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Word Meanings - ADJECTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an word sentence. 2. Not standing by itself; dependent. Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency. 3. Relating to

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1. Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an word sentence. 2. Not standing by itself; dependent. Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency. 3. Relating to procedure. "The whole English law, substantive and adjective." Macaulay.

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  • COLORMAN
    A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
  • ADDUCT
    To draw towards a common center or a middle line. Huxley.
  • ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
    A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
  • RELATIONSHIP
    The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
  • ADDUCTION
    The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its (more info) 1. The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.
  • ADDITIVE
    Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
  • STAND
    1. The act of standing. I took my stand upon an eminence . . . to look into thier several ladings. Spectator. 2. A halt or stop for the purpose of defense, resistance, or opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a stand. Vice is at stand, and at
  • ADJECTIVE
    1. Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an word sentence. 2. Not standing by itself; dependent. Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency. 3. Relating to
  • ADDOOM
    To adjudge. Spenser.
  • ADDUCIBLE
    Capable of being adduced. Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible. I. Taylor.
  • ADJUNCT
    A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History." (more info) 1. Something joined or added to another thing, but
  • ADDER'S-TONGUE
    A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
  • SUBSTANTIVENESS
    The quality or state of being substantive.
  • ADDUCE
    To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
  • STANDPOINT
    A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
  • COLORATE
    Colored. Ray.
  • COLORIMETRY
    The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
  • ADDITION
    That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
  • STANDPIPE
    A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
  • ADJUNCTIVELY
    In an adjunctive manner.
  • PRELATIST
    One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
  • HADDOCK
    A marine food fish , allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine
  • SADDER
    See SADDA
  • SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
    The tenets of the Sadducees.
  • REFIX
    To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
  • CONCOLOR
    Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
  • SIDESADDLE
    A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
  • RADDE
    imp. of Read, Rede. Chaucer.
  • BYSTANDER
    One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
  • SPADDLE
    A little spade.
  • AFFIX
    figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
  • PRELATISM
    Prelacy; episcopacy.
  • DEFIX
    To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
  • PRELATIZE
    To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
  • MISRELATION
    Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.

 

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