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1. ap(p)etīt n.

Additional spellings: appetit
85 quotations in 5 senses
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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……

2. assimilāciǒun n.

3 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
Physiol. Assimilation (of nutriments). …

3. attribūt n.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) An attribute; (b) physiol. quality of 'humors'. …

4. conjuncciǒun n.

31 quotations in 4 senses
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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. …

5. construcciǒun n.

15 quotations in 3 senses
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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. …

6. dīǧestī̆f adj. & n.

9 quotations in 2 senses
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As adj.: (a) med. able to break down pathological matter, humors, etc.; medecin digestif, a digestive medicine, a drug that prepares pathological matter for evacuation; (b) physiol. having to do with……

7. dīǧestiǒun n.

40 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) The digestion of food and drink; first digestioun, the digestive process carried on principally in the stomach and intestines; (b) the capacity for digesting food or drink; (c) digestibleness; of……

8. dispensaciǒun n.

28 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Power to dispose of wealth; (b) eccl. stewardship; (c) physiol. function. …

9. dispōsiciǒun n.

107 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Preparation, planning, arranging; also, a plan or arrangement; taken disposicioun, to make arrangements; (b) construction or execution according to a plan; building (of a city); structure (of the……

10. dī̆visiǒun n.(1)

79 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) The act or processes of splitting or breaking up; branching (of arteries, streams); (b) separability, divisibility; (c) math. the process of dividing numbers, division; (d) hunt. the ceremonious……

11. ēlongāciǒun n.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Astron. Angular distance; (b) physiol. extension, spreading; (c) ?longing. …

12. ēmunctōrie n.

5 quotations in 1 sense
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Physiol. Any part of the body through which waste matter from one of the principal organs (e.g. brain, heart, liver) is excreted, a cleansing or purging organ. …

13. fūme n.

31 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Smoke; also fig.; (b) aromatic smoke (of incense). …

14. fūmōsitẹ̄ n.

26 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Vapor; exhalation (of the sea, of a medicinal herb); (b) odorous vapor, fume. …

15. inguine n.

6 quotations in 1 sense
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Physiol. The fold or depression between the abdomen and the thigh, the groin; also, the glandular flesh of the groin. …

16. maister n.

474 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A high official, civil or military; a governor, ruler, leader; also, of a ship: maister of the flete, the flagship; (b) applied to God, Christ, a heathen god; (c) one in charge of a guild……

17. nūtrīment n.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Food or drink, sustenance; (b) physiol. nourishment, nutrients, nutriment; nutrition; as adj.: bearing nutriment; nutriment blod. …

18. occāsiǒun n.

150 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) An opportunity for an action, sin, virtue, debate, etc.; an opportunity for trouble [quot.: (a1420)]; (b) opportunity personified; balled occasioun. …

19. offī̆ce n.

244 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) A secular position of authority or responsibility; an official post in government or administration; a position of importance in a great household; boke of offices, Cicero's De Officiis; maister……

20. operāciǒun n.

71 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Work, deed(s, action(s; a military operation; also fig.; don operacioun(es, to perform (one's) deed(s, conduct (oneself), behave; (b) spiritual labor(s; (c) a scientific, alchemical, or magical……

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