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Traditional English :: frantic
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franticness.html - adj. 1 wildly excited; frenzied. 2 characterized by great hurry or anxiety; desperate, violent. 3 colloq. extreme; very great. frantically adv. franticly adv. franticness n. [ME frentik, frantik f. OF frenetique f. L phreneticus: see PHRENETIC] |
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Traditional English :: frantic
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franticness.html - adj. 1 wildly excited; frenzied. 2 characterized by great hurry or anxiety; desperate, violent. 3 colloq. extreme; very great. frantically adv. franticly adv. franticness n. [ME frentik, frantik f. OF frenetique f. L phreneticus: see PHRENETIC] |
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Traditional English :: franc
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franticness.html - n. the chief monetary unit of France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxemburg, and several other countries. [ME f. OF f. Francorum Rex king of the Franks, the legend on the earliest gold coins so called (14th c.): see FRANK] |
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Traditional English :: franchise
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franticness.html - n. & v. --n. 1 a the right to vote at State (esp. parliamentary) elections. b the principle of qualification for this. 2 full membership of a corporation or State; citizenship. 3 authorization granted to an individual or group by a company to sell its goods or services in a particular way. 4 hist. legal immunity or exemption from a burden or jurisdiction. 5 a right or privilege granted to a person or corporation. --v.tr. grant a franchise to. franchisee n . franchiser n. (also franchisor). [ME f. OF f. franc, franche free: see FRANK] |
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Traditional English :: Franciscan
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franticness.html - n. & adj. --n. a monk, nun, or sister of an order founded in 1209 by St Francis of Assisi (see also Grey Friar). --adj. of St Francis or his order. [F franciscain f. mod.L Franciscanus f. Franciscus Francis] |
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Traditional English :: francium
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franticness.html - n. Chem. a radioactive metallic element occurring naturally in uranium and thorium ores. Symb.: Fr. [mod.L f. France (the discoverer's country)] |
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