English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Amateur
(n.)
A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or
science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or
art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.
Amateurish
(a.)
In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective
like the work of an amateur.
Amateurism
(n.)
The practice, habit, or work of an amateur.
Amateurship
(n.)
The quality or character of an amateur.
Amative
(a.)
Full of love; amatory.
Amativeness
(n.)
The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire;
propensity to love.
Amatorial
(a.)
Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory;
as, amatorial verses.
Amatorially
(adv.)
In an amatorial manner.
Amatorian
(a.)
Amatory.
Amatorious
(a.)
Amatory.
Amatory
(a.)
Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as,
amatory potions.
Amaurosis
(n.)
A loss or decay of sight, from loss of power in the
optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; --
called also gutta serena, the "drop serene" of Milton.
Amaurotic
(a.)
Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of
amaurosis.
Amaze
(v. t.)
Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder;
amazement.
Amaze
(v. i.)
To be astounded.
Amaze
(v. t.)
To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
Amaze
(v. t.)
To confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to
overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly.
Amazed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Amaze
Amazedly
(adv.)
In amazement; with confusion or astonishment.
Amazedness
(n.)
The state of being amazed, or confounded with fear,
surprise, or wonder.