Word Meanings - SEMIHISTORICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Half or party historical. Sir G. C. Lewis.

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• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
  Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
• LEWIS; LEWISSON
  1. An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc. 2. A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth. Lewis hole, a hole wider at the bottom than at the mouth, into
• PARTYISM
  Devotion to party.
• HISTORICALLY
  In the manner of, or in accordance with, history.
• PARTY-COATED
  Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors. Shak.
• HISTORIC; HISTORICAL
  Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page. -- His*tor"ic*al*ness, n. -- His*to*ric"i*ty, n. There warriors frowning in historic brass. Pope. Historical painting, that branch of painting
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• PURPARTY
  A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener. I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds. Walpole.
• TALEWISE
  In a way of a tale or story.
• SHUTTLEWISE
  Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.
• ANGLEWISE
  In an angular manner; angularly.
• SEMIHISTORICAL
  Half or party historical. Sir G. C. Lewis.
• PROGRESSIVE PARTY
  The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates
• PEOPLE'S PARTY
  A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.
• PALEWISE
  In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.