in absentia
/ˌɪn abˈsɛntɪə
/adverb
While not present at the event being referred to: two foreign suspects will be tried in absentia...
- I will not participate in the Case Western Reserve University Commencement Exercises on May 18 and wish to receive my degree in absentia.
- On December 18, 1792 Thomas Paine was tried in absentia in England for sedition, and convicted.
Origin
Latin, 'in absence'.
Rhymes
- paddle-foot
- paddle-like
- paddle one's own canoe
- paddle-plane
- paddle pop
- paddler
- paddle shaft
- paddle steamer
- paddle tennis
- paddle wheel
- paddlewheeler
- paddlewood
- paddling
- paddling pool
- paddo
- paddock
- paddock bomb
- paddock course
- paddock critic
- paddock-graze
- paddock grazing
- paddock-pipe
- paddock redd
- paddock rud
- paddock sheet