| abstractable | Capable of being abstracted from something or someone, esp. capable of being treated… | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| absurdism | An illogical, incongruous, or ridiculous thing; = absurdity n. 2. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| adaptative | = adaptive adj. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| adaptiveness | The quality of being able to adapt; the capacity or tendency to adapt, esp. to one's circumstances or environment. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| adhortative | Of a verbal mood: that expresses exhortation. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| adventurist | A person inclined to seek adventure or take risks, esp. for profit; = adventurer n. (in various senses). | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| adverbal | = adverbial adj. 1. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| alcornoque | Any of various tropical American shrubs or trees yielding a medicinal… | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| algorithmic | Originally: †involving the use of arithmetical rules, arithmetical (obs.). In later… | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| alliteral | Alliterative, alliterating; (in later use sometimes) spec. designating or relating… | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| allowability | The quality or condition of being allowable (in various senses); permissibility, allowableness (of something). | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| all-pervasive | Extending into, spreading through, or occurring or having an effect in, every part of something; present or apparent everywhere. | 1808 | Go To Quotation |
| ambulomancy | Divination by walking. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| anagrammatic | Of or pertaining to an anagram; anagrammatical. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| anemochord | A species of harpsichord, in which the strings were moved by the wind; an æolian harp. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| Anglicist | A student or scholar of English language or literature; = Anglist n. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| antisocial | Opposed to sociality, averse to society or companionship. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| archaeography | Systematic description of antiquities. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| artificialize | trans. To make or render artificial. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| attitudinarianism | The study and excessive use of attitudes. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| autobiographic | = autobiographical adj. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| azonic | Not confined to a zone or region, not local. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| azoology | The scientific study of inanimate nature. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| barbarization | Barbarized state. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| biblico- | comb. form of biblic adj., biblical adj., as in biblico-literary adj. relating to the… | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| Bletonism | (See quot. 1821). | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| bowedness | Bowed or bent condition. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| cannibality | = cannibalism n. | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| caressive | Habitually caressing; of the nature of a caress. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| catholicist | An adherent or partisan of catholicism. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| centralize | intr. To come together at a centre; to form a centre; to concentrate. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| ceroplastic | Of or relating to modelling in wax. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| chivalresque | Wearing the garb, manners, or spirit of chivalry. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| chivalrization | The action of making chivalric or chivalresque. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| citizenry | With pl. concord. Citizens or townsmen in the mass; a citizenry, a body of citizens. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| co-adaptation | Adaptation of two or more things to each other, mutual adaptation. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| collapse | A break-down of mental energy; a sudden loss of courage, spirits, etc. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| colossality | The fact or quality of being colossal; hugeness; greatness. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| colossalize | trans. To render colossal (in various senses); to increase greatly in size, degree, or importance. | 1808 | Go To Quotation |
| comedist | A writer of comedies. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| cometoid | A name proposed by Prof. Kirkwood of Indiana for luminous meteors. | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| conspiratory | Pertaining to conspirators or to conspiracy. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| continuality | The state or quality of being continual. | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| continuousness | The state or quality of being continuous; continuity. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| conversancy | The state or quality of being conversant. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| crinking | The action of crink v. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| cryptarch | A secret ruler. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| cuttee | One who is cut socially. See cut v. 33. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| datival | Of or relating to the dative case. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| dentifrical | Of or pertaining to a dentifrice, teeth-cleansing. | 1806 | Go To Quotation |
| desinential | Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a desinence or ending. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| detainable | Capable of being detained. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| detectability | | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| diffuseness | The quality of being diffuse; esp. in speech or literary style, the opposite of conciseness. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| digladiator | A combatant; one who contends or disputes. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| disharmonize | trans. To put out of harmony, destroy the harmony of; to make unharmonious or discordant. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| dissepulchred | Disentombed. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| dramaturgy | Dramatic composition; the dramatic art. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| driftless | Having no drift, purport, or purpose; aimless. | 1806 | Go To Quotation |
| drool | = drivel v., in various senses; spec. = drivel v. 5. Cf. droul v. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| elocutory | That pertains to elocution; elocutionary. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| encroachingly | In an encroaching manner. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| entailment | The action of ‘cutting’ or excising. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| epuration | The action or process of purifying: purification; esp. (usu. in… | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| eradicatory | Tending to eradicate, root out, or destroy. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| erudit | = erudite n. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| Europeanity | The quality or fact of being European. | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| exhalatory | A passage or vent for exhalation (of gas). | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| expressional | in language. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| externalization | The action or process of externalizing; an instance of this; also concr. an embodiment. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| fetishism | The worship of fetishes; an instance of this; the superstition of which this is the characteristic feature. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| fogan | (See quots.) | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| foremore | | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| frigoric | An imagined ‘imponderable’ substance supposed to be the cause of cold. Cf. caloric n. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| fructiform | Having the form of a fruit. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| furciferous | Rascally. rare (somewhat jocular). | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| galvanic | Of, pertaining to, or produced by galvinism. galvanic battery, an apparatus constructed… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| galvanism | Electricity developed by chemical action. Also, the application of this for therapeutic purposes. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| gashouse | A building in which gas is produced; a gasworks. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| gastrology | The science of catering for the stomach; hence, cookery, good eating. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| genitival | Belonging to the genitive case. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| geodesical | = geodesic adj. 2. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| glottic | Of or pertaining to language or ‘tongues’; linguistic. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| gravo- | bad combining form of grave adj. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| Greekize | trans. = Graecize v. 1. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| guardedness | The quality of being guarded (in speech, behaviour, etc.); cautiousness. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| Guinness | The proprietary name of a brand of stout manufactured by the firm of Guinness; a bottle or… | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| hagiolatry | The worship of saints. | 1808 | Go To Quotation |
| harbour | Variant of arbor n. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| hexametrist | One who composes or writes hexameters. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| hexametrize | trans. To put in hexametrical form; to celebrate in hexameters. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| how-come-ye-so | Tipsy. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| hush-hire | = hush-money n. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| iconograph | = iconographer n. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| idealization | The action of idealizing or the fact of being idealized. | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| ideological | Of or relating to ideas or the study of ideas. Now rare. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| idiomaticism | Idiomatic quality or style. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| imprecision | Want of precision; inexactness. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| imprejudice | Absence of prejudice; unprejudiced opinion. | 1806 | Go To Quotation |
| inarticulable | That cannot be articulated or pronounced articulately. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| inclinational | Of or pertaining to mental inclination or disposition. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| infinitesimally | In an infinitesimal degree: almost always qualifying small. (But in quots. 1801 1814, used… | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| ingallantry | The opposite of gallantry; ungallant conduct or behaviour; want of attention to the fair sex. | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| inimitability | The quality of being inimitable. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| instructional | Of or pertaining to instruction or teaching; educational. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| irreality | Unreality. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| I-say-so | An assertion, an ipse dixit: cf. say-so n. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| lentitudinous | Slow, sluggish. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| lithological | Pertaining to lithology; relating to the nature or composition of stones. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| logograph | Used erroneously for logogriph n. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| Loyolism | The doctrine or principles of Loyola or the Jesuits. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| lugging | That moves slowly and heavily. (Cf. lug v. 2c.) | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| Macadamite | A practitioner or advocate of McAdam's method of road-making (see macadamize v.). | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| maritality | Excessive affection of a wife for her husband. Cf. uxoriousness n. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| metrical | = metric adj. Now rare. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| mud | trans. To bring up (a child, an animal) by hand. Also: to spoil, pamper. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| narcoticism | Narcosis, narcotism. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| neology | The coining or use of new words or phrases; = neologism n. 1b. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| nerterology | Lore or learning relating to the dead or to the spirits of the dead. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| nomade | = nomad n. Cf. nomades n. 1. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| nomian | That upholds religious law; (Theol.) that considers the first five books of the Old Testament to have prophetic authority. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| non-contagiousness | The condition or property of a disease of not being contagious. Cf. non-contagion n. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| non-reading | Cambridge Univ. Designating a student whose major course of study is not… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| obscurant | A person who or thing which obscures; a person who strives to prevent inquiry, enlightenment, or reform; an obscurantist. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| overcoat | A long, usually warm coat, esp. as worn by a man. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| overswarth | trans. To darken over, to cover with blackness. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| oxygenate | = oxygenated adj. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| oxygeneity | The state or condition of being oxygenous. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| oy | intr. = hoy v. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| palaeo- | ancient learning. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| palingenesian | Of or relating to palingenesia. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| Parker's cement | = Roman cement n. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| paroemiography | The writing or collecting of proverbs; (also) a collection or book of proverbs. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| pensioned-off | Retired or dismissed with a pension; (more generally) dismissed as too old, superannuated; retired. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| perturbable | Capable of being, or liable to be, perturbed (in various senses). | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| phaenogamic | = phaenogamous adj. | 1808 | Go To Quotation |
| phantasmagorist | A person who produces or exhibits a phantasmagoria. Also fig. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| philomathic | Of, belonging to, or consisting of philomaths; relating or devoted to mathematics, natural philosophy, etc. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| philosophocracy | Government by philosophers, or in accordance with philosophical principles. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| physiocrat | A member of a school of political economists founded by François Quesnay in France in the 18th cent.; = economist n. 3b. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| plainy | Made up of or characterized by plains. | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| pogonology | A treatise on beards. Obs. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| polyglottic | = polyglot adj. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| prefectural | Of or relating to a prefecture (prefecture n. 2) or its administration. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| recoat | trans. To coat (something) again with paint or the like. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| remarkability | A thing worthy of remark; a remarkable thing. Now rare. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| remerge | intr. = re-emerge v. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| reprecipitation | The action of precipitating or being precipitated again; precipitation following… | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| re-sign | trans. and intr. To sign again (in various senses); to sign for a second or further time. | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| resistiveness | The characteristic or property of being resistant; esp. unwillingness to comply… | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| retiringness | The quality of being shy, reserved, or unassertive. Also fig. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| re-warehouse | trans. To warehouse again or a further time. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| rewhirl | trans. To (cause to) whirl again. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| Rio | A type of (inferior) coffee imported from Rio de Janeiro. Also more fully Rio coffee. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| rivalrous | Of an action, situation, etc.: characterized by rivalry. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| sanctanimity | Holiness of mind. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| satellitic | Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, a satellite or lesser planet. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| scribblage | Scribblings, ephemeral writing. | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| seethe | Seething, ebullition (of waves); intense commotion or heat. Also fig. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| septon | A name for nitrogen, from its being regarded as the agent in putrefaction. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| sixteener | One of a body of persons sixteen in number. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| skim-coulter | A coulter fitted with a plate of iron or steel which shaves off the top-layer of the ground and turns it into the furrow. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| snarly | Inclined to snarl; irritable, cross. Also transf. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| solitarity | Soleness, singleness. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| statistician | A person who is expert or knowledgeable in statistics; a specialist in statistics. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| stereotyping | The action or process of making stereotype plates for printing. Also attrib. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| stimulable | Capable of being stimulated. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| strato- | | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| stratous | Of clouds: = stratus n. attrib. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| suicidism | The doctrine or practice of suicide. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| summerize | intr. To spend the summer. nonce-uses. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| tinger | One who or that which tinges. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| totting | The action or process of tot v.; adding together or up, totalling. Freq. with up. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| tranquillization | The action of tranquillizing. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| transincorporation | Passage from one body to another; transmigration of the soul. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| translettering | = transliteration n. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| transversion | A turning into verse; concr. a metrical version of something. | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| travale | In tambourine playing, a roll or drone-effect produced by drawing the wetted thumb over the parchment in a circular direction. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| tubulate | ‘To furnish with a tube’ (Cent. Dict. 1891). | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| unbricked | (un- prefix 8.) | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| unbrothered | Not provided with a brother. Also fig. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| uncheering | (un- prefix 10.) | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| unclimbed | (un- prefix 8.) | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| uncomforting | (un- prefix 10.) | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| under-shortening | (under- prefix 2a(a).) | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| unemphatic | (un- prefix 7.) | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| unfearing | (un- prefix 10.) | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| uninvalidated | (un- prefix 8.) | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| unjewish | (un- prefix 7.) | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| unopulence | (un- prefix 12.) | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| unpalsied | (un- prefix 8.) | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| unpointing | (un- prefix 10.) | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| unrimple | (un- prefix 4. Cf. Dutch ontrimpelen.) | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| unsmelled | (un- prefix 8a 8b.) | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| unspawned | (un- prefix 8.) | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| unsusceptibility | (un- prefix 12 5b Cf. unsusceptible adj.) | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| untemptable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| untheoretical | (un- prefix 7.) | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| untwistable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| uranolite | A meteorite. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| vandalization | An act of vandalism. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| vandalize | To deal with or treat in a vandalistic manner. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| washer-wife | A washerwoman. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| wolfen | Pertaining to a wolf, wolfish. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| zirconia | An earth, usually obtained as a white powder by heating zirconium to redness in contact… | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| zonic | Belonging to a particular zone or region. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
