| slovo | definícia |
ctit
(msasasci) | ctit
- revere |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
factitious
(mass) | factitious
- umelý |
zneuctit
(msasasci) | zneuctit
- dishonor |
correctitude
(encz) | correctitude,korektnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
dental practitioner
(encz) | dental practitioner, n: |
exactitude
(encz) | exactitude,preciznost Jaroslav Šedivý |
factitious
(encz) | factitious,napodobený adj: Zdeněk Brožfactitious,nepřirozený adj: Zdeněk Brožfactitious,strojený adj: Zdeněk Brožfactitious,umělý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
fictitious
(encz) | fictitious,fiktivní adj: Zdeněk Brožfictitious,smyšlený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
fictitious character
(encz) | fictitious character, n: |
fictitiously
(encz) | fictitiously, |
general practitioner
(encz) | general practitioner,praktický lékař |
inexactitude
(encz) | inexactitude,nepřesnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
jactitate
(encz) | jactitate, v: |
jactitation
(encz) | jactitation, n: |
medical practitioner
(encz) | medical practitioner, n: |
nictitate
(encz) | nictitate, v: |
nictitating membrane
(encz) | nictitating membrane, n: |
nictitation
(encz) | nictitation, n: |
nurse practitioner
(encz) | nurse practitioner, n: |
political correctitude
(encz) | political correctitude, n: |
practitioner
(encz) | practitioner,agentura pro ekologicky šetrné výrobky n: [eko.] Soukromá
nebo státem sponzorovaná organizace, která vyvíjí, vlastní, sponzoruje
a/nebo zajišťuje chod programu značení ekologicky šetrných výrobků
(ekolabeling). RNDr. Pavel Piskačpractitioner,praktik n: practitioner,provozovatel n: practitioner,vykonavatel n: practitioner,zpracovatel n: [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
practitioners
(encz) | practitioners,doktoři n: pl. Jaroslav Šedivý |
proctitis
(encz) | proctitis,proktitida Zdeněk Brož |
rectitude
(encz) | rectitude,čestnost n: Zdeněk Brožrectitude,poctivost n: Zdeněk Brož |
sanctity
(encz) | sanctity,posvátnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
stalactite
(encz) | stalactite,krápník n: Zdeněk Brožstalactite,stalaktit n: Zdeněk Brož |
ctitel
(czen) | ctitel,admirer ctitel,adorern: sirractitel,devoteen: Zdeněk Brožctitel,wooern: Zdeněk Brož |
ctitelka
(czen) | ctitelka,admirern: Zdeněk Brož |
ctitelé
(czen) | ctitelé,admirersn: pl. |
Abstractitious
(gcide) | Abstractitious \Ab`strac*ti"tious\, a.
Obtained from plants by distillation. [Obs.] --Crabb.
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Actitis hypoleucus
(gcide) | Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n.
1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline
game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas,
Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family
Tringidae.
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Note: The most important North American species are the
pectoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata), called also
brownback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the
red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin
(Tringa alpina); the purple sandpiper ({Tringa
maritima}: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({Tringa
canutus}); the semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes
pusillus}); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail
(Actitis macularia); the buff-breasted sandpiper
(Tryngites subruficollis), and the Bartramian
sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland. Among
the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the
ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper
(Actitis hypoleucus syn. Tringoides hypoleucus),
called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet,
and summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and
tattlers are also called sandpipers.
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2. (Zool.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
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Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew.
Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.
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Actitis macularia
(gcide) | Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n.
1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline
game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas,
Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family
Tringidae.
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Note: The most important North American species are the
pectoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata), called also
brownback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the
red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin
(Tringa alpina); the purple sandpiper ({Tringa
maritima}: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({Tringa
canutus}); the semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes
pusillus}); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail
(Actitis macularia); the buff-breasted sandpiper
(Tryngites subruficollis), and the Bartramian
sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland. Among
the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the
ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper
(Actitis hypoleucus syn. Tringoides hypoleucus),
called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet,
and summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and
tattlers are also called sandpipers.
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2. (Zool.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
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Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew.
Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.
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Adjectitious
(gcide) | Adjectitious \Ad`jec*ti"tious\, [L. adjectitius.]
Added; additional. --Parkhurst.
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Apotactite
(gcide) | Apotactite \Ap`o*tac"tite\, n. [LL. pl. apotactitae, Gr. ?, fr.
? set apart; ? from + ? to arrange, ordain.] (Eccl. Hist.)
One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed
imitation of the first believers, renounced all their
possessions.
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Cassia nictitans
(gcide) | Sensitive \Sen"si*tive\, a. [F. sensitif. See Sense.]
1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the
capacity of receiving impressions from external objects;
as, a sensitive soul.
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2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action
of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and
feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.
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She was too sensitive to abuse and calumny.
--Macaulay.
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3.
(a) (Mech.) Having a capacity of being easily affected or
moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.
(b) (Chem. & Photog.) Readily affected or changed by
certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or
bromide, when in contact with certain organic
substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.
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4. Serving to affect the sense; sensible. [R.]
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A sensitive love of some sensitive objects.
--Hammond.
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5. Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as,
sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by
irritation. --E. Darwin.
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Sensitive fern (Bot.), an American fern ({Onoclea
sensibilis}), the leaves of which, when plucked, show a
slight tendency to fold together.
Sensitive flame (Physics), a gas flame so arranged that
under a suitable adjustment of pressure it is exceedingly
sensitive to sounds, being caused to roar, flare, or
become suddenly shortened or extinguished, by slight
sounds of the proper pitch.
Sensitive joint vetch (Bot.), an annual leguminous herb
(Aeschynomene hispida), with sensitive foliage.
Sensitive paper, paper prepared for photographic purpose by
being rendered sensitive to the effect of light.
Sensitive plant. (Bot.)
(a) A leguminous plant (Mimosa pudica, or {Mimosa
sensitiva}, and other allied species), the leaves of
which close at the slightest touch.
(b) Any plant showing motions after irritation, as the
sensitive brier (Schrankia) of the Southern States,
two common American species of Cassia ({Cassia
nictitans}, and Cassia Chamaecrista), a kind of
sorrel (Oxalis sensitiva), etc.
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Sen"si*tive*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]Wild \Wild\, a. [Compar. Wilder; superl. Wildest.] [OE.
wilde, AS. wilde; akin to OFries. wilde, D. wild, OS. & OHG.
wildi, G. wild, Sw. & Dan. vild, Icel. villr wild,
bewildered, astray, Goth. wilpeis wild, and G. & OHG. wild
game, deer; of uncertain origin.]
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1. Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as
the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily
approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild
boar; a wild ox; a wild cat.
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Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that
way. --Shak.
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2. Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared
without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated;
brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not
domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild
strawberry, wild honey.
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The woods and desert caves,
With wild thyme and gadding vine o'ergrown.
--Milton.
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3. Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land. "To
trace the forests wild." --Shak.
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4. Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious;
rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America.
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5. Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation;
turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious;
inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary;
visionary; crazy. "Valor grown wild by pride." --Prior. "A
wild, speculative project." --Swift.
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What are these
So withered and so wild in their attire ? --Shak.
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With mountains, as with weapons, armed; which makes
Wild work in heaven. --Milton.
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The wild winds howl. --Addison.
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Search then the ruling passion, there, alone
The wild are constant, and the cunning known.
--Pope.
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6. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild
roadstead.
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7. Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or
?ewilderment; as, a wild look.
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8. (Naut.) Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.
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Note: Many plants are named by prefixing wild to the names of
other better known or cultivated plants to which they a
bear a real or fancied resemblance; as, wild allspice,
wild pink, etc. See the Phrases below.
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To run wild, to go unrestrained or untamed; to live or
untamed; to live or grow without culture or training.
To sow one's wild oats. See under Oat.
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Wild allspice. (Bot.), spicewood.
Wild balsam apple (Bot.), an American climbing
cucurbitaceous plant (Echinocystis lobata).
Wild basil (Bot.), a fragrant labiate herb ({Calamintha
Clinopodium}) common in Europe and America.
Wild bean (Bot.), a name of several leguminous plants,
mostly species of Phaseolus and Apios.
Wild bee (Zool.), any one of numerous species of
undomesticated social bees, especially the domestic bee
when it has escaped from domestication and built its nest
in a hollow tree or among rocks.
Wild bergamot. (Bot.) See under Bergamot.
Wild boar (Zool.), the European wild hog (Sus scrofa),
from which the common domesticated swine is descended.
Wild brier (Bot.), any uncultivated species of brier. See
Brier.
Wild bugloss (Bot.), an annual rough-leaved plant
(Lycopsis arvensis) with small blue flowers.
Wild camomile (Bot.), one or more plants of the composite
genus Matricaria, much resembling camomile.
Wild cat. (Zool.)
(a) A European carnivore (Felis catus) somewhat
resembling the domestic cat, but larger stronger, and
having a short tail. It is destructive to the smaller
domestic animals, such as lambs, kids, poultry, and
the like.
(b) The common American lynx, or bay lynx.
(c) (Naut.) A wheel which can be adjusted so as to revolve
either with, or on, the shaft of a capstan. --Luce.
Wild celery. (Bot.) See Tape grass, under Tape.
Wild cherry. (Bot.)
(a) Any uncultivated tree which bears cherries. The wild
red cherry is Prunus Pennsylvanica. The wild black
cherry is Prunus serotina, the wood of which is much
used for cabinetwork, being of a light red color and a
compact texture.
(b) The fruit of various species of Prunus.
Wild cinnamon. See the Note under Canella.
Wild comfrey (Bot.), an American plant ({Cynoglossum
Virginicum}) of the Borage family. It has large bristly
leaves and small blue flowers.
Wild cumin (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant
(Lag[oe]cia cuminoides) native in the countries about
the Mediterranean.
Wild drake (Zool.) the mallard.
Wild elder (Bot.), an American plant (Aralia hispida) of
the Ginseng family.
Wild fowl (Zool.) any wild bird, especially any of those
considered as game birds.
Wild goose (Zool.), any one of several species of
undomesticated geese, especially the Canada goose ({Branta
Canadensis}), the European bean goose, and the graylag.
See Graylag, and Bean goose, under Bean.
Wild goose chase, the pursuit of something unattainable, or
of something as unlikely to be caught as the wild goose.
--Shak.
Wild honey, honey made by wild bees, and deposited in
trees, rocks, the like.
Wild hyacinth. (Bot.) See Hyacinth, 1
(b) .
Wild Irishman (Bot.), a thorny bush (Discaria Toumatou)
of the Buckthorn family, found in New Zealand, where the
natives use the spines in tattooing.
Wild land.
(a) Land not cultivated, or in a state that renders it
unfit for cultivation.
(b) Land which is not settled and cultivated.
Wild licorice. (Bot.) See under Licorice.
Wild mammee (Bot.), the oblong, yellowish, acid fruit of a
tropical American tree (Rheedia lateriflora); -- so
called in the West Indies.
Wild marjoram (Bot.), a labiate plant (Origanum vulgare)
much like the sweet marjoram, but less aromatic.
Wild oat. (Bot.)
(a) A tall, oatlike kind of soft grass ({Arrhenatherum
avenaceum}).
(b) See Wild oats, under Oat.
Wild pieplant (Bot.), a species of dock ({Rumex
hymenosepalus}) found from Texas to California. Its acid,
juicy stems are used as a substitute for the garden
rhubarb.
Wild pigeon. (Zool.)
(a) The rock dove.
(b) The passenger pigeon.
Wild pink (Bot.), an American plant ({Silene
Pennsylvanica}) with pale, pinkish flowers; a kind of
catchfly.
Wild plantain (Bot.), an arborescent endogenous herb
(Heliconia Bihai), much resembling the banana. Its
leaves and leaf sheaths are much used in the West Indies
as coverings for packages of merchandise.
Wild plum. (Bot.)
(a) Any kind of plum growing without cultivation.
(b) The South African prune. See under Prune.
Wild rice. (Bot.) See Indian rice, under Rice.
Wild rosemary (Bot.), the evergreen shrub {Andromeda
polifolia}. See Marsh rosemary, under Rosemary.
Wild sage. (Bot.) See Sagebrush.
Wild sarsaparilla (Bot.), a species of ginseng ({Aralia
nudicaulis}) bearing a single long-stalked leaf.
Wild sensitive plant (Bot.), either one of two annual
leguminous herbs (Cassia Chamaecrista, and {Cassia
nictitans}), in both of which the leaflets close quickly
when the plant is disturbed.
Wild service.(Bot.) See Sorb.
Wild Spaniard (Bot.), any one of several umbelliferous
plants of the genus Aciphylla, natives of New Zealand.
The leaves bear numerous bayonetlike spines, and the
plants form an impenetrable thicket.
Wild turkey. (Zool.) See 2d Turkey.
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Cersopithecus nictitans
(gcide) | Wink \Wink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Winked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Winking.] [OE. winken, AS. wincian; akin to D. wenken, G.
winken to wink, nod, beckon, OHG. winchan, Sw. vinka, Dan.
vinke, AS. wancol wavering, OHG. wanchal wavering, wanch?n to
waver, G. wanken, and perhaps to E. weak; cf. AS. wincel a
corner. Cf. Wench, Wince, v. i.]
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1. To nod; to sleep; to nap. [Obs.] "Although I wake or
wink." --Chaucer.
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2. To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a
quick motion.
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He must wink, so loud he would cry. --Chaucer.
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And I will wink, so shall the day seem night.
--Shak.
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They are not blind, but they wink. --Tillotson.
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3. To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to
blink.
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A baby of some three months old, who winked, and
turned aside its little face from the too vivid
light of day. --Hawthorne.
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4. To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of
one eye only.
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Wink at the footman to leave him without a plate.
--Swift.
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5. To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to
connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at.
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The times of this ignorance God winked at. --Acts
xvii. 30.
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And yet, as though he knew it not,
His knowledge winks, and lets his humors reign.
--Herbert.
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Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued.
--Locke.
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6. To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
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Winking monkey (Zool.), the white-nosed monkey
(Cersopithecus nictitans).
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correctitude
(gcide) | correctitude \correctitude\ n.
correct or appropriate behavior.
Syn: propriety, properness.
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Exactitude
(gcide) | Exactitude \Ex*act"i*tude\, n. [Cf. F. exactitude.]
The quality of being exact; exactness.
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Factitious
(gcide) | Factitious \Fac*ti"tious\, a. [L. factitius, fr. facere to make.
See Fact, and cf. Fetich.]
Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature;
artificial; sham; contrived; formed by, or adapted to, an
artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural,
standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or
jewels; a factitious taste. -- Fac-ti"tious*ly, adv. --
Fac*ti"tious*ness, n.
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He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an
incorrigible habit, of desultory reading. --De Quincey.
Syn: Unnatural.
Usage: Factitious, Unnatural. Anything is unnatural when
it departs in any way from its simple or normal state;
it is factitious when it is wrought out or wrought up
by labor and effort, as, a factitious excitement. An
unnatural demand for any article of merchandise is one
which exceeds the ordinary rate of consumption; a
factitious demand is one created by active exertions
for the purpose. An unnatural alarm is one greater
than the occasion requires; a factitious alarm is one
wrought up with care and effort.
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Fac-titiously
(gcide) | Factitious \Fac*ti"tious\, a. [L. factitius, fr. facere to make.
See Fact, and cf. Fetich.]
Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature;
artificial; sham; contrived; formed by, or adapted to, an
artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural,
standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or
jewels; a factitious taste. -- Fac-ti"tious*ly, adv. --
Fac*ti"tious*ness, n.
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He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an
incorrigible habit, of desultory reading. --De Quincey.
Syn: Unnatural.
Usage: Factitious, Unnatural. Anything is unnatural when
it departs in any way from its simple or normal state;
it is factitious when it is wrought out or wrought up
by labor and effort, as, a factitious excitement. An
unnatural demand for any article of merchandise is one
which exceeds the ordinary rate of consumption; a
factitious demand is one created by active exertions
for the purpose. An unnatural alarm is one greater
than the occasion requires; a factitious alarm is one
wrought up with care and effort.
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Factitiousness
(gcide) | Factitious \Fac*ti"tious\, a. [L. factitius, fr. facere to make.
See Fact, and cf. Fetich.]
Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature;
artificial; sham; contrived; formed by, or adapted to, an
artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural,
standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or
jewels; a factitious taste. -- Fac-ti"tious*ly, adv. --
Fac*ti"tious*ness, n.
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He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an
incorrigible habit, of desultory reading. --De Quincey.
Syn: Unnatural.
Usage: Factitious, Unnatural. Anything is unnatural when
it departs in any way from its simple or normal state;
it is factitious when it is wrought out or wrought up
by labor and effort, as, a factitious excitement. An
unnatural demand for any article of merchandise is one
which exceeds the ordinary rate of consumption; a
factitious demand is one created by active exertions
for the purpose. An unnatural alarm is one greater
than the occasion requires; a factitious alarm is one
wrought up with care and effort.
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Factitive
(gcide) | Factitive \Fac"ti*tive\ a. [See Fact.]
1. Causing; causative.
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2. (Gram.) Pertaining to that relation which is proper when
the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received
by an object, but produces some change in the object, as
when we say, He made the water wine.
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Sometimes the idea of activity in a verb or
adjective involves in it a reference to an effect,
in the way of causality, in the active voice on the
immediate objects, and in the passive voice on the
subject of such activity. This second object is
called the factitive object. --J. W. Gibbs.
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Fictitious
(gcide) | Fictitious \Fic*ti"tious\, a. [L. fictitius. See Fiction.]
Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false;
not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
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The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones.
--Pope.
-- Fic*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fic*ti"tious*ness, n.
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Fictitious person
(gcide) | Person \Per"son\ (p[~e]r"s'n; 277), n. [OE. persone, persoun,
person, parson, OF. persone, F. personne, L. persona a mask
(used by actors), a personage, part, a person, fr. personare
to sound through; per + sonare to sound. See Per-, and cf.
Parson.]
1. A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or
manifestation of individual character, whether in real
life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an
assumed character. [Archaic]
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His first appearance upon the stage in his new
person of a sycophant or juggler. --Bacon.
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No man can long put on a person and act a part.
--Jer. Taylor.
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To bear rule, which was thy part
And person, hadst thou known thyself aright.
--Milton.
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How different is the same man from himself, as he
sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a
friend! --South.
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2. The bodily form of a human being; body; outward
appearance; as, of comely person.
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A fair persone, and strong, and young of age.
--Chaucer.
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If it assume my noble father's person. --Shak.
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Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined.
--Milton.
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3. A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal
or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or
child.
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Consider what person stands for; which, I think, is
a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and
reflection. --Locke.
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4. A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any
person present.
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5. A parson; the parish priest. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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6. (Theol.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions
of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost);
an hypostasis. "Three persons and one God." --Bk. of Com.
Prayer.
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7. (Gram.) One of three relations or conditions (that of
speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being
spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence
also to the verb of which it may be the subject.
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Note: A noun or pronoun, when representing the speaker, is
said to be in the first person; when representing what
is spoken to, in the second person; when representing
what is spoken of, in the third person.
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8. (Biol.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the
compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in
the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. --Haeckel.
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True corms, composed of united person[ae] . . .
usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and
corals occasionally by fusion of several originally
distinct persons. --Encyc. Brit.
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Artificial person, or Fictitious person (Law), a
corporation or body politic; -- this term is used in
contrast with natural person, a real human being. See
also legal person. --Blackstone.
Legal person (Law), an individual or group that is allowed
by law to take legal action, as plaintiff or defendent. It
may include natural persons as well as fictitious persons
(such as corporations).
Natural person (Law), a man, woman, or child, in
distinction from a corporation.
In person, by one's self; with bodily presence, rather than
by remote communication; not by representative. "The king
himself in person is set forth." --Shak.
In the person of, in the place of; acting for. --Shak.
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Fictitiously
(gcide) | Fictitious \Fic*ti"tious\, a. [L. fictitius. See Fiction.]
Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false;
not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
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The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones.
--Pope.
-- Fic*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fic*ti"tious*ness, n.
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Fictitiousness
(gcide) | Fictitious \Fic*ti"tious\, a. [L. fictitius. See Fiction.]
Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false;
not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
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The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones.
--Pope.
-- Fic*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fic*ti"tious*ness, n.
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General practitioner
(gcide) | General \Gen"er*al\, a. [F. g['e]n['e]ral, fr. L. generalis. See
Genus.]
1. Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class
or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable
economy.
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2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or
particular; including all particulars; as, a general
inference or conclusion.
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3. Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not
specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a
loose and general expression.
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4. Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread;
prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general
opinion; a general custom.
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This general applause and cheerful shout
Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard. --Shak.
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5. Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam,
our general sire. --Milton.
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6. As a whole; in gross; for the most part.
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His general behavior vain, ridiculous. --Shak.
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7. Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or
method.
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Note: The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually
denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general;
adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster
general; vicar-general, etc.
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General agent (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to
transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act
in his affairs generally.
General assembly. See the Note under Assembly.
General average, General Court. See under Average,
Court.
General court-martial (Mil.), the highest military and
naval judicial tribunal.
General dealer (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all
articles in common use.
General demurrer (Law), a demurrer which objects to a
pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without
specifying the defects. --Abbott.
General epistle, a canonical epistle.
General guides (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and
the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and
left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy
in marching. --Farrow.
General hospitals (Mil.), hospitals established to receive
sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. --Farrow.
General issue (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which
traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once,
without offering any special matter to evade it.
--Bouvier. --Burrill.
General lien (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc.,
until payment is made of any balance due on a general
account.
General officer (Mil.), any officer having a rank above
that of colonel.
General orders (Mil.), orders from headquarters published
to the whole command.
General practitioner, in the United States, one who
practices medicine in all its branches without confining
himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices
both as physician and as surgeon.
General ship, a ship not chartered or let to particular
parties.
General term (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general
conception or notion.
General verdict (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict
in civil actions, "for the plaintiff" or "for the
defendant". --Burrill.
General warrant (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend
suspected persons, without naming individuals.
Syn: Syn. General, Common, Universal.
Usage: Common denotes primarily that in which many share; and
hence, that which is often met with. General is
stronger, denoting that which pertains to a majority
of the individuals which compose a genus, or whole.
Universal, that which pertains to all without
exception. To be able to read and write is so common
an attainment in the United States, that we may
pronounce it general, though by no means universal.
[1913 Webster]Practitioner \Prac*ti"tion*er\, n. [From Practician.]
1. One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any
art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine.
--Crabbe.
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2. One who does anything customarily or habitually.
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3. A sly or artful person. --Whitgift.
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General practitioner. See under General, 2.
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Inexactitude
(gcide) | Inexactitude \In`ex*act"i*tude\, n.
1. Inexactness; uncertainty; as, geographical inexactitude.
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2. Something inexact; an instance of an inexact statement,
measurement, etc.; as, in two minutes the senator has
produced a dozen inexactitudes.
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Jactitation
(gcide) | Jactitation \Jac"ti*ta"tion\, n. [L. jactitare to utter in
public, from jactare. See Jactancy.]
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1. (Law) Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the
prejudice of another's right; false claim. --Mozley & W.
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2. (Med.) A frequent tossing or moving of the body;
restlessness, as in delirium. --Dunglison.
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Jactitation of marriage (Eng. Eccl. Law), a giving out or
boasting by a party that he or she is married to another,
whereby a common reputation of their matrimony may ensue.
--Blackstone.
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Jactitation of marriage
(gcide) | Jactitation \Jac"ti*ta"tion\, n. [L. jactitare to utter in
public, from jactare. See Jactancy.]
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1. (Law) Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the
prejudice of another's right; false claim. --Mozley & W.
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2. (Med.) A frequent tossing or moving of the body;
restlessness, as in delirium. --Dunglison.
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Jactitation of marriage (Eng. Eccl. Law), a giving out or
boasting by a party that he or she is married to another,
whereby a common reputation of their matrimony may ensue.
--Blackstone.
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Nictitate
(gcide) | Nictitate \Nic"ti*tate\, v. i. [See Nictate.]
To wink; to nictate.
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Nictitating membrane (Anat.), a thin membrane, found in
many animals at the inner angle, or beneath the lower lid,
of the eye, and capable of being drawn across the eyeball;
the third eyelid; the haw.
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Nictitating membrane
(gcide) | Nictitate \Nic"ti*tate\, v. i. [See Nictate.]
To wink; to nictate.
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Nictitating membrane (Anat.), a thin membrane, found in
many animals at the inner angle, or beneath the lower lid,
of the eye, and capable of being drawn across the eyeball;
the third eyelid; the haw.
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Nictitation
(gcide) | Nictitation \Nic`ti*ta"tion\, n.
The act of winking.
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Nyctitropic
(gcide) | Nyctitropic \Nyc`ti*trop"ic\, a. [From Gr. ny`x, nykto`s, night
+ ? turning.] (Bot.)
Turning or bending at night into special positions.
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Note: Nyctitropic movements of plants usually consist in a
folding or drooping of the leaves, the advantage being
in lessening the radiation of heat.
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Nyctitropism
(gcide) | Nyctitropism \Nyc*tit"ro*pism\, n. [From Gr. ny`x, nykto`s,
night + ? to turn.] (Plant Physiol.)
The tendency of certain plant organs, as leaves, to assume
special "sleeping" positions or make curvatures under the
influence of darkness. It is well illustrated in the leaflets
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Pactitious
(gcide) | Pactitious \Pac*ti"tious\, a. [L. pactitius, pacticius.]
Setted by a pact, or agreement. [R.] --Johnson.
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Periproctitis
(gcide) | Periproctitis \Per`i*proc*ti"tis\, n. [NL. See Peri-, and
Proctitus.] (Med.)
Inflammation of the tissues about the rectum.
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Practitioner
(gcide) | Practitioner \Prac*ti"tion*er\, n. [From Practician.]
1. One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any
art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine.
--Crabbe.
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2. One who does anything customarily or habitually.
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3. A sly or artful person. --Whitgift.
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General practitioner. See under General, 2.
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Proctitis
(gcide) | Proctitis \Proc*ti"tis\, n. [NL., from Gr. ? anus + -itis.]
(Med.)
Inflammation of the rectum.
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Profectitious
(gcide) | Profectitious \Pro`fec*ti"tious\, a. [L. profectitius, fr.
proficisci to set out, proceed.]
Proceeding from, as from a parent; derived, as from an
ancestor. [R.]
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The threefold distinction of profectitious,
adventitious, and professional was ascertained.
--Gibbon.
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Rectitis
(gcide) | Rectitis \Rec*ti"tis\ (r?k*t?"t?s), n. [NL. See Rectum, and
-itis.] (Med.)
Proctitis. --Dunglison.
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Rectitude
(gcide) | Rectitude \Rec"ti*tude\ (r?k"t?*t?d), n. [L. rectitudo, fr.
rectus right, straight: cf. F. rectitude. See Right.]
1. Straightness. [R.] --Johnson.
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2. Rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to
truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct,
either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind;
uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice.
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3. Right judgment. [R.] --Sir G. C. Lewis.
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Syn: See Justice.
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Rejectitious
(gcide) | Rejectitious \Re`jec*ti"tious\ (r?`j?k-t?sh"?s), a.
Implying or requiring rejection; rejectable. --Cudworth.
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Sanctities
(gcide) | Sanctity \Sanc"ti*ty\, n.; pl. Sanctities. [L. sanctitas, from
sanctus holy. See Saint.]
1. The state or quality of being sacred or holy; holiness;
saintliness; moral purity; godliness.
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To sanctity she made no pretense, and, indeed,
narrowly escaped the imputation of irreligion.
--Macaulay.
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2. Sacredness; solemnity; inviolability; religious binding
force; as, the sanctity of an oath.
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3. A saint or holy being. [R.]
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About him all the sanctities of heaven. --Milton.
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Syn: Holiness; godliness; piety; devotion; goodness; purity;
religiousness; sacredness; solemnity. See the Note under
Religion.
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Sanctitude
(gcide) | Sanctitude \Sanc"ti*tude\, n. [L. sanctitudo.]
Holiness; sacredness; sanctity. [R.] --Milton.
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Sanctity
(gcide) | Sanctity \Sanc"ti*ty\, n.; pl. Sanctities. [L. sanctitas, from
sanctus holy. See Saint.]
1. The state or quality of being sacred or holy; holiness;
saintliness; moral purity; godliness.
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To sanctity she made no pretense, and, indeed,
narrowly escaped the imputation of irreligion.
--Macaulay.
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2. Sacredness; solemnity; inviolability; religious binding
force; as, the sanctity of an oath.
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3. A saint or holy being. [R.]
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About him all the sanctities of heaven. --Milton.
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Syn: Holiness; godliness; piety; devotion; goodness; purity;
religiousness; sacredness; solemnity. See the Note under
Religion.
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Senectitude
(gcide) | Senectitude \Se*nec"ti*tude\, n. [L. senectus aged, old age,
senex old.]
Old age. [R.] "Senectitude, weary of its toils." --H. Miller.
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