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Word Meanings - UNPREDICT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To retract or falsify a previous prediction. Milton.

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  • RETRACTOR
    One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
  • PREVIOUSNESS
    The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.
  • PREDICTIONAL
    Prophetic; prognostic.
  • RETRACTILE
    CApable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile.
  • PREVIOUSLY
    Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.
  • MILTONIAN
    Miltonic. Lowell.
  • RETRACTIBLE
    Retractable.
  • RETRACT
    handle again, reconsider, retract, fr. retrahere, retractum, to draw 1. To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle. 2. Ti withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract
  • MILTONIC
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
  • RETRACTIVE
    Serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction. -- Re*tract"ive*ly, adv.
  • RETRACTION
    1. The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws. 2. The act of withdrawing something advanced, stated, claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation. Other
  • RETRACTATION
    The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.
  • RETRACTATE
    To retract; to recant.
  • PREVIOUS
    Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness. The dull sound . . . previous to the storm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth. Thomson. Previous question. See under
  • FALSIFY
    To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone. (more info) 1. To make false; to represent falsely. The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. Spenser. 2. To counterfeit; to
  • RETRACTABLE
    Capable of being retracted; retractile.
  • PREDICTION
    The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy. The predictions of cold and long winters. Bacon. Syn. -- Prophecy; prognostication; foreboding; augury; divination; soothsaying; vaticination.
  • IRRETRACTILE
    1. Not retractile. 2. Not tractile or ductile. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • HAMILTON PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.

 

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