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3,185 words match “OE”

COETANEOUS a.
ame time; contemporaneous. -- Co`e*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. And all [members of the body] are coetaneous. Bentley.
COETERNAL a.
o`e*ter"nal*ly, adv. Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam. Milton.
COETERNITY n.
Existence from eternity equally with another eternal being; equal eternity.
COEVAL a. 2 definitions
e period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with. Silence! coeval with eternity! Pope. Oaks coeval spread a mournful shade. Cowper.
COEVOUS a.
Coeaval [Obs.] South.
COEXECUTOR n.
A joint executor.
COEXECUTRIX n.
A joint executrix.
COEXIST v.
d by with. Of substances no one has any clear idea, farther than of certain simple ideas coexisting together. Locke. So much purity and integrity . . . coexisting with so much decay and so many infirmities. Warburton.
COEXISTENCE n.
e same time with another; -- contemporary existence. Without the help, or so much as the coexistence, of any condition. Jer. Taylor.
COEXISTENT a. 2 definitions
That which coexists with another. The law of coexistent vibrations. Whewell.
COEXISTING a.
Coexistent. Locke.
COEXTEND v.
ime with another; to extend to the same degree. According to which the least body may be coextended with the greatest. Boyle. Has your English language one single word that is coextended through all these significations Bentley.
COEXTENSION n.
The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.
COEXTENSIVE a.
Equally extensive; having as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive. Sir W. Hamilton. -- Co`ex*ten"sive*ly, adv. -- Co`ex*ten"sive*ness, n.
COOEY; COOEE n.
A peculiar whistling sound made by the Australian aborigenes as a call or signal. [Written also cooie.]
CROESUS n.
r his vast wealth; hence, a common appellation for a very rich man; as, he is veritable Croesus.
CROWTOE n. 2 definitions
An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot. "The tufted crowtoe." Milton.
DEFOEDATION n.
Defedation. [Obs.]
DENDROCOELA n.
A division of the Turbellaria in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlets.
DIANOETIC a.
Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products. I would employ . . . dianoetic to denote the operation of the discursive, elaborative, or comparative faculty. Sir W. Hamilton.
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