Word Meanings - CHRESTOMATHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.

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• ACQUIRABLE
  Capable of being acquired.
• ACQUIRE
  To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits. No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step. Barrow. Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of
• ACQUIRY
  Acquirement. Barrow.
• ACQUIRER
  A person who acquires.
• CHRESTOMATHY
  A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.
• HEBREW
  1. An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew. There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew. Gen. xiv.
• ACQUIRABILITY
  The quality of being acquirable; attainableness. Paley.
• HEBREW CALENDAR
  = Jewish calendar.
• LANGUAGE
  tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
• HEBREWESS
  An Israelitish woman.
• ACQUIREMENT
  The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment. "Rules for the acquirement of a taste." Addison. His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward. Syn. -- Acquisition,
• SELECTION
  The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference. 2. That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. Natural selection. See under Natural.
• LANGUAGELESS
  Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak.
• LANGUAGED
  Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope.
• MONOTESSARON
  A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• SEA LANGUAGE
  The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
• INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
  A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.