Word Meanings - SICILIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Sicily or its inhabitants. Sicilian vespers, the great massacre of the French in Sicily, in the year 1282, on the evening of Easter Monday, at the hour of vespers.

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• EVENMINDED
  Having equanimity.
• EVENT
  1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• EVENTILATION
  The act of eventilating; discussion. Bp. Berkely.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• EVENTFUL
  Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.
• EVENTIDE
  The time of evening; evening. Spenser.
• EASTERN CHURCH
  That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern
• SICILIAN
  Of or pertaining to Sicily or its inhabitants. Sicilian vespers, the great massacre of the French in Sicily, in the year 1282, on the evening of Easter Monday, at the hour of vespers.
• EASTER LILY
  which bloom about Easter; specif.: The common white lily , called also Annunciation lily. The larger white lily (Lilium longiflorum eximium, syn. L. Harrisii) called also Bermuda lily. The daffodil . The Atamasco lily.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• EVENTRATION
  A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen. A wound, of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude. The act af disemboweling.
• VESPERS
  One of the little hours of the Breviary. The evening song or service. Sicilian vespers. See under Sicilian, a.
• MASSACRE
  metzgen, to kill cattle, G. metzger a butcher, and LG. matsken to 1. The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St.
• EASTER
  to G. ostern; fr. AS. Eástre, a goddess of light or spring, in honor of whom a festival was celebrated in April; whence this month was 1. An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after
• EVENTLESS
  Without events; tame; monotomous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful.
• EVENER
  1. One who, or that which makes even. 2. In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.
• EVENE
  To happen. Hewyt.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• REVENDICATION
  The act of revendicating. Vattel
• SEVENNIGHT
  A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• PREVENIENCE
  The act of going before; anticipation.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• UNSEVEN
  To render other than seven; to make to be no longer seven. "To unseven the sacraments of the church of Rome." Fuller.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow