n. The principles or measures of abolitionists. Wilberforce. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth. [ 1913 Webster ]
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The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. abisme; F. abime, LL. abyssimus, a superl. of L. abyssus; Gr. &unr_;. See Abyss. ] An abyss; a gulf. “The abysm of hell.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound. [ 1913 Webster ]
Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. To a fathomless depth; profoundly. “Abysmally ignorant.” G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. [ Obs. ] Baxter. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Accidental character or effect. Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] (Rhet.) Affected refusal; coyness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. achromatisme. ] The state or quality of being achromatic;
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n. [ See Acosmism. ] One who denies the existence of the universe, or of a universe as distinct from God. G. H. Lewes. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Feats of the acrobat; daring gymnastic feats; high vaulting. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr.
n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_; ray. ] The property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. [ Gr. &unr_; unfettered;
n. Religious indifference. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. The doctrine of æsthetics; æsthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. “The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.
n. That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.
n. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to contend for a prize, fr. &unr_;. See Agon. ] Contention for a prize; a contest. [ Obs. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Agriculture. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state or condition of being an albino; albinism. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. alcoolisme. ]
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The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The allodial system. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_; other + &unr_; part. ] (Chem.) Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Min.) The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_; other + &unr_; god. ] The worship of strange gods. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Thus, carbon occurs crystallized in octahedrons and other related forms, in a state of extreme hardness, in the diamond; it occurs in hexagonal forms, and of little hardness, in black lead; and again occurs in a third form, with entire softness, in lampblack and charcoal. In some cases, one of these is peculiarly an active state, and the other a passive one. Thus, ozone is an active state of oxygen, and is distinct from ordinary oxygen, which is the element in its passive state. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. altruisme (a word of Comte's), It. altrui of or to others, fr. L. alter another. ] Regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to
n. [ Cf. OF. amassement. ] An amassing; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation. [ 1913 Webster ]
An amassment of imaginary conceptions. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The practice, habit, or work of an amateur. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. [ See Amorphous. ] A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc. There are stony substances which, when fused, may cool as glass or as stone; the glass state is spoken of as a state of amorphism. [ 1913 Webster ]