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Circumflex: Definition and part of speech

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Circumflex

  1. n. A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [/ or ^]. See Accent, n., 2.
  2. n. A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
  3. a. Moving or turning round; circuitous.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Circumincession: Definition and part of speech

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Circumincession

  1. n. The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Circumflexion: Definition and part of speech

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Circumflexion

  1. n. A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.
  2. n. The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.