n. The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.
Syn. -- agism [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; other + &unr_; god. ] The worship of strange gods. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Gr. &unr_; a shaking up and down. ] Moving up and down; -- said of earthquake shocks. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The doctrine of antitheists. -- An`ti*the*is"tic a. [1913 Webster]

n. A disbeliever in the existence of God. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; refined and witty talk, fr. &unr_; of the town, polite, witty, fr. &unr_; city: cf. F. astéisme. ] (Rhet.) Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. athéisme. See Atheist. ] 1. The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being. [ 1913 Webster ]

Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness. R. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Godlessness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; without god; 'a priv. + &unr_; god: cf. F. athéiste. ] 1. One who disbelieves or denies the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A godless person. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Infidel; unbeliever. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Infidel. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Pertaining to, implying, or containing, atheism; -- applied to things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books. [ 1913 Webster ]

Atheistical explications of natural effects. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disbelieving the existence of a God; impious; godless; -- applied to persons; as, an atheistic writer. -- A`the*is"tic*al*ly, adv. -- A`the*is"tic*al*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + theism. ] 1. The doctrine of God's self-existence. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Deification of one's self; self-worship. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One given to self-worship. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. bi- + theism. ] Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A canoeman. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G., fr. capelle chapel, private band of a prince + meister a master. ] The musical director in a royal or ducal chapel; a choir-master. [ Written also kapellmeister. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or conduct of a cicisbeo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Eurysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration; -- called also cleistothecium.
Syn. -- cleistothecium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ a. [ Gr. &unr_; closed (fr. &unr_; to shut) + ga`mos marriage. ] (Bot.) Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Eurysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration; -- called also cleistocarp.
Syn. -- cleistocarp. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ G. ] (Mus.) The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ko`smos the world + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; god. ] Same as Pantheism. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Dais. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. deus god: cf. F. déisme. See Deity. ] The doctrine or creed of a deist; the belief or system of those who acknowledge the existence of one God, but deny revelation. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Deism is the belief in natural religion only, or those truths, in doctrine and practice, which man is to discover by the light of reason, independent of any revelation from God. Hence, deism implies infidelity, or a disbelief in the divine origin of the Scriptures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. deus god: cf. F. déiste. See Deity. ] One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A deist, as denying a revelation, is opposed to a Christian; as, opposed to the denier of a God, whether atheist or pantheist, a deist is generally denominated theist. Latham.

Syn. -- See Infidel.

{ } a. Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book. [ 1913 Webster ]

The deistical or antichristian scheme. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. After the manner of deists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being deistical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat like a dilettante. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. désobéissance. ] Disobedience. [ Obs. ] E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. désobéissant. ] Disobedient. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. di- + theism: cf. F. dithéisme. ] The doctrine of those who maintain the existence of two gods or of two original principles (as in Manicheism), one good and one evil; dualism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds the doctrine of ditheism; a dualist. Cudworth.

{ } a. Pertaining to ditheism; dualistic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The character of a doughface; truckling pliability. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ NL. Named after Dreyssen, a Belgian physician. ] (Zool.) A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (Dreissena polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the type genus of the Echeneididae; they are typical remoras.
Syn. -- genus Echeneis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ G., fr. edel noble + weiss white. ] (Bot.) A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps. It is the national flower of Austria. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ Gr. 'egw` I + qeo`s God. ] The deification of self. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. aisil, aissil, fr. L. acetum. Cf. Acetic. ] Vinegar; verjuice. [ Obs. ] Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ W., session, fr. eistedd to sit. ] An assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; olive tree. ] (Bot.) A genus of palms. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Elæis Guineensis, the African oil palm, is a tree twenty or thirty feet high, with immense pinnate leaves and large masses of fruit. The berries are rather larger than olives, and when boiled in water yield the orange-red palm oil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. geisha Geishas /plu>. [ Jap., art person. ] A Japanese singing and dancing girl, trained to provide entertainment and company for a man or group of men. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

(Elec.) A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plücker tube, from the German physicist who devised it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. ] (Geol.) A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic gneiss or syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to, or resembling, gneiss; consisting of gneiss. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gneiss + -oid. ] Resembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; -- applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss, or mica slate and gneiss. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the structure of gneiss. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. e"i`s "eno`s qeou^, of one god ] The worship of a single, overarching god without denying the existence of other deities. [ Merriam-Webster ]