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1. 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.

2. actūā̆l, -ē̆l adj.

Additional spellings: actuel
22 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Of things, conditions, emotions, qualities: existing in fact, real; of actions: really done; (b) surg. real (as opposed to potential); actual cauterie, a cauterizing operation involving the…

3. affirmatī̆f, -ī̆ve adj. as n.

Additional spellings: affirmative
5 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Phil. An affirmative proposition, a positive statement or inference; (b) the positive form or aspect of something; in affirmatives, in positive functions (as opposed to failure to function); wil

4. ē̆ndāl adj.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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Phil. Ultimate, absolute, intrinsic.

5. essenciā̆l adj.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Phil. Of the essence, having real or true being (as distinguished from accidental existence); real, true, fundamental; (b) of words or attributes: denoting something that is of the (divine)…

6. estimā̆tī̆f adj.

5 quotations in 1 sense
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Phil. vertu estimatif, estimatif pouer, estimatif wit, one of the five 'inward senses'; intuition, instinct.

7. fallāble adj.

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Phil. Subsumable.

8. fīnāl, -all, -el adj.

Additional spellings: finall, finel
51 quotations in 3 senses
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Pertaining to the end or close of something: (a) occurring at the close or end (of life, the world); concluding, last, ultimate; (b) lasting or continuing until death; (c) finite, not eternal; (d) in

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. ideāl adj.

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Phil. & theol. Pertaining to the divine archetypes of things.

11. imā̆ǧinātī̆f adj. & n.

28 quotations in 4 senses
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Phil. (a) Employing mental images; vertu imaginatif, the ability to form and retain images formed from data supplied from the senses or the communis sensus; also, the faculty of combining images into…

12. īrascī̆ble adj. as n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Phil. One of the three powers of the soul, the power to hate and reject evil.

13. sensible adj.

52 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Capable of sensation or feeling; vertus sensibles, powers of perception; (b) susceptible to injury or pain, sensitive; (c) capable of reasoning, discerning, clever; (d) cognizant, aware.

14. sensitī̆f adj.

27 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Of a bodily organ, a part of the body: having feeling or sensation, sensitive; also, as noun: a part of the body having sensation; (b) sensitif actes, actes sensitif, the sensory functions (of the…

15. 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)…

16. topicā̆l adj.

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Phil. Pertaining to or derived from a widely held, but unproven, assumption.

17. ūniversā̆l adj.

73 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Affecting the whole world or cosmos; affecting everyone; including in its scope all of a specified or implied group; also, total, complete (b) affecting the body or a part of the body as a whole,…