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Word Meanings - ORIGINARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Causing existence; productive. The production of animals, in the originary way, requires a certain degree of warmth. Cheyne. 2. Primitive; primary; original. The grand originary right of all rights. Hickok.

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  • RIGHT-RUNNING
    Straight; direct.
  • WARMTH
    The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement;
  • CAUSEFUL
    Having a cause.
  • GRANDEUR
    The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
  • CAUSATIVE
    1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
  • PRIMITIVENESS
    The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.
  • GRANDEESHIP
    The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
  • GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
    A grand mother.
  • RIGHTEOUSNESS
    The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
  • CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
    Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
  • GRANDUNCLE
    father's or mother's uncle.
  • RIGHT
    1. In a right manner. 2. In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide. Unto Dian's temple goeth
  • CAUSATOR
    One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
  • GRANDIFIC
    Making great. Bailey.
  • CAUSTICILY
    1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
  • GRANDILOQUENT
    Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
  • GRANDNESS
    Grandeur. Wollaston.
  • RIGHT-ANGLED
    Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
  • GRANDILOQUENCE
    The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray,
  • RIGHTEOUS
    Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
  • ANTICAUSODIC
    See ANTICAUSOTIC
  • BRIGHT
    See I
  • ABORIGINALLY
    Primarily.
  • NONEXISTENCE
    1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne.
  • ASCERTAINMENT
    The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
  • ASCERTAINABLE
    That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
  • CARTWRIGHT
    An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
  • GREAT-GRANDFATHER
    The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • FRIGHTFUL
    1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
  • SPRIGHTLY
    Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
  • SHRIGHT
    imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.

 

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