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Vindicatory
- adjective - given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; "retributive justice"
- of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye"
- providing justification
Vine Cactus
- noun - desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers
Vinogradoff
- noun - British historian (born in Russia) (1854-1925)
Virgularian
- - Any one of numerous species of long, slender Alcyonaria belonging to Virgularia and allied genera of the family Virgularidae. These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. The polyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each side of the rhachis.
Visionaries
- noun - a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible
- a person with unusual powers of foresight
Voluntaries
- noun - (military) a person who freely enlists for service
- composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance
Voluntarily
- adverb - out of your own free will; "he voluntarily submitted to the fingerprinting"
Voluntarism
- - Any theory which conceives will to be the dominant factor in experience or in the constitution of the world; -- contrasted with intellectualism. Schopenhauer and Fichte are typical exponents of the two types of metaphysical voluntarism, Schopenhauer teaching that the evolution of the universe is the activity of a blind and irrational will, Fichte holding that the intelligent activity of the ego is the fundamental fact of reality.
Volvocaceae
- noun - unicellular or colonial biflagellate free-swimming flagellates
Vouchsafing
- verb - grant in a condescending manner