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4,980 words match “RIS”

ADIAPHORISM n.
Religious indifference.
ADIAPHORIST n.
One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.
ADIAPHORISTIC a.
Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice. Shipley.
AGRICULTURISM n.
Agriculture. [R.]
AGRICULTURIST n.
r skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb.
AGRISE v. 3 definitions
To terrify; to affright. [Obs.] His manly face that did his foes agrise. Spenser.
ALGORISM; ALGORITHM n. 2 definitions
The art of calculating by nine figures and zero.
ALLEGORIST n.
One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume.
ALLOMERISM n.
Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.
ALTARIST n. 2 definitions
A chaplain.
AMATEURISH a.
In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur. -- Am`a*teur"ish*ly, adv. -- Am`a*teur"ish*ness, n.
AMATEURISM n.
The practice, habit, or work of an amateur.
AMBERGRIS n.
A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often varieg…
AMORIST n.
A lover; a gallant. [R.] Milton. It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe. Southey.
ANACHARIS n.
A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceæ), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.
ANACHORISM n.
An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place. [R.]
ANAGNORISIS n.
The unfolding or dénouement. [R.] De Quincey.
ANEURISM n.
A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. [Written also aneurysm.]
ANEURISMAL a.
Of or pertaining to an aneurism; as, an aneurismal tumor; aneurismal diathesis. [Written also aneurysmal.]
ANTHORISM n.
A description or definition contrary to that which is given by the adverse party. [R.]
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