Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something remaining after removal of a part; a residue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geology, the insoluble remainder left behind during processes of rock-weathering by the removal of the soluble portion.
- noun That which is left after any process; that which remains; a residue.
- noun Specifically, in late, that part of an estate which is left after the payment of charges, debts, and particular bequests; more strictly, the part so left which is effectively disposed of by a residuary clause.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a
residue .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something left after other parts have been taken away
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In 4e, all you need to do is to remove the residuum from the belly, which you may or may not have removed already (I have).
Mike Mearls Strangles Realism In D&D Like It’s An Unruly Hooker « Geek Related 2009
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The residuum is worth the market value of the item (not one-fifth the value).
Mike Mearls Strangles Realism In D&D Like It’s An Unruly Hooker « Geek Related 2009
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Until those appear, in essance, residuum is just a special kind of very light gold pieces you can exchange for magical effects away from a store.
4e PHB Readthrough – Chapter 7: Equipment « Geek Related 2008
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Also, for some rituals (magic item creation I assume) you have to use residuum, which is the magic dust you get from disenchanting other magic items.
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As a consequence, the universal epoché does not serve to establish what it was solely designed to show, namely the residuum thesis.
Edmund Husserl Beyer, Christian 2007
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It has been said, and it is often repeated, that if you strip a Spaniard of his virtues, the residuum will be a Portuguese.
Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin
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England wanted the Philippines, he would think it what he would term a residuum of normalcy to give them away.
My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 1906
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In North Africa the residuum was a remarkable propensity to visions, holy dreams, and the like.
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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But with a sense of more human dutifulness, Perry recalled his residuum of perception.
Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877
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Spiritualising will turn out to be very like evaporating, the residuum will be a miserably unsatisfactory something, near akin to nothing, and certainly incapable either of firing its disciples with a desire to spread their faith, if we may call it so by courtesy, or of drawing men to itself.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Alexander Maclaren 1868
milosrdenstvi commented on the word residuum
Ah! Take of these elements all that is fusible,
Melt them all down in a pipkin or crucible,
Set them to simmer, and take off the scum,
And a Heavy Dragoon is the residuum!
-- W.S. Gilbert, Patience
August 21, 2008
super-logos commented on the word residuum
Milo, you are a scholar indeed! I appreciate your energy.
August 21, 2008
bilby commented on the word residuum
Lees, molly?
September 1, 2008
mollusque commented on the word residuum
Thanks, bilby. I have it under residua.
September 2, 2008