Word Meanings - LATINISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model. Note: The term is also sometimes used by Biblical scholars to designate a Latin word in Greek letters, or the Latin
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A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model. Note: The term is also sometimes used by Biblical scholars to designate a Latin word in Greek letters, or the Latin sense of a Greek word in the Greek Testament.
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- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - PECULIARIZE
To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith. - LATINIZATION
The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country. The Germanization of Britain went far deeper than the Latinization of France. M. Arnold. - DESIGNATE
Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck. - ENGLISHWOMAN
Fem. of Englishman. Shak. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - SPEECHLESS
1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n. - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - SPEECHIFYING
The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold. - SCHOLARSHIP
1. The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning. A man of my master's . . . great scholarship. Pope. 2. Literary education. Any other house of scholarship. Milton. 3. Maintenance for a scholar; - SOMETIMES
1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . . - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - SPEECHFUL
Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious. - FORMICATE
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. - PECULIARNESS
The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede. - FORME
See PATTé - GREEK CALENDS; GREEK KALENDS
A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - OSCILLATING
That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale. - OVERLANGUAGED
Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - FULL-FORMED
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson. - SCORIFORM
In the form of scoria. - MALCONFORMATION
Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts. - REFORMATIVE
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good. - PENNIFORM
Having the form of a feather or plume.