lichwale (medicine) and degree(1) (iou)

lichwale (medicine)

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degree noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French degre from Proto-Romance, from Latin de- DE- 1 + gradus step, GRADE noun.]
I.
a. A step, esp. each of a flight of steps; a rung of a ladder. obsolete exc. Heraldry. ME.
Shakespeare Julius Caesar Scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
b. A thing placed like a step in a series; a row, a tier. E17.
A step in direct genealogical descent; in pl., the number of steps from a common ancestor by which is determined the closeness of the relation of collateral descendants. ME.
H. James A..poor relation, of distant degree. T. H. White I am..near cousin to Joseph of Arimatheaand you..are but the eighth degree from..Jesus Christ.
A stage or position in a social or official scale; a class, rank, grade, station, etc. ME.
T. Gunn I served/ all degrees and both sexes.
Relative state or condition; manner, way, respect. ME.
O. W. Holmes A simple evening party in the smallest village is just as admirable in its degree.
A step or stage in a process or scale. Esp. in by degrees below. ME.
Dryden To go unknown is the next degree to going invisible.
A stage in intensity or amount; the relative intensity, extent, or amount of a quality, attribute, or action. LME.
Longfellow I have the faculty of abstraction to a wonderful degree. W. S. Churchill Pitt was able to bring a degree of order into this chaos. Isaiah Berlin The ordinary run of men are blind in varying degrees to that which truly shapes their lives.
II. spec. & techn. senses.
A stage of proficiency in an Art, craft, course of study, etc.; spec. an academic rank conferred by a university or college as a mark of proficiency in scholarship; Law (now rare) the status of barrister. LME.
I. Murdoch Ann was reading for a degree in English.
b. Any of the ranks of Freemasonry. LME.
Grammar. Each of the three stages (see POSITIVE, COMPARATIVE, SUPERLATIVE adjectives) in the comparison of an adjective or adverb. LME.
A unit of measurement of angles or circular arcs, and hence of latitude, longitude, etc., equal to the 90th part of a right angle or the 360th part of the circumference of a circle (symbol ). LME.
F. Hoyle A plane with a slope of 10 degrees to the horizontal.
b. A position on the earth's surface as measured by degrees; latitude, longitude. M17.
S. Butler He knew the Seat of Paradise, Could tell in what Degree it lies.
Music. Each of the successive notes of a scale (esp. the diatonic scale); the interval between any two of these; each of the successive lines and spaces on the stave. L17.
A legal grade of crime or criminality. L17.
Physics. A unit in a scale of temperature, hardness, etc., (symbol or deg, or omitted where the letter indicating the scale being used serves as the symbol). E18.
degree absolute, degree Celsius, degree centigrade, degree Fahrenheit, degree Kelvin, degree Rankine, etc.
J. C. Oates Midday temperatures as high as 105 degrees.
Math. The rank of an equation or expression (or a curve etc. representing it) as determined by the highest power of the unknown or variable quantity, or the highest dimensions of the terms which it contains. M18.
M. Kline The methods of solving the second, third, and fourth degree equations were quite different.
Each of a number of grades, usu. three (first, second, third), used to classify burns according to their severity. M19.
Phrases: advanced degree: see ADVANCED 2. by degrees by successive stages, little by little, gradually. degree of comparison: see COMPARISON 4. degree of FREEDOM. degrees of cold: see COLD noun. first degree: see FIRST adjective, adverb, & noun. forbidden degrees = prohibited degrees below. honorary degree an academic degree awarded as a recognition of distinction or a tribute of honour. Levitical degrees: see LEVITICAL adjective. prohibited degrees the number of steps of consanguinity or affinity within which Marriage is not allowed. second degree: see SECOND adjective. Song of Degrees: see SONG noun1. third degree: see THIRD adjective. to a degree colloq. to a considerable extent. to the last degree to the utmost measure.
Comb.: degree day (a) a day on which academic degrees are formally awarded; (b) (orig. US) a unit used to determine the heating requirements of buildings, representing a fall of one degree below a specified average outdoor temperature for one day.
degreeless adjective without a degree or degrees E19.

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