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Word Meanings - FLATULENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy. 2. Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach. Vegetables abound more with aërial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent.

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1. Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy. 2. Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach. Vegetables abound more with aërial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent. Arbuthnot. 3. Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor. Quincy. 4. Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity. He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too dry. Dryden.

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  • ANIMALIZATION
    1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
  • ANIMALCULISM
    The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
  • AFFECTATIONIST
    One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
  • ANIMALITY
    Animal existence or nature. Locke.
  • TENDERLY
    In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
  • ANIMALLY
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  • TENDANCE
    1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
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    1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
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    1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric. 2. Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.
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    One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.
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