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abilities | of ability |
ability | the quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. |
abime | alt. of abyme |
abiogenesis | the supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. |
abiogenetic | of or pertaining to abiogenesis. |
abiogenist | one who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent. |
abiogenous | produced by spontaneous generation. |
abiogeny | same as abiogenesis. |
abiological | pertaining to the study of inanimate things. |
abirritant | a medicine that diminishes irritation. |
abirritate | to diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate. |
abirritation | a pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia. |
abirritative | characterized by abirritation or debility. |
abit | 3d sing. pres. of abide. |
abject | cast down; low-lying.-sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.-to cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.-a person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway. |
abjectedness | a very abject or low condition; abjectness. |
abjection | the act of bringing down or humbling.-the state of being rejected or cast out.-a low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. |
abjectly | meanly; servilely. |
abjectness | the state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. |
abjudge | to take away by judicial decision. |
abjudicate | to reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge. |
abjudication | rejection by judicial sentence. |
abjugate | to unyoke. |
abjunctive | exceptional. |
abjuration | the act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.-a solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. |
abjuratory | containing abjuration. |
abjure | to renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. to abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.-to renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate; as, to abjure errors.-to renounce on oath. |
abjured | of abjure |
abjurement | renunciation. |
abjurer | one who abjures. |
abjuring | of abjure |
ablactate | to wean. |
ablactation | the weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam.-the process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach. |
ablaqueate | to lay bare, as the roots of a tree. |
ablaqueation | the act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. |
ablastemic | non-germinal. |
ablation | a carrying or taking away; removal.-extirpation.-wearing away; superficial waste. |
ablatitious | diminishing; as, an ablatitious force. |
ablative | taking away or removing.-applied to one of the cases of the noun in latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.-the ablative case. |
ablaut | the substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung. |
ablaze | on fire; in a blaze, gleaming.-in a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire. |
able | fit; adapted; suitable.-having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able t... |
able-bodied | having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust. |
able-minded | having much intellectual power. |
ablegate | to send abroad.-a representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office. |
ablegation | the act of sending abroad. |
ablen | a small fresh-water fish (leuciscus alburnus); the bleak. |
ableness | ability of body or mind; force; vigor. |
ablepsy | blindness. |
abler | comp. of able.-superl. of able. |
ablet | alt. of ablen |
abligate | to tie up so as to hinder from. |
abligurition | prodigal expense for food. |
ablins | perhaps.-perhaps; possibly. |
abloom | in or into bloom; in a blooming state. |
ablude | to be unlike; to differ. |
abluent | washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.-a detergent. |
ablush | blushing; ruddy. |
ablution | the act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.-the water used in cleansing.-a small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrat... |
ablutionary | pertaining to ablution. |
abluvion | that which is washed off. |
ably | in an able manner; with great ability; as, ably done, planned, said. |
abnegate | to deny and reject; to abjure. |
abnegated | of abnegate |
abnegating | of abnegate |
abnegation | a denial; a renunciation. |
abnegative | denying; renouncing; negative. |
abnegator | one who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything. |
abnet | the girdle of a jewish priest or officer. |
abnodate | to clear (tress) from knots. |
abnodation | the act of cutting away the knots of trees. |
abnormal | not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. |
abnormalities | of abnormality |
abnormality | the state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.-something abnormal. |
abnormally | in an abnormal manner; irregularly. |
abnormities | of abnormity |
abnormity | departure from the ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity. |
abnormous | abnormal; irregular. |
aboard | on board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.-alongside; as, close aboard.-on board of; as, to go aboard a ship.-across; athwart. |
abodance | an omen; a portending. |
abode | of abide-pret. of abide.-act of waiting; delay.-stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.-place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation.-an omen.-to bode; to foreshow.-to be ominous. |
abodement | a foreboding; an omen. |
aboding | a foreboding. |
abolish | to do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.-to put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out. |
abolishable | capable of being abolished. |
abolished | of abolish |
abolisher | one who abolishes. |
abolishing | of abolish |
abolishment | the act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. |
abolition | the act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc. |
abolitionism | the principles or measures of abolitionists. |
abolitionist | a person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery. |
abolitionize | to imbue with the principles of abolitionism. |
aboma | a large south american serpent (boa aboma). |
abomasum | alt. of abomasus |
abomasus | the fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. see ruminantia. |
abominable | worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.-excessive; large; -- used as an intensive. |
abominableness | the quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. |
abominably | in an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably. |
abominate | to turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety. |
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