Word Meanings - CIRCUMFLEX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

circumflectere, circumflexum, to bend or turn about; circum + 1. A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable. Walker. 2. A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice

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• CIRCUMROTARY; CIRCUMROTATORY
  turning, rolling, or whirling round.
• 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.
• CIRCUMNUTATE
  To pass through the stages of circumnutation.
• SYLLABLE
  1. An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked
• CIRCUMSCISSILE
  Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around . See Illust. of Pyxidium.
• CIRCUMSPECTNESS
  Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.
• CIRCUMFLANT
  Blowing around. Evelyn.
• 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;
• CIRCUMVENTOR
  One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
• CIRCUMSCRIPTIVELY
  In a limited manner.
• DENOTEMENT
  Sign; indication. Note: A word found in some editions of Shakespeare.
• CIRCUMFERENTOR
  1. A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360º, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow
• CIRCUMSTANTIALITY
  The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail. "I will endeavor to describe with sufficient circumstantiality." De Quincey.
• CIRCUMLOCUTORY
  Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal.
• CIRCUMFORANEAN; CIRCUMFORANEOUS
  Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house. Addison.
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• CIRCUMVOLANT
  Flying around. The circumvolant troubles of humanity. G. Macdonald.
• CIRCUMGESTATION
  The act or process of carrying about. Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor.
• ACCENTUALITY
  The quality of being accentual.
• CIRCUMFLEXION
  1. The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form. 2. A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.
• SHOPWALKER
  One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.
• INVOICE
  A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed. Wharton. 2. The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• TRISYLLABLE
  A word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger.
• DISSYLLABLE
  A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.
• ADENOTOMIC
  Pertaining to adenotomy.