• caricature (n.): a ludicrous or grotesque version of someone or something; (adj.): caricatural. [origin: Mid 18th century: from French, from Italian caricatura, from caricare, ‘load, exaggerate’, from Latin carricare, carcare, ‘to load’, from Latin carrus , ‘wheeled vehicle’]. ~(Oxford English Dictionary).

• caricature (n.): a grotesque imitation or misrepresentation; (n.): caricaturist. [French, from Italian caricatura, from caricare, ‘to load’, ‘exaggerate’, from Late Latin carricāre, from Latin carrus, “a Gallic type of wagon”’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

• caricature (n.; caricatured, caricaturing): any imitation so distorted or inferior as to be ludicrous; (n.): caricaturist; (synonym): burlesque. [1740-50; from Italian caricatura, derivative of caricat[o], ‘affected’, lit. ‘loaded’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

Cashless:

cashless (adj.): functioning, operated, or performed without using coins or banknotes for money transactions but instead using credit cards or electronic transfer of funds; [e.g.]: “cashless shopping”. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

Casuistry (n.): oversubtle, fallacious, or dishonest reasoning; sophistry. [1715-25]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

Catalepsy:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘catalepsy: a condition of trance or seizure with loss of sensation or consciousness and abnormal maintenance of posture’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Nirodh:

Total cessation of consciousness. (Figure 17-4)’. (www.psychedelic-library.org/soc17.htm).

Vippayutta: see Quotes Buddhism

Catamite:

catamite (n. pl. catamites): 1. the junior partner in a pederastic relationship; [e.g.]: “And what about your brother?—Is he to be a catamite?” (from “Heroes of the Republic of Rome” by Esther Hall as ‘Lyde’, in Episode V of Season II, on the 4th day of July, and repeated on the 6th day, 2007); (n.): catamitism; (adj.): catamitic; catamitical; (adv.; rare): catamitically; (n.; rare): catamitery; (synonym): pathic. [etymology: First attested in English in 1593: from Latin Catamītus, from Etruscan Сатшіте, ‘Catmite’, from Ancient Greek Γανυμήδης, ‎Ganumḗdēs, ‘Ganymede’; in Greek mythology, an attractive Trojan boy abducted to Mount Ólympos by the god Zeus to become his cupbearer and, later, his lover]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary).

Categorical:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘categorical: unconditional, absolute; explicit, direct, plain-speaking; [synonyms] unqualified, unequivocal, unambiguous, unreserved, downright, emphatic, positive, express, conclusive’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Cheerily:

[Dictionary Definition]: chicanery (n.): lack of straightforwardness and honesty in action; (synonyms): craft, craftiness, deviousness, dishonesty, indirection, shadiness, shiftiness, slyness, sneakiness, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).

Christocentric:

Chutzpah:

chutzpah (Yiddish): unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity.~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

Civilisation:

civilisation (n.): 1. the act or process of civilising or being civilised⁽*⁾; 2. cultural and intellectual refinement.~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

⁽*⁾civilise (tr.v.; civilised, civilising, civilises): 1. to raise from barbarism to an enlightened stage of development; bring out of a primitive or savage state; 2. to educate in matters of culture and refinement; make more polished or sophisticated; (adj.): civilisable; (n.): civiliser. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

Clarifier:

clarifier (n.): one who, or that which, clarifies. [etymology: clarify +‎ -er]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary).

Clew:

[Dictionary Definition]: clew: a ball of yarn etc. used to trace a path through a maze (as in the Greek myth of Theseus in the Labyrinth); a thing which guides through perplexity, a difficult investigation, an intricate structure, etc. (©Oxford Dictionary).

Colligate:

[Dictionary Definition]: col​li​gate (tr.v.; *colligated*; colligating): 1. to bind, unite, or group together; 2. to subsume (isolated facts) under a general concept; (intr.v.): to be or become a member of a group or unit; (n.): colligation. [emphasis added].~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

colligate (tr.v. colligated, colligating, colligates): 1. to tie or group together; 2. to bring (isolated facts) together by an explanation or hypothesis that applies to them all; (n.): colligation. [Latin colligāre, colligāt-: com-, ‘together, jointly’ + ligāre, ‘to tie, bind’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

Codger:

[Dictionary Definitions]:

• codger (n.): a fellow, a person, esp. a strange one. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

• codger (n.): usually following the word ‘old’ or ‘elderly’; a coffin dodger, a senior citizen who moans about their arthritis, and has tufts of hair sprouting from their ears and noses (male) or their chins and top lips (female); they despise anything which anyone under thirty may do, and can’t manage to drive more than thirty-miles-per-hour, and then only on Sundays; [e.g.]: "Look at that pair of old codgers, all they do is watch Antiques Road-Show and listen to Home-Gardner’s question time while making cups of tea every fifteen minutes". ~ (The Urban Dictionary).

Cohort:

cohort (n.): (...); 5. a group of persons sharing a particular statistical or demographic characteristic; 6. an individual in a population of the same species; (word usage): emphasising the idea of companionship or aid, cohort has come to signify a single individual - whether friend, supporter, or accomplice; this use is sometimes objected to, although it is now common. [1475-85; from Middle French cohorte, from Latin cohort - [related to hort(us), ‘garden’], singular of cohors, ‘farmyard’, ‘armed force’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary) .

Collusive:

Coloured:

complementarity (n.): a complementary relationship or situation; [e.g.]: “the complementarity of the sexes”; “a culture based on the complementarity of men and women”. [origin of complementary: Late Middle English (in the sense ‘completion’): from Latin complēmentum, ‘something that completes’, from complētus, past participle of complēre, ‘fill up, finish, fulfil’, from com-, expressing intensive force + plēre, ‘fill’]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

Complemental:

• complemental (adj.): acting as or providing a complement⁽*⁾ (=‘something which completes the whole’). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

⁽*⁾complement (n.): something which completes or brings to perfection; [e.g.]: “Wine complements a dinner”; not to be confused with compliment (n.): an expression of admiration; praise; regards; [e.g.]: “My compliments to the chef”. ~ (Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree).

• complemental or complementary (adj.): 1. acting as or forming a complement (viz.: ‘a person or thing which completes something’; ‘one of two parts which make up a whole or complete each other’); completing; 2. forming a satisfactory or balanced whole; (adv.): complementarily, complementally; (n.): complementariness. [C16; complement + -al¹]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

complemental (adj.): forming a complement; supplying a deficiency; completing. [from complement + -al]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

Complexification:

complexification (n.): the result of an effort to complexify an issue, effort or process; an obtuse solution to a clear problem; the art of making the simple, complex; [e.g.]: “The legal babble was a robust complexification of the simple process of entering a will”; “Lawyers are experts in the sublime art of complexification”; “The User-Meister software is a complexification of managing users on the system”. ~ (The Urban Dictionary).

Complexify:

complexify (v.; complexifies, complexifying or *complexified*): to make or become complex; (adv.): complexly; (n.): complexness; complexification; 

(synonyms): complicated, intricate, involved, tangled, complex; these adjectives mean having parts so interconnected as to hamper comprehension or perception of the whole; complicated stresses a relationship of parts that affect each other in elaborate, often obscure ways; 

[e.g.]: “The party’s complicated platform confused many voters; intricate refers to a pattern of intertwining parts that is difficult to follow or analyse; [e.g.]: ”No one could soar into a more intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology“. (Anthony Trollope); involved implies a close but confusing interconnection between many different parts; [e.g.]: ”The movie’s plot was criticised as being too involved in minuscular detail“; tangled strongly suggests the random twisting of many parts; [e.g.]: ”Oh, what a tangled web we weave, | When first we practice to deceive!“ (Sir Walter Scott); complex implies a combination of many interwoven parts; [e.g.]: ”The composer transformed a simple folk tune into a complex set of variations“; 

(usage note): the word complex is sometimes wrongly used where complicated is meant; complex is properly used to say only that something consists of several parts; it should not be used to say that, because something consists of many parts, it is difficult to understand or analyse. [emphasis added]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

Comtism: