Word Meanings - ONTOLOGICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to ontology.

Related words: (words related to ONTOLOGICAL)

• ONTOLOGY
  That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.
• 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
• ODONTOLOGY
  The science which treats of the teeth, their structure and development.
• DEONTOLOGY
  The science relat J. Bentham.
• BRONTOLOGY
  A treatise upon thunder.
• PALEONTOLOGY
  The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach