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Word Meanings - AKIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin. 2. Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind. "A joy akin to rapture." Cowper. The literary character of the work is akin to

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1. Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin. 2. Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind. "A joy akin to rapture." Cowper. The literary character of the work is akin to its moral character. Jeffrey. Note: This adjective is used only after the noun.

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  • RELATIONSHIP
    The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
  • APPROPRIATENESS
    The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
  • CONNECTOR
    One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
  • ALLICIENT
    That attracts; attracting. -- n.
  • ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
    Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.
  • ALLITERAL
    Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
  • COGITATE
    To engage in continuous thought; to think. He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon. (more info) prob. fr. co-
  • EQUALIZER
    One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
  • HOMOGENEOUSNESS
    Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.
  • IDENTICAL
    1. The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then
  • PERTINENT
    1. Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence. 2. Regarding; concerning; belonging;
  • ALLITERATOR
    One who alliterates.
  • ALLIED
    United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.
  • SIMILARY
    Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
  • CONNECTIVELY
    In connjunction; jointly.
  • EQUALIZE
    1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely
  • CONGENIALLY
    In a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed.
  • APPROPRIATE
    Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
  • ALLICE; ALLIS
    The European shad ; allice shad. See Alose.
  • ALLITERATE
    To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat.
  • GALLIASS
    See GALLEASS
  • 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.
  • DALLIANCE
    1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
  • KAKARALLI
    A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.
  • SCALLION
    A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
  • CORALLIGENOUS
    producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
  • REALLIANCE
    A renewed alliance.
  • IMPALLID
    To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham.
  • HEMEROCALLIS
    A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
  • HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
    See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN
  • PRELATISM
    Prelacy; episcopacy.
  • CRYSTALLIZATION
    The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of
  • MISALLIED
    Wrongly allied or associated.
  • BALLISTER
    A crossbow.
  • PRELATIZE
    To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
  • UNEQUALABLE
    Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.

 

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