Word Meanings - FRENCHISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language. Earle.

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• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• IDIOMORPHOUS
  Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock. (more info) 1. Having a form of its own.
• IDIOM
  1. The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language. Idiom may be employed loosely and figuratively as a synonym of language or dialect, but in its proper sense it signifies the totality of the general
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• EARLET
  An earring. The Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets. Judg. viii. 24
• IDIOMORPHIC
  Idiomorphous.
• PECULIAR
  1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
• FRENCH
  Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. French bean , the common kidney bean . -- French berry , the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. -- French casement See French
• FRENCHIFY
  To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. Burke.
• IDIOMUSCULAR
  Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.
• EARLES PENNY
  Earnest money. Same as Arles penny.
• LANGUAGE
  tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• FRENCHMAN
  A native or one of the people of France.
• IDIOMATIC; IDIOMATICAL
  Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase. -- Id`i*o*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
• CHARACTERISTICAL
  Characteristic.
• LANGUAGELESS
  Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak.
• LANGUAGED
  Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• BROMIDIOM
  A conventional comment or saying, such as those characteristic of bromides.
• HYPIDIOMORPHIC
  Partly idiomorphic; -- said of rock a portion only of whose constituents have a distinct crystalline form. -- Hy*pid`i*o*mor"phic*al*ly, adv.
• FEARLESS
  Free from fear. Syn. -- Bold; courageous; interpid; valor -- Fear"less*ly, adv. -- Fera"less*ness, n.
• SEA LANGUAGE
  The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
• INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
  A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.