Word Meanings - CITHARISTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara.
Related words: (words related to CITHARISTIC)
- 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