Word Meanings - ICELANDIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders.

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• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• ICELANDER
  A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• RELATE
  1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
• RELATIVITY
  The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
• RELATRIX
  A female relator.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• ICELAND MOSS
  A kind of lichen found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent.
• 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
• RELATIONAL
  1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• ICELANDIC
  Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders.
• RELATED
  See 4 (more info) 1. Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree. 2. Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric
• RELATOR
  A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed. (more info) 1. One who relates; a relater. "The several relators of this history." Fuller.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RELATER
  One who relates or narrates.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• RELATION
  1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon. 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended
• RELATEDNESS
  The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity. Emerson.
• ICELAND SPAR
  A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction. Cf. Calcite.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• IRRELATIVE
  Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• IRRELATION
  The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
• PRELATEITY
  Prelacy. Milton.
• CORRELATE
  To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor.
• PRELATY
  Prelacy. Milton.
• UNPRELATED
  Deposed from the office of prelate.
• PRELATESHIP
  The office of a prelate. Harmar.