cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
regredience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈɡɹiːdi.əns/
Senses: examples: text: No man comes late unto that place from vvhence / Never man yet had a regredience.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “Never Too Late To Dye”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 268:
glosses: A going back; a retrogression.
Related terms: regredient
endome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: endomes
form: endoming
form: endomed
form: endomed
Etymology: From en- + dome.
Senses: examples: text: the brassy sky now endoming the dessicated fields and barren hills
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Kevin T Dann, Lewis Creek Lost and Found:
glosses: To cover with, or as if with, a dome.
endomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of endome
endomes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of endome
endoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of endome
intuitionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intuitional + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that the perception or recognition of primary truth is intuitive, or direct and immediate.
Related terms: experientialism
sensationalism
gozzard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gozzards
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of gooseherd.
gozzards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gozzard
rhythming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪðəmɪŋ/
/ˈɹɪðmɪŋ/
Etymology: From rhythm + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: the rhythming monk
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: Writing rhythm or verse.
rhythming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪðəmɪŋ/
/ˈɹɪðmɪŋ/
Forms: form: rhythmings
Etymology: From rhythm + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Let's have more rhythmings from thy harps, my Ariel!
ref: 1847, Edwin F. Roberts, Athanase; a Dramatic Poem, page 74:
text: Now in cases like log sawing and ballroom dancing, it is crucial to their rhythming that they be shared .
ref: 1997, Charles Taylor, Philosophical Arguments, page 172:
text: We can see from the example of Japanese etoku a different mode of learning and approaching the world, the significance of which is seldom perceived in everyday life, how important rhythming, sensitization and beat, mimetic assimilation, and practical skill are for human development.
ref: 2019, Joan Ramon Resina, Christoph Wulf, Repetition, Recurrence, Returns: How Cultural Renewal Works, page xv:
text: I'd interrupted the rhythmings I'd created for myself, patterns that were lifelines after I'd gone straight edge years earlier.
ref: 2021, Shaka McGlotten, Dragging: Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life:
glosses: A rhythmic pattern; cadence.
rhythming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪðəmɪŋ/
/ˈɹɪðmɪŋ/
Etymology: From rhythm + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rhythm
prejudicant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prejudicant
form: most prejudicant
Etymology: From Latin praeiūdicāns, present participle of praeiūdicō (“to prejudge”).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:prejudicant.
glosses: Influenced by prejudice; biased.
Irishry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Irish + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: the whole Irishry of rebels
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
text: A big bark nosed cautiously out of the mist, and was received with shouts and cries of, "Come along, darlin'," from the Irishry.
ref: 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:
text: Some of the peasants escaped the massacre and were hiding in the thickets. As soon as you left they came out, and not being civilized, cultured Englishmen, but only poor, savage Irishry, they cut me down along with the others
ref: 1938, Robert Ervin Howard, chapter 1, in (Black Vulmea's Vengeance)::
coordinate_terms: Englishry
glosses: The Celtic people of Ireland.
Irishry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irishries
Etymology: From Irish + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Nor perhaps would it so much have mattered if it were Dorothy alone who was (to say an Irishry) drifting apart.
ref: 1906, Appleton’s Booklovers Magazine, volume 7, page 59:
text: “[…] every morning he used to sing delectable Irishries I’ve never heard repeated.”
ref: 1995, William J. Leonard, Where Thousands Fell, →ISBN, page 262:
text: And he is very much aware of the danger of overindulging in Irishries: in a letter to Barbara Brey he mentions a translation he himself has done […] and says of his own contribution: ‘a bit too free and Irish’.
ref: 2022, George Craig, “Solitude of the Translator”, in Jan Steyn, editor, Translation: Crafts, Contexts, Consequences, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: A distinctively Irish mannerism or expression; an Irishism.
examples: text: For the period to 1300, Wales and Ireland may be described as frontiers of settlement, where ‘Englishries’ (areas of intensive English settlement) were interspersed with ‘Irishries’ and ‘Welshries’ (areas of native rule), so creating multiple, localised frontiers […] rather than consolidated blocs.
ref: 1999, Steven G. Ellis, “The English State and its Frontiers in the British Isles, 1300–1600”, in Daniel Power, Naomi Standen, editors, Frontiers in Question: Eurasian Borderlands, 700–1700, →ISBN, page 157:
text: By the sixteenth century there is unmistakable evidence of a division of the county into an Englishry and an Irishry […]
ref: 2000, Howard B. Clarke, “Decolonization and the dynamics of urban decline in Ireland, 1300–1550”, in T. R. Slater, editor, Towns in Decline, AD 100–1600, →ISBN:
glosses: In medieval Ireland, a territory inhabited by Irish people following their own customs.
antagony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀντᾰγωνίᾱ (antăgōníā).
Senses: examples: text: antagony that is between Christ and Belial
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: antagonism (opposition, contest)
adrad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For as I lay sleeping betwixt the strokes of night, a dream of the night stood by my bed and beheld me with a glance so fell that I was all adrad and quaking with fear.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of adread.
felonwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From felon + wort, from its supposed efficacy in treating felons ("inflammations around the nail").
Senses: glosses: Bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara).
glosses: Other plants traditionally used to treat the type of bacterial infection known as a felon, such as celandine
edacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin edacitas.
Senses: examples: text: It is true, that the wolf is a beast of great edacity and digestion […]
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: [I]f thou have any vendible faculty, nay if thou have but edacity and loquacity, come!
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
glosses: Greediness; voracity; rapacity.
completement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From complete + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: the completement of satire by the Romans
ref: 1693, John Dryden, An Essay on Satire:
glosses: completion.
turfiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From turfy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being turfy.
cryptomnesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryptomnesia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to cryptomnesia.
Derived terms: cryptomnesically
neurosyphilitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + syphilitic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or afflicted with, neurosyphilis.
neurosyphilitic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurosyphilitics
Etymology: From neuro- + syphilitic.
Senses: glosses: One who is afflicted with neurosyphilis.
neurosyphilitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurosyphilitic
superdominant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superdominants
Etymology: From super- + dominant.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The sixth tone of the scale, immediately above the dominant.
examples: text: A strategy for survival is needed to replace man's present role as an unrestricted superdominant of the biosphere, for this role is a strategy for self-defeat.
ref: 1975, William R. Burch, Beyond Growth: Essays on Alternative Futures, page 76:
text: The earthworm Eisenia nordenskioldi is also a typical superdominant of tundra cenoses.
ref: 1997, F. E. Wielgolaski, Polar and Alpine Tundra - Volume 3, →ISBN, page 405:
text: Asca bicornis (27.8%) was no longer a superdominant, and three species of the family Laelapidae (Hypoaspis claviger, H. nolli and Hypoaspis aculeifer) jointly constituted 31.3% of total
ref: 2008, Annales Zoologici - Volume 58, Issues 1-2, page 270:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A species that is present in disproportionately large numbers within an ecosystem.
Synonyms: sense: sixth tone of the scale
word: submediant
superdominants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superdominant
impropitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪmpɹəˈpɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more impropitious
form: most impropitious
Etymology: From im- + propitious.
Senses: examples: text: Dreams were impropitious.
ref: 1638, Henry Wotton, letter to Mr. John Dinely:
glosses: Not propitious; unfavourable.
rejectitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rejectitious
form: most rejectitious
Senses: examples: text: […]the other feasts , upon the Ferias next before and after the sabbaths , and those other Ferias , which have been made rejectitious since by that calendar
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Implying or requiring rejection; rejectable.
cotyligerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪdʒəɹəs
Forms: form: more cotyligerous
form: most cotyligerous
Etymology: From cotyle + -gerous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Having cotyles.
goemin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French goémon (“seaweed”), a Celtic borrowing, + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex mixture of several substances extracted from the seaweed Irish moss.
technicologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technicology
technicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technicologies
Senses: examples: text: If before we trusted to the barren technicologies of schools and sects, they now melt away like web-work before this bright coming of the Lord.
ref: 1854, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Regeneration:
glosses: technology
bestrown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of bestrew
riparium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ɹaɪˈ-/
ipa: /ɹəˈpɛɹi.əm/
ipa: /ɹaɪˈ-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: ripariums
form: riparia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rīpārium (“inhabiting the banks of rivers”), from rīpa (“river bank”) + -arium
Senses: glosses: A type of vivarium that mimics a shoreline or riverbank, featuring a large water area with minimal land, usually represented by semi-aquatic plants emerging from the water.
democratism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: democratisms
Etymology: From democrat + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: At a time when the leaders of the “free” world can run systems in an authoritarian manner, replete with their jingoisms and subtexts of internal colonialism, it is rather urgent that we demystify democratism, one that in its current iteration in the United States has enabled the emergence of what can be seen as a totalitarian democracy; […]
ref: 2020, Jack Fong, “Preface”, in Employing Nietzsche’s Sociological Imagination, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page vii:
text: Democratism is framed within the democratic lexicon, but its defining feature is a longing for a new type of existence that has little to do with “rule by the people.”
ref: 2022, Emily B. Finley, The Ideology of Democratism, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: The principles or spirit of a democracy; the ideology of democracy.
Related terms: democratist
animalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animalizations
form: animalisation
Etymology: Compare French animalisation.
Senses: glosses: The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.
examples: text: The raw material of this restoration is derived from without : the alimentary canal , in which the conversion and animalisation of the food take place , is provided , in the Vertebrata , with two apertures
ref: 1843, Richard Owen, Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals:
glosses: Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation.
monothecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + thecal.
Senses: examples: text: monothecal anther
text: monothecal stamen
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a single theca (cavity).
issuably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From issuable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: to plead issuably
topics: law
glosses: In an issuable manner; by way of issue.
disworship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English disworship, disworshipe, dysworschip, equivalent to dis- + worship (noun).
Senses: examples: text: Observ now the arrogance of a groom, how it will mount. I had writt'n, that common adultery is a thing which the rankest Politician would think it shame and disworship that his Law should countenance.
ref: 1645, John Milton, Colasterion:
glosses: A deprivation of honour or cause of disgrace.
disworship
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disworships
form: disworshiping
form: disworshipping
form: disworshiped
form: disworshiped
form: disworshipped
form: disworshipped
Etymology: From Middle English disworschipen, equivalent to dis- + worship (verb).
Senses: examples: text: disworshipping and dishonouring God
ref: 1684, Obadiah Walker, A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon All the Epistles of St Paul:
glosses: To refuse to worship; to treat as unworthy of worship.
Spinosism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Spinozism.
heracline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek, related to Hercules.
Senses: glosses: A picrate compound used as an explosive.
multicavous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪvəs
Forms: form: more multicavous
form: most multicavous
Etymology: From Latin multicavus, from multus (“much, many”) + cavum, cavus (“a cavity, hole”), from cavus (“hollow”).
Senses: glosses: Having many cavities.
pulpited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pulpit + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: At the feet of a pulpited divine.
ref: 1659, John Milton, The Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings from the Church:
glosses: Placed in a pulpit.
examples: text: Yes indeed, like in the cathedrals of old, we had become a "two-pulpited" church with a place for two choirs
ref: 1981, The Vestal United Methodist Church, 1831-1981, page 186:
glosses: Having a pulpit or pulpits.
raw_tags: in combinations
anthological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anthological
form: most anthological
Etymology: From anthology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: 1691, Anthony Wood, Robert Stafford, entry in Athenae Oxonienses: An Exact Hiſtory of All the Writers and Biſhops Who have had their Education in the Univerſity of Oxford 1500—1690, Volume 1, page 485/486,
He publiſhed,
A Geographical and Anthological deſcription of all the Empires and Kingdoms, both of Continent and Iſlands in this Terreſtial Globe, &c. Lond. 1618.
text: Its comments on some of the more anthological extracts from the Majority Report of the Banking Commission are particularly salutary.
ref: 1945, Seán O'Faoláin, Peadar O'Donnell, editors, The Bell, volume 11, page 1099:
text: 2001, Philip S. Alexander, 10: Torah and Salvation in Tannaitic Literature, D. A. Carson, Peter Thomas O'Brien, Mark A. Seifrid (editors), Justification and Variegated Nomism, Volume I: The Complexities of Second Temple Judaism, page 288,
The other Tannaitic Midrashim, the Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael, Sipra and Sipre Numbers, are much more anthological in character, less tightly argued.
text: 2007, Ruth Langer, Biblical Texts in Jewish Prayers: Their History and Function, Albert Gerhards, Clemens Leonhard (edited), Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship: New Insights Into Its History and Interaction, page 77,
Clues to this arise from discerning the compositional logic of the interlinked meanings of the cento, sometimes as elaborated upon in the more anthological Áorilegium structure.
glosses: Of or pertaining to anthology; consisting of extracts from different authors.
Derived terms: anthologically
Related terms: anecdotal
imbankment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbankments
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of embankment.
imbankments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbankment
incelebrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + celebrity.
Senses: examples: text: It affords matter for thought that the last translation […] was given under another name. What a mournful proof of the incelebrity of this great and amazing work among both the public and the people!
ref: c. 1803, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Barclay's Argenis:
glosses: Lack of celebrity or distinction; obscurity.
ministeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ministery
ministery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ministeries
Senses: examples: text: For the ministration of the Law consisting of carnal things , drew to it such a Ministery as consisted of carnal respects , dignity ; precedence , and the like
ref: 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic form of ministry.
guardenage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑː(ɹ)dənɪd͡ʒ/
Senses: examples: text: [H]ee was come from his younger brother, who had recommended his daughter to his tuition and guardenage: […]
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book VII.] Of Such as Were Carried Forth upon the Biers to Be Buried, and Revived Againe.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 184:
glosses: Alternative spelling of guardianage.
electrochronograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrochronographs
Etymology: From electro- + chronograph.
Senses: glosses: An electromagnetic chronograph
Related terms: electrochronographic
electrochronographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrochronograph
homochromous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + chromo- + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having all the florets in the same flower head of the same colour.
examples: text: Thus, it is probable that Magnussen herself photographed the (homochromous) eyes of one pair of twins from the Mechau family, which Georg Wagner had brought to the institute in Dahlem for examination before their deportation to Auschwitz in March 1943, and that she received additional photographs of the (heterochromous) eyse of members of the family in Auschwitz from Liebau.
ref: 2008, Hans-Walter Schmuhl, The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics, 1927-1945, page 380:
glosses: Having both eyes the same color; not heterochromous.
examples: text: He obtained in various experiments 124 captures on non-homochromous ground against 68 on homochromous at low illumination.
ref: 1957, Arid Zone Research - Issue 8, page 122:
text: Fuzeau-Braesch (1985, p. 574) even stated that "gregarious adults are incapable of darkening if transferred onto a black background, as opposed to the solitarious kind that easily bedome homochromous: grouping inhibits homochromy".
ref: 2009, Advances in Insect Physiology: Locust Phase Polyphenism: An Update, page 55:
glosses: All of one color; monochromatic.
micrencephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more micrencephalous
form: most micrencephalous
Etymology: From micro- + encephalous.
Senses: glosses: Having a small brain; unintelligent
Related terms: microcephalic
reprehensory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reprehensory
form: most reprehensory
Senses: examples: text: I haue spoken of the Text as it is Reprehensory ; I will now speake of it , as it is Consolatory , to the women seeking Christ
ref: 1619, Peter Lilie, Two Sermons:
glosses: Containing reproof; reprehensive.
globulimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globulimeters
Etymology: From globule + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring the number of red blood corpuscles in the blood, by means of studying the tint produced by mixing a blood sample with sodium carbonate solution.
globulimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of globulimeter
allodialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allodial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The allodial system.
Essenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Essenisms
Etymology: From Essene + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In taking leave , I add , as an extra argument against the possibility that Essenism could have been contemporary with the birth of Christianity[…]
ref: 1858, Thomas De Quincey, The Essenes Supplementary:
glosses: The doctrines or practices of the Essenes.
Essenisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Essenism
semitonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semitone + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: semitonic interval
text: semitonic scale
glosses: Of or pertaining to a semitone.
micrography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: micrographies
Etymology: From micro- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The description of microscopic objects.
glosses: An ancient Jewish form of calligram, using tiny Hebrew letters to form designs.
glosses: Examination or study by means of the microscope, as of an etched surface of metal to determine its structure.
Derived terms: cinemicrography
micrographist
photomicrography
stereomicrography
videomicrography
dentile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dentiles
Etymology: From Latin dentillus, for Latin denticulus. See dentil.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A small tooth, like that of a saw.
dentiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dentile
pronuncial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to pronunciation
uncorruption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌpʃən
Etymology: From un- + corruption.
Senses: glosses: incorruption
activist judge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: activist judges
Senses: glosses: A judge or justice who makes rulings based on personal political views or considerations rather than on the law, or who issues rulings intended to have political effects.
raw_tags: in right-wing discourse
Related terms: activist justice
activist judges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of activist judge
turritella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtʌɹɪˈtɛlə/
Forms: form: turritellas
Etymology: From the New Latin genus name Turritella.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any sea snail of the genus Turritella (or allied genera) of spiral marine gastropods with an elongated, turreted shell.
Derived terms: turritelloid
turritelliform
turritellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turritella
Argonautic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin Argonauticus.
Senses: synonyms: Argonautical
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Argonauts.
expective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expective
form: most expective
Etymology: From expect + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: This expective treatment is followed for two or even three hours before the placenta is expressed by manual interference
ref: 1895, The Hahnemannian Monthly:
glosses: expectative
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb form in some native American languages that implies expectation of an action, as opposed to the report of an action or a general statement about the type of action.
hyoglossal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: the hyoglossal membrane
text: hyoglossal nerve
text: hyoglossal foramen
text: hyoglossal sinus
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or connecting the tongue and hyoid bone.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the hyoglossus muscle.
Derived terms: geniohyoglossal
interplace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interplaces
form: interplacing
form: interplaced
form: interplaced
Etymology: From inter- + place.
Senses: examples: text: th' interplac'd respondences Of combinations
ref: 1603, Samuel Daniel, A Panegyrick Congratulatory to the King's Most Excellent Majesty:
glosses: To place between or among.
interplaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interplace
interplaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interplace
interplacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interplace
precautional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From precaution + -al.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of precautionary.
precogitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precogitations
Etymology: Latin praecogitatio.
Senses: examples: text: the long precogitation upon any sin
ref: 1680, John Monson, A Discourse Concerning Supreme Power and Common Right:
glosses: Previous cogitation.
precogitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precogitation
clericity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cleric + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being part of to the clergy.
altivolant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more altivolant
form: most altivolant
Etymology: From Latin altivolans. See volant.
Senses: examples: text: So he thus
Repuls'd the tempter, who, not yet abash'd,
Bore him altivolant from Salem's tow'rs
ref: 1833, William Ellis Wall, Christ Crucified:
glosses: Flying high; soaring.
stiriated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin stiria (“an icicle”).
Senses: examples: text: stiriated roof
text: stiriated stalactites
glosses: Adorned with icicles, or resembling icicles.
intermobilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intermobility
intermobility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermobilities
Etymology: From inter- + mobility.
Senses: examples: text: the intermobility of particles
text: intermobility of Chinese professionals between their home country and host countries,
ref: 2020, Peter Arthur et al, Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Development in Africa:
glosses: The capacity of things or people to move among or between each other.
indistinguished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indistinguished
form: most indistinguished
Etymology: From in- + distinguished.
Senses: examples: text: That indistinguished mass
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC:
glosses: indistinct
Pestalozzianism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Pestalozzian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The system of education introduced by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827), Swiss teacher, involving more active learning and less word-based instruction.
corr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corrs
Etymology: Borrowed from Romani koor (“to fight”).
Senses: glosses: A fight.
Plato's Cave
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Described by Plato in the Allegory of the Cave in the Republic.
Senses: topics: epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An allegorical cave whose unwitting, chained inhabitants perceive reality only in the form of shadow puppetry cast by the light of a man-made fire, lacking any awareness of the limitations of their perspective or its constructed nature.
wikipedia: Allegory of the Cave
Plato
Republic (Plato)
Related terms: the Good
antisniper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + sniper.
Senses: examples: text: a specially trained antisniper unit
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Countering snipers.
Oreo cookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oreo cookies
Etymology: By analogy with the proprietary "Oreo Cookie" that is black on the outside and white on the inside, implying that certain black people are white at heart.
Senses: examples: text: oreo cookie, derogatory term from the 1960s, from the trade name for the cookies consisting of two chocolate biscuits sandwiching a white creamy center. Oreo is used for a black person — black on the outside white on the inside.
ref: 1997, Philip Herbst, The Color of Words, page 172:
text: other subtypes (Uncle Tom, Oreo cookie) might be salient in other contexts.
ref: 1998, Susan T. Fiske, Daniel Todd Gilbert, Gardner Lindzey, The handbook of social psychology, volume 2, page 379:
text: You don't have to be like an Oreo cookie, brother
ref: 2009, James Sullivan, The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America, link:
glosses: A black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person
examples: text: Jake and I did not know if it was going to be a white guy or a black guy, and I kind of think it might have turned out, to be a white guy. Jake, I think maybe we just completed the ole Oreo cookie thing! Don't you?”
ref: 2011, Wade Wright, Jay, Jake and Jimmy, page 59:
qualifier: sexual
glosses: A threeway involving two black participants and one white participant between them
Synonyms: Oreo
Related terms: Uncle Tom
backjumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From back + jumping, modelled on backtracking.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of backtracking that may move more than one level at a time, used to improve the efficiency of certain algorithms.
Related terms: backjump
Oreo cookies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oreo cookie
Shor's algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Peter Shor.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A quantum algorithm for finding the prime factors of an integer.
wikipedia: Peter Shor
nonparticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + particulate.
Senses: glosses: Not particulate.
Related terms: granular
funambulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 1728, Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Volume 1, p. 107, under FUNAMBULUS,
In the Floralia, or Ludi Florales, held under Galba, there were funambulatory Elephants, as we are inform’d by Suetonius.
text: 1868, Review of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan the Wise, translated by Ellen Frothingham, North American Review, Volume 106, Number 219, April 1868, p. 705,
At a time when Gottsched and his compeers seemed hopelessly infected with Gallomania, and the temple of the Muses had degenerated into a funambulatory platform, on which unwieldy Teutons […] were emulating agile Frenchmen in dancing on the tight-rope of pseudo-classicism, Lessing appeared, and with a dramaturgical scourge of small cords drove the mimes from the stage, shifted the scene, and inaugurated a new era for German art and culture.
text: Men walking the streets suddenly staggered as if drunk, and extended their arms involuntarily, as rope-dancers do. One of them said that after this funambulatory experience he was downright seasick and hadn’t felt well since.
ref: 1921, Philip Sanford Marden, chapter 8, in Sailing South, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pages 106–107:
head_nr: 1
glosses: Performing in the manner of a tightrope walker.
examples: text: Tread softly and circumspectly in this funambulatory track and narrow path of goodness […]
ref: 1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 7:
head_nr: 1
glosses: Narrow, like a tightrope.
head_nr: 1
glosses: Pertaining to tightrope walking
fellow-commoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fellow-commoners
Senses: examples: text: There are to this day fellow-commoners at Queens, and surely such a distinguished commoner as Fuller would have been allowed to remain on that foundation, in which he had spent seven years, in this new capacity. The expense would have been about the same, and the only way in which I can account for his migration is either pique at being passed over, or the friendship of so famed a theologian as Dr. Ward.
ref: 1886, Rev. Morris Joseph Fuller, “College Days (Sydney-Sussex). 1629-1631”, in The Life, Times and Writings of Thomas Fuller, D.D., 2nd edition, volume 1, London: S. Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey, pages 68–69:
qualifier: Cambridge University
glosses: A student at Cambridge University who commons, or dines, at the Fellows' table.
Related terms: commonership
fellow-commoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fellow-commoner
endocyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endocysts
Etymology: From endo- + cyst.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An inner layer of the cyst walls of Bryozoa.
Related terms: endocystic
endocysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endocyst
prelatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛlətɪst/
Forms: form: prelatists
Etymology: From prelate + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The partizans of a comprehenſion ſaid, that the Preſbyterians as well as the Prelatiſts, having felt by experience the fatal effects of mutual obſtinacy and violence, were now well diſpoſed towards an amicable agreement; […]
ref: 1757, David Hume, “[Charles II.] Chapter I.”, in The History of Great Britain, under the House of Stuart, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1759, →OCLC, page 142:
text: […] ‘Tobit and his dog baith are altogether heathenish and apocryphal, and none but a prelatist or a papist would draw them into question. I doubt I hae been mista'en in you, friend.’
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter XXXVI, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: One who advocates or supports prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates.
prelatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prelatist
vespertinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vespertine + -al.
Senses: examples: text: F . became purely vespertinal, never stirring abroad till after dark
ref: 1853–1864, James Russell Lowell, “(please specify the page)”, in Fireside Travels, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1864, →OCLC:
glosses: Vespertine; occurring in the evening.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Opening or active in the evening.
personize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: personizes
form: personizing
form: personized
form: personized
Etymology: From person + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Milton has personized them.
ref: 1734, Jonathan Richardson, Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost:
text: Fletcher, in personizing the passions and not drawing from real life[…]
ref: 1778, Mr. Seward, “Preface”, in The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher:
text: If you would make Fortune your friend, or, to personise her no longer
ref: 1762, Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World:
glosses: To personify.
Related terms: personalize
personized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of personize
personizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of personize
personizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of personize
hurdlework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hurdleworks
Etymology: From hurdle + -work.
Senses: glosses: Structure built in the manner of a hurdle (of the wattle and twigs kind)
hurdleworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hurdlework
cockaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cockade + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Well-fashion'd figure, and cockaded brow
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: Wearing a cockade.
Derived terms: red-cockaded woodpecker
uncockaded
hylopathism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: It is certainly true that Whitehead's philosophy could be seen as a form of panexperientialism, in that all of reality is constituted as experience, and perhaps even hylopathism, where all matter is viewed as being sentient (insofar as it experiences) and gives rise to higher-order subjective experiences […]
ref: 2014, Jon Mills, Underworlds:
glosses: The doctrine that matter is sentient.
musculosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French musculosité.
Senses: examples: text: MUSCULOSITY [Muſculoſitas, L.] bigneſs of Muſcles.
ref: [1721, N[athan] Bailey, “MUSCULOSITY”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Bell, J. Darby, […], →OCLC, column 1:
text: Sometimes the skin, particularly that covering the scrotum, throws itself, from cold, into alternate contractions and dilatations, which has a greater resemblance to musculosity, than that slow, gradual, and tonic-like action of the bladder on expelling urine.
ref: 1803, Anthelme Richerand, The Elements of Physiology, page 6:
text: […]the moral “nature of man must be cultivated and trained to accept a condition in which his ‘musculosity’ alone establishes his essential difference;”[…]
ref: 1869 December, Cornelius O'Dowd, “In the Nursery”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 106, number 550, page 726:
text: The sterile septa have been termed muscle-septa, because the musculosity in them is said to be much more fully than is the case with the other septa, which have been termed reproductive septa.
ref: 1890, D. C. Danielssen, “Actinida del Malacodermata”, in The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition 1876-1878: Zoology: Actinida, Grøndal and Søn, page 7:
text: The other physical differentiations are also biologically determined such as musculosity, height, weight, bodily structure, pelvis, broad hips and things and so on.
ref: 1992, Rajkumari Chandrasekhar, Women's Resource and National Development: A Perspective:
glosses: Muscularity.
Synonyms: muscularity
Texas heart shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Texas heart shots
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A bullet fired through the anal area of an animal.
gemeinschaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡəˈmaɪnʃɑːft/
/ɡəˈmaɪnʃæft/
Forms: form: gemeinschafts
form: gemeinschaften
form: Gemeinschaft
Etymology: From German Gemeinschaft (“community”), equivalent to gemein (“common”) + -schaft (“-ship”). More at mean, -ship. Compare to English gesellschaft.
Senses: glosses: An association or group of individuals sharing common beliefs, attitudes, and tastes; a fellowship.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A society or group characterized by a strong sense of common identity, personal relationships, and attachments to various concerns.
Jerusalem artichokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jerusalem artichoke
handmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handmarks
Etymology: From hand + mark.
Senses: examples: text: On the smooth, pale trunks here and there, are the clear handmarks of bears, climbing up and coming down.
ref: 2006, Dorothy Brett, Lawrence and Brett: a friendship, page 150:
text: Tomorrow there would be smeared handmarks on the smooth painted plaster.
ref: 2011, Harper Allen, Protector with a Past:
glosses: The mark of a hand; a handprint.
handmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handmark
feræ naturæ
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ferae naturae.
geländesprung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geländesprungs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: Alternative form of gelandesprung.
hordock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hordocks
form: hardock
form: hoardock
form: hardoke
form: harlock
Senses: examples: text: Alack tis he, why he was met euen now,
As mad as the vent sea singing aloud,
Crownd with ranke femiter and furrow weedes,
With hor-docks, hemlocke, netles, cookow flowers,
Darnell and all the idle weedes that grow,
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
glosses: A plant, possibly burdock.
raw_tags: used only by Shakespeare
pathematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: pathematic impulse
text: pathematic perception
glosses: Of, relating to, or designating emotion or suffering.
Derived terms: pathematically
Related terms: pathos
invenom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: invenoms
form: invenoming
form: invenomed
form: invenomed
Etymology: From in- + venom.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of envenom.
invenomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of invenom
invenoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of invenom
invenoms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of invenom
excommune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌɛkskəˈmjuːn/
Forms: form: excommunes
form: excommuning
form: excommuned
form: excommuned
Etymology: From ex- + commune.
Senses: examples: text: His mouth would have been excommuned provender for ever
ref: 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot:
glosses: To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate or kick out.
excommuned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of excommune
excommunes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of excommune
excommuning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of excommune
carminic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From carmine + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: carminic acids
text: carminic dye
glosses: Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine.
Derived terms: carminate
carminic acid
hypural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /haɪˈpjʊəɹəl/
Etymology: From hypo- (“under”) + Ancient Greek οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: hypural plate, hypural piece, hypural bone
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Under the tail
Derived terms: hypural joint
hypural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /haɪˈpjʊəɹəl/
Forms: form: hypurals
Etymology: From hypo- (“under”) + Ancient Greek οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + -al.
Senses: glosses: Such a bone
geländeläufer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Geländeläufer
Etymology: From German Geländeläufer, from Gelände (“countryside”) + Läufer (“runner”), equivalent to English land + loper.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A cross-country skier; a participant in cross-country skiing.
bulbule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulbules
Etymology: From Latin bulbulus, diminutive of bulbus. See bulb.
Senses: glosses: A small bulb; a bulblet.
bulbules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulbule
fineless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fineless
form: most fineless
Etymology: From fine + -less, with "fine" in the sense of "end".
Senses: examples: text: “Poor and content is rich, and rich enough,
But riches fineless is as poor as winter
To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend
From jealousy!”
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: fineless time
ref: 1904–1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], (please specify |part=1 to 3), London: Macmillan and Co.: New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: endless; boundless
examples: text: fineless library
glosses: Not incurring a fine
ministryship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ministry + -ship.
Senses: examples: October 15 1730, Jonathan Swift, The Answer of William Pulteney to Sir Robert Walpole
Heaven forbid that the welfare of a great kingdom, and of a brave people, should be trusted with the thread of a single subject's life; for I suppose it is not yet in your view to entail the ministryship in your family.
synonyms: ministership
ministry
glosses: The office of a minister
supraoccipital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + occipital.
Senses: examples: text: supraoccipital crest
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated over, or in the upper part of, the occiput.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the supraoccipital bone.