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

absolute \ab"solute\, a. l. absolutus, p. p. of absolvere: cf.
   f. absolu. see absolve.
   1. loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled;
      unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority,
      monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command;
      absolute power; an absolute monarch.
      1913 webster

   2. complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as,
      absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
      1913 webster

            so absolute she seems,
            and in herself complete.              --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. viewed apart from modifying influences or without
      comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to
      relative and comparative; as, absolute motion;
      absolute time or space.
      1913 webster

   note: absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man
         in a state of nature as contradistinguished from
         relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him
         in his social relations.
         1913 webster

   4. loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other
      being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
      1913 webster

   note: in this sense god is called the absolute by the theist.
         the term is also applied by the pantheist to the
         universe, or the total of all existence, as only
         capable of relations in its parts to each other and to
         the whole, and as dependent for its existence and its
         phenomena on its mutually depending forces and their
         laws.
         1913 webster

   5. capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone;
      unconditioned; non-relative.
      1913 webster

   note: it is in dispute among philosopher whether the term, in
         this sense, is not applied to a mere logical fiction or
         abstraction, or whether the absolute, as thus defined,
         can be known, as a reality, by the human intellect.
         1913 webster

               to cusa we can indeed articulately trace, word
               and thing, the recent philosophy of the absolute.
                                                  --sir w.
                                                  hamilton.
         1913 webster

   6. positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. r.
      1913 webster

            i am absolute 't was very cloten.     --shak.
      1913 webster

   7. authoritative; peremptory. r.
      1913 webster

            the peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head,
            with absolute forefinger, brown and ringed. --mrs.
                                                  browning.
      1913 webster

   8. chem. pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
      1913 webster

   9. gram. not immediately dependent on the other parts of
      the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. see
      ablative absolute, under ablative.
      1913 webster

   absolute curvature geom., that curvature of a curve of
      double curvature, which is measured in the osculating
      plane of the curve.

   absolute equation astron., the sum of the optic and
      eccentric equations.

   absolute space physics, space considered without relation
      to material limits or objects.

   absolute terms. alg., such as are known, or which do not
      contain the unknown quantity. --davies  peck.

   absolute temperature physics, the temperature as measured
      on a scale determined by certain general thermo-dynamic
      principles, and reckoned from the absolute zero.

   absolute zero physics, the be ginning, or zero point, in
      the scale of absolute temperature. it is equivalent to
      -273deg centigrade or -459.4deg fahrenheit.
      1913 webster

   syn: positive; peremptory; certain; unconditional; unlimited;
        unrestricted; unqualified; arbitrary; despotic;
        autocratic.
        1913 webster
see also:
absolve relative comparative ablative absolute ablative absolute curvature 
absolute equation absolute space absolute terms absolute temperature absolute zero 

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

absolute \ab"solute\, n. geom.
   in a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in
   space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

absolute
     adj 1: perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute
            silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol" ant: relative
     2: complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes
        used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an
        absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem";
        "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down
        vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer
        stupidity" syn: downright, out-and-outa, ranka,
         right-down, sheera
     3: not limited by law; "an absolute monarch"
     4: expressing finality with no implication of possible change;
        "an absolute or unequivocal quarantee to respect the
        nation's authority"; "inability to make a conclusive or
        unequivocal refusal" syn: conclusive
     5: without conditions or limitations; "a total ban" syn: total,
         unconditioned
     6: not capable of being violated or infringed; "infrangible
        human rights" syn: infrangible, inviolable
     n : something that is conceived to be absolute; something that
         does not depends on anything else and is beyond human
         control; "no mortal being can influence the absolute"
see also:
relative downright out-and-outa ranka right-down sheera 
conclusive total unconditioned infrangible inviolable 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

439 moby thesaurus words for "absolute":
   ok, absolutist, absolutistic, abstract, accurate, actual,
   adducible, admissible, admitting no exception,
   admitting no question, affirmative, affirmatory, all right,
   all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading,
   all-powerful, almighty, alone, apodictic, arbitrary, aristocratic,
   arrant, arrogant, ascendant, assertative, assertional, assertive,
   assuring, attestative, attestive, autarchic, authentic,
   authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, autonomous,
   azygous, bare, based on, beyond all praise, binding, born, bossy,
   bound, boundless, broad-based, bureaucratic, categorical, celibate,
   certain, circumstantial, civic, civil, clarified, classical, clean,
   clear, clear and distinct, clear as day, clothed with authority,
   commanding, competent, complete, comprehensive, compulsory,
   conclusive, concrete, confirmable, congenital, consequential,
   considerable, constitutional, consummate, controlling,
   convictional, convincing, correct, crass, cumulative, damning,
   de facto, dead right, decided, decisive, declarative, declaratory,
   decretory, deep-dyed, defectless, defined, definite, definitive,
   democratic, demonstrable, demonstratable, despotic, detailed,
   determinate, determinative, dictated, dictatorial, different,
   distilled, distinct, distinguished, documentary, documented,
   dominant, domineering, downright, duly constituted,
   dyed-in-the-wool, egregious, eminent, emphatic, empowered,
   entailed, entire, esoteric, especial, eternal, evidential,
   evidentiary, ex officio, ex parte, exceptional, exhaustive,
   explicit, express, extraordinary, eye-witness, factual, fascist,
   faultless, federal, federalist, federalistic, feudal, final,
   finished, first and last, firsthand, fixed, flagrant, flat,
   flat-out, flawless, for real, founded on, free, full, genuine,
   glaring, global, governing, governmental, great, grinding, gross,
   grounded on, gubernatorial, hard, hard-and-fast, haste, hearsay,
   hegemonic, hegemonistic, heteronomous, high-handed, historical,
   honest-to-god, ideal, illimitable, immaculate, impair, impeccable,
   imperative, imperial, imperious, implicit, important, imposed,
   impressive, inappealable, incontestable, incontrovertible,
   indefectible, indefective, independent, indicative, indisputable,
   individual, indubitable, ineluctable, inevitable, infallible,
   infinite, influential, inner, intensive, intimate, intolerable,
   irrefragable, irrefutable, irreproachable, irresistible,
   irrevocable, just, just right, leading, letter-perfect, limitless,
   lone, lordly, magisterial, magistral, mandated, mandatory,
   masterful, material, matriarchal, matriarchic, meticulous, mighty,
   minute, momentous, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic,
   must, naked, neat, necessary, no strings, noteworthy, nuncupative,
   obligatory, odd, official, okay, oligarchal, oligarchic, omnibus,
   omnipotent, omnipresent, one and only, only, only-begotten, open,
   oppressive, out-and-out, outright, overbearing, overruling,
   overwhelming, parliamentarian, parliamentary, particular,
   patriarchal, patriarchic, peerless, peremptory, perfect,
   perfectly sure, personal, persuasive, pervasive, plain, plenary,
   plenipotentiary, plumb, pluralistic, political, positive, potent,
   powerful, precious, precise, predestined, predetermined,
   predicational, predicative, preeminent, prescript, prescriptive,
   prestigious, presumptive, private, probative, profound, prominent,
   pronounced, proper, provable, puissant, pure, purified, radical,
   rank, ranking, real, rectified, regular, reliable, repressive,
   republican, required, respective, right, round, ruling,
   satisfactory, satisfying, self-evident, self-governing, senior,
   several, severe, shattering, sheer, shocking, significant, simple,
   singular, sinless, sole, solipsistic, sovereign, special, specific,
   spotless, stainless, stark, stark-staring, straight, straight-out,
   straight-up-and-down, strict, substantial, suggestive, superior,
   superlative, suppressive, supreme, sure, sure-enough, surpassing,
   sweeping, symptomatic, taintless, telling, testable, the veriest,
   theocratic, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total,
   totalitarian, transcendent, transcendental, transparent, true,
   tyrannical, tyrannous, ubiquitous, ultimate, unadulterated,
   unalloyed, unambiguous, unanswerable, unbearable, unblemished,
   unblended, unbound, unbounded, uncircumscribed, uncombined,
   uncompounded, unconditional, unconditioned, unconfined,
   unconfutable, unconscionable, unconstrained, uncontaminated,
   uncorrupted, undeniable, undiluted, undoubting, unequivocal,
   unfaultable, unflawed, unfortified, unhampered, unhesitating,
   unimpeachable, unique, universal, univocal, unleavened, unlimited,
   unmeasured, unmingled, unmistakable, unmitigated, unmixed,
   unpaired, unqualified, unquestionable, unquestioning, unrefutable,
   unrelieved, unrepeated, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted,
   unsophisticated, unspoiled, unspotted, untainted, untinged,
   unwaivable, utter, valid, verifiable, veritable, weighty, whole,
   wholesale, wide-open, without appeal, without exception,
   without reserve, without strings

[5] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

absolute. without any condition or encumbrance, as an "absolute bond,"
simplex obligatio, in distinction from a conditional bond; an absolute
estate, one that is free from all manner of condition or incumbrance.  a
rule is said to be absolute, when, on the hearing, it is confirmed.  as to
the effect of an absolute conveyance, see 1 pow. mortg. 125; in relation to
absolute rights, 1 chitty, pl. 364; 1 chitty, pr. 32.

[6] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

absolute, adj.  independent, irresponsible.  an absolute monarchy is
one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases
the assassins.  not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them
having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign's
power for evil and for good is greatly curtailed, and by republics,
which are governed by chance.

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