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Word Meanings - ATTRIBUTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute.

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  • ASSIGNEE
    In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
  • ATTRIBUTABLE
    Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable. Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker.
  • ATTRIBUTIVE
    Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute.
  • ASSIGNABILITY
    The quality of being assignable.
  • ASSIGN
    To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors. To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate. Kent. (more info)
  • ASSIGNATION
    1. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland. 2. An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of
  • EXPRESSURE
    The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak.
  • EXPRESS TRAIN
    Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops.
  • EXPRESSIVE
    1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning
  • EXPRESSNESS
    The state or quality of being express; definiteness. Hammond.
  • ASSIGNAT
    One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France , and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • ATTRIBUTIVELY
    In an attributive manner.
  • EXPRESSIONAL
    Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment. Fized. Hall. Ruskin.
  • NATURED
    Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
  • EXPRESSIONLESS
    Destitute of expression.
  • ASSIGNABLE
    Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.
  • NATURELESS
    Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton.
  • EXPRESSMAN
    A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon. W. D. Howells.
  • EXPRESSAGE
    The charge for carrying a parcel by express.
  • UNNATURE
    To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
  • DEMINATURED
    Having half the nature of another. Shak.
  • MISASSIGN
    To assign wrongly.
  • TIME SIGNATURE
    A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
  • INEXPRESSIBLY
    In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.
  • ORNATURE
    Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed.
  • CONSIGNATURE
    Joint signature. Colgrave.
  • TRANSNATURE
    To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel.
  • UNEXPRESSIBLE
    Inexpressible. Tillotson. -- Un`ex*press"i*bly, adv.
  • DENATURE
    To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of.

 

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