Word Meanings - MEDALLIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a medal, or to medals. "Our medallic history." Walpole.

Related words: (words related to MEDALLIC)

• MEDAL PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
• MEDALET
  A small medal.
• MEDALLIC
  Of or pertaining to a medal, or to medals. "Our medallic history." Walpole.
• 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
• MEDALLION
  1. A large medal or memorial coin. 2. A circular or oval tablet bearing a figure or figures represented in relief.
• HISTORY
  history, information, inquiry, fr. 'istwr, "istwr, knowing, learned, 1. A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record;
• MEDALIST
  1. A person that is skilled or curious in medals; a collector of medals. Addison. 2. A designer of medals. Macaulay. 3. One who has gained a medal as the reward of merit.
• MEDAL
  A piece of metal in the form of a coin, struck with a device, and intended to preserve the remembrance of a notable event or an illustrious person, or to serve as a reward. (more info) through LL. metalleus made of metal. See Metal, and cf.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach