Ability (n.) The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent.
Abime (n.) Alt. of Abyme
Abyme (n.) A abyss.
Abiogenesis (n.) The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis.
Abiogenetic (a.) Of or pertaining to abiogenesis.
Abiogenist (n.) One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent.
Abiogenous (a.) Produced by spontaneous generation.
Abiogeny (n.) Same as Abiogenesis.
Abiological (a.) Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.
Abirritant (n.) A medicine that diminishes irritation.
Abirritate (v. t.) To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate.
Abirritation (n.) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.
Abirritative (a.) Characterized by abirritation or debility.
Abit () 3d sing. pres. of Abide.
Abject (a.) Cast down; low-lying.
Abject (a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.
Abject (a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
Abject (n.) A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.
Abjectedness (n.) A very abject or low condition; abjectness.
Abjection (n.) The act of bringing down or humbling.
Abjection (n.) The state of being rejected or cast out.
Abjection (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
Abjectly (adv.) Meanly; servilely.
Abjectness (n.) The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.
Abjudge (v. t.) To take away by judicial decision.
Abjudicate (v. t.) To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge.
Abjudication (n.) Rejection by judicial sentence.
Abjugate (v. t.) To unyoke.
Abjunctive (a.) Exceptional.
Abjuration (n.) The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.
Abjuration (n.) A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy.
Abjuratory (a.) Containing abjuration.
Abjured (imp. & p. p.) of Abjure
Abjuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abjure
Abjure (v. t.) To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.
Abjure (v. t.) To renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate; as, to abjure errors.
Abjure (v. i.) To renounce on oath.
Abjurement (n.) Renunciation.
Abjurer (n.) One who abjures.
Ablactate (v. t.) To wean.
Ablactation (n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam.
Ablactation (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.
Ablaqueate (v. t.) To lay bare, as the roots of a tree.
Ablaqueation (n.) The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water.
Ablastemic (a.) Non-germinal.
Ablation (n.) A carrying or taking away; removal.
Ablation (n.) Extirpation.
Ablation (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste.
Ablatitious (a.) Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force.
Ablative (a.) Taking away or removing.
Ablative (a.) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.
Ablative () The ablative case.
Ablaut (n.) The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung.
Ablaze (adv. & a.) On fire; in a blaze, gleaming.
Ablaze (adv. & a.) In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
Able (superl.) Fit; adapted; suitable.
Able (superl.) Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.
Able (superl.) Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech.
Able (superl.) Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property.
Able (a.) To make able; to enable; to strengthen.
Able (a.) To vouch for.
-able () An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.
Able-bodied (a.) Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust.
Ablegate (v. t.) To send abroad.
Ablegate (n.) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.
Ablegation (n.) The act of sending abroad.
Able-minded (a.) Having much intellectual power.
Ableness (n.) Ability of body or mind; force; vigor.
Ablepsy (n.) Blindness.
Abler (a.) comp. of Able.
Abler (a.) superl. of Able.
Ablet () Alt. of Ablen
Ablen () A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.
Abligate (v. t.) To tie up so as to hinder from.
Abligurition (n.) Prodigal expense for food.
Ablins (adv.) Perhaps.
Abloom (adv.) In or into bloom; in a blooming state.
Ablude (v. t.) To be unlike; to differ.
Abluent (a.) Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.
Abluent (n.) A detergent.
Ablush (adv. & a.) Blushing; ruddy.
Ablution (n.) The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
Ablution (n.) The water used in cleansing.
Ablution (n.) A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.
Ablutionary (a.) Pertaining to ablution.
Abluvion (n.) That which is washed off.
Ably (adv.) In an able manner; with great ability; as, ably done, planned, said.
-ably () A suffix composed of -able and the adverbial suffix -ly; as, favorably.
Abnegated (imp. & p. p.) of Abnegate
Abnegating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abnegate
Abnegate (v. t.) To deny and reject; to abjure.
Abnegation (n.) a denial; a renunciation.
Abnegative (a.) Denying; renouncing; negative.
Abnegator (n.) One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything.
Abnet (n.) The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.
Abnodate (v. t.) To clear (tress) from knots.
Abnodation (n.) The act of cutting away the knots of trees.
Abnormal (a.) Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular.
Abnormalities (pl. ) of Abnormality
Abnormality (n.) The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.