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Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled;
unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy,
sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an
absolute monarch. |
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Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as,
absolute perfection; absolute beauty. |
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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. |
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Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other
being; self-existent; self-sufficing. |
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Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone;
unconditioned; non-relative. |
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Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. |
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Authoritative; peremptory. |
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Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol. |
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Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the
sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute,
under Ablative. |
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In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at
infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at
infinity. |
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