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-cies
(gcide) | Inadvertence \In`ad*vert"ence\; pl. -ces, Inadvertency
\In`ad*vert"en*cy\; pl. -cies, n. [Cf. F. inadvertance.]
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1. The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or
attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes
proceed from inadvertence.
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Inadvertency, or lack of attendance to the sense and
intention of our prayers. --Jer. Taylor.
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2. An effect of inattention; a result of carelessness; an
oversight, mistake, or fault from negligence.
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The productions of a great genius, with many lapses
an inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to
works of an inferior kind of author which are
scrupulously exact. --Addison.
Syn: Inattention; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence;
thoughtlessness. See Inattention.
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-cies
(gcide) | Superintendency \Su`per*in*tend"en*cy\, n.; pl. -cies.
The act of superintending; superintendence. --Boyle.
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dependencies
(mass) | dependencies
- závislosti |
species
(mass) | species
- kmeň, odroda, druh |
tendencies
(mass) | tendencies
- tendencia |
Abbacies
(gcide) | Abbacy \Ab"ba*cy\ ([a^]b"b[.a]*s[y^]), n.; pl. Abbacies
(-s[i^]z). [L. abbatia, fr. abbas, abbatis, abbot. See
Abbey.]
The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot.
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Agencies
(gcide) | agency \a"gen*cy\ ([=a]"jen*s[y^]), n.; pl. Agencies
([=a]"jen*s[i^]z). [agentia, fr. L. agens, agentis: cf. F.
agence. See Agent.]
1. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of
being in action; action; instrumentality.
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The superintendence and agency of Providence in the
natural world. --Woodward.
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2. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a
principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with
the concerns of another.
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3. The place of business of an agent.
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4. An organization or business that provides some service,
primarily for other organizations; as, an advertising
agency.
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5. An administrative division of a government; as, a state
welfare agency; a motor vehicle agency; the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA); the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA).
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Syn: Action; operation; efficiency; management.
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-ancies
(gcide) | Discrepance \Dis*crep"ance\ (?; 277), Discrepancy
\Dis*crep"an*cy\, n.; pl. -ances, -ancies. [L. disrepantia:
cf. OF. discrepance. See Discrepant.]
The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement;
variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety.
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There hath been ever a discrepance of vesture of youth
and age, men and women. --Sir T.
Elyot.
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There is no real discrepancy between these two
genealogies. --G. S. Faber.
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Appetencies
(gcide) | Appetency \Ap"pe*ten*cy\, n.; pl. Appetencies. [L. appetentia,
fr. appetere to strive after, long for. See Appetite.]
1. Fixed and strong desire; esp. natural desire; a craving;
an eager appetite.
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They had a strong appetency for reading. --Merivale.
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2. Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity in
animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to
suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim;
the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies
the wants of its organism.
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These lacteals have mouths, and by animal selection
or appetency the absorb such part of the fluid as is
agreeable to their palate. --E. Darwin.
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3. Natural tendency; affinity; attraction; -- used of
inanimate objects.
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Aristocracies
(gcide) | Aristocracy \Ar`is*toc"ra*cy\, n.; pl. Aristocracies. [Gr. ?;
? best + ? to be strong, to rule, ? strength; ? is perh. from
the same root as E. arm, and orig. meant fitting: cf. F.
aristocratie. See Arm, and Create, which is related to
Gr. ?.]
1. Government by the best citizens.
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2. A ruling body composed of the best citizens. [Obs.]
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In the Senate
Right not our quest in this, I will protest them
To all the world, no aristocracy. --B. Jonson.
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3. A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested
in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged
order; an oligarchy.
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The aristocracy of Venice hath admitted so many
abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that
the period of its duration seems approach. --Swift.
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4. The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class
or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are
regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in
rank, fortune, or intellect.
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Autocracies
(gcide) | Autocracy \Au*toc"ra*cy\, n.; pl. Autocracies. [Gr. ?: cf. F.
autocratie. See Autocrat.]
1. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling
authority; supremacy.
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The divine will moves, not by the external impulse
or inclination of objects, but determines itself by
an absolute autocracy. --South.
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2. Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of
governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
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3. Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a
state); autonomy. --Barlow.
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4. (Med.) The action of the vital principle, or of the
instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the
individual; also, the vital principle. [In this sense,
written also autocrasy.] --Dunglison.
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Bankruptcies
(gcide) | Bankruptcy \Bank"rupt*cy\, n.; pl. Bankruptcies.
1. The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.
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2. The act or process of becoming a bankrupt.
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3. Complete loss; -- followed by of.
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Brevetcies
(gcide) | Brevetcy \Bre*vet"cy\ (br[-e]*v[e^]t"s[y^]), n.; pl.
Brevetcies (-s[i^]z). (Mil.)
The rank or condition of a brevet officer.
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Buoyancies
(gcide) | Buoyancy \Buoy"an*cy\, n.; pl. Buoyancies.
1. The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in
a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which
is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal
volume of water.
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2. (Physics) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body
by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body;
hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by
the volume of fluid displaced.
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Such are buoyancies or displacements of the
different classes of her majesty's ships. --Eng.
Cyc.
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3. Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the
opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits.
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Clemencies
(gcide) | Clemency \Clem"en*cy\, n.; pl. Clemencies. [L. clementia, fr.
clemens mild, calm.]
1. Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness
of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.
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Great clemency and tender zeal toward their
subjects. --Stowe.
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They had applied for the royal clemency. --Macaulay.
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2. Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of
the season.
Syn: Mildness; tenderness; indulgence; lenity; mercy;
gentleness; compassion; kindness.
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Confederacies
(gcide) | Confederacy \Con*fed"er*a*cy\, n.; pl. Confederacies. [From
Confederate, a.]
1. A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of
men, or states, for mutual support or common action;
alliance.
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The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice or leagues of pleasure.
--Addison.
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He hath heard of our confederacy. --Shak.
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Virginia promoted a confederacy. --Bancroft.
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2. The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a
league; a confederation.
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The Grecian common wealth, . . . the most heroic
confederacy that ever existed. --Harris.
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Virgil has a whole confederacy against him.
--Dryden.
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3. (Law) A combination of two or more persons to commit an
unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See
Conspiracy.
Syn: League; compact; alliance; association; union;
combination; confederation.
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Conspiracies
(gcide) | Conspiracy \Con*spir"a*cy\, n.; pl. Conspiracies. [See
Conspiration.]
1. A combination of people for an evil purpose; an agreement,
between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert,
as treason; a plot.
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When shapen was all his conspiracy
From point to point. --Chaucer.
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They made a conspiracy against [Amaziah]. --2 Kings
xiv. 19.
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I had forgot that foul conspiracy
Of the beast Caliban and his confederates. --Shak.
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2. A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to
one event, as if by agreement.
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A conspiracy in all heavenly and earthly things.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
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3. (Law) An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds,
by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful
act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful;
confederacy.
Syn: Combination; plot; cabal.
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Constituencies
(gcide) | Constituency \Con*stit"u*en*cy\
(k[o^]n*st[i^]t"[-u]*[-e]n*s[y^]), n.; pl. Constituencies
(k[o^]n*st[i^]t"[-u]*[-e]n*s[i^]z).
A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in
a representative district.
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Contingencies
(gcide) | Contingency \Con*tin"gen*cy\, n.; pl. Contingencies. [Cf. F.
contingence.]
1. Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.
"Point of contingency." --J. Gregory.
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2. The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the
possibility of coming to pass.
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Aristotle says we are not to build certain rules on
the contingency of human actions. --South.
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3. An event which may or may not occur; that which is
possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.
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The remarkable position of the queen rendering her
death a most important contingency. --Hallam.
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4. An adjunct or accessory. --Wordsworth.
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5. (Law) A certain possible event that may or may not happen,
by which, when happening, some particular title may be
affected.
Syn: Casualty; accident; chance.
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Contumacies
(gcide) | Contumacy \Con"tu*ma*cy\ (k[o^]n"t[-u]*m[.a]*s[y^]), n.; pl.
Contumacies (k[o^]n"t[-u]*m[.a]*s[i^]z). [L. contumacia,
fr. contumax, -acis, insolent; prob. akin to contemnere to
despise: cf. F. contumace. Cf. Contemn.]
1. Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to
authority.
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The bishop commanded him . . . to be thrust into the
stocks for his manifest and manifold contumacy.
--Strype.
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2. (Law) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any
lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a
refusal to appear in court when legally summoned.
Syn: Stubbornness; perverseness; obstinacy.
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Correspondencies
(gcide) | Correspondency \Cor`re*spond"en*cy\ (k?r`r?-sp?nd"en-s?), n.;
pl. Correspondencies (-s?z).
Same as Correspondence, 3.
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The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may
be very reasonable confirmations. --S. Clarke.
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Curacies
(gcide) | Curacy \Cu"ra*cy\ (k?"r?-s?), n.; pl. Curacies (-s?z). [See
Cure, Curate.]
The office or employment of a curate.
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Currencies
(gcide) | Currency \Cur"ren*cy\ (k?r"r?n-c?), n.; pl. Currencies (-s?z).
[Cf. LL. currentia a current, fr. L. currens, p. pr. of
currere to run. See Current.]
1. A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a
stream; as, the currency of time. [Obs.] --Ayliffe.
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2. The state or quality of being current; general acceptance
or reception; a passing from person to person, or from
hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or
general currency; the currency of bank notes.
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3. That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as
having or representing value; as, the currency of a
country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes
circulating as a substitute for metallic money.
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4. Fluency; readiness of utterance. [Obs.]
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5. Current value; general estimation; the rate at which
anything is generally valued.
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He . . . takes greatness of kingdoms according to
their bulk and currency, and not after intrinsic
value. --Bacon.
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The bare name of Englishman . . . too often gave a
transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful.
--W. Irving.
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Decencies
(gcide) | Decency \De"cen*cy\, n.; pl. Decencies. [L. decentia, fr.
decens: cf. F. d['e]cence. See Decent.]
1. The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or
becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in
social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper
formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom
from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.
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Observances of time, place, and of decency in
general. --Burke.
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Immodest words admit of no defense,
For want of decency is want of sense. --Roscommon.
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2. That which is proper or becoming.
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The external decencies of worship. --Atterbury.
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Those thousand decencies, that daily flow
From all her words and actions. --Milton.
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Deficiencies
(gcide) | Deficiency \De*fi"cien*cy\, n.; pl. Deficiencies. [See
Deficient.]
The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure;
imperfection; shortcoming; defect. "A deficiency of blood."
--Arbuthnot.
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[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his
deficiencies made him the ridicule of his
contemporaries. --Buckle.
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Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the
number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum
for curves of the same degree.
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Delicacies
(gcide) | Delicacy \Del"i*ca*cy\, n.; pl. Delicacies. [From Delicate,
a.]
1. The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to
the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of
odor, and the like.
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What choice to choose for delicacy best. --Milton.
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2. Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution;
softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence,
frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a
thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy
of the skin; delicacy of frame.
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3. Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or
tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and
hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great
delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness;
delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action.
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You know your mother's delicacy in this point.
--Cowper.
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4. Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence;
luxurious or voluptuous treatment.
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And to those dainty limbs which Nature lent
For gentle usage and soft delicacy? --Milton.
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5. Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical
niceness; fastidious accuracy.
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That Augustan delicacy of taste which is the boast
of the great public schools of England. --Macaulay.
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6. The state of being affected by slight causes;
sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.
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7. That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or
pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to
the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table.
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The merchants of the earth are waxed rich through
the abundance of her delicacies. --Rev. xviii.
3.
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8. Pleasure; gratification; delight. [Obs.]
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He Rome brent for his delicacie. --Chaucer.
Syn: See Dainty.
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Delinquencies
(gcide) | Delinquency \De*lin"quen*cy\, n.; pl. Delinquencies. [L.
delinquentia, fr. delinquens.]
Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense;
a misdemeanor; a crime.
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The delinquencies of the little commonwealth would be
represented in the most glaring colors. --Motley.
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Democracies
(gcide) | Democracy \De*moc"ra*cy\ (d[-e]*m[o^]k"r[.a]*s[y^]), n.; pl.
Democracies (d[-e]*m[o^]k"r[.a]*s[i^]z). [F. d['e]mocratie,
fr. Gr. dhmokrati`a; dh^mos the people + kratei^n to be
strong, to rule, kra`tos strength.]
1. Government by the people; a form of government in which
the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by
the people.
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2. Government by popular representation; a form of government
in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but
is indirectly exercised through a system of representation
and delegated authority periodically renewed; a
constitutional representative government; a republic.
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3. Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of
government. --Milton.
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4. The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so
called. [U.S.]
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Dependencies
(gcide) | Dependency \De*pend"en*cy\, n.; pl. Dependencies.
1. State of being dependent; dependence; state of being
subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection;
reliance; trust.
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Any long series of action, the parts of which have
very much dependency each on the other. --Sir J.
Reynolds.
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So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the
crown of England. --Bacon.
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2. A thing hanging down; a dependence.
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3. That which is attached to something else as its
consequence, subordinate, satellite, and the like.
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This earth and its dependencies. --T. Burnet.
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Modes I call such complex ideas which . . . are
considered as dependencies on or affections of
substances. --Locke.
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4. A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it
belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great
Britain has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America.
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Note: Dependence is more used in the abstract, and dependency
in the concrete. The latter is usually restricted in
meaning to 3 and 4.
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Effeminacies
(gcide) | Effeminacy \Ef*fem"i*na*cy\, n.; pl. Effeminacies. [From
Effeminate.]
Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness,
luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a
man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of
men. --Milton.
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Emergencies
(gcide) | Emergency \E*mer"gen*cy\, n.; pl. Emergencies. [See
Emergence.]
1. Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence;
a sudden occasion.
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Most our rarities have been found out by casual
emergency. --Glanvill.
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2. An unforeseen occurrence or combination of circumstances
which calls for immediate action or remedy; pressing
necessity; exigency.
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To whom she might her doubts propose,
On all emergencies that rose. --Swift.
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A safe counselor in most difficult emergencies.
--Brougham.
Syn: Crisis; conjuncture; exigency; pinch; strait; necessity.
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endangered species
(gcide) | endangered species \en*dan"gered spe"cies\, n. sing. & pl.
A species of plant or animal that has declined in numbers to
a point where further irreversible decline and extinction[3]
has a significant chance. Lists of endangered species are
maintained by government agencies, and in many cases the
killing of such species or destruction of their habitat is
prohibited by law.
Note: In the U. S. in recent years, development of certain
tracts of land has been prohibited due to the
likelihood that it will cause a reduction in the
numbers of an endangered species. In some cases
environmental organizations have initiated litigation
to cause the courts to rule that a certain development
plan is illegal due to a threat to an endangered
species. Laws protecting endangered species have become
in some cases a contentious political issue.
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Ensigncies
(gcide) | Ensigncy \En"sign*cy\ (?; 277), n.; pl. Ensigncies.
The rank or office of an ensign.
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Excellencies
(gcide) | Excellency \Ex"cel*len*cy\, n.; pl. Excellencies.
1. Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.
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His excellency is over Israel. --Ps. lxviii.
34.
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Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency.
--Hooker.
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2. A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp.
to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English
colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given
to kings and princes.
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Exigencies
(gcide) | Exigency \Ex"i*gen*cy\, n.; pl. Exigencies. [LL. exigentia:
cf. F. exigence.]
The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing
necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate
action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency. "The
present exigency of his affairs." --Ludlow.
Syn: Demand; urgency; distress; pressure; emergency;
necessity; crisis.
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Extravagancies
(gcide) | Extravagancy \Ex*trav"a*gan*cy\, n.; pl. Extravagancies.
Extravagance.
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Facies
(gcide) | Facies \Fa"ci*es\, n. [L., from, face. See Face.]
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1. The anterior part of the head; the face.
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2. (Biol.) The general aspect or habit of a species, or group
of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its
environment.
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3. (Zool.) The face of a bird, or the front of the head,
excluding the bill.
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Facies Hippocratica. (Med.) See Hippocratic.
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Facies Hippocratica
(gcide) | Facies \Fa"ci*es\, n. [L., from, face. See Face.]
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1. The anterior part of the head; the face.
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2. (Biol.) The general aspect or habit of a species, or group
of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its
environment.
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3. (Zool.) The face of a bird, or the front of the head,
excluding the bill.
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Facies Hippocratica. (Med.) See Hippocratic.
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Fallacies
(gcide) | Fallacy \Fal"la*cy\ (f[a^]l"l[.a]*s[y^]), n.; pl. Fallacies
(f[a^]l"l[.a]*s[i^]z). [OE. fallace, fallas, deception, F.
fallace, fr. L. fallacia, fr. fallax deceitful, deceptive,
fr. fallere to deceive. See Fail.]
1. Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which
misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
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Winning by conquest what the first man lost,
By fallacy surprised. --Milton.
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2. (Logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes
to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it
is not; a sophism.
Syn: Deception; deceit; mistake.
Usage: Fallacy, Sophistry. A fallacy is an argument which
professes to be decisive, but in reality is not;
sophistry is also false reasoning, but of so specious
and subtle a kind as to render it difficult to expose
its fallacy. Many fallacies are obvious, but the evil
of sophistry lies in its consummate art. "Men are apt
to suffer their minds to be misled by fallacies which
gratify their passions. Many persons have obscured and
confounded the nature of things by their wretched
sophistry; though an act be never so sinful, they will
strip it of its guilt." --South.
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Fancies
(gcide) | Fancy \Fan"cy\ (f[a^]n"s[y^]), n.; pl. Fancies. [Contr. fr.
fantasy, OF. fantasie, fantaisie, F. fantaisie, L. phantasia,
fr. Gr. ???????? appearance, imagination, the power of
perception and presentation in the mind, fr. ???????? to make
visible, to place before one's mind, fr. ??????? to show;
akin to ????, ???, light, Skr. bh[=a]to shine. Cf. Fantasy,
Fantasia, Epiphany, Phantom.]
1. The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a
representation of anything perceived before; the power of
combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or
images; the power of readily and happily creating and
recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit,
or embellishment; imagination.
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In the soul
Are many lesser faculties, that serve
Reason as chief. Among these fancy next
Her office holds. --Milton.
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2. An image or representation of anything formed in the mind;
conception; thought; idea; conceit.
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How now, my lord ! why do you keep alone,
Of sorriest fancies your companoins making ? --Shak.
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3. An opinion or notion formed without much reflection;
caprice; whim; impression.
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I have always had a fancy that learning might be
made a play and recreation to children. --Locke.
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4. Inclination; liking, formed by caprice rather than reason;
as, to strike one's fancy; hence, the object of
inclination or liking.
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To fit your fancies to your father's will. --Shak.
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5. That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice
without much use or value.
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London pride is a pretty fancy for borders.
--Mortimer.
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6. A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad. [Obs.]
--Shak.
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The fancy, all of a class who exhibit and cultivate any
peculiar taste or fancy; hence, especially, sporting
characters taken collectively, or any specific class of
them, as jockeys, gamblers, prize fighters, etc.
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At a great book sale in London, which had
congregated all the fancy. --De Quincey.
Syn: Imagination; conceit; taste; humor; inclination; whim;
liking. See Imagination.
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Flagrancies
(gcide) | Flagrancy \Fla"gran*cy\, n.; pl. Flagrancies. [L. flagrantia a
burning. See Flagrant.]
1. A burning; great heat; inflammation. [Obs.]
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Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes. --Bacon.
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2. The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity;
heiniousness; enormity; excess. --Steele.
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Frequencies
(gcide) | Frequency \Fre"quen*cy\, n.; pl. Frequencies. [L. frequentia
numerous attendance, multitude: cf. F. fr['e]quence. See
Frequent.]
1. The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often
repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes;
the frequency of miracles.
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The reasons that moved her to remove were, because
Rome was a place of riot and luxury, her soul being
almost stifled with, the frequencies of ladies'
visits. --Fuller.
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2. A crowd; a throng. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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Iciest
(gcide) | Icy \I"cy\, a. [Compar. Icier; superl. Iciest.] [AS.
[imac]sig. See Ice.]
1. Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold;
frosty. "Icy chains." --Shak. "Icy region." --Boyle. "Icy
seas." --Pope.
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2. Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.;
chilling; frigid; cold.
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Icy was the deportment with which Philip received
these demonstrations of affection. --Motley.
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Illiteracies
(gcide) | Illiteracy \Il*lit"er*a*cy\, n.; pl. Illiteracies. [From
Illiterate.]
1. The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; lack of
learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability
to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last
census.
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2. An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder.
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The many blunders and illiteracies of the first
publishers of his [Shakespeare's] works. --Pope.
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Inaccuracies
(gcide) | Inaccuracy \In*ac"cu*ra*cy\, n.; pl. Inaccuracies.
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1. The quality of being inaccurate; lack of accuracy or
exactness.
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2. That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault;
defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying,
calculation, etc.
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Incipient species
(gcide) | Species \Spe"cies\, n. sing. & pl. [L., a sight, outward
appearance, shape, form, a particular sort, kind, or quality,
a species. See Spice, n., and cf. Specie, Special.]
1. Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible
percept received by the imagination; an image. [R.] "The
species of the letters illuminated with indigo and
violet." --Sir I. Newton.
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Wit, . . . the faculty of imagination in the writer,
which searches over all the memory for the species
or ideas of those things which it designs to
represent. --Dryden.
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Note: In the scholastic philosophy, the species was sensible
and intelligible. The sensible species was that in any
material, object which was in fact discerned by the
mind through the organ of perception, or that in any
object which rendered it possible that it should be
perceived. The sensible species, as apprehended by the
understanding in any of the relations of thought, was
called an intelligible species. "An apparent diversity
between the species visible and audible is, that the
visible doth not mingle in the medium, but the audible
doth." --Bacon.
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2. (Logic) A group of individuals agreeing in common
attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception
subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or
generic conception, from which it differs in containing or
comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer
individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a
genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus
with respect to European, American, or the like, as
species.
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3. In science, a more or less permanent group of existing
things or beings, associated according to attributes, or
properties determined by scientific observation.
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Note: In mineralogy and chemistry, objects which possess the
same definite chemical structure, and are fundamentally
the same in crystallization and physical characters,
are classed as belonging to a species. In Zoology and
botany, a species is an ideal group of individuals
which are believed to have descended from common
ancestors, which agree in essential characteristics,
and are capable of indefinitely continued fertile
reproduction through the sexes. A species, as thus
defined, differs from a variety or subspecies only in
the greater stability of its characters and in the
absence of individuals intermediate between the related
groups.
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4. A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a
species of generosity; a species of cloth.
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5. Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a
circulating medium; specie. [Obs.]
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There was, in the splendor of the Roman empire, a
less quantity of current species in Europe than
there is now. --Arbuthnot.
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6. A public spectacle or exhibition. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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7. (Pharmacy)
(a) A component part of a compound medicine; a simple.
(b) (Med.) An officinal mixture or compound powder of any
kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or
tisane; a tea mixture. --Quincy.
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8. (Civil Law) The form or shape given to materials; fashion
or shape; form; figure. --Burill.
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Incipient species (Zool.), a subspecies, or variety, which
is in process of becoming permanent, and thus changing to
a true species, usually by isolation in localities from
which other varieties are excluded.
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Inclemencies
(gcide) | Inclemency \In*clem"en*cy\, n.; pl. Inclemencies. [L.
inclementia: cf. F. incl['e]mence.]
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1. The state or quality of being inclement; lack of clemency;
lack of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity.
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The inclemency of the late pope. --Bp. Hall.
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2. Physical severity or harshness (commonly in respect to the
elements or weather); roughness; storminess; rigor; severe
cold, wind, rain, or snow.
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The inclemencies of morning air. --Pope.
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The rude inclemency of wintry skies. --Cowper.
Syn: Harshness; severity; cruelty; rigor; roughness;
storminess; boisterousness.
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Inconsistencies
(gcide) | Inconsistency \In`con*sist"en*cy\, n.; pl. Inconsistencies.
[Cf. F. inconsistance.]
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1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in
respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between
two things that both can not exist or be true together;
disagreement; incompatibility.
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There is a perfect inconsistency between that which
is of debt and that which is of free gift. --South.
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2. Absurdity in argument ore narration; incoherence or
irreconcilability in the parts of a statement, argument,
or narration; that which is inconsistent.
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love,
politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of
inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at
last! --Swift.
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3. Lack of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness;
changeableness; variableness.
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Mutability of temper, and inconsistency with
ourselves, is the greatest weakness of human nature.
--Addison.
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Incumbencies
(gcide) | Incumbency \In*cum"ben*cy\, n.; pl. Incumbencies. [From
Incumbent.]
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1. The state of being incumbent; a lying or resting on
something.
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2. That which is physically incumbent; that which lies as a
burden; a weight. --Evelyn.
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3. That which is morally incumbent, or is imposed, as a rule,
a duty, obligation, or responsibility. "The incumbencies
of a family." --Donne.
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4. The state of holding a benefice; the full possession and
exercise of any office.
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These fines are only to be paid to the bishop during
his incumbency. --Swift.
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Indecencies
(gcide) | Indecency \In*de"cen*cy\, n.; pl. Indecencies. [L. indecentia
unseemliness: cf. F. ind['e]cence.]
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1. The quality or state of being indecent; lack of decency,
modesty, or good manners; obscenity.
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2. That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an
offense against delicacy.
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They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear
or the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I
allude to, are pests of society. --Beattie.
Syn: Indelicacy; indecorum; immodesty; impurity; obscenity.
See Indecorum.
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Indelicacies
(gcide) | Indelicacy \In*del"i*ca*cy\, n.; pl. Indelicacies. [From
Indelicate.]
The quality of being indelicate; lack of delicacy, or of a
nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or
refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness;
also, that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of
mind.
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The indelicacy of English comedy. --Blair.
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Your papers would be chargeable with worse than
indelicacy; they would be immoral. --Addison.
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Inelegancies
(gcide) | Inelegance \In*el"e*gance\, Inelegancy \In*el"e*gan*cy\, n.; pl.
Inelegances, Inelegancies. [L. inelegantia: cf. F.
in['e]l['e]gance.]
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1. The quality of being inelegant; lack of elegance or grace;
lack of refinement, beauty, or polish in language,
composition, or manners.
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The notorious inelegance of her figure. --T. Hook.
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2. Anything inelegant; as, inelegance of style in literary
composition.
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Insolvencies
(gcide) | Insolvency \In*sol"ven*cy\, n.; pl. Insolvencies. (Law)
(a) The condition of being insolvent; the state or
condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition
of one who is unable to pay his debts as they fall
due, or in the usual course of trade and business; as,
a merchant's insolvency.
(b) Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner; as,
the insolvency of an estate.
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Act of insolvency. See Insolvent law under Insolvent,
a.
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Intendancies
(gcide) | Intendancy \In*tend"an*cy\, n.; pl. Intendancies. [Cf. F.
intendance. See Intendant.]
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1. The office or employment of an intendant.
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2. A territorial district committed to the charge of an
intendant.
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Internunciess
(gcide) | Internunciess \In`ter*nun"ciess\, n.
A female messenger. [R.]
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Intimacies
(gcide) | Intimacy \In"ti*ma*cy\, n.; pl. Intimacies. [From Intimate.]
The state of being intimate; close familiarity or
association; nearness in friendship.
Syn: Acquaintance; familiarity; fellowship; friendship. See
Acquaintance.
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Intricacies
(gcide) | Intricacy \In"tri*ca*cy\, n.; pl. Intricacies. [From
Intricate.]
The state or quality of being intricate or entangled;
perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which
is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the
intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in
controversy; the intricacy of a plot.
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Freed from intricacies, taught to live
The easiest way. --Milton.
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Juiciest
(gcide) | Juicy \Jui"cy\, a. [Compar. Juicier; superl. Juiciest.]
1. A bounding with juice; succulent. --Bacon.
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2. Very profitable, or presenting the prospect of much
profit; as, a juicy job; a juicy sales contract; a juicy
customer ripe for the plucking. [Colloq.]
[PJC]
3. Very interesting, especially due to scandalous or
salacious nature; -- of information; as, juicy gossip.
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Legacies
(gcide) | Legacy \Leg"a*cy\ (l[e^]g"[.a]*s[y^]), n.; pl. Legacies
(-s[i^]z). [L. (assumed) legatia, for legatum, from legare to
appoint by last will, to bequeath as a legacy, to depute: cf.
OF. legat legacy. See Legate.]
1. A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal
property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor
or disease.
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2. A business with which one is intrusted by another; a
commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last
legacy, dying legacy, and the like.
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My legacy and message wherefore I am sent into the
world. --Tyndale.
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He came and told his legacy. --Chapman.
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Legacy duty, a tax paid to government on legacies.
--Wharton.
Legacy hunter, one who flatters and courts any one for the
sake of a legacy.
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Lunacies
(gcide) | Lunacy \Lu"na*cy\, n.; pl. Lunacies. [See Lunatic.]
1. Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which
is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to
be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of
unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or
alienation. --Brande. --Burrill.
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Your kindred shuns your house
As beaten hence by your strange lunacy. --Shak.
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2. A morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through
fanaticism. --Dr. H. More.
Syn: Derangement; craziness; mania. See Insanity.
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Magistracies
(gcide) | Magistracy \Mag"is*tra*cy\, n.; pl. Magistracies. [From
Magistrate.]
1. The office or dignity of a magistrate. --Blackstone.
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2. The collective body of magistrates.
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Mercies
(gcide) | Mercy \Mer"cy\ (m[~e]r"s[y^]), n.; pl. Mercies. [OE. merci, F.
merci, L. merces, mercedis, hire, pay, reward, LL., equiv. to
misericordia pity, mercy. L. merces is probably akin to
merere to deserve, acquire. See Merit, and cf. Amerce.]
1. Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of
provocation, when one has the power to inflict it;
compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary;
clemency.
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Examples of justice must be made for terror to some;
examples of mercy for comfort to others. --Bacon.
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2. Compassionate treatment of the unfortunate and helpless;
sometimes, favor, beneficence. --Luke x. 37.
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3. Disposition to exercise compassion or favor; pity;
compassion; willingness to spare or to help.
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In whom mercy lacketh and is not founden. --Sir T.
Elyot.
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4. A blessing regarded as a manifestation of compassion or
favor.
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The Father of mercies and the God of all comfort.
--2 Cor. i. 3.
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Mercy seat (Bib.), the golden cover or lid of the Ark of
the Covenant. See Ark, 2.
Sisters of Mercy (R. C. Ch.),a religious order founded in
Dublin in the year 1827. Communities of the same name have
since been established in various American cities. The
duties of those belonging to the order are, to attend
lying-in hospitals, to superintend the education of girls,
and protect decent women out of employment, to visit
prisoners and the sick, and to attend persons condemned to
death.
To be at the mercy of, to be wholly in the power of.
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Syn: See Grace.
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Piracies
(gcide) | Piracy \Pi"ra*cy\, n.; pl. Piracies. [Cf. LL. piratia, Gr. ?.
See Pirate.]
1. The act or crime of a pirate.
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2. (Common Law) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of
property from others on the open sea by open violence;
without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a
crime answering to robbery on land.
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Note: By statute law several other offenses committed on the
seas (as trading with known pirates, or engaging in the
slave trade) have been made piracy.
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3. "Sometimes used, in a quasi-figurative sense, of violation
of copyright; but for this, infringement is the correct
and preferable term." --Abbott.
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Policies
(gcide) | Policy \Pol"i*cy\, n.; pl. Policies. [L. politia, Gr. ?; cf.
F. police, Of. police. See Police, n.]
1. Civil polity. [Obs.]
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2. The settled method by which the government and affairs of
a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public
or official administration, as designed to promote the
external or internal prosperity of a state.
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3. The method by which any institution is administered;
system of management; course.
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4. Management or administration based on temporal or material
interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor;
hence, worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning;
stratagem.
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5. Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private
affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit.
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The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so
far above his clothes, did detect him. --Fuller.
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6. Motive; object; inducement. [Obs.]
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What policy have you to bestow a benefit where it is
counted an injury? --Sir P.
Sidney.
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Syn: See Polity.
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Prelacies
(gcide) | Prelacy \Prel"a*cy\, n.; pl. Prelacies. [LL. praelatia. See
Prelate; cf. Prelaty.]
1. The office or dignity of a prelate; church government by
prelates.
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Prelacies may be termed the greater benefices.
--Ayliffe.
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2. The order of prelates, taken collectively; the body of
ecclesiastical dignitaries. "Divers of the reverend
prelacy, and other most judicious men." --Hooker.
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Presidencies
(gcide) | Presidency \Pres"i*den*cy\, n.; pl. Presidencies. [Cf. F.
pr['e]sidence.]
1. The function or condition of one who presides;
superintendence; control and care.
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2. The office of president; as, Washington was elected to the
presidency.
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3. The term during which a president holds his office; as,
during the presidency of Madison.
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4. One of the three great divisions of British India, the
Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had
a council of which its governor was president.
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Privacies
(gcide) | Privacy \Pri"va*cy\, n.; pl. Privacies. [See Private.]
1. The state of being in retirement from the company or
observation of others; seclusion.
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2. A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat;
solitude; retirement.
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Her sacred privacies all open lie. --Rowe.
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3. Concealment of what is said or done. --Shak.
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4. A private matter; a secret. --Fuller.
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5. See Privity, 2. [Obs.] --Arbuthnot.
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Procuracies
(gcide) | Procuracy \Proc"u*ra*cy\, n.; pl. Procuracies. [LL.
procuratia: cf. F. procuratie. See Procuration, and cf,.
Proxy.]
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1. The office or act of a proctor or procurator; management
for another.
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2. Authority to act for another; a proxy. [Obs.]
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Prophecies
(gcide) | Prophecy \Proph"e*cy\, n.; pl. Prophecies, [OE. prophecie, OF.
profecie, F. proph['e]tie, L. prophetia, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to
be an interpreter of the gods, to prophesy, fr. ? prophet.
See Prophet.]
1. A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a
prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.
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He hearkens after prophecies and dreams. --Shak.
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Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man.
--2. Pet. i.
21.
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2. (Script.) A book of prophecies; a history; as, the
prophecy of Ahijah. --2 Chron. ix. 29.
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3. Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation
or instruction.
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Raciest
(gcide) | Racy \Ra"cy\ (r[=a]"s[y^]), a. [Compar. Racier
(r[=a]"s[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Raciest.] [From Race a
tribe, family.]
1. Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct
characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh;
rich.
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The racy wine,
Late from the mellowing cask restored to light.
--Pope.
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2. Hence: Exciting to the mental taste by a strong or
distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and
piquant; fresh and lively; vigorous; spirited.
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Our raciest, most idiomatic popular words. --M.
Arnold.
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Burns's English, though not so racy as his Scotch,
is generally correct. --H.
Coleridge.
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The rich and racy humor of a natural converser fresh
from the plow. --Prof.
Wilson.
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3. Somewhat suggestive of sexual themes; slightly improper;
risqu['e].
[PJC]
Syn: Spicy; spirited; lively; smart; piquant; risqu['e].
Usage: Racy, Spicy. Racy refers primarily to that
peculiar flavor which certain wines are supposed to
derive from the soil in which the grapes were grown;
and hence we call a style or production racy when it
"smacks of the soil," or has an uncommon degree of
natural freshness and distinctiveness of thought and
language. Spicy, when applied to style, has reference
to a spirit and pungency added by art, seasoning the
matter like a condiment. It does not, like racy,
suggest native peculiarity. A spicy article in a
magazine; a spicy retort. Racy in conversation; a racy
remark.
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Rich, racy verses, in which we
The soil from which they come, taste, smell, and
see. --Cowley.
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Regencies
(gcide) | Regency \Re"gen*cy\ (r?*jen*s?), n.; pl. Regencies (-s?z).
[CF. F. r['e]gence, LL. regentia. See Regent, a.]
1. The office of ruler; rule; authority; government.
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2. Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominion of a
regent or vicarious ruler, or of a body of regents;
deputed or vicarious government. --Sir W. Temple.
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3. A body of men intrusted with vicarious government; as, a
regency constituted during a king's minority, absence from
the kingdom, or other disability.
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A council or regency consisting of twelve persons.
--Lowth.
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Sauciest
(gcide) | Saucy \Sau"cy\, a. [Compar. Saucier; superl. Sauciest.]
[From Sauce.]
1. Showing impertinent boldness or pertness; transgressing
the rules of decorum; treating superiors with contempt;
impudent; insolent; as, a saucy fellow.
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Am I not protector, saucy priest? --Shak.
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2. Expressive of, or characterized by, impudence;
impertinent; as, a saucy eye; saucy looks.
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We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs. --Shak.
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Syn: Impudent; insolent; impertinent; rude.
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Sceloglaux albifacies
(gcide) | Laughing \Laugh"ing\, a. & n.
from Laugh, v. i.
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Laughing falcon (Zool.), a South American hawk
(Herpetotheres cachinnans); -- so called from its notes,
which resemble a shrill laugh.
Laughing gas (Chem.), nitrous oxide, also called
hyponitrous oxide, or protoxide of nitrogen; -- so called
from the exhilaration and laughing which it sometimes
produces when inhaled. It has been much used as an
anaesthetic agent, though now its use is primarily in
dentistry
Laughing goose (Zool.), the European white-fronted goose.
Laughing gull. (Zool.)
(a) A common European gull (Xema ridibundus); -- called
also pewit, black cap, red-legged gull, and {sea
crow}.
(b) An American gull (Larus atricilla). In summer the head
is nearly black, the back slate color, and the five outer
primaries black.
Laughing hyena (Zool.), the spotted hyena. See Hyena.
Laughing jackass (Zool.), the great brown kingfisher
(Dacelo gigas), of Australia; -- called also {giant
kingfisher}, and gogobera.
Laughing owl (Zool.), a peculiar owl ({Sceloglaux
albifacies}) of New Zealand, said to be on the verge of
extinction. The name alludes to its notes.
[1913 Webster]Wekau \We"kau\, n. (Zool.)
A small New Zealand owl (Sceloglaux albifacies). It has
short wings and long legs, and lives chiefly on the ground.
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Secrecies
(gcide) | Secrecy \Se"cre*cy\, n.; pl. Secrecies. [From Secret.]
1. The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements
were detected in spite of their secrecy.
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The Lady Anne,
Whom the king hath in secrecy long married. --Shak.
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2. That which is concealed; a secret. [R.] --Shak.
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3. Seclusion; privacy; retirement. "The pensive secrecy of
desert cell." --Milton.
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4. The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret;
forbearance of disclosure or discovery.
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It is not with public as with private prayer; in
this, rather secrecy is commanded than outward show.
--Hooker.
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Sergeancies
(gcide) | Sergeancy \Ser"gean*cy\, n.; pl. Sergeancies. [Cf.
Sergeanty.]
The office of a sergeant; sergeantship. [Written also
serjeancy.]
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Species
(gcide) | Species \Spe"cies\, n. sing. & pl. [L., a sight, outward
appearance, shape, form, a particular sort, kind, or quality,
a species. See Spice, n., and cf. Specie, Special.]
1. Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible
percept received by the imagination; an image. [R.] "The
species of the letters illuminated with indigo and
violet." --Sir I. Newton.
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Wit, . . . the faculty of imagination in the writer,
which searches over all the memory for the species
or ideas of those things which it designs to
represent. --Dryden.
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Note: In the scholastic philosophy, the species was sensible
and intelligible. The sensible species was that in any
material, object which was in fact discerned by the
mind through the organ of perception, or that in any
object which rendered it possible that it should be
perceived. The sensible species, as apprehended by the
understanding in any of the relations of thought, was
called an intelligible species. "An apparent diversity
between the species visible and audible is, that the
visible doth not mingle in the medium, but the audible
doth." --Bacon.
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2. (Logic) A group of individuals agreeing in common
attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception
subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or
generic conception, from which it differs in containing or
comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer
individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a
genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus
with respect to European, American, or the like, as
species.
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3. In science, a more or less permanent group of existing
things or beings, associated according to attributes, or
properties determined by scientific observation.
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Note: In mineralogy and chemistry, objects which possess the
same definite chemical structure, and are fundamentally
the same in crystallization and physical characters,
are classed as belonging to a species. In Zoology and
botany, a species is an ideal group of individuals
which are believed to have descended from common
ancestors, which agree in essential characteristics,
and are capable of indefinitely continued fertile
reproduction through the sexes. A species, as thus
defined, differs from a variety or subspecies only in
the greater stability of its characters and in the
absence of individuals intermediate between the related
groups.
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4. A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a
species of generosity; a species of cloth.
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5. Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a
circulating medium; specie. [Obs.]
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There was, in the splendor of the Roman empire, a
less quantity of current species in Europe than
there is now. --Arbuthnot.
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6. A public spectacle or exhibition. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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7. (Pharmacy)
(a) A component part of a compound medicine; a simple.
(b) (Med.) An officinal mixture or compound powder of any
kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or
tisane; a tea mixture. --Quincy.
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8. (Civil Law) The form or shape given to materials; fashion
or shape; form; figure. --Burill.
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Incipient species (Zool.), a subspecies, or variety, which
is in process of becoming permanent, and thus changing to
a true species, usually by isolation in localities from
which other varieties are excluded.
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Spiciest
(gcide) | Spicy \Spi"cy\, a. [Compar. Spicier; superl. Spiciest.]
[From Spice.]
1. Flavored with, or containing, spice or spices; fragrant;
aromatic; as, spicy breezes. "The spicy nut-brown ale."
--Milton.
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Led by new stars, and borne by spicy gales. --Pope.
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2. Producing, or abounding with, spices.
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In hot Ceylon spicy forests grew. --Dryden.
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3. Fig.: Piquant; racy; as, a spicy debate.
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Syn: Aromatic; fragrant; smart; pungent; pointed; keen. See
Racy.
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Subspecies
(gcide) | Subspecies \Sub*spe"cies\, n.
A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but
based on characters more important than those which
characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical
variety or race.
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Superficies
(gcide) | Superficies \Su`per*fi"cies\, n. [L., fr. super above, over +
facies make, figure, shape. See Surface.]
1. The surface; the exterior part, superficial area, or face
of a thing.
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2. (Civil Law)
(a) Everything on the surface of a piece of ground, or of
a building, so closely connected by art or nature as
to constitute a part of it, as houses, or other
superstructures, fences, trees, vines, etc.
(b) A real right consisting of a grant by a landed
proprietor of a piece of ground, bearing a strong
resemblance to the long building leases granted by
landholders in England, in consideration of a rent,
and under reservation of the ownership of the soil.
--Bouvier. Wharton.
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Tenacies
(gcide) | Tenancy \Ten"an*cy\, n.; pl. Tenacies. [Cf. OF. tenace, LL.
tenentia. See Tenant.] (Law)
(a) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the
temporary possession of what belongs to another.
(b) (O. Eng. Law) A house for habitation, or place to live
in, held of another. --Blount. Blackstone. Wharton.
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Tendencies
(gcide) | Tendency \Tend"en*cy\, n.; pl. Tendencies. [L. tendents,
-entis, p. pr. of tendere: cf. F. tendance. See Tend to
move.]
Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or
result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about
an effect or result.
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Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a
more particular tendency to the good of their country.
--Addison.
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In every experimental science, there is a tendency
toward perfection. --Macaulay.
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Syn: Disposition; inclination; proneness; drift; scope; aim.
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Transparencies
(gcide) | Transparency \Trans*par"en*cy\, n.; pl. Transparencies. [Cf.
F. transparence.]
1. The quality or condition of being transparent;
transparence.
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2. That which is transparent; especially, a picture painted
on thin cloth or glass, or impressed on porcelain, or the
like, to be viewed by natural or artificial light, which
shines through it. --Fairholt.
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