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Word Meanings - KINSMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A man of the same race or family; one related by blood.

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  • RATIOCINATE
    To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument.
  • RATIONALIZATION
    The act or process of rationalizing.
  • RELATIONSHIP
    The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
  • ASSOCIATION
    1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
  • PROPORTIONATE
    Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
  • RATIONALISTIC; RATIONALISTICAL
    Belonging to, or in accordance with, the principles of rationalism. -- Ra`tion*al*is"tic*al*ly, adv.
  • FITNESS
    The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
  • RATIOCINATION
    The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.
  • ASSOCIATIONIST
    One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
  • HOMOGENEITY
    See HOMOGENEOUSNESS
  • NARRATION
    That part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action, or simply states the facts connected with the subject. Syn. -- Account; recital; rehearsal; relation; description; explanation; detail; narrative; story; tale;
  • RATION
    1. A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence. Note: Officers have several rations, the number varying according to their rank or the number of their attendants. 2. Hence,
  • BEARISH
    Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
  • BEARWARD
    A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
  • PROPORTION
    1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his
  • RELATIVELY
    In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
  • BEAR
    produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold
  • BEAR'S-BREECH
    See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
  • RATIONALLY
    In a rational manner.
  • ASSOCIATIONISM
    The doctrine or theory held by associationists.
  • MIGRATION
    The act of migrating.
  • DISPROPORTIONALLY
    In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
  • WATER-BEARER
    The constellation Aquarius.
  • IMPROPORTIONATE
    Not proportionate.
  • COMMISERATION
    The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak. Syn. -- See Sympathy.
  • DEDECORATION
    Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey.
  • INCARCERATION
    1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill. Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
  • DISPROPORTIONABLE
    Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
  • DISPROPORTIONALITY
    The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
  • EXULCERATION
    1. Ulceration. Quincy. 2. A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker.
  • SHIELD-BEARER
    Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
  • IMPREPARATION
    Want of preparation. Hooker.
  • IRRATIONAL
    Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of
  • MISRELATION
    Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
  • REVERBERATION
    The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reëchoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame

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