"""election " :: Election (a.) Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the five points of Calvinism..

-ation :: -ation () A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of state, and that which results from the action. Many of these nouns have verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived through the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization..

Abacination :: Abacination (n.) The act of abacinating.

Abaction :: Abaction (n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale.

Abalienation :: Abalienation (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement.

Abannation :: Abannation (n.) Alt. of Abannitio.

Abannition :: Abannition (n.) Banishment.

Abarticulation :: Abarticulation (n.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis..

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing..

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America..

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers..

Abdication :: Abdication (n.) The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority..

Abduction :: Abduction (n.) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.

Abduction :: Abduction (n.) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body..

Abduction :: Abduction (n.) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress..

Abduction :: Abduction (n.) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable..

Aberration :: Aberration (n.) The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type..

Aberration :: Aberration (n.) A partial alienation of reason.

Aberration :: Aberration (n.) A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet re

Aberration :: Aberration (n.) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus..

Aberration :: Aberration (n.) The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it.

Aberration :: Aberration (n.) The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B..

Aberrational :: Aberrational (a.) Characterized by aberration.

Abevacuation :: Abevacuation (n.) A partial evacuation.

Abirritation :: Abirritation (n.) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.

Abjection :: Abjection (n.) The act of bringing down or humbling.

Abjection :: Abjection (n.) The state of being rejected or cast out.

Abjection :: Abjection (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.

Abjudication :: Abjudication (n.) Rejection by judicial sentence.

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