Word Meanings - ILIAC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to ancient Ilium, or Troy. Gladstone.

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• GLADSTONE
  A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman.
• ILIUM
  The dorsal one of the three principal bones comprising either lateral half of the pelvis; the dorsal or upper part of the hip bone.
• 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
• ANCIENTNESS
  The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
• ANCIENTLY
  1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
• ANCIENTRY
  1. Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West. 2. Old age; also, old people. Wronging the ancientry. Shak. 3. Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller.
• ANCIENT
  1. Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature,
• ANCIENTY
  1. Age; antiquity. Martin. 2. Seniority.
• SUPERCILIUM
  The eyebrow, or the region of the eyebrows.
• SUPRA-ILIUM
  The cartilaginous cap at the sacral end of the ilium of some animals.
• CILIUM
  See CILIA
• 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