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ageism

discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.

Agelaius

A genus of birds including the red-winged blackbirds.

Ageless

Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.

agelong

lasting through all time; unending; as, The agelong struggle for freedom.

agency

The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

agenda

a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.

Agendum

Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book; also, a list of items to be considered. See agenda.

Agenesic

Characterized by sterility; infecund.

Agenesis

Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.

Agent

One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.

Agential

Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency.

Ageratum

A genus of plants, one species of which (Ageratum Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

Agger

An earthwork; a mound; a raised work.

Aggeration

A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand.

Agglomeration

The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.

Agglomerative

Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections.

Agglutinant

Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion. Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere.

Agglutinate

United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.

Agglutination

The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.

Agglutinative

Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.

Aggrade

To bring, or tend to bring, to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment.

Aggrandizement

The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.

Aggravate

To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.

aggravated

made more severe or intense, especially in law; as, aggravated assault.

Aggravating

Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances.

Aggravation

The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

Aggravative

Tending to aggravate. That which aggravates.

Aggregate

A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.

Aggregation

The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.

Aggrege

To make heavy; to aggravate.

Aggression

The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. /Aggressions of power./

Aggressive

Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.

Aggressor

The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.

Aggri Aggry

Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.

aggro

aggravation or aggression.

Aggroup

To bring together in a group; to group.

Aggroupment

Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.

Agha Aga

In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect.

Aghast

Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.

Agible

Possible to be done; practicable.

Agile

Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.

Agility

The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body.

Agincourt

a battle in which English longbowmen under Henry V decisively defeated a much larger French army in 1415. It was named for the site at which it occurred.

Aging

the process by which objects or materials acquire desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time under specific conditions. It is used mostly for foods snd beverages, but also for other materials.

Agio

The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.

Agiotage

Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds.

agism

discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.

Agist

To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.

Agistment

Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests. The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate. The price paid for such feeding. A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.

Agistor Agister

Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker. Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.

Agitable

Capable of being agitated, or easily moved.

Agitate

To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

agitated

troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of unagitated.

agitating

causing or tending to cause anger or resentment.

Agitation

The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.

Agitato

Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.

Agitator

One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.

agitprop

agitation and propaganda; -- used especially for such activities carried out on behalf of communist activists.

Agkistrodon

a genus of snakes comprising the copperheads.

Aglaomorpha

a genus of epiphytic ferns of tropical Asia.

Aglaonema

a genus of Indo-Malayan climbing herbs having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers: Chinese evergreen.

Agleam

Gleaming; as, faces agleam.

Aglow

In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.

Agminal

Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train.

Agminated Agminate

Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine.

Agnail

A corn on the toe or foot.

Agnate

A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.

Agnatha

a class of eel-shaped chordates with a cartilaginous skeleton lacking jaws, scales, and pelvic fins. Among these are the lampreys and hagfishes. There are some extinct forms.

agnathan

an eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages; a member of the Agnatha. The group includes the cyclostomes and some extinct forms.

Agnatic

Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.

Agnation

Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation.

agnise

be fully aware or cognizant of.

Agnize

To recognize; to acknowledge.

Agnoiology

The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant.

Agnomen

An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

Agnostic

One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.

agnostical

of or pertaining to agnosticism; agnostic.

Agnosticism

That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

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