Word Meanings - VOMITURITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An ineffectual attempt to vomit. The vomiting of but little matter; also, that vomiting which is effected with little effort. Dunglison.

Related words: (words related to VOMITURITION)

• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• VOMITORY
  Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• ATTEMPTER
  1. One who attempts; one who essays anything. 2. An assailant; also, a temper.
• 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.
• VOMITO
  The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit.
• VOMIT
  To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.
• ATTEMPTABLE
  Capable of being attempted, tried, or attacked. Shak.
• 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.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• ATTEMPTIVE
  Disposed to attempt; adventurous. Daniel.
• EFFECTOR
  An effecter. Derham.
• INEFFECTUALLY
  Without effect; in vain. Hereford . . . had been besieged for abouineffectually by the Scots. Ludlow.
• EFFECTUATE
  To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis.
• MATTERLESS
  1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
• INEFFECTUALNESS
  Want of effect, or of power to produce it; inefficacy. The ineffectualness of some men's devotion. Wake.
• EFFORT
  A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion. Rankine. Syn. -- Endeavor; exertion; struggle; strain; straining; attempt; trial; essay. See Attempt. (more info) 1. An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental,
• EFFECTION
  Creation; a doing. Sir M. Hale.
• EFFECTLESS
  Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless. Shak. -- Ef*fect"less*ly, adv.
• MATTER-OF-FACT
  Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• INEFFECTIVE
  Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor.
• SMATTERER
  One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.
• SUBJECT-MATTER
  The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science
• SMATTERING
  A slight, superficial knowledge of something; sciolism. I had a great desire, not able to attain to a superficial skill in any, to have some smattering in all. Burton.