Word Meanings - LATINIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar. Cowper. He left school a good Latinist. Macaulay.

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• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• 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.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• 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;
• SKILLED
  Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
• SCHOOLSHIP
  A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts
• SKILLIGALEE
  A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army.
• SCHOOLHOUSE
  A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
• SCHOOLROOM
  A room in which pupils are taught.
• SCHOOLMAN
  One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity. Note: The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the Middle Ages, esp. from the 11th century to the Reformation, who spent much time on points of nice and
• LATINITY
  The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom. "His eleLatinity." Motley.
• SCHOLARLY
  Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique. -- adv.
• SCHOOLWARD
  Toward school. Chaucer.
• SCHOOLMISTRESS
  A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school- teacher.
• SCHOOLMATE
  A pupil who attends the same school as another.
• SCHOOLMA'AM
  A schoolmistress.
• SCHOLARLIKE
  Scholarly. Bacon.
• LATIN
  A member of the Roman Catholic Church. (Dog Latin, barbarous Latin; a jargon in imitation of Latin; as, the log Latin of schoolboys. -- Late Latin, Low Latin, terms used indifferently to designate the latest stages of the Latin language; low Latin
• SCHOOLERY
  Something taught; precepts; schooling. penser.
• 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.
• VACILLATING
  Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• PLATINIRIDIUM
  A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum.
• GELATINATION
  The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.
• GELATINIZATION
  See GELATINATION
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• NASOPALATAL; NASOPALATINE
  Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.
• OSCILLATING CURRENT
  A current alternating in direction.
• PLATINOID
  Resembling platinum.
• UNSKILLFUL
  1. Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician. 2. Lacking discernment; injudicious; ignorant. Though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve. Shak. --