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Word Meanings - PRETEMPORAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Situated in front of the temporal bone.

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  • FRONTIERSMAN
    A man living on the frontier.
  • TEMPORALNESS
    Worldliness. Cotgrave.
  • FRONTIERED
    Placed on the frontiers.
  • FRONTLESSLY
    Shamelessly; impudently.
  • FRONTED
    Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton.
  • FRONTLET
    The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles. (more info) 1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8. 2. A frown . What makes that
  • FRONTAGE
    The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
  • SITUATE
    To place. Landor.
  • TEMPORALTY
    1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.
  • FRONTIER
    An outwork. Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak. (more info) 1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country;
  • FRONTLESS
    Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope.
  • FRONTON
    See 2
  • SITUATE; SITUATED
    1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
  • FRONTIGNAC; FRONTIGNAN
    A grape of many varieties and colors. (more info) 1. A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan , France.
  • FRONT
    1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. Pope. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. Shak. His front yet threatens, and his
  • FRONTISPIECE
    The part which first meets the eye; as: The principal front of a building. An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself. (more info) beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons
  • FRONTINIAC
    See FRONTIGNAC
  • FRONTO-
    A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc.
  • FRONTINGLY
    In a fronting or facing position; opposingly.
  • 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
  • WHITE-FRONTED
    Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
  • CONFRONT
    1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
  • CONFRONTATION
    Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
  • EFFRONTUOUSLY
    Impudently. R. North.
  • BIFRONTED
    Having two fronts. "Bifronted Janus." Massinger.
  • AFFRONTEE
    One who receives an affront. Lytton.
  • AFFRONTEDLY
    Shamelessly. Bacon.
  • SUPERFRONTAL
    A cloth which is placed over the top of an altar, and often hangs down a few inches over the frontal.

 

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