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(architecture) An eclectic style in which various separately designed elements are combined.
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of, relating to, or containing allegory
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Alternative form of apagogic [(rhetoric) Proving indirectly, by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.]
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(philosophy, rare) = apodictic
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(literature) Relating to an apologue.
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(literature) Relating to an apologue
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Of or pertaining to artifact.
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(of teaching or learning) That has a practical use
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A school of literary criticism that applies the principles of cognitive science, particularly cognitive psychology, to the interpretation of texts.
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(archaic) The science of the dianoetic or intellectual faculties.
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(art) Any form of art that borrows from multiple other styles
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(art) A genre of painting that makes use of bold geometric shapes.
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Of or pertaining to enthymeme.
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branch-theory, subtheory
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Of or pertaining to exegesis; explanatory.
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An external name for a place, people or language used by foreigners instead of the native-language version.
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A proponent of generative grammar or generative semantics
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(grammar) Expressing general truths or aphorisms.
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(obsolete) A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections.
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A particular method of interpretation of text, especially holy texts.
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(theology) Alternative form of historico-grammatical [(hermeneutics, textual analysis) Pertaining to, using or based on the textual analysis technique of seeking to establish the meanings of words at the time the text was written.]
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(historiography) An influential 19th-century school of thought in historiography that rejected universalist and anachronistic explanations of historical developments and instead emphasized the idiosyncrasies and organic developments of each culture and time period, to be understood through critical interpretation of primary sources in the context of the unique conditions that produced them.
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(countable) A word or phrase characteristic of the writings of Homer.
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(linguistics) Resulting from the misapplication of foreign reading rules, such as dropping the ‘t’ in claret.
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(linguistics, uncountable) The misapplication of foreign pronunciation or usage, particularly the use of a sound or form perceived as foreign where a native one would be more correct.
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(obsolete) Opposed to the worship of pictures or images.
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Of or pertaining to an idealogue, or to idealization.
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(linguistics) A loanword that occurs in several languages with the same or similar meaning and etymology.
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Relating to interpretivism.
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Pertaining to metacognition.
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(ethics) Of or pertaining to metaethics.
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of, relating to, or being metafiction
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Relating to metahistory.
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Obsolete form of metaphoric. [Like a metaphor.]
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Arising from and transcending everyday objects or practices; pertaining to the deeper meaning to be found in the ordinary.
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of or pertaining to metatheatre
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Of or pertaining to metatheory, the theory of theories
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(US, rare) Synonym of mithridatism.
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attitudes to language that prioritize the norms and standards of native speakers
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An innovation or novelty; a neoteric word or phrase.
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One who introduces new words or phrases.
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The study of the possible meanings of Scripture.
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Of or relating to nomism.
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(philosophy) Pertaining to or expressing general laws that lack logical necessity.
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Synonym of ontological argument
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(pragmatics) The reference point on which a deictic relationship is based.
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Of or pertaining to an oxymoron.
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Alternative form of polymath [A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.]
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(linguistics) one who studies pragmatics.
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Alternative form of pseudo-linguistics [Work purporting to fall under the scholarly field of linguistics but falling short of its standards; linguistic pseudo-scholarship.]
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(philosophy) A branch of philosophy concerned with understanding of language.
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Of or relating to supervision.
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(art, literature) Of or pertaining to the Symbolist movement in late 19th-century and early 20th-century European arts and literature
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Of, relating to, or contained in a theorem.
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(philosophy) Whose meaning depends upon a set of theoretical principles
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One who believes in the transmutation of metals.
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Relating to or involving the interpretation of literature focusing on the ethical lesson or moral of the story.
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Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
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A name for a people or a language or a city etc. which is not used by the natives themselves. Germans, for example, is a xenonym for people who call themselves Deutsche, Cologne a xenonym for Köln, Austria for Österreich etc.
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