ALTERABILITY
AL'TERABILITY, noun The quality of being susceptible of alteration.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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ALTERABLE
AL'TERABLE, adjective That may become different; that may vary.
ALTERABLENESS
AL'TERABLENESS, noun The quality of admitting alteration; variableness.
ALTERABLY
AL'TERABLY, adverb In a manner that may be altered, or varied.
ALTERAGE
AL'TERAGE, noun [From alo, to feed.]The breeding, nourishing or fostering of a child. But this is not an English word.
ALTERANT
AL'TERANT, adjective Altering; gradually changing.AL'TERANT, noun A medicine which, without a sensible operation, gradually corrects the state of the body and changes it from a ...
ALTERATION
ALTERA'TION, noun [Latin alteratio.]The act of making different, or of varying in some particular; an altering or partial change; also the change made, or the loss or acquisitio...
ALTERATIVE
AL'TERATIVE, adjective Causing alteration; having the power to alter.AL'TERATIVE, noun A medicine which, without sensible operation, gradually induces a change in the habit or c...
ALTERCATE
AL'TERCATE, verb intransitive [Latin altercor, alterco, from alter, another.]To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat or anger; to wrangle.
ALTERCATION
ALTERCA'TION, noun [Latin altercatio.]Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle.
ALTERN
AL'TERNadjective [Latin alternus, of alter, another.]1. Acting by turns; one succeeding another; alternate, which is the word generally used.2. In crystallography, exhibiting, o...
ALTERNACY
AL'TERNACY, noun Performance or actions by turns. [Little used.]
ALTERNAL
ALTERN'AL, adjective Alternative. [Little used.]
ALTERNALLY
ALTERN'ALLY, adverb By turns. [Little used.]
ALTERNATE
ALTERN'ATE, adjective [Latin alternatus.]1. Being by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; hence reciprocal.And bid alternate passions fall and rise.2. ...
ALTERNATELY
ALTERN'ATELY, adverb In reciprocal succession; by turns, so that each is succeeded by that which it succeeds, as night follows day and day follows night.
ALTERNATENESS
ALTERN'ATENESS, noun The quality of being alternate, or of following in succession.
ALTERNATING
AL'TERNATING, participle present tense Performing or following by turns.
ALTERNATION
ALTERNA'TION, noun1. The reciprocal succession of things, in time or place; the act of following and being followed in succession; as, we observe the alternation of day and nigh...
ALTERNATIVE
ALTERN'ATIVE, adjective Offering a choice of two things.ALTERN'ATIVE, noun That which may be chosen or omitted; a choice of two things, so that if one is taken, the other must b...
ALTERNATIVELY
ALTERN'ATIVELY, adverb In the manner of alternatives; in a manner that admits the choice of one out of two things.
ALTERNATIVENESS
ALTERN'ATIVENESS, noun The quality or state of being alternative.
ALTERNITY
ALTERN'ITY, noun Succession by turns; alternation.
ALTHEA
ALTHE'A, noun [Gr. to heal.]In botany, a genus of polyandrian monadelphs, of several species; called in English marsh-mallow.The common species has a perennial root, and an annu...
ALTHOUGH
ALTHO'UGH, altho', obsolete verb, or used only in the Imperative.Grant all this; be it so; allow all; suppose that; admit all that; as, 'although the fig tree shall not blossom....
ALTILOQUENCE
ALTIL'OQUENCE, noun [Latin altus, high, and loquor, loquens, speaking.] Lofty speech; pompous language.
ALTIMETER
ALTIM'ETER, noun [Latin altus, high and Gr. measure. See Measure and Mode.]An instrument for taking altitudes by geometrical principles, as a geometrical quadrant.