The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
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Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles.
Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.
Serving to absolve; absolving.
That may be absolved.
Conferring absolution; absolutory.
To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment.
An absolver.
One who absolves.
Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant.
Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous.
To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.
The state or quality of being absorbable.
Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.
wholly absorbed as in thought
In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.
inducing or promoting absorption
Absorptiveness.
Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
Anything which absorbs.
One who, or that which, absorbs.
Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit.
Absorption.
Absorbed.
The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.
Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe.
The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
Absorptiveness.
To take one's self off; to decamp.
To hinder; to withhold.
One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors.
Abstaining from wine.
The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.
The act of abstaining; a holding aloof.
Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining.
To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge.
A substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent.
To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.
Something cleansing.
The quality of being abstersive.
The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence.
Abstinence.
One who abstains.
With abstinence.
Wrested away.
That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.
Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
The state of being abstracted; abstract character.
One who abstracts, or makes an abstract.
The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
Pertaining to abstraction.
An idealist.
Obtained from plants by distillation.
Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.
In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself.
The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property.
In an abstract state or manner; separately; absolutely; by itself; as, matter abstractly considered.
The quality of being abstract.
To unbind.
To thrust away.
Concealed or hidden out of the way.
In an abstruse manner.
The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.
The act of thrusting away.
Abstruseness; that which is abstruse.
To consume gradually; to waste away.
Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction.
An absurdity.
The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
In an absurd manner.
Absurdity.
The capital city of United Arab Emirates. Population (2000) = 363,432.
a genus comprising the damsel fishes.
The capital city of Nigeria. Population (2000) = 339,000.
An abnormally intense inability to make decisions; severe irresolution.
showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions
The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.
An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.
Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with.
In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.
In a bursting condition.
That may be abused.
Abuse.
Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language.
Full of abuse; abusive.
One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].
Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat.
Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.
The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person.
To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.
A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.
State of abutting.
The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland.
One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.
In a buzz; buzzing.
atone for, make amends for
To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction.
A abyss.
An abyss; a gulf.
Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound.
To a fathomless depth; profoundly.
A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.
Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable.
same as Ethiopia.
A native of Abyssinia.
the chemical symbol for actinum, a radioactive element.
an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally. Alternative to direct curent, DC.
A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.
A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.
Gum arabic.
An academy.
Academic.
A member of an academy, university, or college.
One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.
In an academical manner.
The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.
A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.
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