Word Meanings - UNIFORMITARIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes.
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- ACTURE
Action. Shak. - ACTURIENCE
Tendency or impulse to act. Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote. - ACTINOLITE
A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses. - ACTINOSTOME
The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal. - ACTINARIA
A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. - ACCOUNTANTSHIP
The office or employment of an accountant. - ACTUARIAL
Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity. - DESIGNATE
Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck. - ACTUALIZE
To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge. - PRESENT
one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25. - ACCOUNTANCY
The art or employment of an accountant. - EXIST
exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand 1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift. - PRESENTIVE
Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. -- - ACTIVITY
The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness. - ACTUATE
Etym: 1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest - PRESENTANEOUS
Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey. - ACTINOPHOROUS
Having straight projecting spines. - EXISTER
One who exists. - PRESENTLY
1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree - EXISTIBLE
Capable of existence. Grew. - SELF-ACTIVE
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents. - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - PHYLACTERED
Wearing a phylactery. - HEMIDACTYL
Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath. - INACTUATE
To put in action. - INTRACTABILITY
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. - CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - POSTEXIST
To exist after; to live subsequently. - RIPPER ACT; RIPPER BILL
An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials. - INSUFFICIENTLY
In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately. - LACTOSCOPE
An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity. - INEXACTLY
In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor. - AUTODIDACT
One who is self-taught; an automath. - OLFACTOR
A smelling organ; a nose.