Word Meanings - CANONISTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a canonist. "This canonistic exposition." Milton.

CANONISTIC
Of or pertaining to a canonist. "This canonistic exposition." Milton.
EXPOSITION
1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
CANONIST
A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. South.
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
MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell.
MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
MISEXPOSITION
Wrong exposition.
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.
APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach