Word Meanings - MICRONESIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Micronesia, a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, embracing the Marshall and Gilbert groups, the Ladrones, the Carolines, etc.

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• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• PACIFICATION
  The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. "An embassy of pacification." Bacon.
• PACIFICATORY
  Tending to make peace; conciliatory. Barrow.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• MICRONESIAN
  Of or pertaining to Micronesia, a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, embracing the Marshall and Gilbert groups, the Ladrones, the Carolines, etc.
• PACIFICO
  A peaceful person; -- applied specif. by the Spaniards to the natives in Cuba and the Philippine Islands who did not oppose the Spanish arms. While we were going through the woods one of the pacificos pointed to a new grave. Harper's Weekly.
• MICRONESIANS
  A dark race inhabiting the Micronesian Islands. They are supposed to be a mixed race, derived from Polynesians and Papuans.
• OCEAN
  1. The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea. Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Longfellow. 2. One of the large bodies
• OCEANUS
  The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth.
• 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
• EMBRACEOR
  One guilty of embracery.
• EMBRACERY
  An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.
• EMBRACIVE
  Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing. Thackeray.
• PACIFICAL
  Of or pertaining to peace; pacific. Sir H. Wotton. -- Pa*cif"ic*al*ly, adv.
• WESTERNER
  A native or inhabitant of the west.
• OCEANOLOGY
  That branch of science which relates to the ocean.
• PACIFIC
  Of or pertaining to peace; suited to make or restore peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome; conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts; a pacific nature or condition. Pacific Ocean, the ocean between America and Asia, so called
• OCEANOGRAPHY
  A description of the ocean.
• OCEANIC
  1. Of or pertaining to the ocean; found or formed in or about, or produced by, the ocean; frequenting the ocean, especially mid-ocean. Petrels are the most aërial and oceanic of birds. Darwin. 2. Of or pertaining to Oceania or its inhabitants.
• WESTERN
  1. Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean. Far o'er the glowing western main. Keble. 2.
• NORTHWESTERN
  Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course.
• EMBRACE
  To fasten on, as armor. Spenser.