a posteriori
         adv 1: derived from observed facts [ant: {a priori}]
         adj 1: involving reasoning from facts or particulars to general
                  principles or from effects to causes; "a posteriori
                  demonstration" [ant: {a priori}]
         2: requiring evidence for validation or support

English Dictionary: avocado tree	by the DICT Development Group
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abactinal adj (of radiate animals) located on the surface or end opposite to that on which the mouth is situated Antonym(s): actinal
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abashed adj feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious; "felt abashed at the extravagant praise"; "chagrined at the poor sales of his book"; "was embarrassed by her child's tantrums" Synonym(s): abashed, chagrined, embarrassed
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abasia trepidans n abasia due to trembling of the legs
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abecedarian adj alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) n a novice learning the rudiments of some subject a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge
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abecedarius n a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order
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absquatulate v run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; "The thief made off with our silver"; "the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe" Synonym(s): abscond, bolt, absquatulate, decamp, run off, go off, make off
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abstain v refrain from voting choose not to consume; "I abstain from alcohol" Synonym(s): abstain, refrain, desist Antonym(s): consume, have, ingest, take, take in
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abstainer n someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline Synonym(s): abstainer, ascetic a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages Synonym(s): abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker Antonym(s): drinker, imbiber, juicer, toper
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abstemious adj sparing in consumption of especially food and drink; "the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious"- John Galsworthy Antonym(s): gluttonous marked by temperance in indulgence; "abstemious with the use of adverbs"; "a light eater"; "a light smoker"; "ate a light supper" Synonym(s): abstemious, light(a)
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abstemiously adv in a sparing manner; without overindulgence; "he ate and drank abstemiously"; "indulged temperately in cocktails" Synonym(s): abstemiously, temperately
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abstemiousness n restricted to bare necessities moderation in eating and drinking
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abstention n the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) [syn: abstinence, abstention]
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abstentious adj self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink; "not totally abstinent but abstemious" Synonym(s): abstinent, abstentious
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abstinence n the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) [syn: abstinence, abstention] act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
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abstinent adj self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink; "not totally abstinent but abstemious" Synonym(s): abstinent, abstentious n a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages Synonym(s): abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker Antonym(s): drinker, imbiber, juicer, toper
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abstract adj existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment; "abstract words like `truth' and `justice'" Antonym(s): concrete not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature; "a large abstract painting" Synonym(s): abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention; "abstract reasoning"; "abstract science" n a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person" Synonym(s): abstraction, abstract a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory Synonym(s): outline, synopsis, abstract, precis v consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically make off with belongings of others Synonym(s): pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift consider apart from a particular case or instance; "Let's abstract away from this particular example" give an abstract (of)
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abstract art n an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation Synonym(s): abstractionism, abstract art
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abstract artist n a painter of abstract pictures [syn: abstractionist, abstract artist]
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abstract entity n a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples Synonym(s): abstraction, abstract entity
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Abstract Expressionism n a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions; the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles Synonym(s): Abstract Expressionism, action painting
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abstract thought n thinking that is coherent and logical [syn: reasoning, logical thinking, abstract thought]
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abstracted adj lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence" Synonym(s): absent, absentminded, abstracted, scatty
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abstractedly adv in an absentminded or preoccupied manner; "he read the letter absently" Synonym(s): absently, abstractedly, inattentively, absentmindedly
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abstractedness n preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else Synonym(s): abstractedness, abstraction
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abstracter n one who makes abstracts or summarizes information [syn: abstractor, abstracter]
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abstraction n a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person" Synonym(s): abstraction, abstract the act of withdrawing or removing something the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances Synonym(s): abstraction, generalization, generalisation an abstract painting preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else Synonym(s): abstractedness, abstraction a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples Synonym(s): abstraction, abstract entity
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abstractionism n an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation Synonym(s): abstractionism, abstract art a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples Synonym(s): abstractionism, unrealism
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abstractionist adj not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature; "a large abstract painting" Synonym(s): abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective n a painter of abstract pictures [syn: abstractionist, abstract artist]
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abstractive adj of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting; "abstractive analysis"
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abstractly adv in abstract terms Antonym(s): concretely
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abstractness n the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object Antonym(s): concreteness
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abstractor n one who makes abstracts or summarizes information [syn: abstractor, abstracter]
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abstruse adj difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography" Synonym(s): abstruse, deep, recondite
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abstrusely adv in a manner difficult to understand; "the professor's abstrusely reasoned theories were wasted on his students"
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abstruseness n the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand Synonym(s): obscureness, obscurity, abstruseness, reconditeness Antonym(s): clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs" Synonym(s): reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity
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abstrusity n wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs" Synonym(s): reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity
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abused adj used improperly or excessively especially drugs; "an abused substance" subjected to cruel treatment; "an abused wife" Synonym(s): abused, ill-treated, maltreated, mistreated Antonym(s): unabused
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affect n the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion v have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?" [syn: affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch] act physically on; have an effect upon; "the medicine affects my heart rate" connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business" Synonym(s): involve, affect, regard make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" Synonym(s): feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd" Synonym(s): affect, impress, move, strike
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affectation n a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display [syn: affectation, mannerism, pose, affectedness]
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affected adj acted upon; influenced Antonym(s): unaffected speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression Synonym(s): affected, unnatural Antonym(s): unaffected being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion; "too moved to speak"; "very touched by the stranger's kindness" Synonym(s): moved(p), affected, stirred, touched Antonym(s): unaffected, unmoved(p), untouched
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affected role n the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause Synonym(s): affected role, patient role, patient
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affectedly adv in an affected manner
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affectedness n the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) Antonym(s): unaffectedness a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display Synonym(s): affectation, mannerism, pose, affectedness
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affecting adj arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching" Synonym(s): affecting, poignant, touching
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affectingly adv in a poignant or touching manner; "she spoke poignantly" Synonym(s): affectingly, poignantly, touchingly
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affection n a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"; "the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home" Synonym(s): affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmness, warmheartedness, philia
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affectional adj characterized by emotion [syn: affectional, affective, emotive]
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affectionate adj having or displaying warmth or affection; "affectionate children"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace" Synonym(s): affectionate, fond, lovesome, tender, warm
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affectionately adv with affection; "she loved him dearly"; "he treats her affectionately" Synonym(s): dearly, affectionately, dear
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affectionateness n a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"; "the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home" Synonym(s): affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmness, warmheartedness, philia a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love Synonym(s): affectionateness, fondness, lovingness, warmth
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affective adj characterized by emotion [syn: affectional, affective, emotive]
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affective disorder n any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant Synonym(s): affective disorder, major affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance
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affixation n the result of adding an affix to a root word formation of a word by means of an affix the act of attaching or affixing something Synonym(s): attachment, affixation
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affixed adj firmly attached; "the affixed labels" [ant: loose, unaffixed]
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apache dance n a violent fast dance in French vaudeville (an apache is a member of the French underworld)
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apache devil dance n a ritual dance of the Apache
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Apios tuberosa n a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans Synonym(s): groundnut, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, wild bean, Apios americana, Apios tuberosa
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apostasy n the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) Synonym(s): apostasy, renunciation, defection the act of abandoning a party for cause Synonym(s): apostasy, tergiversation
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apostate adj not faithful to religion or party or cause n a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. Synonym(s): deserter, apostate, renegade, turncoat, recreant, ratter
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apostatise v abandon one's beliefs or allegiances [syn: apostatize, apostatise, tergiversate]
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apostatize v abandon one's beliefs or allegiances [syn: apostatize, apostatise, tergiversate]
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Apostelic Father n any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people Synonym(s): Apostle, Apostelic Father
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apostle n an ardent early supporter of a cause or reform; "an apostle of revolution" any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people Synonym(s): Apostle, Apostelic Father (New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel
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Apostle of Germany n (Roman Catholic Church) Anglo-Saxon missionary who was sent to Frisia and Germany to spread the Christian faith; was martyred in Frisia (680-754) Synonym(s): Boniface, Saint Boniface, St. Boniface, Winfred, Wynfrith, Apostle of Germany
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Apostle of the Gentiles n (New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles; author of several Epistles in the New Testament; even though Paul was not present at the Last Supper he is considered an Apostle; "Paul's name was Saul prior to his conversion to Christianity" Synonym(s): Paul, Saint Paul, St. Paul, Apostle Paul, Paul the Apostle, Apostle of the Gentiles, Saul, Saul of Tarsus
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Apostle Paul n (New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles; author of several Epistles in the New Testament; even though Paul was not present at the Last Supper he is considered an Apostle; "Paul's name was Saul prior to his conversion to Christianity" Synonym(s): Paul, Saint Paul, St. Paul, Apostle Paul, Paul the Apostle, Apostle of the Gentiles, Saul, Saul of Tarsus
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apostleship n the position of apostle
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apostolic adj of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings Synonym(s): apostolic, apostolical proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles; "papal dispensation" Synonym(s): papal, apostolic, apostolical, pontifical
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apostolic delegate n (Roman Catholic Church) a representative of the Holy See in a country that has no formal diplomatic relations with it
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apostolical adj proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles; "papal dispensation" Synonym(s): papal, apostolic, apostolical, pontifical of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings Synonym(s): apostolic, apostolical
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apostrophe n address to an absent or imaginary person the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
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apostrophic adj of or characteristic of apostrophe; "a passage of apostrophic grandeur"
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apostrophise v use an apostrophe Synonym(s): apostrophize, apostrophise
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apostrophize v use an apostrophe Synonym(s): apostrophize, apostrophise
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appoggiatura n an embellishing note usually written in smaller size [syn: grace note, appoggiatura, acciaccatura]
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apposite adj being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply" Synonym(s): apposite, apt, pertinent
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appositeness n appropriateness for the occasion; "the phrase had considerable aptness" Synonym(s): aptness, appositeness Antonym(s): inappositeness, inaptness
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apposition n a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition" (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors" Synonym(s): juxtaposition, apposition, collocation
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appositional adj relating to or being in apposition; "an appositive noun" Synonym(s): appositional, appositive
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appositive adj relating to or being in apposition; "an appositive noun" Synonym(s): appositional, appositive
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appositively adv in an appositive manner; "this adjective is used appositively" Synonym(s): appositively, in apposition
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apsidal adj of or relating to an apse
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Avesta n a collection of Zoroastrian texts gathered during the 4th or 6th centuries Synonym(s): Avesta, Zend-Avesta
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Avestan adj of or pertaining to the Avesta (sacred text of Zoroastrianism) n an ancient Iranian language Synonym(s): Avestan, Zend the script in which the ancient Persian language of the Avesta is written
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avocado adj of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado n a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed Synonym(s): avocado, alligator pear, avocado pear, aguacate tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits Synonym(s): avocado, avocado tree, Persea Americana
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avocado pear n a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed Synonym(s): avocado, alligator pear, avocado pear, aguacate
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avocado tree n tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits Synonym(s): avocado, avocado tree, Persea Americana
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avocation n an auxiliary activity [syn: avocation, by-line, hobby, pursuit, sideline, spare-time activity]
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avocational adj of or involved in an avocation
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avocet n long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill
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Avogadro n Italian physicist noted for his work on gases; proposed what has come to be called Avogadro's law (1776-1856) Synonym(s): Avogadro, Amedeo Avogadro
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Avogadro number n the number of molecules in a mole of a substance (approximately 602,250,000,000,000,000,000,000) Synonym(s): Avogadro's number, Avogadro number
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Avogadro's hypothesis n the principle that equal volumes of all gases (given the same temperature and pressure) contain equal numbers of molecules Synonym(s): Avogadro's law, Avogadro's hypothesis
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Avogadro's law n the principle that equal volumes of all gases (given the same temperature and pressure) contain equal numbers of molecules Synonym(s): Avogadro's law, Avogadro's hypothesis
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Avogadro's number n the number of molecules in a mole of a substance (approximately 602,250,000,000,000,000,000,000) Synonym(s): Avogadro's number, Avogadro number
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bee \Bee\ (b[emac]), n. [AS. be[a2]; akin to D. bij and bije,       Icel. b[?], Sw. & Dan. bi, OHG. pini, G. biene, and perh. Ir.       beach, Lith. bitis, Skr. bha. [root]97.]       1. (Zo[94]l.) An insect of the order {Hymenoptera}, and             family {Apid[91]} (the honeybees), or family             {Andrenid[91]} (the solitary bees.) See {Honeybee}.          Note: There are many genera and species. The common honeybee                ({Apis mellifica}) lives in swarms, each of which has                its own queen, its males or drones, and its very                numerous workers, which are barren females. Besides the                {A. mellifica} there are other species and varieties of                honeybees, as the {A. ligustica} of Spain and Italy;                the {A. Indica} of India; the {A. fasciata} of Egypt.                The {bumblebee} is a species of {Bombus}. The tropical                honeybees belong mostly to {Melipoma} and {Trigona}.          2. A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united             labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a             quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee. [U. S.]                         The cellar . . . was dug by a bee in a single day.                                                                               --S. G.                                                                               Goodrich.          3. pl. [Prob. fr. AS. be[a0]h ring, fr. b[?]gan to bend. See             1st {Bow}.] (Naut.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the             sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays             through; -- called also {bee blocks}.          {Bee beetle} (Zo[94]l.), a beetle ({Trichodes apiarius})             parasitic in beehives.          {Bee bird} (Zo[94]l.), a bird that eats the honeybee, as the             European flycatcher, and the American kingbird.          {Bee flower} (Bot.), an orchidaceous plant of the genus             {Ophrys} ({O. apifera}), whose flowers have some             resemblance to bees, flies, and other insects.          {Bee fly} (Zo[94]l.), a two winged fly of the family             {Bombyliid[91]}. Some species, in the larval state, are             parasitic upon bees.          {Bee garden}, a garden or inclosure to set beehives in; an             apiary. --Mortimer.          {Bee glue}, a soft, unctuous matter, with which bees cement             the combs to the hives, and close up the cells; -- called             also {propolis}.          {Bee hawk} (Zo[94]l.), the honey buzzard.          {Bee killer} (Zo[94]l.), a large two-winged fly of the family             {Asilid[91]} (esp. {Trupanea apivora}) which feeds upon             the honeybee. See {Robber fly}.          {Bee louse} (Zo[94]l.), a minute, wingless, dipterous insect             ({Braula c[91]ca}) parasitic on hive bees.          {Bee martin} (Zo[94]l.), the kingbird ({Tyrannus             Carolinensis}) which occasionally feeds on bees.          {Bee moth} (Zo[94]l.), a moth ({Galleria cereana}) whose             larv[91] feed on honeycomb, occasioning great damage in             beehives.          {Bee wolf} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the bee beetle. See             Illust. of {Bee beetle}.          {To have a bee in the head} [or] {in the bonnet}.             (a) To be choleric. [Obs.]             (b) To be restless or uneasy. --B. Jonson.             (c) To be full of fancies; to be a little crazy. [bd]She's                   whiles crack-brained, and has a bee in her head.[b8]                   --Sir W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Honeybee \Hon"ey*bee`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)       Any bee of the genus {Apis}, which lives in communities and       collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee ({Apis       mellifica}), the Italian bee ({A. ligustica}), and the       Arabiab bee ({A. fasciata}). The two latter are by many       entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive       bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers       (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile       female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and       a number of males or drones, are produced.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fighting \Fight"ing\, a.       1. Qualified for war; fit for battle.                         An host of fighting men.                     --2 Chron.                                                                               xxvi. 11.          2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a             fighting field. --Pope.          {A fighting chance}, one dependent upon the issue of a             struggle. [Colloq.]          {Fighting crab} (Zo[94]l.), the fiddler crab.          {Fighting fish} (Zo[94]l.), a remarkably pugnacious East             Indian fish ({Betta pugnax}), reared by the Siamese for             spectacular fish fights.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obstetric \Ob*stet"ric\, Obstetrical \Ob*stet"ric*al\, a. [L.       obstetricius, fr. obstetrix, -icis, a midwife, fr. obstare to       stand before: cf.F. obst[82]trique. See {Obstacle}.]       Of or pertaining to midwifery, or the delivery of women in       childbed; as, the obstetric art.          {Obstetrical toad} (Zo[94]l.), a European toad of the genus             {Alytes}, especially {A. obstetricans}. The eggs are laid             in a string which the male winds around his legs, and             carries about until the young are hatched.
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Maple \Ma"ple\, n. [AS. mapolder, mapulder, mapol; akin to Icel.       m[94]purr; cf. OHG. mazzaltra, mazzoltra, G. massholder.]       (Bot.)       A tree of the genus {Acer}, including about fifty species.       {A. saccharinum} is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the       sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great       quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is {A.       rubrum}; the silver maple, {A. dasycarpum}, having fruit       wooly when young; the striped maple, {A. Pennsylvanium},       called also {moosewood}. The common maple of Europe is {A.       campestre}, the sycamore maple is {A. Pseudo-platanus}, and       the Norway maple is {A. platanoides}.          Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of                a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.          {Bird's-eye maple}, {Curled maple}, varieties of the wood of             the rock maple, in which a beautiful lustrous grain is             produced by the sinuous course of the fibers.          {Maple honey}, {Maple molasses}, [or] {Maple sirup}, maple             sap boiled to the consistency of molasses.          {Maple sugar}, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple             by evaporation.
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Abactinal \Ab*ac"ti*nal\ ([acr]b*[acr]k"t[icr]*n[ait]l), a. [L.       ab + E. actinal.] (Zo[94]l.)       Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a       radiate animal; -- opposed to {actinal}. [bd]The aboral or       abactinal area.[b8] --L. Agassiz.
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Abaction \Ab*ac"tion\ ([acr]b*[acr]k"sh[ucr]n), n.       Stealing cattle on a large scale. [Obs.]
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Abactor \Ab*ac"tor\ (-t[etil]r), n. [L., fr. abigere to drive       away; ab + agere to drive.] (Law)       One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or       droves. [Obs.]
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Abaist \A*baist"\ ([adot]*b[amac]st"), p. p.       Abashed; confounded; discomfited. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Abased \A*based"\ ([adot]*b[amac]st"), a.       1. Lowered; humbled.          2. (Her.) [F. abaiss[82].] Borne lower than usual, as a fess;             also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards             the point of the shield.
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Abase \A*base"\ ([adot]*b[amac]s"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abased}       ([adot]*b[amac]st"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Abasing}.] [F.       abaisser, LL. abassare, abbassare; ad + bassare, fr. bassus       low. See {Base}, a.]       1. To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase             the eye. [Archaic] --Bacon.                         Saying so, he abased his lance.         --Shelton.          2. To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office,             condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to             depress; to humble; to degrade.                         Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased. --Luke                                                                               xiv. ll.          Syn: To {Abase}, {Debase}, {Degrade}. These words agree in                the idea of bringing down from a higher to a lower                state. Abase has reference to a bringing down in                condition or feelings; as, to abase the proud, to abase                one's self before God. Debase has reference to the                bringing down of a thing in purity, or making it base.                It is, therefore, always used in a bad sense, as, to                debase the coin of the kingdom, to debase the mind by                vicious indulgence, to debase one's style by coarse or                vulgar expressions. Degrade has reference to a bringing                down from some higher grade or from some standard. Thus,                a priest is degraded from the clerical office. When used                in a moral sense, it denotes a bringing down in                character and just estimation; as, degraded by                intemperance, a degrading employment, etc. [bd]Art is                degraded when it is regarded only as a trade.[b8]
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Abasedly \A*bas"ed*ly\ ([adot]*b[amac]s"[ecr]d*l[ycr]), adv.       Abjectly; downcastly.
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Abash \A*bash"\ ([adot]*b[acr]sh"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.       {Abashed} ([adot]*b[acr]sht"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Abashing}.]       [OE. abaissen, abaisshen, abashen, OF. esbahir, F. [82]bahir,       to astonish, fr. L. ex + the interjection bah, expressing       astonishment. In OE. somewhat confused with abase. Cf.       {Finish}.]       To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as       by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or       inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.                   Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness                is.                                                         --Milton.                   He was a man whom no check could abash.   --Macaulay.          Syn: To confuse; confound; disconcert; shame.          Usage: To {Abash}, Confuse, {Confound}. Abash is a stronger                   word than confuse, but not so strong as confound. We                   are abashed when struck either with sudden shame or                   with a humbling sense of inferiority; as, Peter was                   abashed by the look of his Master. So a modest youth                   is abashed in the presence of those who are greatly                   his superiors. We are confused when, from some                   unexpected or startling occurrence, we lose clearness                   of thought and self-possession. Thus, a witness is                   often confused by a severe cross-examination; a timid                   person is apt to be confused in entering a room full                   of strangers. We are confounded when our minds are                   overwhelmed, as it were, by something wholly                   unexpected, amazing, dreadful, etc., so that we have                   nothing to say. Thus, a criminal is usually confounded                   at the discovery of his guilt.                               Satan stood Awhile as mute, confounded what to                            say.                                             --Milton.
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Abashedly \A*bash"ed*ly\ (-[ecr]d*l[ycr]), adv.       In an abashed manner.
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Hoop \Hoop\, n. [OE. hope; akin to D. hoep, hoepel.]       1. A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form,             and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of             casks, tubs, etc.          2. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as             the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in             making cheese.          3. A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone,             metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the             skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in             the plural.                         Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of                      whale.                                                --Pope.          4. A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with             hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents             measured by the distance between the hoops. [Obs.]          5. An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from             one to four pecks. [Eng.] --Halliwell.          {Bulge hoop}, {Chine hoop}, {Quarter hoop}, the hoop nearest             the middle of a cask, that nearest the end, and the             intermediate hoop between these two, respectively.          {Flat hoop}, a wooden hoop dressed flat on both sides.          {Half-round hoop}, a wooden hoop left rounding and undressed             on the outside.          {Hoop iron}, iron in thin narrow strips, used for making             hoops.          {Hoop lock}, the fastening for uniting the ends of wooden             hoops by notching and interlocking them.          {Hoop skirt}, a framework of hoops for expanding the skirts             of a woman's dress; -- called also {hoop petticoat}.          {Hoop snake} (Zo[94]l.), a harmless snake of the Southern             United States ({Abaster erythrogrammus}); -- so called             from the mistaken notion that it curves itself into a             hoop, taking its tail into its mouth, and rolls along with             great velocity.          {Hoop tree} (Bot.), a small West Indian tree ({Melia             sempervirens}), of the Mahogany family.
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Abecedarian \A`be*ce*da"ri*an\, n. [L. abecedarius. A word from       the first four letters of the alphabet.]       1. One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.          2. One engaged in teaching the alphabet. --Wood.
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Abecedarian \A`be*ce*da"ri*an\, Abecedary \A`be*ce"da*ry\, a.       Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet;       alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.          {Abecedarian psalms}, {hymns}, etc., compositions in which             (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or             verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet.             --Hook.
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Abecedarian \A`be*ce*da"ri*an\, Abecedary \A`be*ce"da*ry\, a.       Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet;       alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.          {Abecedarian psalms}, {hymns}, etc., compositions in which             (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or             verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet.             --Hook.
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Abecedarian \A`be*ce*da"ri*an\, Abecedary \A`be*ce"da*ry\, a.       Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet;       alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.          {Abecedarian psalms}, {hymns}, etc., compositions in which             (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or             verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet.             --Hook.
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Abecedary \A`be*ce"da*ry\, n.       A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything. [R.]       --Fuller.
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Abjudge \Ab*judge"\, v. t. [Pref. ab- + judge, v. Cf.       {Abjudicate}.]       To take away by judicial decision. [R.]
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Abjudicate \Ab*ju"di*cate\, v. t. [L. abjudicatus, p. p. of       abjudicare; ab + judicare. See {Judge}, and cf. {Abjudge}.]       To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge. [Obs.]       --Ash.
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Abjudication \Ab*ju`di*ca"tion\, n.       Rejection by judicial sentence. [R.] --Knowles.
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Aby \A*by"\, Abye \A*bye"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Abought}.]       [AS. [be]bycgan to pay for; pref. [be]- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger.       er-, orig. meaning out) + bycgan to buy. See {Buy}, and cf.       {Abide}.]       1. To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends             for; to give satisfaction. [Obs.]                         Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear.   --Shak.          2. To endure; to abide. [Obs.]                         But nought that wanteth rest can long aby.                                                                               --Spenser.
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Abought \A*bought"\,       imp. & p. p. of {Aby}. [Obs.]
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Absquatulate \Ab*squat"u*late\, v. i.       To take one's self off; to decamp. [A jocular word. U. S.]
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Abstain \Ab*stain"\, v. t.       To hinder; to withhold.                   Whether he abstain men from marrying.      --Milton.
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Abstain \Ab*stain"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Abstained}; p. pr. &       vb. n. {Abstaining}.] [OE. absteynen, abstenen, OF. astenir,       abstenir, F. abstenir, fr. L. abstinere, abstentum, v. t. &       v. i., to keep from; ab, abs + tenere to hold. See       {Tenable}.]       To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily,       and especially from an indulgence of the passions or       appetites; -- with from.                   Not a few abstained from voting.            --Macaulay.                   Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt? --Shak.          Syn: To refrain; forbear; withhold; deny one's self; give up;                relinquish.
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Abstain \Ab*stain"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Abstained}; p. pr. &       vb. n. {Abstaining}.] [OE. absteynen, abstenen, OF. astenir,       abstenir, F. abstenir, fr. L. abstinere, abstentum, v. t. &       v. i., to keep from; ab, abs + tenere to hold. See       {Tenable}.]       To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily,       and especially from an indulgence of the passions or       appetites; -- with from.                   Not a few abstained from voting.            --Macaulay.                   Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt? --Shak.          Syn: To refrain; forbear; withhold; deny one's self; give up;                relinquish.
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Abstainer \Ab*stain"er\, n.       One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of       intoxicating liquors.
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Abstain \Ab*stain"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Abstained}; p. pr. &       vb. n. {Abstaining}.] [OE. absteynen, abstenen, OF. astenir,       abstenir, F. abstenir, fr. L. abstinere, abstentum, v. t. &       v. i., to keep from; ab, abs + tenere to hold. See       {Tenable}.]       To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily,       and especially from an indulgence of the passions or       appetites; -- with from.                   Not a few abstained from voting.            --Macaulay.                   Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt? --Shak.          Syn: To refrain; forbear; withhold; deny one's self; give up;                relinquish.
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Abstemious \Ab*ste"mi*ous\, a. [L. abstemius; ab, abs + root of       temetum intoxicating drink.]       1. Abstaining from wine. [Orig. Latin sense.]                         Under his special eye Abstemious I grew up and                      thrived amain.                                    --Milton.          2. Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and             strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the             indulgence of the appetite or passions.                         Instances of longevity are chiefly among the                      abstemious.                                       --Arbuthnot.          3. Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an             abstemious diet. --Gibbon.          4. Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious             life. [bd]One abstemious day.[b8] --Pope.          5. Promotive of abstemiousness. [R.]                         Such is the virtue of the abstemious well. --Dryden.
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Abstemiousness \Ab*ste"mi*ous*ness\, n.       The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the       use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree       of abstinence than temperance.
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Abstention \Ab*sten"tion\, a. [F. See {Abstain}.]       The act of abstaining; a holding aloof. --Jer. Taylor.
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Abstentious \Ab*sten"tious\, a.       Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining. --Farrar.
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Absterge \Ab*sterge\, v. t. [L. abstergere, abstersum; ab, abs +       tergere to wipe. Cf. F absterger.]       To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to       purge. [R.] --Quincy.
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Abstergent \Ab*ster"gent\, a. [L. abstergens, p. pr. of       abstergere.]       Serving to cleanse, detergent.
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Abstergent \Ab*ster"gent\, n.       A substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an       abstergent.
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Absterse \Ab*sterse"\, v. t.       To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. [Obs.] --Sir T.       Browne.
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Abstersion \Ab*ster"sion\, n. [F. abstersion. See {Absterge}.]       Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.                   The task of ablution and abstersion being performed.                                                                               --Sir W.                                                                               Scott.
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Abstersive \Ab*ster"sive\, n.       Something cleansing.                   The strong abstersive of some heroic magistrate.                                                                               --Milton.
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Abstersive \Ab*ster"sive\, a. [Cf. F. abstersif. See       {Absterge}.]       Cleansing; purging. --Bacon.
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Abstersiveness \Ab*ster"sive*ness\, n.       The quality of being abstersive. --Fuller.
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Abstinence \Ab"sti*nence\, n. [F. abstinence, L. abstinentia,       fr. abstinere. See {Abstain}.]       1. The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance             of any action, especially the refraining from an             indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications             of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the             practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, --             called also {total abstinence}.                         The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers                      itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one.                                                                               --Locke.          2. The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of             certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.                         Penance, fasts, and abstinence, To punish bodies for                      the soul's offense.                           --Dryden.
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Abstinency \Ab"sti*nen*cy\, n.       Abstinence. [R.]
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Abstinent \Ab"sti*nent\, a. [F. abstinent, L. abstinens, p. pr.       of abstinere. See {Abstain}.]       Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of       appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. --Beau. & Fl.
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Abstinent \Ab"sti*nent\, n.       1. One who abstains.          2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect who appeared in France and             Spain in the 3d century.
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Abstinently \Ab"sti*nent*ly\, adv.       With abstinence.
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Abstorted \Ab*stort"ed\, a. [As if fr. abstort, fr. L. ab, abs +       tortus, p. p. of torquere to twist.]       Wrested away. [Obs.] --Bailey.
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Abstract \Ab"stract`\ (#; 277), a. [L. abstractus, p. p. of       abstrahere to draw from, separate; ab, abs + trahere to draw.       See {Trace}.]       1. Withdraw; separate. [Obs.]                         The more abstract . . . we are from the body.                                                                               --Norris.          2. Considered apart from any application to a particular             object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only;             as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal;             abstruse; difficult.          3. (Logic)             (a) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed                   apart from the other properties which constitute it;                   -- opposed to {concrete}; as, honesty is an abstract                   word. --J. S. Mill.             (b) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction;                   general as opposed to particular; as, [bd]reptile[b8]                   is an abstract or general name. --Locke.                               A concrete name is a name which stands for a                            thing; an abstract name which stands for an                            attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in                            more modern times, which, if not introduced by                            Locke, has gained currency from his example, of                            applying the expression [bd]abstract name[b8] to                            all names which are the result of abstraction                            and generalization, and consequently to all                            general names, instead of confining it to the                            names of attributes.                     --J. S. Mill.          4. Abstracted; absent in mind. [bd]Abstract, as in a             trance.[b8] --Milton.          {An abstract idea} (Metaph.), an idea separated from a             complex object, or from other ideas which naturally             accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated             apart from its color or figure.          {Abstract terms}, those which express abstract ideas, as             beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object             in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of             orders, genera or species of things, in which there is a             combination of similar qualities.          {Abstract numbers} (Math.), numbers used without application             to things, as 6, 8, 10; but when applied to any thing, as             6 feet, 10 men, they become concrete.          {Abstract} [or] {Pure mathematics}. See {Mathematics}.
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Abstract \Ab*stract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abstracted}; p. pr.       & vb. n. {Abstracting}.] [See {Abstract}, a.]       1. To withdraw; to separate; to take away.                         He was incapable of forming any opinion or                      resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. --Sir                                                                               W. Scott.          2. To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his             was wholly abstracted by other objects.                         The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.                                                                               --Blackw. Mag.          3. To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to             consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a             quality or attribute. --Whately.          4. To epitomize; to abridge. --Franklin.          5. To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to             abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.                         Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins                      from the harness.                              --W. Black.          6. (Chem.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts             of a substance, by distillation or other chemical             processes. In this sense extract is now more generally             used.
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Abstract \Ab*stract"\, v. t.       To perform the process of abstraction. [R.]                   I own myself able to abstract in one sense. --Berkeley.
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Abstract \Ab"stract`\, n. [See {Abstract}, a.]       1. That which comprises or concentrates in itself the             essential qualities of a larger thing or of several             things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a             treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.                         An abstract of every treatise he had read. --Watts.                         Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the                      workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled.   --Ford.          2. A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a             subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated             things.          3. An abstract term.                         The concretes [bd]father[b8] and [bd]son[b8] have,                      or might have, the abstracts [bd]paternity[b8] and                      [bd]filiety.[b8]                                 --J. S. Mill.          4. (Med.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance             mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part             of the abstract represents two parts of the original             substance.          {Abstract of title} (Law), an epitome of the evidences of             ownership.          Syn: Abridgment; compendium; epitome; synopsis. See                {Abridgment}.
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Idea \I*de"a\, n.; pl. {Ideas}. [L. idea, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to       see; akin to E. wit: cf. F. id[82]e. See {Wit}.]       1. The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object,             that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any             object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.                         Her sweet idea wandered through his thoughts.                                                                               --Fairfax.                         Being the right idea of your father Both in your                      form and nobleness of mind.               --Shak.                         This representation or likeness of the object being                      transmitted from thence [the senses] to the                      imagination, and lodged there for the view and                      observation of the pure intellect, is aptly and                      properly called its idea.                  --P. Browne.          2. A general notion, or a conception formed by             generalization.                         Alice had not the slightest idea what latitude was.                                                                               --L. Caroll.          3. Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of,             by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real             object that is conceived or thought of.                         Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or as the                      immediate object of perception, thought, or                      undersanding, that I call idea.         --Locke.          4. A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or             controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of             development.                         That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and                      that is a wrong one.                           --Johnson.                         What is now [bd]idea[b8] for us? How infinite the                      fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang                      of the Creator contemplating his newly-created                      world, - [bd]how it showed . . . Answering his great                      idea,[b8] - to its present use, when this person                      [bd]has an idea that the train has started,[b8] and                      the other [bd]had no idea that the dinner would be                      so bad![b8]                                       --Trench.          5. A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.                         I shortly afterwards set off for that capital, with                      an idea of undertaking while there the translation                      of the work.                                       --W. Irving.          6. A rational conception; the complete conception of an             object when thought of in all its essential elements or             constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent             attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.          7. A fiction object or picture created by the imagination;             the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a             standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns             of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have             excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the             Deity.                         Thence to behold this new-created world, The                      addition of his empire, how it showed In prospect                      from his throne, how good, how fair, Answering his                      great idea.                                       --Milton.          Note: [bd]In England, Locke may be said to have been the                first who naturalized the term in its Cartesian                universality. When, in common language, employed by                Milton and Dryden, after Descartes, as before him by                Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Hooker, etc., the meaning                is Platonic.[b8] --Sir W. Hamilton.          {Abstract idea}, {Association of ideas}, etc. See under             {Abstract}, {Association}, etc.          Syn: Notion; conception; thought; sentiment; fancy; image;                perception; impression; opinion; belief; observation;                judgment; consideration; view; design; intention;                purpose; plan; model; pattern. There is scarcely any                other word which is subjected to such abusive treatment                as is the word idea, in the very general and                indiscriminative way in which it is employed, as it is                used variously to signify almost any act, state, or                content of thought.
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Number \Num"ber\, n. [OE. nombre, F. nombre, L. numerus; akin to       Gr. [?] that which is dealt out, fr. [?] to deal out,       distribute. See {Numb}, {Nomad}, and cf. {Numerate},       {Numero}, {Numerous}.]       1. That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or             an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection             of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things             expressible by figures.          2. A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a             multitude; many.                         Ladies are always of great use to the party they                      espouse, and never fail to win over numbers.                                                                               --Addison.          3. A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to             put a number on a door.          4. Numerousness; multitude.                         Number itself importeth not much in armies where the                      people are of weak courage.               --Bacon.          5. The state or quality of being numerable or countable.                         Of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds                      out of number.                                    --2 Esdras                                                                               iii. 7.          6. Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate             things.          7. That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as             divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry,             verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.                         I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. --Pope.          8. (Gram.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than             one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two),             expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word;             thus, the singular number and the plural number are the             names of the forms of a word indicating the objects             denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than             one.          9. (Math.) The measure of the relation between quantities or             things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity             which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical             value.          {Abstract number}, {Abundant number}, {Cardinal number}, etc.             See under {Abstract}, {Abundant}, etc.          {In numbers}, in numbered parts; as, a book published in             numbers.
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Abstract \Ab"stract`\ (#; 277), a. [L. abstractus, p. p. of       abstrahere to draw from, separate; ab, abs + trahere to draw.       See {Trace}.]       1. Withdraw; separate. [Obs.]                         The more abstract . . . we are from the body.                                                                               --Norris.          2. Considered apart from any application to a particular             object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only;             as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal;             abstruse; difficult.          3. (Logic)             (a) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed                   apart from the other properties which constitute it;                   -- opposed to {concrete}; as, honesty is an abstract                   word. --J. S. Mill.             (b) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction;                   general as opposed to particular; as, [bd]reptile[b8]                   is an abstract or general name. --Locke.                               A concrete name is a name which stands for a                            thing; an abstract name which stands for an                            attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in                            more modern times, which, if not introduced by                            Locke, has gained currency from his example, of                            applying the expression [bd]abstract name[b8] to                            all names which are the result of abstraction                            and generalization, and consequently to all                            general names, instead of confining it to the                            names of attributes.                     --J. S. Mill.          4. Abstracted; absent in mind. [bd]Abstract, as in a             trance.[b8] --Milton.          {An abstract idea} (Metaph.), an idea separated from a             complex object, or from other ideas which naturally             accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated             apart from its color or figure.          {Abstract terms}, those which express abstract ideas, as             beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object             in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of             orders, genera or species of things, in which there is a             combination of similar qualities.          {Abstract numbers} (Math.), numbers used without application             to things, as 6, 8, 10; but when applied to any thing, as             6 feet, 10 men, they become concrete.          {Abstract} [or] {Pure mathematics}. See {Mathematics}.
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Abstract \Ab"stract`\, n. [See {Abstract}, a.]       1. That which comprises or concentrates in itself the             essential qualities of a larger thing or of several             things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a             treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.                         An abstract of every treatise he had read. --Watts.                         Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the                      workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled.   --Ford.          2. A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a             subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated             things.          3. An abstract term.                         The concretes [bd]father[b8] and [bd]son[b8] have,                      or might have, the abstracts [bd]paternity[b8] and                      [bd]filiety.[b8]                                 --J. S. Mill.          4. (Med.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance             mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part             of the abstract represents two parts of the original             substance.          {Abstract of title} (Law), an epitome of the evidences of             ownership.          Syn: Abridgment; compendium; epitome; synopsis. See                {Abridgment}.
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Abstract \Ab"stract`\ (#; 277), a. [L. abstractus, p. p. of       abstrahere to draw from, separate; ab, abs + trahere to draw.       See {Trace}.]       1. Withdraw; separate. [Obs.]                         The more abstract . . . we are from the body.                                                                               --Norris.          2. Considered apart from any application to a particular             object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only;             as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal;             abstruse; difficult.          3. (Logic)             (a) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed                   apart from the other properties which constitute it;                   -- opposed to {concrete}; as, honesty is an abstract                   word. --J. S. Mill.             (b) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction;                   general as opposed to particular; as, [bd]reptile[b8]                   is an abstract or general name. --Locke.                               A concrete name is a name which stands for a                            thing; an abstract name which stands for an                            attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in                            more modern times, which, if not introduced by                            Locke, has gained currency from his example, of                            applying the expression [bd]abstract name[b8] to                            all names which are the result of abstraction                            and generalization, and consequently to all                            general names, instead of confining it to the                            names of attributes.                     --J. S. Mill.          4. Abstracted; absent in mind. [bd]Abstract, as in a             trance.[b8] --Milton.          {An abstract idea} (Metaph.), an idea separated from a             complex object, or from other ideas which naturally             accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated             apart from its color or figure.          {Abstract terms}, those which express abstract ideas, as             beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object             in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of             orders, genera or species of things, in which there is a             combination of similar qualities.          {Abstract numbers} (Math.), numbers used without application             to things, as 6, 8, 10; but when applied to any thing, as             6 feet, 10 men, they become concrete.          {Abstract} [or] {Pure mathematics}. See {Mathematics}.
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Unit \U"nit\, n. [Abbrev. from unity.]       1. A single thing or person.          2. (Arith.) The least whole number; one.                         Units are the integral parts of any large number.                                                                               --I. Watts.          3. A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of             twenty shillings. --Camden.          4. Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time,             heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for             other amounts or quantities of the same kind.          5. (Math.) A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded             as an undivided whole.          {Abstract unit}, the unit of numeration; one taken in the             abstract; the number represented by 1. The term is used in             distinction from concrete, or determinate, unit, that is,             a unit in which the kind of thing is expressed; a unit of             measure or value; as 1 foot, 1 dollar, 1 pound, and the             like.          {Complex unit} (Theory of Numbers), an imaginary number of             the form a + broot{-1}, when a^{2} + b^{2} = 1.          {Duodecimal unit}, a unit in the scale of numbers increasing             or decreasing by twelves.          {Fractional unit}, the unit of a fraction; the reciprocal of             the denominator; thus, [frac14] is the unit of the             fraction [frac34].          {Integral unit}, the unit of integral numbers, or 1.          {Physical unit}, a value or magnitude conventionally adopted             as a unit or standard in physical measurements. The             various physical units are usually based on given units of             length, mass, and time, and on the density or other             properties of some substance, for example, water. See             {Dyne}, {Erg}, {Farad}, {Ohm}, {Poundal}, etc.          {Unit deme} (Biol.), a unit of the inferior order or orders             of individuality.          {Unit jar} (Elec.), a small, insulated Leyden jar, placed             between the electrical machine and a larger jar or             battery, so as to announce, by its repeated discharges,             the amount of electricity passed into the larger jar.          {Unit of heat} (Physics), a determinate quantity of heat             adopted as a unit of measure; a thermal unit (see under             {Thermal}). Water is the substance generally employed, the             unit being one gram or one pound, and the temperature             interval one degree of the Centigrade or Fahrenheit scale.             When referred to the gram, it is called the gram degree.             The British unit of heat, or thermal unit, used by             engineers in England and in the United States, is the             quantity of heat necessary to raise one pound of pure             water at and near its temperature of greatest density             (39.1[deg] Fahr.) through one degree of the Fahrenheit             scale. --Rankine.          {Unit of illumination}, the light of a sperm candle burning             120 grains per hour. Standard gas, burning at the rate of             five cubic feet per hour, must have an illuminating power             equal to that of fourteen such candles.          {Unit of measure} (as of length, surface, volume, dry             measure, liquid measure, money, weight, time, and the             like), in general, a determinate quantity or magnitude of             the kind designated, taken as a standard of comparison for             others of the same kind, in assigning to them numerical             values, as 1 foot, 1 yard, 1 mile, 1 square foot, 1 square             yard, 1 cubic foot, 1 peck, 1 bushel, 1 gallon, 1 cent, 1             ounce, 1 pound, 1 hour, and the like; more specifically,             the fundamental unit adopted in any system of weights,             measures, or money, by which its several denominations are             regulated, and which is itself defined by comparison with             some known magnitude, either natural or empirical, as, in             the United States, the dollar for money, the pound             avoirdupois for weight, the yard for length, the gallon of             8.3389 pounds avoirdupois of water at 39.8[deg] Fahr.             (about 231 cubic inches) for liquid measure, etc.; in             Great Britain, the pound sterling, the pound troy, the             yard, or [frac1x108719] part of the length of a second's             pendulum at London, the gallon of 277.274 cubic inches,             etc.; in the metric system, the meter, the liter, the             gram, etc.          {Unit of power}. (Mach.) See {Horse power}.          {Unit of resistance}. (Elec.) See {Resistance}, n., 4, and             {Ohm}.          {Unit of work} (Physics), the amount of work done by a unit             force acting through a unit distance, or the amount             required to lift a unit weight through a unit distance             against gravitation. See {Erg}, {Foot Pound},             {Kilogrammeter}.          {Unit stress} (Mech. Physics), stress per unit of area;             intensity of stress. It is expressed in ounces, pounds,             tons, etc., per square inch, square foot, or square yard,             etc., or in atmospheres, or inches of mercury or water, or             the like.
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Abstract \Ab*stract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abstracted}; p. pr.       & vb. n. {Abstracting}.] [See {Abstract}, a.]       1. To withdraw; to separate; to take away.                         He was incapable of forming any opinion or                      resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. --Sir                                                                               W. Scott.          2. To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his             was wholly abstracted by other objects.                         The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.                                                                               --Blackw. Mag.          3. To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to             consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a             quality or attribute. --Whately.          4. To epitomize; to abridge. --Franklin.          5. To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to             abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.                         Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins                      from the harness.                              --W. Black.          6. (Chem.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts             of a substance, by distillation or other chemical             processes. In this sense extract is now more generally             used.
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Abstracted \Ab*stract"ed\, a.       1. Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.                         The evil abstracted stood from his own evil.                                                                               --Milton.          2. Separated from matter; abstract; ideal. [Obs.]          3. Abstract; abstruse; difficult. [Obs.] --Johnson.          4. Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind. [bd]An             abstracted scholar.[b8] --Johnson.
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Abstractedly \Ab*stract"ed*ly\, adv.       In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
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Abstractedness \Ab*stract"ed*ness\, n.       The state of being abstracted; abstract character.
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Abstracter \Ab*stract"er\, n.       One who abstracts, or makes an abstract.
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Abstract \Ab*stract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abstracted}; p. pr.       & vb. n. {Abstracting}.] [See {Abstract}, a.]       1. To withdraw; to separate; to take away.                         He was incapable of forming any opinion or                      resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. --Sir                                                                               W. Scott.          2. To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his             was wholly abstracted by other objects.                         The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.                                                                               --Blackw. Mag.          3. To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to             consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a             quality or attribute. --Whately.          4. To epitomize; to abridge. --Franklin.          5. To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to             abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.                         Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins                      from the harness.                              --W. Black.          6. (Chem.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts             of a substance, by distillation or other chemical             processes. In this sense extract is now more generally             used.
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Abstraction \Ab*strac"tion\, n. [Cf. F. abstraction. See       {Abstract}, a.]       1. The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the             state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.                         A wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain                      members of the community.                  --J. S. Mill.          2. (Metaph.) The act process of leaving out of consideration             one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend             to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the             form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as             separate from their size or figure, the act is called             abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness,             softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any             particular objects.          Note: Abstraction is necessary to classification, by which                things are arranged in genera and species. We separate                in idea the qualities of certain objects, which are of                the same kind, from others which are different, in                each, and arrange the objects having the same                properties in a class, or collected body.                            Abstraction is no positive act: it is simply the                         negative of attention.                  --Sir W.                                                                               Hamilton.          3. An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature;             as, to fight for mere abstractions.          4. A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a             hermit's abstraction.          5. Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present             objects.          6. The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the             property of another; purloining. [Modern]          7. (Chem.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of             distillation. --Nicholson.
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Abstractional \Ab*strac"tion*al\, a.       Pertaining to abstraction.
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Abstractionist \Ab*strac"tion*ist\, n.       An idealist. --Emerson.
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Abstractitious \Ab`strac*ti"tious\, a.       Obtained from plants by distillation. [Obs.] --Crabb.
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Abstractive \Ab*strac"tive\, a. [Cf. F. abstractif.]       Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.       [bd]The abstractive faculty.[b8] --I. Taylor.
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Abstractively \Ab*strac"tive*ly\, adv.       In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself. --Feltham.
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Abstractiveness \Ab*strac"tive*ness\, n.       The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property.
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Abstractly \Ab"stract`ly\ (#; 277), adv.       In an abstract state or manner; separately; absolutely; by       itself; as, matter abstractly considered.
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Abstractness \Ab"stract`ness\, n.       The quality of being abstract. [bd]The abstractness of the       ideas.[b8] --Locke.
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Abstringe \Ab*stringe"\, v. t. [L ab + stringere, strictum, to       press together.]       To unbind. [Obs.] --Bailey.
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Abstrude \Ab*strude"\, v. t. [L. abstrudere. See {Abstruse}.]       To thrust away. [Obs.] --Johnson.
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Abstruse \Ab*struse"\, a. [L. abstrusus, p. p. of abstrudere to       thrust away, conceal; ab, abs + trudere to thrust; cf. F.       abstrus. See {Threat}.]       1. Concealed or hidden out of the way. [Obs.]                         The eternal eye whose sight discerns Abstrusest                      thoughts.                                          --Milton.          2. Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or             understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning.                         Profound and abstruse topics.            --Milman.
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Abstrusely \Ab*struse"ly\, adv.       In an abstruse manner.
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Abstruseness \Ab*struse"ness\, n.       The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.       --Boyle.
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Abstrusion \Ab*stru"sion\, n. [L. abstrusio. See {Abstruse}.]       The act of thrusting away. [R.] --Ogilvie.
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Abstrusity \Ab*stru"si*ty\, n.       Abstruseness; that which is abstruse. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.
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Abuse \A*buse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abused}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Abusing}.] [F. abuser; L. abusus, p. p. of abuti to abuse,       misuse; ab + uti to use. See {Use}.]       1. To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a             bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert;             as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of;             as, to abuse one's authority.                         This principle (if one may so abuse the word) shoots                      rapidly into popularity.                     --Froude.          2. To use ill; to maltreat; to act injuriously to; to punish             or to tax excessively; to hurt; as, to abuse prisoners, to             abuse one's powers, one's patience.          3. To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage.                         The . . . tellers of news abused the general.                                                                               --Macaulay.          4. To dishonor. [bd]Shall flight abuse your name?[b8] --Shak.          5. To violate; to ravish. --Spenser.          6. To deceive; to impose on. [Obs.]                         Their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist                      cloud, and abused by a double object. --Jer. Taylor.          Syn: To maltreat; injure; revile; reproach; vilify;                vituperate; asperse; traduce; malign.
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Affect \Af*fect"\ ([acr]f*f[ecr]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.       {Affected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Affecting}.] [L. affectus, p. p.       of afficere to affect by active agency; ad + facere to make:       cf. F. affectere, L. affectare, freq. of afficere. See       {Fact}.]       1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.                         As might affect the earth with cold heat. --Milton.                         The climate affected their health and spirits.                                                                               --Macaulay.          2. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to             touch.                         A consideration of the rationale of our passions                      seems to me very necessary for all who would affect                      them upon solid and pure principles.   --Burke.          3. To love; to regard with affection. [Obs.]                         As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than                      affected, rather honored than loved, her. --Fuller.          4. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to             choose; hence, to frequent habitually.                         For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit                      for it, indeed.                                 --Shak.                         Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank,                      nor court that of the great.               --Hazlitt.          5. To dispose or incline.                         Men whom they thought best affected to religion and                      their country's liberty.                     --Milton.          6. To aim at; to aspire; to covet. [Obs.]                         This proud man affects imperial [?]way. --Dryden.          7. To tend to by affinity or disposition.                         The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.                                                                               --Newton.          8. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to             assume; as, to affect ignorance.                         Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem                      unaffected.                                       --Congreve.                         Thou dost affect my manners.               --Shak.          9. To assign; to appoint. [R.]                         One of the domestics was affected to his special                      service.                                             --Thackeray.          Syn: To influence; operate; act on; concern; move; melt;                soften; subdue; overcome; pretend; assume.
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Affect \Af*fect"\, n. [L. affectus.]       Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition. [Obs.]       --Shak.
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Affect \Af*fect"\, n. (Psychotherapy)       The emotional complex associated with an idea or mental       state. In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely       dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the       original idea.
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Affectation \Af`fec*ta"tion\, n. [L. affectatio: cf. F.       affectation.]       1. An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or             real; false display; artificial show. [bd]An affectation             of contempt.[b8] --Macaulay.                         Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of                      what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty                      that accompanies what is natural what is natural.                                                                               --Locke.          2. A striving after. [Obs.] --Bp. Pearson.          3. Fondness; affection. [Obs.] --Hooker.
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Affectationist \Af`fec*ta"tion*ist\, n.       One who exhibits affectation. [R.] --Fitzed. Hall.
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Affect \Af*fect"\ ([acr]f*f[ecr]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.       {Affected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Affecting}.] [L. affectus, p. p.       of afficere to affect by active agency; ad + facere to make:       cf. F. affectere, L. affectare, freq. of afficere. See       {Fact}.]       1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.                         As might affect the earth with cold heat. --Milton.                         The climate affected their health and spirits.                                                                               --Macaulay.          2. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to             touch.                         A consideration of the rationale of our passions                      seems to me very necessary for all who would affect                      them upon solid and pure principles.   --Burke.          3. To love; to regard with affection. [Obs.]                         As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than                      affected, rather honored than loved, her. --Fuller.          4. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to             choose; hence, to frequent habitually.                         For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit                      for it, indeed.                                 --Shak.                         Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank,                      nor court that of the great.               --Hazlitt.          5. To dispose or incline.                         Men whom they thought best affected to religion and                      their country's liberty.                     --Milton.          6. To aim at; to aspire; to covet. [Obs.]                         This proud man affects imperial [?]way. --Dryden.          7. To tend to by affinity or disposition.                         The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.                                                                               --Newton.          8. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to             assume; as, to affect ignorance.                         Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem                      unaffected.                                       --Congreve.                         Thou dost affect my manners.               --Shak.          9. To assign; to appoint. [R.]                         One of the domestics was affected to his special                      service.                                             --Thackeray.          Syn: To influence; operate; act on; concern; move; melt;                soften; subdue; overcome; pretend; assume.
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Affected \Af*fect"ed\ ([acr]f*f[ecr]kt"[ecr]d), p. p. & a.       1. Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.]                         His affected Hercules.                        --Chapman.          2. Inclined; disposed; attached.                         How stand you affected to his wish?   --Shak.          3. Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess             what is not natural or real.                         He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd.                                                                               --Shak.          4. Assumed artificially; not natural.                         Affected coldness and indifference.   --Addison.          5. (Alg.) Made up of terms involving different powers of the             unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.
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Affectedly \Af*fect"ed*ly\, adv.       1. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than             reality.          2. Lovingly; with tender care. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Affectedness \Af*fect"ed*ness\, n.       Affectation.
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Affecter \Af*fect"er\, n.       One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after.       [bd]Affecters of wit.[b8] --Abp. Secker.
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Affectibility \Af*fect`i*bil"i*ty\, n.       The quality or state of being affectible. [R.]
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Affectible \Af*fect"i*ble\, a.       That may be affected. [R.]                   Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the                creaturely, become affectible.               --Coleridge.
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Affect \Af*fect"\ ([acr]f*f[ecr]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.       {Affected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Affecting}.] [L. affectus, p. p.       of afficere to affect by active agency; ad + facere to make:       cf. F. affectere, L. affectare, freq. of afficere. See       {Fact}.]       1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.                         As might affect the earth with cold heat. --Milton.                         The climate affected their health and spirits.                                                                               --Macaulay.          2. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to             touch.                         A consideration of the rationale of our passions                      seems to me very necessary for all who would affect                      them upon solid and pure principles.   --Burke.          3. To love; to regard with affection. [Obs.]                         As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than                      affected, rather honored than loved, her. --Fuller.          4. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to             choose; hence, to frequent habitually.                         For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit                      for it, indeed.                                 --Shak.                         Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank,                      nor court that of the great.               --Hazlitt.          5. To dispose or incline.                         Men whom they thought best affected to religion and                      their country's liberty.                     --Milton.          6. To aim at; to aspire; to covet. [Obs.]                         This proud man affects imperial [?]way. --Dryden.          7. To tend to by affinity or disposition.                         The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.                                                                               --Newton.          8. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to             assume; as, to affect ignorance.                         Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem                      unaffected.                                       --Congreve.                         Thou dost affect my manners.               --Shak.          9. To assign; to appoint. [R.]                         One of the domestics was affected to his special                      service.                                             --Thackeray.          Syn: To influence; operate; act on; concern; move; melt;                soften; subdue; overcome; pretend; assume.
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Affecting \Af*fect"ing\, a.       1. Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions;             pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting             sight.                         The most affecting music is generally the most                      simple.                                             --Mitford.          2. Affected; given to false show. [Obs.]                         A drawling; affecting rouge.               --Shak.
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Affectingly \Af*fect"ing*ly\, adv.       In an affecting manner; is a manner to excite emotions.
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Affection \Af*fec"tion\, n. [F. affection, L. affectio, fr.       afficere. See {Affect}.]       1. The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being             affected.          2. An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily             state; as, figure, weight, etc., are affections of bodies.             [bd]The affections of quantity.[b8] --Boyle.                         And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old                      and strange affection of the house.   --Tennyson.          3. Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural             impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as,             the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the             malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination;             disposition; propensity; tendency.                         Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as                      a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any                      object or quality.                              --Cogan.          4. A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender             attachment; -- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to,             but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial,             social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for             or towards children.                         All his affections are set on his own country.                                                                               --Macaulay.          5. Prejudice; bias. [Obs.] --Bp. Aylmer.          6. (Med.) Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary             affection. --Dunglison.          7. The lively representation of any emotion. --Wotton.          8. Affectation. [Obs.] [bd]Spruce affection.[b8] --Shak.          9. Passion; violent emotion. [Obs.]                         Most wretched man, That to affections does the                      bridle lend.                                       --Spenser.          Syn: Attachment; passion; tenderness; fondness; kindness;                love; good will. See {Attachment}; {Disease}.
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Affectional \Af*fec"tion*al\, a.       Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses;       an affectional nature.
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Affectionate \Af*fec"tion*ate\, a. [Cf. F. affectionn[82].]       1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an             affectionate brother.          2. Kindly inclined; zealous. [Obs.] --Johson.                         Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can                      never be too affectionate.                  --Sprat.          3. Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as,             the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate             countenance, message, language.          4. Strongly inclined; -- with to. [Obs.] --Bacon.          Syn: Tender; attached; loving; devoted; warm; fond; earnest;                ardent.
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Affectionated \Af*fec"tion*a`ted\, a.       Disposed; inclined. [Obs.]                   Affectionated to the people.                  --Holinshed.
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Affectionately \Af*fec"tion*ate*ly\, adv.       With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.
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Affectionateness \Af*fec"tion*ate*ness\, n.       The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
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Affectioned \Af*fec"tioned\, a.       1. Disposed. [Archaic]                         Be kindly affectioned one to another. --Rom. xii.                                                                               10.          2. Affected; conceited. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Affective \Af*fec"tive\, a. [Cf. F. affectif.]       1. Tending to affect; affecting. [Obs.] --Burnet.          2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional.             --Rogers.
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Affectively \Af*fec"tive*ly\, adv.       In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
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Affectuous \Af*fec"tu*ous\ (?; 135), a. [L. affectuous: cf. F.       affectueux. See {Affect}.]       Full of passion or emotion; earnest. [Obs.] --       {Af*fec"tu*ous*ly}, adv. [Obs.] --Fabyan.
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Affectuous \Af*fec"tu*ous\ (?; 135), a. [L. affectuous: cf. F.       affectueux. See {Affect}.]       Full of passion or emotion; earnest. [Obs.] --       {Af*fec"tu*ous*ly}, adv. [Obs.] --Fabyan.
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Affix \Af*fix"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Affixed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Affixing}.] [LL. affixare, L. affixus, p. p. of affigere to       fasten to; ad + figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F.       afficher, ultimately fr. L. affigere. See {Fix}.]       1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append             to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a             word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's             name to a writing.          2. To fix or fasten in any way; to attach physically.                         Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves                      of a plant improper for their food.   --Ray.          3. To attach, unite, or connect with; as, names affixed to             ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a             person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one.          4. To fix or fasten figuratively; -- with on or upon; as,             eyes affixed upon the ground. [Obs.] --Spenser.          Syn: To attach; subjoin; connect; annex; unite.
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Affixture \Af*fix"ture\ (?; 135), n.       The act of affixing, or the state of being affixed;       attachment.
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Affuse \Af*fuse"\ ([acr]f*f[umac]z"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.       {Affused} (-f[umac]zd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Affusing}.] [L.       affusus, p. p. of affundere to pour to; ad + fundere. See       {Fuse}.]       To pour out or upon. [R.]                   I first affused water upon the compressed beans.                                                                               --Boyle.
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Apiked \A*pik"ed\, a.       Trimmed. [Obs.]                   Full fresh and new here gear apiked was. --Chaucer.
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Groundnut \Ground"nut`\ (-n[ucr]t`), n. (Bot.)       (a) The fruit of the {Arachis hypog[91]a} (native country             uncertain); the peanut; the earthnut.       (b) A leguminous, twining plant ({Apios tuberosa}), producing             clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root             tuberous and pleasant to the taste.       (c) The dwarf ginseng ({Aralia trifolia}). [U. S.] --Gray.       (d) A European plant of the genus {Bunium} ({B. flexuosum}),             having an edible root of a globular shape and sweet,             aromatic taste; -- called also {earthnut}, {earth             chestnut}, {hawknut}, and {pignut}. [1913 Webster]
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Apocodeine \Ap`o*co*de"ine\, n. [Pref. apo- + codeine.] (Chem.)       An alkaloid, [?], prepared from codeine. In its effects it       resembles apomorphine.
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Apogeotropic \Ap`o*ge`o*trop"ic\, a. [Pref. apo- + Gr. [?] earth       + [?] turning.] (Bot.)       Bending away from the ground; -- said of leaves, etc.       --Darwin.
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Apogeotropism \Ap"o*ge*ot"ro*pism\, n.       The apogeotropic tendency of some leaves, and other parts.
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Apositic \Ap`o*sit"ic\, a. [Gr. [?]; [?] from + [?] food.]       (Med.)       Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger.
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Apostasy \A*pos"ta*sy\, n.; pl. {Apostasies}. [OE. apostasie, F.       apostasie, L. apostasia, fr. Gr. [?] a standing off from, a       defection, fr. [?] to stand off, revolt; [?] from + [?] to       stand. See {Off} and {Stand}.]       An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total       desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or       party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as,       Julian's apostasy from Christianity.
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Apostasy \A*pos"ta*sy\, n.; pl. {Apostasies}. [OE. apostasie, F.       apostasie, L. apostasia, fr. Gr. [?] a standing off from, a       defection, fr. [?] to stand off, revolt; [?] from + [?] to       stand. See {Off} and {Stand}.]       An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total       desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or       party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as,       Julian's apostasy from Christianity.
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Apostate \A*pos"tate\, n. [L. apostata, Gr. [?], fr. [?]. See       {Apostasy}.]       1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to             which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his             religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.          2. (R. C. Ch.) One who, after having received sacred orders,             renounces his clerical profession.
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Apostate \A*pos"tate\, a.       Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to       moral allegiance; renegade.                   So spake the apostate angel.                  --Milton.                   A wretched and apostate state.               --Steele.
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Apostate \A*pos"tate\, v. i. [L. apostatare.]       To apostatize. [Obs.]                   We are not of them which apostate from Christ. --Bp.                                                                               Hall.
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Apostatic \Ap`o*stat"ic\, a. [L. apostaticus, Gr. [?].]       Apostatical. [R.]
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Apostatical \Ap`o*stat"ic*al\, a.       Apostate.                   An heretical and apostatical church.      --Bp. Hall.
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Apostatize \A*pos"ta*tize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Apostatized};       p. pr. & vb. n. {Apostatizing}.] [LL. apostatizare.]       To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to       forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or       the party to which one has previously adhered.                   He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to                believing in [?]emblances.                     --Carlyle.
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Apostatize \A*pos"ta*tize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Apostatized};       p. pr. & vb. n. {Apostatizing}.] [LL. apostatizare.]       To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to       forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or       the party to which one has previously adhered.                   He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to                believing in [?]emblances.                     --Carlyle.
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Apostatize \A*pos"ta*tize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Apostatized};       p. pr. & vb. n. {Apostatizing}.] [LL. apostatizare.]       To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to       forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or       the party to which one has previously adhered.                   He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to                believing in [?]emblances.                     --Carlyle.
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Apostemate \A*pos"te*mate\, v. i. [See {Aposteme}.]       To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus. --Wiseman.
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Apostemation \A*pos`te*ma"tion\, n. [LL. apostematio: cf. F.       apost[82]mation.] (Med.)       The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration.       [Written corruptly {imposthumation}.] --Wiseman.
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Apostematous \Ap`os*tem"a*tous\, a.       Pertaining to, or partaking of the nature of, an aposteme.
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Aposteme \Ap"os*teme\, n. [L. apostema, Gr. [?] the separation       of corrupt matter into an ulcer, fr. [?] to stand off: cf. F.       apost[8a]me. See {Apostasy}.] (Med.)       An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter. [Written       corruptly {imposthume}.]
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Apostil \A*pos"til\, Apostille \A*pos"tille\, n. [F. apostille.       See {Postil}.]       A marginal note on a letter or other paper; an annotation.       --Motley.
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Apostil \A*pos"til\, Apostille \A*pos"tille\, n. [F. apostille.       See {Postil}.]       A marginal note on a letter or other paper; an annotation.       --Motley.
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Apostle \A*pos"tle\, n. [OE. apostle, apostel, postle, AS.       apostol, L. apostolus, fr. Gr. [?] messenger, one sent forth       or away, fr. [?] to send off or away; [?] from + [?] to send;       akin to G. stellen to set, E. stall: cf. F. ap[93]tre, Of.       apostre, apostle, apostele, apostole.]       1. Literally: One sent forth; a messenger. Specifically: One             of the twelve disciples of Christ, specially chosen as his             companions and witnesses, and sent forth to preach the             gospel.                         He called unto him his disciples, and of them he                      chose twelve, whom also he named apostles. --Luke                                                                               vi. 13.          Note: The title of apostle is also applied to others, who,                though not of the number of the Twelve, yet were equal                with them in office and dignity; as, [bd]Paul, called                to be an apostle of Jesus Christ.[b8] --1 Cor. i. 1. In                --Heb. iii. 1, the name is given to Christ himself, as                having been sent from heaven to publish the gospel. In                the primitive church, other ministers were called                apostles --(Rom. xvi. 7).          2. The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any             part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral             reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who             has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as,             Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John             Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the             apostle of temperance.          3. (Civ. & Admiralty Law) A brief letter dimissory sent by a             court appealed from to the superior court, stating the             case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty             courts. --Wharton. Burrill.          {Apostles' creed}, a creed of unknown origin, which was             formerly ascribed to the apostles. It certainly dates back             to the beginning of the sixth century, and some assert             that it can be found in the writings of Ambrose in the             fourth century.          {Apostle spoon} (Antiq.), a spoon of silver, with the handle             terminating in the figure of an apostle. One or more were             offered by sponsors at baptism as a present to the             godchild. --B. Jonson.
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Apostle \A*pos"tle\, n. [OE. apostle, apostel, postle, AS.       apostol, L. apostolus, fr. Gr. [?] messenger, one sent forth       or away, fr. [?] to send off or away; [?] from + [?] to send;       akin to G. stellen to set, E. stall: cf. F. ap[93]tre, Of.       apostre, apostle, apostele, apostole.]       1. Literally: One sent forth; a messenger. Specifically: One             of the twelve disciples of Christ, specially chosen as his             companions and witnesses, and sent forth to preach the             gospel.                         He called unto him his disciples, and of them he                      chose twelve, whom also he named apostles. --Luke                                                                               vi. 13.          Note: The title of apostle is also applied to others, who,                though not of the number of the Twelve, yet were equal                with them in office and dignity; as, [bd]Paul, called                to be an apostle of Jesus Christ.[b8] --1 Cor. i. 1. In                --Heb. iii. 1, the name is given to Christ himself, as                having been sent from heaven to publish the gospel. In                the primitive church, other ministers were called                apostles --(Rom. xvi. 7).          2. The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any             part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral             reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who             has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as,             Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John             Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the             apostle of temperance.          3. (Civ. & Admiralty Law) A brief letter dimissory sent by a             court appealed from to the superior court, stating the             case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty             courts. --Wharton. Burrill.          {Apostles' creed}, a creed of unknown origin, which was             formerly ascribed to the apostles. It certainly dates back             to the beginning of the sixth century, and some assert             that it can be found in the writings of Ambrose in the             fourth century.          {Apostle spoon} (Antiq.), a spoon of silver, with the handle             terminating in the figure of an apostle. One or more were             offered by sponsors at baptism as a present to the             godchild. --B. Jonson.
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Apostle \A*pos"tle\, n. [OE. apostle, apostel, postle, AS.       apostol, L. apostolus, fr. Gr. [?] messenger, one sent forth       or away, fr. [?] to send off or away; [?] from + [?] to send;       akin to G. stellen to set, E. stall: cf. F. ap[93]tre, Of.       apostre, apostle, apostele, apostole.]       1. Literally: One sent forth; a messenger. Specifically: One             of the twelve disciples of Christ, specially chosen as his             companions and witnesses, and sent forth to preach the             gospel.                         He called unto him his disciples, and of them he                      chose twelve, whom also he named apostles. --Luke                                                                               vi. 13.          Note: The title of apostle is also applied to others, who,                though not of the number of the Twelve, yet were equal                with them in office and dignity; as, [bd]Paul, called                to be an apostle of Jesus Christ.[b8] --1 Cor. i. 1. In                --Heb. iii. 1, the name is given to Christ himself, as                having been sent from heaven to publish the gospel. In                the primitive church, other ministers were called                apostles --(Rom. xvi. 7).          2. The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any             part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral             reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who             has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as,             Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John             Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the             apostle of temperance.          3. (Civ. & Admiralty Law) A brief letter dimissory sent by a             court appealed from to the superior court, stating the             case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty             courts. --Wharton. Burrill.          {Apostles' creed}, a creed of unknown origin, which was             formerly ascribed to the apostles. It certainly dates back             to the beginning of the sixth century, and some assert             that it can be found in the writings of Ambrose in the             fourth century.          {Apostle spoon} (Antiq.), a spoon of silver, with the handle             terminating in the figure of an apostle. One or more were             offered by sponsors at baptism as a present to the             godchild. --B. Jonson.
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Creed \Creed\ (kr[emac]d), n. [OE. credo, crede, AS. creda, fr.       L. credo I believe, at the beginning of the Apostles' creed,       fr. credere to believe; akin to OIr. cretim I believe, and       Skr. [cced]raddadh[amac]mi; [cced]rat trust + dh[amac] to       put. See {Do}, v. t., and cf. {Credo}, {Grant}.]       1. A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of             the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for             public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive.                         In the Protestant system the creed is not                      co[94]rdinate with, but always subordinate to, the                      Bible.                                                --Schaff-Herzog                                                                               Encyc.          2. Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered             to.                         I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed.                                                                               --Shak.          {Apostles' creed}, {Athanasian creed}, {Nicene creed}. See             under {Apostle}, {Athanasian}, {Nicene}.
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Apostleship \A*pos"tle*ship\, n.       The office or dignity of an apostle.
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Apostolate \A*pos"to*late\, n. [L. apostolatus, fr. apostolus.       See {Apostle}.]       1. The dignity, office, or mission, of an apostle;             apostleship.                         Judas had miscarried and lost his apostolate. --Jer.                                                                               Taylor.          2. The dignity or office of the pope, as the holder of the             apostolic see.
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Apostolic \Ap`os*tol"ic\, n. [L. apostolicus.] (Eccl. Hist.)       A member of one of certain ascetic sects which at various       times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles.
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Apostolic \Ap`os*tol"ic\, Apostolical \Ap`os*tol"ic*al\, a. [L.       apostolicus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. apostolique.]       1. Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times,             or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the             apostolic age.          2. According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or             taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.          3. Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal.          {Apostolical brief}. See under {Brief}.          {Apostolic canons}, a collection of rules and precepts             relating to the duty of Christians, and particularly to             the ceremonies and discipline of the church in the second             and third centuries.          {Apostolic church}, the Christian church; -- so called on             account of its apostolic foundation, doctrine, and order.             The churches of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem             were called apostolic churches.          {Apostolic constitutions}, directions of a nature similar to             the apostolic canons, and perhaps compiled by the same             authors or author.          {Apostolic fathers}, early Christian writers, who were born             in the first century, and thus touched on the age of the             apostles. They were Polycarp, Clement, Ignatius, and             Hermas; to these Barnabas has sometimes been added.          {Apostolic king} (or {majesty}), a title granted by the pope             to the kings of Hungary on account of the extensive             propagation of Christianity by St. Stephen, the founder of             the royal line. It is now a title of the emperor of             Austria in right of the throne of Hungary.          {Apostolic see}, a see founded and governed by an apostle;             specifically, the Church of Rome; -- so called because, in             the Roman Catholic belief, the pope is the successor of             St. Peter, the prince of the apostles, and the only             apostle who has successors in the apostolic office.          {Apostolical succession}, the regular and uninterrupted             transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of             bishops from the apostles to any subsequent period.             --Hook.
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Apostolic \Ap`os*tol"ic\, Apostolical \Ap`os*tol"ic*al\, a. [L.       apostolicus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. apostolique.]       1. Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times,             or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the             apostolic age.          2. According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or             taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.          3. Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal.          {Apostolical brief}. See under {Brief}.          {Apostolic canons}, a collection of rules and precepts             relating to the duty of Christians, and particularly to             the ceremonies and discipline of the church in the second             and third centuries.          {Apostolic church}, the Christian church; -- so called on             account of its apostolic foundation, doctrine, and order.             The churches of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem             were called apostolic churches.          {Apostolic constitutions}, directions of a nature similar to             the apostolic canons, and perhaps compiled by the same             authors or author.          {Apostolic fathers}, early Christian writers, who were born             in the first century, and thus touched on the age of the             apostles. They were Polycarp, Clement, Ignatius, and             Hermas; to these Barnabas has sometimes been added.          {Apostolic king} (or {majesty}), a title granted by the pope             to the kings of Hungary on account of the extensive             propagation of Christianity by St. Stephen, the founder of             the royal line. It is now a title of the emperor of             Austria in right of the throne of Hungary.          {Apostolic see}, a see founded and governed by an apostle;             specifically, the Church of Rome; -- so called because, in             the Roman Catholic belief, the pope is the successor of             St. Peter, the prince of the apostles, and the only             apostle who has successors in the apostolic office.          {Apostolical succession}, the regular and uninterrupted             transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of             bishops from the apostles to any subsequent period.             --Hook.
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Apostolic \Ap`os*tol"ic\, Apostolical \Ap`os*tol"ic*al\, a. [L.       apostolicus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. apostolique.]       1. Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times,             or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the             apostolic age.          2. According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or             taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.          3. Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal.          {Apostolical brief}. See under {Brief}.          {Apostolic canons}, a collection of rules and precepts             relating to the duty of Christians, and particularly to             the ceremonies and discipline of the church in the second             and third centuries.          {Apostolic church}, the Christian church; -- so called on             account of its apostolic foundation, doctrine, and order.             The churches of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem             were called apostolic churches.          {Apostolic constitutions}, directions of a nature similar to             the apostolic canons, and perhaps compiled by the same             authors or author.          {Apostolic fathers}, early Christian writers, who were born             in the first century, and thus touched on the age of the             apostles. They were Polycarp, Clement, Ignatius, and             Hermas; to these Barnabas has sometimes been added.          {Apostolic king} (or {majesty}), a title granted by the pope             to the kings of Hungary on account of the extensive             propagation of Christianity by St. Stephen, the founder of             the royal line. It is now a title of the emperor of             Austria in right of the throne of Hungary.          {Apostolic see}, a see founded and governed by an apostle;             specifically, the Church of Rome; -- so called because, in             the Roman Catholic belief, the pope is the successor of             St. Peter, the prince of the apostles, and the only             apostle who has successors in the apostolic office.          {Apostolical succession}, the regular and uninterrupted             transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of             bishops from the apostles to any subsequent period.             --Hook.
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Church \Church\, n. [OE. chirche, chireche, cherche, Scot. kirk,       from AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw.       kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. [?]       the Lord's house, fr. [?] concerning a master or lord, fr.       [?] master, lord, fr. [?] power, might; akin to Skr.       [87][d4]ra hero, Zend. [87]ura strong, OIr. caur, cur, hero.       Cf. {Kirk}.]       1. A building set apart for Christian worship.          2. A Jewish or heathen temple. [Obs.] --Acts xix. 37.          3. A formally organized body of Christian believers             worshiping together. [bd]When they had ordained them             elders in every church.[b8] --Acts xiv. 23.          4. A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed,             observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same             ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman             Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.          5. The collective body of Christians.          6. Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church             of Brahm.          7. The aggregate of religious influences in a community;             ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array             the power of the church against some moral evil.                         Remember that both church and state are properly the                      rulers of the people, only because they are their                      benefactors.                                       --Bulwer.          Note: Church is often used in composition to denote something                belonging or relating to the church; as, church                authority; church history; church member; church music,                etc.          {Apostolic church}. See under {Apostolic}.          {Broad church}. See {Broad Church}.          {Catholic [or] Universal} {church}, the whole body of             believers in Christ throughout the world.          {Church of England}, or {English church}, the Episcopal             church established and endowed in England by law.          {Church living}, a benefice in an established church.          {Church militant}. See under {Militant}.          {Church owl} (Zo[94]l.), the white owl. See {Barn owl}.          {Church rate}, a tax levied on parishioners for the             maintenance of the church and its services.          {Church session}. See under {Session}.          {Church triumphant}. See under {Triumphant}.          {Church work}, work on, or in behalf of, a church; the work             of a particular church for the spread of religion.          {Established church}, the church maintained by the civil             authority; a state church.
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Apostolic \Ap`os*tol"ic\, Apostolical \Ap`os*tol"ic*al\, a. [L.       apostolicus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. apostolique.]       1. Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times,             or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the             apostolic age.          2. According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or             taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.          3. Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal.          {Apostolical brief}. See under {Brief}.          {Apostolic canons}, a collection of rules and precepts             relating to the duty of Christians, and particularly to             the ceremonies and discipline of the church in the second             and third centuries.          {Apostolic church}, the Christian church; -- so called on             account of its apostolic foundation, doctrine, and order.             The churches of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem             were called apostolic churches.          {Apostolic constitutions}, directions of a nature similar to             the apostolic canons, and perhaps compiled by the same             authors or author.          {Apostolic fathers}, early Christian writers, who were born             in the first century, and thus touched on the age of the             apostles. They were Polycarp, Clement, Ignatius, and             Hermas; to these Barnabas has sometimes been added.          {Apostolic king} (or {majesty}), a title granted by the pope             to the kings of Hungary on account of the extensive             propagation of Christianity by St. Stephen, the founder of             the royal line. It is now a title of the emperor of             Austria in right of the throne of Hungary.          {Apostolic see}, a see founded and governed by an apostle;             specifically, the Church of Rome; -- so called because, in             the Roman Catholic belief, the pope is the successor of             St. Peter, the prince of the apostles, and the only             apostle who has successors in the apostolic office.          {Apostolical succession}, the regular and uninterrupted             transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of             bishops from the apostles to any subsequent period.             --Hook.
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Constitution \Con`sti*tu"tion\, n. [F. constitution, L.       constitute.]       1. The act or process of constituting; the action of             enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment;             establishment; formation.          2. The state of being; that form of being, or structure and             connection of parts, which constitutes and characterizes a             system or body; natural condition; structure; texture;             conformation.                         The physical constitution of the sun. --Sir J.                                                                               Herschel.          3. The aggregate of all one's inherited physical qualities;             the aggregate of the vital powers of an individual, with             reference to ability to endure hardship, resist disease,             etc.; as, a robust constitution.                         Our constitutions have never been enfeebled by the                      vices or luxuries of the old world.   --Story.          4. The aggregate of mental qualities; temperament.                         He defended himself with . . . less passion than was                      expected from his constitution.         --Clarendon.          5. The fundamental, organic law or principles of government             of men, embodied in written documents, or implied in the             institutions and usages of the country or society; also, a             written instrument embodying such organic law, and laying             down fundamental rules and principles for the conduct of             affairs.                         Our constitution had begun to exist in times when                      statesmen were not much accustomed to frame exact                      definitions.                                       --Macaulay.          Note: In England the constitution is unwritten, and may be                modified from time to time by act of Parliament. In the                United States a constitution cannot ordinarily be                modified, exept through such processes as the                constitution itself ordains.          6. An authoritative ordinance, regulation or enactment;             especially, one made by a Roman emperor, or one affecting             ecclesiastical doctrine or discipline; as, the             constitutions of Justinian.                         The positive constitutions of our own churches.                                                                               --Hooker.                         A constitution of Valentinian addressed to Olybrius,                      then prefect of Rome, for the regulation of the                      conduct of advocates.                        --George Long.          {Apostolic constitutions}. See under {Apostolic}.
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Apostolic delegate \Ap`os*tol"ic del"e*gate\ (R. C. Ch.)       The diplomatic agent of the pope highest in grade, superior       to a nuncio.
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Father \Fa"ther\, n. [OE. fader, AS. f[91]der; akin to OS.       fadar, D. vader, OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa[?]ir Sw. &       Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. [?][?][?][?][?], Skr.       pitr, perh. fr. Skr. p[be] protect. [?][?][?],[?][?][?]. Cf.       {Papa}, {Paternal}, {Patriot}, {Potential}, {Pablum}.]       1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a             generator; a male parent.                         A wise son maketh a glad father.         --Prov. x. 1.          2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor;             especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or             family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors.                         David slept with his fathers.            --1 Kings ii.                                                                               10.                         Abraham, who is the father of us all. --Rom. iv. 16.          3. One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance,             affetionate care, counsel, or protection.                         I was a father to the poor.               --Job xxix.                                                                               16.                         He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all                      his house.                                          --Gen. xiv. 8.          4. A respectful mode of address to an old man.                         And Joash the king og Israel came down unto him                      [Elisha], . . . and said, O my father, my father!                                                                               --2 Kings                                                                               xiii. 14.          5. A senator of ancient Rome.          6. A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a             confessor (called also {father confessor}), or a priest;             also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a             legislative assembly, etc.                         Bless you, good father friar !            --Shak.          7. One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first             centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as             the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.          8. One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a             producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any             art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or             teacher.                         The father of all such as handle the harp and organ.                                                                               --Gen. iv. 21.                         Might be the father, Harry, to that thought. --Shak.                         The father of good news.                     --Shak.          9. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first             person in the Trinity.                         Our Father, which art in heaven.         --Matt. vi. 9.                         Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent                      down his eye.                                    --Milton.          {Adoptive father}, one who adopts the child of another,             treating it as his own.          {Apostolic father}, {Conscript fathers, etc.} See under             {Apostolic}, {Conscript}, etc.          {Father in God}, a title given to bishops.          {Father of lies}, the Devil.          {Father of the bar}, the oldest practitioner at the bar.          {Fathers of the city}, the aldermen.          {Father of the Faithful}.             (a) Abraham. --Rom. iv. --Gal. iii. 6-9.             (b) Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors.          {Father of the house}, the member of a legislative body who             has had the longest continuous service.          {Most Reverend Father in God}, a title given to archbishops             and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and             York.          {Natural father}, the father of an illegitimate child.          {Putative father}, one who is presumed to be the father of an             illegitimate child; the supposed father.          {Spiritual father}.             (a) A religious teacher or guide, esp. one instrumental in                   leading a soul to God.             (b) (R. C. Ch.) A priest who hears confession in the                   sacrament of penance.          {The Holy Father} (R. C. Ch.), the pope.
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Apostolic \Ap`os*tol"ic\, Apostolical \Ap`os*tol"ic*al\, a. [L.       apostolicus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. apostolique.]       1. Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times,             or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the             apostolic age.          2. According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or             taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.          3. Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal.          {Apostolical brief}. See under {Brief}.          {Apostolic canons}, a collection of rules and precepts             relating to the duty of Christians, and particularly to             the ceremonies and discipline of the church in the second             and third centuries.          {Apostolic church}, the Christian church; -- so called on             account of its apostolic foundation, doctrine, and order.             The churches of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem             were called apostolic churches.          {Apostolic constitutions}, directions of a nature similar to             the apostolic canons, and perhaps compiled by the same             authors or author.          {Apostolic fathers}, early Christian writers, who were born             in the first century, and thus touched on the age of the             apostles. They were Polycarp, Clement, Ignatius, and             Hermas; to these Barnabas has sometimes been added.          {Apostolic king} (or {majesty}), a title granted by the pope             to the kings of Hungary on account of the extensive             propagation of Christianity by St. Stephen, the founder of             the royal line. It is now a title of the emperor of             Austria in right of the throne of Hungary.          {Apostolic see}, a see founded and governed by an apostle;             specifically, the Church of Rome; -- so called because, in             the Roman Catholic belief, the pope is the successor of             St. Peter, the prince of the apostles, and the only             apostle who has successors in the apostolic office.          {Apostolical succession}, the regular and uninterrupted             transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of             bishops from the apostles to any subsequent period.             --Hook.
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King \King\, n.[AS. cyng, cyning; akin to OS. kuning, D. koning,       OHG. kuning, G. k[94]nig, Icel. konungr, Sw. konung, Dan.       konge; formed with a patronymic ending, and fr. the root of       E. kin; cf. Icel. konr a man of noble birth. [root]44. See       {Kin}.]       1. A chief ruler; a sovereign; one invested with supreme             authority over a nation, country, or tribe, usually by             hereditary succession; a monarch; a prince. [bd]Ay, every             inch a king.[b8] --Shak.                         Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are                      rebels from principle.                        --Burke.                         There was a State without king or nobles. --R.                                                                               Choate.                         But yonder comes the powerful King of Day, Rejoicing                      in the east                                       --Thomson.          2. One who, or that which, holds a supreme position or rank;             a chief among competitors; as, a railroad king; a money             king; the king of the lobby; the king of beasts.          3. A playing card having the picture of a king; as, the king             of diamonds.          4. The chief piece in the game of chess.          5. A crowned man in the game of draughts.          6. pl. The title of two historical books in the Old             Testament.          Note: King is often used adjectively, or in combination, to                denote pre[89]minence or superiority in some                particular; as, kingbird; king crow; king vulture.          {Apostolic king}.See {Apostolic}.          {King-at-arms}, or {King-of-arms}, the chief heraldic officer             of a country. In England the king-at-arms was formerly of             great authority. His business is to direct the heralds,             preside at their chapters, and have the jurisdiction of             armory. There are three principal kings-at-arms, viz.,             Garter, Clarencieux, and Norroy. The latter (literally             north roy or north king) officiates north of the Trent.          {King auk} (Zo[94]l.), the little auk or sea dove.          {King bird of paradise}. (Zo[94]l.), See {Bird of paradise}.                      {King card}, in whist, the best unplayed card of each suit;             thus, if the ace and king of a suit have been played, the             queen is the king card of the suit.          {King Cole}, a legendary king of Britain, who is said to have             reigned in the third century.          {King conch} (Zo[94]l.), a large and handsome univalve shell             ({Cassis cameo}), found in the West Indies. It is used for             making cameos. See {Helmet shell}, under {Helmet}.          {King Cotton}, a popular personification of the great staple             production of the southern United States.          {King crab}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) The limulus or horseshoe crab. See {Limulus}.             (b) The large European spider crab or thornback ({Maia                   squinado}).          {King crow}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) A black drongo shrike ({Buchanga atra}) of India; --                   so called because, while breeding, they attack and                   drive away hawks, crows, and other large birds.             (b) The {Dicrurus macrocercus} of India, a crested bird                   with a long, forked tail. Its color is black, with                   green and blue reflections. Called also {devil bird}.                            {King duck} (Zo[94]l.), a large and handsome eider duck             ({Somateria spectabilis}), inhabiting the arctic regions             of both continents.          {King eagle} (Zo[94]l.), an eagle ({Aquila heliaca}) found in             Asia and Southeastern Europe. It is about as large as the             golden eagle. Some writers believe it to be the imperial             eagle of Rome.          {King hake} (Zo[94]l.), an American hake ({Phycis regius}),             fond in deep water along the Atlantic coast.          {King monkey} (Zo[94]l.), an African monkey ({Colobus             polycomus}), inhabiting Sierra Leone.          {King mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a West Indian red mullet ({Upeneus             maculatus}); -- so called on account of its great beauty.             Called also {goldfish}.          {King of terrors}, death.          {King parrakeet} (Zo[94]l.), a handsome Australian parrakeet             ({Platycercys scapulatus}), often kept in a cage. Its             prevailing color is bright red, with the back and wings             bright green, the rump blue, and tail black.          {King penguin} (Zo[94]l.), any large species of penguin of             the genus {Aptenodytes}; esp., {A. longirostris}, of the             Falkland Islands and Kerguelen Land, and {A. Patagonica},             of Patagonia.          {King rail} (Zo[94]l.), a small American rail ({Rallus             elegans}), living in fresh-water marshes. The upper parts             are fulvous brown, striped with black; the breast is deep             cinnamon color.          {King salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the quinnat. See {Quinnat}.          {King's, [or] Queen's}, {counsel} (Eng. Law), barristers             learned in the law, who have been called within the bar,             and selected to be the king's or queen's counsel. They             answer in some measure to the advocates of the revenue             (advocati fisci) among the Romans. They can not be             employed against the crown without special license.             --Wharton's Law Dict.          {King's cushion}, a temporary seat made by two persons             crossing their hands. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.          {The king's English}, correct or current language of good             speakers; pure English. --Shak.          {King's [or] Queen's}, {evidence}, testimony in favor of the             Crown by a witness who confesses his guilt as an             accomplice. See under {Evidence}. [Eng.]          {King's evil}, scrofula; -- so called because formerly             supposed to be healed by the touch of a king.          {King snake} (Zo[94]l.), a large, nearly black, harmless             snake ({Ophiobolus getulus}) of the Southern United             States; -- so called because it kills and eats other kinds             of snakes, including even the rattlesnake.          {King's spear} (Bot.), the white asphodel ({Asphodelus             albus}).          {King's yellow}, a yellow pigment, consisting essentially of             sulphide and oxide of arsenic; -- called also {yellow             orpiment}.          {King tody} (Zo[94]l.), a small fly-catching bird             ({Eurylaimus serilophus}) of tropical America. The head is             adorned with a large, spreading, fan-shaped crest, which             is bright red, edged with black.          {King vulture} (Zo[94]l.), a large species of vulture             ({Sarcorhamphus papa}), ranging from Mexico to Paraguay,             The general color is white. The wings and tail are black,             and the naked carunculated head and the neck are             briliantly colored with scarlet, yellow, orange, and blue.             So called because it drives away other vultures while             feeding.          {King wood}, a wood from Brazil, called also {violet wood},             beautifully streaked in violet tints, used in turning and             small cabinetwork. The tree is probably a species of             {Dalbergia}. See {Jacaranda}.
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Apostolic \Ap`os*tol"ic\, Apostolical \Ap`os*tol"ic*al\, a. [L.       apostolicus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. apostolique.]       1. Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times,             or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the             apostolic age.          2. According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or             taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.          3. Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal.          {Apostolical brief}. See under {Brief}.          {Apostolic canons}, a collection of rules and precepts             relating to the duty of Christians, and particularly to             the ceremonies and discipline of the church in the second             and third centuries.          {Apostolic church}, the Christian church; -- so called on             account of its apostolic foundation, doctrine, and order.             The churches of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem             were called apostolic churches.          {Apostolic constitutions}, directions of a nature similar to             the apostolic canons, and perhaps compiled by the same             authors or author.          {Apostolic fathers}, early Christian writers, who were born             in the first century, and thus touched on the age of the             apostles. They were Polycarp, Clement, Ignatius, and             Hermas; to these Barnabas has sometimes been added.          {Apostolic king} (or {majesty}), a title granted by the pope             to the kings of Hungary on account of the extensive             propagation of Christianity by St. Stephen, the founder of             the royal line. It is now a title of the emperor of             Austria in right of the throne of Hungary.          {Apostolic see}, a see founded and governed by an apostle;             specifically, the Church of Rome; -- so called because, in             the Roman Catholic belief, the pope is the successor of             St. Peter, the prince of the apostles, and the only             apostle who has successors in the apostolic office.          {Apostolical succession}, the regular and uninterrupted             transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of             bishops from the apostles to any subsequent period.             --Hook.
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Prefect \Pre"fect\, n. [L. praefectus, fr. praefectus, p. p. of       praeficere to set over; prae before + facere to make: cf. F.       pr[82]fet.]       1. A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a             particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the             prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a             fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian             prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the             emperor's person.          2. A superintendent of a department who has control of its             police establishment, together with extensive powers of             municipal regulation. [France] --Brande & C.          3. In the Greek and Roman Catholic churches, a title of             certain dignitaries below the rank of bishop.          {Apostolic prefect} (R. C. Ch.), the head of a mission, not             of episcopal rank. --Shipley.
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See \See\, n. [OE. se, see, OF. se, sed, sied, fr. L. sedes a       seat, or the kindred sedere to sit. See {Sit}, and cf.       {Siege}.]       1. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is             exercised. [Obs.] --Chaucer.                         Jove laughed on Venus from his sovereign see.                                                                               --Spenser.          2. Specifically:             (a) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the                   jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York.             (b) The seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction                   of an archibishop; as, an archiepiscopal see.             (c) The seat, place, or office of the pope, or Roman                   pontiff; as, the papal see.             (d) The pope or his court at Rome; as, to appeal to the                   see of Rome.          {Apostolic see}. See under {Apostolic}.
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Apostolic \Ap`os*tol"ic\, Apostolical \Ap`os*tol"ic*al\, a. [L.       apostolicus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. apostolique.]       1. Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times,             or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the             apostolic age.          2. According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or             taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.          3. Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal.          {Apostolical brief}. See under {Brief}.          {Apostolic canons}, a collection of rules and precepts             relating to the duty of Christians, and particularly to             the ceremonies and discipline of the church in the second             and third centuries.          {Apostolic church}, the Christian church; -- so called on             account of its apostolic foundation, doctrine, and order.             The churches of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem             were called apostolic churches.          {Apostolic constitutions}, directions of a nature similar to             the apostolic canons, and perhaps compiled by the same             authors or author.          {Apostolic fathers}, early Christian writers, who were born             in the first century, and thus touched on the age of the             apostles. They were Polycarp, Clement, Ignatius, and             Hermas; to these Barnabas has sometimes been added.          {Apostolic king} (or {majesty}), a title granted by the pope             to the kings of Hungary on account of the extensive             propagation of Christianity by St. Stephen, the founder of             the royal line. It is now a title of the emperor of             Austria in right of the throne of Hungary.          {Apostolic see}, a see founded and governed by an apostle;             specifically, the Church of Rome; -- so called because, in             the Roman Catholic belief, the pope is the successor of             St. Peter, the prince of the apostles, and the only             apostle who has successors in the apostolic office.          {Apostolical succession}, the regular and uninterrupted             transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of             bishops from the apostles to any subsequent period.             --Hook.
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Vicar \Vic"ar\, n. [OE. vicar, viker, vicair, F. vicaire, fr. L.       vicarius. See {Vicarious}.]       1. One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of             another; a substitute in office; a deputy. [R.]          2. (Eng. Eccl. Law) The incumbent of an appropriated             benefice.          Note: The distinction between a parson [or rector] and vicar                is this: The parson has, for the most part, the whole                right to the ecclesiastical dues in his parish; but a                vicar has generally an appropriator over him, entitled                to the best part of the profits, to whom he is in fact                perpetual curate with a standing salary. --Burrill.          {Apostolic vicar}, [or] {Vicar apostolic}. (R. C. Ch.)             (a) A bishop to whom the Roman pontiff delegates a portion                   of his jurisdiction.             (b) Any ecclesiastic acting under a papal brief,                   commissioned to exercise episcopal authority.             (c) A titular bishop in a country where there is no                   episcopal see, or where the succession has been                   interrupted.          {Vicar forane}. [Cf. LL. foraneus situated outside of the             episcopal city, rural. See {Vicar}, and {Foreign}.] (R. C.             Ch.) A dignitary or parish priest appointed by a bishop to             exercise a limited jurisdiction in a particular town or             district of a diocese. --Addis & Arnold.          {Vicar-general}.             (a) (Ch. of Eng.) The deputy of the Archbishop of                   Canterbury or York, in whose court the bishops of the                   province are confirmed. --Encyc. Brit.             (b) (R. C. Ch.) An assistant to a bishop in the discharge                   of his official functions.          {Vicar of Jesus Christ} (R. C. Ch.), the pope as representing             Christ on earth.
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Apostolic \Ap`os*tol"ic\, Apostolical \Ap`os*tol"ic*al\, a. [L.       apostolicus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. apostolique.]       1. Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times,             or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the             apostolic age.          2. According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or             taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.          3. Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal.          {Apostolical brief}. See under {Brief}.          {Apostolic canons}, a collection of rules and precepts             relating to the duty of Christians, and particularly to             the ceremonies and discipline of the church in the second             and third centuries.          {Apostolic church}, the Christian church; -- so called on             account of its apostolic foundation, doctrine, and order.             The churches of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem             were called apostolic churches.          {Apostolic constitutions}, directions of a nature similar to             the apostolic canons, and perhaps compiled by the same             authors or author.          {Apostolic fathers}, early Christian writers, who were born             in the first century, and thus touched on the age of the             apostles. They were Polycarp, Clement, Ignatius, and             Hermas; to these Barnabas has sometimes been added.          {Apostolic king} (or {majesty}), a title granted by the pope             to the kings of Hungary on account of the extensive             propagation of Christianity by St. Stephen, the founder of             the royal line. It is now a title of the emperor of             Austria in right of the throne of Hungary.          {Apostolic see}, a see founded and governed by an apostle;             specifically, the Church of Rome; -- so called because, in             the Roman Catholic belief, the pope is the successor of             St. Peter, the prince of the apostles, and the only             apostle who has successors in the apostolic office.          {Apostolical succession}, the regular and uninterrupted             transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of             bishops from the apostles to any subsequent period.             --Hook.
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Apostolic \Ap`os*tol"ic\, Apostolical \Ap`os*tol"ic*al\, a. [L.       apostolicus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. apostolique.]       1. Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times,             or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the             apostolic age.          2. According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or             taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.          3. Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal.          {Apostolical brief}. See under {Brief}.          {Apostolic canons}, a collection of rules and precepts             relating to the duty of Christians, and particularly to             the ceremonies and discipline of the church in the second             and third centuries.          {Apostolic church}, the Christian church; -- so called on             account of its apostolic foundation, doctrine, and order.             The churches of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem             were called apostolic churches.          {Apostolic constitutions}, directions of a nature similar to             the apostolic canons, and perhaps compiled by the same             authors or author.          {Apostolic fathers}, early Christian writers, who were born             in the first century, and thus touched on the age of the             apostles. They were Polycarp, Clement, Ignatius, and             Hermas; to these Barnabas has sometimes been added.          {Apostolic king} (or {majesty}), a title granted by the pope             to the kings of Hungary on account of the extensive             propagation of Christianity by St. Stephen, the founder of             the royal line. It is now a title of the emperor of             Austria in right of the throne of Hungary.          {Apostolic see}, a see founded and governed by an apostle;             specifically, the Church of Rome; -- so called because, in             the Roman Catholic belief, the pope is the successor of             St. Peter, the prince of the apostles, and the only             apostle who has successors in the apostolic office.          {Apostolical succession}, the regular and uninterrupted             transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of             bishops from the apostles to any subsequent period.             --Hook.
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Brief \Brief\ (br[emac]f), n. [See {Brief}, a., and cf.       {Breve}.]       1. A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few             words.                         Bear this sealed brief, With winged hastle, to the                      lord marshal.                                    --Shak.                         And she told me In a sweet, verbal brief. --Shak.          2. An epitome.                         Each woman is a brief of womankind.   --Overbury.          3. (Law) An abridgment or concise statement of a client's             case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial             at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the             heads or points of a law argument.                         It was not without some reference to it that I                      perused many a brief.                        --Sir J.                                                                               Stephen.          Note: In England, the brief is prepared by the attorney; in                the United States, counsel generally make up their own                briefs.          4. (Law) A writ; a breve. See {Breve}, n., 2.          5. (Scots Law) A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to             any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge             to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their             verdict to pronounce sentence.          6. A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a             collection or charitable contribution of money in             churches, for any public or private purpose. [Eng.]          {Apostolical brief}, a letter of the pope written on fine             parchment in modern characters, subscribed by the             secretary of briefs, dated [bd]a die Nativitatis,[b8] i.             e., [bd]from the day of the Nativity,[b8] and sealed with             the ring of the fisherman. It differs from a bull, in its             parchment, written character, date, and seal. See {Bull}.                      {Brief of title}, an abstract or abridgment of all the deeds             and other papers constituting the chain of title to any             real estate.          {In brief}, in a few words; in short; briefly. [bd]Open the             matter in brief.[b8] --Shak.
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Canon \Can"on\, n. [OE. canon, canoun, AS. canon rule (cf. F.       canon, LL. canon, and, for sense 7, F. chanoine, LL.       canonicus), fr. L. canon a measuring line, rule, model, fr.       Gr. [?] rule, rod, fr. [?], [?], red. See {Cane}, and cf.       {Canonical}.]       1. A law or rule.                         Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon                      'gainst self-slaughter.                     --Shak.          2. (Eccl.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted             by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a             decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by             ecclesiastical authority.                         Various canons which were made in councils held in                      the second centry.                              --Hock.          3. The collection of books received as genuine Holy             Scriptures, called the {sacred canon}, or general rule of             moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible;             also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See {Canonical             books}, under {Canonical}, a.          4. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious             order.          5. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the             Roman Catholic Church.          6. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a             prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.          7. (Mus.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one             after another, at regular intervals, successively taking             up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda             (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew,             thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the             strictest form of imitation. See {Imitation}.          8. (Print.) The largest size of type having a specific name;             -- so called from having been used for printing the canons             of the church.          9. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called             also {ear} and {shank}.          Note: [See Illust. of {Bell}.] --Knight.          10. (Billiards) See {Carom}.          {Apostolical canons}. See under {Apostolical}.          {Augustinian canons}, {Black canons}. See under             {Augustinian}.          {Canon capitular}, {Canon residentiary}, a resident member of             a cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the             year).          {Canon law}. See under {Law}.          {Canon of the Mass} (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass,             following the Sanctus, which never changes.          {Honorary canon}, a canon who neither lived in a monastery,             nor kept the canonical hours.          {Minor canon} (Ch. of Eng.), one who has been admitted to a             chapter, but has not yet received a prebend.          {Regular canon} (R. C. Ch.), one who lived in a conventual             community and follower the rule of St. Austin; a Black             canon.          {Secular canon} (R. C. Ch.), one who did not live in a             monastery, but kept the hours.
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Succession \Suc*ces"sion\, n. [L. successio: cf. F. succession.       See {Succeed}.]       1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of             things in order of time or place, or a series of things so             following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a             succession of disasters.          2. A series of persons or things according to some             established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings,             or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology.                         He was in the succession to an earldom. --Macaulay.          3. An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.             [bd]A long succession must ensue.[b8] --Milton.          4. The power or right of succeeding to the station or title             of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon             the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also,             the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a             predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of             succeeding, to a throne.                         You have the voice of the king himself for your                      succession in Denmark.                        --Shak.                         The animosity of these factions did not really arise                      from the dispute about the succession. --Macaulay.          5. The right to enter upon the possession of the property of             an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an             established order.          6. The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or             heir. [R.] --Milton.          {Apostolical succession}. (Theol.) See under {Apostolical}.                      {Succession duty}, a tax imposed on every succession to             property, according to its value and the relation of the             person who succeeds to the previous owner.
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Apostolic \Ap`os*tol"ic\, Apostolical \Ap`os*tol"ic*al\, a. [L.       apostolicus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. apostolique.]       1. Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times,             or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the             apostolic age.          2. According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or             taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.          3. Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal.          {Apostolical brief}. See under {Brief}.          {Apostolic canons}, a collection of rules and precepts             relating to the duty of Christians, and particularly to             the ceremonies and discipline of the church in the second             and third centuries.          {Apostolic church}, the Christian church; -- so called on             account of its apostolic foundation, doctrine, and order.             The churches of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem             were called apostolic churches.          {Apostolic constitutions}, directions of a nature similar to             the apostolic canons, and perhaps compiled by the same             authors or author.          {Apostolic fathers}, early Christian writers, who were born             in the first century, and thus touched on the age of the             apostles. They were Polycarp, Clement, Ignatius, and             Hermas; to these Barnabas has sometimes been added.          {Apostolic king} (or {majesty}), a title granted by the pope             to the kings of Hungary on account of the extensive             propagation of Christianity by St. Stephen, the founder of             the royal line. It is now a title of the emperor of             Austria in right of the throne of Hungary.          {Apostolic see}, a see founded and governed by an apostle;             specifically, the Church of Rome; -- so called because, in             the Roman Catholic belief, the pope is the successor of             St. Peter, the prince of the apostles, and the only             apostle who has successors in the apostolic office.          {Apostolical succession}, the regular and uninterrupted             transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of             bishops from the apostles to any subsequent period.             --Hook.
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Apostolically \Ap`os*tol"ic*al*ly\, adv.       In an apostolic manner.
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Apostolicalness \Ap`os*tol"ic*al*ness\, n.       Apostolicity. --Dr. H. More.
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Apostolicism \Ap`os*tol"i*cism\, Apostolicity    \A*pos`to*lic"i*ty\, n.       The state or quality of being apostolical.
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Apostolicism \Ap`os*tol"i*cism\, Apostolicity    \A*pos`to*lic"i*ty\, n.       The state or quality of being apostolical.
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Apostrophe \A*pos"tro*phe\, n. [(1) L., fr. Gr. [?] a turning       away, fr. [?] to turn away; [?] from + [?] to turn. (2) F.,       fr. L. apostrophus apostrophe, the turning away or omitting       of a letter, Gr. [?].]       1. (Rhet.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer             suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his             discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some             person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's             apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of             [bd]Paradise Lost.[b8]          2. (Gram.) The contraction of a word by the omission of a             letter or letters, which omission is marked by the             character ['] placed where the letter or letters would             have been; as, call'd for called.          3. The mark ['] used to denote that a word is contracted (as             in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as a sign of             the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat,             boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the             omission of the letter e.          Note: The apostrophe is used to mark the plural of figures                and letters; as, two 10's and three a's. It is also                employed to mark the close of a quotation.
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Apostrophic \Ap`os*troph"ic\, a.       Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical.
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Apostrophize \A*pos"tro*phize\, v. t., [imp. & p. p.       {Apostrophized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Apostrophizing}.]       1. To address by apostrophe.          2. To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark             with an apostrophe (') or apostrophes.
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Apostrophize \A*pos"tro*phize\, v. i.       To use the rhetorical figure called apostrophe.
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Apostume \Ap"os*tume\, n.       See {Aposteme}. [Obs.]
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Apposed \Ap*posed"\, a.       Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a       bird's beak.
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Apposite \Ap"po*site\, a. [L. appositus, p. p. of apponere to       set or put to; ad + ponere to put, place.]       Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant;       pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to       the case. -- {Ap"po*site*ly}, adv. -- {Ap"po*site*ness}, n.
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Apposite \Ap"po*site\, a. [L. appositus, p. p. of apponere to       set or put to; ad + ponere to put, place.]       Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant;       pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to       the case. -- {Ap"po*site*ly}, adv. -- {Ap"po*site*ness}, n.
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Apposite \Ap"po*site\, a. [L. appositus, p. p. of apponere to       set or put to; ad + ponere to put, place.]       Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant;       pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to       the case. -- {Ap"po*site*ly}, adv. -- {Ap"po*site*ness}, n.
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Apposition \Ap`po*si"tion\, n. [L. appositio, fr. apponere: cf.       F. apposition. See {Apposite}.]       1. The act of adding; application; accretion.                         It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter.                                                                               --Arbuthnot.          2. The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side;             also, the condition of being so placed.          3. (Gram.) The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the             same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I             admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains             or characterizes the first.          {Growth by apposition} (Physiol.), a mode of growth             characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive             matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an             organ into solid unorganized substance.
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Appositional \Ap`po*si"tion*al\, a.       Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically.                                                                               --Ellicott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Appositive \Ap*pos"i*tive\, a.       Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n. A noun in       apposition. -- {Ap*pos"i*tive*ly}, adv.                   Appositive to the words going immediately before.                                                                               --Knatchbull.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Appositive \Ap*pos"i*tive\, a.       Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n. A noun in       apposition. -- {Ap*pos"i*tive*ly}, adv.                   Appositive to the words going immediately before.                                                                               --Knatchbull.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Apsidal \Ap"si*dal\, a.       1. (Astron.) Of or pertaining to the apsides of an orbit.          2. (Arch.) Of or pertaining to the apse of a church; as, the             apsidal termination of the chancel.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Apsides \Ap"si*des\, n. pl.       See {Apsis}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Apsis \[d8]Ap"sis\ ([acr]p"s[icr]s), n.; pl. {Apsides}       ([acr]p"s[icr]*d[emac]z). See {Apse}. [L. apsis, absis, Gr.       "apsi`s, "apsi^dos, a tying, fastening, the hoop of a wheel,       the wheel, a bow, arch, vault, fr. "a`ptein to fasten.]       1. (Astron.) One of the two points of an orbit, as of a             planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least             distance from the central body, corresponding to the             aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and             perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher             apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining             them, the line of apsides.          2. (Math.) In a curve referred to polar co[94]rdinates, any             point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum.          3. (Arch.) Same as {Apse}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Avast \A*vast"\, interj. [Corrupted from D. houd vast hold fast.       See {Hold}, v. t., and {Fast}, a.] (Naut.)       Cease; stop; stay. [bd]Avast heaving.[b8] --Totten.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Avestan \A*ves"tan\, a.       Of or pertaining to the Avesta or the language of the Avesta.       -- n. The language of the Avesta; -- less properly called       {Zend}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Avigato \Av`i*ga"to\, n.       See {Avocado}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Avocado \[d8]Av`o*ca"do\, n. [Corrupted from the Mexican       ahuacatl: cf. Sp. aguacate, F. aguacat[82], avocat, G.       avogadobaum.]       The pulpy fruit of {Persea gratissima}, a tree of tropical       America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; --       called also {avocado pear}, {alligator pear}, {midshipman's       butter}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Avocate \Av"o*cate\, v. t. [L. avocatus, p. p. of avocare; a, ab       + vocare to call. Cf. {Avoke}, and see {Vocal}, a.]       To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another       tribunal. [Obs. or Archaic]                   One who avocateth his mind from other occupations.                                                                               --Barrow.                   He, at last, . . . avocated the cause to Rome.                                                                               --Robertson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Avocation \Av`o*ca"tion\, n. [L. avocatio.]       1. A calling away; a diversion. [Obs. or Archaic]                         Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin.                                                                               --South.          2. That which calls one away from one's regular employment or             vocation.                         Heaven is his vocation, and therefore he counts                      earthly employments avocations.         --Fuller.                         By the secular cares and avocations which accompany                      marriage the clergy have been furnished with skill                      in common life.                                 --Atterbury.          Note: In this sense the word is applied to the smaller                affairs of life, or occasional calls which summon a                person to leave his ordinary or principal business.                Avocation (in the singular) for vocation is usually                avoided by good writers.          3. pl. Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time;             usual employment; vocation.                         There are professions, among the men, no more                      favorable to these studies than the common                      avocations of women.                           --Richardson.                         In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his                      standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations.                                                                               --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Avocative \A*vo"ca*tive\ ([adot]*v[omac]"k[adot]*t[icr]v), a.       Calling off. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Avocative \A*vo"ca*tive\, n.       That which calls aside; a dissuasive.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Avocet \Av"o*cet\, Avoset \Av"o*set\ ([acr]v"[osl]*s[ecr]t), n.       [F. avocette: cf. It. avosetta, Sp. avoceta.] (Zo[94]l.)       A grallatorial bird, of the genus {Recurvirostra}; the       scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The       American species is {R. Americana}. [Written also       {avocette}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Avocet \Av"o*cet\, Avoset \Av"o*set\ ([acr]v"[osl]*s[ecr]t), n.       [F. avocette: cf. It. avosetta, Sp. avoceta.] (Zo[94]l.)       A grallatorial bird, of the genus {Recurvirostra}; the       scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The       American species is {R. Americana}. [Written also       {avocette}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Law \Law\ (l[add]), n. [OE. lawe, laghe, AS. lagu, from the root       of E. lie: akin to OS. lag, Icel. l[94]g, Sw. lag, Dan. lov;       cf. L. lex, E. legal. A law is that which is laid, set, or       fixed; like statute, fr. L. statuere to make to stand. See       {Lie} to be prostrate.]       1. In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by             an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling             regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent             or a power acts.          Note: A law may be universal or particular, written or                unwritten, published or secret. From the nature of the                highest laws a degree of permanency or stability is                always implied; but the power which makes a law, or a                superior power, may annul or change it.                            These are the statutes and judgments and law,                         which the Lord made.                     --Lev. xxvi.                                                                               46.                            The law of thy God, and the law of the King.                                                                               --Ezra vii.                                                                               26.                            As if they would confine the Interminable . . .                         Who made our laws to bind us, not himself.                                                                               --Milton.                            His mind his kingdom, and his will his law.                                                                               --Cowper.          2. In morals: The will of God as the rule for the disposition             and conduct of all responsible beings toward him and             toward each other; a rule of living, conformable to             righteousness; the rule of action as obligatory on the             conscience or moral nature.          3. The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture             where it is written, in distinction from the gospel;             hence, also, the Old Testament.                         What things soever the law saith, it saith to them                      who are under the law . . . But now the                      righteousness of God without the law is manifested,                      being witnessed by the law and the prophets. --Rom.                                                                               iii. 19, 21.          4. In human government:             (a) An organic rule, as a constitution or charter,                   establishing and defining the conditions of the                   existence of a state or other organized community.             (b) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute,                   resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or                   recognized, and enforced, by the controlling                   authority.          5. In philosophy and physics: A rule of being, operation, or             change, so certain and constant that it is conceived of as             imposed by the will of God or by some controlling             authority; as, the law of gravitation; the laws of motion;             the law heredity; the laws of thought; the laws of cause             and effect; law of self-preservation.          6. In matematics: The rule according to which anything, as             the change of value of a variable, or the value of the             terms of a series, proceeds; mode or order of sequence.          7. In arts, works, games, etc.: The rules of construction, or             of procedure, conforming to the conditions of success; a             principle, maxim; or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of             architecture, of courtesy, or of whist.          8. Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one             subject, or emanating from one source; -- including             usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial             proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman             law; the law of real property; insurance law.          9. Legal science; jurisprudence; the principles of equity;             applied justice.                         Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law                      itself is nothing else but reason.      --Coke.                         Law is beneficence acting by rule.      --Burke.                         And sovereign Law, that state's collected will O'er                      thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning                      good, repressing ill.                        --Sir W.                                                                               Jones.          10. Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy;             litigation; as, to go law.                         When every case in law is right.      --Shak.                         He found law dear and left it cheap. --Brougham.          11. An oath, as in the presence of a court. [Obs.] See {Wager             of law}, under {Wager}.          {Avogadro's law} (Chem.), a fundamental conception, according             to which, under similar conditions of temperature and             pressure, all gases and vapors contain in the same volume             the same number of ultimate molecules; -- so named after             Avogadro, an Italian scientist. Sometimes called             {Amp[8a]re's law}.          {Bode's law} (Astron.), an approximative empirical expression             of the distances of the planets from the sun, as follows:             -- Mer. Ven. Earth. Mars. Aste. Jup. Sat. Uran. Nep. 4 4 4             4 4 4 4 4 4 0 3 6 12 24 48 96 192 384 -- -- -- -- -- -- --             --- --- 4 7 10 16 28 52 100 196 388 5.9 7.3 10 15.2 27.4             52 95.4 192 300 where each distance (line third) is the             sum of 4 and a multiple of 3 by the series 0, 1, 2, 4, 8,             etc., the true distances being given in the lower line.          {Boyle's law} (Physics), an expression of the fact, that when             an elastic fluid is subjected to compression, and kept at             a constant temperature, the product of the pressure and             volume is a constant quantity, i. e., the volume is             inversely proportioned to the pressure; -- known also as             {Mariotte's law}, and the {law of Boyle and Mariotte}.          {Brehon laws}. See under {Brehon}.          {Canon law}, the body of ecclesiastical law adopted in the             Christian Church, certain portions of which (for example,             the law of marriage as existing before the Council of             Tent) were brought to America by the English colonists as             part of the common law of the land. --Wharton.          {Civil law}, a term used by writers to designate Roman law,             with modifications thereof which have been made in the             different countries into which that law has been             introduced. The civil law, instead of the common law,             prevails in the State of Louisiana. --Wharton.          {Commercial law}. See {Law merchant} (below).          {Common law}. See under {Common}.          {Criminal law}, that branch of jurisprudence which relates to             crimes.          {Ecclesiastical law}. See under {Ecclesiastical}.          {Grimm's law} (Philol.), a statement (propounded by the             German philologist Jacob Grimm) of certain regular changes             which the primitive Indo-European mute consonants,             so-called (most plainly seen in Sanskrit and, with some             changes, in Greek and Latin), have undergone in the             Teutonic languages. Examples: Skr. bh[be]tr, L. frater, E.             brother, G. bruder; L. tres, E. three, G. drei, Skr. go,             E. cow, G. kuh; Skr. dh[be] to put, Gr. ti-qe`-nai, E. do,             OHG, tuon, G. thun.          {Kepler's laws} (Astron.), three important laws or             expressions of the order of the planetary motions,             discovered by John Kepler. They are these: (1) The orbit             of a planet with respect to the sun is an ellipse, the sun             being in one of the foci. (2) The areas swept over by a             vector drawn from the sun to a planet are proportioned to             the times of describing them. (3) The squares of the times             of revolution of two planets are in the ratio of the cubes             of their mean distances.          {Law binding}, a plain style of leather binding, used for law             books; -- called also {law calf}.          {Law book}, a book containing, or treating of, laws.          {Law calf}. See {Law binding} (above).          {Law day}.             (a) Formerly, a day of holding court, esp. a court-leet.             (b) The day named in a mortgage for the payment of the                   money to secure which it was given. [U. S.]          {Law French}, the dialect of Norman, which was used in             judicial proceedings and law books in England from the             days of William the Conqueror to the thirty-sixth year of             Edward III.          {Law language}, the language used in legal writings and             forms.          {Law Latin}. See under {Latin}.          {Law lords}, peers in the British Parliament who have held             high judicial office, or have been noted in the legal             profession.          {Law merchant}, or {Commercial law}, a system of rules by             which trade and commerce are regulated; -- deduced from             the custom of merchants, and regulated by judicial             decisions, as also by enactments of legislatures.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Avocet \Av"o*cet\, Avoset \Av"o*set\ ([acr]v"[osl]*s[ecr]t), n.       [F. avocette: cf. It. avosetta, Sp. avoceta.] (Zo[94]l.)       A grallatorial bird, of the genus {Recurvirostra}; the       scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The       American species is {R. Americana}. [Written also       {avocette}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Avoset \Av"o*set\, n.       Same as {Avocet}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Avouch \A*vouch"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Avouched} ([?]); p. pr.       & vb. n. {Avouching}.] [OF. avochier, LL. advocare to       recognize the existence of a thing, to advocate, fr. L.       advocare to call to; ad + vocare to call. Cf. {Avow} to       declare, {Advocate}, and see {Vouch}, v. t.]       1. To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. [Obs.]                         They avouch many successions of authorities. --Coke.          2. To maintain a just or true; to vouch for.                         We might be disposed to question its authenticity,                      it if were not avouched by the full evidence.                                                                               --Milman.          3. To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to             affirm openly.                         If this which he avouches does appear. --Shak.                         Such antiquities could have been avouched for the                      Irish.                                                --Spenser.          4. To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to             sanction.                         Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God.                                                                               --Deut. xxvi.                                                                               17.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Aviston, IL (village, FIPS 3181)       Location: 38.60779 N, 89.60623 W       Population (1990): 924 (307 housing units)       Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Avocado Heights, CA (CDP, FIPS 3344)       Location: 34.03838 N, 118.00157 W       Population (1990): 14232 (3798 housing units)       Area: 6.9 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
ABSET          An early {declarative language} from the       {University of Aberdeen}.          ["ABSET: A Programming Language Based on Sets", E.W. Elcock et       al, Mach Intell 4, Edinburgh U Press, 1969, pp.467-492].          (1994-11-08)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
abstract class          In {object-oriented programming}, a {class}       designed only as a parent from which sub-classes may be       derived, but which is not itself suitable for instantiation.       Often used to "abstract out" incomplete sets of features which       may then be shared by a group of sibling sub-classes which add       different variations of the missing pieces.          (1994-11-08)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
abstract data type          (ADT) A kind of {data abstraction} where a       type's internal form is hidden behind a set of {access       functions}.   Values of the type are created and inspected only       by calls to the access functions.   This allows the       implementation of the type to be changed without requiring any       changes outside the {module} in which it is defined.          {Objects} and ADTs are both forms of data abstraction, but       objects are not ADTs.   Objects use procedural abstraction       (methods), not type abstraction.          A classic example of an ADT is a {stack} data type for which       functions might be provided to create an empty stack, to       {push} values onto a stack and to {pop} values from a stack.          {Reynolds paper       (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~gunter/publications/documents/taoop94.html)}.          {Cook paper "OOP vs ADTs"       (http://www.wcook.org/papers/OOPvsADT/CookOOPvsADT90.pdf)}.          (2003-07-03)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
abstract interpretation          A partial execution of a program which gains       information about its {semantics} (e.g. control structure,       flow of information) without performing all the calculations.       Abstract interpretation is typically used by compilers to       analyse programs in order to decide whether certain       optimisations or transformations are applicable.          The objects manipulated by the program (typically values and       functions) are represented by points in some {domain}.   Each       abstract domain point represents some set of real       ("{concrete}") values.          For example, we may take the abstract points "+", "0" and "-"       to represent positive, zero and negative numbers and then       define an abstract version of the multiplication operator, *#,       which operates on abstract values:          *# | + 0 -       ---|------       +   | + 0 -       0   | 0 0 0       -   | - 0 +          An interpretation is "safe" if the result of the abstract       operation is a safe approximation to the abstraction of the       concrete result.   The meaning of "a safe approximation"       depends on how we are using the results of the analysis.          If, in our example, we assume that smaller values are safer       then the "safety condition" for our interpretation (#) is          a# *# b# <= (a * b)#          where a# is the abstract version of a etc.          In general an interpretation is characterised by the {domain}s       used to represent the basic types and the abstract values it       assigns to constants (where the constants of a language       include primitive functions such as *).   The interpretation of       constructed types (such as user defined functions, {sum type}s       and {product type}s) and expressions can be derived       systematically from these basic domains and values.          A common use of {abstract interpretation} is {strictness       analysis}.          See also {standard interpretation}.          (1994-11-08)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
abstract machine          1. A processor design which is not intended to be       implemented as {hardware}, but which is the notional executor       of a particular {intermediate language} (abstract machine       language) used in a {compiler} or {interpreter}.   An abstract       machine has an {instruction set}, a {register set} and a model       of memory.   It may provide instructions which are closer to       the language being compiled than any physical computer or it       may be used to make the language implementation easier to       {port} to other {platform}s.          A {virtual machine} is an abstract machine for which an       {interpreter} exists.          Examples: {ABC}, {Abstract Machine Notation}, {ALF}, {CAML},       {F-code}, {FP/M}, {Hermes}, {LOWL},       {Christmas}, {SDL}, {S-K reduction machine}, {SECD}, {Tbl},       {Tcode}, {TL0}, {WAM}.          2. A procedure for executing a set of instructions in       some formal language, possibly also taking in input data and       producing output.   Such abstract machines are not intended to       be constructed as {hardware} but are used in thought       experiments about {computability}.          Examples: {Finite State Machine}, {Turing Machine}.          (1995-03-13)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Abstract Machine Notation          (AMN) A language for specifying {abstract machines}       in the {B-Method}, based on the mathematical theory of       {Generalised Substitutions}.          (1995-03-13)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
abstract syntax          A representation of data (typically either a       message passing over a communications link or a program being       compiled) which is independent of machine-oriented structures       and encodings and also of the physical representation of the       data (called "{concrete syntax}" in the case of compilation or       "{transfer syntax}" in communications).          A {compiler}'s internal representation of a program will       typically be specified by an abstract syntax in terms of       categories such as "statement", "expression" and "identifier".       This is independent of the source syntax ({concrete syntax})       of the language being compiled (though it will often be very       similar).   A {parse tree} is similar to an abstract syntax       tree but it will typically also contain features such as       parentheses which are syntactically significant but which are       implicit in the structure of the {abstract syntax tree}.          (1998-05-26)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Abstract Syntax Notation 1          (ASN.1, X.208, X.680) An       {ISO}/{ITU-T} {standard} for transmitting structured {data} on       {networks}, originally defined in 1984 as part of {CCITT       X.409} '84.   ASN.1 moved to its own standard, X.208, in 1998       due to wide applicability.   The substantially revised 1995       version is covered by the X.680 series.          ASN.1 defines the {abstract syntax} of {information} but does       not restrict the way the information is encoded.   Various       ASN.1 encoding rules provide the {transfer syntax} (a       {concrete} representation) of the data values whose {abstract       syntax} is described in ASN.1.   The standard ASN.1 encoding       rules include {BER} (Basic Encoding Rules - X.209), {CER}       (Canonical Encoding Rules), {DER} (Distinguished Encoding       Rules), and {PER} (Packed Encoding Rules).          ASN.1 together with specific ASN.1 encoding rules facilitates       the exchange of structured data especially between       {application programs} over networks by describing data       structures in a way that is independent of machine       architecture and implementation language.          {OSI} {Application layer} {protocols} such as {X.400} {MHS}       {electronic mail}, {X.500} directory services and {SNMP} use       ASN.1 to describe the {PDU}s they exchange.          Documents describing the ASN.1 notations: {ITU-T} Rec. X.680,       {ISO} 8824-1; {ITU-T} Rec. X.681, {ISO} 8824-2; {ITU-T}       Rec. X.682, {ISO} 8824-3; {ITU-T} Rec. X.683, {ISO} 8824-4          Documents describing the ASN.1 encoding rules: {ITU-T}       Rec. X.690, {ISO} 8825-1; {ITU-T} Rec. X.691, {ISO} 8825-2.          [M. Sample et al, "Implementing Efficient Encoders and       Decoders for Network Data Representations", IEEE Infocom 93       Proc, v.3, pp. 1143-1153, Mar 1993.   Available from Logica,       UK].          See also {snacc}.          (2000-10-20)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
abstract syntax tree          (AST) A data structure representing something which       has been parsed, often used as a {compiler} or {interpreter}'s       internal representation of a program while it is being       optimised and from which {code generation} is performed.   The       range of all possible such structures is described by the       {abstract syntax}.          (1994-11-08)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Abstract Window Toolkit          (AWT) {Java}'s {platform}-independent {windowing},       graphics, and user-interface {toolkit}.   The AWT is part of       the {Java Foundation Classes} (JFC) - the standard {API} for       providing a {graphical user interface} (GUI) for a Java       program.          Compare: {SWING}.          ["Java in a Nutshell", O'Reilly].          {Home (http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/awt/)}.          (2000-07-26)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Abstract Windowing Toolkit          {Abstract Window Toolkit}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
abstraction          1. Generalisation; ignoring or hiding details to capture some       kind of commonality between different instances.   Examples are       {abstract data types} (the representation details are hidden),       {abstract syntax} (the details of the {concrete syntax} are       ignored), {abstract interpretation} (details are ignored to       analyse specific properties).          2. Parameterisation, making something a function       of something else.   Examples are {lambda abstractions} (making       a term into a function of some variable), {higher-order       function}s (parameters are functions), {bracket abstraction}       (making a term into a function of a variable).          Opposite of {concretisation}.          (1998-06-04)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Abstract-Type and Scheme-Definition Language          (ASDL) A language developed as part of {Esprit}       project {GRASPIN}, as a basis for generating {language-based       editor}s and environments.   It combines an {object-oriented}       type system, syntax-directed translation schemes and a       target-language interface.          ["ASDL - An Object-Oriented Specification Language for       Syntax-Directed Environments", M.L. Christ-Neumann et al,       European Software Eng Conf, Strasbourg, Sept 1987, pp.77-85].          (1996-02-19)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
apostrophe          {single quote}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
AppKit          A set of objects used by the {application builder} for       the {NEXTSTEP} environment.          (1995-03-13)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Abagtha       one of the seven eunuchs in Ahasuerus's court (Esther 1:10;       2:21).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Affection       feeling or emotion. Mention is made of "vile affections" (Rom.       1:26) and "inordinate affection" (Col. 3:5). Christians are       exhorted to set their affections on things above (Col. 3:2).       There is a distinction between natural and spiritual or gracious       affections (Ezek. 33:32).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Apostle       a person sent by another; a messenger; envoy. This word is once       used as a descriptive designation of Jesus Christ, the Sent of       the Father (Heb. 3:1; John 20:21). It is, however, generally       used as designating the body of disciples to whom he intrusted       the organization of his church and the dissemination of his       gospel, "the twelve," as they are called (Matt. 10:1-5; Mark       3:14; 6:7; Luke 6:13; 9:1). We have four lists of the apostles,       one by each of the synoptic evangelists (Matt. 10:2-4; Mark       3:16; Luke 6:14), and one in the Acts (1:13). No two of these       lists, however, perfectly coincide.                Our Lord gave them the "keys of the kingdom," and by the gift       of his Spirit fitted them to be the founders and governors of       his church (John 14:16, 17, 26; 15:26, 27; 16:7-15). To them, as       representing his church, he gave the commission to "preach the       gospel to every creature" (Matt. 28:18-20). After his ascension       he communicated to them, according to his promise, supernatural       gifts to qualify them for the discharge of their duties (Acts       2:4; 1 Cor. 2:16; 2:7, 10, 13; 2 Cor. 5:20; 1 Cor. 11:2). Judas       Iscariot, one of "the twelve," fell by transgression, and       Matthias was substituted in his place (Acts 1:21). Saul of       Tarsus was afterwards added to their number (Acts 9:3-20; 20:4;       26:15-18; 1 Tim. 1:12; 2:7; 2 Tim. 1:11).                Luke has given some account of Peter, John, and the two       Jameses (Acts 12:2, 17; 15:13; 21:18), but beyond this we know       nothing from authentic history of the rest of the original       twelve. After the martyrdom of James the Greater (Acts 12:2),       James the Less usually resided at Jerusalem, while Paul, "the       apostle of the uncircumcision," usually travelled as a       missionary among the Gentiles (Gal. 2:8). It was characteristic       of the apostles and necessary (1) that they should have seen the       Lord, and been able to testify of him and of his resurrection       from personal knowledge (John 15:27; Acts 1:21, 22; 1 Cor. 9:1;       Acts 22:14, 15). (2.) They must have been immediately called to       that office by Christ (Luke 6:13; Gal. 1:1). (3.) It was       essential that they should be infallibly inspired, and thus       secured against all error and mistake in their public teaching,       whether by word or by writing (John 14:26; 16:13; 1 Thess.       2:13).                (4.) Another qualification was the power of working miracles       (Mark 16:20; Acts 2:43; 1 Cor. 12:8-11). The apostles therefore       could have had no successors. They are the only authoritative       teachers of the Christian doctrines. The office of an apostle       ceased with its first holders.                In 2 Cor. 8:23 and Phil. 2:25 the word "messenger" is the       rendering of the same Greek word, elsewhere rendered "apostle."
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Abagtha, father of the wine-press