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Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency. With what congruity doth the church

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Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency. With what congruity doth the church of Rome deny that her enemies do at all appertain to the church of Christ Hooker. A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting one particle. Sir P. Sidney.

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  • WRITING
    1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
  • SUBSTANCE
    To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.
  • PROPORTIONATE
    Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
  • FITNESS
    The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
  • WRITATIVE
    Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
  • COMPOUNDER
    A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
  • CONGRUITY
    Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency. With what congruity doth the church
  • MATCHMAKER
    1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
  • COMPOUNDABLE
    That may be compounded.
  • CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
    A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
  • RESOLVENT
    Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
  • ANALYZER
    The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, analyzes.
  • COMPOUND CONTROL
    A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
  • WRITER
    1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
  • LETTERER
    One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
  • RESOLVE
    1. The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution. "To give a full resolve of that which is so much controverted." Milton. 2. That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal
  • PROPORTION
    1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his
  • MATERIALNESS
    The state of being material.
  • WRIT
    3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer.
  • LETTERURE
    Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
  • DISPROPORTIONALLY
    In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
  • INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
    Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
  • IMPROPORTIONATE
    Not proportionate.
  • REWRITE
    To write again. Young.
  • DISPROPORTIONABLE
    Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
  • DISPROPORTIONALITY
    The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
  • BLACK LETTER
    The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
  • TYPEWRITING
    The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
  • PLAYWRITER
    A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
  • INTERCOMMUNICATION
    Mutual communication. Owen.
  • STORY-WRITER
    1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
  • MISPROPORTION
    To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
  • UNDERWRITING
    The business of an underwriter,
  • DISPROPORTIONATE
    Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
  • IMMATERIALIST
    One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.

 

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