Word Meanings - INDUSTRIALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Devotion to industrial pursuits; labor; industry. J. S. Mill. 2. The principles or policy applicable to industrial pursuits or organized labor. Industrialism must not confounded with industriousness. H. Spencer.

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• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• LABOR-SAVING
  Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
• LABORIOUS
  1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison. 2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
• LABORED
  Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
• LABOROUS
  Laborious. Wyatt. -- La"bor*ous*ly, adv. Sir T. Elyot.
• LABOR
  The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging. 7. Etym: (more info) 1. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard,
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• ORGANIZATION
  1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
• LABORATORY
  The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the
• INDUSTRIALLY
  With reference to industry.
• INDUSTRIAL
  Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights. The great ideas of industrial development and economic social
• CONFOUNDEDLY
  Extremely; odiously; detestably. "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.
• ORGANIZABLE
  Capable of being organized; esp. , capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.
• LABORSOME
  Likely or inclined to roll or pitch, as a ship in a heavy sea; having a tendency to labor. (more info) 1. Made with, or requiring, great labor, pains, or diligence. Shak.
• INDUSTRY
  Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor. Syn. -- Diligence; assiduity; perseverance; activity; laboriousness; attention. See Diligence. (more info) 1. Habitual
• ORGANIZE
  To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle. These nobler faculties of the mind, matter
• SPENCER
  One who has the care of the spence, or buttery. Promptorium Parvulorum.
• LABORER
  One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.
• DEVOTIONAL
  Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
• OVERLABOR
  1. To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. Dryden. 2. To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly.
• COLABORER
  One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
• ELABORATION
  The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle,
• UNLABORED
  1. Not produced by labor or toil. "Unlabored harvests." Dryden. 2. Not cultivated; untitled; as, an unlabored field. 3. Not laboriously produced, or not evincing labor; as, an unlabored style or work. Tickell.
• IMPOLICY
  The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.
• SELF-DEVOTION
  The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
• MISPOLICY
  Wrong policy; impolicy.
• UNDERLABORER
  An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.
• ELABORATOR
  One who, or that which, elaborates.
• ELABORATORY
  Tending to elaborate.