Word Meanings - EXCEPTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not exceptional; usual. My general and exceptless rashness. Shak.
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- GENERALIZED
Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. - GENERALIZABLE
Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge - RASHNESS
The quality of state of being rash. We offend . . . by rashness, which is an affirming or denying, before we have sufficiently informed ourselves. South. Syn. -- Temerity; foolhardiness; precipitancy; precipitation; hastiness; indiscretion; - GENERALTY
Generality. Sir M. Hale. - EXCEPTIONAL
Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv. - EXCEPTLESS
Not exceptional; usual. My general and exceptless rashness. Shak. - GENERALITY
1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from - GENERALISSIMO
The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries. - GENERALLY
1. In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently. 2. In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. Generally speaking, they live very quietly. Addison. 3. Collectively; as a - GENERALIZE
1. To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera. Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the - GENERALIZATION
1. The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars. Generalization is only the apprehension of the one in the many. Sir W. Hamilton. 2. - GENERAL
One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal. Note: In the United States the office - GENERALIA
Generalities; general terms. J. S. Mill. - GENERALIZER
One who takes general or comprehensive views. Tyndall. - USUAL
Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common. Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times. Hooker. We can make friends - GENERALSHIP
1. The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general. Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene. Goldsmith. 2. Military skill in a general officer - GENERALNESS
The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness. Sir P. Sidney. - MAJOR GENERAL
. An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. - POSTMASTER-GENERAL
The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet. - BRIGADIER GENERAL
An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier. - LIEUTENANT GENERAL
. An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. Note: In the United States, before the civil war, this rank had been conferred only on George Washington and on Winfield Scott. In 1864 it was revived by Congress and - ATTORNEY-GENERAL
The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. Wharton. (more info) general). - OUTGENERAL
To exceed in generalship; to gain advantage over by superior military skill or executive ability; to outmaneuver. Chesterfield. - UNUSUALITY
Unusualness. Poe.