Word Meanings - TERMINALIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A festival celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries.

Related words: (words related to TERMINALIA)

• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• CELEBRATE
  1. To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High. 2. To honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday.
• CELEBRATION
  The act, process, or time of celebrating. His memory deserving a particular celebration. Clarendok. Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass Cath. Dict. To hasten the celebration of their marriage. Sir P. Sidney.
• HONOR
  1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
• HONORARY
  1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. 2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison. 3. Holding a title or place without rendering
• TERMINUS
  The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line. 3. Hence, any post or
• CELEBRATED
  Having celebrity; distinguished; renowned. Celebrated for the politeness of his manners. Macaulay. Syn. -- Distinguished; famous; noted; famed; renowned; illustrious. See Distinguished.
• HONORLESS
  Destitute of honor; not honored. Bp. Warburton.
• HONORARIUM; HONORARY
  An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price. Heumann. (more info) 1. A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand
• FEBRUARY
  The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty- nine days. (more info) because on the fifteenth of
• HONORER
  One who honors.
• CELEBRATOR
  One who celebrates; a praiser. Boyle.
• HONORIFIC
  Conferring honor; tending to honor. London. Spectator.
• FESTIVAL
  Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful. I cannot woo in festival terms. Shak.
• ROMANSCH
  The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin.
• HONORABLY
  1. In an honorable manner; in a manner showing, or consistent with, honor. The reverend abbot . . . honorably received him. Shak. Why did I not more honorably starve Dryden. 2. Decently; becomingly. "Do this message honorably." Shak. Syn. --
• ANNUALLY
  Yearly; year by year.
• SEMIANNUALLY
  Every half year.
• DISHONOR
  The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor;
• RECELEBRATE
  To celebrate again, or anew. -- Re*cel`e*bra"tion, n.
• DISHONORABLE
  1. Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base. 2. Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed. He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more