teries

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• mystery — I. noun (plural teries) Etymology: Middle English mysterie, from Latin mysterium, from Greek mystērion, from mystēs initiate Date: 14th century 1. a. a religious truth that one can know only by revelation and cannot fully understand b. (1) any of …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• māte r- —     māte r     English meaning: mother     Deutsche Übersetzung: “Mutter”     Note: based on auf dem babble word mü, see there.     Note: Root müte r : “mother” derived from the nasalized stem mühnt ér of Root meĝ(h) : meĝ(h) suffixed in er …   Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary

• adultery — noun (plural teries) Etymology: Middle English, alteration of avoutrie, from Anglo French avulterie, from Latin adulterium, from adulter adulterer, back formation from adulterare Date: 15th century voluntary sexual intercourse betw …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• artery — noun (plural teries) Etymology: Middle English arterie, from Latin arteria, from Greek artēria; akin to Greek aortē aorta Date: 14th century 1. any of the tubular branching muscular and elastic walled vessels that carry blood from the heart… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• baptistery — or baptistry noun (plural teries or tries) Date: 14th century a part of a church or formerly a separate building used for baptism …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• battery — noun (plural teries) Etymology: Anglo French baterie, from batre to beat, from Latin battuere Date: 1531 1. a. the act of battering or beating b. an offensive touching or use of force on a person without the person s …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• cattery — noun (plural teries) Date: circa 1843 an establishment for the breeding and boarding of cats …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• cautery — noun (plural teries) Etymology: Latin cauterium, from Greek kautērion branding iron, from kaiein Date: 14th century 1. the act or effect of cauterizing ; cauterization 2. an agent (as a hot iron or caustic) used to burn, sear, or destroy tissue …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• cemetery — noun (plural teries) Etymology: Middle English cimitery, from Anglo French cimiterie, from Late Latin coemeterium, from Greek koimētērion sleeping chamber, burial place, from koiman to put to sleep; akin to Greek keisthai to lie, Sanskrit śete he …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• charactery — noun (plural teries) Date: 1598 a system of written letters or symbols used in the expression of thought …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• dysentery — noun (plural teries) Etymology: Middle English dissenterie, from Latin dysenteria, from Greek, from dys + enteron intestine more at inter Date: 14th century 1. a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually …   New Collegiate Dictionary