n. [ OF. acusation, F. accusation, L. accusatio, fr. accusare. See Accuse. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. [ 1913 Webster ]

We come not by the way of accusation
To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ They ] set up over his head his accusation. Matt. xxvii. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Impeachment; crimination; censure; charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the accusative case. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. accusatif, L. accusativus (in sense 2), fr. accusare. See Accuse. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Producing accusations; accusatory. “This hath been a very accusative age.” Sir E. Dering. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Gram.) The accusative case. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In an accusative manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In relation to the accusative case in grammar. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Accusatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way accusation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. accusatorius, fr. accusare. ] Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. Grote. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A making actual or really existent; giving the appearance of reality. [ R. ] Emerson.
Syn. -- realization, realisation. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. adversativus, fr. adversari. ] Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force. -- Ad*ver"sa*tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

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. 1. a region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
Syn. -- Alsace, Elsass [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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 ]

v., n., a., n. Same as Amortize, Amortization, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities.
Syn. -- brutalization, brutalisation, animalization [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. ansatus, fr. ansa a handle. ] Having a handle. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. separating something into fine particles.
Syn. -- atomization, fragmentation [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. annihilation by reducing something to atoms.
Syn. -- atomization [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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.
Syn. -- barbarization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An act that debases or corrupts. [ chiefly Brit. ]
Syn. -- bastardization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a Buddhist, worthy of nirvana, who postpones it to help others.
Syn. -- Bodhisattva. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ ‖ ‖, n. [ Skr. bōdhisattva (perh. through Pali bōdhisattō); fr. bōdhi knowledge, enlightenment + sattva being, essence. ] (Buddhism) One who has reached the highest degree of saintship, so that in his next incarnation he will be a Buddha, or savior of the world. -- Bo"dhi*sat`ship, n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. the deletion of all passages considered to be indecent.
Syn. -- bowdlerization, expurgation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., heater, fr. L. calor heat. ] An apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Dressed with a shirt over the other garments. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. same as capitalization.
Syn. -- capitalization. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. same as carbonization. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ LL. cassare. See Cass. ] To render void or useless; to vacate or annul. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cassation. See Cass. ] The act of annulling. [ 1913 Webster ]

A general cassation of their constitutions. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Court of cassation, the highest court of appeal in France, which has power to quash (Casser) or reverse the decisions of the inferior courts. [ 1913 Webster ]

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, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the other is certain to take place. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] 1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A word which expresses or suggests a cause. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a causative manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cause. ] One who causes. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 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; as, a cessation of the war. [ 1913 Webster ]

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.), an armistice, or truce, agreed to by the commanders of armies, to give time for a capitulation, or for other purposes.

Syn. -- Stop; rest; stay; pause; discontinuance; intermission; interval; respite; interruption; recess; remission. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. circumcursare, -satum, to run round about. ] The act of running about; also, rambling language. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. cis- + Atlantic. ] On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer. Story. [ 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 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Compensated; p. pr. & vb. n. Compensating. ] [ L. compensatus, p. p. of compensare, prop., to weigh several things with one another, to balance with one another, verb intens. fr. compendere. See Compendium. ] 1. To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for. [ 1913 Webster ]

The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries. Prior.

Syn. -- To recompense; remunerate; indemnify; reward; requite; counterbalance. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. receiving or eligible for compensation.
Syn. -- remunerated, salaried, stipendiary. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. compensatio a weighing, a balancing of accounts. ] 1. The act or principle of compensating. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

3. (Law) (a)The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off. Bouvier. Wharton. (b) A recompense or reward for some loss or service. (c) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Compensation balance, or
Compensated balance, a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different metals having different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement. --
Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.

Syn. -- Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration; requital; satisfaction; set-off. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. compensativus. ] Affording compensation. [ 1913 Webster ]