Definition of Absolote
Ab"so*lute (&?;), a. [L. absolutus, p.
p. of absolvere: cf. F. absolu. See Absolve.]
1. Loosed from any limitation or condition;
uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority,
monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command;
absolute power; an absolute monarch.
2. Complete in itself; perfect; consummate;
faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute
beauty.
So absolute she seems,
And in herself complete.
Milton.
3. Viewed apart from modifying influences or
without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to
relative and comparative; as, absolute motion;
absolute time or space.
Absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man in a state
of nature as contradistinguished from relative rights and duties, or
such as pertain to him in his social relations.
4. Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on
any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
&fist; In this sense God is called the Absolute by the Theist.
The term is also applied by the Pantheist to the universe, or the total of
all existence, as only capable of relations in its parts to each other and
to the whole, and as dependent for its existence and its phenomena on its
mutually depending forces and their laws.
5. Capable of being thought or conceived by itself
alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
&fist; It is in dispute among philosopher whether the term, in this
sense, is not applied to a mere logical fiction or abstraction, or whether
the absolute, as thus defined, can be known, as a reality, by the
human intellect.
To Cusa we can indeed articulately trace, word and thing,
the recent philosophy of the absolute.
Sir W. Hamilton.
6. Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
[R.]
I am absolute 't was very Cloten.
Shak.
7. Authoritative; peremptory. [R.]
The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head,
With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed.
Mrs. Browning.
8. (Chem.) Pure; unmixed; as,
absolute alcohol.
9. (Gram.) Not immediately dependent on the
other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute.
See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
Absolute curvature (Geom.), that curvature
of a curve of double curvature, which is measured in the osculating plane
of the curve. -- Absolute equation (Astron.),
the sum of the optic and eccentric equations. -- Absolute
space (Physics), space considered without relation to
material limits or objects. -- Absolute terms.
(Alg.), such as are known, or which do not contain the unknown
quantity. Davies & Peck. -- Absolute
temperature (Physics), the temperature as measured on
a scale determined by certain general thermo-dynamic principles, and
reckoned from the absolute zero. -- Absolute zero
(Physics), the be ginning, or zero point, in the scale of
absolute temperature. It is equivalent to -273° centigrade or -
459.4° Fahrenheit.
Syn. -- Positive; peremptory; certain; unconditional; unlimited;
unrestricted; unqualified; arbitrary; despotic; autocratic.
Ab"so*lute (&?;), n. (Geom.) In a
plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three
dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
ABSOLUTE, adj. Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is
one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases
the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them
having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign's
power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics,
which are governed by chance.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command.
absolute power
an absolute monarch
- Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless.
absolute perfection
absolute beauty
Quotations
*So absolute she seems, And in herself complete. —John Milton
- Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; — opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.
Absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man in a state of nature as contradistinguished from relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him in his social relations.
- Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
Note: In this sense God is called the Absolute by the Theist. The term is also applied by the Pantheist to the universe, or the total of all existence, as only capable of relations in its parts to each other and to the whole, and as dependent for its existence and its phenomena on its mutually depending forces and their laws.
- Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
Note: It is in dispute among philosophers whether the term, in this sense, is not applied to a mere logical fiction or abstraction, or whether the absolute, as thus defined, can be known, as a reality, by the human intellect.
Quotations
*To Cusa we can indeed articulately trace, word and thing, the recent philosophy of the absolute. —William Hamilton
- (rare): Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
Quotations
*I am absolute 't was very Cloten. —Shakespeare, Cymbeline, IV,ii
- (rare): Authoritative; peremptory.
Quotations
*The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- (Chemistry) Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
- (Grammar) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See ablative absolute, under ablative.
- (Geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
- (Grammar) The first of the three degrees of comparison.
- That which is independent of context-dependent interpretation, inviolate, fundamental (referring to Adjective Definition 4)
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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