# Actual Freedom – Definitions

# Definitions ## Objective; Oblation; Obviate; Oceanic; Odyssey; Off-Grid ## Old Fart; Open Sesame; Operant; Opinionated; Opportunistic ## Optimism; Orbiter Dictum; Originative; Osmosis ## Out of Whole Cloth; Outrecuidance Objective: Objective: dealing with or laying stress on what is external to the mind; concerned with outward things or \ events; presenting facts uncoloured by feelings, opinions, or personal bias. ~ (Oxford Dictionary). Oblation: • oblation (n.): 1. the act of offering something, such as worship or thanks, to a deity. 2. oblation: a. the act of offering the bread and wine of the Eucharist; b. something offered, especially the bread and wine of the Eucharist; 3. a charitable offering or gift; (adj.): oblational, oblatory; [Middle English oblacioun, fr. Old French oblacion, fr. Late Latin oblātiō, oblātiōn-, fr. Latin oblātus, past participle of offerre, ‘to offer’: ob-, + lātus, ‘brought’].~ (American Heritage Dictionary) Obviate: • obviate (v.t.; -ated, -ating): to anticipate and prevent or render unnecessary by effective measure; (adj.): obviable; (n.): obviation, obviator. [1590-1600; from Latin obviātus, past participle of obviāre, ‘to act contrary to’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). Oceanic: • ‘oceanic: resembling an ocean; immense, vast’. ~ (Oxford Dictionary). • ‘oceanic: resembling the ocean in apparent limitlessness in extent or degree’. ~ (WordNet 1.7). • ‘oceanic: resembling an ocean in expanse; vast’. ~ (The American Heritage® Dictionary). • ‘oceanic: vast (very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially in extent or range); great (remarkable in magnitude, degree)’. ~ (Merriam Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary). Odyssey: odyssey: a long series of wanderings, a long adventurous journey; fig. an extended process of development or change. ~ (Oxford Dictionary). Off-Grid: • off-the-grid (adj.; also off-grid, esp. North American English): not using the public supplies of electricity, gas, water, etc.; [e.g.]: “A houseboat is the ultimate form of off-grid living”; “The mountain cabin is entirely off the grid”; “An off-the-grid home, independent of traditional utility services”; “You can produce your own power and live off the grid”; (n.): off-gridding; off-gridder. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary). • off-the-grid (adj. & adv.; also off-grid, UK, US): 1. not connected to the main electricity grid (= system of connected wires and power stations); [e.g.]: “Solar power is useful in off-the-grid areas”; 2. not connected to any of the main utilities (= electricity, water, etc.) and having their own power and water supply; [e.g.]: “We’re interested in independent self-sufficient living, off-the-grid”; “These are innovative green homes for an alternative off-the-grid lifestyle”. ~ (Cambridge English Dictionary). • off-grid, off-the-grid (adj.): not connected to or served by publicly or privately managed utilities (such as electricity, gas, or water); [e.g.]: “When folks move to an off-grid, rural homestead, they often end up burning a lot of fossil fuels (and spending a lot of money) driving to and from town in an inefficient farm truck”. (Cam Mather); “Traditionally, home schooling has been branded as a fringe activity—the domain of bible-toting parents and off-the-grid hippies”. (Lynn Schnaiberg). [first known use: 1978, in the meaning defined above; the word “grid”, a contraction of “griddle” or “griddleiron”, was first used in 1839].~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). • off the grid, or, less commonly, off-the-grid; also off grid or off-grid (adv.): renewable energy sources for living off the grid; also known as rural homesteading; living off the land; permanent camping; off-grid living. ~ (Cambridge English Dictionary). [https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/off-the-grid]. Old Fart: • old fart (n.): someone who is boring and old-fashioned; people who are old-fashioned or do not like change; [synonyms]: dinosaur [viz.: ‘someone or something that is very old-fashioned and no longer useful or effective’], fogey [viz.: ‘a boring old-fashioned person’], fossil [viz.: ‘an insulting word for someone who is old and has old-fashioned ideas’], fuddy-duddy [viz.: ‘someone who has old-fashioned attitudes and is rather boring’] ~ Macmillan English Dictionary). • old fart (n.; plural old farts): (pejorative, idiomatic) an elderly person who holds views that are considered old-fashioned; [synonyms]: fossil [viz.: ‘outdated’], geezer (m) [viz.: ‘an old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man’] ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary). • old fart (n.): an old man; a superannuated man; [e.g.]: ‘I feel like an old fart. My back’s stiff, my knees hurt, my teeth hurt’ ~ (Dictionary of American Slang). • old fart (n.): a contemptible or tiresome person, especially one who is old-fashioned, stuffy, or close-minded; [e.g.]: ‘he was such an old fart’; ‘On television, there was some boring old fart in a suit talking about the dangers of credit growth’. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary). • old fart (n.; plural old farts): (slang, insulting) an offensive term for somebody, usually a person in authority, who is regarded as being set in his or her ways and lacking a sense of humour. ~ (Encarta English Dictionary). • old fart (n.): old-fashioned person; [synonyms]: dotard; dull person; fogy; fussbudget; fusspot; fussy person; granny; old fogy; old geezer; old maid; old poop; square; stick-in-the-mud; stuffed shirt. ~ (Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus). Operant: • attainer (n.): a person who attains or achieves something. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • attainer (n.; pl. attainers): one who attains (i.e., reaches or comes to, by progression or motion, a goal; gains an object or desired result; comes to or arrives at, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts, a place, an object, a state, etc.). [etymology: attain +‎ -er]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary). • attain (tr.v.): 1. to reach, achieve, or accomplish; gain; obtain; [e.g.]: “to attain one’s goals”; 2. to come to or arrive at; [e.g.]: “to attain the mountain peak”; (intr.v.): 3. to succeed in reaching something; [e.g.]: “to attain to knowledge”; 4. to reach in the course of development or growth; [e.g.]: “These trees attain to remarkable height”; (n.): *attainer*; attainability, attainableness; (adj.): attainable; (synonyms): gain, earn, win, attain; these verbs imply obtaining a reward or something advantageous; gain suggests the expenditure of effort to get or reach something desired; [e.g.]: “After battling the blizzard, we finally gained our destination”; earn emphasises a deserved reward for labour or services; [e.g.]: “to earn a promotion”; win stresses attainment in spite of competition or opposition; [e.g.]: “to win support in a campaign”; attain suggests a sense of personal satisfaction in having reached a lofty goal; [e.g.]: “to attain stardom”. [1300-50; Middle English atei(g)nen, from Anglo-French, Old French ateign-, singular of ateindre, from Vulgar Latin *attangere (for Latin attingere), from Latin at- + tangere, ‘to touch’]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • experient (n.): a person undergoing an experience or having experience. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). • experient (n.; pl. experients): a person who experiences something; (adj.): met with in the course of experience. [etymology: from Latin experiēns]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary). • operant (n.): a person or thing that operates; (adj.): producing effects; operating. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • operant (n.): 1. one that operates; 2. (psychology): an element of operant behaviour; (adj.): 1. operating to produce effects; effective; 2. (psychology): of, relating to, or being a response which occurs spontaneously and is identified by its reinforcing or inhibiting effects; (adv.): operantly. [Latin operāns, operant-, present participle of operārī, ‘to work’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • operant (n.): 1. a person or thing which operates; 2. (adj.): having influence or producing an effect; [e.g.]: “an operant conscience”; “many emotional operants at work”; (related word): operative (being in force or having or exerting force; [e.g.]: “those operative regulations”; “the major tendencies operative in the political system”). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). __________ Random Online Samples. [Person A]: “More diversity needed in the force, says West Yorkshire police chief”. (examiner.co.uk). I have personally seen this done and been involved in the process at another company where the best candidates were turned down to employ others. This led to complications as we ended up with lower-skilled people who could not do the job no matter what training was given to them and ninety-percent had left within five years of employing them and spending thousand and thousands training them. End of the day it’s easy—best candidate gets the job irrespective of who they are. The trick is to get the best to apply in the first place, though, as they know by experience they’ll get over-ridden by a diversity-hire. • [Person B]: I almost thought you were talking of the NHS there, it’s a familiar scenario. • [Person C]: Sorry but if someone applies for a job and is the highest *attainer* at the interview why should they be knocked back because of the woke ‘diversity-is-our-strength’ brigade? Best person for the job regardless. [emphasis added]. ~ (from “Tweets & Posts”, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, England; May 24, 2016; ©MGN Ltd). • “It is clear that, at the national level, a child in a school where over fifty percent of children receive free school meals is about six times as likely to be a low *attainer* in mathematics than a child in a school where under eight percent of children are eligible for free school meals...”. [emphasis added]. ~ (from “Mathematical Attainments in Primary Schooling: Raising Standards and Reducing Diversity”, by Julia Whitburn; Jan 1, 2002, National Institute Economic Review). Open Sesame: open sesame: a (marvellous or irresistible) means of securing access to what would usu. be inaccessible. ~ (Oxford Dictionary). Opinionated: opinionated: having a particular opinion or estimate of a person or thing. ~ (Oxford Dictionary). Optimism: optimism: the character or quality of being the best or for the best. ~ Oxford Dictionary Orbiter Dictum: • obiter dictum (n.): a Latin phrase meaning something said in passing. ~ (Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words). • obiter dictum (n.): 1. an incidental remark; (synonyms): passing comment; comment, remark, input (a statement which expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information); [e.g.]: “from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account”; 2. an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding; (synonyms): opinion, legal opinion; dictum (an authoritative pronouncement; a judicial assertion; a saying; a maxim); [e.g.]: “opinions are usually written by a single judge”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • obiter dictum (n.; pl. obiter dicta): 1. an incidental remark or opinion; 2. a judicial opinion in a matter related but not essential to a case. [1805-15; from Latin: a ‘saying by the way’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • obiter dictum (n.; pl. obiter dicta): 1. an observation by a judge on some point of law not directly in issue in the case before him or her and thus neither requiring a decision nor serving as a precedent, but nevertheless of persuasive authority; 2. any comment, remark, or observation made in passing. [Latin: ‘something said in passing’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • obiter dictum (n.): an expression of fact or opinion; (synonyms): comment, note, observation, remark. [Latin, ‘something said in passing’, from obiter, ‘in passing’ + dictum, ‘something said’, from neuter past participle of dīcere, ‘to say’]. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). Opportunistic: • opportunistic (adj.): exploiting immediate opportunities, especially regardless of planning or principle. ~ (Oxford Dictionary). • opportunist (n.): one who takes advantage of any opportunity to achieve an end, often with no regard for principles or consequences. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • opportunism (n.): taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others. ~ (WordNet 3.0). Originative: originative (adj.): 1. having the ability or power to create; [e.g.]: “a creative force”; 2. containing seeds of later development.~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). Osmosis: osmosis: ... (fig.) gradual, usu. unconscious assimilation or absorption of ideas, knowledge, etc. ~ Oxford Dictionary Out of Whole Cloth: out of whole cloth (fig.): from pure fabrication or fiction; this expression is often put as cut (or made) out of whole cloth; [e.g.]: “Their story was cut out of whole cloth”; in the fifteenth century this expression referred to something fabricated from cloth which ran the full length of the loom; however, by the 1800s it was common practice for tailors to deceive their customers and, instead of using whole cloth, actually make garments from pieced goods; their advertising slogan, ‘cut out of whole cloth’, thus came to mean ‘made up, false’. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer). Outrecuidance: • outrecuidance (n.): excessive self-confidence or conceit. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • outrecuidance† (n): overweening presumption; arrogant or insulting conduct; [e.g.]: "Some think, my lord, it hath given you addition of pride and outrecuidance". (Chapman, "Monsieur D’Olive", iv. 1); "It is a strange outrecuidance; your humour too much redoundeth". (B. Jonson, "Cynthia’s Revels", v. 2). [French outrecuidance (= Italian oltracotanza, oltracuitanza), from outre, ‘beyond’, + Old French cuider = Italian cuitare, ‘think’, from Latin cogitate, ‘think’: see cogitate; viz.: from Latin cōgitatus, pp. of cōgitare, ‘consider’, ‘ponder’, ‘weigh’, ‘think upon’, from co-, ‘together’, + agitare, ‘shake’]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia) RETURN TO DEFINITIONS INDEX RICHARD’S HOME PAGE The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. 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