Teleology

  • 131Intention — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Intention >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 intent intent intention intentionality Sgm: N 1 purpose purpose Sgm: N 1 quo animo quo animo Sgm: N 1 project project &c. 626 Sgm: N 1 undertaking …

    English dictionary for students

  • 132talisman — [17] Talisman, one of the very few English nouns ending in man which does not turn into men in the plural (dragoman is another), denotes etymologically an ‘object consecrated by the completion of a religious ritual’. It comes via French talisman… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins