a. [ L. abdicativus. ] Causing, or implying, abdication. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. abditivus, fr. abdere to hide. ] Having the quality of hiding. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Med.) Characterized by abirritation or debility.
a. [ L. abjunctus, p. p. of abjungere; ab + jungere to join. ] Exceptional. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
It is this power which leads on from the accidental and abjunctive to the universal. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F. ablatif, ablative, L. ablativus fr. ablatus. See Ablation. ]
Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Gram.) The ablative case. [ 1913 Webster ]
ablative absolute,
a. [ L. abnegativus. ] Denying; renouncing; negative. [ R. ] Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. abortivus, fr. aboriri. See Abort, v. ]
n.
adv. In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being abortive. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Tending or designed to abrogate;
a. Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Absorptiveness. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. abstractif. ] Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature. “The abstractive faculty.” I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself. Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
a. [ L. ad + complere, completum, to fill up. ] Tending to accomplish. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
a. Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional. --
a. Pertaining to the accusative case. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F. accusatif, L. accusativus (in sense 2), fr. accusare. See Accuse. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Gram.) The accusative case. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv.
a. Heaped up; tending to heap up. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In the way of acquisition. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
v. t. To make active. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
adj. prenom.
n.
n.
certain devices, as bombs or artillery shells, are designed to be unable to operate until a specific action (activation or arming) is taken to make them operable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n.
a. [ F. actif, L. activus, fr. agere to act. ]
Active and nervous was his gait. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
Active capital,
Active wealth
adv.
n. The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n.
n.;
a. Adaptive. Stubbs. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. --
n. The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Astron.) an optical system used in some telescopes since the 1980's which rapidly changes the shape of the primary reflecting mirror to adjust for distortions of light which are caused by atmospheric turbulence. By reducing the distortions caused by the atmosphere, telescopes fitted with such optics can achieve a higher resolving power than normal telescopes with static mirrors. [ PJC ]
n.