| Albuminiparous | a. [ L. albumen + parere to bear, bring forth. ] Producing albumin. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Ambiparous | a. [ L. ambo both + parere to bring forth. ] (Bot.) Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Anticipant | a. [ L. anticipans, p. pr. of anticipare. ] Anticipating; expectant; -- with of. [ 1913 Webster ] Wakening guilt, anticipant of hell. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Anticipate | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Anticipated p. pr. & vb. n. Anticipating ] [ L. anticipatus, p. p. of anticipare to anticipate; ante + capere to make. See Capable. ] 1. To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action. [ 1913 Webster ] To anticipate and prevent the duke's purpose. R. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ] He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To take up or introduce beforehand, or before the proper or normal time; to cause to occur earlier or prematurely; as, the advocate has anticipated a part of his argument. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. To foresee (a wish, command, etc.) and do beforehand that which will be desired. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. To foretaste or foresee; to have a previous view or impression of; as, to anticipate the pleasures of a visit; to anticipate the evils of life. [ 1913 Webster ] Syn. -- To prevent; obviate; preclude; forestall; expect. -- To Anticipate, Expect. These words, as here compared, agree in regarding some future event as about to take place. Expect is the stringer. It supposes some ground or reason in the mind for considering the event as likely to happen. Anticipate is, literally, to take beforehand, and here denotes simply to take into the mind as conception of the future. Hence, to say, “I did not anticipate a refusal, ” expresses something less definite and strong than to say, “ did not expect it.” Still, anticipate is a convenient word to be interchanged with expect in cases where the thought will allow. [ 1913 Webster ] Good with bad
Expect to hear; supernal grace contending
With sinfulness of men. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ] Timid men were anticipating another civil war. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| anticipated | adj. 1. 1 expected; opposite of unanticipated and unexpected.
Syn. -- awaited(predicate), hoped-for, prospective [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ] 2. 1 rightfully expected.
Syn. -- looked-for(prenominal). [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| Anticipation | n. [ L. anticipatio: cf. F. anticipation. ] 1. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. [ 1913 Webster ] So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven. [ 1913 Webster ] The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just. Thodey. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. Hasty notion; intuitive preconception. [ 1913 Webster ] Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. (Mus.) The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord. [ 1913 Webster ] Syn. -- Preoccupation; preclusion; foretaste; prelibation; antepast; pregustation; preconception; expectation; foresight; forethought. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Anticipative | a. Anticipating, or containing anticipation. “Anticipative of the feast to come.” Cary. -- An*tic"i*pa*tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster] |
| Anticipator | n. One who anticipates. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Anticipatory | a. Forecasting; of the nature of anticipation. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ] Here is an anticipatory glance of what was to be. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Antipapal | a. Opposed to the pope or to popery. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Antiparallel | a. Running in a contrary direction. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Antiparallels | n. pl. (Geom.) Straight lines or planes which make angles in some respect opposite in character to those made by parallel lines or planes. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Antiparalytic | a. (Med.) Good against paralysis. -- n. A medicine for paralysis. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Antiparalytical | a. Antiparalytic. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| antiparticle | n. (Physics) A fundamental particle which has the same mass as one of the common fundamental particles, but which has an opposite charge, and for which certain other of the properties (e. g. baryon number, strangeness) may be opposite to that of the normal particle. The antiparticle to an electron is called a positron; the antiparticle to a proton is called an antiproton; the antiparticle to a neutron is called an antineutron. When a particle and its corresponding antiparticle collide, they typically annihilate each other with the production of large quantities of energy, usually in the form of radiation. The interaction of a proton and antiproton cause annihilation with production of mesons. [ PJC ] |
| Antipasch | n. [ Pref. anti- + pasch. ] (Eccl.) The Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
| Antipathetical | { } a. Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Antipathetic |
| Antipathic | a. [ NL. antipathicus, Gr. &unr_; of opposite feelings. ] (Med.) Belonging to antipathy; opposite; contrary; allopathic. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Antipathist | n. One who has an antipathy. [ R. ] “Antipathist of light.” Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Antipathize | v. i. To feel or show antipathy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Antipathous | a. Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Antipathy | n.; pl. Antipathies [ L. antipathia, Gr. 'antipa`qeia; 'anti` against + paqei^n to suffer. Cf. F. antipathie. See Pathos. ] 1. Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste. [ 1913 Webster ] Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy. [ 1913 Webster ] A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ Antipathy is opposed to sympathy. It is followed by to, against, or between; also sometimes by for. [ 1913 Webster ] Syn. -- Hatred; aversion; dislike; disgust; distaste; enmity; ill will; repugnance; contrariety; opposition. See Dislike. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Aquiparous | a. [ L. aqua water + parere to bring forth. ] (Med.) Secreting water; -- applied to certain glands. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| archipallium | n. 1. 1 the olfactory cortex of the cerebrum.
Syn. -- paleocortex [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| Bipalmate | a. [ Pref. bi- + palmate. ] (Bot.) Palmately branched, with the branches again palmated. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Biparietal | a. [ Pref. bi- + parietal. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from one parietal fossa to the other. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Biparous | a. [ L. bis twice + parere to bring forth. ] Bringing forth two at a birth. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Bipartible | a. [ Cf. F. bipartible. See Bipartite. ] Capable of being divided into two parts. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Bipartient | a. [ L. bis twice + partiens, p. pr. of partire to divide. ] Dividing into two parts. -- n. A number that divides another into two equal parts without a remainder. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Bipartile | a. Divisible into two parts. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Bipartite | a. [ L. bipartitus, p. p. of bipartire; bis twice + partire. See Partite. ] 1. Being in two parts; having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Divided into two parts almost to the base, as a leaf; consisting of two parts or subdivisions. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Bipartition | n. The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Calipash | n. [ F. carapace, Sp. carapacho. Cf Calarash, Carapace. ] A part of a turtle which is next to the upper shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a dull greenish tinge, much esteemed as a delicacy in preparations of turtle. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Callipash | n. See Calipash. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Constipate | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Constipated; p. pr. & vb. n. Constipating. ] [ L. constipatus, p. p. of constipare; con- + stipare to crowd together. See Costive. ] 1. To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Of cold the property is to condense and constipate. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. (Med.) To render costive; to cause constipation in. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| constipated | adj. having difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of the bowels; costive. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| constipating | adj. causing constipation.
Syn. -- binding. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| Constipation | n. [ L. constipatio a crowding together: cf. F. constipation. ] 1. Act of crowding anything into a less compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Fullness of matter, or a pretty close constipation . . . of its particles. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened fæces; costiveness. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| deiparous | a. [ L. deus a god + parere to bring forth. ] Bearing or bringing forth a god; -- said of the Virgin Mary. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Digitipartite | a. [ L. digitus finger + partite. ] (Bot.) Parted like the fingers. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dipaschal | a. [ Pref. di- + paschal. ] Including two passovers. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dissipable | a. [ L. dissipabilis. ] Capable of being scattered or dissipated. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] The heat of those plants is very dissipable. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dissipate | v. i. 1. To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| dissipate | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dissipated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissipating. ] [ L. dissipatus, p. p. of dissipare; dis- + an obsolete verb sipare, supare. to throw. ] 1. To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. [ 1913 Webster ] Dissipated those foggy mists of error. Selden. [ 1913 Webster ] I soon dissipated his fears. Cook. [ 1913 Webster ] The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander. [ 1913 Webster ] The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated. Bp. Burnet. Syn. -- To disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste; consume; lavish. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dissipated | a. 1. Squandered; scattered. “Dissipated wealth.” Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. [ 1913 Webster ] A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dissipation | n. [ L. dissipatio: cf. F. dissipation. ] 1. The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste. [ 1913 Webster ] Without loss or dissipation of the matter. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ] The famous dissipation of mankind. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness. [ 1913 Webster ] To reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance. P. Henry. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention. [ 1913 Webster ] Prevented from finishing them [ the letters ] a thousand avocations and dissipations. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
Dissipation of energy. Same as Degradation of energy, under Degradation. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| dissipative | a. Tending to dissipate. [ 1913 Webster ]
Dissipative system (Mech.), an assumed system of matter and motions in which forces of friction and resistances of other kinds are introduced without regard to the heat or other molecular actions which they generate; -- opposed to conservative system. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Dissipativity | n. The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dodipoll | { } n. [ Perh. fr. OE. dodden to cut off, to shear, and first applied to shaven-polled priests. ] A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. [ 1913 Webster ] Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Dodipate |
| Dorsiparous | a. [ Dorsum + L. parere to bring forth. ] (Biol.) Same as Dorsiferous. [ 1913 Webster ] |
