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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,650 words match “TANT”

SUPERFLUITANT a.

Floating above or on the surface. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. -- Su`per*flu"i*tance, n. [Obs.]

SUPERNATANT a. 2 definitions

Swimming above; floating on the surface; as, oil supernatant on water. SUPERNATANT Su`per*na"tant, n. (Chem.)

SUPERSUBSTANTIAL a.

More than substantial; spiritual. "The heavenly supersubstantial bread." Jer. Taylor.

TRANSPORTANT a.

Transporting; as, transportant love. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

TRANSUBSTANTIATE v. 2 definitions

To change into another substance. [R.] The spider love which transubstantiates all, And can convert manna to gall. Donne.

TRANSUBSTANTIATION n. 2 definitions

in the Mass is converted into the body and blood of Christ; -- distinguished from consubstantiation, and impanation.

TRANSUBSTANTIATOR n.

One who maintains the doctrine of transubstantiation. Barrow.

Not constant; inconstant; fickle; changeable. [Obs.] Shak. -- Un*con"stant*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Un*con"stant*ness, n. [Obs.]

UNPROTESTANTIZE v.

To render other than Protestant; to cause to change from Protestantism to some other form of religion; to deprive of some Protestant feature or characteristic. The attempt to unprotestantize the Church of England. Froude.

UNSUBSTANTIAL a.

Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical.

UNSUBSTANTIALIZE v.

To make unsubstantial. [R.]

UNSUBSTANTIATION n.

A divesting of substantiality.

VISITANT n. 2 definitions

One who visits; a guest; a visitor. When the visitant comes again, he is no more a stranger. South.

YTTRO-COLUMBITE; YTTRO-TANTALITE n.

A tantalate of uranium, yttrium, and calcium, of a brown or black color.

In process of; in the act of; into; to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a…

An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace. The Abderite, Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.

To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.

A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.

An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.

The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.