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gwynhefarfescennine: (adj) 1. Pertaining to or characteristic of Fescennia; usually in a bad sense, licentious, obscene, scurrilous; esp. fescennine verses.
(n) A song or verses of a licentious or scurrilous character.
feculent: (adj) Containing or of the nature of fæces or dregs; abounding with sediment or impurities; thick, turbid. Now usually with a stronger sense: laden or polluted with filth; foul, fetid.
retractation: (n) 1. The title of a book written by St. Augustine containing further treatment and corrections of matters treated in his former writings; used similarly of other works.
2. Withdrawal or recantation of an opinion, statement, etc., with admission of error.
3. Withdrawal from an engagement, promise, etc.
4. Disinclination, reluctance.
5. A rejoinder, retort.
6. Retransformation.
vitiate: (v) 1. To render incomplete, imperfect, or faulty; to impair or spoil.
2. To corrupt (a) literary works or (b) language by carelessness, arbitrary changes, or the introduction of foreign elements.
3. To render corrupt in morals; to deprave in respect of principles or conduct; to lower the moral standard of.
4. To pervert (the eye, taste, etc.), so as to lead to false judgements or preferences.
5. To deflower or violate (a woman).
6. To corrupt or spoil in respect of substance; to make bad, impure, or defective, esp. to render (air) impure and so inadequate for, or injurious to, life.
7. To render to no effect; to invalidate either completely or in part; specifically to destroy or impair the legal effect or force of (a deed, etc.)
8. To render (an argument, etc.) inconclusive or unsatisfactory.
æstivate, estivate: (v) To spend the summer (esp. in Zoology); to pass the summer in a state of torpor or suspended animation.
(n) A song or verses of a licentious or scurrilous character.
feculent: (adj) Containing or of the nature of fæces or dregs; abounding with sediment or impurities; thick, turbid. Now usually with a stronger sense: laden or polluted with filth; foul, fetid.
retractation: (n) 1. The title of a book written by St. Augustine containing further treatment and corrections of matters treated in his former writings; used similarly of other works.
2. Withdrawal or recantation of an opinion, statement, etc., with admission of error.
3. Withdrawal from an engagement, promise, etc.
4. Disinclination, reluctance.
5. A rejoinder, retort.
6. Retransformation.
vitiate: (v) 1. To render incomplete, imperfect, or faulty; to impair or spoil.
2. To corrupt (a) literary works or (b) language by carelessness, arbitrary changes, or the introduction of foreign elements.
3. To render corrupt in morals; to deprave in respect of principles or conduct; to lower the moral standard of.
4. To pervert (the eye, taste, etc.), so as to lead to false judgements or preferences.
5. To deflower or violate (a woman).
6. To corrupt or spoil in respect of substance; to make bad, impure, or defective, esp. to render (air) impure and so inadequate for, or injurious to, life.
7. To render to no effect; to invalidate either completely or in part; specifically to destroy or impair the legal effect or force of (a deed, etc.)
8. To render (an argument, etc.) inconclusive or unsatisfactory.
æstivate, estivate: (v) To spend the summer (esp. in Zoology); to pass the summer in a state of torpor or suspended animation.
