Word Meanings - THERMIFUGINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An artificial alkaloid of complex composition, resembling thalline and used as an antipyretic, -- whence its name.

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• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• ALKALOID
  An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals. Note: Alcaloids all contain nitrogen, carbon, and hydrogen, and many of them also contain oxygen. They include many
• COMPLEXIONALLY
  Constitutionally. Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke.
• COMPLEXUS
  A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.
• ALKALOID; ALKALOIDAL
  Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.
• ARTIFICIALITY
  The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
• COMPLEXIONED
  Having a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark- complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best- colored clay. Fuller.
• COMPLEXEDNESS
  The quality or state of being complex or involved; complication. The complexedness of these moral ideas. Locke.
• ANTIPYRETIC
  Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever. -- n.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• ARTIFICIALLY
  1. In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature. 2. Ingeniously; skillfully. The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson. 3. Craftily; artfully. Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet.
• ARTIFICIAL
  1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak. 2.
• COMPLEXNESS
  The state of being complex; complexity. A. Smith.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• WHENCEEVER
  Whencesoever.
• ARTIFICIALNESS
  The quality of being artificial.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• ARTIFICIALIZE
  To render artificial.
• COMPLEXIONARY
  Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it. Jer. Taylor.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• DISCOMPLEXION
  To change the complexion or hue of. Beau. & Fl.
• RECOMPOSITION
  The act of recomposing.
• INARTIFICIAL
  Not artificial; not made or elaborated by art; natural; simple; artless; as, an inartificial argument; an inartificial character. -- In*ar`ti*fi"cial*ly, adv. -- In*ar`ti*fi"cial*ness, n.