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Word Meanings - INCOHERENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances. Woodward. 2. Wanting coherence or agreement; incongruous; inconsistent; having no dependence of one part on another;

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1. Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances. Woodward. 2. Wanting coherence or agreement; incongruous; inconsistent; having no dependence of one part on another; logically disconnected. "The same rambling, incoherent manner." Bp. Warburton.

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  • REMISS
    Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
  • RAVENER
    1. One who, or that which, ravens or plunders. Gower. 2. A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. Holland.
  • REMISSLY
    In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
  • RAVISHER
    One who ravishes .
  • HIGH-SOUNDING
    Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
  • DESERTER
    One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
  • RAVENOUS
    1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
  • RAVELIN
    A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.
  • VISIONARY
    1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
  • UNGOVERNABLE
    Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
  • HAGGARD
    A stackyard. Swift.
  • FERINE
    Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts. Sir M. Hale. -- n.
  • RAVEN
    1. Rapine; rapacity. Ray. 2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
  • UNCIVILIZATION
    The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
  • REMISSORY
    Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
  • RETAINMENT
    The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
  • DISTRACTION
    1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
  • RAVENING
    Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. Luke xi. 39.
  • DISTRACTED
    Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.
  • REMISSIVE
    Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.
  • PARAVAIL
    At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
  • INDESERT
    Ill desert. Addison.
  • GRAVIDATION
    Gravidity.
  • MORAVIAN
    Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.
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    The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
  • MARGRAVATE; MARGRAVIATE
    The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave.
  • GRAVEDIGGER
    See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
  • TRAVEL
    1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
  • FORSLACK
    To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
  • AGGRAVATING
    1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances. 2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow.
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    A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.

 

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