Word Meanings - PREPOSITIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a preposition; of the nature of a preposition. Early. -- Prep`o*si"tion*al*ly, adv.

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• EARLY
  Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson.
• 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
• NATURED
  Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
• NATURELESS
  Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton.
• NATURE
  1. The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay. 2. The personified sum and order
• PREPOSITIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a preposition; of the nature of a preposition. Early. -- Prep`o*si"tion*al*ly, adv.
• PREPOSITION
  A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• HALF-YEARLY
  Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.
• DEMINATURED
  Having half the nature of another. Shak.
• TIME SIGNATURE
  A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
• ORNATURE
  Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed.
• CONSIGNATURE
  Joint signature. Colgrave.
• PEARLY
  1. Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells. Milton. 2. Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
• TRANSNATURE
  To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel.
• REARLY
  Early. Beau. & Ft.
• DENATURE
  To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of.
• SIGNATURE
  An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated. Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use. Dr. H. More. (more info) 1. A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal. The brain, being well
• NEARLY
  In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.
• DISNATURED
  Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. Shak.
• GOOD-NATUREDLY
  With maldness of temper.