n. Same as Egophony. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Goīng before; foregoing. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ F. allégorique, L. allegorius, fr. Gr. &unr_;. See Allegory. ] Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. “An allegoric tale.” Falconer. “An allegorical application.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another. Max Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Al`le*gor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Al`le*gor"ic*al*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. allegoriste. ] One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Allegorized p. pr. & vb. n. Allegorizing. ] [ Cf. F. allégoriser, fr. L. allegorizare. ] 1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To use allegory. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Allegories [ L. allegoria, Gr. &unr_;, description of one thing under the image of another; &unr_; other + &unr_; to speak in the assembly, harangue, &unr_; place of assembly, fr. &unr_; to assemble: cf. F. allégorie. ] 1. A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Paint. & Sculpt.) A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Metaphor; fable. -- Allegory, Parable. “An allegory differs both from fable and parable, in that the properties of persons are fictitiously represented as attached to things, to which they are as it were transferred. . . . A figure of Peace and Victory crowning some historical personage is an allegory. “I am the Vine, ye are the branches” [ John xv. 1-6 ] is a spoken allegory. In the parable there is no transference of properties. The parable of the sower [ Matt. xiii. 3-23 ] represents all things as according to their proper nature. In the allegory quoted above the properties of the vine and the relation of the branches are transferred to the person of Christ and His apostles and disciples.” C. J. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

An allegory is a prolonged metaphor. Bunyan's “Pilgrim's Progress” and Spenser's “Faërie Queene” are celebrated examples of the allegory. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'anti` against + &unr_; to speak; part. pass. &unr_;. ] (Eccl.) Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to the archegonium.
Syn. -- archegoniate, archegonical. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an archegonium.
Syn. -- archegonial [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. bearing archegonia.
Syn. -- archegonial [ PJC ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; the first of a race. ] (Bot.) The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Archegonium. ] (Biol.) Spontaneous generation; abiogenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Sp. asnico, dim. of asno an ass. ] A stupid fellow. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Asinego. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Begodded. ] To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify. [ Obs. ] “Begodded saints.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Elec.) A unit of resistance equal to one billion ohms, or one thousand megohms. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

interj. [ Be, v. i. + gone, p. p. ] Go away; depart; get you gone. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. [ OE. begon, AS. bigān; pref. be- + gān to go. ] Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone). [ Obs. ] Gower. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Michel Begon, a promoter of botany. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America.
Syn. -- family Begoniaceae, begonia family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To besmear with gore. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Beget. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Beget. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A country in the Balkan penninsula of southeastern Europe, formerly a part of Yugoslavia.
Syn. -- Bosnia and Herzegovina. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Anat.) Branchiostegal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; predicate. See Category. ] (Logic.) Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to a category. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute. A. Marvell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. placed in a category. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Categories [ L. categoria, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to accuse, affirm, predicate; &unr_; down, against + &unr_; to harrangue, assert, fr. &unr_; assembly. ] 1. (Logic.) One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. [ 1913 Webster ]

The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. See Chigoe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Coalgoose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae.
Syn. -- family Coregonidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the type genus of the Coregonidae; whitefishes.
Syn. -- genus Coregonus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. egos [ L., I. ] The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; the subject consciously considered as “I” by a person; -- opposed to non-ego. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. (Psychoanalysis) that one of the three parts of a person's psychic apparatus that mediates consciously between the drives of the id and the realities of the external physical and social environment, by integrating perceptions of the external world and organizing the reactions to it. Contrasted with the id and superego. [ PJC ]

3. egotism; as, a job requiring a diplomat without too much ego. [ PJC ]

4. self-esteem; as, he has an overinflated ego. [ PJC ]

adj. having an attitude which is almost exclusively concerned with one's own needs or desires.
Syn. -- egoistical, self-centered, self-centred. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a self-centered person with little regard for others.
Syn. -- egoist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the personality trait that causes one to attempt to get personal recognition for oneself (especially by unacceptable means).
Syn. -- egoism, self-interest, self-concern, self-centeredness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to egoism. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. égoïsme, fr. L. -ego I. See I, and cf. Egotism. ] 1. (Philos.) The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. égoïste. See Egoism. ] 1. One given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self. [ 1913 Webster ]

I, dullard egoist, taking no special recognition of such nobleness. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Philos.) A believer in egoism.

{ } a. Pertaining to egoism; imbued with egoism or excessive thoughts of self; self-loving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ill-natured feeling, or egoistic pleasure in making men miserable. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an egoistic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Personality. [ R. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]