Word Meanings - PROPAGATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants. There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation. Ray.
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1. The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants. There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation. Ray. 2. The spreading abroad, or extension, of anything; diffusion; dissemination; as, the propagation of sound; the propagation of the gospel. Bacon.
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- SPONTANEOUS
1. Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion. 2. Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - THERETO
1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer. - THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer. - THEREOUT
1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer. - THEREUNDER
Under that or this. - SUCCESSIVELY
In a successive manner. The whiteness, at length, changed successively into blue, indigo, and violet. Sir I. Newton. - THEREAFTER
1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, - THERE-ANENT
Concerning that. - PROPAGATIVE
Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth. - PROPAGATION
1. The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants. There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation. Ray. - THEREOF
Of that or this. In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Gen. ii. - PROPAGATE
akin to propages, propago, a layer of a plant, slip, shoot. See Pro-, 1. To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species - THEREFOR
For that, or this; for it. With certain officers ordained therefore. Chaucer. - THEREFROM
From this or that. Turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left. John. xxiii. 6. - SUCCESSIVE
1. Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes - THEREUNTO
Unto that or this; thereto; besides. Shak. - NATURED
Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc. - THEREINTO
Into that or this, or into that place. Bacon. Let not them . . . enter thereinto. Luke xxi. 21. - GENERATION
The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface - RECONTINUANCE
The act or state of recontinuing. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - 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. - ETHEREALITY
The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp. - INGENERATION
Act of ingenerating. - TAXGATHERER
One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n. - ETHEREALLY
In an ethereal manner. - UNREGENERATION
Unregeneracy. - PINFEATHERED
Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed. - DEMINATURED
Having half the nature of another. Shak. - DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw. - OVERPRODUCTION
Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill. - 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 - ETHEREAL
Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts. Ethereal oil. See Essential oil, under Essential. -- Ethereal oil of wine , a heavy, yellow, oily liquid consisting essentially of etherin, etherol, and ethyl sulphate. It - DEGENERATION
That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. (more info) 1. The act or state of growing worse,