Word Meanings - PRETENTATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fitted for trial beforehand; experimental. Sir H. Wotton.

Related words: (words related to PRETENTATIVE)

• TRIALITY
  Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton.
• EXPERIMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
• TRIALOGUE
  A discourse or colloquy by three persons.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• FITTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being fitted; adaptation. Dr. H. More.
• FITTING
  Anything used in fitting up; especially ,
• EXPERIMENTALLY
  By experiment; by experience or trial. J. S. Mill.
• TRIAL BALANCE
  The testing of a ledger to discover whether the debits and credits balance, by finding whether the sum of the personal credits increased by the difference between the debit and credit sums in the merchandise and other impersonal accounts equals
• TRIAL
  The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal,
• FITTABLE
  Suitable; fit. Sherwood.
• FITT
  See FIT
• FITTER
  1. One who fits or makes to fit; esp.: One who tries on, and adjusts, articles of dress. One who fits or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other. 2. A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the
• EXPERIMENTALIST
  One who makes experiments; an experimenter. Whaterly.
• EXPERIMENTALIZE
  To make experiments ; to experiment. J. S. Mill.
• OUTFITTER
  One who furnishes outfits for a voyage, a journey, or a business.
• INDUSTRIALLY
  With reference to industry.
• 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
• BEFITTINGLY
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• SEPTENTRIAL
  Septentrional. Drayton.
• RETRIAL
  A secdond trial, experiment, or test; a second judicial trial, as of an accused person.
• SUPERTERRESTRIAL
  Being above the earth, or above what belongs to the earth. Buckminster.
• PEDESTRIALLY
  In a pedestrial manner.
• INDUSTRIALISM
  1. Devotion to industrial pursuits; labor; industry. J. S. Mill. 2. The principles or policy applicable to industrial pursuits or organized labor. Industrialism must not confounded with industriousness. H. Spencer.
• MISTRIAL
  A false or erroneous trial; a trial which has no result.
• TERRESTRIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals. "Bodies terrestrial." 1 Cor. xv. 40. 2. Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe. "The dark terrestrial ball." Addison. 3. Of or
• PEDESTRIAL
  Of or pertaining to the feet; employing the foot or feet.