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Word Meanings - EXPLODENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive. 2. See Explosive, n.,

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  • CAUSEFUL
    Having a cause.
  • CAUSATIVE
    1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
  • INSTRUMENTAL
    Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
  • CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
    Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
  • CAUSATOR
    One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
  • CAUSTICILY
    1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
  • CAUSAL
    A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.
  • CAUSATIVELY
    In a causative manner.
  • CAUSTICALLY
    In a caustic manner.
  • CAUSATIONIST
    One who believes in the law of universal causation.
  • INSTRUMENTALITY
    The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
  • INSTRUMENTATION
    1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical
  • AGENT
    Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj.
  • EXPLOSIVE
    1. An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine. 2. A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort
  • INSTRUMENTALLY
    1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. 2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason.
  • INSTRUMENT
    A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc. Burrill. 4. One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium,
  • CAUSIDICAL
    Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.
  • AGENTSHIP
    Agency. Beau. & Fl.
  • CAUSERIE
    Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
  • INSTRUMENTALISM
    The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these
  • ANTICAUSODIC
    See ANTICAUSOTIC
  • INTERAGENT
    An intermediate agent.
  • ENCAUSTIC
    Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which
  • INEXPLOSIVE
    Not explosive.
  • UNCAUSED
    Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
  • EREMACAUSIS
    A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.
  • CATACAUSTIC
    Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a. Nichol.
  • GALVANOCAUSTIC
    Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.

 

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