Word Meanings - MULTIVOCAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Signifying many different things; of manifold meaning; equivocal. "An ambiguous multivocal word." Coleridge. -- n.

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• MANIFOLD
  1. Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated. O Lord, how manifold are thy works! Ps. civ. 24. I know your manifold transgressions. Amos v. 12. 2. Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to qualify
• DIFFERENTIALLY
  In the way of differentiation.
• DIFFERENTLY
  In a different manner; variously.
• DIFFERENT
  1. Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison. 2. Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different
• MULTIVOCAL
  Signifying many different things; of manifold meaning; equivocal. "An ambiguous multivocal word." Coleridge. -- n.
• AMBIGUOUS
  Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression. What have been thy answers What but dark, Ambiguous,
• AMBIGUOUSNESS
  Ambiguity.
• MEAN
  menen, AS. mænan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. menian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you
• MANIFOLDED
  Having many folds, layers, or plates; as, a manifolded shield.
• MEANDROUS; MEANDRY
  Winding; flexuous.
• EQUIVOCALLY
  In an equivocal manner.
• SIGNIFY
  1. To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present. I 'll to the king; and signify to him That thus
• DIFFERENTIA
  The formal or distinguishing part of the essence of a species; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference.
• MEANDER
  Fretwork. See Fret. (more info) 1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore. 2. A tortuous or intricate movement.
• MEANLY
  Moderately. A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. Ascham.
• MEAN-SPIRITED
  Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. -- Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.
• DIFFERENTIATE
  To obtain the differential, or differential coefficient, of; as, to differentiate an algebraic expression, or an equation. (more info) 1. To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to
• MEANDRINA
  A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.
• MEANTIME; MEANWHILE
  The intervening time; as, in the meantime .
• MANIFOLDNESS
  A generalized concept of magnitude. (more info) 1. Multiplicity. Sherwood.
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• REMEANT
  Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.
• ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
  Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• INTERMEAN
  Something done in the meantime; interlude. B. Jonson.
• UNEQUIVOCAL
  Not equivocal; not doubtful; not ambiguous; evident; sincere; plain; as, unequivocal evidence; unequivocal words. -- Un`e*quiv"o*cal*ly, adv. -- Un`e*quiv"o*cal*ness, n.
• UNMEANT
  Not meant or intended; unintentional. Dryden.
• DEMEANANCE
  Demeanor. Skelton.
• FOREMEANT
  Intended beforehand; premeditated. Spenser.
• FORESIGNIFY
  To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify. Milton.
• CADMEAN
  Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- Cadmean letters. Cadmean victory, a victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished;