Word Meanings - ERICIUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The Vulgate rendering of the Hebrew word qipod, which in the "Authorized Version" is translated bittern, and in the Revised Version, porcupine. I will make it a possession for the ericius and pools of waters. Is. xiv. 23 .

Related words: (words related to ERICIUS)

• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• VULGATE
  An ancient Latin version of the Scripture, and the only version which the Roman Church admits to be authentic; -- so called from its common use in the Latin Church. Note: The Vulgate was made by Jerome at the close of the 4th century.
• REVISE
  A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction. (more info) 1. A review; a revision. Boyle.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• TRANSLATRESS
  A woman who translates.
• TRANSLATITIOUS
  Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic. Evelyn.
• REVISION
  1. The act of revising; reëxamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes. 2. That which is made by revising. Syn. -- Reëxamination; revisal; revise; review.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• REVISIONAL; REVISIONARY
  Of or pertaining to revision; revisory.
• POSSESSIONARY
  Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
• TRANSLATORSHIP
  The office or dignity of a translator.
• REVISAL
  The act of revising, or reviewing and reëxamining for correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty.
• BITTERN
  1. The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains. 2. A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating
• REVISER
  One who revises.
• TRANSLATIVE
  tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense. Puttenham.
• RENDERABLE
  Capable of being rendered.
• VERSIONIST
  One who makes or favors a version; a translator.
• REVISITATION
  The act of revisiting.
• HEBREW
  1. An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew. There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew. Gen. xiv.
• VERSION
  A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See Anteversion, and Retroversion. 3. The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language. 4. A translation;
• REVERSION
  The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
• SUBVERSION
  The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. The
• MISTRANSLATE
  To translate erroneously.
• SUBVERSIONARY
  Promoting destruction.
• REVERSIONER
  One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated. Blackstone.
• MISRENDER
  To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle.
• TRANSLATE
  To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden. 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the
• TRANSVERSION
  The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
• AVERSION
  1. A turning away. Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury. 2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of
• ANIMADVERSION
  1. The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception. The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called. Glanvill. 2. Monition; warning. Clarendon. 3. Remarks by way of criticism
• CONVERSION
  An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse. Or bring my action of conversion And trover for my goods. Hudibras. (more info) 1. The act of turning or changing
• 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.
• SURRENDER
  To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power
• DISAUTHORIZE
  To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. W. Wotton.