Word Meanings - DIDYNAMOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
Related words: (words related to DIDYNAMOUS)
- DISPOSEMENT
Disposal. Goodwin. - DISPOSURE
1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton. - UNEQUALABLE
Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle. - DISPOSITED
Disposed. Glanvill. - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - DISPOSITOR
The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb. (more info) 1. A disposer. - DISPOSEDNESS
The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity. - DISPOSSESS
To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess - LENGTHFUL
Long. Pope. - DISPOSED
1. Inclined; minded. When he was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts xviii. 27. 2. Inclined to mirth; jolly. Beau. & Fl. Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. Chaucer. - DISPOSINGLY
In a manner to dispose. - LENGTHINESS
The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity. - UNEQUALNESS
The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor. - DISPOSSESSOR
One who dispossesses. Cowley. - DISPOSSESSION
The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster. (more info) 1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Bp. Hall. - CONTAINANT
A container. - LENGTHWAYS; LENGTHWISE
In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction. - 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 - UNEQUALED
Not equaled; unmatched; unparalleled; unrivaled; exceeding; surpassing; -- in a good or bad sense; as, unequaled excellence; unequaled ingratitude or baseness. - CONTAINABLE
Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle. - LENGTHEN
To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden. - DISPOSE
Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in - FOREDISPOSE
To bestow beforehand. King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. Fuller. - ALENGTH
At full length; lenghtwise. Chaucer. - PREINDISPOSE
To render indisposed beforehand. Milman. - REDISPOSE
To dispose anew or again; to readjust; to rearrange. A. Baxter.