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Definitions
Oct. 18th, 2010 07:34 pmI hope y'all appreciate the effort to which I am going to continue posting these :) Now that we have lost our subscription to the Oxford English Dictionary Online due to budget cuts, I am having to look up all these words in the print edition of 1989 and actually type out the definitions instead of copy/pasting. Hopefully I won't come across too many words that were coined after '89 or I'll be in trouble.
lenify: (v) 1. with material object: To relax, make soft or supple (some part of the body); to rend (cider) mellow. Also, to mitigate (a physical condition).
2. With immaterial object: To assuage, mitigate, soften, soothe (pain, suffering, etc.) Also to mitigate (a sentence).
solecistic: (adj) Of the nature of or involving solecism.
solecism: (n) 1. An impropriety or irregularity in speech or diction; a violation of the rules of grammar or syntax; properly, a faulty concord. Without article: Violation of the rules of concord in grammar or syntax; incorrect or ungrammatical speech or diction, or the use of this.
2. A breach or violation of good manners or etiquette; a blunder or impropriety in manners, etc.
3. An error, incongruity, inconsistency, or impropriety of any kind.
concord: (n) 1. Agreement between persons; concurrence in feeling and opinion; harmony, accord.
2. A state of peace and amity between contending parties or nations; concretely, a treaty establishing such relations.
3. In Law: An agreement made in court respecting the conveyance of a fine of lands; also, an agreement made between two or more upon a trespass committed.
4. Agreement or harmony between things; especially said in reference to sounds and rhythmical movements, and in uses thence derived; rhyme.
5. In Music: A combination of notes which is in itself satisfactory to the ear, requiring no 'resolution' or following chord: opposed to discord.
6. In Grammar: Formal agreement between words as parts of speech, expressing the relation of fact between things and their attributes or predicates.
conformably: (adv) 1. In a conformable manner; in conformity with; agreeably; compliantly.
2. In Geology: In conformable order.
conformable: (adj) 1. According in form or character to (a standard or pattern); similar, resembling, like.
2. Corresponding so as to fit or suit; agreeable, consistent, harmonious; fitting, adapted, fitly adjusted. Accordant with one's condition, etc.; convenient, suitable.
3. Of persons: Disposed or wont to conform; compliant to. Of compliant disposition or practice; tractable, submissive, disposed to follow directions.
4. Specifically in English History: Conforming to the usages of the Church of England, especially as proscribed by the Acts of Uniformity.
5. In Geology: Having the same direction or plane of stratification: said of strata deposited one upon another in parallel planes.
efflux: (n) 1. A flowing outwards of water or other liquid; a stream, river. Also, of air, gases, volatile particles, magnetic or electric currents, etc.; opposed to afflux or influx. Hence, a channel of outflow.
2. In Pathology: A miscarriage that happens before the tenth day.
3. The lapse, passing away (of time, or of a particular period); hence, expiry, end.
4. That which flows out; an emanation.
maquiladora: (n) A concept often referred to an operation that involves manufacturing in a country that is not the client's and as such has an interesting duty or tariff treatment. It normally requires a factory, that may import materials and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly or manufacturing and then "re-exports" the assembled or manufactured product, sometimes back to the originating country.
ciborium: (n) 1. In Architecture: an arched vault, or canopy raised over the high-alter.
2. Applied to a receptacle for the reservation of the Eucharist. Of different forms; sometimes suspended from the roof or ciborium (sense 1), sometimes having the form of a temple or tabernacle, sometimes of a cup with an arched cover.
paten: (n) 1. The plate or shallow dish, usually circular and of silver, on which the bread is laid at the celebration of the Eucharist; used as a cover for the chalice.
2. A shallow dish or plate.
3. A thin circular plate of metal; anything resembling or suggesting this.
cruet: (n) 1. A small bottle or vial for liquids, etc.; now only applied to a small glass bottle with a stopper, to contain vinegar, oil, etc. for the table.
2. In Ecclesiology: A small vessel to hold wine or water for use in the celebration of the Eucharist, or to hold holy water for other uses.
purificator: (n) 1. In Ecclesiology: A cloth used at communion for wiping the chalice and paten, and the fingers and lips of the celebrant.
2. One who purifies; a purifier; one who performs magical purifications.
3. An apparatus for purifying gases or other substances.
charism: (n) 1. In Theology: A free gift or favour specially vouchsafed by God; a grace, a talent.
2. In form 'charisma': A gift or power of leadership or authority; aura. Hence, the capacity to inspire devotion or enthusiasm.
lustring: (n) A glossy silk fabric.
vail: (n) 1. Advantage, benefit, profit; advance, progress.
2. In Scots: Value or worth; account, estimation.
3. A casual or occasional profit or emolument in addition to salary, stipend, wages, or other regular payment; especially one accruing or attached to an office or position; a fee or offering of this nature. Usually in plural.
4. A dole or gratuity given to one of inferior position.
5. A gift or present in the nature of a bribe.
6. A gratuity given to a servant or attendant; a tip; specifically one of those given by a visitor on his departure to the servants of the house in which he has been a guest.
7. In plural: perquisite.
8. The going down or setting of the sun.
spencer: (n) 1. A kind of wig.
2. A short double-breasted overcoat without tails worn by men in the latter part of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th.
3. A kind of close-fitting jacket or bodice commonly worn by women and children early in the 19th century, and since revived.
4. A short coat or jacket.
5. A type of under-bodice (usually made of wool) worn especially by women and girls to provide extra warmth in the winter.
6. A form of life-belt.
7. A small glass of gin.
8. A type of rim-fire repeating rifle or carbine used especially during the U.S. Civil War.
9. A fore-and-aft sail, set with a gaff, serving as a trysail to the fore or main mast of a vessel.
gaff: (n) 1. An iron hook; a staff or stick armed with this; Specifically a barbed fishing spear; also a stick armed with an iron hook for landing large fish, especially salmon.
2. Nautical: A spar used in ships to extend the heads of the fore-and-aft sails which are not set on stays.
3. A steel spur for a fighting cock; the spike of spur.
trysail: (n) A small fore-and-aft sail, set with a gaff, and sometimes with a boom, on the fore- or mainmast, or on a small supplementary mast abaft either of these.
lenify: (v) 1. with material object: To relax, make soft or supple (some part of the body); to rend (cider) mellow. Also, to mitigate (a physical condition).
2. With immaterial object: To assuage, mitigate, soften, soothe (pain, suffering, etc.) Also to mitigate (a sentence).
solecistic: (adj) Of the nature of or involving solecism.
solecism: (n) 1. An impropriety or irregularity in speech or diction; a violation of the rules of grammar or syntax; properly, a faulty concord. Without article: Violation of the rules of concord in grammar or syntax; incorrect or ungrammatical speech or diction, or the use of this.
2. A breach or violation of good manners or etiquette; a blunder or impropriety in manners, etc.
3. An error, incongruity, inconsistency, or impropriety of any kind.
concord: (n) 1. Agreement between persons; concurrence in feeling and opinion; harmony, accord.
2. A state of peace and amity between contending parties or nations; concretely, a treaty establishing such relations.
3. In Law: An agreement made in court respecting the conveyance of a fine of lands; also, an agreement made between two or more upon a trespass committed.
4. Agreement or harmony between things; especially said in reference to sounds and rhythmical movements, and in uses thence derived; rhyme.
5. In Music: A combination of notes which is in itself satisfactory to the ear, requiring no 'resolution' or following chord: opposed to discord.
6. In Grammar: Formal agreement between words as parts of speech, expressing the relation of fact between things and their attributes or predicates.
conformably: (adv) 1. In a conformable manner; in conformity with; agreeably; compliantly.
2. In Geology: In conformable order.
conformable: (adj) 1. According in form or character to (a standard or pattern); similar, resembling, like.
2. Corresponding so as to fit or suit; agreeable, consistent, harmonious; fitting, adapted, fitly adjusted. Accordant with one's condition, etc.; convenient, suitable.
3. Of persons: Disposed or wont to conform; compliant to. Of compliant disposition or practice; tractable, submissive, disposed to follow directions.
4. Specifically in English History: Conforming to the usages of the Church of England, especially as proscribed by the Acts of Uniformity.
5. In Geology: Having the same direction or plane of stratification: said of strata deposited one upon another in parallel planes.
efflux: (n) 1. A flowing outwards of water or other liquid; a stream, river. Also, of air, gases, volatile particles, magnetic or electric currents, etc.; opposed to afflux or influx. Hence, a channel of outflow.
2. In Pathology: A miscarriage that happens before the tenth day.
3. The lapse, passing away (of time, or of a particular period); hence, expiry, end.
4. That which flows out; an emanation.
maquiladora: (n) A concept often referred to an operation that involves manufacturing in a country that is not the client's and as such has an interesting duty or tariff treatment. It normally requires a factory, that may import materials and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly or manufacturing and then "re-exports" the assembled or manufactured product, sometimes back to the originating country.
ciborium: (n) 1. In Architecture: an arched vault, or canopy raised over the high-alter.
2. Applied to a receptacle for the reservation of the Eucharist. Of different forms; sometimes suspended from the roof or ciborium (sense 1), sometimes having the form of a temple or tabernacle, sometimes of a cup with an arched cover.
paten: (n) 1. The plate or shallow dish, usually circular and of silver, on which the bread is laid at the celebration of the Eucharist; used as a cover for the chalice.
2. A shallow dish or plate.
3. A thin circular plate of metal; anything resembling or suggesting this.
cruet: (n) 1. A small bottle or vial for liquids, etc.; now only applied to a small glass bottle with a stopper, to contain vinegar, oil, etc. for the table.
2. In Ecclesiology: A small vessel to hold wine or water for use in the celebration of the Eucharist, or to hold holy water for other uses.
purificator: (n) 1. In Ecclesiology: A cloth used at communion for wiping the chalice and paten, and the fingers and lips of the celebrant.
2. One who purifies; a purifier; one who performs magical purifications.
3. An apparatus for purifying gases or other substances.
charism: (n) 1. In Theology: A free gift or favour specially vouchsafed by God; a grace, a talent.
2. In form 'charisma': A gift or power of leadership or authority; aura. Hence, the capacity to inspire devotion or enthusiasm.
lustring: (n) A glossy silk fabric.
vail: (n) 1. Advantage, benefit, profit; advance, progress.
2. In Scots: Value or worth; account, estimation.
3. A casual or occasional profit or emolument in addition to salary, stipend, wages, or other regular payment; especially one accruing or attached to an office or position; a fee or offering of this nature. Usually in plural.
4. A dole or gratuity given to one of inferior position.
5. A gift or present in the nature of a bribe.
6. A gratuity given to a servant or attendant; a tip; specifically one of those given by a visitor on his departure to the servants of the house in which he has been a guest.
7. In plural: perquisite.
8. The going down or setting of the sun.
spencer: (n) 1. A kind of wig.
2. A short double-breasted overcoat without tails worn by men in the latter part of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th.
3. A kind of close-fitting jacket or bodice commonly worn by women and children early in the 19th century, and since revived.
4. A short coat or jacket.
5. A type of under-bodice (usually made of wool) worn especially by women and girls to provide extra warmth in the winter.
6. A form of life-belt.
7. A small glass of gin.
8. A type of rim-fire repeating rifle or carbine used especially during the U.S. Civil War.
9. A fore-and-aft sail, set with a gaff, serving as a trysail to the fore or main mast of a vessel.
gaff: (n) 1. An iron hook; a staff or stick armed with this; Specifically a barbed fishing spear; also a stick armed with an iron hook for landing large fish, especially salmon.
2. Nautical: A spar used in ships to extend the heads of the fore-and-aft sails which are not set on stays.
3. A steel spur for a fighting cock; the spike of spur.
trysail: (n) A small fore-and-aft sail, set with a gaff, and sometimes with a boom, on the fore- or mainmast, or on a small supplementary mast abaft either of these.
