Word Meanings - PREFIGURATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Showing by prefiguration. "The prefigurative atonement." Bp. Horne.

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• HORNET
  A large, strong wasp. The European species is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American
• SHOWROOM
  A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. 2. A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.
• SHOWILY
  In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
• SHOWING
  1. Appearance; display; exhibition. 2. Presentation of facts; statement. J. S. Mill.
• SHOWER
  1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif.
• SHOWMAN
  One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
• PREFIGURATIVE
  Showing by prefiguration. "The prefigurative atonement." Bp. Horne.
• HORNER
  The British sand lance or sand eel . (more info) 1. One who works or deal in horn or horns. Grew. 2. One who winds or blows the horn. Sherwood. 3. One who horns or cuckolds. Massinger.
• SHOWERY
  1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain. 2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton.
• PREFIGURATION
  The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured. A variety of prophecies and prefigurations. Norris.
• SHOW
  1. To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem. Just such she shows before a rising storm. Dryden. All round a hedge upshoots, and shows At distance like a little wood. Tennyson. 2. To
• HORNED
  Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn. The horned moon with one bright star Within the nether tip. Coleridge. Horned bee , a British wild bee , having
• SHOWBREAD
  Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in
• SHOWN
  p. p. of Show.
• HORNEL
  The European sand eel.
• SHOWISH
  Showy; ostentatious. Swift.
• SHOWERLESS
  Rainless; freo from showers.
• SHOWERINESS
  Quality of being showery.
• SHOWINESS
  The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.
• HORNEDNESS
  The condition of being horned.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• RAREE-SHOW
  A show carried about in a box; a peep show. Pope.
• STAG-HORNED
  Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles.
• BROAD-HORNED
  Having horns spreading widely.
• THUNDERSHOWER
  A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.
• HOLLOW-HORNED
  Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.
• PRESHOW
  To foreshow.