Word Meanings - REMEAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To give meaning to; to explain the meaning of; to interpret. Wyclif.

Related words: (words related to REMEAN)

• INTERPRETABLE
  Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.
• EXPLAIN
  out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear
• INTERPRETATIVELY
  By interpretation. Ray.
• INTERPRETIVE
  Interpretative.
• MEAN
  menen, AS. mænan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. menian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you
• MEANDROUS; MEANDRY
  Winding; flexuous.
• MEANDER
  Fretwork. See Fret. (more info) 1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore. 2. A tortuous or intricate movement.
• MEANLY
  Moderately. A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. Ascham.
• MEAN-SPIRITED
  Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. -- Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.
• MEANDRINA
  A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.
• EXPLAINABLE
  Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted. Sir. T. Browne.
• MEANTIME; MEANWHILE
  The intervening time; as, in the meantime .
• INTERPRETATIVE
  1. Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory. "Interpretative lexicography." Johnson. 2. According to interpretation; constructive. An interpretative siding with heresies. Hammond.
• WYCLIFITE; WYCLIFFITE
  A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard.
• EXPLAINER
  One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.
• MEANNESS
  1. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison. 2. A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness.
• MEANT
  of Mean.
• INTERPRETAMENT
  Interpretation. Milton.
• MEANDRIAN
  Winding; having many turns.
• INTERPRET
  interpretatus, fr. interpre interpeter, agent, negotiator; inter 1. To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied esp. to language, but also
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• REMEANT
  Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.
• ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
  Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.
• INTERMEAN
  Something done in the meantime; interlude. B. Jonson.
• MISINTERPRETER
  One who interprets erroneously.
• UNMEANT
  Not meant or intended; unintentional. Dryden.
• DEMEANANCE
  Demeanor. Skelton.
• FOREMEANT
  Intended beforehand; premeditated. Spenser.
• CADMEAN
  Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- Cadmean letters. Cadmean victory, a victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished;
• PIGMEAN
  See PYGMEAN