Word Meanings - HISPANICIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To give a Spanish form or character to; as, to Hispanicize Latin words.

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• 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.
• LATINIZATION
  The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country. The Germanization of Britain went far deeper than the Latinization of France. M. Arnold.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• HISPANICIZE
  To give a Spanish form or character to; as, to Hispanicize Latin words.
• LATINITY
  The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom. "His eleLatinity." Motley.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• LATIN
  A member of the Roman Catholic Church. (Dog Latin, barbarous Latin; a jargon in imitation of Latin; as, the log Latin of schoolboys. -- Late Latin, Low Latin, terms used indifferently to designate the latest stages of the Latin language; low Latin
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• LATINLY
  In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin. Heylin.
• LATINISTIC
  Of, pertaining to, or derived from, Latin; in the Latin style or idiom. "Latinistic words." Fitzed. Hall.
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• LATINITASTER
  One who has but a smattering of Latin. Walker.
• CHARACTERISTICAL
  Characteristic.
• CHARACTERY
  1. The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark. Fairies use flowers for their charactery. Shak. 2. That which is charactered; the meaning. I will construe to thee All the charactery of my sad
• SPANISH
  Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards. Spanish bayonet , a liliaceous plant with rigid spine-tipped leaves. The name is also applied to other similar plants of the Southwestern United States and mexico. Called also Spanish daggers. -- Spanish
• LATINIST
  One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar. Cowper. He left school a good Latinist. Macaulay.
• CHARACTERLESS
  Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.
• LATINIZE
  1. To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin. 2. To bring under the power or influence of the Romans or Latins; to affect with the usages of the Latins, especially in speech. "Latinized races." Lowell. 3. To
• OSCILLATING
  That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale.
• VACILLATING
  Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.
• PLATINIRIDIUM
  A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum.
• GELATINATION
  The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• GELATINIZATION
  See GELATINATION
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• NASOPALATAL; NASOPALATINE
  Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.
• OSCILLATING CURRENT
  A current alternating in direction.
• PLATINOID
  Resembling platinum.
• PLATINICHLORIC
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid consisting of platinic chloride and hydrochloric acid, and obtained as a brownish red crystalline substance, called platinichloric, or chloroplatinic, acid.
• NITROGELATIN
  An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin.
• SWORDSMAN
  1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
• ELECTROPLATING
  The art or process of depositing a coating of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity.