biocon has looked up 9483 words, created 635 lists, listed 5423 words, written 982 comments, added 52 tags, and loved 105 words.
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ah your lists are amazing!
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Excelent
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Excelent! Thanks for sharing!
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I've certainly enjoyed your Wordnik additions! Thanks!
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I've found examples for schize, spissy, and spissed other than those given in the OED. I'll add them to the pages for the words.
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Hi biocon:
I have been enjoying your lists as well. A belated welcome to Wordnik! -
I like your lists.
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I haven't been able to locate "fortin" as an adjective other than in the phrase "Samson Fortin".
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Yes. What mollusque wrote is a more precise description of the issue, and what I should have written in the first place. It's an HTML implementation issue, not one of access.
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The problem is not that different people have different subscriptions, it's that you aren't activating the links you provide. It looks like you are using square brackets around the URL, but those are only for internal links to word pages; they are misdirecting to the "Not Found" page. If I paste your OED link directly into my browser, it takes me to the desired webpage in the OED (because I have a subscription and I'm logged in).
To activate the links, use <a href="URL">text you want to show as link</a>. (A summary of html codes pops up if you click the "Some html" link over the comment box.) -
Hi from a biology PhD student!
I saw your comments about OED, but it turns out C█NY (City Uni██████ of... the Empire State) doesn't provide access to the service either (unless it does via a different link*). What a pity.
Also, I studied Latin and Greek in high school in Italy and share your love for those languages.
Welcome to Wordnik,
P.
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The links you provide in your comments don't work.
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I don't use software beyond the search tools that Google offers. The problem in researching a word like "malace" is sifting through all the false positives: misspellings of "malice", OCR errors, proper names, etc.
Wordnik doesn't have a tool for bulk upload of words. One could probably use something like AppleScript to automate uploads from a Excel file. -
Hi biocon, thanks for the reply. I've also flagged many words as occurring in the OED, using the tag oed2 (lower case from the Wordie days when upper case wasn't accepted).
Some of the words you've listed are what I call dictionary words, since there are no known examples of their occurrence outside of dictionaries (malace, mollicine, although the later is also a trade name Mollicine). Trawling Google Books and Google Scholar to find bonafide usages of these words can be fun.
By the way, I'm also a biologist. Welcome to Wordnik! -
The links you're providing to the OED won't work for people who don't have passwords for the Galileo system.
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You are right about the examples for alar. If you want to bring that to the attention of the people who manage Wordnik, you should put a comment on the feedback page.
biocon commented on the list a-fork-or-split
A belated thanks to fbharjo for ramification.
May 16, 2013
biocon commented on the word innatant
Innatant = swimming or floating in or upon some liquid
May 12, 2013
biocon commented on the list with-upturned-snout
I thank leaden for adding two superlative words to this list.
Thank you, ruzuzu, for your gracious comment.
May 12, 2013
biocon commented on the word repandirostrus
L. Repandirostrus = with upturned snout.
May 7, 2013
biocon commented on the word involucer
L. involucer (masc.) = unfledged and flightless.
Apr 7, 2013
biocon commented on the word atrox
L. atrox = savage, cruel, fierce, atrocious, harsh, severe, unyielding.
Panthera leo atrox (American Lion) was one of the North American megafauna that became extinct 10,000-12,000 years ago.
Mar 29, 2013
biocon commented on the word ἀετώδης
English aetodes.
Mar 27, 2013
biocon commented on the word ἀετώδης
Gk. ἀετώδης = eagle-like.
Mar 27, 2013
biocon commented on the word ancyloid
Ancyloid means "resembling a clasp, noose or hook" (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1879, from OED).
Mar 24, 2013
biocon commented on the word adlection
Adlection means appointment, by nomination rather than election, to a governing body (esp. the former Roman Senate), or to a position of higher status (OED).
1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 6/2 Though the right of adlection had been largely employed by Julius Caesar, it was exercised cautiously by the first emperors.
1974 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 95 90 The adlection to praetorian and patrician rank could have occurred in absentia.
1977 F. Millar Emperor in Rom. World 295 Under Commodus also we meet the earliest case of adlection inter consulares.
2005 Internat. Jrnl. Classical Trad. 12 127 Adlection to the Senate would, of course, carry senatorial status.
Mar 23, 2013
biocon commented on the word tracture
Tracture means a drawing, attraction; enticement (OED).
Mar 23, 2013
biocon commented on the list verba-ut-pertineant-ad-absens
Thanks for the notice.
Mar 20, 2013
biocon commented on the user adirgeforher
Thank you for your dulce words.
Mar 20, 2013
biocon commented on the word enneamer
Enneamer is a nine-part chemical compound. Gk. ennéa = nine; méros = part.
Mar 11, 2013
biocon commented on the word adjuvate
Adjuvate means to (1) to help, aid, assist; (2) to facilitate (OED).
Mar 8, 2013
biocon commented on the word lucrate
Lucrate means to gain or win (OED).
Feb 24, 2013
biocon commented on the word ligatory
Ligatory means 1. a. serving to bind or tie up; 2. that has binding force, obligatory (OED).
Jan 20, 2013
biocon commented on the word caput radicis
The term caput radicis means the crown of the root in a plant (OED).
Jan 19, 2013
biocon commented on the word Caput Medusae
Caput Medusae signifies 1. the star Algol or Medusa's Head in Perseus; 2. a species of fossil Pentacrinite (OED).
Jan 19, 2013
biocon commented on the word caput lupinum
The term caput lupinum (literally wolf's head) means outlaw (OED).
Jan 19, 2013
biocon commented on the word Caput Draconis
Caput Draconis signifies Dragon's Head, a star in Draco (OED).
Jan 19, 2013
biocon commented on the word proboscic
Proboscic: having a proboscis; relating to, resembling, or of the nature of a proboscis — now chiefly humorous with reference to a person's nose (OED). See proboscidiform.
1852 J. Coldstream in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 36/2 Pulmograda..4. Proboscic: the lower and central part of the body prolonged into a proboscis-like appendage.
1920 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 31 Dec. 16/3 Meanderer's emotion then found relief in a tear from each eye, which proboscic moistening he is brazen enough to confess here without blushing.
1988 Newsday (N.Y.) (Nexis) 6 Nov. 39 A candidate for office dare not sneeze in public until his analysts have assessed public opinion of such involuntary proboscic activity.
2000 Independent (Nexis) 26 July 5 With its proboscic snout, its attenuated delta wings..and its aristocratic demeanour, Concorde continues to make heads turn.
Jan 14, 2013
biocon commented on the word sanguis
L. sanguis = blood. This term is used in anatomy and physiology.
Jan 9, 2013
biocon commented on the word propinquant
Propinquant = nearby, close at hand (see propinquitous).
Dec 23, 2012
biocon commented on the word impere
Impere means a command, order (OED).
Dec 17, 2012
biocon commented on the word scind
The example here needs to be elided.
Dec 11, 2012
biocon commented on the word ansa
In addition, ansa means a loop or structure resembling a loop (Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002).
Dec 6, 2012
biocon commented on the word inveigh
In addition, inveigh means to carry in, bring in (to use); introduce (OED).
Dec 6, 2012
biocon commented on the word fidimplicitary
Le me gusta.
Dec 1, 2012
biocon commented on the word adauge
Adauge means to increase, augment (OED).
Nov 27, 2012
biocon commented on the word nicetery
Nicetery means a charm or talisman for securing victory (OED). L. nīcētērium = a prize of victory.
Nov 22, 2012
biocon commented on the word formose
In addition, formose means beautiful, comely (OED). See formous, which is a variant of this word.
Nov 11, 2012
biocon commented on the word formous
See formose.
Nov 11, 2012
biocon commented on the word summum pulchrum
Summum pulchrum means the highest beauty (OED).
Nov 11, 2012
biocon commented on the word summum genus
In addition, summum genus means the highest or most comprehensive division in a classification (OED).
Nov 11, 2012
biocon commented on the word summoperous
Summoperous (nonce word) means highest, utmost (OED).
Nov 11, 2012
biocon commented on the word Siluriformes
Siluriformes is the taxonomic order of catfishes (see siluriformes).
Nov 10, 2012
biocon commented on the word siluriformes
The initial letter of the names of taxonomic categories, including orders, is uppercase (see Siluriformes).
Nov 10, 2012
biocon commented on the word lumbosus
Medieval Latin lumbosus = great-buttocked (Levins, Peter 1579, Manipulus vocabulorum). An English cognate would be lumbose.
Nov 5, 2012
biocon commented on the word deperdite
Deperdite means A: (adjective) — lost, abandoned, involved in ruin or perdition; B: (noun) — something lost or perished (OED). Variant of deperdit.
Nov 4, 2012
biocon commented on the word deperdit
See deperdite.
Nov 4, 2012
biocon commented on the word viduate
OED: Viduate means 1. destitute of something; 2. widowed.
Nov 4, 2012
biocon commented on the word persequent
Persequent means "that follows; pursuing; subsequent, next" (OED).
1904 F. W. Rolfe Hadrian VII xxii. 402 ‘You stay here till you feel better..,’ Hadrian mewed to His delighted and excited and persequent cat.
Nov 2, 2012
biocon commented on the word deterior
Deterior means inferior in quality, worse (OED).
Oct 31, 2012
biocon commented on the word Via Dolorosa
L. Via Dolorosa = Sorrowful Way.
Oct 22, 2012
biocon commented on the word Via Lactea
Via Lactea (Latin) = Milky Way. Via is a feminine noun and lactea is a feminine adjective.
Oct 22, 2012
biocon commented on the word via lactea
The first letters of via and lactea should be upper case. See Via Lactea.
Oct 22, 2012
biocon commented on the word pulmo attrahens ac reddens animam
This Latin phrase means "the lung attracting (inspiring) and restoring air."
Oct 21, 2012
biocon commented on the list that-inhabits-the-abode-of-another
Excellent!
Oct 16, 2012
biocon commented on the word patulicate
Patulicate means to open, be made wide, spread out (OED).
Oct 14, 2012