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Word Meanings - FATALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.

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  • SUBJECTION
    1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government
  • SUBJECTIST
    One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
  • PLACEMENT
    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • SUBJECTNESS
    Quality of being subject.
  • PLACENTARY
    Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
  • PLACE-KICK
    To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
  • INEVITABLENESS
    The state of being unavoidable; certainty to happen. Prideaux.
  • PLACER
    One who places or sets. Spenser.
  • SUBJECTLESS
    Having no subject.
  • PLACE
    Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
  • SUBJECTIVE
    Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer. Syn. -- See Objective. Subjective sensation , one of the sensations occurring when stimuli due to internal causes
  • SUBJECT
    first part is L. subtus below, fr. sub under), subgiet, subject, F. sujet, from L. subjectus lying under, subjected, p.p. of subjicere, subicere, to throw, lay, place, or bring under; sub under + jacere to 1. Placed or situated under; lying below,
  • PLACENTA
    The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
  • SUBJECT-MATTER
    The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science
  • PLACEMAN
    One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
  • PLACENTIOUS
    Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller.
  • NECESSITY
    The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism. Of necessity, by necessary consequence; by compulsion, or irresistible power; perforce. Syn.
  • PLACEBO
    The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
  • PLACENTIFEROUS
    Having or producing a placenta.
  • PLACENTATION
    The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.
  • REPLACEMENT
    The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
  • COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
    1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
  • INSUBJECTION
    Want of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government.
  • APLACENTAL
    Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
  • RESUBJECTION
    A second subjection.
  • DISPLACER
    The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. (more info) 1. One that displaces.
  • BY-PLACE
    A retired or private place.
  • SELF-COMPLACENCY
    The quality of being self-complacent. J. Foster.

 

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