Word Meanings - RESURRECTIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection.
Related words: (words related to RESURRECTIONIST)
- GRAVES
The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves. - GRAVEDIGGER
See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves. - GRAVEL
A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. - GRAVEN
Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4. - GRAVEYARD
A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery. - GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel . - GRAVES' DISEASE
See DISEASE - GRAVELESS
Without a grave; unburied. - GRAVELLINESS
State of being gravelly. - GRAVERY
The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving. Either of picture or gravery and embossing. Holland. - GRAVESTONE
A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone. - GRAVELLY
Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil. - GRAVEOLENT
Having a rank smell. Boyle. - DISSECTION
1. The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I. 2. Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination. 3. Anything dissected; especially, - GRAVENSTEIN
A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality. - GRAVEL-STONE
A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus. - GRAVECLOTHES
The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred. - GRAVER
1. One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material. 2. An ergraving or cutting tool; a burin. - GRAVE
To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose. - GRAVELY
In a grave manner. - WILDGRAVE
A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott. - PALGRAVE
See PALSGRAVE - PORTGREVE; PORTGRAVE
In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. Fabyan. - INGRAVE
To engrave. "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson. - UNGRAVE
To raise or remove from the grave; to disinter; to untomb; to exhume. Fuller. - ENGRAVEMENT
1. Engraving. 2. Engraved work. Barrow. - MARGRAVE
march; mark bound, border, march + graf earl, count, lord chief justice; cf. Goth. gagrëfts decree: cf. D. markgraaf, F. margrave. 1. Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany. 2. The English equivalent of the German title - PALSGRAVE
A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany. (more info) Hist.) - -GRAVE
A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.