Word Meanings - GRAVIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to, or causing, gravitation; as, gravic forces; gravic attraction.
Related words: (words related to GRAVIC)
- 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. - CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté. - CAUSATOR
One who causes. Sir T. Browne. - GRAVIC
Pertaining to, or causing, gravitation; as, gravic forces; gravic attraction. - 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. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - CAUSIDICAL
Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits. - ATTRACTION
An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting - CAUSERIE
Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat. - CAUSER
One who or that which causes. - CAUSELESS
1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham. - CAUSATION
The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced. The kind of causation by which vision is produced. Whewell. Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is - CAUSTIC; CAUSTICAL
1. Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing. 2. Severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark. Caustic curve , a curve to which the ray of light, reflected - GRAVITATIONAL
Of or pertaining to the force of gravity; as, gravitational units. - CAUSALITY
The faculty of tracing effects to their causes. G. Combe. (more info) 1. The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect. The causality of the divine mind. Whewell. - ANTICAUSODIC
See ANTICAUSOTIC - 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 - 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. - DIACAUSTIC
Pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface, under Caustic.