n. [ OF. acusation, F. accusation, L. accusatio, fr. accusare. See Accuse. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. [ 1913 Webster ]

We come not by the way of accusation
To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ They ] set up over his head his accusation. Matt. xxvii. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Impeachment; crimination; censure; charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the accusative case. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. accusatif, L. accusativus (in sense 2), fr. accusare. See Accuse. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Producing accusations; accusatory. “This hath been a very accusative age.” Sir E. Dering. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Gram.) The accusative case. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In an accusative manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In relation to the accusative case in grammar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A making actual or really existent; giving the appearance of reality. [ R. ] Emerson.
Syn. -- realization, realisation. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. adversativus, fr. adversari. ] Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force. -- Ad*ver"sa*tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. An adversative word. Harris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Psychol.) A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. a region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
Syn. -- Alsace, Elsass [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to Alsatia. [ 1913 Webster ]

v., n., a., n. Same as Amortize, Amortization, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities.
Syn. -- brutalization, brutalisation, animalization [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. separating something into fine particles.
Syn. -- atomization, fragmentation [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. annihilation by reducing something to atoms.
Syn. -- atomization [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. aversatio, fr. aversari to turn away, v. intens. of avertere. See Avert. ] A turning from with dislike; aversion. [ Obs.or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Some men have a natural aversation to some vices or virtues, and a natural affection to others. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act or process of barbarizing; an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized.
Syn. -- barbarization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An act that debases or corrupts. [ chiefly Brit. ]
Syn. -- bastardization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the deletion of all passages considered to be indecent.
Syn. -- bowdlerization, expurgation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. same as capitalization.
Syn. -- capitalization. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. same as carbonization. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. cassation. See Cass. ] The act of annulling. [ 1913 Webster ]

A general cassation of their constitutions. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Court of cassation, the highest court of appeal in France, which has power to quash (Casser) or reverse the decisions of the inferior courts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. catechizatio. ] The act of catechising. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced. [ 1913 Webster ]

The kind of causation by which vision is produced. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the other is certain to take place. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes in the law of universal causation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. causativus pertaining to a lawsuit (causa), but in the English sense from E. cause. ] 1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A word which expresses or suggests a cause. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a causative manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as centralization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. cessation, L. cessatio, fr. cessare. See Cease. ] A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war. [ 1913 Webster ]

The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cessation of arms (Mil.), an armistice, or truce, agreed to by the commanders of armies, to give time for a capitulation, or for other purposes.

Syn. -- Stop; rest; stay; pause; discontinuance; intermission; interval; respite; interruption; recess; remission. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. circumcursare, -satum, to run round about. ] The act of running about; also, rambling language. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. comissatio, comessatio. ] A reveling; a rioting. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Commensality. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Daniel . . . declined pagan commensation. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as commercialization. [ Brit. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. compensatio a weighing, a balancing of accounts. ] 1. The act or principle of compensating. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense. [ 1913 Webster ]

The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) (a)The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off. Bouvier. Wharton. (b) A recompense or reward for some loss or service. (c) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Compensation balance, or
Compensated balance, a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different metals having different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement. --
Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.

Syn. -- Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration; requital; satisfaction; set-off. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. compensativus. ] Affording compensation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Compensation. [ R. ] Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From L. compulsare, v. intens. of compellere. See Compel. ] Compulsatory. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By compulsion. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of formulating or making a concept of something.
Syn. -- conceptualization, formulation, formularizing, formularising. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A violent shock or agitation. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. condensatio: cf. F. condensation. ] 1. The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Goldsmith ] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene. [ 1913 Webster ]

Condensation product (Chem.), a substance obtained by the polymerization of one substance, or by the union of two or more, with or without separation of some unimportant side products. --
Surface condensation, the system of condensing steam by contact with cold metallic surfaces, in distinction from condensation by the injection of cold water. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. condensatif. ] Having the property of condensing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conspissatio, fr. conspissare to make thick. ] A making thick or viscous; thickness; inspissation. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. conversacio (in senses 1 & 2), OF. conversacion, F. conversation, fr. L. conversatio frequent abode in a place, intercourse, LL. also, manner of life. ] 1. General course of conduct; behavior. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance. “Conversation with the best company.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Commerce; intercourse; traffic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All traffic and mutual conversation. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

The influence exercised by his [ Johnson's ] conversation was altogether without a parallel. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.

Syn. -- Intercourse; communion; commerce; familiarity; discourse; dialogue; colloquy; talk; chat. -- Conversation, Talk. There is a looser sense of these words, in which they are synonymous; there is a stricter sense, in which they differ. Talk is usually broken, familiar, and versatile. Conversation is more continuous and sustained, and turns ordinarily upon topics or higher interest. Children talk to their parents or to their companions; men converse together in mixed assemblies. Dr. Johnson once remarked, of an evening spent in society, that there had been a great deal of talk, but no conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A conversationist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Aaquaintea with m`nners aod deportment; behaved. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Till she be better conversationed, . . . I'll keep
As far from her as the gallows. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloquialism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]