Word Meanings - AMBLYOPIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to amblyopy. Quain.
Related words: (words related to AMBLYOPIC)
- PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - QUAINT
pretty, odd, OF. cointe cultivated, amiable, agreeable, neat, fr. L. cognitus known, p. p. of cognoscere to know; con + noscere (for 1. Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. Clerks be full subtle and full quaint. Chaucer. 2. Characterized - QUAINTISE
1. Craft; subtlety; cunning. Chaucer. R. of Glouces. 2. Elegance; beauty. Chaucer. - QUAINTLY
In a quaint manner. Shak. - QUAINTNESS
The quality of being quaint. Pope. - ACQUAINTANCE
1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract - ACQUAINTED
Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t. - DISACQUAINT
To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick. - INACQUAINTANCE
Want of acquaintance. Good. - PREACQUAINTANCE
Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris. - PREACQUAINT
To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding. - ACQUAINTEDNESS
State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. Boyle. - ACQUAINTABLE
Easy to be acquainted with; affable. Rom. of R. - UNACQUAINTANCE
The quality or state of being unacquainted; want of acquaintance; ignorance. He was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity. Sir W. Hamilton. - NONACQUAINTANCE
Want of acquaintance; the state of being unacquainted. - ACQUAINTANT
An acquaintance. Swift. - ACQUAINT
Acquainted. - ACQUAINTANCESHIP
A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey. - UNACQUAINTED
1. Not acquainted. Cowper. 2. Not usual; unfamiliar; strange. And the unacquainted light began to fear. Spenser. - UNACQUAINTEDNESS
Unacquaintance. Whiston. - AMBLYOPIA; AMBLYOPY
Weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis.