English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
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-ancies
(pl. )
of Discrepancy
A suffix expressing more strongly than -ance the idea of
quality or state; as, constancy, buoyancy, infancy.
A suffix sometimes marking the agent for action; as, merchant,
covenant, servant, pleasant, etc. Cf. -ent.
-arch
(a.)
A suffix meaning a ruler, as in monarch (a sole ruler).
Alt. of -art
The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard,
drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of
German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It usually
has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality
expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.
In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from those
acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids); as,
sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate from nitric acid, etc. It is also
used in the case of certain basic salts.
As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is
equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated.
As the ending of a verb, it means to make, to cause, to act,
etc.; as, to propitiate (to make propitious); to animate (to give life
to).
As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It
also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate.
A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the
verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of
state, and that which results from the action. Many of these nouns have
verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived
through the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on
verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization,
demoralization.
-barrelled
(a.)
Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun.
A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in
biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast,
epiblast, mesoblast, etc.
-cae
(pl. )
of Hierotheca
-ces
(pl. )
of Inadvertence
-cies
(pl. )
of Inadvertency
-cies
(pl. )
of Superintendency
-d8Gregarin-91
(n. pl.)
An order of Protozoa, allied to the Rhizopoda,
and parasitic in other animals, as in the earthworm, lobster, etc. When
adult, they have a small, wormlike body inclosing a nucleus, but
without external organs; in one of the young stages, they are
amoebiform; -- called also Gregarinida, and Gregarinaria.
-derm
(n.)
A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical
terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm,
ectoderm, etc.
Jurisdiction or property and jurisdiction, dominion, as in
kingdom earldom.