n. [ OF. acusation, F. accusation, L. accusatio, fr. accusare. See Accuse. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
We come not by the way of accusation
To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ They ] set up over his head his accusation. Matt. xxvii. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Pertaining to the accusative case. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F. accusatif, L. accusativus (in sense 2), fr. accusare. See Accuse. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Gram.) The accusative case. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv.
a. [ L. adversativus, fr. adversari. ] Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis;
n. An adversative word. Harris. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Psychol.) A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n.
n. An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Pertaining to Alsatia. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n.
n. [ L. aversatio, fr. aversari to turn away, v. intens. of avertere. See Avert. ] A turning from with dislike; aversion. [ Obs.or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Some men have a natural aversation to some vices or virtues, and a natural affection to others. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. the act or process of barbarizing; an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized.
n. An act that debases or corrupts. [ chiefly Brit. ]
n. the deletion of all passages considered to be indecent.
n.
n. same as carbonization. [ PJC ]
n. [ F. cassation. See Cass. ] The act of annulling. [ 1913 Webster ]
A general cassation of their constitutions. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]
Court of cassation,
n. [ LL. catechizatio. ] The act of catechising. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced. [ 1913 Webster ]
The kind of causation by which vision is produced. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]
Law of universal causation,
n. One who believes in the law of universal causation. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. causativus pertaining to a lawsuit (causa), but in the English sense from E. cause. ]
Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A word which expresses or suggests a cause. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a causative manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. same as centralization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. [ F. cessation, L. cessatio, fr. cessare. See Cease. ] A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop;
The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]
The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]
Cessation of arms (Mil.),
n. [ L. circumcursare, -satum, to run round about. ] The act of running about; also, rambling language. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. comissatio, comessatio. ] A reveling; a rioting. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Commensality. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Daniel . . . declined pagan commensation. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. same as commercialization. [ Brit. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. [ L. compensatio a weighing, a balancing of accounts. ]
The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]
No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
Compensation balance,
Compensated balance
Compensation pendulum.
a. [ LL. compensativus. ] Affording compensation. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Compensation. [ R. ] Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ From L. compulsare, v. intens. of compellere. See Compel. ] Compulsatory. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. By compulsion. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. the act of formulating or making a concept of something.
n. A violent shock or agitation. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. condensatio: cf. F. condensation. ]
He [ Goldsmith ] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
Condensation product (Chem.),
Surface condensation,
a. [ Cf. F. condensatif. ] Having the property of condensing. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. conspissatio, fr. conspissare to make thick. ] A making thick or viscous; thickness; inspissation. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. conversacio (in senses 1 & 2), OF. conversacion, F. conversation, fr. L. conversatio frequent abode in a place, intercourse, LL. also, manner of life. ]
Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]
I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
All traffic and mutual conversation. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]
The influence exercised by his [ Johnson's ] conversation was altogether without a parallel. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing;
n. A conversationist. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Aaquaintea with m`nners aod deportment; behaved. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Till she be better conversationed, . . . I'll keep
As far from her as the gallows. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloquialism. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]