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1. absō̆lūt ppl.

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(a) Free from compulsion or limitation, unrestricted; absolut from (fro, of), uncontrolled by, free from, independent of; (b) free from imperfection or deficiency, complete, perfect; (c) not relative……

2. abstract ppl.

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(a) Withdrawn from the earth, raised above the earth; (b) withdrawn from worldly interests, lost in spiritual ecstasies; (c) difficult to understand, abstruse; (d) of writings: extracted from a longer……

3. abstractī̆f adj.

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Gram. Of nouns: abstract (as opposed to concrete). …

4. 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……

5. ac(c)ūsatīf adj. & n.

Additional spellings: accusatif
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(a) Accusing, self-accusing [note the play on the word cas in GRom.]; (b) gram. accustif (cas). …

6. actī̆f, -ī̆ve adj.

Additional spellings: active
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Of human actions: done (as opposed to suffered), voluntary; actif cursing, self-excommunication. …

7. adjectī̆f, -ī̆ve adj. & n.

Additional spellings: adjective
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Gram. (a) Adjectival; noun adjectif, an adjective; verb adjectif, a verbal noun or adjective; (b) as noun: adjective. …

8. adverbe n.

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Gram. An adverb. …

9. adversatī̆f adj.

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Gram. Of a conjunction: adversative. …

10. antitesis n.

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Gram. The substitution of one case for another. …

11. appōsiciǒun n.

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(a) Addition; (b) application; (c) gram. apposition. …

12. article n.

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(a) A separate item (in a set of rules, doctrines, provisions, etc.); one of the statements of the Apostles' Creed; article of the feith (beleve, crede, creaunce, trouthe); (b) a specific religious……

13. cā̆s n.

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(a) State of affairs, circumstances, situation; predicament; hard cas; the fortunes (of a person), lot, destiny; (b) senden cas, yeven cas, to grant fortune, rule destiny; grant (a certain kind of)……

14. collecciǒun n.

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The action or process of gathering: (a) the collecting (of things); (b) the collection (of taxes); a tax collector's district; (c) the accumulation (of morbid matter); a swelling or boil; maken……

15. commū̆n(e adj.

Additional spellings: commune
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(a) Owned or used jointly, shared; haven commun, own (sth.) jointly; commun to (til), shared by; (b) of characteristics, destiny, etc.: common (to all, etc.); haven commun with, have (sth.) in common……

16. comparatī̆f, -ī̆ve adj. & n.

Additional spellings: comparative
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(a) Gram. Comparative (degree); (b) second (degree of a fever); (c) without comparatif, without any superior, without equal. …

17. composiciǒun n.

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(a) The composition, constitution, or structure (of a complex object, organ, etc.); also, complexion, character; (b) a concoction, a compound medicine; (c) the act of making or constructing something……

18. concepciǒun n.

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(a) The fact of conceiving or begetting offspring, or of being conceived or begotten; conception; (b) propagation of offspring; (c) pregnancy, childbearing; also, fetus, offspring. …

19. concrēt ppl. (& n.)

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(a) Gram. Denoting a 'substance' rather than a 'quality'; (b) solid, compact. …

20. conjuncciǒun n.

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(a) The act or process of joining, combining, or uniting two or more things; the fact of being joined or united, a union; (b) sexual union or intercourse; (c) a juncture or joint. …

21. conjunctī̆f adj.

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(a) Gram. Subjunctive (mode); (b) producing cohesion, solidifying. …

22. construcciǒun n.

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Gram. & rhet. (a) Formation or construction of a sentence; rightful (order of) construccioun, normal order of syntactic elements; (b) a rhetorical figure; figure of construccioun. …

23. constrūen v.

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Gram. To enter into construction (with a certain form); also, ben construed. …

24. dātī̆f, ī̆ve adj. & n.

Additional spellings: ive
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(a) Gram. Dative (case), the dative; (b) disposed to give, generous [with play on sense (a)]; (c) of an officer: appointed (i.e. not elected). …

25. declināciǒun n.

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(a) A hanging downward; (b) deterioration, degeneration. …

26. decompǒund ppl.

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Gram. Of a word: made by compounding a word which is already compound. …

27. demonstrātīf adj. & n.

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(a) Characterized by logical reasoning, logical; proceding from true premises, demonstrable, certain; -- as noun, personified; demonstratif conning, the science of logic; also, knowledge based on……

28. dēpōnent adj.

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Gram. Of Latin verbs: deponent. …

29. dī̆minūtī̆f adj. & n.

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Gram. A derivative word denoting a small kind of the primitive, a diminutive; also noun diminutif. …

30. discō̆rden v.

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(a) To differ in will or opinion, argue, disagree; quarrel, be at odds; oppose (sb.); discorden with, quarrel with (sb.); (b) discorden fro (from, til, to), to disagree with (sb. or sth.), dissent……

31. disjunctīf adj.

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Gram. conjunccion disjunctif, a construction in which two singular subjects are said to be construed separately or disjunctively with a singular verb. …

32. distribūciǒun n.

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(a) Apportioning or allotment (of goods, alms, etc.); administering (of sacraments); spending (of money); (b) an allotment, a share; a gift. …

33. distribūtī̆f adj.

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(a) Spending or contributing freely; (b) gram. distributive or individualizing; --?also as noun. …

34. dubie adj. & n.

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Gram. Of uncertain gender; as noun: the classification including certain nouns of doubtful gender. …

35. evōcāciōn n.

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Gram. The naming or specification of the referent of a pronoun of the first or second person, which results in deviation from the normal rule of the concord of person; such a deviation from, or……

36. feminīn(e adj. & n.

Additional spellings: feminine
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(a) Of sex: female; sex feminin; as noun: a female being, a woman; (b) fig. feminin fader, Father-Creator. …

37. 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……

38. fō̆rmen v.

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(a) To create (something), to make (out of nothing); (b) to give life to (someone), create (a person, a soul); (c) to give shape or structure to (a person, a beast, a part of the body); formed……

39. frequentatif adj.

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Gram. frequentative; verbe frequentatif. …

40. fūtūr(e adj.

Additional spellings: future
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(a) Later than a specified time; esp., later than the present, future; futur time, futur temps; (b) gram. referring to the future; futur tens. …

41. ǧenetī̆f adj. & n.

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(a) Gram. The genitive case; genetif case; (b) with punning reference to 'procreation' or 'genealogy'. …

42. imparfit adj.

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(a) Sinful, immoral; (b) of clergy, monks, etc., and their life: not engaged in, or not fully conducive to, the serious quest for spiritual perfection [difficult to distinguish from (a)]; (c) not……

43. imperā̆tī̆f adj.

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(a) Gram. Of mood: imperative; (b) of language: smacking of command. …

44. impersōnāl adj.

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Gram. Of verbs: impersonal. …

45. indēclīnāble adj.

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(a) Unchangeable, unswerving; (b) gram. not inflected, indeclinable. …

46. infī̆nī̆tī̆f adj.

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Gram. Infinitive. …

47. interjecciǒun n.

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(a) An exclamation, outcry; (b) gram. one of the parts of speech, an interjection. …

48. interrogātī̆f adj.

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Gram. Used in asking a question. …

49. masculīn(e adj. & n.

Additional spellings: masculine
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(a) Of sex: male; masculin gendre, male sex; of the male class or kind; as noun: a male; also, the male portion of a congregation; (b) of things thought to possess male functions or qualities: male……

50. metaplasmus n.

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Gram. Metaplasm. …

51. neutre adj. & n.

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Gram. Of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and participles: neuter in gender; of verbs or participles: having middle or reflexive meaning (neither active nor passive in meaning); as noun: neuter gender……

52. nōminātī̆f adj. & n.

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Gram. Nominative; nominatif cas, the nominative case; as noun = nominatif cas. …

53. oblīque adj.

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(a) Slanting, sloping sideways, not parallel; crooked, not straight or direct; oblique thwert, aslant, to one side; (b) indirect, not expressed in a literal manner; (c) gram. as noun pl.: oblique……

54. optā̆tī̆f adj.

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Gram. Of mood: optative. …

55. parfī̆t adj.

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(a) Flawless, unblemished; also fig.; of persons, actions, intentions: faultless, blameless; of gold, metal: perfectly refined; of a soul: pure; of law: incorrupt; of sight, light: unobscured……

56. participle n.

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Gram. A participle; also fig. something intermediate sharing qualities of two contrasting entities. …

57. passī̆f adj.

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(a) Of matter or a quality of matter: capable of being acted upon, passive as opposed to active; (b) of one's relation to an attitude or judgment: receptive, passive; passif cursing, the suffering of……

58. persō̆nā̆l(e adj.

Additional spellings: personale
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(a) Pertaining to a person as an individual, individual, private; (b) of actions: performed by the individual himself; (c) with reference to the 'persons' of the Trinity. …

59. persǒun(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: persoune
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(a) An individual, a person; -- also with reference to Christ; coll. persons, people; (b) a persoun, per person; persoun or persounes, no persoun ne persounes; a persoun of eighte-tene, eighteen……

60. plūperfith adj.

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Gram. Of a verb tense: past perfect, pluperfect. …

61. plurel adj.

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Gram. Plural; plurel nombre. …

62. positī̆f adj.

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(a) Of law, regulations, etc.: laid down by an authority; formally decreed or legislated (as opposed to natural or divine); positif laue (ordinaunce), laue positif; (b) gram. of degree: positive; also……

63. possessī̆f adj.

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Gram. Of a case: possessive; as noun: a possessive form. …

64. prēposiciǒun n.

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(a) A pre-eminent position; (b) gram. a preposition. …

65. prē̆sent(e adj.

Additional spellings: presente
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(a) Being with, before, or in the same place as someone or something else; in a particular place, at hand, present; (b) her present, here present; ther (ther-at) present, there present; togeder……

66. prēter adj.

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Gram. Of tense in Latin: denoting action in the past; preter tens parfit, the perfect tense; preter tens pluperfith, the pluperfect tense; preter tens unparfit, the imperfect tense. …

67. prēterit adj.

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(a) Before the present, past; preterit time; (b) having to do with the past; (c) gram. of tense in Latin: denoting action in the past; preterit imparfit tens, the imperfect tense. …

68. prō̆nǒun(e n.

Additional spellings: pronoune
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Gram. A pronoun. …

69. prō̆pre adj.

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(a) Belonging or pertaining to oneself, a person, or a thing; privately owned; private, personal, individual; intrinsic; (b) propre in, inherent in (a position of honor); propre to, belonging to……

70. quā̆litẹ̄ n.

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(a) Character, nature, state, or condition; an inherent attribute; innere qualite, ?inner state; [quot.: Barth., last, may belong with sense 3.(a)]; outre qualite, outer state; qualite of the colour……

71. quantitẹ̄ n.

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(a) Size in three dimensions, magnitude, volume, capacity; open quantite, capacity of something when empty; (b) size in length; stature; also fig.; (c) circumference; (d) size of a surface area; also……

72. raciọ̄̆nāl(e adj.

Additional spellings: racionale
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(a) Pertaining to or concerned with reasoning or intellect; also, as noun: the power or faculty of reason; racional philosophie, that branch of philosophy dealing with rationality; vertu racional, the……

73. rect adj.

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Gram. Of grammatical relationships: indicated by inflectional agreement; relatif rect, a relative pronoun that is in agreement with its antecedent; --used fig. …

74. relā̆tī̆f adj.

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(a) Gram. Referring to an antecedent; (b) having reference (to sth.), related; depending on something, contingent [quot.: Chartier]. …

75. resolven v.

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To alter; alter (sth.) in form or nature by the application of some physical process or force such as heat, moisture, etc.: (a) to diminish, dissolve, lose substance; break (sth.) down into its……

76. sentence n.

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(a) A personal opinion, way of thinking; sentence yevere, one who expresses a personal opinion; in o sentence, of one mind, with one intent; of sentence, according to one's opinion; differren sentence……

77. serven v.(1)

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(a) To be of service, be employed, work; labor (to do sth.); have a responsibility (to do sth.); serven at the barre, practice law; serven for, serve in order to get (sth., a wife); also, work (to do……

78. significāciǒun n.

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(a) A symbol; in significacioun, as a symbol, symbolizing; (b) symbolic meaning; also, interpretation [quots.: Lydg.Pilgr.]; (c) symbolization, representation; a gret significacioun, an important……

79. silē̆mpsis n.

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Gram. The joining of elements of a sentence or phrase by partial concord, syllepsis [see concepcioun n.4. for examples]. …

80. simple adj.

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

81. singulē̆r(e adj.

Additional spellings: singulere
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(a) Pertaining or belonging to oneself; private, personal; selfish; singuler availe (biyete, profite, etc.), personal or selfish gain; singuler preiere, a prayer formulated by an individual or a……

82. sintecis n.

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Gram. Apposition. …

83. stāt n.

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(a) A moral or spiritual state or condition; stat of dampnacioun (grace, right, etc.); stat of penaunce (teres), a state of repentance; (b) a mental state, frame of mind; (c) the physical state or……

84. substantī̆f n.

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Gram. A word that refers to a person or thing, a noun or an adjective used substantively. …

85. substantī̆f adj.

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(a) Gram. Denoting a person, place, or thing; noune substantif; verbe substantif, a verb which signifies the existence of its subject; (b) of independent means, propertied, wealthy; (c) independent……

86. sufferen v.

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(a) To undergo physical, mental, or spiritual distress or affliction, suffer; sufferen o (of), suffer from (care, an affliction); also, have death inflicted upon one by (sb.) [quot. c1400(?a1387)]; pp……

87. superlā̆tī̆f adj.

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(a) Supreme, most excellent; of degree: highest; superlatif aboven, superior to (sb.); (b) gram. pertaining to the highest degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb, the superlative; also, as……

88. supīn n.

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Gram. The supine of a Latin verb; first supin, the accusative supine; latere (laste) supin, the ablative supine. …

89. suppōnent adj.

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Gram. Of a nominative case: used for the subject of a personal verb. …

90. terminen v.

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(a) To render a judgment, decide; decide (a dispute, case, etc.) authoritatively; adjudicate (a matter); also, make a judgment about (a crime); (b) to argue, give an opinion; argue to a conclusion……

91. tīme n.(2)

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(a) Temporal duration; the duration of the world;—also pl.; worldes time; fulnesse (ful-filling, plente) of time, the full measure of time, appointed time; thinges of time, temporal things; under the……

92. transiciọ̄̆n n.

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Gram. The transitive relation between verb and object, transitivity. …

93. ūnitẹ̄ n.

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(a) Insusceptibility to differentiation, indivisibility, lack of diversity; also, purity, freedom from adulteration (b) theol. the essential unity among the persons of the Trinity; the oneness or……

94. verbe n.

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Gram. (a) A verb; verbe plurel (nombre, verbe of plurel nombre, a verb form declined with a plural ending; principal verbe, the finite verb of the main clause, main verb (b) in phrases designating……

95. vocātī̆f n.

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Gram. The vocative case; vocatif plurel, the plural of the vocative case. …

96. vocātī̆f adj.

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Gram. in phrases: (a) vocatif cas, the case denoting address or invocation, vocative case; (b) verbes vocatives, verbs of designating, naming, or calling. …

97. voice n.

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(a) The voice of a human being, centaur, etc.; a voice; also, vocal sound; a vocal sound or a sound made in speaking; in (with) o voice, in unison; in voice, aloud; soun (of) voice (b) the voice of……

98. zeuma n.

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Gram. The figure comprising constructions in which a verb appears to be governed by two nouns in the nominative, with only one of which it agrees. …

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