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Word Meanings - GUMMA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin.

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  • TUMOR
    A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm. 2. Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. Better, however,
  • ORIGINABLE
    Capable of being originated.
  • ORIGINATION
    1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
  • ORIGINANT
    Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.
  • ORIGINATOR
    One who originates.
  • SYPHILITIC
    Of or pertaining to syphilis; of the nature of syphilis; affected with syphilis. -- n.
  • ORIGINATE
    To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new. A decomposition of the whole civill and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order. Burke.
  • ORIGIN
    The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion. Origin of coördinate axes , the point where the axes intersect. See Note under Ordinate. Syn. -- Commencement; rise;
  • ORIGINAL
    1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. His form had yet not lost
  • SYPHILITICALLY
    In a syphilitic manner; with venereal disease.
  • TUMOROUS
    1. Swelling; protuberant. Sir H. Wotton. 2. Inflated; bombastic. B. Jonson.
  • TUMORED
    Distended; swelled. "His tumored breast." R. Junius.
  • ORIGINALNESS
    The quality of being original; originality. Johnson.
  • ORIGINALIST
    One who is original.
  • ORIGINALLY
    1. In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation. God is originally holy in himself. Bp. Pearson. 2. At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as,
  • ORIGINALITY
    The quality or state of being original. Macaulay.
  • ORIGINATIVE
    Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating. H. Bushnell. -- O*rig"i*na*tive*ly, adv.
  • ORIGINARY
    1. Causing existence; productive. The production of animals, in the originary way, requires a certain degree of warmth. Cheyne. 2. Primitive; primary; original. The grand originary right of all rights. Hickok.
  • ABORIGINALLY
    Primarily.
  • ABORIGINAL
    1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth. 2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.
  • UNORIGINATELY
    Without origin.
  • ANTISYPHILITIC
    Efficacious against syphilis. -- n.
  • ABORIGINALITY
    The quality of being aboriginal. Westm. Rev.
  • UNORIGINATED
    1. Not originated; existing from all eternity. F. W. Newman. 2. Not yet caused to be, or to be made; as, possible inventions still unoriginated.
  • ABORIGINES
    the first inhabitants of Latium, those who originally 1. The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races. 2. The original fauna and flora of a geographical area

 

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