Word Meanings - COMPLEXIONARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it. Jer. Taylor.

Related words: (words related to COMPLEXIONARY)

• COMPLEXIONALLY
  Constitutionally. Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke.
• COMPLEXIONED
  Having a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark- complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best- colored clay. Fuller.
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• 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
• COMPLEXIONARY
  Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it. Jer. Taylor.
• COMPLEXION
  1. The state of being complex; complexity. Though the terms of propositions may be complex, yet . . . it is proprly called a simple syllogism, since the complexion does not belong to the syllogistic form of it. I. Watts. 2. A combination;
• COMPLEXIONAL
  Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion. A moral rather than a complexional timidity. Burke.
• DISCOMPLEXION
  To change the complexion or hue of. Beau. & Fl.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach