Word Meanings - GOTHICISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A Gothic idiom. 2. Conformity to the Gothic style of architecture. 3. Rudeness of manners; barbarousness.

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• STYLET
  A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
• GOTHIC
  Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475
• 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.
• GOTHICIZE
  To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.
• IDIOMUSCULAR
  Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.
• BARBAROUSNESS
  The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.
• 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.
• GOTHICISM
  1. A Gothic idiom. 2. Conformity to the Gothic style of architecture. 3. Rudeness of manners; barbarousness.
• ARCHITECTURE
  1. The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture. Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin. 3.
• STYLE
  The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates (more info) style or writing instrument, manner or writing, mode of expression; probably for stiglus, meaning, a pricking instrument, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, v. t.,
• OSTROGOTHIC
  Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.
• ARAEOSTYLE
  See INTERCOLUMNIATION
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• SURSTYLE
  To surname.
• INCONFORMITY
  Want of conformity; nonconformity.
• AMPHIPROSTYLE
  Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.
• INSTYLE
  To style. Crashaw.
• ENDOSTYLE
  A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
• GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE
  British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.
• DODECASTYLE
  Having twelve columns in front. -- n.
• BROMIDIOM
  A conventional comment or saying, such as those characteristic of bromides.
• POLYSTYLE
  Having many columns; -- said of a building, especially of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall. -- n.
• CYRTOSTYLE
  A circular projecting portion.
• SUBSTYLE
  A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane
• MOESOGOTHIC
  Belonging to the Moesogoths, a branch of the Goths who settled in Moesia.
• OCTASTYLE
  See OCTOSTYLE