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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rite |
| Synonyms: | baptism, celebration, ceremony, communion, confession, confirmation, custom, holy orders, liturgy, marriage, matrimony, oath, observance, practice, ritual, service, vow |
| Main Entry: | faith |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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God, Mohammedan, accredited, acroamatic, alterocentric, aniconic, antediluvian, assured, autocephalous, believed, believing, blessed, born, certain, cleocentric, cocksure, collegial, commanding belief, confident, confiding, convinced, credible, credulous, defrocked, deserving of belief, doctrinal, epideistic, faithworthy, fidlimplicitary, fiducial, fiduciary, filiopletistic, hagiolatrous, hallowed, heliolatrous, holy, imbued with, impressed with, impressive, interdenominational, judaical, kosher, mystical, numinous, penetrated with, persuasive, piacular, pistic, positive, prelapsarian, probable, profane, putative, reborn, recreant, relating to belief, reliable, sacred, sacrosanct, satisfactory, satisfied, saved, secure, sure, suspectless, to be depended upon, trustworthy, ultrafidian, under the impression, unhesitating, unholy, unsuspected, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, venerable, void of suspicion, wedded to, worthy of belief
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| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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above ground, aerobic, agamic, agrestian, alive, all alive and kicking, anaerobic, animated, archesporial, autacoidal, azzardly, bacillary, basal, bimanous, biodegradable, biomorphic, bionomic, biped, bircrural, blissom, breathing, celative, crepitous, cryptic, dacryopyostic, deglutitious, diallel, digenous, digoneutic, ditokous, diurnal, dizygotic, edentate, endothermic, epigamic, exogenous, gamic, haploid, hematic, hyperosmic, impar, in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living, indefatigable, lively, living, luxuriant, mammillated, marine, mercurial, metapneustic, microsmatic, motor, multilocular, muriform, myogenic, nizzertit, on this side of the grave, oviparous, ovoviviparous, palamate, paratonic, parthenic, parturient, pelagic, promethean, quick, rank, recuperated, refreshed, refreshing, ruttish, sedentary, sphygmic, spodogenous, stenobathic, tenacious of life, totipotent, untired, unwearied, urled, vegete, vital, vivacious, vivified, vivifying, yeld, zoetic
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| Concept: | Description. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; written language |
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-nouns
description, account, statement, report; expose (disclosure) specification, particulars; state of facts, summary of facts; brief (abstract); return (record); catalogue raisonne (list); guidebook (information)., delineation (representation); sketch; monograph; minute account, detailed account, particular account, circumstantial account, graphic account; narration, recital, rehearsal, relation., historiography, chronography; historic Muse, Clio; history; biography, autobiography; necrology, obituary., narrative, history; memoir, memorials; annals (chronicle); saga; tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette; personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions; anecdote, ana, trait., work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press; fairy tale, nursery tale; fable, parable, apologue; dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker, relator; raconteur, historian (recorder); biographer, fabulist, novelist.
-verbs
describe; set forth (state); draw a picture, picture; portray (represent); characterize, particularize; narrate, relate, recite, recount, sum up, run over, recapitulate, rehearse, fight one's battles over again., unfold a tale (disclose); tell; give an account of, render an account of; report, make a report, draw up a statement., detail; enter into particulars, enter into details, descend to particulars , descend to details; itemize.
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descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn; historic; traditional, traditionary; legendary; anecdotic, storied; described
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furor scribendi.
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| Concept: | Disclosure. |
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disclosure; retection; unveiling; deterration, revealment, revelation; exposition, exposure; expose; whole truth; telltale (news)., acknowledgment, avowal; confession, confessional; shrift., bursting of a bubble; denouement.
-verbs
disclose, discover, dismask; draw the veil, draw aside the veil, lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear aside the veil, tear the curtain; unmask, unveil, unfold, uncover, unseal, unkennel; take off the seal, break the seal; lay open, lay bare; expose; open, open up; bare, bring to light., divulge, reveal, break; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell (inform); breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out (make manifest); make public; unriddle (find out); split., raise the mask, drop the mask, lift the mask, remove the mask, throw off the mask; expose; lay open; undeceive, unbeguile; disabuse, set right, correct, open the eyes of; d'sillusionner., be disclosed; transpire, come to light; come in sight (be visible); become known, escape the lips; come out, ooze out, creep out, leak out, peep out, crop-out; show its face, show its colors; discover itself; break through the clouds, flash on the mind.
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disclosed
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the murder is out; a light breaks in upon one; the scales fall from one's eyes; the eyes are opened.
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| Antonyms: | concealment |
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| Concept: | Life. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; vitality in general |
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-nouns
life, vitality, viability; animation; vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit., respiration, wind; breath of life, breath of one's nostrils; lifeblood; Archeus; existence., vivification; oxygen; vital air, vital force; vitalization; revivification; Prometheus; life to come (destiny)., [Science of life] physiology, biology; animal ecology., nourishment, staff of life (food) [more].
-verbs
be alive; live, breathe, respire; subsist (exist); walk the earth; "strut and fret one's hour upon the stage" [Macbeth]; be spared., see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive; come to life., give birth to (produce); bring to life, put into life, vitalize; vivify, vivificate; reanimate (restore); keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life., have nine lives like a cat.
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living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living; on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated; animative; lively (active); all alive and kicking; tenacious of life., vital, vitalic; vivifying, vivified; viable, zoetic; Promethean.
-adverbs
vivendi causa.
-phrases
atqui vivere militare est [Seneca]; non est vivre sed valere vita [Martial].
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| Antonyms: | death |
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