|
|
|
|
See my other projects: weather, dict, payphones, mailboxes, receipts, found photos, court documents, what is my ip?, and more at sorabji.com.
Partial
P`ARTIAL, a. [L. pars.]
1. Biased to one party; inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a question, more than the other; not indifferent. It is important to justice that a judge should not be partial.
Self-love will make men partial to themselves and friends.
2. Inclined to favor without reason. Authors are partial to their wit, and critics to their judgment.
3. Affecting a part only; not general or universal; not total. It has been much disputed whether the deluge was partial or total.
All partial evil, universal good.
4. More strongly inclined to one thing than to others. [Colloquial.]
5. In botany, subordinate; applied to subdivisions; as a partial umbel or umbellicle; a partial peduncle. A partial involucre is placed at the foot of a partial umbel.
partial appears in definitions for these words:
Abevacuation Abstract Accept Affair Alter Alteration Aplanatic Arillus Bias-drawing Blear Boracited Brackish Candid Catholic Choke Contortion Corollet Corollule Coroner Corymb Crack Cracking Cripple Cyme Dark Difference Discolor Disease Duskily Duskiness Duskish Dusky Eclipse Engagement Except Fail Fast Favor Fen Flatteringly Floret Floscular Foist Footstalk Full Fully Gloom Gray Impartial Inadequate Involucel Involucret Lameness Melancholy Mortification Muddle Obscure Ocean Partial Partialist Partiality Partialize Partially Penumbra Perisperm Phrenetic Phrenitis Phrensy Principal Recusation Relief Relieve Repair Requisition Respect Respectively Rip Ruminate Self-partiality Semi-barbarian Semi-phlogisticated Semi-transparency Semi-vitreous Semi-vitrified Slack Split T Tuft Umbellet Unbiased Unequal Unindifferent Universal Unpartial Unprepossessed Variation Varied Varvels What Whitewood
Abevacuation Abstract Accept Affair Alter Alteration Aplanatic Arillus Bias-drawing Blear Boracited Brackish Candid Catholic Choke Contortion Corollet Corollule Coroner Corymb Crack Cracking Cripple Cyme Dark Difference Discolor Disease Duskily Duskiness Duskish Dusky Eclipse Engagement Except Fail Fast Favor Fen Flatteringly Floret Floscular Foist Footstalk Full Fully Gloom Gray Impartial Inadequate Involucel Involucret Lameness Melancholy Mortification Muddle Obscure Ocean Partial Partialist Partiality Partialize Partially Penumbra Perisperm Phrenetic Phrenitis Phrensy Principal Recusation Relief Relieve Repair Requisition Respect Respectively Rip Ruminate Self-partiality Semi-barbarian Semi-phlogisticated Semi-transparency Semi-vitreous Semi-vitrified Slack Split T Tuft Umbellet Unbiased Unequal Unindifferent Universal Unpartial Unprepossessed Variation Varied Varvels What Whitewood
|
