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21. 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)…

22. subjecten v.

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(a) To subjugate (sb., a people, the earth); make (sb., a land, people, etc.) submissive (to sb., an authority, etc.); -- also refl.; also, make (sth.) subservient (to God); (b) to submit (to sb.)…

23. 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…

24. substanciāllī adv.

34 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Chiefly phil. or theol. In substance, essentially; also, so as to be an essential part of something; (b) in accordance with the essential nature of man, i.e., rationally.

25. substaunce n.

215 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) A type or kind of thing; a thing; also, a material thing; up substaunce, above material things, spiritual, transcendent; (b) an entity possessing physical properties; -- used of the incarnate…

26. ūnitī̆f adj.

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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…

27. ūniversitẹ̄ n.

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(a) An institution of higher learning granting the license to teach and other, higher degrees; also applied to advanced schools of classical and early medieval times; the body of scholars and teachers…

28. unkept ppl.

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(a) Of a country, coastline: not watched over or protected, unguarded; of equipment: unattended (b) not cared for, neglected; of a child: not provided with a guardian; also in fig. context; also, phi

29. 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…

30. veǧetātī̆f adj.

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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,…

31. 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…

32. 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…

33. voluntārī̆lī adv.

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Without constraint, willingly, freely; also, phil. by means of free will.

34. werker(e n.

Additional spellings: werkere
61 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) One who acts, a doer; one who behaves in a particular way; the doer (of a deed); a perpetrator (of wickedness); a worker (of miracles) (b) one who acts in contrast to one who remains inactive, an…

35. werking(e ger.(1)

Additional spellings: werkinge
192 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) The doing of an act or action; acting (in a certain way), (one’s) behavior; also, that which one does or has done, (one’s) acts or doings; an act, a deed; werking togeder; a merveillous werking

36. wilfulnes(se n.

Additional spellings: wilfulnesse
18 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Obstinacy, headstrongness, obduracy; self-will; also, rashness, impulsiveness; with inf.: stubborn desire (to do sth.), insistence (b) fixity of purpose, determination, resolve; ?also, devotion…