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Word Meanings - GALLICIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To conform to the French mode or idiom.

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  • CONFORMABLE
    1. Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; --usually followed by to. The fragments of Sappho give us a taste of her way of writing perfectly conformable with that character. Addison.
  • CONFORMIST
    One who conforms or complies; esp., one who conforms to the Church of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist. A cheeful conformist to your judgment. Jer.Taylor.
  • IDIOMORPHOUS
    Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock. (more info) 1. Having a form of its own.
  • CONFORMITY
    1. Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between. By our conformity to God. Tillotson. The end of all religion is but to draw us to a conformity with God. Dr. H.More.
  • IDIOM
    1. The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language. Idiom may be employed loosely and figuratively as a synonym of language or dialect, but in its proper sense it signifies the totality of the general
  • IDIOMORPHIC
    Idiomorphous.
  • FRENCH
    Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. French bean , the common kidney bean . -- French berry , the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. -- French casement See French
  • CONFORMATOR
    An apparatus for taking the conformation of anything, as of the head for fitting a hat, or, in craniometry, finding the largest horizontal area of the head.
  • CONFORMATION
    1. The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity. The conformation of our hearts and lives to the duties of true religion and morality. I. Watts. 2. The state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on
  • FRENCHIFY
    To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. Burke.
  • IDIOMUSCULAR
    Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.
  • CONFORMABLENESS
    The quality of being conformable; conformability.
  • FRENCHMAN
    A native or one of the people of France.
  • IDIOMATIC; IDIOMATICAL
    Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase. -- Id`i*o*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • CONFORM
    Of the same form; similar in import; conformable. Bacon. Care must be taken that the interpretation be every way conform to the analogy of faith. Bp.Hall.
  • CONFORMATE
    Having the same form.
  • CONFORMABLY
    With conformity or in conformity; suitably; agreeably. Conformably to the law and nature of God. Bp. Beveridge.
  • CONFORMABILITY
    1. The state of being conformable. 2. The parallelism of two sets of strata which are in contact.
  • FRENCHISM
    A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language. Earle.
  • CONFORMER
    One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.
  • MALCONFORMATION
    Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
  • INCONFORMITY
    Want of conformity; nonconformity.
  • NONCONFORMING
    Not conforming; declining conformity; especially, not conforming to the established church of a country.
  • UNCONFORMIST
    A nonconformist.
  • BROMIDIOM
    A conventional comment or saying, such as those characteristic of bromides.
  • NONCONFORMIST
    One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter.
  • SUBCONFORMABLE
    Partially conformable.
  • HYPIDIOMORPHIC
    Partly idiomorphic; -- said of rock a portion only of whose constituents have a distinct crystalline form. -- Hy*pid`i*o*mor"phic*al*ly, adv.
  • MALECONFORMATION
    Malconformation.
  • DISCONFORMITY
    Want of conformity or correspondence; inconsistency; disagreement. Those . . . in some disconformity to ourselves. Milton. Disagreement and disconformity betwixt the speech and the conception of the mind. Hakewill.

 

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