Word Meanings - LOCUSTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; -- formerly used to designate a supposed acid.

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• DERIVE
  To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. Shak. Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. Prior.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• LOCUST
  Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididæ, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, or Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United
• LOCUSTING
  Swarming and devastating like locusts. Tennyson.
• SUPPOSURE
  Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture. Hudibras.
• LOCUSTIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; -- formerly used to designate a supposed acid.
• SUPPOSABLE
  Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. -- Sup*pos"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*pos"a*bly, adv.
• DERIVATIONAL
  Relating to derivation. Earle.
• DERIVATIVE
  Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
• DERIVATION
  The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration. (more info) 1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. T. Burnet. 2.
• 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
• SUPPOSITIVE
  A word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc. Harris.
• DERIVEMENT
  That which is derived; deduction; inference. I offer these derivements from these subjects. W. Montagu.
• SUPPOSITITIOUS
  1. Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing. Bacon. 2. Suppositional; hypothetical. Woodward. -- Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ly,
• LOCUSTELLA
  The European cricket warbler.
• DERIVER
  One who derives.
• LOCUSTA
  The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses. Gray.
• SUPPOSAL
  The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion. Shak. Interest, with a Jew, never proceeds but upon supposal, at least, of a firm and sufficient bottom. South.
• SUPPOSEER
  One who supposes.
• WATER LOCUST
  A thorny leguminous tree which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
• PRESUPPOSITION
  1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
• PREDESIGNATE
  A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.