Word Meanings - GENIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the chin; mental; as, the genian prominence.

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• PROMINENCE; PROMINENCY
  1. The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out from something; conspicuousness. 2. That which is prominent; a protuberance. Solar prominences. See Solar Protuberances, under Protuberance.
• 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
• MENTAL
  A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.
• MENTALITY
  Quality or state of mind. "The same hard mentality." Emerson.
• GENIAN
  Of or pertaining to the chin; mental; as, the genian prominence.
• MENTALLY
  In the mind; in thought or meditation; intellectually; in idea.
• OMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to an omentum or the omenta.
• EXPERIMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
• ALIMENTALLY
  So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• ELEMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
• PIGMENTAL; PIGMENTARY
  Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments. Dunglison. Pigmentary degeneration , a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• REGIMENTALS
  The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• NIDAMENTAL
  of, pertaining to, or baring, eggs or egg capsules; as, the nidament capsules of certain gastropods; nidamental glands. See Illust. of Dibranchiata.
• SACRAMENTALLY
  In a sacrament manner.
• DEPARTMENTAL
  Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
• LAGENIAN
  Like, or pertaining to, Lagena, a genus of Foraminifera having a straight, chambered shell.
• SACRAMENTALIST
  One who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ;s body and blood in the holy eucharist. Shipley.
• ATRAMENTAL; ATRAMENTOUS
  Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.
• PREDICAMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to a predicament. John Hall .
• FUNDAMENTALLY
  Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "Fundamentally defective." Burke.
• ELEMENTALITY
  The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
• SENTIMENTALIST
  One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.