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n. The act of abacinating. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. abalienatus, p. p. of abalienare; ab + alienus foreign, alien. See Alien. ] 1. (Civil Law) To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To estrange; to withdraw. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause alienation of (mind). Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. abalienatio: cf. F. abaliénation. ] The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ LL. abannatio; ad + LL. bannire to banish. ] (Old Law) Banishment. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Abominated; p. pr. & vb. n. Abominating. ] [ L. abominatus, p. p. or abominari to deprecate as ominous, to abhor, to curse; ab + omen a foreboding. See Omen. ] To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To hate; abhor; loathe; detest. See Hate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. abominacioun, -cion, F. abominatio. See Abominate. ] 1. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. [ 1913 Webster ]

Antony, most large in his abominations. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A cause of pollution or wickedness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Detestation; loathing; abhorrence; disgust; aversion; loathsomeness; odiousness. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. (Bot.) pinnate with a pair of leaflets at the apex, i.e. without an odd leaflet, or other appendage, at the end; -- said of a leaf shape
Syn. -- even-pinnate, paripinnate [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. ad + E. combination. ] A combining together. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. ac- (for ad to) + criminari. ] To accuse of a crime. [ Obs. ] -- Ac*crim`i*na"tion n. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. acuminatus, p. p. of acuminare to sharpen, fr. acumen. See Acumen. ] Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render sharp or keen. [ R. ] “To acuminate even despair.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To end in, or come to, a sharp point. “Acuminating in a cone of prelacy.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. ad- + margin. ] To write in the margin. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adnatus, p. p. of adnasci. See Adnascent, and cf. Agnate. ] 1. (Physiol.) Grown to congenitally. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Adornment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adunatio; ad + unus one. ] A uniting; union. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. aéronat. See Aëro-; Natation. ] A dirigible balloon. [ obsolescent ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

a. [ Cf. F. affectionné. ] 1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Kindly inclined; zealous. [ Obs. ] Johson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate countenance, message, language. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Strongly inclined; -- with to. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Tender; attached; loving; devoted; warm; fond; earnest; ardent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disposed; inclined. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Affectionated to the people. Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. United with glue or as with glue; cemented together. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Agglutinated p. pr. & vb. n. Agglutinating. ] [ L. agglutinatus, p. p. of agglutinare to glue or cement to a thing; ad + glutinare to glue; gluten glue. See Glue. ] To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. agglutination. ] 1. The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. agglutinatif. ] 1. Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.
Syn. -- polysynthetic, holophrastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Philol.) Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound. [ 1913 Webster ]

In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages. R. Morris. [ 1913 Webster ]

Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots. Max Müller. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. agmen, agminis, a train, crowd. ] (Physiol.) Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. agnatus, p. p. of agnasci to be born in addition to; ad + nasci (for gnasci) to be born. Cf. Adnate. ] 1. Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor; as, agnate brother: a brother having the same father, but a different mother; in ths sense it is a correlative of uterine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Allied; akin. “Agnate words.” Pownall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. agnat. ] (Civil Law) A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 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.
Syn. -- class Agnatha. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. an eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages; a member of the Agnatha. The group includes the cyclostomes and some extinct forms.
Syn. -- jawless vertebrate, jawless fish [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. F. agnatique. ] Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors. “The agnatic succession.” Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. agnatio: cf. F. agnation. ] 1. (Civil Law) Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To name. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. agnominatio. See Agnomen. ] 1. A surname. [ R. ] Minsheu. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A substance produced by the action of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Aleurone. ] Flour made of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flour in preparing bread for diabetic persons. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. alienatus, p. p. of alienare, fr. alienus. See Alien, and cf. Aliene. ] Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. [ 1913 Webster ]

O alienate from God. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Alienated p. pr. & vb. n. Alienating. ] 1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. [ 1913 Webster ]

The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stranger; an alien. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 socially disoriented. we live in an age of rootless alienated people
Syn. -- anomic, disoriented [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having become indifferent or hostile to one's peers or social group.
Syn. -- estranged [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ F. aliénation, L. alienatio, fr. alienare, fr. alienare. See Alienate. ] 1. The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. [ 1913 Webster ]

The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangement; aberration; mania; delirium; frenzy; dementia; monomania. See Insanity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who alienates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. alternatus, p. p. of alternate, fr. alternus. See Altern, Alter. ] 1. Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal. [ 1913 Webster ]

And bid alternate passions fall and rise. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alternate alligation. See Alligation. --
Alternate angles (Geom.), the internal and angles made by two lines with a third, on opposite sides of it. It the parallels AB, CD, are cut by the line EF, the angles AGH, GHD, as also the angles BGH and GHC, are called alternate angles. --
Alternate generation. (Biol.) See under Generation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which alternates with something else; vicissitude. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Grateful alternates of substantial. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Math.) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means. [ 1913 Webster ]