Word Meanings - DEVEXITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity. Davies
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEVEXITY)
- Declivity
- Descent
- fall
- slope
- incline
- devexity
- detortion
- Wresting
- violation
- twisting
- distortion
- perversion
- decurvity
- recurvation
- Dip
- Declination
- depression
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEVEXITY)
Related words: (words related to DEVEXITY)
- ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
See ASCENDENCY - DECLINATION
The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining - WRESTLE
1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a - DETERMINE
1. To come to an end; to end; to terminate. He who has vented a pernicious doctrine or published an ill book must know that his life determine not together. South. Estates may determine on future contingencies. Blackstone. 2. To come to a decision; - ASCENDENCY
Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts. Syn. -- Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination. - DETORTION
The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping. - TWISTING
a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7. - ASCENDIBLE
Capable of being ascended; climbable. - DETERIORATE
To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate. Under such conditions, the mind rapidly deteriorates. Goldsmith. - SLOPE
1. An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another. 2. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. buildings - TREND
Clean wool. - DETERRATION
The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground. Woodward. - ASCENDING
Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- As*cend"ing*ly, adv. Ascending latitude , the increasing latitude of a planet. Ferguson. -- Ascending line , the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and - DETERMINER
One who, or that which, determines or decides. - TWISTER
A girder. Craig. (more info) 1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister, - PERVERSION
The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use. "Violations and perversions of the laws." - DETERMINIST
One who believes in determinism. Also adj.; as, determinist theories. - INCLINED
Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane. (more info) 1. Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively - DETERMINISM
The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives. Its superior suitability to produce courage, as contrasted with scientific physical determinism, is obvious. F. P. Cobbe. - LAPIDESCENT
Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies. - INTERTWIST
To twist together one with another; to intertwine. - UNTWIST
1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton. - INDETERMINABLE
Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter"mi*na*bly, adv. - SELF-DETERMINATION
Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity. - UNDETERMINABLE
Not determinable; indeterminable. Locke. - RECRUDESCENT
recrudescere to become raw again; pref. re- re- + crudescere to 1. Growing raw, sore, or painful again. 2. Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic. - PREDETERMINATION
The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond. - PREINDISPOSE
To render indisposed beforehand. Milman. - WREST
1. To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting. "The secret wrested from me." Milton. Our country's cause, That drew our swords, now secret wrests them from our hand. - INDETERMINATE
Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years. Paley. Indeterminate analysis , that branch of analysis which has for its object the solution of indeterminate problems. -- Indeterminate