nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: abduction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin abductiō(n) (“a robbing; an abduction”), from abdūcō (“to take or lead away”), from ab (“away”) + dūcō (“to lead”). By surface analysis, abduct + -ion or abduce + -tion. * (physiology): From French, from Latin abductus. * Compare French abduction. Pronunciation: /əbˈdʌk.ʃn̩/, /æbˈdʌk.ʃn̩/, /æbˈdək.ʃn̩/, /əbˈdək.ʃn̩/, /ˈeɪˈbiː.dʌk.ʃn̩/ 1. A leading away; a carrying away. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Abduction is performed by asking the patient to raise the arm at the side as high as they can with the examiner stabilizing the scapula by holding it down. 3. A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction, and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning. 4. The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the abduction of a child Example: Saturday’s actions – the abduction of [Venezuelan] President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas to face federal drug-trafficking charges in the U.S., and the deadly bombings of military installations and some civilian buildings across the country – had “Trump Corollary” written all over them. 5. An alien abduction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But fear of abduction never stopped a good ufologist.
Word: abductor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin abductor, By surface analysis, abduct + -or. Pronunciation: /æbˈdʌk.tɚ/ 1. One who abducts; a kidnapper.
Word: abductor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin abductor, from abdūcō + -tor. Pronunciation: /æbˈdʌk.tɚ/ 1. A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or from the median line of the body Example: the abductor oculi draws the eye outward.
Word: abeam Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English a- Proto-Germanic *bagmaz? Proto-West Germanic *baum Old English bēam Middle English beem English beam English abeam From a- (“in the direction of”) + beam (“keel”). Pronunciation: /əˈbiːm/, /əˈbim/ 1. On the beam; at a right angle to the centerline or keel of a vessel or aircraft; being at a bearing approximately 90° or 270° relative. Example: We were heading S.S.W., and had a steady breeze abeam and a quiet sea. Example: […] waves striking the ship abeam pushed her always south of their new course, and rolled her, and filled her with water so that bailing must be ceaseless […] 2. Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft.
Word: abeam Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English a- Proto-Germanic *bagmaz? Proto-West Germanic *baum Old English bēam Middle English beem English beam English abeam From a- (“in the direction of”) + beam (“keel”). Pronunciation: /əˈbiːm/, /əˈbim/ 1. Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft. Example: The island was directly abeam of us. Example: The sound shifted its place markedly, but without coming nearer. It even grew a little more distant right abeam of the lighter, and then ceased again.
Word: abeam Part of Speech: prep Etymology: Etymology tree English a- Proto-Germanic *bagmaz? Proto-West Germanic *baum Old English bēam Middle English beem English beam English abeam From a- (“in the direction of”) + beam (“keel”). Pronunciation: /əˈbiːm/, /əˈbim/ 1. Alongside. Example: She came abeam the crippled ship.
Word: abeam Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English a- Proto-Germanic *bagmaz? Proto-West Germanic *baum Old English bēam Middle English beem English beam English abeam From a- + beam (“to emit beams of light”). Pronunciation: /əˈbiːm/, /əˈbim/ 1. Beaming, shining (especially with reference to a person's face or eyes). Labels: not-comparable Example: 1876, William Davidson, Sermons on the Parables, Cincinnati: Western Tract Society, Sermon 1, p. 41, […] the hearts of the saints [will] be all attention and their faces all abeam for the consolation; Example: […] the waiters fly about abeam with good will and on excellent terms with those they serve […]
Word: abear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English aberen, from Old English āberan (“to bear, carry, carry away”), from ā- (“away, out”), a- + beran (“to bear”), from Proto-Germanic *uzberaną (“to bear off, bring forth, produce”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to a- + bear. Cognate with Old High German irberan, Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (usbairan). Pronunciation: /əˈbɛə/, [əˈbɛː], /əˈbɛɹ/, [əˈbɛɚ], /əˈbeː/ 1. To put up with; to endure; to bear. Labels: archaic, dialectal, transitive Example: Hunder-cook, indeed! which it's what I never abore yet, and never will abear. Example: And he seems sweet on Miss Hazel though she can’t abear him, though when I ask her about him she snaps my head off and tells me to mind my own business. 2. To bear; to carry. Labels: obsolete, transitive 3. To behave; to comport oneself. Labels: obsolete, reflexive, transitive Example: So did the Faerie knight himselfe abeare, / And stouped oft his head from shame to shield […]
Word: abear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English aberen, from Old English āberan (“to bear, carry, carry away”), from ā- (“away, out”), a- + beran (“to bear”), from Proto-Germanic *uzberaną (“to bear off, bring forth, produce”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to a- + bear. Cognate with Old High German irberan, Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (usbairan). Pronunciation: /əˈbɛə/, [əˈbɛː], /əˈbɛɹ/, [əˈbɛɚ], /əˈbeː/ 1. Bearing, behavior. Labels: obsolete
Word: abearance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English abear Latin -iader. Old French -ancebor. Middle English -aunce English -ance English abearance From abear + -ance. Pronunciation: /əˈbɛɹ.əns/ 1. Behavior. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: The other species of recognizance, with sureties, is tor the good abearance or good behaviour.
Word: abearing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From abear + -ing. Pronunciation: /əˈbɛɹ.ɪŋ/ 1. Behaviour. Labels: obsolete
Word: abearing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From abear + -ing. Pronunciation: /əˈbɛɹ.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of abear Labels: form-of, gerund, obsolete, participle, present
Word: abecedarian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius). Equivalent to abecedary + -an. Compare abecedary. Pronunciation: /eɪ.biː.siːˈdɛː.ɹɪ.ən/, /ˌeɪ.biˌsiˈdɛ.ɹi.ən/, /ˌeɪ.biˌsiˈdæɹ.i.ən/ 1. Someone who is learning the alphabet. 2. An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning. Example: A man may alwaies continue his studie, but not schooling. O fond-foolish for an old man to be ever an Abcedarian [translating abecedaire]. 3. Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning. Labels: archaic 4. A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order. Labels: rhetoric Example: This formal organization is most likely to create obscurity in such elaborate and artificial forms as: palindromes (words, phrases, or verses which read the same backward or forward), abecedarians (poems in which the initial letters of lines or stanzas are arranged to[…])[…]. Example: Abecedarian verses are chanted stichoi/stichera verses in which the first letter of each verse follows an alphabetical order.[…]The Amomos, an abecedarian, is the longest psalm in the Psalter[…].
Word: abecedarian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius). Equivalent to abecedary + -an. Compare abecedary. Pronunciation: /eɪ.biː.siːˈdɛː.ɹɪ.ən/, /ˌeɪ.biˌsiˈdɛ.ɹi.ən/, /ˌeɪ.biˌsiˈdæɹ.i.ən/ 1. Pertaining to someone learning the alphabet or basic studies; elementary; rudimentary. Labels: archaic 2. Pertaining to the alphabet, or several alphabets. Example: The professor [...] had several other translations or feats of antiquarian deciphering to his credit. Indeed, I was extremely fortunate to find him in at the museum, for he planned to fly within the week to Peru where yet another task awaited his abecedarian talents. 3. Arranged in an alphabetical manner. 4. Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.
Word: abecedary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English abscedary, from Medieval Latin abecedārium (“alphabet, ABC primer”), from Late Latin abecedārius (“of the alphabet”), formed from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -ārius. Doublet of abecedarium. Pronunciation: /ˌeɪ.biːˈsiː.də.ɹi/, /ˌeɪ.biˈsi.dɚ.i/, /ˌeɪ.biˈsi.də.ɹi/ 1. The alphabet, written out in a teaching book, or carved on a wall; a primer; abecedarium. Labels: rare Example: I finish writing the alphabet on both napkins. There's room for more abecedaries, but […] 2. One that teaches or learns the alphabet or the fundamentals of any subject; abecedarian.
Word: abecedary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin abecedārius. Doublet of abecedarius. Pronunciation: /ˌeɪ.biːˈsiː.də.ɹi/, /ˌeɪ.biˈsi.dɚ.i/, /ˌeɪ.biˈsi.də.ɹi/ 1. Referring to the alphabet; alphabetical; related to or resembling an abecedarius; abecedarian. Labels: not-comparable
Word: abed Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English abedde, o bedde, from Old English on (“in”) + bedde (“bed”). Equivalent to a- (“in, on”) + bed. Pronunciation: /əˈbɛd/ 1. In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: Not to be abed after midnight Example: [She] is sick abed. 2. On a childbed. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: I mean, she's brought a-bed
Word: abegge Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈbɛd͡ʒ/ 1. Obsolete form of aby. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: abele Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English abelle, albell, aubel, from Old French aubel, aubiel, from Medieval Latin albellus (“white poplar”), diminutive of Latin albus (“white”). Some forms after Middle Dutch abeel, from Old French. Pronunciation: /əˈbiːl/, /əˈbeɪl/, /ˈeɪ.bl̩/, /əˈbil/ 1. The white poplar (Populus alba). Example: But I account for my predilection, by the kind of pensive and melancholy peasure I used to feel, when in my childhood and early youth, I walked alone, in a long avenue of arbeal […]. Example: Six abeles i' the churchyard grow
Word: abelian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Norwegian Abel Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English abelian Name of the Norwegian mathematician Abel + -ian. Pronunciation: /əˈbi.li.ən/, /əˈbil.jən/, /əˈbiːlɪən/ 1. Of an algebraic structure (usually a group or algebra), having a commutative defining operation. Labels: not-comparable Example: The interesting aspect here is that U₃ is irreducible, even though all irreps over the complexes are one-dimensional because ℤ₄ is abelian. 2. Of a binary function, commutative. Labels: not-comparable
Word: abelmosk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin abelmoschus, from Arabic حَبّ الْمِسْك (ḥabb al-misk, “pills of musk”). Pronunciation: /ˈeɪbəlmɒsk/, /ˈeɪblmɒsk/, /ˈeɪbəlˌmɑsk/, /ˈeɪblmɑsk/ 1. The edible and aromatic seed pods (properly, capsules) of the Abelmoschus moschatus. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Egyptian Ketmia, with a perfumed or Musk-Seed..., called Abelmosch of Morison. Example: Abelmosk grains are the seeds of a plant... indigenous to Central Africa, Arabia, and India. 2. The tropical evergreen shrub Abelmoschus moschatus itself. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Abelmosk, Abelmosch, or Abelmusk, the Syrian mallow, or musk okro, a species of hibiscus (H. abelmoschus). Example: The same description fits abelmosk, the Hibiscus abelmoshus, better known to the world as the East Indian dwarf okra plant. 3. Other members of the genus Abelmoschus, such as okra. Labels: countable, plural-normally, uncommon, uncountable
Word: aberr Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin ab- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers-eh₂-yé-ti Proto-Italic *erzāō Latin errō Latin aberrōbor. English aberr Borrowed from Latin aberrō, from ab- (“from, away from”) + errō (“wander, stray”). Pronunciation: /əˈbɜː(ɹ)/, /əˈbɝ/ 1. To go astray; to err. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 2. Distort; aberrate. Labels: rare, transitive
Word: aberrance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aberr (“to stray”), from Latin aberrō (“to wander from the way”) + -ance. Pronunciation: /ˈæ.bɛɹ.n̩s/, /æˈbɛɹ.n̩ts/ 1. State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Like Miller, George Lionel married briefly and unsuccessfully, and during the McCarthy era was blacklisted for political aberrance.
Word: aberrant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin aberrāns, present active participle of aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from”) + errō (“to wander”). See aberr. Pronunciation: /əˈbɛɹ.ənt/, /ˈæb.ə.ɹənt/, /əˈbeɹ.ənt/ 1. Differing from the norm. 2. Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth. Labels: figuratively, sometimes 3. Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. Example: The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated.
Word: aberrant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin aberrāns, present active participle of aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from”) + errō (“to wander”). See aberr. Pronunciation: /əˈbɛɹ.ənt/, /ˈæb.ə.ɹənt/, /əˈbeɹ.ənt/ 1. A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group. 2. A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number. Example: Also I think other birders realise you are struggling a bit when you start talking about aberrants[.]
Word: aberrate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin aberrātus, perfect passive participle of aberrō (“wander, stray or deviate from”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + errō (“stray”). Pronunciation: /ˈæb.ə.ɹeɪt/ 1. To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from. Labels: intransitive Example: 1765, Peter Dollond, letter to James Short dated 7 February, 1765, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 55, London, 1766, p. 55, […] the surfaces of the concave lens may be so proportioned as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens, near the axis […] Example: Such, indeed, were the primitive regulations of the greater number of monastic institutions; but the abominable and luxurious indulgences into which they afterwards aberrated, the page of history amply unfolds. 2. To distort; to cause aberration of. Labels: transitive Example: 1893, Bret Harte, Sally Dows, Chapter 6, in Sally Dows and Other Stories, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 104, He saw them through no aberrating mist of tenderness or expediency—but with the single directness of the man of action. Example: He and Phœbe had had a senseless quarrel […] and she had left. It was an aberrated fulfillment of her old jesting threat that if he did not behave himself she would leave him.
Word: aberration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A learned borrowing from Latin aberrātiō(n) (“relief, diversion”), first attested in 1594, from aberrō (“wander away, go astray”), from ab (“away”) + errō (“wander”). Compare French aberration. By surface analysis, aberrat(e) + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌæb.əˈɹeɪ.ʃn̩/ 1. The act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the aberration of youth Example: aberrations from theory 2. The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; a defect in a focusing mechanism that prevents the intended focal point. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A small periodical change of the apparent positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A small periodical change of the apparent positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable 5. A partial alienation of reason. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Occasional aberrations of intellect Example: We see indeed the aberrations of unruly appetite 6. Any creature with supernatural powers not found in the organized classes of beings in a given setting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Only by submitting to the aberration could the human traders travel safely through the territory of Zularn. 7. A mental disorder, especially one of a minor or temporary character. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Atypical development or structure; deviation from the normal type; an aberrant organ. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A deviation of a tissue, organ or mental functions from what is considered to be within the normal range. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A defect in an image produced by an optical or electrostatic lens system. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: aberrational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From aberration + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌæb.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən.l̩/, /ˌæb.əˈɹeɪ.ʃnl̩/ 1. Characterized by aberration.
Word: aberuncate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Latin aberuncare, from Latin averruncare. Pronunciation: /ˌæbəɹʌŋˈkeɪt/ 1. To eradicate; to pull up by the roots. Labels: rare, transitive Example: His nefarious repercussion of obloquy must contaminate, and obumbrate, and who can tell but it may even aberuncate his feculent and excrementitious celebrity. Example: The deprivation of abbacy reduced the auld abbey-lubber to an aberrant state, devoid of adjument; and sad reverse! from the soft indulgence of accubation, his feet were daily abraded, in arenulous situations, in aberuncating roots for his sustenance, on sectivous mountains.
Word: aberuncator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From averruncate + -or. 1. A pruning device mounted on a pole, so as to reach high branches; a weeding machine.
Word: abet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English abetten, abette, from Old French abeter (“to entice”), from a- (“to”) + beter (“hound on, urge, to bait”), either from Middle Dutch bētan (“incite”) or from Old Norse beita (“to cause to bite, bait, incite”), from Proto-Germanic *baitijaną (“to cause to bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”). Cognate with Icelandic beita (“to set dogs on; to feed”). Alternate etymology traces the Middle English and Old French words through Old English *ābǣtan (“to hound on”), from ā- + bǣtan (“to bait”), from the same source (Proto-Germanic *baitijaną). See also bait, bet. Pronunciation: /əˈbɛt/ 1. To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime. Labels: transitive Example: aid and abet Example: Those who would exalt themselves by abetting the strength of the Godless, and the wrength of the oppressors. 2. To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action). Labels: transitive Example: Our duty is urged, and our confidence abetted. Example: The elements, however, abetted me in making a path through the deepest snow in the woods, for when I had once gone through the wind blew the oak leaves into my tracks, where they lodged, and by absorbing the rays of the sun melted the snow, and so not only made a dry bed for my feet, but in the night their dark line was my guide. 3. To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable. Labels: obsolete, transitive 4. To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet. Labels: obsolete
Word: abet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English abetten, abette, from Old French abeter (“to entice”), from a- (“to”) + beter (“hound on, urge, to bait”), either from Middle Dutch bētan (“incite”) or from Old Norse beita (“to cause to bite, bait, incite”), from Proto-Germanic *baitijaną (“to cause to bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”). Cognate with Icelandic beita (“to set dogs on; to feed”). Alternate etymology traces the Middle English and Old French words through Old English *ābǣtan (“to hound on”), from ā- + bǣtan (“to bait”), from the same source (Proto-Germanic *baitijaną). See also bait, bet. Pronunciation: /əˈbɛt/ 1. Fraud or cunning. Labels: obsolete 2. An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid. Labels: obsolete
Word: abetment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested from 1350 to 1470, from Middle English abettement, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French abeter + -ment. See abet. Pronunciation: /əˈbɛt.mənt/ 1. The act of abetting or assisting in a crime, wrongdoing etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Encouragement or assistance. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: abettal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English abet Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English abettal From abet + -al. Pronunciation: /əˈbɛt.l̩/ 1. An abetment. Labels: rare
Word: abetter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From abet + -er. Pronunciation: /əˈbɛt.ə/, /əˈbɛt.ɚ/ 1. Alternative form of abettor Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: abevacuation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ab (“from”) + evacuare (“evacuation”). Pronunciation: /æb.iˌvæk.juˈeɪ.ʃn̩/ 1. An abnormal evacuation. 2. Metastases.
Word: abeyance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1528. From Anglo-Norman abeiance (“legal expectation”), from Old French abeance (“desire”) from abeër (“to gape at, aspire after”), abaer, abair (“to desire”), from a (“to”) + baër (“to gape”), bair (“yawn”), from Medieval Latin batō (“to yawn”). Pronunciation: /əˈbeɪ.ən(t)s/ 1. Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The proceeds of the estate shall be held in abeyance in an escrow account until the minor reaches age twenty-one. Example: Yet sometimes the fee may be in abeyance, that is (as the word signifies) in expectation, remembrance, and contemplation in law; there being no person in esse, in whom it can vest and abide […] 2. Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance. Example: [...] Prosser was instrumental in the decision in 2010 to recommence publication of an annual health and safety report, following a period when it had fallen into abeyance. 3. Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The broad pennant of a commodore first class has been in abeyance since 1958, together with the rank.
Word: abeyancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From abeyance + -y. Pronunciation: /əˈbeɪ.ənt.si/ 1. Abeyance. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable Example: What a change in his lot would have been here, for there seemed to be some pretensions to a title, too, from a barony which was floating about and occasionally moving out of abeyancy!
Word: abeyant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Back-formation from abeyance + -ant. Pronunciation: /əˈbeɪ.ənt/ 1. Being in a state of abeyance; suspended. Example: This statute, and that in favour of the heirs general before mentioned, would of themselves, it is submitted, establish that the barony of Slane, was neither a peerage in fee nor a palatine honor. Had it been the former, it would have become abeyant between the heirs general: had it been the latter, it would have been annihilated by the non-possession of the lands. Example: In abeyant intractable conflicts violence is suspended, or "frozen" (i.e., they have gone into remission), usually because a third party is willing and able to guarantee the terms of a negotiated cease-fire—a cease-fire that may also include the broad outlines of a political settlement.
Word: abhal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic أَبْهَل (ʔabhal). 1. The berry of the juniper, Juniperus communis.
Word: abhominable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in the 1300s, a variant of abominable, influenced by Latin ab + homine (“man”); compare abhominal. The unnecessary addition of h to words was once common; compare abholish (abolish). Abandoned by the 1600s. Compare also abhomination. Pronunciation: /əbˈhɒmɪnəbəl/, /əˈbɒmɪnəbəl/ 1. Obsolete form of abominable. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: This is abhominable, which he [Don Armado] would call abominable. Example: [...] your Lordship [is] twice guilty of treachery both in withholding the dominion of Narnia from the said Caspian and in the most abhominable, —don’t forget to spell it with an H, Doctor— bloody, and unnatural murder of your kindly lord and brother King Caspian Ninth of that name.
Word: abhominal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin abhominalis, from ab (“away from”) + hominis (“man”), but in practice from English abominable, which was erroneously folk-etymologized as this word, leading to this spelling and abhominable, which see for more. 1. Inhuman; obsolete form of abominable. Labels: obsolete Example: Tyrrel was, on the accession of Henry VII. arraigned, and after a full confession beheaded on Tower hill; and King Richard himself, "after this abhominal dede dooen never was quiet in his minde, he never ... Example: Reader, what could I have written more fully and freely in the cordial detestation of such abhominal* libels? […] This is one of Fuller's humorous exemplifications of verbal criticisms, deriving our common word "abominable" from ab and homo, homonis, and thus converting it into the very expressive term abhominal, "unworthy of a man," "unmanly,", "inhuman."—EDIT.
Word: abhor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1449, from Middle English abhorren, borrowed from Middle French abhorrer, from Latin abhorreō (“shrink away from in horror”), from ab- (“from”) + horreō (“stand aghast, bristle with fear”). Pronunciation: /əbˈhɔː/, /əbˈɔː/, /æbˈhɔɹ/, /əbˈhɔɹ/, /əˈbʱɔː(r)/ 1. To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward. Labels: transitive Example: I absolutely abhor being stuck in traffic jams. Example: Let loue bee without dissimulation: abhorre that which is euill, cleaue to that which is good. 2. To fill with horror or disgust. Labels: impersonal, obsolete, transitive Example: But neuer taynt my Loue. I cannot say Whore, It do's abhorre me now I speake the word, To do the Act, that might the addition earne, Not the worlds Masse of vanitie could make me. 3. To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject. Labels: transitive 4. To protest against; to reject solemnly. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: I vtterly abhorre; yea, from my Soule Refuse you for my Iudge, whom yet once more I hold my most malicious Foe, and thinke not At all a Friend to truth. 5. To feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards); to be contrary or averse (to); construed with from. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Also in those daunces were enterlased dities of wanton loue or ribaudry, with frequent remembrance of the moste vile idolis Venus and Bacchus, as it were that the daunce were to their honour and memorie, whiche most of all abhorred from Christes religion, sauerynge the auncient errour of paganysme. Example: Either then the law by harmless and needful dispenses, which the gospel is now made to deny, must have anticipated and exceeded the grace of the gospel, or else must be found to have given politic and superficial graces without real pardon, saying in general, “do this and live,” and yet deceiving and damning underhand with unsound and hollow permissions; which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law, as hath been shewed. 6. Differ entirely from. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: abhorrence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From abhorrent + -ence. Pronunciation: /əbˈhɒɹ.n̩(t)s/, /æbˈhɔɹ.n̩(t)s/, /æbˈhɑɹ.n̩(t)s/ 1. Extreme aversion or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike or loathing; a visceral revulsion toward something repugnant. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My abhorrence of this fiend cannot be conceived. Example: The recognition of what pollutes evidently reflects deep-seated abhorrences, whose cause and origin are difficult to discover. 2. An expression of abhorrence, in particular any of the parliamentary addresses dictated towards Charles II. Labels: countable, historical, obsolete 3. A person or thing that is loathsome; a detested thing. Labels: countable Example: All of them are תובעות abhorrences or abominations, although “adultery and bestiality” are branded as “unclean” (אמט) activities. Because “homosexuality” is classified as one of the “abhorrences,” Milgrom believes the practice was “widespread."
Word: abhorrency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English abhorrent English -ence English abhorrence English -y English abhorrency From abhorrence + -y. Pronunciation: /əˈbɔɹɪnsi/ 1. Aberrancy. Labels: obsolete 2. Quality of being abhorrent; feeling of abhorrence. Labels: obsolete 3. Something that elicits abhorrence; a detestable thing. Labels: obsolete
Word: abhorrent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin abhorrēns, abhorrēntis, present active participle of abhorreō (“abhor”). Equivalent to abhor + -ent. Pronunciation: /æbˈ(h)ɒɹənt/, /əbˈ(h)ɒɹənt/, /æbˈhɔɹənt/, /æbˈhɑɹənt/ 1. Inconsistent with, or far removed from, something; strongly opposed. Labels: archaic Example: abhorrent thoughts Example: The persons most abhorrent from blood, and treason, and arbitrary confiscation, might remain silent spectators of this civil war between the vices. 2. Contrary to something; discordant. Example: This legal, and, as it should seem, injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to out stricter principles, was received with a very faint murmur, ... Example: In establishing his ideal state he expressed some opinions utterly abhorrent to our customs and ways of living. He believed, for instance, that all wives should be held in common ... with the result that no one could tell his own children from those of a perfect stranger. 3. Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing. 4. Detestable or repugnant. Example: If Pride, abhorrent as it is, and if Ambition, ... Example: That, I protest, is a doctrine psychologically impossible and ethically abhorrent.
Word: abhorrently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English abhorrent Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English abhorrently From abhorrent + -ly. Pronunciation: /æbˈhɔɹ.ənt.li/, /æbˈhɑɹ.ənt.li/ 1. In a manner, or to a degree, that is abhorrent; with abhorrence. Example: From a basic belief that dropping a nuclear bomb would be an abhorrently immoral act, the bishop has taken the next step: he has tried to make a case that there is only one right way and one wrong way to avoid nuclear catastrophe.
Word: abhorrer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English abhor Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English abhorrer From abhor + -er. Pronunciation: /əbˈhɔː.ɹə/, /æbˈhɔɹ.ɚ/ 1. One who abhors. Example: Be they what they may, the barbarities of the Catholics of those times had their limits: but of this abhorrer of Catholic barbarities, the barbarity has, in respect of the number of intended victims, no limits other than those of time. Example: The “even be killed” is not comic, for Thoreau the individualist must have found it in theory as difficult to imagine himself dying for others as Thoreau the abhorrer of violence found it difficult to imagine himself killing another individual. 2. A nickname given in the early 17ᵗʰ century to signatories of addresses of a petition to reconvene parliament, addressed to Charles II. Labels: capitalized, historical, sometimes Example: Pretty much as Lincoln is thus supposed to arise out of the word fleas, so (according to Rapin) do the words Whig and Tory arise out of addresser and abhorrer[…] Example: Whether “Petitioner” or “Abhorrer”, his opinion was asked and use of his undistinguished name was requested […]
Word: abhorrible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English abhor Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ibilis Old French -ibleder. Middle English -ible English -ible English abhorrible From abhor + -ible. Pronunciation: /æbˈhɑ.ɹɪb.l̩/, /æbˈhɔɹ.ɪb.l̩/ 1. Detestable. Labels: obsolete, rare
Word: abhorring Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From abhor + -ing. Pronunciation: /æbˈhɔɹ.ɪŋ/ 1. Detestation. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A detested thing. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Rather a ditch in Egypt / Be gentle grave unto me! rather on Nilus' mud / Lay me stark-nak'd, and let the water-flies / Blow me into abhorring!
Word: abhorring Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From abhor + -ing. Pronunciation: /æbˈhɔɹ.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of abhor Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Abib Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hebrew אָבִיב (avív, literally “ears of barley”), hence “the season of beginning barley-crop”, because the grains start ripening at that time of year. Pronunciation: /ɑˈviv/, /ˈeɪ.bɪb/, /ˈɑ.bib/ 1. The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to the Gregorian April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan.
Word: abidance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Old English ābīdan Middle English abiden English abidance From Middle English abiden, from Old English ābīdan (“wait”), from ā + bīdan (“to bide, remain”) + ance. * abide + -ance. Pronunciation: /əˈbaɪd.n̩s/, /əˈbaɪd.n̩ts/ 1. The act of abiding or continuing; abode; stay; continuance; dwelling. 2. Adherence; compliance; conformity. Example: No wonder then, though the Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine (though this I confess, is but the bark of the text), driving that trade wherewith none ever thrived, the breaking of promises; wherewith one may for a way fairly spread his train, but he will moult his feathers soon after. Example: A judicious abidance by rules, and holding to the results of experience, are good; but not less so, are a judicious setting aside of rules, and a declining to be bound by incomplete experience.
Word: abider Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂u-s-? Proto-Germanic *uz- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydʰeti Proto-Germanic *bīdaną Proto-Germanic *uzbīdaną Proto-West Germanic *uʀbīdan Old English ābīdan Middle English abyden English abide Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English abider From abide + -er. Pronunciation: /əˈbɑɪ.dɚ/ 1. One who abides, or continues. Labels: obsolete Example: Hee sayde, they were the Maisters of warre, and ornaments of peace : speedy goers, and strong abiders : triumphers both in Camps and Courts. 2. One who dwells or stays; a resident. Example: But although it had everything 'to content the purse, the heart, the eye', there was a local proverb saying: 'What is best for the Abider is worst for the [Traveler] Example: 1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 150, Much spends the traveller more than the abider.
Word: abiding Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Present participle or participial adjective from abide (verb) + -ing; or, from Middle English participle form of abiden, abyden (“to abide”). Pronunciation: /əˈbaɪ.dɪŋ/ 1. Continuing or persisting in the same state: lasting, enduring; steadfast. Example: an abiding belief Example: a deep and abiding hatred of wealth
Word: abiding Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Present participle or participial adjective from abide (verb) + -ing; or, from Middle English participle form of abiden, abyden (“to abide”). Pronunciation: /əˈbaɪ.dɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of abide Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:abiding.
Word: abiding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English abydynge, abidynge, -inge [verbal noun of abiden, abyden (“to abide”)], from Old English abīdung; or, verbal noun from abide (verb) + -ing. Pronunciation: /əˈbaɪ.dɪŋ/ 1. The action of one who abides; the state of an abider. 2. An abode. Labels: obsolete
Word: abidingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English abiding Middle English -ly English -ly English abidingly From abiding + -ly. Pronunciation: /əˈbaɪ.dɪŋ.li/ 1. In an abiding manner; permanently.
Word: abietene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Abies, from Latin abiet- + -ene, oblique stem of abiēs (“silver fir”). Pronunciation: /ˈæb.i.əˌtin/ 1. A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana).
Word: abietic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Abies, from Latin abiet- + -ic, oblique stem of abiēs (“silver fir”). Pronunciation: /ˌæb.iˈɛt.ɪk/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or derived from fir trees Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or pertaining to abietic acid or its derivatives Labels: not-comparable
Word: abietin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See abietene. 1. A resin obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. Labels: uncountable
Word: abietinic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English abietin Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English abietinic From abietin + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to abietin. Labels: not-comparable
Word: abietite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Abies, from Latin abiet- + -ite, oblique stem of abiēs (“silver fir”). 1. A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies alba). Labels: uncountable
Word: abigail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the name Abigail, as given to a waiting-maid in Beaumont and Fletcher's play The Scornful Lady. Pronunciation: /ˈa.bɪ.ɡeɪl/ 1. A lady's maid. Labels: obsolete Example: It was therefore concluded that the Abigails should, by turns, relieve each other on one of his lordship’s horses, which was presently equipped with a side-saddle for that purpose. Example: In the servants’ hall two coachmen and three gentlemen’s gentlemen stood or sat round the fire; the abigails, I suppose, were upstairs with their mistresses; the new servants, that had been hired from Millcote, were bustling about everywhere.
Word: abiliment Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of habiliment. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: ability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in the 1300s. From Middle English abilite (“suitability, aptitude, ability”), from Old French ableté, from Latin habilitās (“aptness, ability”), from habilis (“apt, fit, skillful, able”); equivalent to able + -ity. Pronunciation: /əˈbɪl.ə.ti/, /əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/ 1. Suitableness. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power. Labels: uncountable Example: This phone has the ability to have its software upgraded wirelessly. Example: This wood has the ability to fight off insects, fungus, and mold for a considerable time. 3. The legal wherewithal to act. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. 4. Physical power. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Financial ability. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 6. A unique power of the mind; a faculty. Labels: uncountable 7. A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude. Labels: countable Example: a mixed-ability class Example: They are persons of ability, who will go far in life.
Word: abime Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French abime. 1. Obsolete form of abysm. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: abiogenesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not-”, the alpha privative) + βῐ́ος (bĭ́os, “life”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”)) + γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source; manner of birth; creation”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis (“birth; production”)); equivalent to abio- + genesis. The words biogenesis and abiogenesis were both coined by English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) in 1870 (see the quotation). Pronunciation: /ˌeɪbaɪəʊˈdʒɛnəsɪs/, /-ˌbaɪə-/, /-ˌbiːə-/, /-ˌbiːoʊ-/, /-nɪ-/ 1. The origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And thus the hypothesis that living matter always arises by the agency of pre-existing living matter, took definite shape; […] It will be necessary for me to refer to this hypothesis so frequently, that, to save circumlocution, I shall call it the hypothesis of Biogenesis; and I shall term the contrary doctrine—that living matter may be produced by not living matter—the hypothesis of Abiogenesis. Example: The assertion of [Louis] Pasteur is justified, that the onus probandi [burden of proof] lies with abiogenesists, since there is no experience of any living form more than ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of an inch in diameter springing to life out of inorganic matter; it is therefore vastly improbable (needing most cogent evidence to prove), that any form less than ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of an inch in size can be made to spring into life from inorganic matter. While abiogenesis is unproved, we hold to the conclusion that vital force is not the mere outcome or resultant of any or all of the other cosmic forces.
Word: abiogenetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os) Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis Proto-Hellenic *génetis Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis) English abiogenesis Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English abiogenetic From abiogenesis + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌeɪ.bai.oʊ.d͡ʒəˈnɛt.ɪk/ 1. Of or pertaining to abiogenesis, originated by abiogenesis. Labels: not-comparable
Word: abiogenist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os) Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis Proto-Hellenic *génetis Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis) English abiogenesis Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English abiogenist From abiogenesis + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˌeɪ.baiˈɑ.d͡ʒɛ.nəst/ 1. One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent life.
Word: abiogenous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os) Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis Proto-Hellenic *génetis Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis) English abiogenesis Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English abiogenetic Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English abiogenous From abiogenetic + -ous. Pronunciation: /æb.iˈɑd͡ʒ.ə.nəs/ 1. Produced by spontaneous generation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: abiogeny Part of Speech: noun 1. abiogenesis. Labels: uncountable
Word: abiological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- (“without”) + biological (“relating to life”) or abiologic + -al. Pronunciation: /ˌeɪ.baɪ.əˈlɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.kl̩/, /ˌeɪ.baɪ.əˈlɑd͡ʒ.ə.kl̩/ 1. Pertaining to inanimate things; not produced by organisms. Labels: not-comparable
Word: abirritant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ab- (prefix from Latin ab (“from”)) + irritant, from French irritant, from Latin irrītō (“to irritate”). Pronunciation: /æbˈɪɹ.ɪ.tn̩t/ 1. Acting to diminish irritation; soothing.
Word: abirritant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ab- (prefix from Latin ab (“from”)) + irritant, from French irritant, from Latin irrītō (“to irritate”). Pronunciation: /æbˈɪɹ.ɪ.tn̩t/ 1. A medicine that diminishes irritation.
Word: abirritate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From ab- + irritate. Pronunciation: /æbˈɪɹ.ɪˌteɪt/ 1. To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate; to soothe. Labels: transitive
Word: abirritation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English abirritate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English abirritation From abirritate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌæb.ɪɹ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃn̩/ 1. A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; asthenia; atony. 2. Decreased response to stimuli.
Word: abirritative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English abirritate Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English abirritative From abirritate + -ive. Pronunciation: /ˌæb.ɪɹ.ɪˈteɪ.tɪv/ 1. Characterized by abirritation or debility.
Word: abit Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of a bit. Labels: alt-of, alternative, nonstandard, not-comparable, proscribed