Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In petrography, in the quantitative classification of igneous rocks (see rock), a term indicating the presence of one or more of the normative minerals in the second subgroup of femic minerals.
Examples
“Critics also say the film is anti-S.mitic, as evidenced by the character portrayed by Mr. Busey -- a Jewish doctor who harvests organs from Arab captives in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison for resale in Tel Aviv and the U.S. The Trend:”
The Wall Street Journal: Campaigns Quick to Shake Loose Cannons
“S. O'BRIEN: Let's talk a little bit about the controversy over Mel Gibson's quite drunken anti-S.mitic rant of the summer.”
“S. O'BRIEN: Yes, the anti-S.mitic stuff you can't fix in rehab.”
“S.eam had permanently reddened his big S.mitic beak until it looked like the prow of the S.S. Tomato, like a stop signal designed in a wind tunnel.”
“The program director of KMBZ radio in Kansas City says the station has no choice but to air commercials with racially biased and anti-S.mitic claims from a write-in candidate for the U.S. S.nate from Missouri.”
“Yushchenko's government shut down 26 branches of the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, which in 2008 was named "one of the most persistent anti-S.mitic institutions in Eastern Europe" by the U.S. S.ate Department.”
“On April 6, 2008, U.S. Permanent Representative said, "[W] e will not participate [in Durban Review Conference] unless it is proven that the conference will not be used as a platform for anti-S.mitic behavior.”
“It is disappointing that Mr. Ahmadinejad has once again chosen to espouse hateful, offensive and anti-S.mitic rhetoric," said Mark Kornblau, spokesman for the U.S. Mission to the U.N. The seats of Israel, Canada and other countries also were empty in the sparsely filled assembly chamber.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘mitic’.
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
galkhaite, xanthoconite, pyrostilpnite, polybasite, pyrargyrite, djurleite, digenite, covellite, chalcocite, cerargirite, acanthite, aeschynite and 2608 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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