Word Meanings - PASSIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
Related words: (words related to PASSIONAL)
- EXCITO-MOTION
Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. - EXCITABLE
Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated. - EXCITING
Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes. - EXCITATION
The act of producing excitement ; also, the excitement produced. (more info) 1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon. - PASSIONAL
Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n. - EXCITABILITY
The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. (more info) 1. The quality of being readily excited; - EXCITATOR
A kind of discarder. - EXCITATE
To excite. Bacon. - MINISTERY
See MILTON - INFLUENCIVE
Tending toinfluence; influential. - EXCITEFUL
Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman. - PASSIONLESS
Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson. - EXCITO-NUTRIENT
Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified. - MINISTERIALLY
In a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of a minister. - 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 - EXCITO-SECRETORY
Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action. - INFLUENCE
Induction. Syn. -- Control; persuasion; ascendency; sway; power; authority; supremacy; mastery; management; restraint; character; reputation; prestige. (more info) 1. A flowing in or upon; influx. God hath his influence into the very essence of - MINISTER
orig. a double comparative from the root of minor less, and hence meaning, an inferior, a servant. See 1st Minor, and cf. Master, 1. A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument. Moses rose - INFLUENCER
One who, or that which, influences. - EXCITANT
Tending to excite; exciting. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - OUTPASSION
To exceed in passion. - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - IMPASSIONABLE
Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion. - IMPASSIONATE
Strongly affected. Smart. - EMPASSION
To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion. Those sights empassion me full near. Spenser. - UNDERMINISTER
To serve, or minister to, in a subordinate relation. Wyclif. - IMPASSION
To move or affect strongly with passion. Chapman.