Word Meanings - SERPENTINOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character.
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- CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - SERPENTINOUS
Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character. - CHARACTER
1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting; - SERPENTINELY
In a serpentine manner. - CHARACTERISM
A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall. - RELATIVELY
In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts. - RELATE
1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy - RELATIVITY
The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge. - SERPENTINE
A mineral or rock consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of magnesia. It is usually of an obscure green color, often with a spotted or mottled appearance resembling a serpent's skin. Precious, or noble, serpentine is translucent and of a rich - RELATRIX
A female relator. - RELATIONAL
1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris. - CHARACTERIZE
1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the - RELATED
See 4 (more info) 1. Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree. 2. Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric - RELATOR
A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed. (more info) 1. One who relates; a relater. "The several relators of this history." Fuller. - CHARACTERISTICALLY
In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes. - RELATER
One who relates or narrates. - CHARACTERIZATION
The act or process of characterizing. - RELATION
1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon. 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended - CHARACTERISTICAL
Characteristic. - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - PRELATISM
Prelacy; episcopacy. - PRELATIZE
To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey. - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. - IRRELATIVE
Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence - CORRELATIVENESS
Quality of being correlative. - MISCHARACTERIZE
To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton. - IRRELATION
The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation. - PRELATEITY
Prelacy. Milton. - CORRELATE
To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor. - PRELATY
Prelacy. Milton. - UNPRELATED
Deposed from the office of prelate. - PRELATESHIP
The office of a prelate. Harmar.