Word Meanings - QUATERNARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Later than, or subsequent to, the Tertiary; Post-tertiary; as, the Quaternary age, or Age of man. (more info) containing four, fr. quaterni four each, fr. quattuor four: cf. F. 1. Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four.

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• LATERAN
  The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. Note: The name is said to have been derived from that of the Laterani family, who possessed
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• TERTIARY
  Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary. (more info) 1. Being of the third formation, order, or rank;
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• FOURSCORE
  Four times twenty; eighty.
• LATER
  A brick or tile. Knight.
• SUBSEQUENT
  1. Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome. 2. Following in order of place; succeeding; as, a subsequent
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• LATERIFOLIOUS
  Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf; as, a laterifolious flower.
• CONSISTORY
  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• LATERALITY
  The state or condition of being lateral.
• FOURSQUARE
  Having four sides and four equal angles. Sir W. Raleigh.
• LATERED
  Inclined to delay; dilatory. "When a man is too latered." Chaucer.
• CONSISTENT
  1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous;
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• POSTTERTIARY
  Following, or more recent than, the Tertiary; Quaternary.
• ALL FOURS
  All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. To be, go, or run, on all fours , to be on the same footing; to correspond exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. "This example is on all fours with
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• INCONSISTENCY
  1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility. There is a perfect inconsistency between
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.