Abscissa :: Abscissa (n.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes..
Abscission :: Abscission (n.) The act or process of cutting off.
Abscission :: Abscission (n.) The state of being cut off.
Abscission :: Abscission (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more..
Academicism :: Academicism (n.) A tenet of the Academic philosophy.
Academicism :: Academicism (n.) A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
Aestheticism :: Aestheticism (n.) The doctrine of aesthetics; aesthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art.
Agnosticism :: Agnosticism (n.) That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies..
Agnosticism :: Agnosticism (n.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism..
Alopecist :: Alopecist (n.) A practitioner who tries to prevent or cure baldness.