Word Meanings - CONVENTIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.

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• CONVENTIONALLY
  In a conventional manner.
• CONVENTIONAL
  1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale. 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by
• CONVENTIONALISM
  The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t. (more info) 1. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• CONVENTIONIST
  One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.
• CONTRACTED
  1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun. 2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views. 3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. Inquire me out contracted
• CONVENTIONALITY
  The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.
• CONTRACTIBLENESS
  Contractibility.
• CONTRACTION
  The process of shortening an operation. 3. The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease. 4. Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word
• CONVENTIONALIST
  1. One who adheres to a convention or treaty. 2. One who is governed by conventionalism.
• CONVENTIONALIZATION
  The act of making conventional. The state of being conventional.
• CONTRACTILITY
  The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening. Note: When subject to the will, as in the muscles of locomotion, such power is called voluntary contractility; when not controlled by the will, as in the muscles of
• CONTRACTIBILITY
  Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibiliy and dilatability of air. Arbuthnot.
• CONTRACTILE
  tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. The heart's contractile force. H. Brooke. Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance.
• CONTRACT
  To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. Syn. -- To shorten; abridge; epitomize; narrow; lessen; condense; reduce; confine; incur; assume. (more info) con- + trahere to draw: cf.
• CONVENTIONARY
  Acting under contract; settled by express agreement; as, conventionary tenants. R. Carew.
• COVENANTING
  Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters. Be they covenanting traitors, Or the brood of false Argyle Aytoun.
• CONTRACTEDNESS
  The state of being contracted; narrowness; meannes; selfishness.
• CONTRACTURE
  A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.
• CONTRACTOR
  One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• DISCOVENANT
  To dissolve covenant with.
• SUBCONTRACTED
  1. Contracted after a former contract. 2. Betrothed for the second time. Shak.
• UNCOVENANTED
  Not having entered into relationship with God through the appointed means of grace; also, not promised or assured by the divine promises or conditions; as, uncovenanted mercies. (more info) 1. Not covenanted; not granted or entered into under a