pleasure oneself (third-person singular simple present pleasures oneself, present participle pleasuring oneself, simple past and past participle pleasured...
simple past and past participle futzed around) (Northern US, slang) To waste time frivolously or busy oneself with minor tasks; to experiment or tinker....
test someone or oneself; to try to do something to tempt someone ìdánwò (“test, examination”) adánrawò (“attempter”) ìṣedánwò (“experiment”) adánnniwò (“tempter”)...
understood, but it already illustrates the recklessness of this "planetary experiment" that humanity has under way. We are not only playing with fire, but ice...
(“to baptise”) + -mä. Compare ristiissä (“to cross oneself; to pray”, literally “to baptise oneself”). (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈrisːimæ/, [ˈris̠ːĭm] (Soikkola)...
Rana Thanoptis: Are we good? Can I go? Shepard: You conducted brutal experiments on helpless test subjects. You helped Saren. You don't get to live. Lacking...
Myers, Christine H. Hansen, Experimental Psychology, page 296: In one experiment, the researchers had people rate the characteristics of people with various...
Guangdong Romanization: xi3 sen1 Sinological IPA (key): /siː³³ sɐn⁵⁵/ 試身 (archaic) to devote oneself to; to throw oneself into (Cantonese) to try (clothes on)...
(comparative more self-pleasing, superlative most self-pleasing) That pleases oneself; given over only to one's own pleasure. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III...
puppet on a string […] 2014, Jan Johnson, Invitation to the Jesus Life: Experiments in Christlikeness As we join Jesus in death to self, we stop "shoulding"...