Word Meanings - EMBRYOTOMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.

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• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• CUTTING
  1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. 2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• EFFECT
  1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed
• CUTTYSTOOL
  1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
• EFFECTOR
  An effecter. Derham.
• EFFECTUATE
  To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis.
• WITHINSIDE
  In the inner parts; inside. Graves.
• EFFECTION
  Creation; a doing. Sir M. Hale.
• EFFECTLESS
  Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless. Shak. -- Ef*fect"less*ly, adv.
• CUTTY
  Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
• EFFECTER
  One who effects.
• CUTTLE BONE
  The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.
• EFFECTUOUSLY
  Effectively.
• EFFECTUATION
  Act of effectuating.
• CUTTINGLY
  In a cutting manner.
• EFFECTIBLE
  Capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible. Sir T. Browne.
• EFFECTUAL
  Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive. Shak. Effectual steps for the suppression of the rebellion. Macaulay. Effectual calling , a doctrine concerning the work of the
• CUTTLE
  A knife. Bale.
• CUTTOO PLATE
  A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• SCUTTLE
  both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
• CHALKCUTTER
  A man who digs chalk.
• INEFFECTIVE
  Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor.
• WITHIN
  with, against, toward + innan in, inwardly, within, from in in. See 1. In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors. O, unhappy youth! Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives.
• APIECES
  In pieces or to pieces. "Being torn apieces." Shak.
• INEFFECTUALLY
  Without effect; in vain. Hereford . . . had been besieged for abouineffectually by the Scots. Ludlow.
• STONECUTTING
  Hewing or dressing stone.
• INEFFECTUALNESS
  Want of effect, or of power to produce it; inefficacy. The ineffectualness of some men's devotion. Wake.
• SCREW-CUTTING
  Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.