Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 35
Aggregate (n.) 合計，總計，集合體 A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
Note: In an aggregate the particulars are less intimately mixed than in a compound.
Aggregate (n.) (Physics) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
In the aggregate, Collectively; together.
Aggregate (a.) Formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness" [syn: {aggregate}, {aggregated}, {aggregative}, {mass}].
Aggregate (a.) Composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets; "raspberries are aggregate fruits".
Aggregate (n.) The whole amount [syn: {sum}, {total}, {totality}, {aggregate}].
Aggregate (n.) Material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster.
Aggregate (n.) A sum total of many heterogenous things taken together [syn: {aggregate}, {congeries}, {conglomeration}].
Aggregate (v.) Amount in the aggregate to.
Aggregate (v.) Gather in a mass, sum, or whole [syn: {aggregate}, {combine}].
Aggregate, () A collection of particular persons or items, formed into one body; as a corporation aggregate, which is one formed of a number of natural persons; the union of individual charges make an aggregate charge.
Aggregately (adv.) 合計地；集在一起地 Collectively; in mass.
Aggregation (n.) <Programming> A composition technique for building a new object from one or more existing objects that support some or all of the new object's required interfaces.
Aggregation (n.) 聚集，集成 [U]；聚集體，集成體 [C] The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.
Each genus is made up by aggregation of species. -- Carpenter.
A nation is not an idea only of local extent and individual momentary aggregation, but . . . of continuity, which extends in time as well as in numbers, and in space. -- Burke.
Aggregation (n.) Several things grouped together or considered as a whole [syn: {collection}, {aggregation}, {accumulation}, {assemblage}].
Aggregation (n.) The act of gathering something together [syn: {collection}, {collecting}, {assembling}, {aggregation}].
Aggregative (a.) 集合（性）的；集團的；集體的 Taken together; collective.
Aggregative (a.) Gregarious; social. [R.] -- Carlyle.
Aggregative (a.) Tending to gather into a mass.
Aggregative (a.) Formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness" [syn: {aggregate}, {aggregated}, {aggregative}, {mass}].
Aggregator (n.) One who aggregates.
Aggregator (n.) A person who collects things [syn: collector, aggregator].
Aggregator, () A program for watching for new content at user-specified RSS feeds.
An example is BottomFeeder. (2003-09-29)
Aggregator (n.) A website or program that collects related items of content and displays them or links to them.；a company that negotiates with producers of a utility service such as electricity on behalf of groups of consumers.
Aggrege (v. t.) To make heavy; to aggravate. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Aggress (v. t.) To set upon; to attack. [R.]
Aggress (n.) Aggression. [Obs.]
Their military aggresses on others. -- Sir M. Hale.
Aggressed (imp. & p. p.) of Aggress.
Aggressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggress.
Aggress (v. i.) 侵略；挑釁；攻擊 To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.
Aggress (v. i.) Take the initiative and go on the offensive, as in a game.
Syn: attack
Aggress (v.) Take the initiative and go on the offensive; "The Serbs attacked the village at night"; "The visiting team started to attack" [syn: attack, aggress].
Aggression (n.) 侵略，侵佔，攻擊，挑釁 The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power."
Aggression (n.) A disposition to behave aggressively.
Aggression (n.) A feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack [syn: {aggression}, {aggressiveness}].
Aggression (n.) Violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked [syn: {aggression}, {hostility}].
Aggression (n.) The act of initiating hostilities.
Aggression (n.) Deliberately unfriendly behavior.
Aggression (n.) [ U ] (C1) 侵略；侵犯；攻擊；挑釁 Spoken or physical behaviour that is threatening or involves harm to someone or something.
// Some types of dog are bred for aggression.
// An act of aggression.
Aggression (n.) [ U ] (C1) （體育比賽中的）進攻 Forceful playing in sport that is intended to win points.
Aggressive (a.) 侵略的，侵犯的；好鬥的，挑釁的；有進取精神的；有幹勁的 Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of {unaggressive}.
No aggressive movement was made. -- Macaulay.
Aggressive (a.) Marked by self-confident ambition, vigorous competitiveness, energy and initiative; as, an aggressive young executive.
Syn: enterprising, pushful, pushing, pushy
Aggressive (a.) (Med., Biol.) Tending to grow or spread quickly; as, an aggressive tumor. [Narrower terms: {invasive (vs. noninvasive) ]. -- AS
Syn: fast-growing (prenominal).
Compare: Prenominal
Prenominal (a.) (Grammar) 置於名詞之前的 (Of a word or part of speech) Preceding a noun.
Aggressive (a.) Tending to initiate unprovoked attacks; initiating unprovoked military action; eager to fight; as, aggressive acts against another country.
Syn: belligerent.
Note: Narrower related terms: {bellicose, combative, pugnacious, scrappy, truculent ; {hard-hitting, high-pressure ; {hostile} (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business: "hostile takeover"; "hostile tender offer"); {predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous . See also: assertive, hostile, offensive. -- {Ag*gres"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Ag*gres"sive*ness}, n.
Aggressive (a.) Having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends; "an aggressive businessman"; "an aggressive basketball player"; "he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions"; "aggressive drivers" [ant: {nonaggressive}, {unaggressive}].
Aggressive (a.) Tending to spread quickly; "an aggressive tumor" [syn: {aggressive}, {fast-growing(a)}, {strong-growing}].
Aggressive (a.) Characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight; "aggressive acts against another country"; "a belligerent tone" [syn: {aggressive}, {belligerent}].
Aggressively (adv.) 侵略地；攻擊地；有闖勁地 In an aggressive manner; "she was being sharply questioned" [syn: {aggressively}, {sharply}].
Aggressor (n.) 侵略者；侵略國；挑釁者 The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. -- Ames.
Aggressor (n.) Someone who attacks [syn: {attacker}, {aggressor}, {assailant}, {assaulter}].
Aggressor (n.) A confident assertive person who acts as instigator.
Aggrievance (n.) Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. [Archaic]
Compare: Oppression
Oppression (n.) [Mass noun] 壓迫，壓制 [U] [C]；壓抑；沉悶 [U] Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or exercise of authority.
‘A region shattered by oppression and killing.’
Oppression (n.) [Mass noun] The state of being subject to oppressive treatment.
‘A response to collective poverty and oppression.’
Oppression (n.) [Mass noun] Mental pressure or distress.
‘Beatrice's mood had initially been alarm and a sense of oppression.’
Compare: Hardship
Hardship (n.) [Mass noun] 艱難，困苦 [U] [C] Severe suffering or privation.
‘Intolerable levels of hardship.’
[Count noun] ‘The shared hardships of wartime.’
Compare: Injury
Injury (n.) [U] [C] [(+to)] （對人，動物的）傷害；（對健康的）損害；（精神上的）傷害；損人的事；（對物體的）損傷，損害 An instance of being injured.
‘She suffered an injury to her back.’
Injury (n.) [Mass noun] The fact of being injured; harm or damage.
‘All escaped without serious injury.’
Injury (n.) Damage to a person's feelings.
‘Compensation for injury to feelings.’
Do oneself an injury (ph.) [Informal] Suffer physical harm or damage.
‘It's a wonder we didn't do ourselves an injury.’
Compare: Grievance
Grievance (n.) 不滿，不平；抱怨，牢騷 [C] [（+against）] A real or imagined cause for complaint, especially unfair treatment.
‘A website which enabled staff to air their grievances.’
‘Three pilots have filed grievances against the company.’
‘He was nursing a grievance.’
Aggrieved (imp. & p. p.) of Aggrieve.
Aggrieving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggrieve.
Aggrieve (v. t.) [H] 使悲痛；使受屈；（對合法權利的）侵害 To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive, to be aggrieved.
Aggrieved by oppression and extortion. -- Macaulay.
Aggrieve (v. i.) To grieve; to lament. [Obs.]
Aggrieve (v.) Infringe on the rights of.
Aggrieve (v.) Cause to feel sorrow; "his behavior grieves his mother" [syn: {grieve}, {aggrieve}].
Aggrieved (a.) 受侵害的；受欺凌的；受委屈的，忿忿不平的，憤恨不平的 Subjected to an injustice. the aggrieved mother.
Syn: injured, wronged.
Aggrouped (imp. & p. p.) of Aggroup.
Aggrouping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggroup.
Aggroup (v. t.) To bring together in a group; to group. --Dryden.
Aggroup (v.) Form a group or group together [syn: group, aggroup].
Aggroupment (n.) Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
Aggry (a.) Alt. of Aggri.
Aggri (a.) Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.
Aghast (v. t.) See Agast, v. t. [Obs.]
Aghast (a & p. p.) 嚇呆的；驚駭的 [Z] [F] [（+at）] Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. -- Dryden.
The commissioners read and stood aghast. -- Macaulay.
Agast or Aghast (v. t.) To affright; to terrify. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Spenser.
Aghast (a.) Struck with fear, dread, or consternation [syn: aghast(p), appalled, dismayed, shocked].
Agible (a.) Possible to be done; practicable. [Obs.] "Fit for agible things." -- Sir A. Sherley.
Agile (a.) 敏捷的，靈活的，輕快的 Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.
Shaking it with agile hand. -- Cowper.
Syn: Active; alert; nimble; brisk; lively; quick.
Agile (a.) Moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it" [syn: {agile}, {nimble}, {quick}, {spry}].
Agile (a.) Mentally quick; "an agile mind"; "nimble wits" [syn: {agile}, {nimble}].
Agilely (adv.) In an agile manner; nimbly.
Agilely (adv.) In a nimble or agile manner; with quickness and lightness and ease; "nimbly scaling an iron gate"- Charles Dickens; "leaped agilely from roof to roof" [syn: agilely, nimbly].
Agileness (n.) Agility; nimbleness. [R.]
Agility (n.) [U] 敏捷；靈活；機敏 The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body.
They . . . trust to the agility of their wit. -- Bacon.
Wheeling with the agility of a hawk. -- Sir W. Scott.
Agility (n.) Activity; powerful agency. [Obs.]
The agility of the sun's fiery heat. -- Holland.
Agility (n.) The gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble [syn: agility, legerity, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness].
Agios (n. pl. ) of Agio.
Agio (n.) The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.
Agio (n.) A fee charged for exchanging currencies [syn: agio, agiotage, premium, exchange premium].
AGIO, aggio. This term is used to denote the difference of price between the value of bank notes and nominal money, and the coin of the country. Encyc.
Agiotage (n.) Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds.
Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. -- Landor.
Agiotage (n.) A fee charged for exchanging currencies [syn: agio, agiotage, premium, exchange premium].
Agist (v. t.) (Law) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. -- Blackstone.
AGIST, () In contracts. The taking of other men's cattle on one's own ground at a certain rate. 2 Inst. 643; 4 Inst. 293.
Agistator (n.) [LL.] See Agister.
Agister (n.) Alt. of Agistor.
Agistor (n.) (Law) Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.
Agistor (n.) (Law) Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer. -- Mozley & W.
Agistment (n.) (Law) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.
Agistment (n.) (Law) The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate. -- Mozley & W.
Agistment (n.) (Law) The price paid for such feeding.
Agistment (n.) (Law) A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.
Agistment, () contracts. The taking of another person's cattle into one's own ground to be fed, for a consideration to be paid by the owner. The person who receives the cattle is called an agister.
Agistment, () An agister is bound to ordinary diligence, and of course is responsible for loses by ordinary negligence; but he does not insure the safety of the cattle agisted. Jones, Bailm. 91; I Bell's Com. 458; Holt's N. P. Rep. 547; Story, Bail. Sec. 443; Bac. Ab. Tythes, C l.
Agitable (a.) Capable of being agitated, or easily moved. [R.]
Agitated (imp. & p. p.) of Agitate.
Agitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Agitate.
Agitate (v. t.) 攪動，鼓動，煽動，激動，使騷動，使焦慮 To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." -- Cowper.
Agitate (v. t.) To move or actuate. [R.] -- Thomson.
Agitate (v. t.) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
The mind of man is agitated by various passions. -- Johnson.
Agitate (v. t.) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated. -- Boyle.
Agitate (v. t.) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
Syn: To move; shake; excite; rouse; disturb; distract; revolve; discuss; debate; canvass.
Agitate (v.) Try to stir up public opinion [syn: agitate, foment, stir up].
Agitate (v.) Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" [syn: agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up] [ant: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize].
Agitate (v.) Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate" [syn: crusade, fight, press, campaign, push, agitate].
Agitate (v.) Move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" [syn: stir, shift, budge, agitate].
Agitate (v.) Move or cause to move back and forth; "The chemist shook the flask vigorously"; "My hands were shaking" [syn: shake, agitate].
Agitate (v.) Change the arrangement or position of [syn: agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up].
Agitated (a.) 激動的；焦慮的;；令人不安的 Troubled emotionally and usually deeply; "agitated parents" [ant: {unagitated}].
Note: Narrower terms are: demoniac, demoniacal ; distraught, overwrought; disturbed, jolted, shaken; feverish, hectic; frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied; psychedelic ; {rampageous, raging, frenzied ; wild-eyed . Also See: discomposed, excited, impatient, tense, unquiet, unsteady.
Agitated (a.) Physically disturbed or set in motion; "the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled" [ant: {unagitated}].
Agitatedly (adv.) In an agitated manner.
Agitation (n.) 攪動；搖動；震動 [U]；激動；不安，煩亂 [U] The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.
Agitation (n.) A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation.
Agitation (n.) Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation. "Religious agitations." -- Prescott.
Agitation (n.) Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.
A logical agitation of the matter. -- L'Estrange.
The project now in agitation. -- Swift.
Syn: Emotion; commotion; excitement; trepidation; tremor; perturbation. See Emotion.
Agitation (n.) A mental state of extreme emotional disturbance.
Agitation (n.) A state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social unrest" [syn: agitation, ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness, unrest].
Agitation (n.) The feeling of being agitated; not calm [ant: calmness].
Agitation (n.) Disturbance usually in protest [syn: agitation, excitement, turmoil, upheaval, hullabaloo].
Agitation (n.) The act of agitating something; causing it to move around (usually vigorously).
Agitation (n.) [ U ] (Worry) 焦慮，躁動，緊張不安 Worry and anxiety.
// He arrived home in a state of agitation.
Compare: Anxiety
Anxiety (n.) (pl. Anxieties) 焦慮，掛念 [U] [C] [（+about/ for）]；焦慮的原因；令人焦慮之事 [C] [（+to）] A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.
‘He felt a surge of anxiety.’
‘ Anxieties about the moral decline of today's youth.’
Anxiety (n.) [With infinitive] Desire to do something, typically accompanied by unease.
‘The housekeeper's eager anxiety to please.’
Anxiety (n.) (Psychiatry) A nervous disorder characterized by a state of excessive uneasiness and apprehension, typically with compulsive behavior or panic attacks.
Compare: Psychiatry
Psychiatry (n.) 精神病治療；精神病學 The study and treatment of mental illness, emotional disturbance, and abnormal behavior.
Agitation (n.) [ U ] (Protest) （以變革為目的的）煽動，抗議 The situation in which people protest or argue, especially in public, in order to achieve a particular type of change.
// The anti-war agitation is beginning to worry the government.
Agitative (a.) 煽動的 Tending to agitate.
Agitative (a.) Causing or tending to cause anger or resentment; "a provoking delay at the airport" [syn: agitative, agitating, provoking].
Agitato (a.) (Mus.) Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.
Agitator (n.) [C] [L.] 鼓動者；煽動者；攪拌器 One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.
Agitator (n.) (Eng. Hist.) One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators. -- Clarendon.
Agitator (n.) An implement for shaking or mixing.
Agitator (n.) One who agitates; a political troublemaker [syn: agitator, fomenter].
Agitprop (n.) [Agitation + Propaganda.]
Agitprop (n.) (n. & a.) 宣傳鼓動（的） Agitation and propaganda; -- used especially for such activities carried out on behalf of communist activists.
Agitprop (n.) A person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government; one disseminating agitprop [1]. Also called agitpropist.
Syn: propagandist
Agitprop (n.) Political propaganda (especially communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema.
Agitprop (n.) Propaganda, especially pro-communist political propaganda disseminated through literature, drama, music, or art. Agitprop comes from Russian, from agitatsiya, "agitation" + propaganda.
Agleam (adv. & a.) Gleaming; as, faces agleam. -- Lowell.
Agleam (a.) Bright with a steady but subdued shining; "from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights"; "the gleaming brass on the altar"; "Nereids beneath the nitid moon" [syn: agleam, gleaming, nitid].
Aglet (n.) Alt. of Aiglet.
Aiglet (n.) Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon [syn: aglet, aiglet].
Aiglet (n.) Ornamental tagged cord or braid on the shoulder of a uniform [syn: aglet, aiglet, aiguilette].
Aiglet (n.) A tag of a lace or of the points, braids, or cords formerly used in dress. They were sometimes formed into small images. Hence, "aglet baby" (-- Shak.), an aglet image.
Aiglet (n.) (Haberdashery) A round white staylace. -- Beck.
Aiglet (n.) Same as Aglet.
Aiglet (n.) Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon [syn: aglet, aiglet].
Aiglet (n.) Ornamental tagged cord or braid on the shoulder of a uniform [syn: aglet, aiglet, aiguilette].
Agley (adv.) Aside; askew. [Scotch] -- Burns.
Aglimmer (adv. & a.) In a glimmering state. -- Hawthorne.
Aglitter (adv. & a.) Glittering; in a glitter.
Aglitter (a.) Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term" [syn: aglitter(p), coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly].
Aglossal (a.) (Zool.) Without tongue; tongueless.
Aglow (adv. & a.) In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.
Aglutition (n.) (Med.) 吞咽不能 Inability to swallow; dysphagia.
Syn: dysphagy.
Aglutition (n.) (Med.) Inability to swallow.
Agminal (a.) Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train. [R.] Agminate
Agminate (a.) Alt. of Agminated.
Agminated (a.) (Physiol.) Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine.
Agnail (n.) A corn on the toe or foot. [Obs.]
Agnail (n.) An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail.
Agnail (n.) A loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected [syn: hangnail, agnail].
Agnate (a.) Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor ; as, agnate brother: a brother having the same father, but a different mother; in ths sense it is a correlative of uterine.
Agnate (a.) Allied; akin. "Agnate words." -- Pownall.
Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former. -- Landor.
Agnate (n.) (Civil Law) A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.
Agnatic (a.) Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors. "The agnatic succession." -- Blackstone.
Agnatic (a.) Related on the father's side; "a paternal aunt" [syn: agnate, agnatic, paternal].
Agnation (n.) (Civil Law) Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. -- Bouvier.
Agnation (n.) Line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family [syn: patrilineage, agnation].
Agnation, () in descents. The relation by blood which exists between such males as are descended from the same father; in distinction from cognation or consanguinity, which includes the descendants from females. This term is principally used in the civil law.
Agnition (n.) Acknowledgment. [Obs.] -- Grafton.
Agnize (v. t.) To recognize; to acknowledge. [Archaic]
Agnoiology (n.) (Metaph.) The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant.
Agnomen (n.) An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.
Agnomen (n.) An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just.
Agnomen (n.) An additional name or an epithet appended to a name (as in `Ferdinand the Great').
Agnominate (v. t.) To name. [Obs.]
Agnomination (n.) A surname. [R.] -- Minsheu.
Agnomination (n.) (Obsolete) Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination.
Agnostic (a.) [哲] 不可知論的 Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism. -- Ag*nos"tic*al*ly, adv.
Agnostic (n.) [哲] 不可知論者 One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.
Agnostic (a.) Of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism.
Agnostic (a.) Uncertain of all claims to knowledge [syn: {agnostic}, {agnostical}] [ant: {gnostic}].
Agnostic (n.) Someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something [syn: {agnostic}, {doubter}].
Agnostic (n.) A person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist).
Agnosticism (n.) 【哲】不可知論 That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.
Agnosticism (n.) Specifically: (Theol.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.
Agnosticism (n.) A religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God; "agnosticism holds that you can neither prove nor disprove God's existence".
Agnosticism (n.) The disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge [syn: {agnosticism}, {skepticism}, {scepticism}].
Agnuses (n. pl. ) of Agnus.
Agni (n. pl. ) of Agnus.
Agnus (n.) Agnus Dei.