Word Meanings - JONESIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Jones. The Jonesian system, a system of transliterating Oriental words by English letters, invented by Sir William Jones.

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• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• INVENTRESS
  A woman who invents. Dryden.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• ENGLISH
  A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. The King's, or Queen's, English. See under King. (more info) 1. Collectively, the people of England;
• SYSTEMLESS
  Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
• SYSTEMIZATION
  The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
• SYSTEMATISM
  The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.
• INVENTFUL
  Full of invention. J. Gifford.
• INVENTOR
  One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices.
• SYSTEMATIST
  1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. 2. One who adheres to a system.
• SYSTEMATIZATION
  The act or operation of systematizing.
• ORIENTALIZE
  to render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.
• TRANSLITERATION
  The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.
• INVENTIBLE
  Capable of being invented.
• INVENTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an inventory. -- In`ven*to"ri*al*ly, adv. Shak.
• 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
• ORIENTALISM
  1. Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to Oriental people. 2. Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history, literature, etc. London Quart. Rev.
• SYSTEMATIC; SYSTEMATICAL
  Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. Systematic theology. See under Theology. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed
• BERTILLON SYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
  The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• TANDEM SYSTEM
  = Cascade system.
• SWORDSMAN
  1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.