Word Meanings - GUMMA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin.

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• TUMOR
  A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm. 2. Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. Better, however,
• ORIGINABLE
  Capable of being originated.
• ORIGINATION
  1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
• ORIGINANT
  Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.
• ORIGINATOR
  One who originates.
• SYPHILITIC
  Of or pertaining to syphilis; of the nature of syphilis; affected with syphilis. -- n.
• ORIGINATE
  To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new. A decomposition of the whole civill and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order. Burke.
• ORIGIN
  The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion. Origin of coördinate axes , the point where the axes intersect. See Note under Ordinate. Syn. -- Commencement; rise;
• ORIGINAL
  1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. His form had yet not lost
• SYPHILITICALLY
  In a syphilitic manner; with venereal disease.
• TUMOROUS
  1. Swelling; protuberant. Sir H. Wotton. 2. Inflated; bombastic. B. Jonson.
• TUMORED
  Distended; swelled. "His tumored breast." R. Junius.
• ORIGINALNESS
  The quality of being original; originality. Johnson.
• ORIGINALIST
  One who is original.
• ORIGINALLY
  1. In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation. God is originally holy in himself. Bp. Pearson. 2. At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as,
• ORIGINALITY
  The quality or state of being original. Macaulay.
• ORIGINATIVE
  Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating. H. Bushnell. -- O*rig"i*na*tive*ly, adv.
• ORIGINARY
  1. Causing existence; productive. The production of animals, in the originary way, requires a certain degree of warmth. Cheyne. 2. Primitive; primary; original. The grand originary right of all rights. Hickok.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• ABORIGINAL
  1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth. 2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.
• UNORIGINATELY
  Without origin.
• ANTISYPHILITIC
  Efficacious against syphilis. -- n.
• ABORIGINALITY
  The quality of being aboriginal. Westm. Rev.
• UNORIGINATED
  1. Not originated; existing from all eternity. F. W. Newman. 2. Not yet caused to be, or to be made; as, possible inventions still unoriginated.
• ABORIGINES
  the first inhabitants of Latium, those who originally 1. The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races. 2. The original fauna and flora of a geographical area