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1. accidence n.

8 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Phil. A non-essential or incidental characteristic, a temporary and variable property of a thing; bi accidence, through a secondary means, indirectly; of accidence, without affecting or involving…

2. accident n.

52 quotations in 4 senses
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Something that happens or occurs; a fortuitous happening.

3. accidentāl adj.

20 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Phil. Not a natural or essential part of a thing, non-essential, incidental, secondary; (b) not inherent in a thing, induced from without; (c) ?growing out of something else, ?outward, external.

4. alteraciǒun n.

15 quotations in 2 senses
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Phil., physiol., med., alch.: (a) Change, transformation, transmutation; (b) change for the worse, deterioration; evel alteracioun; ill effect or result; (c) change for the better, amelioration…

5. alterāten v.

19 quotations in 2 senses
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Phil., physiol., med., alch.: (a) To change, modify, transform; alteraten to (sth.); (b) to change for the worse; affect adversely; deteriorate; (c) to change for the better; affect beneficially…

6. alteren v.

26 quotations in 2 senses
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Phil., physiol., med., alch., astrol. (a) To change, modify, transform; alteren to (sth.); (b) to change for the worse; affect adversely; deteriorate; (c) to change for the better; affect…

7. effect n.

115 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) Execution or completion (of an act); attainment or consummation (of a desire, an aim); fulfillment or realization (of a wish, a prayer, a dream); (b) comen to effect, achieve or attain to; produce…

8. fallinge ger.

48 quotations in 14 senses
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(a) The action of descending or dropping from a higher to a lower position; the falling (of an object, of rain), a fall; (b) astron. movement toward the horizon, setting (of a heavenly body); (c) ?a…

9. fō̆rmāl adj.

25 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) In due or proper form; according to established procedure; orderly, correct, regular, conventional; formal argument, argument following the rules of logic; (b) ?beautiful, shapely.

10. fō̆rme n.

249 quotations in 17 senses
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(a) The physical shape of something, contour, outline; the figure or shape (of a person), body; also fig.; (b) forme and shape, shape or forme, forme and shafte, etc.

11. imā̆ǧināciǒun n.

87 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Phil. The faculty of forming mental images from sense data and of retaining them either immediately or when recalled from memory; (b) more narrowly: the faculty of receiving images from the…

12. substanciāl n.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Phil. That which pertains to the very nature of a thing; also, a fundamental part of something; (b) ?the essential nature of something, or its being; ?error for substancial adj. 1.(a); (c) a…