Word Meanings - LACERT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A muscle of the human body. Chaucer.

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• HUMANIFY
  To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate. The humanifying of the divine Word. H. B. Wilson.
• HUMANIZE
  To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. (more info) 1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business
• HUMANITARIANISM
  The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.
• HUMANISM
  1. Human nature or disposition; humanity. looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. T. Hardy. 2. The study of the humanities; polite learning.
• HUMANISTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. Caird. 2. Pertaining to polite kiterature. M. Arnold.
• HUMANITY
  The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archæology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literæ
• HUMANIST
  1. One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title. Schaff- Herzog. 2. One who purposes the study
• HUMANKIND
  Mankind. Pope.
• HUMANITIAN
  A humanist. B. Jonson.
• HUMANIZER
  One who renders humane.
• MUSCLE READING
  The art of making discriminations between objects of choice, of discovering the whereabouts of hidden objects, etc., by inference from the involuntary movements of one whose hand the reader holds or with whom he is otherwise in muscular contact.
• HUMANATE
  Indued with humanity. Cranmer.
• HUMAN
  A human being. Sprung of humans that inhabit earth. Chapman. We humans often find ourselves in strange position. Prof. Wilson.
• HUMANNESS
  The quality or state of being human.
• HUMANICS
  The study of human nature. T. W. Collins.
• MUSCLED
  Furnished with muscles; having muscles; as, things well muscled.
• HUMANE
  1. Pertaining to man; human. Jer. Taylor. 2. Having the feelings and inclinations creditable to man; having a disposition to treat other human beings or animals with kindness; kind; benevolent. Of an exceeding courteous and humane inclination.
• HUMANIZATION
  The act of humanizing. M. Arnold.
• MUSCLE
  See CONTRACTION (more info) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion. See Illust. of Muscles of the Human Body, in Appendix. The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up. Note:
• HUMANLY
  1. In a human manner; after the manner of men; according to the knowledge or wisdom of men; as, the present prospects, humanly speaking, promise a happy issue. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Kindly; humanely. Pope.
• INHUMANITY
  The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
• INHUMANLY
  In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.
• INHUMAN
  1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people. 2. Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment. Syn. --
• TRANSHUMAN
  More than human; superhuman. Words may not tell of that transhuman change. H. F. Cary.
• DEHUMANIZE
  To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.
• SUPERHUMAN
  Above or beyond what is human; sometimes, divine; as, superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom.