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 ]

n. 1. The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. [ 1913 Webster ]

The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Theol.) Doctrine of absolute decrees. Ash. [ 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 ]

n. 1. A tenet of the Academic philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy. [ 1913 Webster ]

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; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity. Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; world. ] A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. 'a priv. + kro`tos a rattling, beating. ] (Med.) Lack or defect of pulsation. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n. 1. a policy of taking direct and militant action to achieve a political or social goal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; unfettered; 'a priv. + &unr_; a fetter. ] (Bot.) The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Religious indifference. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 any Christian religion that believes the second coming of Christ is imminent.
Syn. -- Second Adventism [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. recklessness in politics or foreign affairs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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 ]

n. 1. 1 discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.
Syn. -- agism [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people. [ Also spelled ageism. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: (Theol.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n. 1. 1 a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. the act of giving, or tendency to give, needless warnings. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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. ] 1. (Med.) Chronic excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages that leads to social, occupational, psychological and physiological problems. [ AS ]

2. (Med.) Psychological and physiological dependence on alcohol; sudden cessation of drinking may lead to withdrawal symptoms. [ AS + PJC ]

{ } n. [ OE. algorism, algrim, augrim, OF. algorisme, F. algorithme (cf. Sp. algoritmo, OSp. alguarismo, LL. algorismus), fr. the Ar. al-Khowārezmī of Khowārezm, the modern Khiwa, surname of Abu Ja'far Mohammed ben Musā, author of a work on arithmetic early in the 9th century, which was translated into Latin, such books bearing the name algorismus. The spelling with th is due to a supposed connection with Gr. &unr_; number. ] 1. The art of calculating by nine figures and zero; computation with Arabic figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the Arabic system of numeration.
Syn. -- decimal system [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. The art of calculating with any species of notation; as, the algorithms of fractions, proportions, surds, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage. [ 1913 Webster ]

The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The study or treatment of diseases of the mind. [ 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 ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_; other + direction, way, &unr_; to turn: cf. F. allotropie. ] (Chem.) The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations. [ 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 ]

n.; fem. Almswoman. 1. A recipient of alms. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A giver of alms. [ R. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 egoism or selfishness. [ Recent ] J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n. 1. Attachment to the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_; + -logy. ] Ambiguity of speech; equivocation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]