Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 68
Monology (n.) 自言自語之習慣；( = Monologue) The habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation.
It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life. -- De Quincey. Monomachia
Monomachia (n.) Alt. of Monomachy.
Monomachy (n.) 一人對一人之比賽 A duel; single combat. "The duello or monomachia." -- Sir W. Scott.
Monomachist (n.) One who fights in single combat; a duelist.
Compare: Duelist
Duelist (n.) 決鬥者 [C] One who fights in single combat. [Written also duellist.]
A duelist . . . always values himself upon his courage, his sense of honor, his fidelity and friendship. -- Hume.
Duelist (n.) A person who fights duels [syn: dueler, dueller, duelist, duellist].
Monomane (n.) A monomaniac. [R.]
Monomania (n.) 【醫】偏執狂；對一事的狂熱 Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement.
Syn: Insanity; madness; alienation; aberration; derangement; mania. See Insanity.
Compare: Derangement
Derangement (n.) 精神錯亂；擾亂The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.
Syn: Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity; lunacy; madness; delirium; mania.
See Insanity.
Compare: Insanity
Insanity (n.) 瘋狂；精神錯亂 [U]；【律】（被認為行為者可免負法律責任的）精神失常 [U]
Insanity (n.) The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.
All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity. -- Johnson.
Without grace The heart's insanity admits no cure. -- Cowper.
Insanity (n.) (Law) Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.
Syn: Insanity, Lunacy, Madness, Derangement, Alienation, Aberration, Mania, Delirium, Frenzy, Monomania, Dementia.
Usage: Insanity is the generic term for all such diseases; lunacy has now an equal extent of meaning, though once used to denote periodical insanity; madness has the same extent, though originally referring to the rage created by the disease; derangement, alienation, are popular terms for insanity; delirium, mania, and frenzy denote excited states of the disease; dementia denotes the loss of mental power by this means; monomania is insanity upon a single subject.
Insanity (n.) Relatively permanent disorder of the mind [ant: saneness, sanity].
Insanity, () med. jur. A continued impetuosity of thought, which, for the time being, totally unfits a man for judging and acting in relation to the matter in question, with the composure requisite for the maintenance of the social relations of life. Various other definitions of this state have been given, but perhaps the subject is not susceptible of any satisfactory definition, which shall, with, precision, include all cases of insanity, and exclude all others. Ray, Med. Jur. Sec. 24, p. 50.
Insanity, () It may be considered in a threefold point of view: 1. A chronic disease, manifested by deviations from the healthy and natural state of the mind, such deviations consisting in a morbid perversion of the feelings, affections and habits. 2. Disturbances of the intellectual faculties, under the influence of which the understanding becomes susceptible of hallucinations or erroneous. impressions of a particular kind. 3. A state of mental incoherence or constant hurry and confusion of thought. Cyclo. Practical Medicine, h. t.; Brewster's Encyclopaedia, h. t.; Observations on the Deranged Manifestations of the Mind, or Insanity, 71, 72; Merl. R�pert. mots Demenoe, Folie, Imbecilite; 6 Watts & Serg. 451.
Insanity, () The diseases included under the name of insanity have been arranged under two divisions, founded on two very different conditions of the brain. Ray, Med. Jur. ch. 1, Sec. 33.
Insanity, () The want of, or a defective development of the faculties. 1st. Idiocy, resulting from, 1. Congenital defect. 2. An obstacle to the development of the faculties, supervening in infancy. 2d. Imbecility, resulting from, 1. Congenital defects. 2. An obstacle to the development of the faculties, supervening in infancy.
Insanity, () The lesion of the faculties subsequent to their development. In this division may be classed, 1st. Mania, which is, 1. Intellectual, and is general or partial. 2. Affective and is general or, partial. 2d. Dementia, which is, 1. Consecutive to mania, or injuries of the brain. 2. Senile, or peculiar to old age.
Insanity, () There is also a disease which has acquired the name of Moral insanity. (q. v.)
Insanity, () Insanity is an excuse for the commission of acts which in others would be crimes, because the insane man has no intention; it deprives a man also from entering into any valid contract. Vide Lunacy; Non compos mentis, and Stock on the Law of Non Compotes Mentis; 1 Hagg. Cons. R. 417; 3 Addams, R. 90, 91, 180, 181; 3 Hagg. Eccl. R. 545, 598, 600; 2 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 369, 374; Bouv. Inst. Index, h. t.
Derangement (n.) A state of mental disturbance and disorientation [syn: derangement, mental unsoundness, unbalance].
Derangement (n.) The act of disturbing the mind or body; "his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"; "she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living" [syn: upset, derangement, overthrow].
Monomania (n.) A mania restricted to one thing or idea [syn: monomania, possession].
Monomania. () med. jur. Insanity only upon a particular subject; and with a single delusion of the mind.
Monomania. () The most simple form of this disorder is that in which the patient has imbibed some single notion, contrary to common sense and to his own experience, and which seems, and no doubt really is, dependent on errors of sensation. It is supposed the mind in other respects retains its intellectual powers. In order to avoid any civil act done, or criminal responsibility incurred, it must manifestly appear that the act in question was the effect of monomania. Cyclop. Pract. Medicine, title Soundness and Unsoundness of Mind; Dr. Ray on Insanity, Sec. 203; 13 Ves. 89; 3 Bro. C. C. 444; 1 Addams' R. 283; Hagg. R. 18; 2 Addams' R. 102; 2 Addams' R. 79, 94, 209; 5 Car. & P. 168; Dr. Burrows on Insanity, 484, 485. Vide Delusion; Mania; and Trebuchet, Jur. de la Med. 55 to 58.
Monomaniac (n.) A person affected by monomania. Monomaniac
Monomaniac (a.) Alt. of Monomaniacal.
Monomaniacal (a.) Affected with monomania, or partial derangement of intellect; caused by, or resulting from, monomania; as, a monomaniacal delusion.
Monomaniac (n.) A person suffering from monomania.
Monome (n.) (Math.) A monomial.
Compare: Monomial
Monomial (n.) (Alg.)【數】單項式；【生】單名 A single algebraic expression; that is, an expression unconnected with any other by the sign of addition, substraction, equality, or inequality.
Monomial (a.) (Alg.)【數】單項的；【生】單名的 Consisting of but a single term or expression. Monomorphic
Monomerous (a.) (Bot.) 由一部分構成的；【植】（指花）一數的（有時寫作1-merous） Composed of solitary parts, as a flower with one sepal, one petal, one stamen, and one pistil.
Monomerous (a.) (Zool.) Having but one joint; -- said of the foot of certain insects.
Monometallic (a.) 一金屬的；單本位制的 Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.
Monometallic (a.) Containing one atom of metal in the molecule; "monometallic carbonyls."
Monometallism (n.) 單幣制；單一金屬本位制；單幣制論；單幣制政策 The legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. See Bimetallism.
Monometallist (n.) 單幣制論者 One who believes in monometallism as opposed to bimetallism, etc.
Monometer (n.) A rhythmic series, consisting of a single meter.
Monometric (a.) (Crystallog.) Same as Isometric.
Monomial (n.) (Alg.) A single algebraic expression; that is, an expression unconnected with any other by the sign of addition, substraction, equality, or inequality.
Monomial (a.) (Alg.) Consisting of but a single term or expression. Monomorphic
Monomorphic (a.) Alt. of Monomorphous.
Monomorphous (a.) (Biol.) Having but a single form; retaining the same form throughout the various stages of development; of the same or of an essentially similar type of structure; -- opposed to dimorphic, trimorphic, and polymorphic.
Monomphalus (n.) A form of double monster, in which two individuals are united by a common umbilicus. Monomya
Monomya (n. pl.) Alt. of Monomyaria.
Monomyaria (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of lamellibranchs having but one muscle for closing the shell, as the oyster. Monomyarian
Monomyarian (a.) Alt. of Monomyary.
Monomyary (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Monomya.
Monomyary (n.) One of the Monomya.
Mononomial (n. & a.) Monomyal. Monoousian
Monoousian (a.) Alt. of Monoousious.
Monoousious (a.) (Theil.) Having but one and the same nature or essence.
Monopathy (n.) Suffering or sensibility in a single organ or function. -- Mon`o*path"ic, a.
Monopersonal (a.) Having but one person, or form of existence.
Monopetalous (a.) (Bot.) Having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl; gamopetalous.
Note: The most recent authors restrict this form to flowers having a solitary petal, as in species of Amorpha, and use gamopetalous for a corolla of several petals combined into one piece. See Illust. of Gamopetalous.
Monophanous (a.) Having one and the same appearance; having a mutual resemblance.
Monophonic (a.) (Mus.) （音樂）單聲部的；（音響）單聲道的 Single-voiced; having but one part; as, a monophonic composition; -- opposed to polyphonic.
Monophonic (a.) Of or relating to a system for recording and reproducing sound, which has only one sound channel; also called monaural or mono. It contrasts with stereophonic (or stereo), quadraphonic, or surround-sound, which have two or more channels, and can thus reproduce the effect of the sound coming from more than one direction.
Monophonic (a.) Designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel [syn: mono, monophonic, single-channel].
Monophonic (a.) Consisting of a single melodic line [ant: contrapuntal, polyphonic].
Monophthong (n.) 【語】單元音 A single uncompounded vowel sound.
Monophthong (n.) A combination of two written vowels pronounced as one; a digraph.
Monophthongal (a.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, a monophthong.
Monophyletic (a.) (Biol.) Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; -- opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.
Monophyllous (a.) (Bot.) One-leaved; composed of a single leaf; as, a monophyllous involucre or calyx.
Monophyodont (a.) (Anat.) Having but one set of teeth; -- opposed to diphyodont.
Monophysite (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect, in the ancient church, who maintained that the human and divine in Jesus Christ constituted but one composite nature. Also used adjectively.
Monophysite (a.) Of or relating to Monophysitism [syn: Monophysite, Monophysitic].
Monophysite (n.) An adherent of Monophysitism.
Monophysitical (a.) Of or pertaining to Monophysites, or their doctrines.
Monoplast (n.) (Biol.) A monoplastic element.
Monoplastic (a.) (Biol.) That has one form, or retains its primary form, as, a monoplastic element.
Monoplegia (n.) (Med.) Paralysis affecting a single limb.
Monoplegia (n.) Paralysis of a single limb.
Monopneumona (n. pl.) (Zool.) A suborder of Dipnoi, including the Ceratodus. [Written also monopneumonia.]
Monopode (n.) One of a fabulous tribe or race of Ethiopians having but one leg and foot. -- Sir J. Mandeville. -- Lowell.
Monopode (n.) (Bot.) A monopodium.
Compare: Monopodium
Monopodium (n.; pl. L. Monopodia, E. -ums.) (Bot.) A single and continuous vegetable axis; -- opposed to sympodium.
Monopodial (a.) (Bot.) Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birchen twig or a cornstalk.
Monopodia (n. pl. ) of Monopodium.
-ums (n. pl. ) of Monopodium.
Monopodium (n.) (Bot.) A single and continuous vegetable axis; -- opposed to sympodium.
Monopody (n.) (Pros.) A measure of but a single foot.
Monopoler (n.) A monopolist. [Obs.]
Monopolist (n.) One who monopolizes; one who has a monopoly; one who favors monopoly.
Monopolist (n.) Someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something [syn: monopolist, monopolizer, monopoliser].
Monopolistic (a.) Of or pertaining to a monopolist. -- North Am. Rev.
Monopolistic (a.) Having exclusive control over a commercial activity by possession or legal grant.
Monopolite (n.) A monopolist. -- Sylvester.
Monopolized (imp. & p. p.) of Monopolize.
Monopolizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Monopolize.
Monopolize (v. t.) 壟斷；擁有……的專賣權；獨佔 To acquire a monopoly of; to have or get the exclusive privilege or means of dealing in, or the exclusive possession of; to engross the whole of; as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to monopolize land.
Monopolize (v.) Have and control fully and exclusively; "He monopolizes the laser printer" [syn: monopolize, monopolise].
Monopolize (v.) Have or exploit a monopoly of; "OPEC wants to monopolize oil" [syn: monopolize, monopolise].
Monopolizer (n.) 獨霸的人；壟斷者 One who monopolizes.
Monopolizer (n.) Someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something [syn: monopolist, monopolizer, monopoliser].
Monopolies (n. pl. ) of Monopoly.
Monopoly (n.) 獨佔；專賣；壟斷；完全控制 [the S] [（+of /on）]；獨佔權；專賣權；專利權 [C] [（+of）]；獨佔者；專賣者；壟斷企業 [C]；壟斷商品；專賣商品 [C] The exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity; the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything, however obtained; as, the proprietor of a patented article is given a monopoly of its sale for a limited time; chartered trading companies have sometimes had a monopoly of trade with remote regions; a combination of traders may get a monopoly of a particular product.
Raleigh held a monopoly of cards, Essex a monopoly of sweet wines. -- Macaulay.
Monopoly (n.) Exclusive possession; as, a monopoly of land.
If I had a monopoly out, they would have part on 't. -- Shak.
Monopoly (n.) The commodity or other material thing to which the monopoly relates; as, tobacco is a monopoly in France. [Colloq.]
Monopoly (n.) (Economics) A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller; "a monopoly on silver"; "when you have a monopoly you can ask any price you like."
Monopoly (n.) Exclusive control or possession of something; "They have no monopoly on intelligence."
Monopoly (n.) A board game in which players try to gain a monopoly on real estate as pieces advance around the board according to the throw of a die.
Monopoly, () Commercial law. This word has various significations.
Monopoly, () It is the abuse of free commerce by which one or more individuals have procured the advantage of selling alone all of a particular kind of merchandise, to the detriment of the public.
Monopoly, () All combinations among merchants to raise the price of merchandise to the injury of the public, is also said to be a monopoly.
Monopoly, () A monopoly is also an institution or allowance by a grant from the sovereign power of a state, by commission, letters patent, or otherwise, to any person, or corporation, by which the exclusive right of buying, selling, making, working, or using anything, is given. Bac. Abr. h.t.; 3 Inst. 181.
Monopoly, () The constitutions of Maryland, North Carolina, and Tennessee, declare that "monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free government, and ought not to be allowed." Vide art. Copyright; Patent.
Monopolylogue (n.) 由一人扮演不同角色的表演 An exhibition in which an actor sustains many characters.
Monopsychism (n.) 一元心靈論 The doctrine that there is but one immortal soul or intellect with which all men are endowed.
Monopteral (a.) (Arch.) Round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; -- said esp. of a temple.
Monopteral (a.) Having circular columniation.
Monoptera (n. pl. ) of Monopteron.
Monopteron (n.) (Arch.) A circular temple consisting of a roof supported on columns, without a cella.
Monoptote (n.) (Gram.) A noun having only one case. -- Andrews.
Monoptote (n.) (Gram.) A noun having only one ending for the oblique cases.
Monopyrenous (a.) (Bot.) Having but a single stone or kernel.
Monorchid (a.) (Of a person or animal) Having only one testicle.
Monorchid (n.) A person or animal having only one testicle.
Monorchidism (n.) Failure of one testes to descend into the scrotum [syn: monorchism, monorchidism].
Monorganic (a.) (Biol. & Med.) Belonging to, or affecting, a single organ, or set of organs.
Monorhina (n. pl.) (Zool.) The Marsipobranchiata.
Monorhyme (n.) 以同一韻結束的詩行 A composition in verse, in which all the lines end with the same rhyme. Monosaccharide
Monosepalous (a.) (Bot.) Having only one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous.
Note: The most recent writers restrict this term to flowers having a solarity sepal, and use gamosepalous for a calyx formed by several sepals combined into one piece. Cf. Monopetalous.
Monosperm (n.) (Bot.) A monospermous plant. Monospermal
Monospermal (a.) Alt. of Monospermous.
Monospermous (a.) (Bot.) Having only one seed.
Monospherical (a.) Consisting of one sphere only.
Monostich (n.) A composition consisting of one verse only.
Monostichous (a.) (Bot.) Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridae.
Monostrophe (n.) A metrical composition consisting of a single strophe.
Monostrophic (a.) (Pros.) Having one strophe only; not varied in measure; written in unvaried measure. -- Milton.
Monosulphide (n.) (Chem.) A sulphide containing one atom of sulphur, and analogous to a monoxide; -- contrasted with a polysulphide; as, galena is a monosulphide.
Monosulphuret (n.) (Chem.) See Monosulphide.
Compare: Monosulphide
Monosulphide (n.) (Chem.) A sulphide containing one atom of sulphur, and analogous to a monoxide; -- contrasted with a polysulphide; as, galena is a monosulphide.
Monosyllabic (a.) Being a monosyllable, or composed of monosyllables; as, a monosyllabic word; a monosyllabic language. -- Mon`o*syl*lab"ic*al*ly, adv.
Monosyllabic (a.) Having or characterized by or consisting of one syllable.
Monosyllabic (a.) Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon -- that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.
The man who writes in Saxon Is the man to use an ax on. Judibras
Monosyllabism (n.) The state of consisting of monosyllables, or having a monosyllabic form; frequent occurrence of monosyllables.
Monosyllable (n.) 單音節詞 A word of one syllable.
Monosyllable (n.) A word or utterance of one syllable [syn: monosyllable, monosyllabic word].
Monosyllabled (a.) Formed into, or consisting of, monosyllables. -- Cleveland. Monosymmetric
Monosymmetric (a.) Alt. of Monosymmetrical.
Monosymmetrical (a.) (Crystallog.) Same as Monoclinic.
Monotessaron (n.) A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony. [R.]
Monothalama (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of Foraminifera including those that have only one chamber.
Monothalaman (n.) (Zool.) A foraminifer having but one chamber.
Monothalamous (a.) (Zool.) One-chambered.
Monothalmic (a.) (Bot.) Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. -- R. Brown.
Monothecal (a.) (Bot.) Having a single loculament.
Compare: Loculament
Loculament (n.) (Bot.) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.