Word Meanings - ESCHATOLOGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.

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• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• FINAL
  1. Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term. Yet despair not of his final pardon. Milton. 2. Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a
• DEATHWARD
  Toward death.
• CONNECTIVE
  Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
• DEATH
  Loss of spiritual life. To be death. Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death
• DEATHFULNESS
  Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.
• DEATH'S-HERB
  The deadly nightshade . Dr. Prior.
• DEATHBED
  The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.
• FINALIST
  Any of the players who meet in the final round of a tournament in which the losers in any round do not play again.
• CONNECT
  Etym: 1. To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each
• THEREWITHAL
  1. Over and above; besides; moreover. Daniel. And therewithal it was full poor and bad. Chaucer. 2. With that or this; therewith; at the same time. Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits. Shak. And therewithal one came
• DEATHLESS
  Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
• DEATHSMAN
  An executioner; a headsman or hangman. Shak.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
• PREJUDGMENT
  The act of prejudging; decision before sufficient examination.
• MISJUDGMENT
  A wrong or unjust judgment.
• INCONNECTION
  Disconnection.