Word Meanings - DEVITRIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from.

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• 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.
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• 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;
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• TRANSPARENCY
  1. The quality or condition of being transparent; transparence. 2. That which is transparent; especially, a picture painted on thin cloth or glass, or impressed on porcelain, or the like, to be viewed by natural or artificial light, which shines
• LUSTER
  One who lusts.
• LUSTERING
  1. The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery. 2. The brightening of a metal in the crucible when it becomes pure, as in certain refining processes.
• LUSTERLESS; LUSTRELESS
  Destitute of luster; dim; dull.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• VITREOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being vitreous.
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• CHARACTERISTICAL
  Characteristic.
• DEPRIVE
  1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
• CHARACTERY
  1. The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark. Fairies use flowers for their charactery. Shak. 2. That which is charactered; the meaning. I will construe to thee All the charactery of my sad
• CHARACTERLESS
  Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.
• LUSTER; LUSTRE
  A period of five years; a lustrum. Both of us have closed the tenth luster. Bolingbroke.
• VITREOUS
  1. Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks. 2. Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as, vitreous electricity. Vitreous body , the vitreous humor. See the Note under Eye. -- Vitreous electricity , the kind of
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• CLUSTERY
  Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
• LACKLUSTER; LACKLUSTRE
  A want of luster. -- a.
• SEMIVITREOUS
  Partially vitreous.
• BLUSTERINGLY
  In a blustering manner.
• OUTLUSTER; OUTLUSTRE
  To excel in brightness or luster. Shak.
• BLUSTEROUS
  Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.
• BALUSTERED
  Having balusters. Dryden.
• MENDELIAN CHARACTER
  A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.
• FLUSTERATION
  The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster.