Word Meanings - MINERALOGIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. Miss Edgeworth.

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• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• EXAMINABLE
  Capable of being examined or inquired into. Bacon.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• EXAMINING
  Having power to examine; appointed to examine; as, an examining committee.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• EXAMINANT
  1. One who examines; an examiner. Sir W. Scott. 2. One who is to be examined. H. Prideaux.
• COLLECTORATE
  The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
• COLLECTEDNESS
  A collected state of the mind; self-possession.
• MINERALOGY
  1. The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them. 2. A treatise or book on this science.
• STUDY
  A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture. (more
• COLLECTANEA
  Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.
• EXAMINATOR
  An examiner. Sir T. Browne.
• EXAMINATE
  A person subjected to examination. Bacon.
• COLLECTIVE
  Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, juri, etc. 4. Tending to collect; forming a collection. Local is his throne . . . to fix a point, A central point,
• EXAMINATION
  1. The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment. 2. A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate
• COLLECTOR
  An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. Sir W. Temple. 4. One authorized to collect debts. 5. A bachelor of arts
• COLLECT
  together; col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter. See Legend, and 1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. Shak. 'Tis memory alone
• COLLECTIVIST
  An advocate of collectivism. -- a.
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• PREEXAMINATION
  Previous examination.
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• MISRECOLLECT
  To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock.
• REEXAMINABLE
  Admitting of being reëxamined or reconsidered. Story.
• MISRECOLLECTION
  Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
• REEXAMINE
  To examine anew. Hooker.
• RE-COLLECT
  To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re- collect routed troops. God will one day raise the dead, re-collecting our scattered dust. Barrow.
• UNDERSTUDY
  To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.
• CROSS-EXAMINE
  To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party. "The opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses." Kent.
• RECOLLECTION
  1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance. 2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which