Word Meanings - SILICICALCAREOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Consisting of silica and calcareous matter.

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• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• CONSISTORY
  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
• MATTERLESS
  1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
• SILICATED
  Combined or impregnated with silicon or silica; as, silicated hydrogen; silicated rocks. Silicated soap, a hard soap containing silicate of soda.
• CONSISTENT
  1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous;
• CALCAREOUSNESS
  Quality of being calcareous.
• SILICA
  Silicon dioxide, SiO
• MATTER-OF-FACT
  Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
• CONSISTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a consistory. "Consistorial laws." Hooker. "Consistorial courts." Bp. Hoadley.
• MATTERY
  1. Generating or containing pus; purulent. 2. Full of substance or matter; important. B. Jonson.
• SILICATIZATION
  Silicification.
• SILICATE
  A salt of silicic acid. Note: In mineralogical chemistry the silicates include; the unisilicates or orthosilicates, salts of orthosilicic acid; the bisilicates or metasilicates, salts of metasilicic acid; the polysilicates or acid silicates, salts
• MATTER
  That which is permanent, or is supposed to be given, and in or upon which changes are effected by psychological or physical processes and relations; -- opposed to form. Mansel. (more info) 1. That of which anything is composed; constituent
• CALCAREOUS
  Partaking of the nature ofcalcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containg, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. Clcareous spar. See as Calcite.
• BASILIC; BASILICAL
  Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm. (more info) 1. Royal; kingly; also, basilican.
• MICACEO-CALCAREOUS
  Partaking of the nature of, or consisting of, mica and lime; -- applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of lime.
• UNISILICATE
  A salt of orthosilicic acid, H4SiO4; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen atoms united to the basic metals and silicon respectively is 1:1; for example, Mg2SiO4 or 2MgO.SiO2.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• INCONSISTENCY
  1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility. There is a perfect inconsistency between
• SEMICALCAREOUS
  Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant.
• BASILICA
  Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose. A building used by the Romans as a
• SMATTERER
  One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.
• SUBJECT-MATTER
  The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science
• INCONSISTENTNESS
  Inconsistency.
• INCONSISTENCE
  Inconsistency.
• FLUOSILICATE
  A double fluoride of silicon and some other element or radical, regarded as a salt of fluosilicic acid; -- called also silicofluoride.
• SELF-CONSISTENT
  Consistent with one's self or with itself; not deviation from the ordinary standard by which the conduct is guided; logically consistent throughout; having each part consistent with the rest.
• BISILICATE
  A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals.
• SMATTERING
  A slight, superficial knowledge of something; sciolism. I had a great desire, not able to attain to a superficial skill in any, to have some smattering in all. Burton.