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Ablative
() Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.
Ablative
() The ablative case.
Ablaut
() The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung.
Ablaze
() On fire; in a blaze, gleaming.
Ablaze
() In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
Able
() Fit; adapted; suitable.
Able
() Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.
Able
() Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech.
Able
() Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property.
Able
() To make able; to enable; to strengthen.
Able
() To vouch for.
Able-bodied
() Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust.
Ablegate
() To send abroad.
Ablegate
() A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.
Ablegation
() The act of sending abroad.
Able-minded
() Having much intellectual power.
Ableness
() Ability of body or mind; force; vigor.
Ablepsy
() Blindness.
Abler
() comp. of Able.
Abler
() superl. of Able.
Ablet
() Alt. of Ablen
Ablen
() A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.
Abligate
() To tie up so as to hinder from.
Abligurition
() Prodigal expense for food.
Ablins
() Perhaps.
Abloom
() In or into bloom; in a blooming state.
Ablude
() To be unlike; to differ.
Abluent
() Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.
Abluent
() A detergent.
Ablush
() Blushing; ruddy.
Ablution
() The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
Ablution
() The water used in cleansing.
Ablution
() A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.
Ablutionary
() Pertaining to ablution.
Abluvion
() That which is washed off.
Ably
() In an able manner; with great ability; as, ably done, planned, said.
Abnegated
() of Abnegate
Abnegating
() of Abnegate
Abnegate
() To deny and reject; to abjure.
Abnegation
() a denial; a renunciation.
Abnegative
() Denying; renouncing; negative.
Abnegator
() One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything.
Abnet
() The girdle of a Jewish priest or officer.
Abnodate
() To clear (tress) from knots.
Abnodation
() The act of cutting away the knots of trees.
Abnormal
() Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular.
Abnormalities
() of Abnormality
Abnormality
() The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.
Abnormality
() Something abnormal.
Abnormally
() In an abnormal manner; irregularly.
