the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Absolute
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(a.) Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
(2):
(a.) Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
(3):
(a.) Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; - opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.
(4):
(a.) Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
(5):
(a.) Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
(6):
(a.) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
(7):
(n.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
(8):
(a.) Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
(9):
(a.) Authoritative; peremptory.
(10):
(a.) Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Absolute'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/absolute.html. 1828.
