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Word Meanings - HEBREW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew. There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew. Gen. xiv.

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  • THEREAGAIN
    In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
  • APPELLATIVENESS
    The quality of being appellative. Fuller.
  • THERETO
    1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
  • ABRAHAMIC
    Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.
  • THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
    Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
  • THEREOUT
    1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer.
  • JACOBINE
    A Jacobin.
  • THEREUNDER
    Under that or this.
  • JACOBINIZE
    To taint with, or convert to, Jacobinism. France was not then jacobinized. Burke.
  • THEREAFTER
    1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison,
  • THERE-ANENT
    Concerning that.
  • JACOBIN
    A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris. 2. One of a society of violent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin
  • JACOBEAN; JACOBIAN
    Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England. "A Jacobean table." C. L. Eastlake.
  • THEREOF
    Of that or this. In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Gen. ii.
  • APPELLATIVE
    Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class. (more info) 1. Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. Cudworth.
  • THEREFOR
    For that, or this; for it. With certain officers ordained therefore. Chaucer.
  • ESCAPEMENT
    1. The act of escaping; escape. 2. Way of escape; vent. An escapement for youthful high spirits. G. Eliot. 3. The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by
  • THEREFROM
    From this or that. Turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left. John. xxiii. 6.
  • ABRAHAM-MAN; ABRAM-MAN
    One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. Nares. To sham Abraham, to feign sickness. Goldsmith. (more info) to the parable of the beggar Lazarus in Luke xvi. Murray (New Eng.
  • THEREUNTO
    Unto that or this; thereto; besides. Shak.
  • PRESCAPULA
    The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.
  • ETHEREALITY
    The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.
  • TAXGATHERER
    One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
  • ETHEREALLY
    In an ethereal manner.
  • PINFEATHERED
    Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
  • DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
    A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
  • ETHEREAL
    Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts. Ethereal oil. See Essential oil, under Essential. -- Ethereal oil of wine , a heavy, yellow, oily liquid consisting essentially of etherin, etherol, and ethyl sulphate. It
  • FEATHERED
    Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog. (more info) 1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered
  • GATHERER
    An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.

 

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