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- English Word Absinthiate Definition To impregnate with wormwood.
- English Word Absinthiated Definition Impregnated with wormwood; as, absinthiated wine.
- English Word Absinthic Definition Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it.
- English Word Absinthin Definition The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium).
- English Word Absinthism Definition The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth.
- English Word Absinthium Definition The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood.
- English Word Absis Definition See Apsis.
- English Word Absist Definition To stand apart from; top leave off; to desist.
- English Word Absistence Definition A standing aloof.
- English Word Absolute Definition Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
- English Word Absolute Definition Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
- English Word Absolute Definition Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.
- English Word Absolute Definition Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
- English Word Absolute Definition Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
- English Word Absolute Definition Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
- English Word Absolute Definition Authoritative; peremptory.
- English Word Absolute Definition Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
- English Word Absolute Definition Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
- English Word Absolute Definition In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
- English Word Absolutely Definition In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively.
- English Word Absoluteness Definition The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
- English Word Absolution Definition An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
- English Word Absolution Definition An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent.
- English Word Absolution Definition The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven.
- English Word Absolution Definition An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication.
- English Word Absolution Definition The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
- English Word Absolution Definition Delivery, in speech.
- English Word Absolutism Definition The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
- English Word Absolutism Definition Doctrine of absolute decrees.
- English Word Absolutist Definition One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.