Word Meanings - FUNCTIONALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity. The organ is said to be functionally disordered. Lawrence.

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• ORGANISTA
  Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• ACTIVITY
  The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
• ORGANOLOGY
  1. The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey. 2. That branch of biology
• ORGANDIE; ORGANDY
  A kind of transparent light muslin.
• ORGANOGRAPHIST
  One versed in organography.
• ORGANOGRAPHY
  A description of the organs of animals or plants.
• ORGAN
  A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action , which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs
• ORGANIZATION
  1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
• ORGANOPHYLY
  The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly. Haeckel.
• ORGANOGENY
  Organogenesis.
• ORGANONYMY
  The designation or nomenclature of organs. B. G. Wilder.
• ORGANITY
  Organism.
• ORGANOSCOPY
  Phrenology. Fleming.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• ORGANIZABLE
  Capable of being organized; esp. , capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• ORGANIZE
  To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle. These nobler faculties of the mind, matter
• ORGANOTROPHIC
  Relating to the creation, organization, and nutrition of living organs or parts.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• UNAPPROPRIATE
  1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• SUBNORMAL
  That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.
• BIORGAN
  A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.
• ABNORMAL
  Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.
• FATA MORGANA
  A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily. (more info) looked upon as the work of a fairy of the