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Word Meanings - INDISCRETE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Indiscreet. Boyle. 2. Not discrete or separated; compact; homogenous. An indiscrete mass of confused matter. Pownall.

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  • SEPARATISM
    The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.
  • CONFUSIVE
    Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
  • CONFUS
    Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
  • COMPACT
    1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
  • COMPACTIBLE
    That may be compacted.
  • SEPARATIVE
    Causing, or being to cause, separation. "Separative virtue of extreme cold." Boyle.
  • INDISCRETE
    1. Indiscreet. Boyle. 2. Not discrete or separated; compact; homogenous. An indiscrete mass of confused matter. Pownall.
  • BOYLE'S LAW
    See LAW
  • SEPARATICAL
    Of or pertaining to separatism in religion; schismatical. Dr. T. Dwight.
  • COMPACTEDLY
    In a compact manner.
  • INDISCREET
    Not discreet; wanting in discretion. So drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Shak. Syn. -- Imprudent; injudicious; inconsiderate; rash; hasty; incautious; heedless; undiscerning; foolish. -- In`dis*creet"ly, adv. -- In`dis*creet"ness, n. (more
  • SEPARATORY
    Separative. Cheyne.
  • CONFUSABILITY
    Capability of being confused.
  • DISCRETE
    Separate; not coalescent; -- said of things usually coalescent. Discrete movement. See Concrete movement of the voice, under Concrete, a. -- Discrete proportion, proportion where the ratio of the means is different from that of either couplet; as,
  • SEPARATING
    Designed or employed to separate. Separating funnel , a funnel, often globe-shaped, provided with a stopcock for the separate drawing off of immiscible liquids of different specific gravities.
  • SEPARATIST
    One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary. Heavy fines on divines who should preach in
  • CONFUSEDNESS
    A state of confusion. Norris.
  • SEPARATOR
    One who, or that which, separates. Specifically: A device for depriving steam of particles of water mixed with it. An apparatus for sorting pulverized ores into grades, or separating them from gangue.
  • MATTERLESS
    1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
  • SEPARATE
    pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen. xiii.
  • INSEPARATE
    Not separate; together; united. Shak.
  • SMATTERER
    One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.
  • SUBJECT-MATTER
    The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science

 

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