Dictionary – Seminar II: Systems + Strategies

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Reified: To make (something abstract) more concrete or real; to regard or treat (an idea, concept, etc.) as if having material existence.

Dubious: Objectively doubtful; fraught with doubt or uncertainty; uncertain, undetermined, indistinct, ambiguous, vague.

Contentious: Of persons or their dispositions: Given to contention; prone to strife or dispute; quarrelsome.

Concessions: The action of conceding, granting, or yielding something requested or required.

Jejune: Puerile, childish; also, naïve.

Dogmatism: Belief in or assertion of dogma; dogmatic character; (more generally) positiveness in the assertion of opinion, now esp. the tendency to lay down principles as undeniably true, without consideration of evidence or the opinions of others.

Constate: To establish, ascertain, state.

Evince: To overcome,subdue,prevail over.

Piecemeal: One part or piece at a time; in separate pieces; by degrees, little by little.

Deplore: To weep for , bewail, lament; to grieve over, regret deeply.

Doctrine: In the most general sense: Instruction, teaching; a body of instruction or teaching.

Salutary: Conducive to well-being; calculated to bring about a more satisfactory condition, or to remedy some evil; beneficial, ‘wholesome’. Often with figurative notion of sense.

Parti Pris: A preconceived view; a bias or prejudice.

Extraneous: Of external origin; introduced or added from without; foreign to the object in which it is contained, or to which it is attached.

Engender: The action of engendering or begetting; concr. that which is engendered; offspring, produce.

Apes: To imitate, mimic: pretentiously, irrationally, or absurdly.

Hitherto: Up to this time, until now, as yet.

Provisional: Of, belonging to, or of the nature of a temporary provision or arrangement; provided or adopted for the time being; supplying the place of something regular, permanent, or final. Also: accepted or used in default of something better; tentative.

Timorous: Full of or affected by fear (either for the time or habitually); fearful.

Auxiliaries: Helpful, assistant, affording aid, rendering assistance, giving support or succour.

Humdrum: Lacking variety; of a routine character; commonplace; monotonous; dull.

Illocutions: An act such as ordering, warning, undertaking, preformed in saying something.

Cognate: Descended from a common ancestor; of the same stock or family.

Etymology: The facts relating to the origin of a particular word or the historical development of its form and meaning; the origin of a particular word.

Flippant: In bad sense: Impertinently voluble.

Voluble: Liable to change; inconstant, variable, mutable. Now rare.

Profundity: The quality of being deep; great or vast depth.

Solemnity: Observance of ceremony or special formality on important occasions.

Bigamy: Marriage with a second wife or husband when already married; the crime of having two wives or husbands at once. Also in extended use.

Welsher: A bookmaker at a race meeting who takes money for a bet, but absconds or refuses to pay after a loss.

Concomitants: An attendant state, quality, circumstance, or thing; an accompaniment.

Abscond: To hide, conceal; to obscure.

Explicate: To express fully in words, make explicit; to give a detailed account of.

Semantic: Of relating to (the study of) meaning in language.

Antecedently: Previously in time, before; first or earlier in a causal, connectional, or implicational relation.

Tautological: Unnecessary repetition, usually in close proximity, of the same word, phrase, idea, argument, etc. Now typically: the saying of the same thing twice in different words (e.g. ‘they arrived one after the other in succession’), generally considered to be a fault of style.

Paradigm: A pattern of model, and exemplar; (also) a typical instance of something, and example.

Subsidiary: That provides assistance; supplementary.

Predicate: To announce or declare publicly; to preach; to assert or affirm as true or existent. Also: to praise or commend publicly, to extol.

Syntax:  The set of rules and principles in a language according to which words, phrases, and clauses are arranged to create well-formed sentences; (also) the analysis or study of such principles; the branch of grammar concerned with this.

Analogous: Characterized by correspondence to; resembling, or bearing comparison with; parallel, equivalent; comparable, similar.

Morphemes: A grammatical element such as a prefix, suffix, preposition, conjunction, or stress pattern considered in terms of its functional relations in a linguistic system.

Perlocutionary: Of or designating an act of speaking or writing that is intended to persuade or convince.

Illocutionary: An act such as ordering, warning, undertaking, performed in saying something.

Contingently: As a possibility that may or may not befall.

Elliptical: That has the form of an ellipse; pertaining to ellipses.

Circularity: Circular quality, form, or position.

Analysans: A definition proposed as a logical analysis or elucidation of a given concept, expression, etc.

Analysandum: That which is to be, or is being, analysed; (in more recent use esp.) a concept, proposition, or expression regarded as in need of definition or logical analysis.

Construing: To combine (words, or parts of speech) grammatically. Now, to combine a verb, adjective, preposition, or other word with the case or relational words with which it is syntactically used.

Locution: A form of expression; a phrase, an expression.

Purported: Professed, alleged.

Lexical: Pertaining or relating to the words or vocabulary of a language. Often contrasted with grammatical.

Superfluous: That is present in a greater quantity than is desired, permitted, or required for the purpose; abundant or numerous to the point of excess; more than sufficient.

Taxonomy: A classification of something; a particular system of classification.

Expediently: As is expedient; suitably, conveniently.

Idiom: The specific character or individuality of a language; the manner of expression considered natural to or distinctive of a language; a language’s distinctive phraseology.

Concomitant: Going together, accompanying, concurrent, attendant.

Pithy: Full of strength or vigour; vigorous, powerful, strong; substantial.

Loping: Characterized by long, bounding strides; having a gait of this kind.

Forlorn: Morally lost; abandoned, depraved.

Derivatives: Characterized by transmission, or passing from one to another.

Desultory: Pursuing a disconnected and irregular course of action; unmethodical.

Transference: Psychoanal.  [translating German übertragung.] The transfer to the analyst by the patient of re-awakened and powerful emotions previously (in childhood) directed at some other person or thing and since repressed or forgotten; the process or state of such a transfer; loosely, the emotional aspect of a patient’s relationship to the analyst

Signifier: A person who or thing which signifies or indicates something.

Latent: Of a material thing: hidden, concealed; not visible to the naked eye.

Analysand: Psychoanal. A person who is undergoing psychoanalytical treatment or is the subject of psychoanalysis.

Ruminations: The action of revolving something in one’s mind; meditation, contemplation.

Intersubjective: Existing between conscious minds.

Morosely: In a morose manner.

Morose: Of persons, or their attributes, behaviour, etc.: sullen, gloomy, sour-tempered, unsocial.

Evocations: The evoking or calling up a spirit.

Cryptic: Something enigmatic or hidden; a secret, a mystery. Now chiefly: an enigmatic remark, piece of writing, etc.

Desiccated: Deprived or freed of moisture; dried; (of food) dried for preservation.

Discourse: The process or faculty of reasoning; reasoned argument or thought; reason, rationality. Also more fully discourse of reason.

Pulsions: Psychoanal. An unconscious drive or impulse influencing the development of human personality.

Inflective: Having the quality of inflecting; tending to inflect.

Inflect: To bend inwards; to bend into a curve or angle; hence, simply, to bend, to curve.

Recumbent: Reliant or dependent upon God, Christ, etc.

Veneration: A feeling of deep respect and reverence directed towards some person or thing.

Ethnography:

Methodology:

Patronage:

Anthropology:

Concision: The action of cutting to pieces or cutting away; mutilation.

Aptness:

Pragmatic:

Disjunction:

Empirically:

Theological:

Heir:

Apprehension:

Concise:

Overt:

Multiplicity:

Aesthetic:

Intrinsic:

Inhere:

Transient:

Accrues:

Atypical:

Contemporary:

Proponents:

Vernacular:

Recesses:

Veracity:

Pervaded:

Irredeemably:

Circumvent:

Liability:

Quarry:

Obverse:

Impoverished:

Inextricably:

Preclude:

Semiotics:

Compulsions:

Potency:

Concretions:

Vivify:

Elucidate:

Arouse:

Matrices:

Pervasive:

Belabor: To labour at, work at; to exert one’s strength or ability upon, to ply.

Induced:

Plumbed:

Arbitrary:

Fettering:

Synchronic:

Diachronic:

Welter:

Cubits:

Welding:

Soldering:

Riveting:

Dovetailing:

Mortise-and-tenon joints:

Arcane:

Criterion:

Elicited:

Germane:

Splendid:

Succinctly:

Precipitated:

Proscriptions:

Peregrinations:

Shunting:

Writ:

Conflation:

Diachronic:

Tabula Rasa:

Imbue:

Ineluctably:

Surrogate:

Imp:

Obdurate:

Veracity:

Uncongenial:

Accoutrements:

Affinity:

Pervasive:

Reen:

Quixotic:

Autonomous:

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