Word Meanings - INDISCRETE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Indiscreet. Boyle. 2. Not discrete or separated; compact; homogenous. An indiscrete mass of confused matter. Pownall.
Related words: (words related to INDISCRETE)
- SEPARATISM
The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing. - CONFUSIVE
Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall. - CONFUS
Confused, disturbed. Chaucer. - COMPACT
1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely - COMPACTIBLE
That may be compacted. - SEPARATIVE
Causing, or being to cause, separation. "Separative virtue of extreme cold." Boyle. - INDISCRETE
1. Indiscreet. Boyle. 2. Not discrete or separated; compact; homogenous. An indiscrete mass of confused matter. Pownall. - BOYLE'S LAW
See LAW - SEPARATICAL
Of or pertaining to separatism in religion; schismatical. Dr. T. Dwight. - COMPACTEDLY
In a compact manner. - INDISCREET
Not discreet; wanting in discretion. So drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Shak. Syn. -- Imprudent; injudicious; inconsiderate; rash; hasty; incautious; heedless; undiscerning; foolish. -- In`dis*creet"ly, adv. -- In`dis*creet"ness, n. (more - SEPARATORY
Separative. Cheyne. - CONFUSABILITY
Capability of being confused. - DISCRETE
Separate; not coalescent; -- said of things usually coalescent. Discrete movement. See Concrete movement of the voice, under Concrete, a. -- Discrete proportion, proportion where the ratio of the means is different from that of either couplet; as, - SEPARATING
Designed or employed to separate. Separating funnel , a funnel, often globe-shaped, provided with a stopcock for the separate drawing off of immiscible liquids of different specific gravities. - SEPARATIST
One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary. Heavy fines on divines who should preach in - CONFUSEDNESS
A state of confusion. Norris. - SEPARATOR
One who, or that which, separates. Specifically: A device for depriving steam of particles of water mixed with it. An apparatus for sorting pulverized ores into grades, or separating them from gangue. - MATTERLESS
1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial. - SEPARATE
pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen. xiii. - INSEPARATE
Not separate; together; united. Shak. - SMATTERER
One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist. - SUBJECT-MATTER
The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science