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1. accidence n.

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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.

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Something that happens or occurs; a fortuitous happening.

3. accidentāl adj.

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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. actūā̆l, -ē̆l adj.

Additional spellings: actuel
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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…

5. affirmatī̆f, -ī̆ve adj. as n.

Additional spellings: affirmative
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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

6. affirmatī̆velī adv.

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Phil. So as to affirm; demen, juǧen affirmativeli, to draw an affirmative inference.

7. alteraciǒun n.

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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…

8. alterāten v.

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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…

9. alteren v.

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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…

10. an(n)exen v.

Additional spellings: annexen
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annexed (to), joined (onto), adjoining; connected (with), constituting a part (of).

11. antimber n.

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Phil. Substance.

12. ap(p)etīt n.

Additional spellings: appetit
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Physiol. & psych. An inherent urge or drive attributed to the various organs of the body (such as the genitals, the stomach, the senses), to the mental 'faculties', or to the organism as a whole…

13. ap(p)etīten v.

Additional spellings: appetiten
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Phil. Of matter: to tend to, or seek (form).

14. ark(e n.

Additional spellings: arke
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(a) A chest or box; a large box or bin for storing meal or grain; a coffer for money or valuables, treasure chest; a coffin; (b) ark keper, a treasurer; ark maker, ark wright, a maker of chests or…

15. biginning(e ger.

Additional spellings: beginning, biginninge, beginninge
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(a) The process of coming into existence; the Creation (of the world, etc.); the first biginning; (b) the process of being born, birth; (c) origin; source; taken biginning, originate, arise; -- with…

16. ed-wist n.

Additional spellings: edwist
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Phil. Substance, being.

17. effect n.

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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…

18. effectīvelī̆ adv.

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Phil. As an embodiment or manifestation of 'being' or 'substance.'

19. effectūā̆llī, -ē̆llī adv.

Additional spellings: effectuelli
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(a) Effectively, adequately, satisfactorily, successfully; (b) in fact, actually; officially.

20. ē̆ndāl adj.

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Phil. Ultimate, absolute, intrinsic.

21. ē̆nden v.

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To come to an end, have an end, stop, cease: (a) of a period of time or existence: to end;--also pass.; (b) of an activity, a state, a meeting, a festival, a ceremony: to end, stop, cease; (c) of…

22. ensaumplēre n.

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Phil. (a) The divine exemplar (in the Platonic sense); the prototype of the universe, existing in the mind of God and embodied in the phenomena of the material universe; (b) an individual copy of a…

23. entelechia n.

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Phil. Entelechy, the form or essence of a living thing.

24. essencia, -ie n.

Additional spellings: essencie, ensencie
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(a) Phil. Substance, or true being, as distinguished from accidental qualities; (b) theol. divine essence or being; that in respect of which the three persons of the Trinity are one.

25. essenciā̆l adj.

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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)…

26. essenciā̆llī adv.

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Phil. In essence or true being (rendering L essentialiter, existenter); by its very nature, by nature; fundamentally.

27. estimāciǒun n.

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(a) bi estimacioun, for estimacioun, according to an appraisal or estimate, at an estimate; (b) above(n estimacioun, withouten estimacioun, beyond estimate or calculation, immeasurable, innumerable…

28. estimā̆tī̆f adj.

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Phil. vertu estimatif, estimatif pouer, estimatif wit, one of the five 'inward senses'; intuition, instinct.

29. exaumplārie n.

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(a) A model of conduct to be imitated, a pattern of virtue; taken exaumplarie of, to imitate; (b) the pattern or model according to which something is to be constructed (c) a textual exemplar, a copy…

30. exaumple n.

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(a) An instance typical of a class, an illustration of a general truth; (b) used absol.: for example; exaumple of grace, exaumple as thus; (c) a sample of a commodity.

31. exaumplē̆re n.

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A specific instance illustrating a general truth.

32. expērience n.

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Phil. The method or process of acquiring knowledge or understanding by observation, esp. through sensory perception, as opposed to gaining knowledge through logical inference or speculation; inductive…

33. fallāble adj.

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Phil. Subsumable.

34. fallinge ger.

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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…

35. figūre n.

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Shape, form, appearance: (a) visible or tangible shape or form; general appearance; bodili figure, figure of this world; of the face: expression; (b) of a living being: bodily form, appearance (often…

36. 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

37. fō̆rmāl adj.

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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.

38. fō̆rmāllī adv.

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(a) In an orderly manner, correctly; (b) in accordance with the rules of logic, logically.

39. fō̆rme n.

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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.

40. idea n.

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Phil. & theol. The archetype of a thing as existing in the mind of God, the Platonic 'idea' [cp. forme n. 14a. & exaumple 5.].

41. ideāl adj.

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

42. imā̆ǧināciǒun n.

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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…

43. imā̆ǧinātī̆f adj. & n.

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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…

44. īrascī̆ble adj. as n.

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Phil. One of the three powers of the soul, the power to hate and reject evil.

45. nōte n.(3)

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(a) A song, melody; also, tune, the setting of a song; kinges note [see king 1b. (h)]; (b) music; vocal or instrumental music, singing or playing; (c) the song of a bird, bird song; the characteristic…

46. sensible adj.

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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.

47. sensitī̆f adj.

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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…

48. stǒund(e n.

Additional spellings: stounde
226 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) A relatively short space or length of time, a while; daies stound, the duration of the day; within a (litel) stound; (b) in (a) stound, in (a) litel (lite) stound, in a stound while, in a feue

49. subǧet n.

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(a) One who is obedient to another or to the wishes of another; a servant; a lover; also fig.; also, something which may be put to the service of man; (b) one who is absolutely under the control of or…

50. subǧet adj.

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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)…

51. subjectīvelī adv.

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Phil. As in a subject, inherently.

52. subsistence n.

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Phil. That which makes a substance a self-subsistent being.

53. substanciāl n.

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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…

54. topicā̆l adj.

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

55. Topikes n. plural

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Phil. The title of Aristotle's treatise on the use of commonplaces in dialectical argument.

56. turn(e n.

Additional spellings: turne
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A turn, rotation, or revolution about an axis or center; welkenes turn, the turning of the heavens.

57. ūniversā̆l adj.

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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,…

58. ūniversā̆litẹ̄ n.

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Phil. Abstract knowledge of a class, derived from generalizing about knowledge of its members; also, the ability to make such generalizations.

59. unshā̆pnesse n.

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Phil. Formlessness.