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Age
noun · 78% connection
The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
All
adjective · 78% connection
The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
Apostatize
verb · 78% connection
To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to whi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
Biennial
adjective · 78% connection
Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
Census
noun · 78% connection
A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
Close to
adverb · 78% connection
(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
Corniferous
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
Curvet
noun · 78% connection
A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
Dead metaphor
noun · 78% connection
a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., ‘he is a snake’ may once have been a m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
Decade
noun · 78% connection
A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
Decennial
adjective · 78% connection
Consisting of ten years; happening every ten years; as, a decennial period; decennial games.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
Five-twenties
n. pl. · 78% connection
Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payabl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
Frozen metaphor
noun · 78% connection
a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., ‘he is a snake’ may once have been a m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
Generation
noun · 78% connection
The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
Incidence
noun · 78% connection
A falling on or upon; an incident; an event.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
Jubilee
noun · 78% connection
Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
Just about
adverb · 78% connection
(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
Kerosene
noun · 78% connection
An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence calle…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lustration, purification, whole, roman, censors.
