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1. anti-, prefix1 View full entry 1559
...Combinations....
2. arch-, prefix View full entry 1541
...In titles of office, rank, or dignity: meaning, ‘Chief, principal, -in-chief; superior, master-; one who occupies a position or rank above those who bear the simple title’; as archbishop, ...
3. archi-, prefix View full entry c1598
...= arch-; chief, principal, first in authority or order....
4. circum-, prefix View full entry a1513
...Derivatives and combinations in which circum (= around, about, on all sides) adverbially qualifies (a) verbs, (b) participles and participial adjectives, (c) verbal substantives; as (among combinations of...
5. ˈcounter-, prefix View full entry 1523
...verbs, as counteract, counter-make, countersay, counterweigh, counterwork, with their derivatives: which see in their alphabetic places. Also many nonce-words, either contextual,...
6. dis-, prefix View full entry 1566
...The following are the chief senses of dis- in Latin and English:...
7. em-, prefix View full entry 1523
...Transitive vbs. (often found only in vbl. n., pa. pple., or ppl. adj.)....
8. epana-, prefix View full entry 1579
...before stems beginning with a vowel epan-, a combination of two Greek prepositions ἐπ(ί) upon, in addition + ἀνά up, again, occurring in some rhetorical terms,...
9. extra-, prefix View full entry 1570
...Adjs. with general sense ‘situated outside something’ (e.g. in Anat. a specified organ or member), ‘lying outside the province or scope of’ (a specified branch of science, department...
10. hypo-, prefix View full entry c1540
...In words from Greek: the most important of these are hypochondria, hypocrisy, hypocrite, hypotenuse, hypothec, hypothesis, and their derivatives....
11. inter-, prefix View full entry 1506
...In adverbial or adjectival relation to the second element....
12. mal-, prefix View full entry 1510
...Forming nouns of action (e.g. malpractice), physiological terms (e.g. malassimilation, malformation), and occasionally adjectives and verbs (e.g. malodorous, malappropriate), with the sense...
13. post-, prefix View full entry 1578
...Forming words in which post- is either adverbial or adjectival, and qualifies the verb, or the verbal derivative or other adjective or noun which forms or is implied in the...
14. pre-, prefix View full entry 1559
...Combinations in which pre- is adverbial or adjectival, qualifying the verb, adjective, or noun to which it is prefixed....
15. self-, prefix View full entry 1571
...Compounds in which self- is in the objective relation to the second element:...
16. semi-, prefix View full entry ?1550
...In general use....
17. subter-, prefix View full entry 1597
...Forming words with the senses ‘below, beneath’, ‘secretly’, or ‘lower or less than’....
18. supra-, prefix View full entry 1598
...Forming adjectives and nouns denoting a thing which is situated over, above, higher than, or (less commonly) upon another....
19. † tres-, prefix View full entry 1572
... French trèstrɛ adv. ‘very’:—Latin trans beyond; formerly in occasional English use prefixed to adjs., properly French (or identical in form with French)....
20. ultra-, prefix View full entry 1551
...Signifying ‘lying spatially beyond or on the other side of’:...