Word Meanings - GEROCOMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That part of medicine which treats of regimen for old people.

Related words: (words related to GEROCOMY)

• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• REGIMENTALS
  The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman.
• REGIMEN
  a systematic course of diet, etc., pursed with a view to improving or preserving the health, or for the purpose of attaining some particular effect, as a reduction of flesh; -- sometimes used synonymously with hygiene. A syntactical relation between
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• REGIMENTALLY
  In or by a regiment or regiments; as, troops classified regimentally.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• REGIMENT
  A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies, usually ten. Note: In the British army all the artillery are included in one regiment, which is divided into brigades. Regiment of
• PEOPLED
  Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray.
• PEOPLE'S PARTY
  A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.
• PEOPLER
  A settler; an inhabitant. "Peoplers of the peaceful glen." J. S. Blackie.
• PEOPLELESS
  Destitute of people. Poe.
• MEDICINE
  A physician. Shak. Medicine bag, a charm; -- so called among the North American Indians, or in works relating to them. -- Medicine man , a person who professes to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate the weather by the arts of
• PEOPLE'S BANK
  A form of coöperative bank, such as those of Germany; -- a term loosely used for various forms of coöperative financial institutions.
• REGIMENTAL
  Belonging to, or concerning, a regiment; as, regimental officers, clothing. Regimental school, in the British army, a school for the instruction of the private soldiers of a regiment, and their children, in the rudimentary branches of education.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• IMPEOPLE
  To people; to give a population to. Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont.
• DISPEOPLE
  To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton.
• DEPEOPLE
  To depopulate.
• REPEOPLE
  To people anew.
• UNDERPEOPLED
  Not fully peopled.
• SUGGESTIVE MEDICINE
  Treatment by commands or positive statements addressed to a more or less hypnotized patient.
• TOWNSPEOPLE
  The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.
• DISPEOPLER
  One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator. Gay.
• UNPEOPLE
  To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Shak.