Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chasm.
- noun In pathology, an attack of yawning; a succession of yawns.
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- noun astronomy, geology A long,
narrow ,steep -sideddepression on aplanet (other than Earth), amoon , or another body in thesolar system .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For if there can be a space void of body equal to the smallest separate particle of matter now existing in nature, it is still space without body; and makes as great a difference between space and body as if it were mega chasma, a distance as wide as any in nature.
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Sixteen years ago, while hiking in this chasma system, she disappeared.
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I washed off my boots, and stuck near the wall of the chasma for balance as I hiked.
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Cum enim ab oraculo Midas pater accepisset, non prius conclusum iri istam voraginem, quam res eò preciosissimæ immitterentur: Anchurus existimans, nihil esse anima pretiosius, sese viuum in illud profundissimum chasma præcipitem dedit: ídque tanto animi cum feruore, vt neque parentis desiderio, neque dulcissimæ coniugis amplexu vel lachrymis, ab isto proposito se retrahi passus sit.
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Cum enim ab oraculo Midas pater accepisset, non prius conclusum iri istam voraginem, quam res e� preciosissim� immitterentur: Anchurus existimans, nihil esse anima pretiosius, sese viuum in illud profundissimum chasma pr鎐ipitem dedit: 韉que tanto animi cum feruore, vt neque parentis desiderio, neque dulcissim� coniugis amplexu vel lachrymis, ab isto proposito se retrahi passus sit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In which regard there is no difference between the murdering of an innocent man and the executing of an offender; but as they are under a moral consideration, their ends follow their deservings, in respect of conformity to the rule, and so there is chasma mega between them.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967
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[1144] In Biblical and Patristic Latin chaos had acquired the sense of chasma; cf. Roensch, Itala u.
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Cum enim ab oraculo Midas pater accepisset, non prius conclusum iri istam voraginem, quam res eò preciosissimæ immitterentur: Anchurus existimans, nihil esse anima pretiosius, sese viuum in illud profundissimum chasma præcipitem dedit: ídque tanto animi cum feruore, vt neque parentis desiderio, neque dulcissimæ coniugis amplexu vel lachrymis, ab isto proposito se retrahi passus sit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Ya, you are true that DW minutely observed nail police, eye gajal, "rato lipistic", "chasma ko power" and what not!
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‘psalterion’ (North) ‘psaltery’; ‘chasma’ (Henry More) ‘chasm’; ‘idioma’ and ‘prosodia’ (both in Daniel, prose) ‘idiom’ and ‘prosody’; ‘energia’,
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
ruzuzu commented on the word chasma
"1. A chasm.
2. In pathology, an attack of yawning; a succession of yawns."
--Century Dictionary
February 2, 2011