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Word Meanings - DISSERTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies.

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  • DISQUISITION
    A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation. For accurate research or grave disquisition he was
  • DISQUISITIONARY
    Pertaining to disquisition; disquisitional.
  • DISSERTATIONAL
    Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation.
  • MONOGRAPHIST
    One who writes a monograph.
  • ESSAYER
    One who essays. Addison.
  • TRACTORATION
    See PERKINISM
  • TRACTITE
    A Tractarian.
  • ESSAY
    A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce. 3. An assay. See Assay, n.
  • PAMPHLETEER
    A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler. Dryden. Macaulay.
  • PAMPHLET
    OF. palme the palm of the hand, F. paume + OF. fueillet a leaf, dim. of fueil, m., F. feuille, f., fr. L. folium, pl. folia, thus meaning, a leaf to be held in the hand; or perh. through old French, fr. L. Pamphila, a female historian of the
  • MONOGRAPHOUS
    Monographic.
  • TRACTARIANISM
    The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times."
  • DISQUISITIONAL
    Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
  • ARTICLE
    One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A is called the indefinite article, the the definite article. (more info) 1. A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other
  • ESSAYIST
    A writer of an essay, or of essays. B. Jonson.
  • TRACTION
    1. The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle. 2. Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug. 3. Attraction;
  • TRACTORY
    A tractrix.
  • DISCUSSIONAL
    Pertaining to discussion.
  • TRACTILE
    Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon.
  • TRACTATOR
    One who writes tracts; specif., a Tractarian. C. Kingsley.
  • INTRACTABILITY
    The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
  • SUBCONTRACTOR
    One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
  • RETRACTOR
    One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
  • DETRACTIVE
    1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
  • CONTRACTIBLE
    Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
  • DISTRACTION
    1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
  • ATTRACTABILITY
    The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
  • DISTRACTED
    Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.
  • EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
    Capable of being extracted.
  • ATTRACTILE
    Having power to attract.
  • DETRACTIVENESS
    The quality of being detractive.
  • SUBTRACTIVE
    Having the negative sign, or sign minus. (more info) 1. Tending, or having power, to subtract.

 

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