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Abjection
Abjection Ab*jec"tion, n. [F. abjection, L. abjectio.] 1. The act of bringing down or humbling. ``The abjection of the king and his realm.' --Joe. 2. The state of being rejected or cast out. [R.] An adjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever. --Jer. Taylor. 3. A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible? --Hooker.
Adjection
Adjection Ad*jec"tion, n. [L. adjectio, fr. adjicere: cf. F. adjection. See Adject.] The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added. [R.] --B. Jonson.
Adjectional
Adjectional Ad*jec"tion*al, a. Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed. [R.] --Earle.
Affection
Affection Af*fec"tion, n. [F. affection, L. affectio, fr. afficere. See Affect.] 1. The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected. 2. An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc., are affections of bodies. ``The affections of quantity.' --Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. --Tennyson. 3. Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality. --Cogan. 4. A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; -- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children. All his affections are set on his own country. --Macaulay. 5. Prejudice; bias. [Obs.] --Bp. Aylmer. 6. (Med.) Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. --Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. --Wotton. 8. Affectation. [Obs.] ``Spruce affection.' --Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. [Obs.] Most wretched man, That to affections does the bridle lend. --Spenser. Syn: Attachment; passion; tenderness; fondness; kindness; love; good will. See Attachment; Disease.
Affectional
Affectional Af*fec"tion*al, a. Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.
Affectionated
Affectionated Af*fec"tion*a`ted, a. Disposed; inclined. [Obs.] Affectionated to the people. --Holinshed.
Affectionately
Affectionately Af*fec"tion*ate*ly, adv. With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.
Affectionateness
Affectionateness Af*fec"tion*ate*ness, n. The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
Affectioned
Affectioned Af*fec"tioned, a. 1. Disposed. [Archaic] Be kindly affectioned one to another. --Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. [Obs.] --Shak.
Angular sections
Section Sec"tion, n. [L. sectio, fr. secare, sectum, to cut; akin to E. saw a cutting instrument: cf. F. section. See Saw, and cf. Scion, Dissect, Insect, Secant, Segment.] 1. The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies. 2. A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice. Specifically: (a) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character [sect], often used to denote such a division. It is hardly possible to give a distinct view of his several arguments in distinct sections. --Locke. (b) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct. The extreme section of one class consists of bigoted dotards, the extreme section of the other consists of shallow and reckless empirics. --Macaulay. (c) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and pre["e]mption laws. 3. (Geom.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point. 4. (Nat. Hist.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign [sect]. 5. (Mus.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase. 6. The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile. Note: In mechanical drawing, as in these Illustrations of a cannon, a longitudinal section (a) usually represents the object as cut through its center lengthwise and vertically; a cross or transverse section (b), as cut crosswise and vertically; and a horizontal section (c), as cut through its center horizontally. Oblique sections are made at various angles. In architecture, a vertical section is a drawing showing the interior, the thickness of the walls, ets., as if made on a vertical plane passed through a building. Angular sections (Math.), a branch of analysis which treats of the relations of sines, tangents, etc., of arcs to the sines, tangents, etc., of their multiples or of their parts. [R.] Conic sections. (Geom.) See under Conic. Section liner (Drawing), an instrument to aid in drawing a series of equidistant parallel lines, -- used in representing sections. Thin sections, a section or slice, as of mineral, animal, or vegetable substance, thin enough to be transparent, and used for study under the microscope. Syn: Part; portion; division. Usage: Section, Part. The English more commonly apply the word section to a part or portion of a body of men; as, a section of the clergy, a small section of the Whigs, etc. In the United States this use is less common, but another use, unknown or but little known in England, is very frequent, as in the phrases ``the eastern section of our country,' etc., the same sense being also given to the adjective sectional as, sectional feelings, interests, etc.
Antivivisection
Antivivisection An`ti*viv`i*sec"tion, n. Opposition to vivisection.
Antivivisectionist
Antivivisectionist An`ti*viv`i*sec"tion*ist, n. One opposed to vivisection
Aspection
Aspection As*pec"tion, n. [L. aspectio, fr. aspicere to look at.] The act of viewing; a look. [Obs.]
Auto-infection
Auto-infection Au`to-in*fec"tion, n. [Auto- + infection.] (Med.) Poisoning caused by a virus that originates and develops in the organism itself.
Bilection
Bilection Bi*lec"tion, n. (Arch.) That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection.
Bisection
Bisection Bi*sec"tion, n. [Cf. F. bissection.] Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.
Bolection
Bolection Bo*lec"tion, n. (Arch.) A projecting molding round a panel. Same as Bilection. --Gwilt.
By-election
By-election By"-e*lec"tion, n. An election held by itself, not at the time of a general election.
Caesarean section
Caesarean C[ae]*sa"re*an, Caesarian C[ae]*sa"ri*an, a. [L. Caesareus, Caesarianus.] Of or pertaining to C[ae]sar or the C[ae]sars; imperial. C[ae]sarean section (Surg.), the operation of taking a child from the womb by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus; -- so called because Julius C[ae]sar is reported to have been brought into the world by such an operation.
Callisection
Callisection Cal`li*sec"tion, n. [L. callere to be insensible + E. section.] Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection. --B. G. Wilder.
Christian Connection
Christian Chris"tian, n. [L. christianus, Gr. ?; cf. AS. cristen. See Christ.] 1. One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. --Acts xi. 26. 2. One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system. 3. (Eccl.) (a) One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites. (b) One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice. Note: In this sense, often pronounced, but not by the members of the sects, kr[=i]s"chan.
Circumflection
Circumflection Cir`cum*flec"tion, n. See Circumflexion.
Circumspection
Circumspection Cir`cum*spec"tion, n. [L. circumspectio.] Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness. With silent circumspection, unespied. --Milton. Syn: Caution; prudence; watchfulness; deliberation; thoughtfulness; wariness; forecast.
Circumvection
Circumvection Cir`cum*vec"tion, n. [L. circumvectio; circum + vehere to carry.] The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried.
Collection
Collection Col*lec"tion, n. [L. collectio: cf. F. collection.] 1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. 2. That which is collected; as: (a) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. ``A collection of letters.' --Macaulay. (b) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings. ``The collection for the saints.' --1 Cor. xvi. 1 (c) (Usually in pl.) That which is obtained in payment of demands. (d) An accumulation of any substance. ``Collections of moisture.' --Whewell. ``A purulent collection.' --Dunglison. 3. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. [Obs.] We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. --Milton. 4. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. [Eng.] Syn: Gathering; assembly; assemblage; group; crowd; congregation; mass; heap; compilation.
Collectional
Collectional Col*lec"tion*al (-al), a. Of or pertaining to collecting. The first twenty-five [years] must have been wasted for collectional purposes. --H. A. Merewether.
Confection
Confection Con*fec"tion, n. [F., fr. L. confectio.] 1. A composition of different materials. [Obs.] A new confection of mold. --Bacon. 2. A preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a sweetmeat. Certain confections . . . are like to candied conserves, and are made of sugar and lemons. --Bacon. 3. A composition of drugs. --Shak. 4. (Med.) A soft solid made by incorporating a medicinal substance or substances with sugar, sirup, or honey. Note: The pharmacop[oe]ias formerly made a distinction between conserves (made of fresh vegetable substances and sugar) and electuaries (medicinal substances combined with sirup or honey), but the distinction is now abandoned and all are called confections.
Confectionary
Confectionary Con*fec"tion*a*ry, n. [Cf. LL. confectionaris a pharmacist.] A confectioner. [Obs.] He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks. --1 Sam. viii. 13.
Confectionary
Confectionary Con*fec"tion*a*ry, a. Prepared as a confection. The biscuit or confectionary plum. --Cowper.
Confectioner
Confectioner Con*fec"tion*er, n. 1. A compounder. [Obs.] Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents. --Haywood. 2. One whose occupation it is to make or sell confections, candies, etc.

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