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0 | word:
abature
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abature (plural abatures)
forms:
form:
abatures
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French abateure, from the verb abatre (“to knock down, to destroy”). See abate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.
senses_topics:
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1 | word:
abaciscus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abaciscus (plural abacisci or abaciscuses)
forms:
form:
abacisci
tags:
plural
form:
abaciscuses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀβακίσκος (abakískos, “a coloured stone for laying mosaic”), diminutive of ἄβαξ (ábax, “board”). See abacus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.
senses_topics:
|
2 | word:
sesquipedalianism
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sesquipedalianism (plural sesquipedalianisms)
forms:
form:
sesquipedalianisms
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Surface form analyzed as sesquipedalian + -ism, from sesqui- (“one and a half”) + pedalian (“of the foot”).
From Latin sēsquipedālis (“a foot and a half long; in metaphorical use, “of an unnatural length, huge, big””), from sēsqui (“one and a half times as great”) + pedālis (“foot”).
senses_examples:
text:
His voice here is a marvelous juxtaposition of cool elegance, unaffected hipness, unabashed sesquipedalianism ("the rich bouquet of exuded sebaceousness") and swell conversational slang (...)
ref:
1995, Michael Cart, From Romance to Realism, page 257
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The practice of using long, sometimes obscure, words in speech or writing.
A very long word.
senses_topics:
|
3 | word:
abatable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abatable (comparative more abatable, superlative most abatable)
forms:
form:
more abatable
tags:
comparative
form:
most abatable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abate + -able.
senses_examples:
text:
an abatable writ or nuisance.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of being abated.
senses_topics:
|
4 | word:
abacination
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abacination (countable and uncountable, plural abacinations)
forms:
form:
abacinations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abacinate + -ion.
senses_examples:
text:
That blind general lost his sight by the process of abacination.
ref:
1902, James Meeker Ludlow, Incentives for Life, Personal and Public, page 144
type:
quotation
text:
Her warmth and radiance had blinded him, a self-inflicted abacination.
ref:
1972, Trevanian (pseud.), The Eiger Sanction, Ballantine, published 1984, page 105
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of abacinating, of blinding with the light from hot metal
senses_topics:
|
5 | word:
abb wool
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abb wool (countable and uncountable, plural abb wools)
forms:
form:
abb wools
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of abb-wool
senses_topics:
|
6 | word:
abeyancy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abeyancy (countable and uncountable, plural abeyancies)
forms:
form:
abeyancies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abeyance + -y.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Abeyance.
senses_topics:
|
7 | word:
abietin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abietin (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
See abietene.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A resin obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
8 | word:
abbatical
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abbatical (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
It was many years since the kings of England had bothered over abbatical elections.
ref:
1962, Prudence Andrew, A Question of Choice, page 34
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Uncommon form of abbatial.
senses_topics:
|
9 | word:
abhominal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abhominal (comparative more abhominal, superlative most abhominal)
forms:
form:
more abhominal
tags:
comparative
form:
most abhominal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
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.
senses_examples:
text:
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 ...
ref:
1826, Thomas Wright (of Ludlow.), The history and antiquities of ... Ludlow; with lives of the presidents, and accounts of gentlemen's seats, &c, page 65
text:
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.
ref:
1840, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, London: Printed for T. Tegg by J. Nichols, page 517
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Inhuman; obsolete form of abominable.
senses_topics:
|
10 | word:
abiogenous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abiogenous (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abiogenetic + -ous.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Produced by spontaneous generation.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
11 | word:
abevacuation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abevacuation (plural abevacuations)
forms:
form:
abevacuations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin ab (“from”) + evacuare (“evacuation”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An abnormal evacuation.
Metastases.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences |
12 | word:
abiogeny
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abiogeny (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
abiogenesis.
senses_topics:
|
13 | word:
abiogenist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abiogenist (plural abiogenists)
forms:
form:
abiogenists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abiogenesis + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent life.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
14 | word:
A 1
word_type:
adj
expansion:
A 1 (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of A1
senses_topics:
|
15 | word:
abaction
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abaction (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abāctiō.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Carrying away by force, especially of animals.
Stealing cattle on a large scale.
senses_topics:
law
|
16 | word:
abiogenetic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abiogenetic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abiogenesis + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to abiogenesis, originated by abiogenesis.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
17 | word:
aberuncator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aberuncator (plural aberuncators)
forms:
form:
aberuncators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From averruncate + -or.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pruning device mounted on a pole, so as to reach high branches; a weeding machine.
senses_topics:
|
18 | word:
aard-vark
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aard-vark (plural aard-varks)
forms:
form:
aard-varks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Archaic spelling of aardvark.
senses_topics:
|
19 | word:
abditive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abditive (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abditīvus (“removed or separated from”), from abdō (“hide, conceal”).
senses_examples:
text:
There is also a species of wit which may be termed abditive; for it conceals or lessens the dignity attached to rank or character.
ref:
1789, Philip Withers, Alfred's Apology, page 51
type:
quotation
text:
Concepts are either abditive or inabditive; the former being those that do, and the latter those that do not, hide the plurality of the kind they symbolise.
ref:
1882, Edmund R. Clay, The alternative: a study in psychology, page 229
type:
quotation
text:
The abditive nature of the heavy foliage protected the nest.
ref:
2004, Michael Sheehan, Words to Wise, page 207
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the quality of hiding
senses_topics:
|
20 | word:
abasedly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abasedly (comparative more abasedly, superlative most abasedly)
forms:
form:
more abasedly
tags:
comparative
form:
most abasedly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abased + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an abased manner; abjectly.
senses_topics:
|
21 | word:
abashedly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abashedly (comparative more abashedly, superlative most abashedly)
forms:
form:
more abashedly
tags:
comparative
form:
most abashedly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abashed + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
George, at length, came forward abashedly toward him, and said, — "I have been greatly to blame, Robert, and am very sorry for what I have done.
ref:
1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, page 36
type:
quotation
text:
meanwhile, no cash. Finally, Nichan asked me abashedly if perhaps I would lend him a few hundred rubles.
ref:
1956, Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey, page 156
type:
quotation
text:
At the punchline, Moshe snorts in laughter, then abashedly suppresses the smile. Does a self-deprecating sense of humor—a comedic trope owned by the Jews—make the Nazi more human?
ref:
2018 October 8, “The Banality of the Eichmann Trial”, in Tablet Magazine
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an abashed manner.
senses_topics:
|
22 | word:
abirritative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abirritative (comparative more abirritative, superlative most abirritative)
forms:
form:
more abirritative
tags:
comparative
form:
most abirritative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abirritate + -ive.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Characterized by abirritation or debility.
senses_topics:
medicine
pharmacology
sciences |
23 | word:
abatised
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abatised (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abatis + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Provided with an abatis.
senses_topics:
|
24 | word:
GNU FDL
word_type:
name
expansion:
GNU FDL
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of GNU Free Documentation License.
senses_topics:
computing
copyright
engineering
intellectual-property
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences |
25 | word:
abdominalia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abdominalia pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A group of cirriped crustaceans having abdominal appendages.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences
zoology |
26 | word:
abime
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abime (plural abimes)
forms:
form:
abimes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French abime.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of abysm.
senses_topics:
|
27 | word:
abhorring
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abhorring (usually uncountable, plural abhorrings)
forms:
form:
abhorrings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abhor + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Detestation.
A detested thing.
senses_topics:
|
28 | word:
abhorring
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abhorring
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abhor + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of abhor
senses_topics:
|
29 | word:
abdominothoracic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abdominothoracic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* abdomino- (“abdomen”) + thoracic (“chest”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.
senses_topics:
|
30 | word:
abdicable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abdicable (comparative more abdicable, superlative most abdicable)
forms:
form:
more abdicable
tags:
comparative
form:
most abdicable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abdicate + -able.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capable of being abdicated.
senses_topics:
|
31 | word:
abigail
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abigail (plural abigails)
forms:
form:
abigails
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the name Abigail, as given to a waiting-maid in Beaumont and Fletcher's play The Scornful Lady.
senses_examples:
text:
It was therefore concluded that the Abigails should, by turns, relieve each other on one of his lordship’s horses, which was presently equipped with a side-saddle for that purpose.
ref:
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, page 415
type:
quotation
text:
In the servants’ hall two coachmen and three gentlemen’s gentlemen stood or sat round the fire; the abigails, I suppose, were upstairs with their mistresses; the new servants, that had been hired from Millcote, were bustling about everywhere.
ref:
1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A lady's maid.
senses_topics:
|
32 | word:
abaiser
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abaiser (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Ivory black; animal charcoal.
senses_topics:
|
33 | word:
abjudge
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abjudge (third-person singular simple present abjudges, present participle abjudging, simple past and past participle abjudged)
forms:
form:
abjudges
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abjudging
tags:
participle
present
form:
abjudged
tags:
participle
past
form:
abjudged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* ab- + judge, from Latin abiudicare. Doublet of abjudicate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To confiscate by judicial decision.
senses_topics:
law |
34 | word:
abarticulation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abarticulation (plural abarticulations)
forms:
form:
abarticulations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
* From ab- + articulation.
* Compare French abarticulation. See article
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An articulation, especially one that permits free motion in the joint; a hinge joint.
The act of dislocating a joint.
A term sometimes used for diarthrosis, and also for synarthrosis. Also called dearticulation.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
35 | word:
aberr
word_type:
verb
expansion:
aberr (third-person singular simple present aberrs, present participle aberring, simple past and past participle aberred)
forms:
form:
aberrs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
aberring
tags:
participle
present
form:
aberred
tags:
participle
past
form:
aberred
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from, away from”) + errō (“stray”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To go astray; to err.
Distort; aberrate.
senses_topics:
|
36 | word:
Aaronic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Aaronic (comparative more Aaronic, superlative most Aaronic)
forms:
form:
more Aaronic
tags:
comparative
form:
most Aaronic
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Aaron + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to Aaron (elder brother of Moses).
Pertaining to or characteristic of a high priest; priestly.
Of or pertaining to the lower order of priests.
senses_topics:
|
37 | word:
abjectedness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abjectedness (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abjected + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being abjected.
senses_topics:
|
38 | word:
abider
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abider (plural abiders)
forms:
form:
abiders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abide + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
Hee sayde, they were the Maisters of warre, and ornaments of peace : speedy goers, and strong abiders : triumphers both in Camps and Courts.
ref:
c. 1583, Philip Sidney with Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, An Apologie for Poetrie, published 1891, page 1
type:
quotation
text:
But although it had everything 'to content the purse, the heart, the eye', there was a local proverb saying: 'What is best for the Abider is worst for the [Traveler]
ref:
c. 1610, John Speed with Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales: 40 plates from John Speed's pocket atlas, published 1951, page 27
type:
quotation
text:
1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 150,
Much spends the traveller more than the abider.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who abides, or continues.
One who dwells or stays; a resident.
senses_topics:
|
39 | word:
abbreviatory
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abbreviatory (comparative more abbreviatory, superlative most abbreviatory)
forms:
form:
more abbreviatory
tags:
comparative
form:
most abbreviatory
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abbreviate + -ory.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
senses_topics:
|
40 | word:
abietinic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abietinic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abietin + -ic.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or pertaining to abietin.
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
41 | word:
abjurement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abjurement (plural abjurements)
forms:
form:
abjurements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abjure + -ment.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Renunciation.
senses_topics:
|
42 | word:
aberrational
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aberrational (comparative more aberrational, superlative most aberrational)
forms:
form:
more aberrational
tags:
comparative
form:
most aberrational
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From aberration + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Characterized by aberration.
senses_topics:
|
43 | word:
abassi
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abassi (plural abassis)
forms:
form:
abassis
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
The most current money in Perſia are the abaſſi's, worth about 1 s. 4 d. ſterling : they are of the fineſt ſilver. An abaſſi is worth two mahmoudi's, a mahmoudi two ſhais, and a ſhai ten ſingle or five double caſbeghi's.
ref:
1765, The Modern Part of an Univerſal Hiſtory, from the Earlieſt Account of Time, volume 43, page 161
type:
quotation
text:
Accounts are kept in tomans of 50 abassis = 100 mamoodis = 200 shatrees = 1,000 dinars-bisti. The last is an imaginary money.
ref:
1819, William Anderson, The London commercial dictionary, and sea-port gazetteer, entry "Persia", page 557
type:
quotation
text:
Only know how to set about it, and you can extract an abassi, not from every carriage, but from every gun-barrel.
ref:
1899, “The Miller”, in The romances of Alexandre Dumas, page 141
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete spelling of abbasi.
senses_topics:
|
44 | word:
abaisance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abaisance (plural abaisances)
forms:
form:
abaisances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abeisans, from Old French abaissance.
senses_examples:
text:
Haman can find no gust in all the sensualities of the Persian Court, because a poor despicable Jew denies his abaisance.
ref:
1675, Richard Allestree, The art of contentment
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of obeisance.
senses_topics:
|
45 | word:
aberuncate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
aberuncate (third-person singular simple present aberuncates, present participle aberuncating, simple past and past participle aberuncated)
forms:
form:
aberuncates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
aberuncating
tags:
participle
present
form:
aberuncated
tags:
participle
past
form:
aberuncated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin aberuncare, from Latin averruncare.
senses_examples:
text:
His nefarious repercussion of obloquy must contaminate, and obumbrate, and who can tell but it may even aberuncate his feculent and excrementitious celebrity.
ref:
1782, James Thomson Callender, Deformities of Dr Samuel Johnson: Selected from his works
type:
quotation
text:
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.
ref:
1808, John MacDonald, A treatise on talegraphic communication, navel, military, and political
type:
quotation
text:
those embryonical conceits which quaversally disposed intellects too often neglect, abort and aberuncate for clamouring projects more fully formed […].
ref:
1983, Alasdair Gray, “Logopandocy”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 136
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To eradicate; to pull up by the roots.
senses_topics:
|
46 | word:
swop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
swop (plural swops)
forms:
form:
swops
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of swap
senses_topics:
|
47 | word:
swop
word_type:
verb
expansion:
swop (third-person singular simple present swops, present participle swopping, simple past and past participle swopped)
forms:
form:
swops
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
swopping
tags:
participle
present
form:
swopped
tags:
participle
past
form:
swopped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
'We make a pair, by God and by St James! / But, brother, what do you say to swopping names?'
ref:
1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 315
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of swap
senses_topics:
|
48 | word:
swop
word_type:
noun
expansion:
swop (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of swing + hip-hop
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fusion of swing and hip-hop dance styles.
senses_topics:
|
49 | word:
abjuratory
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abjuratory (comparative more abjuratory, superlative most abjuratory)
forms:
form:
more abjuratory
tags:
comparative
form:
most abjuratory
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abjure + -atory.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Involving abjuration.
senses_topics:
|
50 | word:
abjugate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abjugate (third-person singular simple present abjugates, present participle abjugating, simple past and past participle abjugated)
forms:
form:
abjugates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abjugating
tags:
participle
present
form:
abjugated
tags:
participle
past
form:
abjugated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abiugātus, perfect passive participle of abiugō (“remove, separate from”); from ab- (“away from”) + iugō (“bind, connect”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To unyoke; set free; uncouple.
senses_topics:
|
51 | word:
abirritate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abirritate (third-person singular simple present abirritates, present participle abirritating, simple past and past participle abirritated)
forms:
form:
abirritates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abirritating
tags:
participle
present
form:
abirritated
tags:
participle
past
form:
abirritated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ab- + irritate.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate; to soothe.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
52 | word:
abiological
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abiological (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- (“without”) + biological (“relating to life”) or abiologic + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to inanimate things; not produced by organisms.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
53 | word:
abirritation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abirritation (plural abirritations)
forms:
form:
abirritations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abirritate + -ion.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; asthenia; atony.
Decreased response to stimuli.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences
medicine
sciences |
54 | word:
Abib
word_type:
name
expansion:
Abib
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hebrew אָבִיב (avív, literally “ears of barley”), hence “the season of beginning barley-crop”, because the grains start ripening at that time of year.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to the Gregorian April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan.
senses_topics:
|
55 | word:
fabella
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fabella (plural fabellae)
forms:
form:
fabellae
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From New Latin fabella, diminutive of Latin faba (“bean”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.
senses_topics:
anatomy
medicine
sciences |
56 | word:
abjectness
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abjectness (plural abjectnesses)
forms:
form:
abjectnesses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abject + -ness.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.
senses_topics:
|
57 | word:
abbotship
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abbotship (plural abbotships)
forms:
form:
abbotships
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abboship, abbotshup; equivalent to abbot + -ship.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state, term, or office of an abbot; abbacy.
senses_topics:
|
58 | word:
abjunctive
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abjunctive (comparative more abjunctive, superlative most abjunctive)
forms:
form:
more abjunctive
tags:
comparative
form:
most abjunctive
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abiūnctus, past participle of abiungō (“remove, separate”); from ab (“of, from, by”) + iungō (“join, connect, attach”).
senses_examples:
text:
It is this power which leads on always from the less perfect, towards the more perfect; — from the accidental and abjunctive, to the universal ; or from […]
ref:
1883, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening, J.P. Haven, page 270
type:
quotation
text:
The therapeutic programs provided include chemotherapy, electroshock, Individual, group and family psychotherapy, abjunctive therapy, medical and nursing
ref:
1973, United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, U.S. G.P.O, page 268
type:
quotation
text:
The authors present their experience concerning 47 patients: 27 were surgical treated with subcutaneous subtotal mastectomy and 18 had an abjunctive liposuction treatment with good results.
ref:
1996, Cianchetti E, Legnini M, Ucchino S, Ricci A, Scipione P, Grossi S, Scotti U, Napolitano L, “Gynecomastia (report)”, in Annali italiani di chirurgia, page 499
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Exceptional, isolated, disconnected, separate,
senses_topics:
|
59 | word:
abiliment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abiliment (plural abiliments)
forms:
form:
abiliments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Obsolete form of habiliment.
senses_topics:
|
60 | word:
abidingly
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abidingly (comparative more abidingly, superlative most abidingly)
forms:
form:
more abidingly
tags:
comparative
form:
most abidingly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abiding + -ly.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an abiding manner; permanently.
senses_topics:
|
61 | word:
Abderian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Abderian (comparative more Abderian, superlative most Abderian)
forms:
form:
more Abderian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Abderian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Abdera (“a town in Thrace”) + -ian.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or belonging to Abdera or its people.
Alternative form of abderian
senses_topics:
|
62 | word:
Abderian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Abderian (plural Abderians)
forms:
form:
Abderians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Abdera (“a town in Thrace”) + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
He regrets that his lines had not fallen in the pleasant places of the past — among the intelligent Abderians of whom it is said, when Hippocrates came to their city to cure Democritus of his madness, not only the men, but also the women and children […] went forth to meet him.
ref:
1872, Stephen Smith, Doctor in Medicine: and Other Papers on Professional Subjects
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant or native of Abdera.
senses_topics:
|
63 | word:
apples and pears
word_type:
noun
expansion:
apples and pears pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Get up them apples and pears and into Uncle Ned!
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
stairs
senses_topics:
|
64 | word:
abler
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abler
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
comparative form of able: more able
senses_topics:
|
65 | word:
abirritant
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abirritant (comparative more abirritant, superlative most abirritant)
forms:
form:
more abirritant
tags:
comparative
form:
most abirritant
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ab- (prefix from Latin ab (“from”)) + irritant, from French irritant, from Latin irrītō (“to irritate”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acting to diminish irritation; soothing.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
66 | word:
abirritant
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abirritant (plural abirritants)
forms:
form:
abirritants
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ab- (prefix from Latin ab (“from”)) + irritant, from French irritant, from Latin irrītō (“to irritate”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A medicine that diminishes irritation.
senses_topics:
medicine
pharmacology
sciences |
67 | word:
ablepsy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ablepsy (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of ablepsia
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
68 | word:
ablactate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ablactate (third-person singular simple present ablactates, present participle ablactating, simple past and past participle ablactated)
forms:
form:
ablactates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ablactating
tags:
participle
present
form:
ablactated
tags:
participle
past
form:
ablactated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin ablactātus, perfect passive participle of ablactō (“wean”), from ab + lactō (“suckle”), from lac (“milk”).
senses_examples:
text:
Clausenamide (p.o., consecutive days) increased the density of hippocampal synapses and the number of mossy nerve fibre buddings in ablactated mice and adult rats (Zhang et al. 2001).
ref:
2012, T. K. Lim, Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants, volume 4
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To wean.
senses_topics:
|
69 | word:
abaser
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abaser (plural abasers)
forms:
form:
abasers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abase + -er.
senses_examples:
text:
Therefore he that shall be disobedient to [the Deacons], shall be altogither without God, and wicked, and contemning Christe, and an abaser of his ordinance.
ref:
1587, John Bridges, A Defence of the Gouernment Established in the Church of Englande for Ecclesiasticall Matters, London: Thomas Chard, Book 3, p. 297
type:
quotation
text:
1887, E. H. Whinfield (translator), Masnavi I Ma’navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-’d-Dín Muhammad i Rúmi, London: Trübner, Book 6, Story 6, p. 300,
God is an Abaser and an Exalter;
Without these two processes nothing comes into being.
text:
He has committed the irretrievable character fault of suffering himself to be wrenched out of manhood into slavehood, whereafter he conforms no longer to the high free true laws of his soul but moulds his being to his false state and to the compelling will of abasers.
ref:
1905, Morrison I. Swift, chapter 5, in Human Submission, Philadelphia: The Liberty Press, page 37
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who, or that which, abases.
senses_topics:
|
70 | word:
able-minded
word_type:
adj
expansion:
able-minded (comparative more able-minded, superlative most able-minded)
forms:
form:
more able-minded
tags:
comparative
form:
most able-minded
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having unimpaired mental capability.
senses_topics:
|
71 | word:
ablutionary
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ablutionary (comparative more ablutionary, superlative most ablutionary)
forms:
form:
more ablutionary
tags:
comparative
form:
most ablutionary
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ablution + -ary.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Pertaining to ablution.
senses_topics:
|
72 | word:
ablastemic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ablastemic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- (“not”) + blastemic (“offspring, offshoot”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Non-germinal; unable to form a blastema or offspring.
senses_topics:
biology
natural-sciences |
73 | word:
abetment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abetment (countable and uncountable, plural abetments)
forms:
form:
abetments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested from 1350 to 1470, from Middle English abettement, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French abeter + -ment. See abet.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act of abetting or assisting in a crime, wrongdoing etc.
Encouragement or assistance.
senses_topics:
law
|
74 | word:
ablude
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ablude (third-person singular simple present abludes, present participle abluding, simple past and past participle abluded)
forms:
form:
abludes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abluding
tags:
participle
present
form:
abluded
tags:
participle
past
form:
abluded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin ablūdō (“differ from”), from ab (“from”) + lūdō (“play; trick”).
senses_examples:
text:
Neither doth it much ablude from this, that our English divines at Dort call the decree of God, whereby he hath appointed in and by Christ to save those that repent, believe, and persevere, decretum annunciatum salutis omnibus, etc.
ref:
1619, Joseph Hall, Via media, The Way of Peace
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To be unlike; to differ.
senses_topics:
|
75 | word:
abjudicate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abjudicate (third-person singular simple present abjudicates, present participle abjudicating, simple past and past participle abjudicated)
forms:
form:
abjudicates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abjudicating
tags:
participle
present
form:
abjudicated
tags:
participle
past
form:
abjudicated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin abiūdicātus, perfect passive participle of abiūdicō (“deprive or take away by judicial sentence”), from ab (“from, away from”) + iūdicō (“pass judgement; determine, conclude”). Doublet of abjudge. See judge.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To reject by judicial sentence.
To abjudge.
senses_topics:
law
|
76 | word:
abatvoix
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abatvoix (plural abatvoix)
forms:
form:
abatvoix
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of abat-voix
senses_topics:
|
77 | word:
ablush
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ablush (comparative more ablush, superlative most ablush)
forms:
form:
more ablush
tags:
comparative
form:
most ablush
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + blush.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Blushing; ruddy.
senses_topics:
|
78 | word:
ablush
word_type:
adv
expansion:
ablush (comparative more ablush, superlative most ablush)
forms:
form:
more ablush
tags:
comparative
form:
most ablush
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + blush.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Blushing; ruddy.
senses_topics:
|
79 | word:
abased
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abased (comparative more abased, superlative most abased)
forms:
form:
more abased
tags:
comparative
form:
most abased
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abase + -ed.
senses_examples:
text:
The blazon will be - A fess abased potentée of Champagne towards the point. The peculiar potent of Champagne may be seen in Bouton, Nouveau Traité de Blason, p. 199 (Paris, 1863.)
ref:
1865, Notes and Queries, page 251
type:
quotation
text:
(G) Azure 3 bells in fess, abased.
ref:
1913, Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Transactions and Journal of Proceedings, page 107
type:
quotation
text:
Per fess abased nebuly celeste and gules fimbriated argent throughout a pile azure between two rays in point argent bearing a sword in pale point to base of the like, grip gules, […]
ref:
1984, Charles A. Ravenstein, Air Force Combat Wings: Lineage and Honors Histories, 1947-1977, page 113
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Humbled; lowered, especially in rank, position, or prestige.
Synonym of abaissé
senses_topics:
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics |
80 | word:
abased
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abased
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abase + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of abase
senses_topics:
|
81 | word:
abacinate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abacinate (third-person singular simple present abacinates, present participle abacinating, simple past and past participle abacinated)
forms:
form:
abacinates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abacinating
tags:
participle
present
form:
abacinated
tags:
participle
past
form:
abacinated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin abacinātus, perfect passive participle of abacinō; possibly formed from ab (“off”) + bacīnum (“a basin”) or bacīnus. Probably cognate with modern Italian abbacinare (“to dazzle”).
senses_examples:
text:
"You young scapegrace," said Dandolo, "I will myself abacinate you — in the Venetian way." "How's that?" "Blind your eyes with the glare, not of hot irons, but of new ducats. Count your pile."
ref:
1905, James M. Ludlow, Sir Raoul, page 233
type:
quotation
text:
Their straining eyes abacinated by the cup of terror, their throats stopped, their powers dead within them, they hung breathless, motionless.
ref:
1945, Robert Hardy Andrews, Burning Gold, page 196
type:
quotation
text:
Abacinate, eyes that bleed, praying for the end of your wide awake nightmare.
ref:
1986, Jeff Hanneman (lyrics and music), “Angel of Death”, in Reign in Blood, performed by Slayer
type:
quotation
text:
This chiasmic image of the subject's imperviousness suggests a sensory deprivation beyond sublimity, like that of abacinated anti-epistemology.
ref:
1999, Srinivas Aravamudan, Tropicopolitans, page 220
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes
senses_topics:
|
82 | word:
abhal
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abhal (plural abhals)
forms:
form:
abhals
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Arabic أَبْهَل (ʔabhal).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The berry of the juniper, Juniperus communis.
senses_topics:
|
83 | word:
abjudication
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abjudication (countable and uncountable, plural abjudications)
forms:
form:
abjudications
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abjudicate + -ion.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rejection by judicial sentence.
senses_topics:
law |
84 | word:
ablegation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ablegation (plural ablegations)
forms:
form:
ablegations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin ablēgātio (“a sending away, banishment”).
senses_examples:
text:
Now of all Passions whatever, excess of Desire is fittest for this more harmless and momentary Ablegation of the Soul from the Body
ref:
1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Expulsion; banishment.
senses_topics:
|
85 | word:
ablaqueation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ablaqueation (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin ablaqueātiō (“the process or act of digging or loosening the soil around the roots of a tree”), from ablaqueō (“disentangle”), from ab (“from, away from”) + laqueō (“entangle, ensnare”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water.
senses_topics:
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86 | word:
ablaqueate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
ablaqueate (third-person singular simple present ablaqueates, present participle ablaqueating, simple past and past participle ablaqueated)
forms:
form:
ablaqueates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
ablaqueating
tags:
participle
present
form:
ablaqueated
tags:
participle
past
form:
ablaqueated
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Learned borrowing from Latin ablaqueātus (“loosened, dug up”), past participle of ablaqueō (“to disentangle”), formed from ab- + laqueō (“noose”).
senses_examples:
text:
After the autumnal equinox they were to be ablaqueated like the vines. Every third year they were to be dunged, and after some years (generally the eighth) to be pruned; for there was an old saying, to wit, eum qui aret olivetum rogare fructum; qui stercoret exorare; qui caedat cogere.
ref:
1847, Thomas Keightley, The Bucolics and Georgics of Virgil
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lay bare, as the roots of a tree, by loosening or removing soil.
senses_topics:
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87 | word:
abhorrently
word_type:
adv
expansion:
abhorrently (comparative more abhorrently, superlative most abhorrently)
forms:
form:
more abhorrently
tags:
comparative
form:
most abhorrently
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abhorrent + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
From a basic belief that dropping a nuclear bomb would be an abhorrently immoral act, the bishop has taken the next step: he has tried to make a case that there is only one right way and one wrong way to avoid nuclear catastrophe.
ref:
1982 June 24, Texas Monthly, volume 10, number 6, page 168
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In a manner, or to a degree, that is abhorrent; with abhorrence.
senses_topics:
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88 | word:
abdicator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abdicator (plural abdicators)
forms:
form:
abdicators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abdicate + -or.
senses_examples:
text:
King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom was an abdicator.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person supporting the abdication of another.
One who abdicates.
senses_topics:
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89 | word:
abietite
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abietite (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Abies and + -ite.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies alba).
senses_topics:
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
90 | word:
abator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abator (plural abators)
forms:
form:
abators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abate (“to enter without right after the owner dies and before the heir takes over”) + -or. From Anglo-Norman.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee
senses_topics:
law |
91 | word:
abator
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abator (plural abators)
forms:
form:
abators
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abate (“do away with”) + -or. From Middle English, from Old French.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
one who abates, ends, or does away with a nuisance
senses_topics:
law |
92 | word:
abodance
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abodance (plural abodances)
forms:
form:
abodances
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abode (“omen”) + -ance.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An omen or portent.
senses_topics:
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93 | word:
fabaceous
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fabaceous (comparative more fabaceous, superlative most fabaceous)
forms:
form:
more fabaceous
tags:
comparative
form:
most fabaceous
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin fabaceus, from faba (“bean”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the nature of a bean; like a bean.
senses_topics:
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94 | word:
abegge
word_type:
verb
expansion:
abegge (third-person singular simple present abegges, present participle abegging, simple past and past participle abought or abegged)
forms:
form:
abegges
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
abegging
tags:
participle
present
form:
abought
tags:
participle
past
form:
abought
tags:
past
form:
abegged
tags:
participle
past
form:
abegged
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of aby
senses_topics:
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95 | word:
abodement
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abodement (plural abodements)
forms:
form:
abodements
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From abode + -ment.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A foreboding; an omen.
senses_topics:
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96 | word:
abelian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abelian (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Niels Henrik Abel
abelian
etymology_text:
Name of the Norwegian mathematician Abel + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
The interesting aspect here is that U₃ is irreducible, even though all irreps over the complexes are one-dimensional because ℤ₄ is abelian.
ref:
1996, Barry Simon, Representations of Finite and Compact Groups, page 50
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of an algebraic structure (usually a group or algebra), having a commutative defining operation.
Of a binary function, commutative.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
mathematics
sciences |
97 | word:
abietic
word_type:
adj
expansion:
abietic (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abies (“silver fir”) + -ic (“pertaining to”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, pertaining to, or derived from fir trees
Of or pertaining to abietic acid or its derivatives
senses_topics:
biology
botany
natural-sciences
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences |
98 | word:
abacist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abacist (plural abacists)
forms:
form:
abacists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English abaciste, from Medieval Latin abacista, from abacus + -ista (“-ist”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.
senses_topics:
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99 | word:
abaculus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
abaculus (plural abaculi)
forms:
form:
abaculi
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin abaculus, diminutive of abacus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements; abaciscus.
senses_topics:
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