n. [ L. abdicatio: cf. F. abdication. ] The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power;
n. Rejection by judicial sentence. [ R. ] Knowles. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. acidification. ] The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. adjudicatio: cf. F. adjudication. ]
n. Additional signification. [ R. ] Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. advocatio: cf. OF. avocation. See Advowson. ]
The holy Jesus . . . sits in heaven in a perpetual advocation for us. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
The donations or advocations of church livings. Sanderson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. aérification. See A&unr_;rify. ]
n. The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. albification: L. albus white + ficare (only in comp.), facere, to make. ] The act or process of making white. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ LL. allocatio: cf. F. allocation. ]
The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. A. R. Stanley. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. altercation, fr. L. altercatio. ] Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. “Stormy altercations.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
Their whole life was little else than a perpetual wrangling and altercation. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. amplificatio. ]
Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]
I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. An appendage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. applicatio, fr. applicare: cf. F. application. See Apply. ]
He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
If a right course . . . be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
Had his application been equal to his talents, his progress might have been greater. J. Jay. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. apprecari to pray to; ad + precari to pray, prex, precis, prayer. ] Earnest prayer; devout wish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
A solemn apprecation of good success. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Basking in the sun. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity.
n. [ Auto- + intoxication. ] (Med.) Poisoning, or the state of being poisoned, from toxic substances produced within the body; autotoxæmia. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ Auto- + toxication. ] (Physiol.) Same as Auto-intoxication. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ Cf. OF. averroncation. ]
n. [ L. avocatio. ]
Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
Heaven is his vocation, and therefore he counts earthly employments avocations. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
By the secular cares and avocations which accompany marriage the clergy have been furnished with skill in common life. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
There are professions, among the men, no more favorable to these studies than the common avocations of women. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]
In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them choose the wandering avocations of a shepherd, rather than the more fixed pursuits of agriculture. Buckle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. béatification. ] The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of “the blessed, ” or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization. “The beatification of his spirit.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. the act of making something more beautiful. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. [ Cf. F. bifurcation. ] A forking, or division into two branches. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Pref. bi- + location. ] Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Physiol.) The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. calorification. ] Production of heat, esp. animal heat. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. caprificatio, fr. caprificare to ripen figs by caprification, fr. caprificus the wild fig; caper goat + ficus fig. ] The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ It is supposed that the little insects insure fertilization by carrying the pollen from the male flowers near the opening of the fig down to the female flowers, and also accelerate ripening the fruit by puncturing it. The practice has existed since ancient times, but its benefit has been disputed. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. carnification. ] The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. cartilago, -laginis, cartilage + facere to make. ] The act or process of forming cartilage. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_; downward + &unr_; going, p. pr. of &unr_; to go. ] (Chem.) a positively charged atom, radical, or molecule, which in electrolysis migrates to the cathode; a positive
adj. (Chem.) of or pertaining to cations; having a net positive charge; positively
n. [ L. certificatio: cf. F. certification. ] The act of certifying. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Physiol.) Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Physiol.) The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Chyme + L. facere to make: cf. F. Chymification. ] (Physiol.) The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. clarification, L. clarificatio glorification. ]
The clarification of men's ideas. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. classification. ] The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities. [ 1913 Webster ]
Artificial classification. (Science)
n. [ L. claudicatio. ] A halting or limping. [ R. ] Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. codification. ] The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. An educating together, of different sexes or races; -- now used almost exclusively in reference to the education males and females together. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]
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n. [ Cf. F. coïdication. ] One of several signs or symptoms indicating the same fact;
n. [ L. collocatio. ]
The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. communicatio. ]
Argument . . . and friendly communication. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Evil communications corrupt good manners. 1 Cor. xv. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]
The Euxine Sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. used in communication;
n. [ L. compliasion: cf. F. complication. ]
A complication of diseases. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. comprecatio, fr. comprecari to pray to. See Precarious. ] A praying together. [ Obs. ] Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. conduplicatio. ] A doubling together or folding; a duplication. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. confiscatio. ] The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use. [ 1913 Webster ]
The confiscations following a subdued rebellion. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]