Agape

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Agape \A*gape"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + gape.]
     Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention.
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           Dazzles the crowd and sets them all agape. --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Agape \Ag"a*pe\, n.; pl. {Agap[ae]}. [Gr. 'aga`ph love, pl.
     'aga`pai.]
     The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal
     partaken of in connection with the communion.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  agape
       adj : with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe; "the gaping
             audience"; "we stood there agape with wonder"; "with
             mouth agape" [syn: {agape(p)}, {gaping}]
       n 1: (Greek) love (especially love that is spiritual and selfless
            in nature)
       2: a religious meal shared as a sign of love and fellowship
          [syn: {love feast}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  248 Moby Thesaurus words for "agape":
     Amor, BOMFOG, Benthamism, Christian charity, Christian love, Eros,
     Platonic love, accord, accordance, admiration, adoration,
     affection, affinity, aghast, agog, agreement, ajar, all agog,
     altruism, amazed, amity, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative,
     anticipatory, ardency, ardor, asperges, aspersion, astonished,
     astounded, at gaze, attachment, auricular confession, awaiting,
     awed, awestruck, bar mitzvah, bas mitzvah, beguiled, beneficence,
     benevolence, benevolent disposition, benevolentness, bewildered,
     bewitched, bigheartedness, bodily love, bonds of harmony,
     breathless, brotherly love, burning with curiosity, captivated,
     caritas, celebration, cement of friendship, certain,
     charitableness, charity, circumcision, communion, community,
     community of interests, compatibility, concord, concordance,
     confession, confident, confirmation, confounded, congeniality,
     conjugal love, consumed with curiosity, correspondence, curious,
     dehiscent, desire, devotion, dismayed, do-goodism, dumbfounded,
     dumbstruck, eager, empathy, enchanted, enraptured, enravished,
     enthralled, entranced, esprit, esprit de corps, expectant,
     expecting, faithful love, fancy, fascinated, feeling of identity,
     fellow feeling, fellowship, fervor, flabbergasted, flame,
     flower power, fondness, forearmed, forestalling, forewarned,
     free love, free-lovism, frictionlessness, gaping, gauping, gazing,
     generosity, ghoulish, giving, good vibes, good vibrations,
     goodwill, gossipy, grace, greatheartedness, happy family, harmony,
     heart, hero worship, high celebration, hopeful, humanitarianism,
     hypnotized, identity, idolatry, idolism, idolization,
     in anticipation, in awe, in awe of, in expectation, incense,
     inquiring, inquisitive, interested, invocation,
     invocation of saints, itchy, kinship, kiss of peace,
     largeheartedness, lasciviousness, lesser litany, libido, like,
     like-mindedness, liking, litany, looking for, looking forward to,
     lost in wonder, love, love feast, love of mankind, lovemaking,
     lustration, married love, marveling, mesmerized, morbid,
     morbidly curious, mutuality, not surprised, oneness, open-eyed,
     openmouthed, optimistic, oscitant, overcurious, overwhelmed,
     passion, pax, peace, philanthropism, philanthropy, physical love,
     popeyed, popular regard, popularity, prepared, processional,
     prurient, puzzled, quizzical, rapport, rapprochement,
     rapt in wonder, ready, reciprocity, reciting the rosary, regard,
     ringent, sanguine, scopophiliac, sentiment, sex, sexual love,
     sharing, shine, shocked, slack-jawed, solidarity, spellbound,
     spiritual love, staggered, staring, stupefied, supercurious, sure,
     surprised, sympathy, symphony, team spirit, telling of beads,
     tender feeling, tender passion, the confessional,
     the confessionary, thunderstruck, truelove, under a charm,
     understanding, union, unison, unity, unsurprised, utilitarianism,
     uxoriousness, voyeuristic, waiting, waiting for, watching for,
     weakness, welfarism, well-disposedness, wide-eyed, wonder-struck,
     wondering, worship, yawning, yearning