Word Meanings - PUNCTUATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or belonging to points of division; relating to punctuation. The punctuative intonation of feeble cadence. Rush.

Related words: (words related to PUNCTUATIVE)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• FEEBLENESS
  The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.
• 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.
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• PUNCTUATIVE
  Of or belonging to points of division; relating to punctuation. The punctuative intonation of feeble cadence. Rush.
• FEEBLE
  OF. feble, flebe, floibe, floible, foible, F. faible, L. flebilis to 1. Deficient in physical strenght; weak; infirm; debilitated. Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15. 2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action
• 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
• RELATIVITY
  The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
• RELATRIX
  A female relator.
• BELONG
  attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• RELATIONAL
  1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
• RELATED
  See 4 (more info) 1. Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree. 2. Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric
• PUNCTUATION
  The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning. Note: Punctuation, as the
• RELATOR
  A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed. (more info) 1. One who relates; a relater. "The several relators of this history." Fuller.
• BELONGING
  1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household.
• CADENCE
  See CADENCY (more info) 1. The act or state of declining or sinking. Now was the sun in western cadence low. Milton. 2. A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence. 3.
• DIVISIONOR
  One who divides or makes division. Sheldon.
• 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.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• 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
• FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
  Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• IRRELATION
  The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
• PRELATEITY
  Prelacy. Milton.
• ENFEEBLER
  One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
• CORRELATE
  To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor.
• PRELATY
  Prelacy. Milton.