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918 words match “EVERY”

ORTHOGRAPHIC; ORTHOGRAPHICAL a.
hographic or Orthogonal, projection, that projection which is made by drawing lines, from every point to be projected, perpendicular to the plane of projection. Such a projection of the sphere represents its circles as seen in perspective by an eye supposed to be placed at an infinite distance, the plane of projection…
OTHER pron.
Alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with every; as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every second day.
OVERALL adv.
Everywhere. [Obs.] Chaucer.
OVERSOUL n.
The all-containing soul. [R.] That unity, that oversout, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other. Emerson.
PAN-; PANTA-; PANTO- n.
Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama, pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. Pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as pamprodactylous.
PANDEMIC a.
Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic. -- n.
PANEULOGISM n.
Eulogy of everything; indiscriminate praise. [R.] Her book has a trace of the cant of paneulogism. National Rev.
PANORAMA n. 2 definitions
A complete view in every direction.
PANPSYCHISM n.
The theory that all nature is psychical or has a psychical aspect; the theory that every particle of matter has a psychical character or aspect. -- Pan*psy"chic (#), a. -- Pan*psy"chist (#), n. -- Pan`psy*chis"tic (#), a.
PANTOSCOPIC a.
Literally, seeing everything; -- a term applied to eyeglasses or spectacles divided into two segments, the upper being designed for distant vision, the lower for vision of near objects.
PARASHAH n.
rom the Torah, or Law, from which at least one section is read in the Jewish synagogue on every Sabbath and festival.
PARENTHESIS n.
dashes. "Seldom mentioned without a derogatory parenthesis." Sir T. Browne. Don't suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis. Watts.
PART n.
. All the parts were formed . . . into one harmonious body. Locke. The pulse, the glow of every part. Keble.
PARTAKE v.
To partake of; to have a part or share in; to share. Let every one partake the general joy. Driden.
PARTICULAR a.
particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. Shak. Seken in every halk and every herne Particular sciences for to lerne. Chaucer.
PASSIM adv.
Here and there; everywhere; as, this word occurs passim in the poem.
PASSION n.
assion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. Pope. Who walked in every path of human life, Felt every passion. Akenside. When statesmen are ruled by faction and interest, they can have no passion for the glory of their country. Addison.
PECULATION n.
the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement. Every British subject . . . active in the discovery of peculations has been ruined. Burke.
PERISCIANS; PERISCII n.
circle, whose shadows, during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every point of the compass.
PERSONAL a.
Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things. Every man so termed by way of personal difference. Hooker.
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