Word Meanings - CONCHOLOGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The science of Mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology.
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- WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - MOLLUSCAN
Of or pertaining to mollusks. -- n. - MALACOLOGY
The science which relates to the structure and habits of mollusks. - MOLLUSCA
One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, PteropodaScaphopoda, and Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera. These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, - SCIENCE
1. Knowledge; lnowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts. If we conceive God's or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, . . . his science or sight from all - PRESCIENCE
Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards. - OMNISCIENCE
The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden. - UNSCIENCE
Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer. - CONSCIENCE
consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power, - CONSCIENCED
Having a conscience. "Soft-conscienced men." Shak. - NESCIENCE
Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall. - CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system - INSCIENCE
Want of knowledge; ignorance. - CONSCIENCELESS
Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous. Conscienceless and wicked patrons. Hookre.