Word Meanings - LINGUISTICS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.

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• GLOSSOLOGY
  1. The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary. 2. The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• ORIGINABLE
  Capable of being originated.
• ORIGINATION
  1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
• ORIGINANT
  Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.
• ORIGINATOR
  One who originates.
• ORIGINATE
  To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new. A decomposition of the whole civill and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order. Burke.
• SIGNIFICATION
  1. The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means. A signification of being pleased. Landor. All speaking or signification of one's mind implies an act or addres of one man to another. South. 2. That which is signified or made known;
• ORIGIN
  The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion. Origin of coördinate axes , the point where the axes intersect. See Note under Ordinate. Syn. -- Commencement; rise;
• ORIGINAL
  1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. His form had yet not lost
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• ORIGINALNESS
  The quality of being original; originality. Johnson.
• ORIGINALIST
  One who is original.
• ORIGINALLY
  1. In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation. God is originally holy in himself. Bp. Pearson. 2. At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as,
• ORIGINALITY
  The quality or state of being original. Macaulay.
• ORIGINATIVE
  Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating. H. Bushnell. -- O*rig"i*na*tive*ly, adv.
• ORIGINARY
  1. Causing existence; productive. The production of animals, in the originary way, requires a certain degree of warmth. Cheyne. 2. Primitive; primary; original. The grand originary right of all rights. Hickok.
• SCIENCE
  1. Knowledge; lnowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts. If we conceive God's or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, . . . his science or sight from all
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• OMNISCIENCE
  The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden.
• UNSCIENCE
  Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.
• ABORIGINAL
  1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth. 2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.
• SWORDSMAN
  1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
• CONSCIENCE
  consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power,
• ADSIGNIFICATION
  Additional signification. Tooke.
• UNORIGINATELY
  Without origin.
• CONSCIENCED
  Having a conscience. "Soft-conscienced men." Shak.
• INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
  A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.