Word Meanings - LOCUSTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; -- formerly used to designate a supposed acid.
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- DERIVE
To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. Shak. Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. Prior. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - DESIGNATE
Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck. - LOCUST
Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididæ, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, or Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United - LOCUSTING
Swarming and devastating like locusts. Tennyson. - SUPPOSURE
Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture. Hudibras. - LOCUSTIC
Pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; -- formerly used to designate a supposed acid. - DERIVATIONAL
Relating to derivation. Earle. - SUPPOSABLE
Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. -- Sup*pos"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*pos"a*bly, adv. - DERIVATIVE
Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found - DERIVATION
The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration. (more info) 1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. T. Burnet. 2. - 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 - SUPPOSITIVE
A word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc. Harris. - DERIVEMENT
That which is derived; deduction; inference. I offer these derivements from these subjects. W. Montagu. - SUPPOSITITIOUS
1. Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing. Bacon. 2. Suppositional; hypothetical. Woodward. -- Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ly, - LOCUSTELLA
The European cricket warbler. - DERIVER
One who derives. - LOCUSTA
The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses. Gray. - SUPPOSAL
The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion. Shak. Interest, with a Jew, never proceeds but upon supposal, at least, of a firm and sufficient bottom. South. - SUPPOSEER
One who supposes. - WATER LOCUST
A thorny leguminous tree which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley. - MISDERIVE
1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously. - PRESUPPOSITION
1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise. - PREDESIGNATE
A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.