Dictionary
Archived English words only, ordered alphabetically with definitions and pronunciation pages.
"With stronger reason."
"A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife."
"Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse o
"In the morning; every morning."
"On the sea; at sea; toward the sea."
"A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from away separating or departure as in abduct abstract abscond. See A-(6)."
"The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila."
"of Abacus"
"The destroyer or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus." — "Hell; the bottomless pit."
"To abandon." — "To banish; to expel."
"To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject." — "To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert as a person to whom one owes alle
"of Abandon" — "Forsaken deserted." — "Self-abandoned or given up to vice; extremely wicked or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as an abandoned villain."
"A monastery or society of persons of either sex secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also the monastic building or buildings." — "The church of a monastery."
"of Ability"
"The quality or state of being able; power to perform whether physical moral intellectual conventional or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength skill resources etc.; -- in the plural fac
"Fit; adapted; suitable." — "Having sufficient power strength force skill means or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; ca
"On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence into or within a railway car." — "Alongside; as close aboard." — "On board of; as to go aboard a ship." — "Across; athwart."
"First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as the aboriginal tribes of America." — "Of or pertaining to aborigines; as a Hindoo of aboriginal blood." — "An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigin
"The act of giving premature birth; particularly the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage." — "The immature product of an untimely birth." — "Arrest of dev
"Around; all round; on every side of." — "In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near as to place; by or on (one's person)." — "Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various d
"In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath." — "Figuratively higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in measure or degree than
"At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as a tree spreads its branches abroad." — "Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as to walk abroad." — "Beyond the bounds of a country;
"A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence." — "Want; destitution; withdrawal." — "Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as absence of mind."
"Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present." — "Not existing; lacking; as the part was rudimental or absent." — "Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as an absent air." |||
"Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as absolute authority monarchy sovereignty an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch." — "Complete in itse
"In an absolute independent or unconditional manner; wholly; positively."
"To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include." — "To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body." — "To engross or enga
"of Absorb"
"Withdraw; separate." — "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." — "Exp
"Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as an absurd person an absurd opi