Word origins

• omnipresentBeing everywhere simultaneously.
• urinateTo pass urine from the body.
• superhumanBeyond what is possible for a human being.
• culminateOf a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
• FranconiaA cultural region and former duchy in Germany, comprising the northern area of modern Bavaria and lands to its immediate west.
• curateAn assistant rector or vicar.
• febrileFeverish, or having a high temperature.
• hymnalA collection of hymns; a hymn book.
• deicideThe killing of a deity; godslaughter.
• asceticOf or relating to ascetics.
• KareliaA historical region of Northern Europe, located to the north of Saint Petersburg and politically split between Russia and Finland.
• afforestationThe act or process of creating a new forest where none had existed before, or reforestation of areas long deforested.
• ultramarineBeyond the sea.
• evidentialOf or providing evidence.
• TurkicOf or relating to the Turkic peoples or the Turkic languages.
• baobabA tree, Adansonia digitata, native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.
• officiantA person who officiates at a religious ceremony (in Christianity, at any ceremony other than the Eucharist).
• incriminationThe act of incriminating someone.
• plenipotentiaryA person invested with full powers, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter.
• predilectionA condition of favoring or liking; a tendency towards; proclivity; predisposition.
• alluviumsoil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain
• labialOf or pertaining to the lips or labia.
• lacrimalOf or relating to tears or the tear-secreting organs.
• punctuateTo add punctuation to.
• carolingA singing of carols.
• caudateTapering into a long, tail-like extension at the apex.
• demonizeTo turn into a demon.
• SudaA comprehensive 10th-century Byzantine encyclopaedia, written in Greek, containing approximately 30,000 entries on historical, biographical, literary, and lexical topics from the ancient Mediterranean world.
• toxicantCapable of causing damage or dysfunction by toxicity.
• abductorOne who abducts; a kidnapper.
• seraphicOf or relating to a seraph or the seraphim.
• incriminateTo accuse or bring criminal charges against.
• HippocraticPertaining to, or in accordance with the theories of, ancient Greek physician and philosopher Hippocrates.
• adventitiousFrom an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
• effusiveGushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression).
• infuriateTo make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.
• fungibleAble to be substituted for something of equal value or utility.
• impregnateTo cause to become pregnant.
• connoteTo signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
• capitulateTo surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply.
• AvicennaPersian polymath (c. 980–1037).
• nuchalThe back of the neck.
• doxologyAn expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn sung as part of a Christian worship service.
• reverentialShowing or characterized by reverence; respectful.
• expropriateTo deprive a person of (their private property) for public use.
• horaryPertaining to an hour or hours.
• AbbasidA member of the dynasty of caliphs that ruled from Baghdad, from about 750 to 1250, claiming ancestry of Abbas.
• penitentialPertaining to penance or penitence.
• stigmatizeTo characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.
• transubstantiationThe doctrine holding that the bread and wine of the Eucharist are essentially transformed into the body and blood of Jesus.
• bulgarA member of a migratory Turkic people from Central Asia who conquered Moesia in the 7th century and settled what is now Bulgaria, and some of whom then migrated to the Volga basin to establish Volga Bulgaria.
• ServiaA city in West Macedonia, in northern Greece.
• GasconyA former duchy in the kingdom of France, covering southern Aquitaine.
• incarcerateTo lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
• diaphanousTransparent or translucent; allowing light to pass through; capable of being seen through.
• SalonicaSynonym of Thessaloniki: a port city, the capital of Central Macedonia, in northern Greece.
• disconsolateCheerless, dreary.
• transparenceSynonym of transparency.
• stapesA small stirrup-shaped innermost ossicle of the middle ear of mammals, transmitting vibrations from the incus to the inner ear.
• SitiaA city in Crete, Greece.
• domesticateTo make domestic.
• AverroesAn Andalusian polymath (1126–1198).
• consistorialOf or pertaining to a consistory.
• undulationAn instance or act of undulating.
• genuflectTo bend the knee, as in servitude.
• CarthusianA member of a Christian contemplative order of monks founded by Bruno of Cologne (St Bruno) in 1084.
• exhumeTo dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
• idealityThe quality or state of being ideal.
• lunationA month of an average of approximately 29.53 days, measured from a lunar phase until the return of that same phase.
• ichorThe liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods.
• LadislausA male given name from the Slavic languages.
• emasculateTo deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld.
• antinomianOne who embraces, encourages, or practices antinomianism.
• perquisiteAny monetary or other incidental benefit beyond salary.
• controvertTo dispute, to argue about (something).
• DamiettaA town in the Nile delta in Egypt.
• tremulantTrembling, tremulous.
• exclamatoryResembling an exclamation.
• bedelAn administrative official at universities in several European countries, often with a policiary function at the time when universities had their own jurisdiction over students.
• procuratorateThe office of a procurator.
• pulmonicOf, pertaining to, or produced by the lungs.
• operatoryeffective; practical; operative
• eleemosynaryRelating to charity, alms, or almsgiving.
• polysemousSynonym of polysemic.
• confluencyThe percentage of the surface of a culture dish that is covered by adherent cells
• abamurusA retaining wall; a wall erected to strengthen another wall.
• accessarySomeone who accedes to some act, now especially a crime; one who contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.
• acciteTo summon.
• acuitionSynonym of acuation (“act of sharpening”).
• adherencyThe state or quality of being adherent; adherence.
• adoratoryA room in a temple for the adoration of idols.
• adventionAn external addition.
• afforestTo make into forest
• a fortioriWith stronger or greater reason; as a corollary implied by a stronger claim; even more so; all the more so; so much the more.
• allectiveAn allurement, enticement.
• allodiumFreehold land or property; land held in allodial tenure, or one's title to such land.
• ambidexterSomeone who is ambidextrous.
• anno dominiThe current date era beginning approximately 2000 years ago in the Gregorian calendar, based on the birth of Jesus Christ.
• ante meridiemBefore noon, in the morning.
• aperitiveTending to open the bowels; aperient.