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ill-tempered <tr><td colspan=3>The acrasial judge was known for her rants against younger lawyers. <tr class="top"><th> addecimate <TD> <I>v</I> <TD> 1612 -1755 <tr><td colspan=3> to tithe <tr><td colspan=3>They addecimated regularly but were not otherwise known for their charity. <tr class="top"><th> adimpleate <TD> <I>v</I> <TD> 1657 -1657 <tr><td colspan=3> to fill up <tr><td colspan=3>The new technique adimpleates the cans with milk through injection. <tr class="top"><th> adnascentia <TD> <I>npl</I> <TD> 1706 -1731 <tr><td colspan=3> root-like branches that sprout into the earth from a plant's stem <tr><td colspan=3>Every winter, the adnascentia would shift around, destroying the lawn's even texture. <tr class="top"><th> aeipathy <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1847 -1853 <tr><td colspan=3> continued passion; an unyielding disease <tr><td colspan=3>Her aeipathy for stamp collecting bordered at times on the pathological. <tr class="top"><th> affictitious <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1656 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> feigned; counterfeit <tr><td colspan=3>The forger was caught despite his masterfully-crafted affictitious signatures. <tr class="top"><th> affuage <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1753 -1847 <tr><td colspan=3> right to cut wood in a forest for family fire <tr><td colspan=3>The family's right of affuage ensured they would have enough wood for winter. <tr class="top"><th> agonarch <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1656 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> judge of a contest or activity <tr><td colspan=3>Our competition will require six agonarchs to ensure fairness. <tr class="top"><th> agonyclite <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1710 -1710 <tr><td colspan=3> member of a heretical sect that stood rather than kneeled while praying <tr><td colspan=3>Agonyclites must have had hardy feet to endure their services. <tr class="top"><th> airgonaut <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1784 -1784 <tr><td colspan=3> one who journeys through the air <tr><td colspan=3>Balloonists, skydivers and other airgonauts are all a little mad, if you ask me. <tr class="top"><th> alabandical <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1656 -1775 <tr><td colspan=3> barbarous; stupefied from drink <tr><td colspan=3>His behaviour after the party was positively alabandical. <tr class="top"><th> albedineity <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1652 -1652 <tr><td colspan=3> whiteness <tr><td colspan=3>The monotonous albedineity of the snow-covered field was blinding. <tr class="top"><th> alogotrophy <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1753 -1853 <tr><td colspan=3> excessive nutrition of part of body resulting in deformity <tr><td colspan=3>Was he born with that huge head, or is it the result of alogotrophy? <tr class="top"><th> amandation <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1656 -1755 <tr><td colspan=3> act of sending away or dismissing <tr><td colspan=3>His rude amandation of his guests earned him a reputation for curtness. <tr class="top"><th> amarulence <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1731 -1755 <tr><td colspan=3> bitterness; spite <tr><td colspan=3>After losing her job to a less qualified man, she was full of amarulence. <tr class="top"><th> amorevolous <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1670 -1670 <tr><td colspan=3> affectionate; loving <tr><td colspan=3>Our father, though amorevolous, could be a strict taskmaster at times. <tr class="top"><th> antipelargy <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1656 -1731 <tr><td colspan=3> reciprocal or mutual kindness; love and care of children for their parents <tr><td colspan=3>Having never received any antipelargy, they wrote their daughter out of the will. <tr class="top"><th> apanthropinization <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1880 -1880 <tr><td colspan=3> withdrawal from human concerns or the human world <tr><td colspan=3>His life as a hermit in the woods was characterized by apanthropinization. <tr class="top"><th> aporrhoea <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1646 -1880 <tr><td colspan=3> a bodily emanation; an effluvium <tr><td colspan=3>The evening's revelries were followed by an unfortunate episode of aporrhoea. <tr class="top"><th> aquabib <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1731 -1883 <tr><td colspan=3> water-drinker <tr><td colspan=3>I was never much of an aquabib, and always preferred harder libations. <tr class="top"><th> archigrapher <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1656 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> principal or head secretary or clerk <tr><td colspan=3>The archigrapher efficiently designated transcription duties to her underlings. <tr class="top"><th> archiloquy <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1656- 1656 <tr><td colspan=3> first part of a speech <tr><td colspan=3>We stopped paying attention during his talk due to his monotonous archiloquy. <tr class="top"><th> aretaloger <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1623 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> braggart; one who boasts about his own accomplishments <tr><td colspan=3>While he seemed nice at first, he turned out to be a loudmouthed aretaloger. <tr class="top"><th> artigrapher <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1753 -1753 <tr><td colspan=3> writer or composer of a grammar; a grammarian <tr><td colspan=3>Today's prescriptivists are no better than the artigraphers of the Renaissance. <tr class="top"><th> ascoliasm <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1706 -1753 <tr><td colspan=3> boys' game of beating each other with gloves or leather while hopping <tr><td colspan=3>If you think bullies are bad today, look at brutal games of the past like ascoliasm. <tr class="top"><th> assectation <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1656 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> act of following after something else <tr><td colspan=3>She stood in the on-deck circle, her assectation virtually guaranteed. <tr class="top"><th> austerulous <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1731 -1731 <tr><td colspan=3> somewhat or slightly harsh <tr><td colspan=3>The austerulous monks were rarely lenient with their pupils. <tr class="top"><th> autexousious <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1678 -1678 <tr><td colspan=3> exercising or possessing free will <tr><td colspan=3>If we are truly autexousious, then why do we so often feel powerless? <tr class="top"><th> auturgy <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1651 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> self-action; independent activity <tr><td colspan=3>The film director's legendary auturgy frustrated editors and producers alike. <tr class="top"><th> avunculize <TD> <I>v</I> <TD> 1662 -1662 <tr><td colspan=3> to act as an uncle; to behave like an uncle <tr><td colspan=3>I often avunculize to my younger friends, which no doubt annoys them. <tr class="top"><th> bajulate <TD> <I>v</I> <TD> 1613 -1662 <tr><td colspan=3> to bear a heavy burden <tr><td colspan=3>Their Sherpa aides were vexed by the demand that they bajulate as well as guide. <tr class="top"><th> bimarian <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1731 -1731 <tr><td colspan=3> pertaining to two seas <tr><td colspan=3>Some think that America needs to improve its bimarian naval defenses. <tr class="top"><th> binoternary <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1817 -1817 <tr><td colspan=3> combining binary and trinary aspects <tr><td colspan=3>The dots on the '6' face of a die are arranged in a binoternary fashion. <tr class="top"><th> blateration <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1656 -1864 <tr><td colspan=3> chatter; babbling <tr><td colspan=3>I've had just about enough of your garrulous blateration, you clod! <tr class="top"><th> bonifate <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1656 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> lucky; fortunate <tr><td colspan=3>The gambler was too bonifate, and attracted the casino manager's attention. <tr class="top"><th> boreism <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1833 -1839 <tr><td colspan=3> behaviour of a boring person <tr><td colspan=3>The professor, while brilliant, was afflicted by boreism when lecturing. <tr class="top"><th> boscaresque <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1734 -1734 <tr><td colspan=3> picturesque; scenically wooded <tr><td colspan=3>Despite northern England's industrial pollution, parts of it remain boscaresque. <tr class="top"><th> brabeum <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1675 -1675 <tr><td colspan=3> reward or prize <tr><td colspan=3>Without some brabeum, the students will have no incentive to work harder. <tr class="top"><th> brephophagist <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1731 -1875 <tr><td colspan=3> one who eats babies <tr><td colspan=3>The character Fat Bastard is a disgustingly obese Scottish brephophagist. <tr class="top"><th> brochity <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1623 -1678 <tr><td colspan=3> projecting or crooked quality of teeth <tr><td colspan=3>His parents later regretted that they did not correct his brochity in his youth. <tr class="top"><th> bromography <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1860 -1860 <tr><td colspan=3> a treatise on food <tr><td colspan=3>It's not enough to write a bromography - today's celebrity chefs need to be on TV! <tr class="top"><th> bubulcitate <TD> <I>v</I> <TD> 1623 -1678 <tr><td colspan=3> to act as a cowherd; to cry like a cowherd <tr><td colspan=3>When their cat went missing, they were on the street bubulcitating for weeks. <tr class="top"><th> buccellation <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1657 -1731 <tr><td colspan=3> act of dividing into small morsels <tr><td colspan=3>The buccellation and apportionment of their rations was the subject of heated argument. <tr class="top"><th> bumposopher <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1834 -1886 <tr><td colspan=3> one learned in bumps; a phrenologist <tr><td colspan=3>Craniology has progressed greatly since the days of bumposophers. <tr class="top"><th> cacatory <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1684 -1753 <tr><td colspan=3> accompanied by loose bowels <tr><td colspan=3>For the diners, the effects of the chicken cacciatore, alas, were cacatory. <tr class="top"><th> cacozealous <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1656 -1696 <tr><td colspan=3> imitating badly; poorly affected <tr><td colspan=3>Her cacozealous attempt at mimicking her boss bordered on being offensive. <tr class="top"><th> cagastric <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1662 -1753 <tr><td colspan=3> of diseases, originating under an ill star <tr><td colspan=3>We no longer believe in cagastric causes for illness and deformity. <tr class="top"><th> cameranious <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1791 -1791 <tr><td colspan=3> of or relating to a chamber <tr><td colspan=3>The social gathering benefited from the cozy, cameranious setting. <tr class="top"><th> canitude <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1656 -1742 <tr><td colspan=3> greyness; hoariness; whiteness <tr><td colspan=3>The first snowfall of the year gave the field a pleasant canitude. <tr class="top"><th> caprizant <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1730 -1736 <tr><td colspan=3> of the pulse, uneven or irregular <tr><td colspan=3>While he hadn't had a full-blown heart attack, his pulse was very caprizant. <tr class="top"><th> casitive <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1652 -1652 <tr><td colspan=3> having grammatical cases <tr><td colspan=3>The casitive nature of Finnish and Hungarian makes them difficult to learn. <tr class="top"><th> castaldy <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1623 -1800 <tr><td colspan=3> stewardship <tr><td colspan=3>His castaldy over the manor was dependent on his good relations with the lord's sons. <tr class="top"><th> cecograph <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1851 -1874 <tr><td colspan=3> writing device for the blind <tr><td colspan=3>The development of computers has made the cecograph entirely obsolete. <tr class="top"><th> celeberrimous <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1768 -1768 <tr><td colspan=3> very or most highly celebrated <tr><td colspan=3>Her celeberrimous accomplishments were lauded by her colleagues. <tr class="top"><th> celeripedean <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1623 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> swift-footed <tr><td colspan=3>The most celeripedean of the Greek deities was Hermes. <tr class="top"><th> cestuan <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1711 -1711 <tr><td colspan=3> of or pertaining to a boxer's gloves or cesti <tr><td colspan=3>No cestuan improvements can negate the damage of such blows to the head. <tr class="top"><th> chermadic <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1842 -1842 <tr><td colspan=3> of a heavy weight used as a projectile <tr><td colspan=3>Wile E. Coyote continues to be crushed by his own chermadic snares. <tr class="top"><th> chronanagram <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1613 -1882 <tr><td colspan=3> an anagram of a chronogram <tr><td colspan=3>Jacobites used chronanagrams to cryptically express support for their cause. <tr class="top"><th> cibosity <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1656 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> store of food; plenty of food supplies <tr><td colspan=3>The cibosities of those paranoid about Y2K are still rotting in their cellars. <tr class="top"><th> circuland <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1821 -1821 <tr><td colspan=3> that which is to be circulated <tr><td colspan=3>Here we have the circuland, as opposed to our internal earnings report. <tr class="top"><th> circumbilivagination <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1611 -1693 <tr><td colspan=3> going around in a circular motion; circumambulation <tr><td colspan=3>She saw many quaint seaside towns in her circumbilivagination of England. <tr class="top"><th> citharize <TD> <I>v</I> <TD> 1623 -1692 <tr><td colspan=3> to play the harp <tr><td colspan=3>If you plan to citharize, prepare to build up calluses on your fingers. <tr class="top"><th> cloakatively <TD> <I>adv</I> <TD> 1674 -1674 <tr><td colspan=3> superficially <tr><td colspan=3>These reforms have only cloakatively made the situation better for the poor. <tr class="top"><th> coherentific <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1834 -1834 <tr><td colspan=3> causing to become coherent; causing cohesion <tr><td colspan=3>Her speech was the coherentific factor behind the jury's consensus verdict. <tr class="top"><th> colaphize <TD> <I>v</I> <TD> 1450 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> to beat or buffet <tr><td colspan=3>His lawyer claimed that police had colaphized him, which confused the judge. <tr class="top"><th> commendaces <TD> <I>npl</I> <TD> 1611 -1658 <tr><td colspan=3> funeral orations; prayers for the dead <tr><td colspan=3>At his funeral, his brother delivered a set of exquisite commendaces. <tr class="top"><th> coquinate <TD> <I>v</I> <TD> 1656 -1658 <tr><td colspan=3> to behave as a cook <tr><td colspan=3>Martha may seem to be able to coquinate, but her actions are highly scripted. <tr class="top"><th> cosmogyral <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1808 -1808 <tr><td colspan=3> whirling round the universe <tr><td colspan=3>The great cosmogyral peregrinations of galaxies follow simple physical laws. <tr class="top"><th> crassulent <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1656 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> very fat; grossly obese <tr><td colspan=3>While some point to Brando's crassulent state, others focus on his acting. <tr class="top"><th> crebrity <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1656 -1740 <tr><td colspan=3> frequency; period between two occurrences <tr><td colspan=3>Old Faithful is a natural clock, and its invariant crebrity continues to amaze. <tr class="top"><th> crocitation <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1623 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> croaking; cawing <tr><td colspan=3>The crocitation of the gulls meant that I got no sleep last night. <tr class="top"><th> cynicocratical <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1881 -1881 <tr><td colspan=3> pertaining to rule by cynics <tr><td colspan=3>When people mistrust government, our leaders become cynicocratical. <tr class="top"><th> deartuate <TD> <I>v</I> <TD> 1623 -1653 <tr><td colspan=3> to dismember <tr><td colspan=3>He cunningly hoped that if he deartuated the body, he could hide it in the hole. <tr class="top"><th> decutient <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1656 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> shaking down; beating down <tr><td colspan=3>Their decutient technique for getting apples from trees annoyed the farmer. <tr class="top"><th> defedate <TD> <I>v</I> <TD> 1669 -1669 <tr><td colspan=3> to defile; to pollute <tr><td colspan=3>The toxic chemicals continue to defedate our town's water supply. <tr class="top"><th> desarcinate <TD> <I>v</I> <TD> 1656 -1736 <tr><td colspan=3> to unload; to unburden <tr><td colspan=3>She haughtily ordered her butler to desarcinate her baggage from the car. <tr class="top"><th> devalgate <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1851 -1883 <tr><td colspan=3> bow-legged <tr><td colspan=3>The devalgate cowboy watched his old smell-hound crawl between his legs. <tr class="top"><th> dicaearchy <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1656 -1658 <tr><td colspan=3> just government <tr><td colspan=3>While we dream of living in a dicaearchy, in truth, we're governed by dicks. <tr class="top"><th> diffibulate <TD> <I>v</I> <TD> 1656 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> to unbutton; to unbuckle <tr><td colspan=3>He found it difficult to diffibulate her blouse using only one hand. <tr class="top"><th> dignorate <TD> <I>v</I> <TD> 1623 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> to mark or brand an animal <tr><td colspan=3>He was glad he had dignorated his horse, or else he couldn't have claimed it. <tr class="top"><th> diloricate <TD> <I>v</I> <TD> 1623 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> to rip open a sewn piece of clothing <tr><td colspan=3>She diloricated his silk shirts so she could use them as dishrags. <tr class="top"><th> dipsopathy <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1883 -1883 <tr><td colspan=3> medical treatment involving abstinence from liquids <tr><td colspan=3>The new antibiotics he was taking required him to practice strict dipsopathy. <tr class="top"><th> diribitory <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1656 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> place where pay is distributed to soldiers <tr><td colspan=3>Directly deposited salaries for soldiers obviate the need for diribitories. <tr class="top"><th> divinipotent <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1656 -1727 <tr><td colspan=3> having strong divinatory powers <tr><td colspan=3>While the TV psychic claims to be divinipotent, he's clearly a charlatan. <tr class="top"><th> dodrantal <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1656 -1883 <tr><td colspan=3> of nine inches in length <tr><td colspan=3>The male stripper's dodrantal instrument impressed the ladies greatly. <tr class="top"><th> drollic <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1743 -1743 <tr><td colspan=3> of or pertaining to puppet shows <tr><td colspan=3>Computer graphics are rapidly replacing the drollic puppet-shows of years ago. <tr class="top"><th> dromograph <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1883 -1885 <tr><td colspan=3> instrument for measuring velocity of blood flow <tr><td colspan=3>The dromograph readings from his elderly patient alarmed the doctor. <tr class="top"><th> ducenarious <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1656 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> pertaining to two hundred <tr><td colspan=3>The ducenarious diversion of the bicentennial brought the countrymen together. <tr class="top"><th> ebaptization <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1659 -1659 <tr><td colspan=3> declaring that someone has not been properly baptized <tr><td colspan=3>They feared the priest's heterodoxy would lead to charges of ebaptization. <tr class="top"><th> ecstasiate <TD> <I>v</I> <TD> 1823 -1957 <tr><td colspan=3> to go into an ecstasy; to cause to become ecstatic <tr><td colspan=3>The arrival of the boy-band ecstasiated the pre-teen throng. <tr class="top"><th> ectylotic <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1736 -1864 <tr><td colspan=3> removing warts or calluses <tr><td colspan=3>Use this ectylotic bandage on your finger and you'll be cured in a week or two. <tr class="top"><th> egrote <TD> <I>v</I> <TD> 1721 -1775 <tr><td colspan=3> to feign an illness <tr><td colspan=3>He was a master of egroting in order to find more time to study for tests. <tr class="top"><th> eicastic <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1669 -1669 <tr><td colspan=3> imitative <tr><td colspan=3>The comedian's wit is limited to his considerable eicastic abilities. <tr class="top"><th> ejurate <TD> <I>v</I> <TD> 1622 -1800 <tr><td colspan=3> to renounce; to abjure <tr><td colspan=3>I ejurate this entire organization and its principles, which I now see to be corrupt. <tr class="top"><th> embaphium <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1715 -1884 <tr><td colspan=3> small vessel for measuring or serving medicine <tr><td colspan=3>She employed an embaphium to ensure the correct dose was given. <tr class="top"><th> embolimaeal <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1677 -1796 <tr><td colspan=3> intercalary; inserted into the calendar <tr><td colspan=3>The addition of embolimaeal days caused calendrical confusion in the past. <tr class="top"><th> epalpebrate <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1884 -1884 <tr><td colspan=3> lacking eyebrows <tr><td colspan=3>If you don't stop plucking, soon you'll be epalpebrate! <tr class="top"><th> ephydriad <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1823 -1823 <tr><td colspan=3> water-nymph <tr><td colspan=3>The synchronized swimmers were like ephydriads, full of natural grace. <tr class="top"><th> essomenic <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1771 -1771 <tr><td colspan=3> showing things as they will be in the future <tr><td colspan=3>The essomenic properties of crystal balls are very much in dispute. <tr class="top"><th> eternitarian <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1746 -1746 <tr><td colspan=3> one who believes in the eternity of the soul <tr><td colspan=3>Though she held to no particular faith, she remained a hopeful eternitarian. <tr class="top"><th> eveniency <TD> <I>n</I> <TD> 1656 -1656 <tr><td colspan=3> coming to pass <tr><td colspan=3>His mother thought that the eveniency of her son's marriage was inevitable. <tr class="top"><th> excutient <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1730 -1775 <tr><td colspan=3> shaking off <tr><td colspan=3>The excutient dog showered the topless sunbathers, causing them to rise in alarm. <tr class="top"><th> exipotic <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1823 -1884 <tr><td colspan=3> purgative; cleansing the body of illness <tr><td colspan=3>While the medicine was exipotic to his body, it made a mess of his bathroom. <tr class="top"><th> exlineal <TD> <I>adj</I> <TD> 1716 -1716 <tr><td colspan=3> out of the direct line of descent <tr><td colspan=3>Her cousins and all the other exlineal relations were cut out of the will. </TABLE> <br> <br> <p>I hope you have found this site to be useful. 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