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Word Meanings - REVOLUTIONARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.

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  • TENDER
    A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
  • TENDERLY
    In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
  • TENDANCE
    1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
  • TENDERNESS
    The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
  • TENDRESSE
    Tender feeling; fondness.
  • TENDON
    A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex , a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally
  • PROMOTE
    1. To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture. "Born
  • PROMOTER
    1. One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy. Boyle. 2. Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation,
  • GOVERNMENTAL
    Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
  • PROMOTIVE
    Tending to advance, promote, or encourage. Hume.
  • TENDRILED; TENDRILLED
    Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey.
  • TENDRIL
    A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally. Note: Tendrils may represent the end of a stem, as in the grapevine; an axillary branch, as
  • REVOLUTION
    The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according
  • REVOLUTIONIZE
    To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government. Ames. The gospel . . . has revolutionized his soul. J. M. Mason.
  • TENDER-HEARTED
    Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n. Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7.
  • TENDRON
    A tendril. Holland.
  • 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
  • REVOLUTIONIST
    One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution. Burke.
  • GOVERNMENT
    The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
  • TEND
    To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
  • INTENDENT
    See N
  • INTENDIMENT
    Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.
  • MISGOVERNMENT
    Bad government; want of government. Shak.
  • OBTEND
    1. To oppose; to hold out in opposition. Dryden. 2. To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend. Dryden
  • EXTENDLESSNESS
    Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
  • ENTEND
    To attend to; to apply one's self to. Chaucer.
  • PRETENDER
    The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
  • PRETENDANT
    A pretender; a claimant.
  • PORTEND
    to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch
  • ATTENDMENT
    An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
  • UPPERTENDOM
    The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
  • EXTENDANT
    Displaced. Ogilvie.
  • INTENDANT
    One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.
  • CHRISTENDOM
    1. The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it. Shak. 2. The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms. Shak. 3. That portion

 

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