Index of English words, starting with "ab"

(1) - Absinthe (n.) A strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol.
(2) - Absinthe (n.) The plant absinthium or common wormwood.

(1) - Absinthial (a.) Of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian.

(1) - Absinthium (n.) The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood.

(1) - Absis (n.) See Apsis.

(1) - Absolute (n.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
(2) - Absolute (a.) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
(3) - Absolute (a.) Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
(4) - Absolute (a.) Authoritative; peremptory.
(5) - Absolute (a.) Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
(6) - Absolute (a.) Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
(7) - Absolute (a.) Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
(8) - Absolute (a.) Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.
(9) - Absolute (a.) Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
(10) - Absolute (a.) Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.