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taxonomy | famish |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As a verb famish is

(obsolete|transitive) to starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    famish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
  • *, I.iv.1:
  • *:Even so did Corellius Rufus, another grave senator, by the relation of Plinius Secundus, Epist. lib.1, epist.12 , famish himself to death […].
  • To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hunger.
  • :*And when all the land of Egypt was famished , the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. -- Gen. xli. 55.
  • :*The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. --Dryden.
  • To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
  • :*And famish him of breath, if not of bread. -- Milton.
  • To force or constrain by famine.
  • :*He had famished Paris into a surrender. -- Burke.
  • To die of hunger; to starve.
  • To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
  • :*You are all resolved rather to die than to famish ? -- Shakespeare
  • To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
  • :*The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish . -- Prov. x. 3.

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