Word Meanings - PETROSAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone. Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the petrous, or petrosal, bone, or the corresponding part of the temporal bone. Petrosal bone , a bone corresponding to the

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Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone. Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the petrous, or petrosal, bone, or the corresponding part of the temporal bone. Petrosal bone , a bone corresponding to the petrous portion of the temporal bone of man; or one forming more or less of the periotic capsule.

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• TEMPORALNESS
  Worldliness. Cotgrave.
• CORRESPOND
  1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• TEMPORALTY
  1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.
• STONY
  1. Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust. 2. Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific. The stony dart of senseless cold.
• CORRESPONDINGLY
  In a corresponding manner; conformably.
• PETROSAL
  Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone. Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the petrous, or petrosal, bone, or the corresponding part of the temporal bone. Petrosal bone , a bone corresponding to the
• 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
• TEMPORALITY
  1. The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity. 2. The laity; temporality. Sir T. More. 3. That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from
• CORRESPONDENCY
  See CLARKE
• CORRESPONDENT
  Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing. Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker. As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson. I will be correspondent to command.
• REGIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.
• CORRESPONDENTLY
  In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably.
• CORRESPONDING
  1. Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers. 2. Carrying on intercourse by letters. Corresponding member of a society, one residing at a distance, who has been invited to correspond with the society, and aid in carrying
• REGION
  1. One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.
• PETROUS
  See PETROSAL (more info) 1. Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone. Hooper.
• TEMPORALLY
  In a temporal manner; secularly. South.
• TEMPORAL
  Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery. Temporal bone, a very complex bone situated in the side of the skull of most mammals and containing the organ of hearing. It consists of an expanded squamosal
• CORRESPONDENCE
  1. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters. Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state. Bacon. To facilitate correspondence between one part
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• SALTPETROUS
  Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• ASTONY
  To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay. The captain of the Helots . . . strake Palladius upon the side of his head, that he reeled astonied. Sir P. Sidney. This sodeyn cas this man astonied so, That reed he wex, abayst, and al quaking.
• DISCORRESPONDENT
  Incongruous. W. Montagu.
• SUPRATEMPORAL
  Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa. -- n.
• BRIMSTONY
  Containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous. B. Jonson.
• SUPERTEMPORAL
  That which is more than temporal; that which is eternal.