Word Meanings - DEJECTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which is voided; excrements. Arbuthnot.

Related words: (words related to DEJECTURE)

• 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.
• VOIDNESS
  The quality or state of being void;
• VOIDER
  One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, voids, 2. A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place;
• VOIDANCE
  A ejection from a benefice. 3. The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which is without an incumbent. 4. Evasion; subterfuge. Bacon. (more info) 1. The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating.
• 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.
• VOIDABLE
  Capable of being avoided, or of being adjudged void, invalid, and of no force; capable of being either avoided or confirmed. If the metropolitan . . . grants letters of administration, such administration is not, but voidable by sentence. Ayliffe.
• VOIDING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, v Bp. Hall. 2. That which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated; a remnant; a fragment. Rowe. Voiding knife, a knife used for gathering up fragments of food to put them into a voider.
• VOIDED
  Having the inner part cut away, or left vacant, a narrow border being left at the sides, the tincture of the field being seen in the vacant space; -- said of a charge. (more info) 1. Emptied; evacuated. 2. Annulled; invalidated.
• VOID
  Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2. Void space , a vacuum. Syn. -- Empty; vacant; devoid; wanting; unfurnished; unsupplied; unoccupied. (more info) LL. vocitus, fr. L. vocare, an old form
• UNAVOIDED
  1. Not avoided or shunned. Shak. 2. Unavoidable; inevitable. B. Jonson.
• NAEVOID
  Resembling a nævus or nævi; as, nævoid elephantiasis. Dunglison.
• OVOID; OVOIDAL
  Resembling an egg in shape; egg-shaped; ovate; as, an ovoidal apple.
• AVOIDLESS
  Unavoidable; inevitable.
• AVOIDANCE
  1. The act of annulling; annulment. 2. The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . .
• AVOIDER
  1. The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson. 2. One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.
• DEVOID
  To empty out; to remove.
• OVOID
  A solid resembling an egg in shape.
• AVOIDABLE
  1. Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable. The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. Hale. 2. Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.
• UNAVOIDABLE
  Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void. Blackstone. Unavoidable hemorrhage , hemorrhage produced by the afterbirth, or placenta, being situated over the mouth of the womb so as to require detachment before the child can be born. --
• CONFERVOID
  Like, or related to, the confervae. Loudon.