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Word Meanings - HYGIENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That department of sanitary science which treats of the preservation of health, esp. of households and communities; a system of principles or rules designated for the promotion of health.

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  • DESIGNATE
    Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
  • SYSTEMATIZE
    To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
  • DEPARTMENT
    1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
  • SANITARY
    Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory. Sanitary Commission. See under Commission.
  • HEALTHFULLY
    In health; wholesomely.
  • DEPARTMENTAL
    Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
  • SYSTEMLESS
    Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
  • SYSTEMIZATION
    The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
  • 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.
  • SYSTEMATISM
    The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.
  • HEALTHLESS
    1. Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm. "A healthless or old age." Jer. Taylor. 2. Not conducive to health; unwholesome.
  • HEALTHFUL
    1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant. 2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet. The healthful
  • SYSTEMATIST
    1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. 2. One who adheres to a system.
  • DESIGNATOR
    An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
  • DESIGNATIVE
    Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
  • HEALTHFULNESS
    The state of being healthful.
  • SYSTEMATIZATION
    The act or operation of systematizing.
  • 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.
  • HEALTHSOME
    Wholesome; salubrious. "Healthsome air." Shak.
  • HEALTHWARD
    In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency.
  • BERTILLON SYSTEM
    A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
  • CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
    The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
  • CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
    The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.
  • PRESCIENCE
    Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
  • OMNISCIENCE
    The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden.
  • UNSCIENCE
    Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.
  • TANDEM SYSTEM
    = Cascade system.

 

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