Word Meanings - ASSERTORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.

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• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• ASSERTORY
  Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.
• ACTUAL
  1. Involving or comprising action; active. Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor. 2. Existing in act or reality;
• MAINTAINOR
  One who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party. Bouvier. Wharton.
• AFFIRMATORY
  Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative. Massey.
• BENTHAMIC
  Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.
• BENTHAMITE
  One who believes in Benthamism.
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• ACTUALITY
  The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature. South.
• PROBATORY
  1. Serving for trial; probationary. Abp. Bramhall. 2. Pertaining to, or serving for, proof. Jer. Taylor. Probatory term , a time for taking testimony.
• KNOWN
  of Know.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• AFFIRMANT
  One who affirms of taking an oath. (more info) 1. One who affirms or asserts.
• AFFIRMABLE
  Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.
• MAINTAINER
  One who maintains.
• AFFIRMATION
  A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an oath. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as,
• ACTUALIZATION
  A making actual or really existent. Emerson.
• PROPOSITION
  A complete sentence, or part of a sentence consisting of a subject and predicate united by a copula; a thought expressed or propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white. (more
• DISAPPROBATORY
  Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.
• APPROBATORY
  Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory. Sheldon.
• REAFFIRMANCE; REAFFIRMATION
  A second affirmation.
• TACTUAL
  Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch. In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over the entire body. Tyndall.
• REPROBATORY
  Reprobative.
• MISAFFIRM
  To affirm incorrectly.