Word Meanings - PRESCIND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To consider by a separate act of attention or analysis. Sir W. Hamilton. (more info) 1. To cut off; to abstract. Norris.

Related words: (words related to PRESCIND)

• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• ABSTRACTEDLY
  In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
• ABSTRACTITIOUS
  Obtained from plants by distillation. Crabb.
• ABSTRACTNESS
  The quality of being abstract. "The abstractness of the ideas." Locke.
• ABSTRACTIONAL
  Pertaining to abstraction.
• CONSIDERABLE
  1. Worthy of consideration, borne in mind, or attended to. It is considerable, that some urns have had inscriptions on them expressing that the lamps were burning. Bp. Wilkins. Eternity is infinitely the most considerable duration. Tillotson. 2.
• CONSIDERER
  One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker. Milton.
• CONSIDERATOR
  One who considers. Sir T. Browne.
• CONSIDERATIVE
  Considerate; careful; thoughtful. I love to be considerative. B. Jonson.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• ABSTRACTIONIST
  An idealist. Emerson.
• CONSIDERABLENESS
  Worthiness of consideration; dignity; value; size; amount.
• SEPARATE
  1. Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected. Him that was separate from his brethren. Gen. xlix. 26. 2. Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not
• ANALYSIS
  The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either what elements it contains, or how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter
• ABSTRACTIVE
  Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature. "The abstractive faculty." I. Taylor.
• CONSIDERANCE
  Act of considering; consideration. Shak.
• CONSIDER
  consider, view attentively, prob. fr. con- + sidus, sideris, star, constellation; orig., therefore, to look at the stars. See Sidereal, 1. To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to thank on with care; to ponder; to study; to
• ABSTRACTIVENESS
  The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property.
• CONSIDERABLY
  In a manner or to a degree not trifling or unimportant; greatly; much. The breeds . . . differ considerably from each other. Darwin.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• INCONSIDERATION
  Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.
• MICROANALYSIS
  Analysis of the structure of materials from careful observation of photomicrographs.
• UNCONSIDERATE
  Inconsiderate; heedless; careless. Daniel. -- Un`con*sid"er*ate*ness, n. Hales.
• INCONSIDERATE
  1. Not considerate; not attentive to safety or to propriety; not regarding the rights or feelings of others; hasty; careless; thoughtless; heedless; as, the young are generally inconsiderate; inconsiderate conduct. It is a very unhappy token of
• PSYCHANALYSIS
  A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis based on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud of Vienna. The method rests upon the theory that hysteria is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously
• INCONSIDERACY
  Inconsiderateness; thoughtlessness. Chesterfield.
• PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC
  = Psychanalysis, Psychanalytic.
• INCONSIDERATENESS
  The quality or state of being inconsiderate. Tillotson.
• NONATTENTION
  Inattention.