Word Meanings - CITHARISTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara.

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• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• CITHARA
  An ancient instrument resembling the harp.
• ADAPTNESS
  Adaptedness.
• ADAPTIVE
  Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.
• 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
• ADAPTATION
  1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine. 2. The result of adapting; an adapted form.
• ADAPT
  Fitted; suited. Swift.
• ADAPTORIAL
  Adaptive.
• ADAPTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
• ADAPTER
  A connecting tube; an adopter. (more info) 1. One who adapts.
• ADAPTABILITY; ADAPTABLENESS
  The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. "General adaptability for every purpose." Farrar.
• ADAPTION
  Adaptation. Cheyne.
• ADAPTLY
  In a suitable manner. Prior.
• ADAPTIVENESS
  The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
• ADAPTATIVE
  Adaptive. Stubbs.
• COADAPTED
  Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth. R. Owen.
• COADAPTATION
  Mutual adaption. R. Owen.
• INADAPTATION
  Want of adaptation; unsuitableness.
• 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