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Abnormalities
Abnormality Ab`nor*mal"i*ty, n.; pl. Abnormalities. 1. The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. --Darwin. 2. Something abnormal.
Abnormities
Abnormity Ab*nor"mi*ty, n.; pl. Abnormities. [LL. abnormitas. See Abnormous.] Departure from the ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity. ``An abnormity . . . like a calf born with two heads.' --Mrs. Whitney.
Absurdities
Absurdity Ab*surd"i*ty (-[i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl. Absurdities (-t[i^]z). [L. absurditas: cf. F. absurdite.] 1. The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. ``The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number.' --Locke. 2. That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. His travels were full of absurdities. --Johnson.
Acclivities
Acclivity Ac*cliv"i*ty, n.; pl. Acclivities. [L. acclivitas, fr. acclivis, acclivus, ascending; ad + clivus a hill, slope, fr. root kli to lean. See Lean.] A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.
Approximate quantities
Approximate Ap*prox"i*mate, a. [L. approximatus, p. p. of approximare to approach; ad + proximare to come near. See Proximate.] 1. Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling. 2. Near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values. Approximate quantities (Math.), those which are nearly, but not, equal.
Aridities
Aridity A*rid"i*ty, n.; pl. Aridities. [L. ariditas, fr. aridus.] 1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. --Norris.
Assiduities
Assiduity As`si*du"i*ty, n.; pl. Assiduities. [L. assiduitas: cf. F. assiduite. See Assiduous.] 1. Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence. I have, with much pains and assiduity, qualified myself for a nomenclator. --Addison. 2. Studied and persevering attention to a person; -- usually in the plural.
Availabilities
Availability A*vail`a*bil"i*ty, n.; pl. Availabilities. 1. The quality of being available; availableness. Note: The word is sometimes used derogatively in the sense of ``mere availableness,' or capability of success without regard to worthiness. He was . . . nominated for his availability. --Lowell. 2. That which is available.
Barbarities
Barbarity Bar*bar"i*ty, n.; pl. Barbarities. [From Barbarous.] The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization. 2. Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. Treating Christians with a barbarity which would have shocked the very Moslem. --Macaulay. 3. A barbarous or cruel act. 4. Barbarism; impurity of speech. [Obs.] --Swift.
Calculus of probabilities
Calculus Cal"cu*lus, n.; pl. Calculi. [L, calculus. See Calculate, and Calcule.] 1. (Med.) Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc. 2. (Math.) A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation. Barycentric calculus, a method of treating geometry by defining a point as the center of gravity of certain other points to which co["e]fficients or weights are ascribed. Calculus of functions, that branch of mathematics which treats of the forms of functions that shall satisfy given conditions. Calculus of operations, that branch of mathematical logic that treats of all operations that satisfy given conditions. Calculus of probabilities, the science that treats of the computation of the probabilities of events, or the application of numbers to chance. Calculus of variations, a branch of mathematics in which the laws of dependence which bind the variable quantities together are themselves subject to change. Differential calculus, a method of investigating mathematical questions by using the ratio of certain indefinitely small quantities called differentials. The problems are primarily of this form: to find how the change in some variable quantity alters at each instant the value of a quantity dependent upon it. Exponential calculus, that part of algebra which treats of exponents. Imaginary calculus, a method of investigating the relations of real or imaginary quantities by the use of the imaginary symbols and quantities of algebra. Integral calculus, a method which in the reverse of the differential, the primary object of which is to learn from the known ratio of the indefinitely small changes of two or more magnitudes, the relation of the magnitudes themselves, or, in other words, from having the differential of an algebraic expression to find the expression itself.
Capabilities
Capability Ca`pa*bil"i*ty, n.; pl. Capabilities. 1. The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability. A capability to take a thousand views of a subject. --H. Taylor. 2. Capacity of being used or improved.
central reserve cities
Reserve city Reserve city (Banking) In the national banking system of the United States, any of certain cities in which the national banks are required (--U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5191) to keep a larger reserve (25 per cent) than the minimum (15 per cent) required of all other banks. The banks in certain of the reserve cities (specifically called central reserve cities) are required to keep their reserve on hand in cash; banks in other reserve cities may keep half of their reserve as deposits in these banks (--U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5195).
Centralities
Centrality Cen*tral"i*ty, n.; pl. Centralities. The state of being central; tendency towards a center. Meantime there is a great centrality, a centripetence equal to the centrifugence. --R. W. Emerson.
Cities
City Cit"y, n.; pl. Cities. [OE. cite, F. cit?, fr. L. civitas citizenship, state, city, fr. civis citizen; akin to Goth. heiwa (in heiwafrauja man of the house), AS. ?, pl., members of a family, servants, ? family, G. heirath marriage, prop., providing a house, E. hind a peasant.] 1. A large town. 2. A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see. A city is a town incorporated; which is, or has been, the see of a bishop; and though the bishopric has been dissolved, as at Westminster, it yet remaineth a city. --Blackstone When Gorges constituted York a city, he of course meant it to be the seat of a bishop, for the word city has no other meaning in English law. --Palfrey 3. The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city. ``What is the city but the people?' --Shak. Syn: See Village.
Cities of refuge
3. An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance. Their latest refuge Was to send him. --Shak. Light must be supplied, among gracefulrefuges, by terracing ??? story in danger of darkness. --Sir H. Wotton. Cities of refuge (Jewish Antiq.), certain cities appointed as places of safe refuge for persons who had committed homicide without design. Of these there were three on each side of Jordan. --Josh. xx. House of refuge, a charitable institution for giving shelter and protection to the homeless, destitute, or tempted. Syn: Shelter; asylum; retreat; covert.
Clivities
Clivity Cliv"i*ty, n.; pl. Clivities. [L. clivus hill.] Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient. [R.]
Comicalities
Comicality Com`i*cal"i*ty, n.; pl. Comicalities. The quality of being comical; something comical.
Comities
Comity Com"i*ty, n.; pl. Comities. [L. comitas, fr. comis courteous, kind.] Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of States. Comity of nations (International Law), the courtesy by which nations recognize within their own territory, or in their courts, the peculiar institutions of another nation or the rights and privileges acquired by its citizens in their own land. By some authorities private international law rests on this comity, but the better opinion is that it is part of the common law of the land, and hence is obligatory as law. Syn: Civility; good breeding; courtesy; good will.
Confraternities
Confraternity Con`fra*ter"ni*ty, n.; pl. Confraternities. [LL. confraternitas: cf. F. confraternit?. See Fraternity.] A society of body of men united for some purpose, or in some profession; a brotherhood. These live in one society and confraternity. --Stow.
Congruities
Congruity Con*gru"i*ty (? or ?), n.; pl. Congruities. [Cf. F. congruit?.] 1. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency. With what congruity doth the church of Rome deny that her enemies do at all appertain to the church of Christ? --Hooker. A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting one particle. --Sir P. Sidney. 2. (Geom.) Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another. 3. (Scholastic Theol.) That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace.
Constituted authorities
2. To make up; to compose; to form. Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction. --Johnson. 3. To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower. Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine. --Wordsworth. Constituted authorities, the officers of government, collectively, as of a nation, city, town, etc. --Bartlett.
Conventionalities
Conventionality Con*ven`tion*al"i*ty, n.; pl. Conventionalities. The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.
Convicinities
Convicinity Con`vi*cin"i*ty, n.; pl. Convicinities. Immediate vicinity; neighborhood. The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. --T. Warton.
Convivialities
Conviviality Con*viv`i*al"i*ty, n.; pl. Convivialities. The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.
Corporalities
Corporality Cor`po*ral"i*ty (k?r`p?-r?l"l?-t?), n.: pl. Corporalities (-t?z). [L. corporalitas: cf. F. corporalit?.] 1. The state of being or having a body; bodily existence; corporeality; -- opposed to spirituality. --Dr. H. More. 2. A confraternity; a guild. [Obs.] --Milton.
Corporealities
Corporeality Cor*po`re*al"i*ty (-?l"?-t?), n.: pl. Corporealities (-t[i^]z). The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.
Destructive sorities
Sorites So*ri"tes, n. [L., from Gr. swrei`ths (sc. syllogismo`s), properly, heaped up (hence, a heap of syllogisms), fr. swro`s a heap.] (Logic) An abridged form of stating of syllogisms in a series of propositions so arranged that the predicate of each one that precedes forms the subject of each one that follows, and the conclusion unites the subject of the first proposition with the predicate of the last proposition, as in following example; The soul is a thinking agent; A thinking agent can not be severed into parts; That which can not be severed can not be destroyed; Therefore the soul can not be destroyed. Note: When the series is arranged in the reverse order, it is called the Goclenian sorites, from Goclenius, a philosopher of the sixteenth century. Destructive sorities. See under Destructive.
Determinate quantities
Determinate De*ter"mi*nate, a. [L. determinatus, p. p. of determinare. See Determine.] 1. Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite. Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet. --Dryden. 2. Conclusive; decisive; positive. The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. --Acts ii. 23. 3. Determined or resolved upon. [Obs.] My determinate voyage. --Shak. 4. Of determined purpose; resolute. [Obs.] More determinate to do than skillful how to do. --Sir P. Sidney. Determinate inflorescence (Bot.), that in which the flowering commences with the terminal bud of a stem, which puts a limit to its growth; -- also called centrifugal inflorescence. Determinate problem (Math.), a problem which admits of a limited number of solutions. Determinate quantities, Determinate equations (Math.), those that are finite in the number of values or solutions, that is, in which the conditions of the problem or equation determine the number.
Disabilities
Disability Dis`a*bil"i*ty, n.; pl. Disabilities. 1. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like. Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted. --Milton. Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. --Bancroft. 2. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency. The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture. --Abbott. Syn: Weakness; inability; incompetence; impotence; incapacity; incompetency; disqualification. Usage: -- Disability, Inability. Inability is an inherent want of power to perform the thing in question; disability arises from some deprivation or loss of the needed competency. One who becomes deranged is under a disability of holding his estate; and one who is made a judge, of deciding in his own case. A man may decline an office on account of his inability to discharge its duties; he may refuse to accept a trust or employment on account of some disability prevents him from entering into such engagements.
Dubiosities
Dubiosity Du`bi*os"i*ty, n.; pl. Dubiosities. [L. dubiosus.] The state of being doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing. [R.] Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. --Sir T. Browne.

Meaning of Ities from wikipedia

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