Word Meanings - PROCESSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
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- PROCESSIVE
Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge. - PROCEEDER
One who proceeds. - PROCEED
To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou - PROCEEDING
The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. Blackstone. Proceedings of a society, the published record of its action, or of things done at its meetings. Syn. -- Procedure; measure; step, See Transaction. (more info) 1. The act - ADVANCING EDGE
The front edge of a supporting surface; -- contr. with following edge, which is the rear edge. - ADVANCE
supposed LL. abantiare; ab + ante before. The spelling 1. To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on. 2. To raise; to elevate. They . . . advanced their eyelids. Shak. 3. To raise to a higher rank; to promote. Ahasueres - ADVANCED
1. In the van or front. 2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. 3. Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne. - LANGUAGE
tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the - ADVANCIVE
Tending to advance. - ADVANCING SURFACE
The first of two or more surfaces arranged in tandem; -- contr. with following surface, which is the rear surface. - BECAUSE
1. By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that. Milton. 2. In order that; that. And the multitude rebuked them because they should hold their peace. Matt. xx. 31. Because of, by reason of, on account of. Because of these - PROCEEDS
That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc. - ADVANCER
1. One who advances; a promoter. 2. A second branch of a buck's antler. Howell. - LANGUAGELESS
Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak. - LANGUAGED
Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope. - ADVANCEMENT
Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution. 4. Settlement on a wife, or jointure. Bacon. (more info) 1. The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; - OVERLANGUAGED
Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell. - SEA LANGUAGE
The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant. - INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south. - DISADVANCE
To draw back, or cause to draw back. Spenser. - READVANCE
To advance again. - MISPROCEEDING
Wrong or irregular proceding.