Word Meanings - THUNDERER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter. That dreadful oath which binds the Thunderer. Pope.
Related words: (words related to THUNDERER)
- APPLICABLE
Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv. - APPLICATIVE
Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv. - APPLICANCY
The quality or state of being applicable. - APPLICABILITY
The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied. - APPLICATORILY
By way of application. - EPITHET
1. An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn. A prince to whom the epithet "worthless" seems best applicable. Hallam. 2. Term; - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - DREADFUL
1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. "With dreadful heart." Chaucer. 2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth. 3. - DREADFULNESS
The quality of being dreadful. - THUNDERER
One who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter. That dreadful oath which binds the Thunderer. Pope. - THUNDERSHOWER
A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder. - JUPITER
The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - SEVERAL
1. Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope. 2. Diverse; different; various. Spenser. Habits and faculties, - SEVERALITY
Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall. - SEVERALLY
Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey. - THUNDERSTONE
A belemnite. See Belemnite. (more info) 1. A thunderbolt, -- formerly believed to be a stone. Fear no more the lightning flash, Nor the all-dreaded thunderstone. Shak. - SEVERALTY
A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty , an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in - APPLICATE
Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of - THUNDERSTRIKE
1. To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning. Sir P. Sidney. 2. To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle. drove before him, thunderstruck. Milton. - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - REAPPLICATION
The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied. - INAPPLICABILITY
The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.