Word Meanings - LATERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inclined to delay; dilatory. "When a man is too latered." Chaucer.

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• LATERAN
  The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. Note: The name is said to have been derived from that of the Laterani family, who possessed
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• LATER
  A brick or tile. Knight.
• LATERIFOLIOUS
  Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf; as, a laterifolious flower.
• INCLINING
  See 3
• INCLINED
  Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane. (more info) 1. Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively
• LATERALITY
  The state or condition of being lateral.
• LATERED
  Inclined to delay; dilatory. "When a man is too latered." Chaucer.
• INCLINATORY
  Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle. -- In*clin"a*to*ri*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.
• DELAY
  A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay. (more
• INCLINATION
  The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23º 28'; the inclination of two rays of light. 5. A leaning or tendency of the mind, feelings, preferences, or
• INCLINNOMETER
  An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon; -- called also inclination compass, and dip circle.
• LATERITIC
  consisting of, containing, or characterized by, laterite; as, lateritic formations.
• INCLINABLENESS
  The state or quality of being inclinable; inclination.
• DILATORY
  dilatus, used as p. p. of differe to defer, delay: cf. F. dilatoire. 1. Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant. 2. Marked by
• LATERITIOUS
  Like bricks; of the color of red bricks. Lateritious sediment , a sediment in urine resembling brick dust, observed after the crises of fevers, and at the termination of gouty paroxysms. It usually consists of uric acid or urates with some coloring
• INCLINER
  One who, or that which, inclines; specifically, an inclined dial.
• DELAYER
  One who delays; one who lingers.
• DELAYINGLY
  By delays. Tennyson.
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
• HELIOLATER
  A worshiper of the sun.
• ELATEROMETER
  See ELATROMETER
• COLLATERALLY
  1. Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. 2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. 3. In collateral relation;
• PLATERESQUE
  Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.
• ASTROLATER
  A worshiper of the stars. Morley.
• DESOLATER
  One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste. Mede.
• BIBLIOLATER; BIBLIOLATRIST
  A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.
• QUADRILATERAL
  Having four sides, and consequently four angles; quadrangular.
• EQUILATERAL
  Having all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle; an equilateral polygon. Equilateral hyperbola , one whose axes are equal. -- Equilateral shell , one in which a transverse line drawn through the apex of the umbo bisects the valve,