Word Meanings - JEFFERSONIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines. Lowell.

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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.
• THOMAS PHOSPHATE; THOMAS SLAG
  See ABOVE
• JEFFERSONIA
  An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves ; twinleaf.
• POLITICALLY
  1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles.
• JEFFERSONIAN
  Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines. Lowell.
• THOMAS PROCESS
  See ABOVE
• 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
• POLICY
  1. Civil polity. 2. The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state. 3. The method
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• JEFFERSONITE
  A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
• CHARACTERISTICAL
  Characteristic.
• POLITICALISM
  Zeal or party spirit in politics.
• JEFFERSONIAN SIMPLICITY
  The absence of pomp or display which Jefferson aimed at in his administration as President , eschewing display or ceremony tending to distinguish the President from the people, as in going to the capital on horseback and with no escort,
• POLITICAL
  1. Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration. "A political government." Evelyn. 2. Of or pertaining to public policy, or to politics; relating to affairs of state or administration; as, a political writer. "The political state
• METROPOLITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.
• IMPOLICY
  The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.
• MISPOLICY
  Wrong policy; impolicy.
• IMPOLITICAL
  Impolitic. -- Im`po*lit"i*cal*ly, adv. Bacon.
• COSMOPOLITICAL
  Having the character of a cosmopolite. Hackluyt.
• TERM POLICY
  A policy of term insurance.
• VALUED POLICY
  A policy in which the value of the goods, property, or interest insured is specified; -- opposed to open policy.
• VALUED-POLICY LAW
  A law requiring insurance companies to pay to the insured, in case of total loss, the full amount of the insurance, regardless of the actual value of the property at the time of the loss.
• BLANKET MORTGAGE; BLANKET POLICY
  One that covers a group or class of things or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien.