Word Meanings - ACCIDENTALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Accidental character or effect. Ruskin.

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• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• 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.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• EFFECT
  1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed
• EFFECTOR
  An effecter. Derham.
• 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.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• EFFECTION
  Creation; a doing. Sir M. Hale.
• EFFECTLESS
  Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless. Shak. -- Ef*fect"less*ly, adv.
• ACCIDENTALNESS
  The quality of being accidental; casualness.
• EFFECTER
  One who effects.
• EFFECTUOUSLY
  Effectively.
• EFFECTUATION
  Act of effectuating.
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• EFFECTIBLE
  Capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible. Sir T. Browne.
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• ACCIDENTALITY
  The quality of being accidental; accidentalness. Coleridge.
• EFFECTUAL
  Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive. Shak. Effectual steps for the suppression of the rebellion. Macaulay. Effectual calling , a doctrine concerning the work of the
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• 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.
• MENDELIAN CHARACTER
  A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.
• INEFFECTUALLY
  Without effect; in vain. Hereford . . . had been besieged for abouineffectually by the Scots. Ludlow.
• INEFFECTUALNESS
  Want of effect, or of power to produce it; inefficacy. The ineffectualness of some men's devotion. Wake.
• NONEFFECTIVE
  Not fit or available for duty. (more info) 1. Not effective.