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Comprehending, or relating to, many arts and sciences; -- applied particularly to schools in which many branches of art and science are taught with especial reference to their practical application; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial

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Comprehending, or relating to, many arts and sciences; -- applied particularly to schools in which many branches of art and science are taught with especial reference to their practical application; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial products.

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  • APPLICABLE
    Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
  • RELATIONSHIP
    The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
  • APPLICATIVE
    Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
  • APPLICANCY
    The quality or state of being applicable.
  • ESPECIALNESS
    The state of being especial.
  • APPLICABILITY
    The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
  • SCHOOLSHIP
    A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts
  • APPLICATORILY
    By way of application.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • RELATIVELY
    In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
  • PARTICULARLY
    1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil
  • PRACTICAL
    1. Of or pertaining to practice or action. 2. Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry. "Man's practical understanding." South. "For all practical purposes." Macaulay.
  • INDUSTRIALLY
    With reference to industry.
  • RELATE
    1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
  • PRACTICALLY
    1. In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless. 2. By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject. 3.
  • RELATIVITY
    The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
  • INDUSTRIAL
    Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights. The great ideas of industrial development and economic social
  • TAUGHT
    imp. & p. p. of Teach. Etym: Note: See Teach.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • RELATRIX
    A female relator.
  • PRELATIST
    One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
  • PRELATISM
    Prelacy; episcopacy.
  • UNAPPLIABLE
    Inapplicable. Milton.
  • PRELATIZE
    To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
  • UNCOMPREHEND
    To fail to comprehend. Daniel.
  • MISRELATION
    Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
  • REAPPLICATION
    The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
  • UNPRACTICAL
    Not practical; impractical. "Unpractical questions." H. James. I like him none the less for being unpractical. Lowell.
  • PRESCIENCE
    Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
  • INAPPLICABILITY
    The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
  • IRRELATIVE
    Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence
  • CORRELATIVENESS
    Quality of being correlative.

 

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