Word Meanings - SPONDEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges.

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• LATINIZATION
  The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country. The Germanization of Britain went far deeper than the Latinization of France. M. Arnold.
• LATINITY
  The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom. "His eleLatinity." Motley.
• POETICALLY
  In a poetic manner.
• POETICULE
  A poetaster. Swinburne.
• LATIN
  Latium a country of Italy, in which Rome was situated. Cf. Ladin, 1. Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language. 2. Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins;
• LATINLY
  In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin. Heylin.
• LATINISTIC
  Of, pertaining to, or derived from, Latin; in the Latin style or idiom. "Latinistic words." Fitzed. Hall.
• LATINITASTER
  One who has but a smattering of Latin. Walker.
• LATINIST
  One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar. Cowper. He left school a good Latinist. Macaulay.
• POETICS
  The principles and rules of the art of poetry. J. Warton.
• POETIC; POETICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to poetry; suitable for poetry, or for writing poetry; as, poetic talent, theme, work, sentiments. Shak. 2. Expressed in metrical form; exhibiting the imaginative or the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition;
• LATINIZE
  1. To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin. 2. To bring under the power or influence of the Romans or Latins; to affect with the usages of the Latins, especially in speech. "Latinized races." Lowell. 3. To
• LATINISM
  A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model. Note: The term is also sometimes used by Biblical scholars to designate a Latin word in Greek letters, or the Latin
• OSCILLATING
  That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale.
• VACILLATING
  Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.
• CHYLOPOETIC
  Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the chylopoetic organs.
• PLATINIRIDIUM
  A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum.
• GELATINATION
  The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.
• GELATINIZATION
  See GELATINATION
• NASOPALATAL; NASOPALATINE
  Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.
• OSCILLATING CURRENT
  A current alternating in direction.
• PLATINOID
  Resembling platinum.
• PLATINICHLORIC
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid consisting of platinic chloride and hydrochloric acid, and obtained as a brownish red crystalline substance, called platinichloric, or chloroplatinic, acid.
• NITROGELATIN
  An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin.
• ELECTROPLATING
  The art or process of depositing a coating of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity.
• PLATINIZE
  To cover or combine with platinum.
• ETHOPOETIC
  Expressing character. Urquhart.
• PLATINOCYANIDE
  A double cyanide of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinocyanic acid.
• GELATINIFEROUS
  Yielding gelatin on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
• NEO-LATIN
  Applied to the Romance languages, as being mostly of Latin origin.
• MYTHOPOETIC
  Making or producing myths or mythical tales.
• SUBGELATINOUS
  Imperfectly or partially gelatinous.