Word Meanings - GENEVESE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevan. -- n. sing. & pl.

GENEVAN
Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevese.
GENEVANISM
Strict Calvinism. Bp. Montagu.
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
GENEVA
The chief city of Switzerland. Geneva Bible, a translation of the Bible into English, made and published by English refugees in Geneva . It was the first English Bible printed in Roman type instead of the ancient black letter, the first
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