Word Meanings - NYMPHEAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, nymphs; inhabited by nymphs; as, a nymphean cave.

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• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• 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
• INHABITED
  Uninhabited. Brathwait.
• 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,
• INHABIT
  To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses. The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15. O, who would inhabit This bleak world alone Moore.
• 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
• INHABITRESS
  A female inhabitant.
• INHABITABLE
  Capable of being inhabited; habitable. Systems of inhabitable planets. Locke.
• INHABITER
  An inhabitant. Derham.
• INHABITIVENESS
  See LOWELL
• APPROPRIATELY
  In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• NYMPHEAN
  Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, nymphs; inhabited by nymphs; as, a nymphean cave.
• UNAPPROPRIATE
  1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.
• NONINHABITANT
  One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.
• DISAPPROPRIATE
  Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation. The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways. Blackstone.
• MISAPPROPRIATE
  To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.
• COINHABITANT
  One who dwells with another, or with others. "Coinhabitants of the same element." Dr. H. More.
• REINHABIT
  To inhabit again. Mede.
• UNAPPROPRIATED
  1. Not specially appropriate; having not special application. J. Warton. 2. Not granted to any person, corporation, or the like, to the exclusion of others; as, unappropriated lands. 3. Not granted for, or applied to, any specific purpose; as,