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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,678 words match “ISM”

AGRARIANISM n.
An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.
AGRICULTURISM n.
Agriculture. [R.]
ALBINISM n.
The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy.
ALBINOISM n.
The state or condition of being an albino; albinism.
ALCOHOLISM n.
A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors.
ALGORISM; ALGORITHM n. 2 definitions
The art of calculating by nine figures and zero.
ALIENISM n. 2 definitions
an alien; alienage. The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism. Kent.
ALLODIALISM n.
The allodial system.
ALLOMERISM n.
Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.
ALLOMORPHISM n.
The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph.
ALLOTHEISM n.
The worship of strange gods. Jer. Taylor.
ALLOTROPISM; ALLOTROPY n.
The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations.
ALPHABETISM n.
The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet. Encyc. Brit.
ALTRUISM n.
ural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness. [Recent] J. S. Mill.
AMATEURISM n.
The practice, habit, or work of an amateur.
AMERICANISM n. 3 definitions
Attachment to the United States.
AMORPHISM n.
A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc.
AMPHILOGISM; AMPHILOGY n.
Ambiguity of speech; equivocation. [R.]
ANABAPTISM n.
The doctrine of the Anabaptists.
ANABOLISM n.
The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism.
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