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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



182 words match “FUTURE”

RESURRECTION n.
State of being risen from the dead; future state. In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage. Matt. xxii. 30.
REVERSION n.
Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession. For even reversions are all begged before. Dryden.
ROOT n.
with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids.
SADDUCEE n.
One of a sect among the ancient Jews, who denied the resurrection, a future state, and the existence of angels. -- Sad`du*ce"an, a.
SECOND-SIGHT n.
The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison. Nor less availed his optic sleight, And Scottish gift of second- sight. Trumbull.…
SEGMENTATION n.
rry mass, or morula), all equal and similar, from the growth and development of which the future animal is to be formed. This constitutes regular segmentation. Quite frequently, however, the equality and regularity of cleavage is interfered with by the presence of food yolk, from which results unequal segmentation. See…
SEMPITERNITY n.
Future duration without end; the relation or state of being sempiternal. Sir M. Hale.
SHORT adv.
ible for such presumptuous language. Howell. To sell short (Stock Exchange), to sell, for future delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes to buy at a lower rate.
SHORTSIGHTED a.
Having little regard for the future; heedless. -- Short"sight`ed*ly, adv. -- Short"sight`ed*ness, n. Cunning is a kind of shortsightedness. Addison.
SHOW n.
he property of exhibiting images of persons or things not present, indicating in that way future events.
SIMILITUDE n.
e. Chaucer. Let us make now man in our image, man In our similitude. Milton. If fate some future bard shall join In sad similitude of griefs to mine. Pope.
SLAVERY n.
[Virginia] could see the policy of a gradual abolition of slavery. It might prevent much future mischief. Washington.
SOCINIANISM n.
evil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imit…
SOLACE v.
ude, or discomfort; to console; -- applied to persons; as, to solace one with the hope of future reward.
SOLICITOUS a.
advice." Calerendon. Enjoy the present, whatsoever it be, and be not solicitous about the future. Jer. Taylor. The colonel had been intent upon other things, and not enough solicitous to finish the fortifications. Clarendon. -- So*lic"it*ous*ly, adv. -- So*lic"it*ous*ness, n.
SOON adv.
hall be sent for soon at night." Shak. -- Sooner or later, at some uncertain time in the future; as, he will discover his mistake sooner or later. -- With the soonest, as soon as any; among the earliest; too soon. [Obs.] Holland.
SORS n.
mer or Virgil, or a passage drawn from an urn which several were deposited, as indicating future events, or the proper course to be pursued. In later times the Bible was used for the same purpose by Christians.
SPERMISM n.
he theory, formerly held by many, that the sperm or spermatozoön contains the germ of the future embryo; animalculism.
STAKE v.
To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge. I'll stake yon lamb, that near the fountain plays. Pope.
STILL adv.
In the future as now and before. Hourly joys be still upon you! Shak.
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