Absorption (n.) The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.
Absorption (n.) An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.
Absorption (n.) In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.
Absorption (n.) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.
Absorptive (a.) Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe.
Absorptiveness (n.) The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
Absorptivity (n.) Absorptiveness.
Absquatulate (v. i.) To take one's self off; to decamp.
Absque hoc () The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.
Abstained (imp. & p. p.) of Abstain
Abstaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abstain
Abstain (v. i.) To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from.
Abstain (v. t.) To hinder; to withhold.
Abstainer (n.) One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors.
Abstemious (a.) Abstaining from wine.
Abstemious (a.) Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
Abstemious (a.) Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet.
Abstemious (a.) Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.
Abstemious (a.) Promotive of abstemiousness.
Abstemiousness (n.) The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.
Abstention (a.) The act of abstaining; a holding aloof.
Abstentious (a.) Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining.
Absterge (v. t.) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge.
Abstergent (a.) Serving to cleanse, detergent.
Abstergent (n.) A substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent.
Absterse (v. t.) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
Abstersion (n.) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.
Abstersive (a.) Cleansing; purging.
Abstersive (n.) Something cleansing.
Abstersiveness (n.) The quality of being abstersive.
Abstinence (n.) The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence.
Abstinence (n.) The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.
Abstinency (n.) Abstinence.
Abstinent (a.) Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.
Abstinent (n.) One who abstains.
Abstinent (n.) One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.
Abstinently (adv.) With abstinence.
Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.
Abstract (a.) Withdraw; separate.
Abstract (a.) Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.
Abstract (a.) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word.
Abstract (a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.
Abstract (a.) Abstracted; absent in mind.
Abstracted (imp. & p. p.) of Abstract
Abstracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abstract
Abstract (a.) To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
Abstract (a.) To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
Abstract (a.) To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
Abstract (a.) To epitomize; to abridge.
Abstract (a.) To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
Abstract (a.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.
Abstract (v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction.
Abstract (a.) That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.
Abstract (a.) A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.
Abstract (a.) An abstract term.
Abstract (a.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.
Abstracted (a.) Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
Abstracted (a.) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal.
Abstracted (a.) Abstract; abstruse; difficult.
Abstracted (a.) Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind.
Abstractedly (adv.) In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
Abstractedness (n.) The state of being abstracted; abstract character.
Abstracter (n.) One who abstracts, or makes an abstract.
Abstraction (a.) The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
Abstraction (a.) The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.
Abstraction (a.) An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions.
Abstraction (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction.
Abstraction (a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.
Abstraction (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
Abstraction (a.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
Abstractional (a.) Pertaining to abstraction.
Abstractionist (n.) An idealist.
Abstractitious (a.) Obtained from plants by distillation.
Abstractive (a.) Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.
Abstractively (adv.) In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself.
Abstractiveness (n.) The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property.
Abstractly (adv.) In an abstract state or manner; separately; absolutely; by itself; as, matter abstractly considered.
Abstractness (n.) The quality of being abstract.
Abstringe (v. t.) To unbind.
Abstrude (v. t.) To thrust away.
Abstruse (a.) Concealed or hidden out of the way.
Abstruse (a.) Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning.
Abstrusely (adv.) In an abstruse manner.
Abstruseness (n.) The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.
Abstrusion (n.) The act of thrusting away.
Abstrusity (n.) Abstruseness; that which is abstruse.
Absume (v. t.) To consume gradually; to waste away.
Absumption (n.) Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction.
Absurd (a.) Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream.
Absurd (n.) An absurdity.
Absurdities (pl. ) of Absurdity
Absurdity (n.) The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
Absurdity (n.) That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
Absurdly (adv.) In an absurd manner.
Absurdness (n.) Absurdity.
Abuna (n.) The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.
Abundance (n.) An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.
Abundant (a.) Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with.
Abundantly (adv.) In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.
Aburst (adv.) In a bursting condition.