Word Meanings - SIDEREALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize. German literature transformed, siderealized, as we see it in Goethe, reckons Winckelmann among its initiators. W. Pater.

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• GERMAN
  Nearly related; closely akin. Wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion. Shak. Brother german. See Brother german. -- Cousins german. See the Note under Cousin. (more info) full, own ;
• PATERNOSTER
  A beadlike ornament in moldings. (more info) 1. The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.
• GERMANIC
  1. Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy. 2. Teutonic.
• GERMANIZATION
  The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold.
• TRANSFORMATION
  The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: --
• GERMANISM
  1. An idiom of the German language. 2. A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism. J. W. Alexander.
• GERMANE
  Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. The phrase would be more germane to the matter. Shak. must be germane. Barclay .
• SIDEREALIZE
  To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize. German literature transformed, siderealized, as we see it in Goethe, reckons Winckelmann among its initiators. W. Pater.
• TRANSFORM
  To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed. His hair transforms to down. Addison.
• ETHEREALIZE
  1. To convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether. 2. To render ethereal or spiritlike. Etherealized, moreover, by spiritual communications with the other world. Hawthorne.
• TRANSFORMISM
  The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis. Huxley.
• PATERNALISM
  The theory or practice of paternal government. See Paternal government, under Paternal. London Times.
• PATERNAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care. "Under paternal rule." Milton. 2. Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate. Their
• PATERA
  A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like. (more info) 1. A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrificies.
• PATERFAMILIAS
  The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.
• ELEVATED
  Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts. Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel.
• GERMANIZE
  To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.
• PATERNALLY
  In a paternal manner.
• REGIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.
• TRANSFORMER
  One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. , an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• WISDOM LITERATURE
  The class of ancient Hebrew writings which deal reflectively with general ethical and religious topics, as distinguished from the prophetic and liturgical literature, and from the law. It is comprised chiefly in the books of Job, Proverbs,
• DOGGERMAN
  A sailor belonging to a dogger.
• BROTHER GERMAN
  A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier.
• INDO-GERMANIC
  1. Same as Aryan, and Indo-European. 2. Pertaining to or denoting the Teutonic family of languages as related to the Sanskrit, or derived from the ancient Aryan language.
• PHASING TRANSFORMER
  Any of several transformers for changing phase.
• PARALLEL TRANSFORMER
  A transformer connected in parallel.
• AUTOTRANSFORMER
  A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil.