Word Meanings - DEFINITUDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Definiteness. Definitude . . . is a knowledge of minute differences. Sir W. Hamilton.

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• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• MINUTE
  1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as,
• DEFINITENESS
  The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty.
• MINUTEMAN
  A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
• MINUTE-JACK
  1. A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house. 2. A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak.
• DEFINITUDE
  Definiteness. Definitude . . . is a knowledge of minute differences. Sir W. Hamilton.
• MINUTENESS
  The quality of being minute.
• MINUTELY
  In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
• KNOWLEDGE
  The last part is the Icel. suffix -leikr, forming abstract nouns, orig. the same as Icel. leikr game, play, sport, akin to AS. lac, 1. The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance;
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• UNKNOWLEDGED
  Not acknowledged or recognized. For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson.
• ACKNOWLEDGER
  One who acknowledges.
• AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
  The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.
• FOREKNOWLEDGE
  Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. Milton.
• DISACKNOWLEDGE
  To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown. South.
• INDEFINITENESS
  The quality of being indefinite.
• SELF-KNOWLEDGE
  Knowledge of one's self, or of one's own character, powers, limitations, etc.
• INTERKNOWLEDGE
  Mutual knowledge or acquaintance. Bacon.
• DIMINUTE
  Small; diminished; diminutive. Jer. Taylor.
• INDEFINITUDE
  Indefiniteness; vagueness; also, number or quantity not limited by our understanding, though yet finite. Sir M . Hale.
• DIMINUTELY
  Diminutively.