Word Meanings - RHEUMATIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to rheumatism; as, rheumatic pains or affections; affected with rheumatism; as, a rheumatic old man; causing rheumatism; as, a rheumatic day. That rheumatic diseases do abound. Shak. (more info) 1. Derived from, or having

Additional info about word: RHEUMATIC

Of or pertaining to rheumatism; as, rheumatic pains or affections; affected with rheumatism; as, a rheumatic old man; causing rheumatism; as, a rheumatic day. That rheumatic diseases do abound. Shak. (more info) 1. Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic.

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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• DERIVATIVE
  Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• AFFECTIONED
  1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
• AFFECTER
  One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.
• AFFECTIVE
  1. Tending to affect; affecting. Burnet. 2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• AFFECTIONATED
  Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• INAFFECTED
  Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.