Word Meanings - PROVENIENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Origin; source; place where found or produced; provenance; -- used esp. in the fine arts and in archæology; as, the provenience of a patera.

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• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• WHEREIN
  1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet
• WHEREVER
  At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• FOUND
  1. To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly. I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. Shak. A man that all his
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• WHERETO
  1. To which; -- used relatively. "Whereto we have already attained." Phil. iii. 16. Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day. Shak. 2. To what; to what end; -- used interrogatively.
• WHEREAS
  1. Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow. 2. When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that;
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• ORIGINABLE
  Capable of being originated.
• WHERE'ER
  Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• ORIGINATION
  1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
• ORIGINANT
  Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.
• ORIGINATOR
  One who originates.
• PRODUCT
  1. To produce; to bring forward. "Producted to . . . examination." Foxe. 2. To lengthen out; to extend. He that doth much . . . products his mortality. Hackett. 3. To produce; to make. Holinshed.
• WHEREINTO
  1. Into which; -- used relatively. Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson. 2. Into what; -- used interrogatively.
• OPHTHALMOLOGY
  The science which treats of the structure, functions, and diseases of the eye.
• SELENOLOGY
  That branch of astronomy which treats of the moon. -- Sel`e*no*log"i*cal, a.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• POENOLOGY
  See PENOLOGY
• STROMATOLOGY
  The history of the formation of stratified rocks.
• HYGIOLOGY
  A treatise on, or the science of, the preservation of health.
• AITIOLOGY
  See ÆTIOLOGY
• ICONOLOGY
  The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.
• WHER; WHERE
  Whether. Piers Plowman. Men must enquire , Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. Chaucer.
• APOLOGY
  1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem;
• MALACOSTRACOLOGY
  That branch of zoölogical science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
• HISTIOLOGY
  See HISTOLOGY
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• HEXICOLOGY
  The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally. St. George Mivart.
• ORTHOLOGY
  The right description of things. Fotherby.
• NOSOLOGY
  1. A systematic arrangement, or classification, of diseases. 2. That branch of medical science which treats of diseases, or of the classification of diseases.
• EUCHOLOGION; EUCHOLOGY
  A formulary of prayers; the book of offices in the Greek Church, containing the liturgy, sacraments, and forms of prayers.
• PNEUMATOLOGY
  The science of spiritual being or phenomena of any description. (more info) 1. The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1.