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1. actī̆f, -ī̆ve adj. as n.

Additional spellings: active
11 quotations in 4 senses
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A person who is active in a cause.

2. actī̆f, -ī̆ve adj.

Additional spellings: active
32 quotations in 4 senses
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Of human actions: done (as opposed to suffered), voluntary; actif cursing, self-excommunication.

3. ǒutrest(e adj. superlative

Additional spellings: outreste
68 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Outermost; most distant, most remote, farthest; (b)external, foreign; existing at the lowest end of the chain of being [1st quot.]; (c) outrestside, the visiting group in a tournament.

4. rāther(e adj.comparative

Additional spellings: rathere
38 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Former, prior, earlier, previous; ben rather than, to exist before (sb.); (b) as noun: the rather, the former, the former one(s; also, the first; that rather, the former one; of rather, too early…

5. simple adj.

217 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) Blameless, innocent; upright; guileless, artless; (b) of the eyes:?innocent, not sinful; ?sound, healthy; -- used fig.

6. spiritū̆āl adj.

119 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Immaterial; consisting solely of intellect, purely intellectual; (b) having the properties of the immaterial: of virtues: unbounded, infinite; of torment: intangible; (c) phil. & theol. of form…

7. subǧet adj.

140 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Obedient, submissive; compliant; also, deferential; also fig.; subget to (unto); (b) put to the service of someone or something else; of service to another; also, subordinate; subget to (til); (c)…

8. substanciāl adj.

67 quotations in 6 senses
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Chiefly phil. or theol. (a) Pertaining to the very nature of a thing, essential; substancial forme, forme substancial, the principle of existence in a substance and the source of all that is essential…

9. ūnitī̆f adj.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Conducive to or arising from oneness or unification (b) phil. unitif pouere, the power of the vegetative faculty, that which ensures the uniformity of the species in the reproductive…

10. unparfī̆t adj.

43 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Inadequate for its intended purpose, insufficient, limited in operation or action (b) flawed, defective; also, inferior in physical form; of animals, organisms: primitive, lower [sometimes…

11. veǧetātī̆f adj.

12 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Producing or promoting growth, vegetation, or vigor; animating, vivifying; vegetatif vertu, vertu vegetatif (b) phil. pertaining to the lowest species of soul, which gives bodily life, growth,…

12. vī̆tā̆l adj.

16 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Physiol. & phil. Pertaining to the principle of life which animates living beings; vital sprit, spirit vital (b) physiol. of humoral spirits: producing life, quickening, vital; vital blod, blood…

13. voluntārī(e adj.

Additional spellings: voluntarie
21 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Proceeding from, subject to, or determined by the will; arising from willfulness, arbitrary; of the mind, heart, etc.: capable of unconstrained working, directed by volition; phil. not…