Word Meanings - INSPIRATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or aiding, inspiration; as, the inspiratory muscles.

Related words: (words related to INSPIRATORY)

• AIDANCE
  Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.
• AIDFUL
  Helpful. Bp. Hall.
• AID
  A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan. (more info) 1. Help; succor; assistance; relief. An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid. Hallam. 2. The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper;
• AID-MAJOR
  The adjutant of a regiment.
• AIDLESS
  Helpless; without aid. Milton.
• INSPIRATIONIST
  One who holds to inspiration.
• 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
• INSPIRATION
  A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth;
• AID-DE-CAMP
  An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.
• INSPIRATORY
  Pertaining to, or aiding, inspiration; as, the inspiratory muscles.
• AIDER
  One who, or that which, aids.
• INSPIRATIONAL
  Pertaining to inspiration.
• AIDANT
  Helping; helpful; supplying aid. Shak.
• HANDMAID; HANDMAIDEN
  A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
• SPAID
  See SPADE
• DAYMAID
  A dairymaid.
• SAID
  imp. & p. p. of Say.
• MERMAID
  A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish. Note: Chaucer uses this word as equivalent to the siren of the ancients. Mermaid fish
• FORESAID
  Mentioned before; aforesaid.
• WAID
  Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down. Tusser.
• HAIDUCK
  Formerly, a mercenary foot soldier in Hungary, now, a halberdier of a Hungarian noble, or an attendant in German or
• MAIDENLINESS
  The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.
• RAID
  1. A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray. Marauding chief! his sole delight. The moonlight raid, the morning fight. Sir W. Scott. There are permanent
• BRAID
  and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. breg, D. breiden to knit, OS. 1. To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton. 2. To mingle, or to bring
• HAIDINGERITE
  A mineral consisting of the arseniate of lime; -- so named in honor of W. Haidinger, of Vienna.
• STAIDNESS
  The quality or state of being staid; seriousness; steadiness; sedateness; regularity; -- the opposite of wildness, or Ant: levity. If sometimes he appears too gray, yet a secret gracefulness of youth accompanies his writings, though the staidness
• MAIDEN
  fr. mago son, servant; akin to G. magd, mädchen, maid, OHG. magad, Icel. mögr son, Goth. magus boy, child, magaps virgin, and perh. to 1. An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
• STAID
  imp. & p. p. of Stay.
• STAIDLY
  In a staid manner, sedately.
• UNMAIDEN
  To ravish; to deflower.
• HAWSER-LAID
  Made in the manner of a hawser. Cf. Cable-laid, and see Illust. of Cordage.