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Vaporous; Vedanta; The Vegetated Geographical World

Venerous; Victimology; Videographer; View; Vignettist

Vilify; Vilidendency; Villein/Villain; Vintage; Virtual; Visceral

Vituperative; Voilà; Voluptuous; Vulvouterine; Vulvovaginal


Vaporous:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘vaporous: of a person etc.: inclined to be fanciful or vague; of an idea, a statement, etc.: fanciful, vague, insubstantial’. (Oxford Dictionary).


The period of Vedanta; lit. ‘end of the Veda’:

Vis.:

• vedanta (m.): end of the Veda (=‘complete knowledge of the Veda’, cf. vedanta-ga; [viz.: ‘one who has gone to the end of the Veda or who has complete knowledge of the Veda; a follower of the Vedanta’]); name of the second and most important part of the Mimamsa or third of the three great divisions of Hindu philosophy (called Vedanta either as teaching the ultimate scope of the Veda or simply as explained in the Upanishads which come at the end of the Veda; this system, although belonging to the Mimamsa q.v. [viz.: ‘name of one of the 3 great divisions of orthodox Hindu philosophy’], and sometimes called Uttara-mimamsa, ‘examination of the later portion or jnana-kanda, q.v. [viz.: ‘that portion of the Veda which relates to knowledge of the one Spirit’], of the Veda’, is really the one sole orthodox exponent of the pantheistic creed of the Hindus of the present day – a creed which underlies all the polytheism and multiform mythology of the people; its chief doctrine as expounded by Samkaracarya, is that of Advaita i.e. that nothing really exists but the One Self or Soul of the Universe called Brahman neut., or Paramatman, and that the Jivatman or individual human soul and indeed all the phenomena of nature are really identical with the Paramatman, and that their existence is only the result of Ajnana otherwise called avidya, or an assumed ignorance on the part of that one universal Soul which is described as both Creator and Creation; (...); the liberation of the human soul, its deliverance from transmigrations, and re-union with the Paramatman, with which it is really identified, is only to be effected by a removal of that ignorance through a proper understanding of the Vedanta; this system is also called Brahma-mimamsa and Sarirakamimamsa, ‘inquiring into Spirit or embodied Spirit’; the founder of the school is said to have been Vyasa, also called Badarayana, and its most eminent teacher was Samkaracarya); (m. pl.): the Upanishads or works on the Vedanta philosophy. (Monier Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary).

Vedanta (m.):

vedanta (m.): *end of the Veda* (= ‘complete knowledge of the Veda’, cf. vedānta-ga, ); N. of the second and most important part of the Mīmāṃsā or third of the three great divisions of Hindū philosophy (called Vedānta either as teaching the ultimate scope of the Veda or simply as explained *in the Upanishads which come at the end of the Veda* ...”. [emphases added]. ~ (Monier Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary; a.k.a. MMW-SED).


The Vegetated Geographical World:

The world of the mountains and the streams, the world of the trees and the flowers, the world of the clouds in the sky by day and the stars in the firmament by night, and so on and so on ad infinitum.


Venerous

venereous (adj.): 1. lascivious; libidinous; lustful; wanton; 2. giving vigour for or inclination to sexual intercourse: aphrodisiac: as, venereous drugs. [from Latin venereus,venerius, ‘of or pertaining to Venus⁰¹⁾or sexual intercourse’, from Venus (Vener-), ‘Venus’, ‘sexual intercourse’]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

⁽⁰¹⁾venerean (adj.): 1. inclined to the service of Venus, or to sexual desire and intercourse; 2. amorous; wanton. [from Middle English venerien, from Old French venerien = French vénerien; asvenere-ous⁽⁰²⁾+ -an]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

⁽⁰²⁾venereate (tr.v.; pret. and pp. venereated, ppr. venereating): to render amorous or lascivious; [e.g.]: “To venereate the unbridled spirits”. (Owen Feltham, “Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political”, circa 1620, i. 26). [from venere-ous + - ate¹]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).


Victimology:

victimology (n.): 1. the possession of an outlook, arising from real or imagined victimisation, which seems to glorify and indulge the state of being a victim; [e.g.]: “But coming from a woman who married her wealth, this kind of victimology is a little, err, rich”; “More and more, African-American iconoclasts reject victimology and embrace American possibility”; “But it is the grievance of a people who turn their own misdeeds into their own victimology, thus making rational discourse all but impossible”; 2. the study of the victims of crime and the psychological effects on them of their experience; [e.g.]: “specialists in victimology will gather to consider how best to help the victims of crime recover”; “A new tale is being spun in the never-ending female victimologysaga”. [origin: Late 15th century (denoting a creature killed as a religious sacrifice): from Latin victima, ‘sacrificial animal’]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).


Videographer:

videographer (n.): a person involved in the production of video material ⁽⁰¹⁾; videographers shoot the images with a video camera⁽⁰²⁾ (digital or analogue) and may perform minimal or extensive editing of the resulting footage. ~ (The Computer Language Company Inc).

⁽⁰¹⁾videography (n.): the art or practice of using a video camera; (n.): videographer. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

⁽⁰²⁾videographer (n.): a person who makes videotapes with a camcorder. [1970-75; derived from photographer]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).


View:

[Dictionary Definitions]: ‘view: a particular manner of considering or regarding something; a mental attitude; an opinion, idea, or belief concerning a particular subject or thing.’ (©Oxford Dictionary).


Vignettist:


Vilify:

[Dictionary Definitions]: ‘vilify: depreciate or disparage with abusive or slanderous language; defame, revile, speak evil of; formerly also, speak slightingly of;

Synonyms: defame, run down, impugn, revile, berate, denigrate, disparage, speak ill of, cast aspersions at, decry, denounce, fulminate against, malign, slander, libel, conduct a smear campaign against, blacken the name/ reputation of, calumniate, traduce; inf. badmouth, do a hatchet job on, pull to pieces, throw mud at, drag through the mud.’ (©Oxford Dictionary).


Vilipendency:


Villein/Villain: 

villein or villain (n.): (in medieval Europe) a peasant personally bound to his lord, to whom he paid dues and services, sometimes commuted to rents, in return for his land; cf. churl ⁽⁰²⁾. [C14: from Old French vilein, ‘serf’, from Late Latin vīllānus, ‘worker on a country estate’, from Latin villa; related to Latin vīcus, ‘a village’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

Footnotes:

⁽⁰²⁾churl (n.): 1. (...); 2. (archaic): a farm labourer; 3. a variant spelling of ceorl (=‘a freeman of the lowest class – above a slave but below a thane⁽⁰³⁾ – in Anglo-Saxon England; (adj.): ceorlish). [Old English ceorl; related to Old Norse karl, Middle Low German kerle, Greek gerōn, ‘old man’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

⁽⁰³⁾thane or commonly thegn (n.): 1. (in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of an aristocratic class, ranking below an ealdorman⁽⁰⁴⁾, whose status was hereditary and who held land from the king or from another nobleman in return for certain services; 2. (in medieval Scotland): (a.) a person of rank, often the chief of a clan, holding land from the king; (b.) a lesser noble who was a Crown official holding authority over an area of land; (n.): thanage. [Old English thegn; related to Old Saxon, Old High German thegan, ‘thane’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

⁽⁰⁴⁾ealdorman (n.; pl. ealdormen): an official of Anglo-Saxon England, appointed by the king, who was responsible for law, order, and justice in his shire and for leading his local fyrd⁽⁰⁵⁾ in battle. [Old English ealdor, ‘lord’ + man]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

⁽⁰⁵⁾fyrd (n.): the local militia of an Anglo-Saxon shire, in which all freemen⁽⁰⁶⁾ had to serve. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

⁽⁰⁶⁾freeman (n.; pl. freemen): 1. a person who is not a slave or in bondage; 2. a person who enjoys political and civil liberties; citizen; 3. a person who enjoys a privilege or franchise, such as the freedom of a city. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).


Vintage:


Virtual:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘That is so in essence or effect, although not recognised formally, actually, or by strict definition as such; almost absolute. Possessed of certain physical virtues or powers; effective in respect of inherent qualities. Capable of producing a certain effect or result’. (Oxford Dictionary).


Visceral:

[Dictionary Definition]: visceral (adj.): relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect; [e.g.]: ‘the voters’ visceral fear of change’; (adv): viscerally. (Oxford Dictionary).

[Dictionary Definition]: visceral (adj.): characterised by intuition or instinct rather than intellect; (adv.): viscerally. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).


Vituperative:

vituperative (adj.): of, relating to, or characterised by railing (against) offensively; reviling with venomous censure; (synonyms): abusive, vitriolic, virulent, insulting, harsh, withering, malign, belittling, sardonic, derogatory, scurrilous, defamatory, censorious, opprobrious, denunciatory, calumniatory; [e.g.]: “He is one of the author’s most vituperative critics”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus).


Voilà:

[Dictionary Definition]: voilà: there it is!, there you are! (Oxford Dictionary).


Voluptuous:

voluptuous (adj.): 1. derived from gratification of the senses; [e.g.]: “voluptuous pleasure”; 2. sensuously pleasing or delightful; [e.g.]: “voluptuous magnificence”; 3. full and shapely; [e.g.]: “a voluptuous figure”; 4. characterised by or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment; [e.g.]: “a voluptuous life”; (adv.): *voluptuously*; (n.): voluptuosity, voluptuousness. [1325-75; Middle English, from Old French voluptueux, from Latin voluptuōsus, full of pleasure’, derivative of volupt(ās), ‘pleasure’ + -ōsus -ous; -u- probably by association with sumptuōsus, ‘sumptuous’]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).


Vulvouterine:

vulvouterine (adj.): pertaining to the vulva and uterus. ~ (Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary).


Vulvovaginal

vulvovaginal (adj.): relating to the external female genitals. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).


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