Word Meanings - PASSIONARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs. T. Warton.

Related words: (words related to PASSIONARY)

• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• DESCRIBER
  One who describes.
• DESCRIBENT
  See GENERATRIX
• DESCRIBE
  write: cf. OE. descriven, OF. descrivre, F. décrire. See Scribe, and 1. To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to
• MARTYRSHIP
  Martyrdom. Fuller.
• DESCRIBABLE
  That can be described; capable of description.
• SAINTSHIP
  The character or qualities of a saint.
• ALL SAINTS; ALL SAINTS'
  The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.
• MISDESCRIBE
  To describe wrongly.
• INDESCRIBABLE
  Incapable of being described. -- In`de*scrib"a*bly, adv.