Word Meanings - MILESIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to Miletus, a city of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants.
Related words: (words related to MILESIAN)
- MINOR
Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Asia Minor , the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. -- Minor mode , that mode, - MINORAT
A custom or right, analogous to borough-English in England, formerly existing in various parts of Europe, and surviving in parts of Germany and Austria, by which certain entailed estates, as a homestead and adjacent land, descend to the youngest - MINORATION
A diminution. Sir T. Browne. - MINORATE
To diminish. Sir T. Browne. - MINORESS
See A - 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 - MINORITE
A Franciscan friar. - MINORITY
1. The state of being a minor, or under age. 2. State of being less or small. Sir T. Browne. 3. The smaller number; -- opposed to Ant: majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority. - ALLUMINOR
An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner. Cowell. - NOMINOR
A nominator. Bentham. - 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