Word Meanings - JOHNSONIANISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.

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• ACTURE
  Action. Shak.
• ACTURIENCE
  Tendency or impulse to act. Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.
• ACTINOLITE
  A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• ACTINOSTOME
  The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.
• 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.
• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
• ACTINARIA
  A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.
• ACTUARIAL
  Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity.
• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• ACTIVITY
  The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
• ACTUATE
  Etym: 1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest
• ACTINOPHOROUS
  Having straight projecting spines.
• WRITATIVE
  Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• ACTUAL
  1. Involving or comprising action; active. Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor. 2. Existing in act or reality;
• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• ACTINOST
  One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.
• ACTOR
  1. One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer. 2. A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak. An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Jacobs. One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• HEMIDACTYL
  Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• PHYLACTERED
  Wearing a phylactery.
• INACTUATE
  To put in action.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• RIPPER ACT; RIPPER BILL
  An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
• OLFACTOR
  A smelling organ; a nose.