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Stem
The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
Nay
To refuse.
Referendum
A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point.
Present
Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts.
Pick
To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
Supra
Over; above; before; also, beyond; besides; -- much used as a prefix.
Headway
The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.
Frontal
Belonging to the front part; being in front
Eligible
That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.
Pass
To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
Mark
To put a mark upon; to affix a significant mark to; to make recognizable by a mark; as, to mark a box or bale of merchandise; to mark clothing.
House
A firm, or commercial establishment.
Pose
To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as ..
Marketing
Articles in, or from, a market; supplies.
Equity
Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; fairness in determination of conflicting claim..
Consider
To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate.
Script
Type made in imitation of handwriting.
Feel
To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.
Title
The instrument which is evidence of a right.
Pick
The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to a..
Monarchism
The principles of, or preference for, monarchy.
Druid
One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons.
Milled
of Mill
Mister
A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a man or youth. It is usually written in the abbreviated form Mr.
Frontage
The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
Guesswork
Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.
Morphological
Of, pertaining to, or according to, the principles of morphology.
Fondling
of Fondle
Rise
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
Lodge
The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
Graduation
The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc.
Denounce
To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.
Subjoin
To add after something else has been said or written; to ANNEX; as, to subjoin an argument or reason.
Mouldy
Overgrown with, or containing, mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.
Knight
A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
Accuse
Accusation.
Incarnate
Not in the flesh; spiritual.
Paternoster
The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.
Sanctus
A part of the Mass, or, in Protestant churches, a part of the communion service, of which the first words in Latin are Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus [Holy, holy, holy]; -- called also Tersanctus.
Gloria
A doxology (beginning Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father), sung or said at the end of the Psalms in the service of the Roman Catholic and other churches.
Consecration
The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication.
Provost
A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other ..
Treasurer
One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and ..
Prefect
A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of prov..
Casting
of Cast
Agnus Dei
A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.
Will
The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to do or not to do; the power or faculty of pr..
Ideogram
An original, pictorial element of writing; a kind of hieroglyph expressing no sound, but only an idea.
Elect
Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
President
Precedent.
Papacy
The office and dignity of the pope, or pontiff, of Rome; papal jurisdiction.
Infra
Below; beneath; under; after; -- often used as a prefix.
Oracular
Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.
By
In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me.
For
In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.
Inductive
Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to.
Before
In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house.
Precursory
Preceding as a precursor or harbinger; indicating something to follow; as, precursory symptoms of a fever.
Proemial
Introductory; prefatory; preliminary.
Preparatory
Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.
Anterior
Before in time; antecedent.
Antecedent
The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who.
Favoritism
The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality.
Propensity
The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency.
Nepotism
Undue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to members of one's family; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather than of merit or of legal claim.
Involvement
The act of involving, or the state of being involved.
Vicarage
The benefice of a vicar.
Fascination
The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence...
Chancellery
Chancellorship.
Chieftaincy
Alt. of Chieftainship
Protectorate
Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell.
Propound
To offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose; as, to propound a question; to propound an argument.
Presume
To venture, go, or act, by an assumption of leave or authority not granted; to go beyond what is warranted by the circumstances of the case; to venture beyond license; to take liberties; -- o..
Mortgage
A conveyance of property, upon condition, as security for the payment of a debt or the preformance of a duty, and to become void upon payment or performance according to the stipulated terms; al..
Eugenics
The science of improving stock, whether human or animal.
Mend
To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as..
Manufactured
of Manufacture
Homemade
Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one's own country.
Gladly
Preferably; by choice.
Foremost
First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.
Marginalia
Marginal notes.
Management
The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; t..
Postscript
A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after the main body of the work has been finished, containing something ..
Logogram
A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it. Cf. Grammalogue.
Facia
See Fascia.
Frontispiece
The part which first meets the eye
Fore
Journey; way; method of proceeding.
Foreground
On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the ..
Foresight
The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
Suffix
A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
Rider
One who, or that which, rides.
Face
The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face.
Interpolation
The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign.
Parsonage
A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish.
Mood
Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).
Prophecy
A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.
Prefiguration
The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured.
Prospectus
A summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed, affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of an unpublished literary work.
Recovery
The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.
Option
The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.
Tax
A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.
Choosing
of Choose
Priority
The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.
Mettle
Substance or quality of temperament; spirit, esp. as regards honor, courage, fortitude, ardor, etc.; disposition; -- usually in a good sense.
Selection
The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.
Speculate
To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to sp..
Advancement
The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.
Prognosticate
To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.
Preference
The act of Preferring, or the state of being preferred; the setting of one thing before another; precedence; higher estimation; predilection; choice; also, the power or opportunity of choosing; ..
Enrichment
The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.
Predictive
Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding.
Elevation
The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; el..
Prophetic
Alt. of Prophetical
Amelioration
The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration.
Augury
The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.
Preferment
The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference.
Soothsay
To foretell; to predict.
Portent
That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign.
Presage
Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
Forewarning
of Forewarn
Ordination
The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc.
Indifferently
In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably.
Predisposition
The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger.
No
Not any; not one; none.
Eu
A prefix used frequently in composition, signifying well, good, advantageous; -- the opposite of dys-.
Episcopacy
Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different..
Regency
The office of ruler; rule; authority; government.
Archbishopric
The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.
Raised
of Raise
Furtherance
The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress.
Bishopric
A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends.
Gathered
of Gather
Fabricated
of Fabricate
Mined
of Mine
Handmade
Manufactured by hand; as, handmade shoes.
Diviner
One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.
Election
The act of choosing; choice; selection.
Memorialize
To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature.
Commentary
A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work.
Ennoble
To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify.
Predict
To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.
Preferred
of Prefer
Foretell
To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.
Merchandising
of Merchandise
Encumber
To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is ..
Made
See Mad, n.
Marketing
of Market
Illustrate
To make clear, bright, or luminous.
Signify
To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be pre..
Forecast
To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.
Adumbrate
To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
Mirza
The common title of honor in Persia, prefixed to the surname of an individual. When appended to the surname, it signifies Prince.
Superiority
The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit.
Presentment
The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; presentation.
Appointment
The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
Hieroglyphic
A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up..
Selfishness
The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advanc..
Suffrage
A vote given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote.
Hawking
of Hawk
Vote
An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
Forged
of Forge
Favoring
of Favor
Writing
of Write
Voting
of Vote
Ballot
Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.
Holding
of Hold
Franchise
Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
Errata
See Erratum.
Favored
of Favor
Dedication
The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple.
Recto
A writ of right.
Verso
The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto.
Preferential
Giving, indicating, or having a preference or precedence; as, a preferential claim; preferential shares.
Contents
of Content
Inside
Within the sides of; in the interior; contained within; as, inside a house, book, bottle, etc.
Page
A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
Divinatory
Professing, or relating to, divination.
Favored
Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend.
Pose
Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
Jobbing
of Job
Retailing
of Retail
Fetishism
The doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches.
Inquiry
The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.
Facade
The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.
Handicraft
A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.
Page
A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doing errands, wait..
Alternative
Offering a choice of two things.
Dictatorship
The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.
Adjoin
To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.
Catchword
Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.
Contra
A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary, in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many English words. Cf. Counter, adv. & pref.
Recommend
To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow com..
Eccentricity
The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
Craftsmanship
The work of a craftsman.
Revival
Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like.
Foreword
A preface.
Prefix
To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement.
Overture
An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.
Molded
of Mould
Auditor
A hearer or listener.
Initiatory
Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step.
Ineligible
Not eligible; not qualified to be chosen for an office; not worthy to be chosen or prefered; not expedient or desirable.
Voluntary
Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice.
Indite
To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.
Prelude
An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially (Mus.), a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a ..
Prepossession
Preoccupation; prior possession.
Preface
Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.
Preamble
A introductory portion; an introduction or preface, as to a book, document, etc.; specifically, the introductory part of a statute, which states the reasons and intent of the law.
Allege
To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.
Deduce
To lead forth.
Signature
A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.
Architecture
The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture.
Preliminary
Introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or book; preliminary articles to a treaty; preliminary measures; preli..
Cultivation
The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.
Probability
The quality or state of being probable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood.
Decision
Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.
Incest
The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
Usher
An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also..
Quasi
As if; as though; as it were; in a manner sense or degree; having some resemblance to; qualified; -- used as an adjective, or a prefix with a noun or an adjective; as, a quasi contract, an impli..
Delineation
The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation..
Pyramid
A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this shape.
Leading
of Lead
Deem
To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn.
Impute
To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense.
Believe
To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by ..
Infer
To bring on; to induce; to occasion.
Postulate
Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, ..
Premise
A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
Dream
The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.
Imagine
To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.
Divine
Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.
Pray
See Pry.
Workmanship
The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything.
Mastery
The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
Please
To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy.
Declension
The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
Put
A pit.
Elevate
Elevated; raised aloft.
Milling
of Mill
Conversion
The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
Extraction
The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.
Append
To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.
Discretion
Disjunction; separation.
Introductory
Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.
Volition
The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.
Apply
To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.
Free will
A will free from improper coercion or restraint.
Prologue
The preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or performance; as, the prologue of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales;" esp., a discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance
Handiwork
Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally.
Introduce
To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.
Derivation
A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
Proffer
To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.
Complicate
Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.
Expedition
The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
Codicil
A clause added to a will.
Personate
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
Prolegomenon
A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise.
Apocalypse
The revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament.
Presuppose
To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator.
Yes
Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to no.
Steel
A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consistin..
Patronage
Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to an author.
Accession
A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.
Antecedent
Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.
Precursor
One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger.
Yea
Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. See Yes.
Agglutination
The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
Offer
To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.
Folio
A leaf of a book or manuscript.
Darling
One dearly beloved; a favorite.
Notation
The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters.
Evolve
To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.
Taste
To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.
Image
An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; a..
Root
To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
Indict
To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
Favorite
A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high ra..
Poll
A parrot; -- familiarly so called.
Book
A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.
Magistracy
The office or dignity of a magistrate.
Official
Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.
Passing
of Pass
Presupposition
The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption.
Fabrication
The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.
Rear
Early; soon.
Acciaccatura
A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.
Formation
The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.
Installation
The act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained minister in a parish.
Display
To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
Yearn
To pain; to grieve; to vex.
Seer
Sore; painful.
Chancellor
A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.
Prophet
One who prophesies, or foretells events; a predicter; a foreteller.
Prognosis
The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment; as, the prognosis of hydrophobia is bad.
Paradigm
An example; a model; a pattern.
Conjugation
the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.
Slant
To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.
Add
To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).
Mirror
A looking-glass or a speculum; any glass or polished substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of light.
Submit
To let down; to lower.
Revival
The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
Want
The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of fo..
Assembled
of Assemble
Colophon
An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book.
Executive
Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, exe..
Proxy
The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity.
Apocalyptic
Alt. of Apocalyptical
Choice
Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
Erect
Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.
Aggrandize
To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.
Start
To leap; to jump.
Characterization
The act or process of characterizing.
Prefigured
of Prefigure
Launch
To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.
Plus
More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus.
Move
To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a ..
Enhancement
The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
Proctor
One who is employed to manage to affairs of another.
Assorted
of Assort
Incline
To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.
Exaltation
The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.
Indicated
of Indicate
Obverse
Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
Advance
To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
Project
The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
Annexation
The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.
Like
Having the same, or nearly the same, appearance, qualities, or characteristics; resembling; similar to; similar; alike; -- often with in and the particulars of the resemblance; as, they are l..
Calling
of Call
Promised
of Promise
Lodge
A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.
Indifferent
Not mal/ing a difference; having no influence or preponderating weight; involving no preference, concern, or attention; of no account; without significance or importance.
Better
Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
Presidency
The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care.
Directorship
The condition or office of a director; directorate.
Monitory
Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning.
Stem
Alt. of Steem
Share
The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.
Deference
A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance.
Ceremonious
Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial. [In this sense ceremonial is now preferred.]
Foresee
To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
Scholar
One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.
Selling
of Sell
Appointment
The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.
Urgency
The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
Typify
To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance.
Presume
To assume or take beforehand; esp., to do or undertake without leave or authority previously obtained.
Plebiscite
A vote by universal male suffrage; especially, in France, a popular vote, as first sanctioned by the National Constitution of 1791.
Feel
To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thi..
Appendix
Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant.
Individualism
The quality of being individual; individuality; personality.
Cull
To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.
Learner
One who learns; a scholar.
Discrimination
The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences.
Think
To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
Representation
The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.
Taunt
Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts.
Preparation
The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of ..
Threatened
of Threaten
Suspect
Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
Psychic
Alt. of Psychical
Consider
To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.
Opine
To have an opinion; to judge; to think; to suppose.
Pleasure
The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful,..
Suppose
To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or ..
Homespun
Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain.
Exclusive
Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles o..
Reckon
To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
Ready-made
Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
Let
To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.
Grain
See Groan.
Radical
Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root.
Title
An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known.
Impeach
To hinder; to impede; to prevent.
Formative
Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts.
Shaped
of Shape
Insinuate
To introduce gently or slowly, as by a winding or narrow passage, or a gentle, persistent movement.
Denounce
To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).
Grown
of Grow
Aptitude
A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn.
Penchant
Inclination; decided taste; bias; as, a penchant for art.
Refined
of Refine
Reproach
To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.
Cutting
of Cut
Affinity
Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship ..
Prefiguring
of Prefigure
Prefigurative
Showing by prefiguration.
Partiality
The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind.
Inquirer
One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator.
Select
Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice.
Introduction
The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.
Minion
Minimum.
Prognostic
Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.
Elaborate
Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
Floating
of Float
Roof
The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a ..
Address
To aim; to direct.
Relish
To taste or eat with pleasure; to like the flavor of; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food.
Warning
of Warn
Canvass
To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote.
Monitor
One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
Sue
To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.
Facet
A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond.
Proscenium
The part where the actors performed; the stage.
Discriminate
Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.
Progression
The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward.
Frontier
That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of ..
Juxtaposition
A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words.
Ascent
The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.
Burden
That which is borne or carried; a load.
Pet
A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.
Counter
A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.
Denunciate
To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly.
Reinforcement
See Reenforcement.
Type
The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.
Augur
An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unu..
Betterment
A making better; amendment; improvement.
Leaning
of Lean
Exemplify
To show or illustrate by example.
Complain
To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.
Devise
To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme;..
Concoct
To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.
Hint
To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.
Sympathy
Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling.
Betoken
To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.
Create
Created; composed; begotten.
Demonstrate
To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.
Present
Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.
Mould
Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.
Mature
Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.
Indicative
Pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or knowledge of something not visible or obvious.
Fabricate
To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.
Assembly
A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.
Inequality
The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparity; diversity; as, an inequality in size, stature, numbers..
Rendering
of Render
Prefigurement
The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured.
Make
A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
Adjunct
Conjoined; attending; consequent.
Superior
More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.
Spell
A spelk, or splinter.
Vice
A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
Chart
A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
Printing
of Print
Custom
Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
Rendition
The act of rendering; especially, the act of surrender, as of fugitives from justice, at the claim of a foreign government; also, surrender in war.
Iconography
The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.
Realization
The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.
Induction
The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.
Imagery
The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.
Elementary
Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.
Lodge
A family of North American Indians, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons; as, the tribe consists of about two hundred..
Tower
A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
Pontificate
The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.
Suggest
To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.
First
Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.
Foretoken
Prognostic; previous omen.
Personify
To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.
Prefecture
The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.
Task
Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
Finger
One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.
Leaf
A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plan..
Temper
To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm.
Erection
The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonw..
Conceive
To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.
Tag
Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
Bag
A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
Popular
Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections.
Right
Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.
Decorate
To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to deco..
Ornament
That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.
Officer
One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer.
Warden
A keeper; a guardian; a watchman.
Magistrate
A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it.
Predicted
of Predict
Prior
Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] ..
Preludial
Of or pertaining to a prelude; of the nature of a prelude; introductory.
Prefatory
Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a preface; introductory to a book, essay, or discourse; as, prefatory remarks.
Idol
An image or representation of anything.
Joining
of Join
Preceding
of Precede
Heading
of Head
Appetite
The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
Drama
A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, ten..
Arraign
To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.
Reflect
To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat.
Kyrie eleison
Greek words, meaning "Lord, have mercy upon us," used in the Mass, the breviary offices, the litany of the saints, etc.
Anacrusis
A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.
Institution
The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.
Mold
A spot; a blemish; a mole.
Back
A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
Block
A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by wh..
Annex
To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to.
Prefer
To carry or bring (something) forward, or before one; hence, to bring for consideration, acceptance, judgment, etc.; to offer; to present; to proffer; to address; -- said especially of a requ..
Exemplification
The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
Foreboding
of Forebode
Chief
The head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority who directs the work of others; the principal actor or agent...
Mayoralty
The office, or the term of office, of a mayor.
Symbol
A visible sign or representation of an idea; anything which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by resemblance or by convention; an emblem; a representation; a type; a figure; as, ..
Aristocracy
Government by the best citizens.
Presentiment
Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; ant..
Intuitive
Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.
