Associate (n.) A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league.
Associate (n.) One connected with an association or institution without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy.
Associate (n.) Anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant.
Associated (a.) Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined.
Associateship (n.) The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.
Association (n.) The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.
Association (n.) Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.
Association (n.) Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.
Associational (a.) Of or pertaining to association, or to an association.
Associational (a.) Pertaining to the theory held by the associationists.
Associationism (n.) The doctrine or theory held by associationists.
Associationist (n.) One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
Associative (a.) Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty.
Associator (n.) An associate; a confederate or partner in any scheme.
Assoil (v. t.) To set free; to release.
Assoil (v. t.) To solve; to clear up.
Assoil (v. t.) To set free from guilt; to absolve.
Assoil (v. t.) To expiate; to atone for.
Assoil (v. t.) To remove; to put off.
Assoil (v. t.) To soil; to stain.
Assoilment (n.) Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal.
Assoilment (n.) A soiling; defilement.
Assoilzie (v. t.) Alt. of Assoilyie
Assoilyie (v. t.) To absolve; to acquit by sentence of court.
Assonance (n.) Resemblance of sound.
Assonance (n.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary.
Assonance (n.) Incomplete correspondence.
Assonant (a.) Having a resemblance of sounds.
Assonant (a.) Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.
Assonantal (a.) Assonant.
Assonate (v. i.) To correspond in sound.
Assorted (imp. & p. p.) of Assort
Assorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assort
Assort (v. t.) To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods. [Rarely applied to persons.]
Assort (v. t.) To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods; as, to assort a cargo.
Assort (v. i.) To agree; to be in accordance; to be adapted; to suit; to fall into a class or place.
Assorted (a.) Selected; culled.
Assortment (n.) Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes.
Assortment (n.) A collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds or sorts; a number of things assorted.
Assortment (n.) A collection containing a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods.
Assot (v. t.) To besot; to befool; to beguile; to infatuate.
Assot (a.) Dazed; foolish; infatuated.
Assuaged (imp. & p. p.) of Assuage
Assuaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assuage
Assuage (v. t.) To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.
Assuage (v. i.) To abate or subside.
Assuagement (n.) Mitigation; abatement.
Assuager (n.) One who, or that which, assuages.
Assuasive (a.) Mitigating; tranquilizing; soothing.
Assubjugate (v. t.) To bring into subjection.
Assuefaction (n.) The act of accustoming, or the state of being accustomed; habituation.
Assuetude (n.) Accustomedness; habit; habitual use.
Assumable (a.) That may be assumed.
Assumably (adv.) By way of assumption.
Assumed (imp. & p. p.) of Assume
Assuming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assume
Assume (v. t.) To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.
Assume (v. t.) To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.
Assume (v. t.) To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.
Assume (v. t.) To receive or adopt.
Assume (v. i.) To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is due.
Assume (v. i.) To undertake, as by a promise.
Assumed (a.) Supposed.
Assumed (a.) Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.
Assumedly (adv.) By assumption.
Assument (n.) A patch; an addition; a piece put on.
Assumer (n.) One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes.
Assuming (a.) Pretentious; taking much upon one's self; presumptuous.
Assumpsit (n.) A promise or undertaking, founded on a consideration. This promise may be oral or in writing not under seal. It may be express or implied.
Assumpsit (n.) An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under seal. Common or indebitatus assumpsit is brought for the most part on an implied promise. Special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking.
Assumpt (v. t.) To take up; to elevate; to assume.
Assumpt (n.) That which is assumed; an assumption.
Assumption (n.) The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.
Assumption (n.) The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.
Assumption (n.) The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
Assumption (n.) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
Assumption (n.) The taking of a person up into heaven.
Assumption (n.) A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
Assumptive (a.) Assumed, or capable of being assumed; characterized by assumption; making unwarranted claims.
Assurance (n.) The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
Assurance (n.) The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
Assurance (n.) Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
Assurance (n.) Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.
Assurance (n.) Betrothal; affiance.
Assurance (n.) Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death.
Assurance (n.) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
Assured (imp. & p. p.) of Assure
Assuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assure
Assure (v. t.) To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.
Assure (v. t.) To declare to, solemnly; to assert to (any one) with the design of inspiring belief or confidence.
Assure (v. t.) To confirm; to make certain or secure.
Assure (v. t.) To affiance; to betroth.
Assure (v. t.) To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. See Insure.
Assured (a.) Made sure; safe; insured; certain; indubitable; not doubting; bold to excess.
Assured (n.) One whose life or property is insured.
Assuredly (adv.) Certainly; indubitably.
Assuredness (n.) The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence.
Assurer (n.) One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter.
Assurer (n.) One who takes out a life assurance policy.
Assurgency (n.) Act of rising.