Word Meanings - CONSONANTIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To change into, or use as, a consonant. "The vowel is consonantized, that is, made closer in position." Peile.

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• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• VOWELIZE
  To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.
• CHANGEABLY
  In a changeable manner.
• VOWEL
  A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a consonant in
• VOWELISM
  The use of vowels.
• CLOSER
  The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course. Gwilt. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot. 2. A finisher; that which finishes
• CHANGE
  1. To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance. Therefore will I change their glory into shame. Hosea. iv. 7. 2. To alter by
• VOWELISH
  Of the nature of a vowel. "The power is always vowelish." B. Jonson.
• CONSONANTNESS
  The quality or condition of being consonant, agreeable, or consistent.
• CHANGEABLE
  1. Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor. 2. Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk. Syn. -- Mutable; alterable;
• POSITION
  A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error. Angle of position , the angle which any line makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. -- Double position ,
• POSITIONAL
  Of or pertaining to position. Ascribing unto plants positional operations. Sir T. Browne.
• CHANGER
  1. One who changes or alters the form of anything. 2. One who deals in or changes money. John ii. 14. 3. One apt to change; an inconstant person.
• CONSONANTLY
  In a consonant, consistent, or congruous manner; agreeably.
• CONSONANTIZE
  To change into, or use as, a consonant. "The vowel is consonantized, that is, made closer in position." Peile.
• CHANGEABLENESS
  The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.
• CHANGELING
  1. One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies. Such, men do changelings call, so changed by fairies' theft. Spenser. The changeling never known. Shak. 2. A simpleton; an idiot. Macaulay.
• VOWELED
  Furnished with vowels. Dryden.
• CLOSEREEFED
  Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• APPOSITION
  The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• COUNTERCHANGED
  Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info)
• COUNTERCHANGE
  1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• EXPOSITION
  1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• SEPOSITION
  The act of setting aside, or of giving up. Jer. Taylor.
• CIRCUMPOSITION
  The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn.
• ANTEPOSITION
  The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.
• PRESUPPOSITION
  1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
• INTERCHANGEABILITY
  The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness.
• DEPOSITION
  The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writting, under oath or affirmation, befor some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories. Syn. -- Deposition, Affidavit.
• MISEXPOSITION
  Wrong exposition.