inured

30 01 2010

Adjectives
1. (adj.) enured, hardened, inured;
  - made tough by habitual exposure;
  - “hardened fishermen”; “a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured”; “our successors…may be graver, more inured and equable men”;


   


Pantheon

30 01 2010

Nouns
1. (n.) pantheon;
  - all the gods of a religion;

2. (n.) pantheon;
  - a monument commemorating a nation’s dead heroes;

3. (n.) pantheon;
  - (antiquity) a temple to all the gods;

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writing

30 01 2010

Nouns
1. (n.) authorship, composition, penning, writing;
  - the act of creating written works;
  - “writing was a form of therapy for him”; “it was a matter of disputed authorship”;

2. (n.) piece of writing, writing, written material;
  - the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect);
  - “the writing in her novels is excellent”; “that editorial was a fine piece of writing”;

3. (n.) writing;
  - (usually plural) the collected work of an author;
  - “the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway’s writings”;

4. (n.) writing;
  - letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language;
  - “he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn’t show”; “the doctor’s writing was illegible”;

5. (n.) committal to writing, writing;
  - the activity of putting something in written form;
  - “she did the thinking while he did the writing”;

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precedential

29 01 2010

Adjectives
1. (adj.) precedential;
  - having precedence (especially because of longer service);
  - “precedential treatment for senior members of the firm”;

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veritable

29 01 2010

Adjectives
1. (adj.) regular, veritable;
  - often used as intensifiers;
  - “a regular morass of details”; “a regular nincompoop”; “he’s a veritable swine”;

2. (adj.) authentic, bona fide, unquestionable, veritable;
  - not counterfeit or copied;
  - “an authentic signature”; “a bona fide manuscript”; “an unquestionable antique”; “photographs taken in a veritable bull ring”;