Word Meanings - EXILIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon. Encyc. Dict.

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• EXILE
  who quits, or is banished from, his native soil; ex out + solum ground, land, soil, or perh. fr.the root of salire to leap, spring; 1. Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment;
• ENCYCLOPEDIAN
  Embracing the whole circle of learning, or a wide range of subjects.
• ENCYCLOPEDIST
  The compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences. The Encyclopedists, the writers of the great French encyclopedia which appeared in 1751-1772. The editors
• ENCYCLOPEDIC; ENCYCLOPEDICAL
  Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; embracing a wide range of subjects.
• ENCYCLOPEDISM
  The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• ENCYCLOPEDIA; ENCYCLOPAEDIA
  The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.
• BANISHMENT
  The act of banishing, or the state of being banished. He secured himself by the banishment of his enemies. Johnson. Round the wide world in banishment we roam. Dryden. Syn. -- Expatriation; ostracism; expulsion; proscription; exile; outlawry.
• EXILEMENT
  Banishment. Sir. H. Wotton.
• BABYLONIC; BABYLONICAL
  1. Pertaining to Babylon, or made there; as Babylonic garments,carpets, or hangings. 2. Tumultuous; disorderly. Sir J. Harrington.
• ENCYCLOPEDIACAL
  Encyclopedic.
• BABYLONISH
  1. Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia. "A Babylonish garment." Josh. vii. 21. 2. Pertaining to the Babylon of Revelation xiv.8. 3. Pertaining to Rome and papal power. The . . . injurious nickname of Babylonish. Gape. 4. Confused;
• ENCYCLIC; ENCYCLICAL
  Sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope.
• BABYLONIAN
  Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.
• FLEXILE
  Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable. Wordsworth.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach