Word Meanings - TARTAROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Containing tartar; consisting of tartar, or partaking of its qualities; tartareous.

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• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• TARTAREOUS
  Having the surface rough and crumbling; as, many lichens are tartareous. (more info) 1. Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar.
• 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.
• TARTARUM
  See TARTAR
• TARTAREAN; TARTAREOUS
  Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish.
• 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
• TARTAROUS
  Containing tartar; consisting of tartar, or partaking of its qualities; tartareous.
• 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.
• PARTAKER
  1. One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark. 2. An accomplice; an associate; a partner. Partakers wish them in the blood of the prophets. Matt. xxiii. 30.
• TARTARIC
  Of or pertaining to tartar; derived from, or resembling, tartar. Tartaric acid. An acid widely diffused throughout the vegetable kingdom, as in grapes, mountain-ash berries, etc., and obtained from tartar as a white crystalline substance, C2H2
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• TARTARINE
  Potassium carbonate, obtained by the incineration of tartar.
• 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;
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• TARTARATED
  Tartrated.
• CONSISTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a consistory. "Consistorial laws." Hooker. "Consistorial courts." Bp. Hoadley.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• TARTARIAN
  The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian.
• PYROTRITARTARIC
  Designating an acid which is more commonly called uric acid.
• 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
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• SUBTARTAREAN
  Being or living under Tartarus; infernal. "Subtartarean powers." Pope.
• INCONSISTENTNESS
  Inconsistency.
• INCONSISTENCE
  Inconsistency.