Word Meanings - RATITATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the Ratitæ.

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• RATITE
  Of or pertaining to the Ratitæ. -- n.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• RATITATE
  Of or pertaining to the Ratitæ.
• RATITAE
  An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, and apteryx are examples.
• GRATITUDE
  The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness. The debt immense of endless gratitude. Milton.
• ORTHOCERATITE
  An orthoceras; also, any fossil shell allied to Orthoceras.
• ENCRATITE
  One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent.
• KERATITIS
  Inflammation of the cornea.
• INGRATITUDE
  Want of gratitude; insensibility to, forgetfulness of, or ill return for, kindness or favors received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness. Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend. Shak. Ingratitude is abhorred both by God and man. L'Estrange.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach
• ZARATITE
  A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an emerald-green incrustation on chromite; -- called also emerald nickel.