Word Meanings - SCHEMATIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a scheme or a schema.

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• 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
• SCHEMA
  An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect.
• SCHEMATIST
  One given to forming schemes; a projector; a schemer. Swift.
• SCHEMATISM
  Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies. 2. Particular form or disposition of a thing; an exhibition in outline of any systematic arrangement.
• SCHEMATIZE
  To form a scheme or schemes.
• SCHEMATIC
  Of or pertaining to a scheme or a schema.
• SCHEME
  A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment o at a given event. A blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Plan; project; contrivance; purpose; device; plot. -- Scheme, Plan. Scheme and
• SCHEMEFUL
  Full of schemes or plans.
• SCHEMER
  One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer. Schemers and confederates in guilt. Paley.
• POLYSCHEMATIST
  Having, or existing in, many different forms or fashions; multiform.
• PARASCHEMATIC
  Of or pertaining to a change from the right form, as in the formation of a word from another by a change of termination, gender, etc. Max Müller.
• 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