Word Meanings - RURIDECANAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a rural dean; as, a ruridecanal district; the ruridecanal intellect.

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• RURALITY
  1. The quality or state of being rural. 2. A rural place. "Leafy ruralities." Carlyle.
• INTELLECTUALIST
  1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.
• INTELLECT
  The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power
• RURALIZE
  To render rural; to give a rural appearance to.
• RURAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect. Here is a rural fellow; . . . He brings you figs. Shak. 2. Of
• DISTRICT
  Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
• INTELLECTUAL
  1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. I. Watts. 2. Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding;
• INTELLECTIVELY
  In an intellective manner. "Not intellectivelly to write." Warner.
• INTELLECTUALLY
  In an intellectual manner.
• 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
• INTELLECTUALITY
  Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual.
• INTELLECTIVE
  1. Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual. 2. Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational. Glanvill. 3. Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses.
• DISTRICTION
  Sudden display; flash; glitter. A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.
• RURALES
  The gossamer-winged butterflies; a family of small butterflies, including the hairstreaks, violets, and theclas.
• RURALNESS
  The quality or state of being rural.
• INTELLECTUALIZE
  1. To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize. Sentiment is intellectualized emotion. Lowell. 2. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities
• INTELLECTED
  Endowed with intellect; having intellectual powers or capacities. In body, and in bristles, they became As swine, yet intellected as before. Cowper.
• RURALISM
  1. The quality or state of being rural; ruralness. 2. A rural idiom or expression.
• INTELLECTION
  A mental act or process; especially: The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. A creation of the mind itself. Hickok.
• DISTRICTLY
  Strictly. Foxe.
• EQUICRURAL
  Having equal legs or sides; isosceles. "Equicrural triangles." Sir T. Browne.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• BICRURAL
  Having two legs. Hooker.
• SUPERINTELLECTUAL
  Being above intellect.
• RED-LIGHT DISTRICT
  A district or neighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; -- so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night.