Word Meanings - ETERNALIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity. T. Burnet.

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• ETERNITY
  1. Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time. The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15. 2. Condition which begins at death; immortality. Thou
• BURNET
  A genus of perennial herbs ; especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth , in England, a handsome moth , with crimson spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant . --
• MATTERLESS
  1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
• MATTER-OF-FACT
  Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
• MATTERY
  1. Generating or containing pus; purulent. 2. Full of substance or matter; important. B. Jonson.
• BURNETTIZE
  To subject to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.
• MATTER
  That which is permanent, or is supposed to be given, and in or upon which changes are effected by psychological or physical processes and relations; -- opposed to form. Mansel. (more info) 1. That of which anything is composed; constituent
• EXISTENCE
  1. The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence. The main object of our existence. Lubbock. 2. Continued
• NONEXISTENCE
  1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne.
• PREETERNITY
  Infinite previous duration. "The world's preëternity." Cudworth.
• PREEXISTENCE
  1. Existence in a former state, or previous to something else. Wisdom declares her antiquity and preëxistence to all the works of this earth. T. Burnet. 2. Existence of the soul before its union with the body; -- a doctrine held by certain
• SMATTERER
  One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.
• SUBJECT-MATTER
  The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science
• SMATTERING
  A slight, superficial knowledge of something; sciolism. I had a great desire, not able to attain to a superficial skill in any, to have some smattering in all. Burton.
• POSTEXISTENCE
  Subsequent existence.
• INEXISTENCE
  Inherence; subsistence. Bp. Hall. That which exists within; a constituent. A. Tucker.
• SELF-EXISTENCE
  Inherent existence; existence possessed by virtue of a being's own nature, and independent of any other being or cause; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Blackmore.
• COEXISTENCE
  Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence. Without the help, or so much as the coexistence, of any condition. Jer. Taylor.
• INCOEXISTENCE
  The state of not coexisting. Locke.
• COETERNITY
  Existence from eternity equally with another eternal being; equal eternity.
• SMATTER
  to clatter, to crackle, G. schmettern to dash, crash, to warble, 1. To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter. Of state affairs you can not smatter. Swift. 2. To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything;