into relatively large particles (macroaggregates)
macroaggregate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroaggregates
Etymology: From macro- + aggregate.
Senses: glosses: A relatively large aggregated particle
Related terms: macroaggregated
macroamylasaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of macroamylase in the blood, especially when accompanying hyperamylasaemia
macroamylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroamylases
Etymology: From macro- + amylase.
Senses: examples: text: [To our knowledge, the simultaneous presence of macroamylase and macrolipase in the same patient has been previously reported in only four cases. Interestingly, two of those patients had celiac disease. If macroamylase and macrolipase are present, the possibility of celiac disease should be considered.]
ref: 2003, Oita T, Yamashiro A, Mizutani F, Tamura A, Sakizono K, Okada A, “[Simultaneous presence of macroamylase and macrolipase in a patient with celiac disease]”, in Rinsho Byori [Japanese Journal of Clinical Pathology], volume 51, number 10, →PMID, pages 974–977:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A high-molecular weight form (that is, a macroenzyme form) of amylase that is bound as a complex to a globulin and is therefore not excreted in the urine.
pospolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pospolites
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish pospolite ruszenie (“a general summons to arms, an arriere-ban”, literally “general stirring”).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A former militia in the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, consisting of the gentry, which, was summoned to defend the country in the event of an invasion
macrobacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrobacteria
Etymology: From macro- + bacterium.
Senses: glosses: Any unusually large bacterium
Related terms: macrobial
interrenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + renal.
Senses: examples: text: interrenal cells
text: interrenal tissue
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the kidneys.
interrenal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interrenals
Etymology: From inter- + renal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The interrenal gland, an organ found in many fishes.
interrenals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interrenal
hyppish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyppish
form: most hyppish
form: hippish
form: hypish
Etymology: From hyp + -ish.
Senses: glosses: gloomy; melancholy.
verrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verrels
Senses: glosses: A ferrule (metal ring or band)
verrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verrel
hypish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypish
form: most hypish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyppish.
hypped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypped
form: most hypped
Etymology: From hyp + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I thought thou hadst been more of a man; thou that art not afraid of an acute death, a sword's point, to be so plaguily hypped at the consequences of a chronical one!
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXCI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Affected with hypochondria; melancholy, in low spirits.
Synonyms: hypish
hyppish
macrobenthos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + benthos.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: benthic organisms that are big enough to be seen with the naked eye
Related terms: macrobenthic
macrozoobenthos
advisership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adviserships
Etymology: From adviser + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The status or office of an adviser.
adviserships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advisership
cynosural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹəl
Etymology: From cynosure + -al.
Senses: examples: text: cynosural presence
glosses: Of or pertaining to a cynosure.
computerphobics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of computerphobic
Catabaptist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Catabaptists
Etymology: From cata- + baptist.
Senses: examples: text: A Catabaptist may sometimes be no Anabaptist, such as was Leo Copronymus, who defiled the Font at his baptisme,
ref: c. 1644, Daniel Featley, The Dippers Dipt, Or, the Anabaptists Duck'd and Plung'd Over Head and Ears, at a Disputation in Southwark:
glosses: One who opposes baptism.
Catabaptists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Catabaptist
decretist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɹiːtɪst/
Forms: form: decretists
Etymology: From Latin decretista, from decretum. Compare French décrétiste. See decree (noun).
Senses: glosses: A student, or epert, of decretals or decrees.
decretists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decretist
all hail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːl ˈheɪl/
ipa: /ˌɔl ˈheɪl/
ipa: /ˌɑl-/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: all hails
Etymology: The interjection is derived from Middle English al-heil, al heyl (“used as a salutation when meeting someone: your health!, hello!”), from al (“denoting totality”) + heil, heyl (“health, welfare; good fortune”, noun):
* Al is derived from Old English eall, from Proto-West Germanic *all (“all”), from Proto-Germanic *allaz (“all; entire, whole”); further etymology uncertain, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“beyond; other”).
* Heil is from Old Norse heill (“hale, healthy; whole”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“hale, healthy; entire, whole”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy; whole”)).
The noun is derived from the interjection.
Senses: examples: text: Brother Kempe, as many alhailes to thy perſon as there be haicocks in Iuly at Pancredge: […]
ref: [1589?], Cutbert Curry-knaue [pseudonym; Thomas Nashe], “To that Most Comicall and Conceited Caualeire Monsieur du Kempe, Iestmonger and Vice-gerent generall to the Ghost of Dicke Tarlton. His Louing Brother Cutbert Curry-knaue Sendeth Greeting.”, in An Almond for a Parrat, or Cutbert Curry-knaues Almes. […], [London]: […] [Eliot’s Court Press], →OCLC, signature A2, recto:
text: Take heede you be not laſt / To tender your All Hayle, in the vvide hall / Of huge Seianus: […]
ref: 1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, Act V, signature L3, verso:
text: He [Samuel Johnson] then parodied the All-hail of the vvitches to Macbeth, addreſſing himſelf to me.
ref: 1785, James Boswell, “Thursday, 26th August [1773]”, in The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 123:
text: [H]e frequently repeated his welcomes and all-hails before he could be brought to attend to what that gentleman said in reply.
ref: 1826, [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 237:
text: [W]itness the mute all-hail / The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge / Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears / From a log-cabin stream Beethoven's notes / On the piano, played with master's hand.
ref: 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Adirondacs. A Journal. Dedicated to My Fellow-travellers in August, 1858.”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 61:
glosses: A salutation of "all hail" (interjection sense 1); hence, a salutation indicating respect or welcome.
communalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French communaliste.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or supporting, communalism.
communalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: communalists
Etymology: Compare French communaliste.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of communalism.
communalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of communalist
shreddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɹɛdi/
rhymes: -ɛdi
Forms: form: shreddier
form: shreddiest
Etymology: From shred + -y.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of shreds.
Derived terms: shreddiness
reak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: reaks
Etymology: Compare Icelandic hrekkr, or English wreak vengeance.
Senses: examples: text: They play such reaks.
ref: c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Sea-Voyage. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii:
glosses: A prank.
reak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: reaks
Etymology: Compare wrack (“seaweed”).
Senses: examples: text: Feedes on reaks and reeds.
ref: a. 1578, Thomas Drant, A medicinable morall:
glosses: A rush (type of plant).
reaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reak
thearchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /θiːˈɑː(ɹ)kɪk/
Forms: form: more thearchic
form: most thearchic
Etymology: From thearchy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: He [Jesus] is the thearchic Intelligence.
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
glosses: Divinely sovereign or supreme.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a thearchy.
glacialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glacialists
Etymology: From glacial + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: At first, the speculations of such men as Dr. Buckland upon the ice-markings excited derision, and led to the publication of caricatures. Next, when its claims could not be set aside, some thought it the same with the flood of Noah, and others believed it to represent the chaos supposed to have pervaded space just before the advent of man. Then it was fashionable to believe in a submergence of the land by an ocean freighted with enormous icebergs, floating southerly from the pole. After this the battle raged fiercely between the advocates of icebergs and glaciers, the odds resulting in favor of the glacialists.
ref: 1881 December 24, Charles Henry Hitchcock, “North America in the Ice Period”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 20:
glosses: Someone who attributed the phenomena of drift, in geology, to glaciers.
glosses: a glaciologist
glacialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glacialist
furile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furil
Etymology: Blend of furfurol + benzile
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow crystalline substance, (C₄H₃O)₂.C₂O₂, obtained by the oxidation of furoin.
Derived terms: furilic
furilic acid
ledish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ledish
form: most ledish
Etymology: From Middle English ledisshe, ledische, equivalent to lead + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: […] but when the Nose is Blewish, Wan, or of a Ledish colour, having little Red Specks, or Veins like Fibres interwoven as it were, this argues a great Heat, and driness of the Liver , so the face Red, discovers a Hot Complexion; […]
ref: 1676, Richard Sanders, Palmistry, the Secrets thereof Disclosed:
text: Pressure by the finger, in the early stage, causes the disappearance of the ledish color, which at a later period leaves a livid stain, and in the third stage pressure produces no effect whatever.
ref: 1883, Edward Carroll Franklin, A Manual of Venereal Diseases:
text: ...a duskey ash color, a durty greye, ledish in apostemate absque et cum venis livescentibus; more white and yellow, cley color contracti.
ref: 1964, William Harvey, Gweneth Whitteridge, The Anatomical Lectures of William Harvey, page 280:
glosses: Alternative form of leadish.
metallographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From metallographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, metallography.
metalloidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: more metalloidal
form: most metalloidal
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: metalloid
poematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poematic
form: most poematic
Etymology: From an uncommon Ancient Greek ποιηματικός (poiēmatikós); a more common Greek word was ποιητικός (poiētikós).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a poem, or to poetry; poetical.
constabulatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constabulatory
constabulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constabulatories
Senses: examples: text: the castle of Edinburgh was a constabulatory, and was out of the sheriff's jurisdiction
ref: a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC:
glosses: A constabulary.
sectiuncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sectiuncles
Senses: examples: text: January 1851, James Martineau, "The Battle of the Churches" in Westminster Review
some new sect or sectiuncle
text: celebrating the sects , schisms , and sectiuncles that have had all the poets they are likely to want in this world at least.
ref: c. 1938, Samuel Beckett, “Review of Intercessions for transition”, in Times Literary Supplement:
glosses: A little or petty sect.
sectiuncles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sectiuncle
dittied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ditty + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: who, with his soft pipe, and smooth-dittied song
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: Set, sung, or composed as a ditty (of a specified kind).
hoolock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoolocks
form: hoolock gibbon
Etymology: Borrowed from Assamese হলৌ (holou) or a kindred Eastern Indo-Aryan language.
Senses: glosses: A large gibbon, either of three primate species Hoolock hoolock, Hoolock leuconedys, or Hoolock tianxing from the family Hylobatidae.
Synonyms: sense: large gibbon
word: langur
hoolocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoolock
gentilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gentilly
form: most gentilly
Etymology: From Middle English gentilly, equivalent to gentle + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of gently.
diseaseful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diseaseful
form: most diseaseful
Etymology: From disease + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: a diseaseful climate
glosses: Full of, afflicted by, or causing diseases.
examples: c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
For where the majesty of a king's house draws recourse and access, it is both disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people, if the ways near-abouts be not fair and good […]
glosses: Causing uneasiness.
Derived terms: diseasefulness
exuviable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Capable of being shed in the form of exuviae.
admonitrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of admonitrix
admonitrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: admonitrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin admonitrīx. By surface analysis, admonitor + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A female admonitor.
Greenbacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greenbackers
Etymology: From greenback + -er.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Greenback Party, who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments (see Specie Payment Resumption Act).
Greenbackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Greenbacker
siver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪvə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: sivers
form: sivering
form: sivered
form: sivered
Senses: examples: text: Colestocke ashes set over the fire untill it siver only, or have one walme at the most, is good for spasmes.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XX.]”, 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: To simmer.
sivered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of siver
sivering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of siver
sivers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of siver
delineable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more delineable
form: most delineable
Senses: examples: text: A pathological process called 'psychiatrosis' may well be found, by the same methods, to be a delineable entity, with somatic correlates, and psychic mechanisms […]
ref: 1967, R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise:
text: But what Authority is this to shape all his parts like man ? In either Vision there is some thing not delineable;
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated.
moril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morils
Etymology: From French morille. Compare Old High German morhila, Old High German morha (“carrot”), German Morchel. See more (“a root”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of morel (“fungus”).
morils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moril
kroužek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krōʹzhĕk
ipa: /ˈkɹəʊʒɛk/
Forms: form: kroužky
Etymology: From the Czech kroužek (“little ring”, “kroužek”).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:kroužek.
glosses: A ring-shaped diacritical mark (˚), whose use is largely restricted to Å, å and Ů, ů, and whereon it represents an etymological ‘o’.
glosses: krausened lager
Synonyms: ring
Coordinate terms: sense: Czech diacritics
roman: ´
word: čárka
sense: Czech diacritics
roman: ˇ
word: háček
sense: Czech diacritics
roman: ˙
word: tečka
Derived terms: kroužkový
kroužkovaný
kroužky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krōzhʹkĭ
ipa: /ˈkɹəʊʒkɪ/
enpr: krōzhʹki
ipa: /ˈkɹəʊʒki/
Etymology: From the Czech kroužky, the nominative plural form of kroužek, whence the English kroužek.
Senses: glosses: plural of kroužek
wordshaping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word-shaping
form: word shaping
Etymology: From word + shaping. Compare Dutch woordschepping, German Wortschöpfung (“word creation”), Swedish ordskapande.
Senses: examples: text: Another fault exists in our Hebrew books of instruction: though they greedily compare roots or what are supposed to be roots, they exclude the general principles of wordshaping, which as long as man has a mouth will be found prevailing […]
ref: 1861, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Spoon and sparrow:
text: Marie von Sievers had her place in the art of word-shaping; to dramatic representation she had the most beautiful relationship.
ref: 2003, Rudolf Steiner, Story of My Life:
glosses: The art or practice of shaping, forming, or creating words.
examples: text: Such word-shaping is useful to all wayfinders but particularly so to wayfinders with one or another form of sight-impairment. Word-shaping is particularly important in the context of wayfinding because of most sign-panels […]
ref: 2000, Philip G. Barker, Masoud Yazdani, Iconic communication:
glosses: The art of using words to form representations or images.
Related terms: wordbuilding
wordshape
etymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: an etymic word
glosses: etymonic (relating to the etymon)
interradial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + radial.
Senses: examples: text: the interradial plates of a starfish
glosses: Between the radii, or rays.
cockatoo farmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockatoo farmer
decussative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪˈkʌsətɪv/
Senses: examples: text: decussative arrangement
text: decussative union
text: […] The inceſſion or locall motion of animals is made vvith analogy unto this figure, by decuſſative diametrals, Quincunciall Lines and angles.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 152:
glosses: Intersecting at an acute angle.
Derived terms: decussatively
postfact
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + fact.
Senses: glosses: after the fact; after something has happened
devotement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devotements
Etymology: From devote + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Her devotement was the demand of Apollo, and the joint petition of all Greece.
ref: 1749, Bishop Richard Hurd, Notes on the Art of Poetry:
glosses: The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow.
devotements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devotement
preopercula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preoperculum
preoperculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preoperculums
form: preopercula
form: preopercle
form: preopercule
Etymology: From pre- + operculum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The anterior opercular bone in fishes.
Related terms: suboperculum
costiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From costa + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: the costiferous dorsal vertebrae
text: costiferous vertebrates
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Bearing or having ribs.
testicond
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin testis (“testis”) + condere (“to hide”).
Senses: examples: text: testicond mammals
text: Although the testes of some mammals, such as elephants and manatees, are also testicond, in most mammals the testes migrate downward, or descend, as the embryo develops.
ref: 2009, Bruce D. Olsen, Understanding Human Anatomy Through Evolution:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the testicles naturally concealed within the abdomen, such as in the case of the cetaceans.
Coordinate terms: scrotal
Related terms: testicondy
inlard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inlards
form: inlarding
form: inlarded
form: inlarded
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of enlard.
inlarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inlard
inlarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inlard
inlards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inlard
illegitimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illegitimations
Senses: glosses: The act of making illegitimate; illegitimization; bastardization.
examples: text: Gardiner had performed his promise to the queen of getting her illegitimation taken off.
ref: 1679–1715, Gilbert Burnet, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England., London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for Richard Chiswell, […]:
glosses: The state of being illegitimate; illegitimacy.
illegitimations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illegitimation
chanceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chanceable
form: most chanceable
Etymology: From chance + -able.
Senses: examples: text: And so far were they carried into the admiration thereof, that they thought in the chanceable hitting upon any such verses, great foretokens of their following fortunes were placed.
ref: 1595, Philip Sydney, An Apology for Poetry:
glosses: Happening by chance; accidental
Derived terms: chanceably
brainsick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brainsick
form: most brainsick
Etymology: From brain + sick.
Senses: examples: text: Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men,
When for so slight and frivolous a cause
Such factious emulations shall arise!
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: Come vnckle, let vs leaue the brainsick king,
And henceforth parle with our naked swords.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.
Derived terms: brainsickly
brainsickness
apohyal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From apo- + Ancient Greek ὖ (û, “the letter Y”) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: In three species of Spheniscus, namely—Spheniscus magellanicus, Spheniscus demersus, and Spheniscus mendiculus, I found this muscle prolonged forwards to the great cornu of the hyoid bone, to the apohyal element of which it took a distinct attachment .
ref: 1883, R. Morrison Watson, “Report on the Anatomy of the Speniscidae collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876”, in Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, page 207:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a portion of the horn of the hyoid bone.
apohyal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apohyals
Etymology: From apo- + Ancient Greek ὖ (û, “the letter Y”) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Each of these elongations is accompanied by a slender muscle, one end of which is attached to the tip of the apohyal and the other to the lower jaw, so that by its contraction the loop is straightened and the tongue thrust out:
ref: 1882, William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders, A History of British Birds - Volume 2, page 466:
text: The proximal of these is a small nodule of bone, .3 inch long, articulating below with the basihyal; it is called the "apohyal" by Pouchet, but, according to the nomenclature now ordinarily employed, must really be the cerato-hyal .
ref: 1882, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 1882, page 300:
text: But is the human hyoid nevertheless absolutely deprived of the lateral parts of the skull? That is not the case. A ligament coming from each small callosity or from the apohyal is prolonged laterally and reaches the extremity of the styloid apophysis.
ref: 2004, Herve Le Guyader, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: A Visionary Naturalist, page 162:
glosses: The horn of the hyoid bone; ceratohyal.
unicore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + core.
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having only one core.
raw_tags: of a processor
Related terms: multicore
pseudoparallelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + parallelism.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The execution of parallel processes on a unicore system.
carkanet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carkanets
Senses: examples: text: Greatly did Abeniaf covet these treasures and this carkanet, and incontinently he thought in his heart that he might take them and none know thereof
ref: 1808, Robert Southey, Chronicle of the Cid, from the Spanish:
glosses: Alternative form of carcanet.
carkanets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carkanet
Saxonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saxonisms
Etymology: From Saxon + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The language is not much more easy or intelligible than that of many of the Norman-Saxon poems quoted in the preceding section : it is full of Saxonisms, which indeed abound , more or less , in every writer before Gower and Chaucer .
ref: 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:
text: The quest for Saxonisms is an unrealizable nationalistic dream.
ref: 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 111:
glosses: A word or phrase of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.
Saxonisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saxonism
organzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organzines
Etymology: From French organsin; compare Spanish organsino, Italian organzino.
Senses: glosses: A kind of double thrown silk of very fine texture; silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength.
organzines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organzine
uterogestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uterogestations
Etymology: From utero- + gestation.
Senses: examples: text: During uterogestation, the fetus develops primarily in response to placental functions, hormones, and physiological processes resulting from millions of years of vertebrate and mammalian evolution.
ref: 1987, Wenda Trevathan, Human Birth: An Evolutionary Perspective:
text: the time of uterogestation of a wolf is about 100 days, while that of a bitch is known to be about 62 or 63.
ref: 1813, James Cowles Prichard, Researches Into the Physical History of Man:
glosses: Gestation in the womb from conception to birth; pregnancy.
Related terms: exterogestation
outray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /aʊtˈɹeɪ/
Forms: form: outrays
form: outraying
form: outrayed
form: outrayed
Etymology: From out- + ray.
Senses: examples: text: And now they outray to your fleet.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: To spread out in array.
examples: text: Cerberus doth barke,
Whom Theseus dyd affraye,
Whom Hercules dyd outraye,
As famous poetes say; […]
ref: c. 1505, John Skelton, Phyllyp Sparowe; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 74, lines 85–88:
glosses: To outshine.
outrayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outray
outraying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outray
outrays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outray
oratrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oratrixes
form: oratrices
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ōrātrīx. By surface analysis, orator + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A female plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading
oratrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oratrix
pseudoparallel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + parallel.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Employing, or relating to, pseudoparallelism.
pseudooligosaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudooligosaccharide
dastardies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dastardy
dastardy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dastardies
Etymology: From dastard + -y.
Senses: glosses: dastardly behaviour
scobiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scobiform
form: most scobiform
Etymology: From Latin scobs, or scobis (“sawdust, scrapings”) + -form. Compare French scobiforme.
Senses: synonyms: scobicular
scobiculate
glosses: Resembling sawdust, filings or shavings.
preceptorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːsɛpˈtɔːɹɪəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more preceptorial
form: most preceptorial
Etymology: From preceptor + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: In 1905, Wilson and the college proved sound enough to institute his preceptorial system.
ref: 2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 144:
glosses: Pertaining to a preceptor.
preceptorial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːsɛpˈtɔːɹɪəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: preceptorials
Etymology: From preceptor + -ial.
Senses: glosses: A class involving learning and discussion in small groups.
provisorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more provisorily
form: most provisorily
Etymology: From provisory + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: to admit a doctrine provisorily
text: The judgment by which the phænomenon is thus provisorily referred , is called an hypothesis ,a supposition
ref: 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: In a provisory manner; conditionally
pactitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pactītius, pactīcius.
Senses: examples: text: Pactitious rights and obligations may cease in various ways.
In a conditional pact the obligation ceases when the condition becomes impossible.
In any other pact, when the pactitious right is remitted.
Pacts are dissolved when both parties remit their reciprocal pactitious rights: […]
ref: 1795, John Daniel Gros, Natural Principles of Rectitude […] A Systematic Treatise on Moral Philosophy, page 251:
text: The power given to Congress by the constitution to regulate commerce, cannot extend to that […] which can only be regulated by compact, or by the treaty making, or pactitious powers.
ref: 1796, Debates in the House of Representatives of the United States, During the First Session of the Fourth Congress, Part I. Upon the Constitutional Powers of the House with respect to Treaties, page 149:
text: The aggression was in breach of national, moral, and pactitious faith […]
ref: 1821, John Woodward, “Opinion […] in the case of the St. Michaels and cargo, of Baltimore, vs. the king of Holland”, in John E. Hall, editor, The Journal of Jurisprudence, volume 1, page 392:
glosses: Settled by a pact or treaty; relating to pacts or treaties.
kurfuffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kurfuffle
contour tone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contour tones
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A tone whose pitch changes during the syllable.
inocarpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Inocarpus + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A gummy red pigment extracted from the clear juice of the Otaheite chestnut (Inocarpus fagifer).
src
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: srcs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of source.
approachment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: approachments
Etymology: Compare French approchement.
Senses: examples: text: you are so mute ſince I made my Approachment
ref: 1607, Thomas Dilke, The City Lady:
glosses: approach
intumulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin intumulātus. See in- (“not”) + tumulate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: unburied
word space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word spaces
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
coordinate_terms: em space
en space
no-break space
thick space
thin space
zero-width space
qualifier: word processing
glosses: A regular space between words, as contrasted with other kinds of spaces.
vegangelical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vegangelical
form: most vegangelical
Etymology: Blend of vegan + evangelical
Senses: examples: text: Many vegan activists recommend that we be vegangelical with our loved ones and friends, taking every opportunity to point out why their flesh food is hurting their health[…]
ref: 2009, Alexandra Jamieson, Living Vegan for Dummies, page 100:
text: And while it still holds true that you shouldn't be the vegangelical asshole to your friends, sometimes you can go a little further in explaining the whys of your veganism to your friends than you can with your family.
ref: 2010, Bob Torres, Jenna Torres, Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World, page 135:
text: […] easing into the specifics as they ask more is going to get you a better response than being vegangelical about it and preaching about battery cages and bolt guns.
ref: 2011, Claire Askew, Generation V, page 44:
glosses: Inclined to preach about the benefits of a vegan diet.
vegangelical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vegangelicals
Etymology: Blend of vegan + evangelical
Senses: glosses: A person inclined to preach about the benefits of a vegan diet.
emulatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emulatresses
Etymology: From emulator + -ess.
Senses: synonyms: emulatrix
glosses: A female who emulates; a female emulator.
emulatresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emulatress
sweetwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetworts
Etymology: From sweet + wort.
Senses: examples: text: […] then boil the buds or bark of elder, sweetwort and green brier leaves
ref: 1855, Daniel Smith, The Reformed Botanic and Indian Physician, page 383:
text: As spring opened, they began to find a plant just showing above the ground; it resembled asparagus, and for some reason they called it " Mashka's sweetwort," though it was very bitter
ref: 1889, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Nathan Haskell Dole, War and peace, published 1898, page 300:
text: Sweetwort, Acorus calamus
ref: 1947, Olive Percival, Our Old-fashioned Flowers, page 208:
text: the hay from upland meadows, with its larger variety of plants, predominantly origanum, a modest plant with pink and white flowers. It is this sweetwort that makes the aroma of hay mown and dried in fine weather exceptionally spicy and exhilarating.
ref: 1969, “Soviet Literature”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), numbers 1-6, page 66:
glosses: Any of a variety of sweet-tasting plants.
examples: text: It is you who hold with both hands the great sweetwort, brewing it with honey and wine.
ref: 2024, Jill L. Baker, Culinary Technology of the Ancient Near East, page 2018:
glosses: An fermented beverage made from malt.
examples: text: In Alcoholic fermentation yeast is added to some saccharine fluid—such as the "sweetwort" or infusion of malt used in the preparation of beer.
ref: 1884, T. Jeffery Parker, “Bacteria”, in The New Zealand Journal of Science, volume 2, number 2, page 52:
text: Barley-sugar. A preparation of sugar made in long yellow sticks, which were flavoured originally with sweetwort, or extract of malt, but now flavoured with lemon.
ref: 1885, Edward T. Blakely, A Popular Technical Dictionary of Commercial and General Information, 2 edition, page 32:
text: Neither the juice of the beetroot nor the sap of the sugar-cane consists entirely of pure sugar dissolved in pure water. They both contain other constituents common to vegetable juices, and some peculiar to themselves. These mucilaginous matters, when roughly separated, carry down with them some sugar, and form a sort of sweetwort, capable by skilful treatment of producing a rich caramel well suited for mixing with coffee.
ref: 1885, William Mattieu Williams, The Chemistry of Cookery, page 97:
text: Cagniard-Latour had indeed shown several years before that yeast consists essentially of the cells of a microscopic fungus which grows as the sweetwort ferments, and he had attributed the breaking up of the sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid to the growth of the micro-organism.
ref: 1896, Joseph Lister, “Inter-dependence of Scienxe and the Healing Art”, in The Lancet:
text: If allowed to ferment, you have brewed beer. As it is, Sweetwort is sweet (what's in a name) and non-alcoholic.
ref: 1999, Mark Braunstein, “Sprout Sweets”, in Sprout Garden:Indoor Grower's Guide to Gourmet Sprouts, page 122:
glosses: A sugar-rich liquid, as that used in fermentation.
sweetworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetwort
shiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnəs
Etymology: From shy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of shyness.
rhopalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhopalium
rhopalium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhopalia
Etymology: From New Latin rhopalium, from Ancient Greek ῥοπαλιον (rhopalion), diminutive of ῥόπαλον (rhópalon, “club”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: tentaculocyst
glosses: One of the small sensory tentacular structures of various jellyfish species.
Related terms: rhopalial
dolesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdoʊlsəm/
ipa: /ˈdəʊlsəm/
rhymes: -əʊlsəm
Forms: form: more dolesome
form: most dolesome
Etymology: From dole (“sorrow, grief”) + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The grandmother [...] raised her under the dolesome eyes of a multicoloured Virgin Mary.
ref: 1973, Toni Morrison, Sula, Chatto & Windus (1993), page 17:
synonyms: word: miserable
word: unhappy
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
word: cheerless
word: comfortless
word: bleak
word: dark
word: depressing
word: desolate
word: dire
word: disconsolate
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: drear
word: drearisome
word: dreary
word: dreich
word: forlorn
word: gayless
word: gray
word: gloomsome
word: gloomy
word: grim
word: joyless
word: lack-laughter
word: lugubrious
word: melancholy
word: mirthless
word: miserable
word: no joke
word: saturnine
word: solemn
word: somber
word: sombre
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: sunless
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unhappy
word: unmerry
word: wintry
word: woeful
glosses: Characterised or marked by sorrow and grief; doleful; dismal; gloomy.
Related terms: dolesomely
dolesomeness
Elohistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: Elohistic passages in the Old Testament
glosses: Relating to Elohim as a name of God.
peasantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peasantly
form: most peasantly
Etymology: From peasant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But ere I could enter three leaves into the Pamflet , (for I deferr the peasantly – rudenes , which by the Licencers leav , I met with afterwards
ref: 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), J[ohn] M[ilton], Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Answer against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. […], [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC:
text: “Reckoning!” exclaimed Lord Dalgarno in the same tone as a rustique before, “perish the peasantly phrase! […]”
ref: 1846, Sir Walter Scott, Bernhard Tauchnitz (Leipzig), The Fortunes of Nigel, page 179:
text: On the other hand, Ceribašić shows the persistence of “ancient”, “domestic” and “peasantly” as potential bearers of national identity.
ref: 2003, Sanimir Resic, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, The Balkans in Focus: Cultural Boundaries in Europe, page 160:
text: That sounds nice, if rather old Russian and peasantly.
ref: 2011, Deirdre N. McCloskey, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World:
text: I have no words in this peasantly state.
Peasantly indeed, infinitely peasantly!
ref: 2017, original Finnish version 1870, Aleksis Kivi, The Brothers Seven, page 106:
glosses: Like a peasant.