Word Meanings - MICRONESIANS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dark race inhabiting the Micronesian Islands. They are supposed to be a mixed race, derived from Polynesians and Papuans.

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• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• MIXEDLY
  In a mixed or mingled manner.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• 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.
• INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
  The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of
• INHABITATION
  1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson. 2. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. Milton. 3. Population; inhabitants. Sir T. Browne. The beginning of nations and
• 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.
• INHABITED
  Uninhabited. Brathwait.
• MICRONESIANS
  A dark race inhabiting the Micronesian Islands. They are supposed to be a mixed race, derived from Polynesians and Papuans.
• INHABITANT
  One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident. (more info) 1. One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city,
• MIXTLY
  With mixture; in a mixed manner; mixedly. Bacon.
• SUPPOSURE
  Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture. Hudibras.
• 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.
• DERIVATIONAL
  Relating to derivation. Earle.
• INHABIT
  To have residence in a place; to dwell; to live; to abide. Shak. They say wild beasts inhabit here. Waller.
• 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.
• 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,
• MIX
  mieshate, W. mysgu, Gael. measg, L. miscere, mixtum, Gr. miçra mixed. The English word has been influenced by L. miscere, mixtum (cf. Mixture), and even the AS. miscan may have been borrowed fr. L. 1. To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of
• BORDEAUX MIXTURE
  A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
• PERMIX
  To mix; to mingle.
• PRESUPPOSITION
  1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
• PERMIXTION
  See PERMISSION
• NONINHABITANT
  One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.
• IMMIX
  To mix; to mingle. Amongst her tears immixing prayers meek. Spenser.