Word Meanings - CIRCUMGESTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or process of carrying about. Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor.

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• ADORABILITY
  Adorableness.
• ADORE
  adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os, oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French prefix a- being confused with OE. a, an, on. 1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Smollett. 2.
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• CIRCUMGESTATION
  The act or process of carrying about. Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor.
• ADOREMENT
  The act of adoring; adoration. Sir T. Browne.
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• EUCHARIST
  The sacrament of the Lord's Supper; the solemn act of ceremony of commemorating the death of Christ, in the use of bread and wine, as the appointed emblems; the communion. -- See Sacrament. (more info) 1. The act of giving thanks; thanksgiving.
• CARRYK
  A carack. Chaucer.
• ADORNMENT
  An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
• EUCHARISTIC; EUCHARISTICAL
  1. Giving thanks; expressing thankfulness; rejoicing. The eucharistical part of our daily devotions. Ray. 2. Pertaining to the Lord's Supper. "The eucharistic sacrament." Sir. G. C. Lewis.
• 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
• ADORNER
  He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.
• CARRYALL
  A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.
• ADORABLE
  1. Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors. The adorable Author of Christianity. Cheyne. 2. Worthy of the utmost love or respect.
• ADORATION
  1. The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god. The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer. 2. Homage paid to one in high esteem;
• PROCESSIONING
  A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession. Bouvier.
• PEGADOR
  A species of remora . See Remora.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• AMBASSADORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an ambassador. H. Walpole.
• BASIC PROCESS
  A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.
• SCARRY
  Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
• PAYNE'S PROCESS
  A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn"ize, v. t.
• VOLADOR
  A flying fish of California : -- called also volator. The Atlantic flying gurnard. See under Flying.