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Word Meanings - NAPE-CREST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An African bird of the genus Schizorhis, related to the plantain eaters.

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  • RELATIONSHIP
    The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
  • AFRICAN
    A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
  • AFRICANISM
    A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.
  • RELATIVELY
    In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
  • AFRICANIZE
    To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. Bartlett.
  • RELATE
    1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
  • RELATIVITY
    The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
  • RELATRIX
    A female relator.
  • RELATIONAL
    1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
  • PLANTAIN
    A treelike perennial herb of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa. 2. The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy,
  • RELATED
    See 4 (more info) 1. Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree. 2. Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric
  • AFRICANDER
    One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.
  • RELATOR
    A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed. (more info) 1. One who relates; a relater. "The several relators of this history." Fuller.
  • GENUS
    A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
  • RELATER
    One who relates or narrates.
  • RELATION
    1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon. 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended
  • RELATEDNESS
    The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity. Emerson.
  • RELATIVENESS
    The state of being relative, or having relation; relativity.
  • RELATIONIST
    A relative; a relation.
  • RELATIVE
    Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun. (more info) 1. Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject. I'll
  • PRELATIST
    One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
  • PRELATISM
    Prelacy; episcopacy.
  • PRELATIZE
    To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
  • MISRELATION
    Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
  • SUBGENUS
    A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
  • IRRELATIVE
    Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence
  • CORRELATIVENESS
    Quality of being correlative.
  • IRRELATION
    The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
  • EURAFRIC; EURAFRICAN
    Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. 2. Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. 3. Of European and African descent.
  • PRELATEITY
    Prelacy. Milton.
  • CORRELATE
    To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor.
  • PRELATY
    Prelacy. Milton.
  • UNPRELATED
    Deposed from the office of prelate.
  • PRELATESHIP
    The office of a prelate. Harmar.

 

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