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Defining Definitions
Words are incredibly mutable things. Their meaning varies according to context and intent, as well as the era in which they are uttered. Words evolve and morph in meaning through time; as well as our understanding of them. The definitions you find below are taken directly from three separate sources: Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (as found at ereader.com), WordWeb (a small free downloadable dictionary/thesaurus for the PC), and from dictionary.com These sources were chosen due to their availability and common usage.
The Words
Anthropomorphize: 1.) Ascribe human features to something 2.) To ascribe human characteristics to. 3.) To ascribe human characteristics to things.
Ascribe: 1.) Attribute or credit to 2.) To refer to a supposed cause, source, or author.
Barbarian: 1.) A person who is non-Greek 2.) A person who does not speak Greek
Characteristic: 1.) A prominent aspect of something. 2.) A distinguishing quality
Conscious: 1.) Perceiving, apprehending, or noticing with a degree of controlled thought or observation. 2.) Capable of or marked by thought, will, design, or perception.
Features: 1.) A prominent aspect of something. 2.) The characteristic part of a person's face.
Ethereal: 1.) of or relating to the regions beyond the earth. 2.) lacking material substance. 3.) marked by unusual delicacy or refinement. 4.) suggesting the heavens or heaven. 5.) extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.
Evolution: 1.) One of a set of prescribed movements 2.) A process of change in a certain direction. 3.) A process of continuous change from a lower, simpler, or worse to a higher, more complex, or better state : Growth 4.) The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to develop and diversify from earlier forms during the history of the earth. 5.) A process in which the whole universe is a progression of interrelated phenomena.
God: 1.) A super human being or spirit. 2.) The supreme or ultimate reality. 3.) One controlling a particular aspect or part of reality. 4.) A person or thing of supreme value. 5.) A powerful ruler.
Human: 1.) Of, relating to, or characteristic of people or human beings. 2.) Of or characteristic of people as opposed to a god or animals or machines. 3.) Zoology of or belonging to the genus Homo. 4.) A bipedal primate mammal.
Intrinsic: 1.) Belonging naturally; essential 2.) Contained wholly within the organ on which it acts.
Pagan: 1.) A person that does not acknowledge your god 2.) A person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion: Not Christian or Muslim or Jew 3.) Not acknowledging the god of Christianity/Judaism/Islam.
People: 1.) Human beings in general or considered collectively. 2.) human beings making up a group or assembly or linked by a common interest. 3.) The members of a family or kinship.
Prognostication: 1.) A sign of something about to happen 2.) A statement made about the future 3.) Knowledge of the future 4.) A forecast or prediction
Sentient: 1.) Able to perceive or feel things. 2.) Responsive to or conscious of sense impressions 3.) Aware 4.) Finely sensitive in perception or feeling.
Symbol: 1.) An arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance.2.) Something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
Smbology: 1.) The study or use of symbols
Trust: 1.) Firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something 2.) reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence. 3.) a person on whom or thing on which one relies.
Zoology: 1,) A branch of biology concerned with the classification and the properties and vital phenomena of animals. 2.) Animal life. 3.) The scientific study of the behavior, structure, physiology, classification, and distribution of animals.
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