Word Meanings - ANNIVERSARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. Anniversary day . See Anniversary, n., 2. -- Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held

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Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. Anniversary day . See Anniversary, n., 2. -- Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York.

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• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• STATUED
  Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.
• STATABLE
  That can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question at issue is statable.
• ANNUALIST
  One who writes for, or who edits, an annual.
• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• STATISTICS
  Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular
• STATANT
  In a standing position; as, a lion statant.
• STATHMOGRAPH
  A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train. Knight.
• BENEVOLENT
  Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. -- Be*nev"o*lent*ly, adv. Syn. -- Benevolent, Beneficent.
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• STATIONARY
  1. Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed. Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. Southey. 2. Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
• STATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a station.
• STATUARY
  The art of carving statues or images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture. Sir W. Temple. 3. A collection of statues; statues, collectively. (more info) statuarius, a., of or belonging to statues, fr. statua statue:
• ANNUAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river . Ray. 2. Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the
• STATUMINATE
  To prop or support. B. Jonson.
• FEAST
  festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
• STATUA
  A statue. They spake not a word; But, like dumb statuas or breathing stones, Gazed each on other. Shak.
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• ESTATLICH; ESTATLY
  Stately; dignified. Chaucer.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• HEMASTATICS
  Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• BIOSTATICS
  The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in opposition to their organic or vital phenomena.
• SEMIANNUALLY
  Every half year.
• TORPEDO STATION
  A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments. The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport,
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.