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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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31,530 words match “IO”

ACTIONLESS a.
Void of action.
ACTUALIZATION n.
A making actual or really existent. [R.] Emerson.
ACTUATION n.
A bringing into action; movement. Bp. Pearson.
ACUATION n.
Act of sharpening. [R.]
ACUITION n.
The act of sharpening. [Obs.]
ACUMINATION n.
A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point. Bp. Pearson.
ACUPUNCTURATION n.
See Acupuncture.
ACUTORSION n.
The twisting of an artery with a needle to arrest hemorrhage.
ADAGIO a. 2 definitions
Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.
ADAPTATION n. 2 definitions
rocess of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine.
ADAPTION n.
Adaptation. Cheyne.
ADDICTION n.
The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination. "His addiction was to courses vain." Shak.
ADDITION n. 6 definitions
The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke.
ADDITIONAL a. 2 definitions
Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.
ADDITIONALLY adv.
By way of addition.
ADDITIONARY a.
Additional. [R.] Herbert.
ADDITITIOUS a.
Additive. [R.] Sir J. Herschel.
ADDRESSION n.
The act of addressing or directing one's course. [Rare & Obs.] Chapman.
ADDUCTION n. 2 definitions
The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.
ADEMPTION n.
The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier.
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