Word Meanings - APPROVANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Approval. Thomson.

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• THOMSONIANISM
  An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.
• APPROVAL
  Approbation; sanction. A censor . . . without whose approval nTemple. Syn. -- See Approbation.
• THOMSON PROCESS
  A process of electric welding in which heat is developed by a large current passing through the metal.
• THOMSONITE
  A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda. Called also mesole, and comptonite.
• THOMSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism. -- n.
• DISAPPROVAL
  Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.