2. That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. [ 1913 Webster ]

Antony, most large in his abominations. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A cause of pollution or wickedness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Detestation; loathing; abhorrence; disgust; aversion; loathsomeness; odiousness. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. [ 1913 Webster ]

The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangement; aberration; mania; delirium; frenzy; dementia; monomania. See Insanity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) Permutation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alternation of generation. See under Generation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Alliteration. [ Obs. ] Tyrwhitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

While nymphs take treats, or assignations give. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A making over by transfer of title; assignment. [ 1913 Webster ]

House of assignation, a house in which appointments for sexual intercourse are fulfilled. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Chem.) The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her complexion of the delicate carnation. Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Paint.) Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints. [ 1913 Webster ]

The flesh tints in painting are termed carnations. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) A species of Dianthus (Dianthus Caryophyllus) or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An orbicular motion. [ Obs. ] bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A circle; a concentric layer. [ Obs. ] “The circinations and spherical rounds of onions.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

The coadunation of all the civilized provinces. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

As by our cognation to the body of the first Adam. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Participation of the same nature. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

A like temper and cognation. Sir K. Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Making new compounds by new combinations. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

A solemn combination shall be made
Of our dear souls. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The result of combining or uniting; union of persons or things; esp. a union or alliance of persons or states to effect some purpose; -- usually in a bad sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

A combination of the most powerful men in Rome who had conspired my ruin. Melmoth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. (Math.) The different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In combinations no regard is paid to the order in which the objects are arranged in each group, while in variations and permutations this order is respected. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

Combination car, a railroad car containing two or more compartments used for different purposes. [ U. S. ] --
Combination lock, a lock in which the mechanism is controlled by means of a movable dial (sometimes by several dials or rings) inscribed with letters or other characters. The bolt of the lock can not be operated until after the dial has been so turned as to combine the characters in a certain order or succession. --
Combination room, in the University of Cambridge, Eng., a room into which the fellows withdraw after dinner, for wine, dessert, and conversation. --
Combination by volume (Chem.), the act, process, or ratio by which gaseous elements and compounds unite in definite proportions by volume to form distinct compounds. --
Combination by weight (Chem.), the act, process, or ratio, in which substances unite in proportions by weight, relatively fixed and exact, to form distinct compounds. See Law of definite proportions, under Definite.

Syn. -- Cabal; alliance; association; league; union; confederacy; coalition; conspiracy. See Cabal. [ 1913 Webster ]

With terrible comminations to all them that did resist. Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those thunders of commination. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An office in the liturgy of the Church of England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's anger and judgments against sinners. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of conation, in other words, of desire and will. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's will. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

A concatenation of explosions. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture. [ 1913 Webster ]

A legal and judicial condemnation. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose condemnation is pronounced. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of being condemned. [ 1913 Webster ]

His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The ground or reason of condemning. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather light, because their deeds were evil. John iii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated. Bouvier. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conglutination of parts separated by a wound. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

So is despair a certain consignation to eternal ruin. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of ratifying or establishing, as if by signing; confirmation; ratification. [ 1913 Webster ]

A direct consignation of pardon. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A stamp; an indication; a sign. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The most certain consignations of an excellent virtue. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

The chiefs around,
In silence wrapped, in consternation drowned.
Attend the stern reply. Pope.

Syn. -- Alarm; fright; amazement; astonishment; surprise; panic; perturbation. See Alarm. [ 1913 Webster ]