Word Meanings - RIGORIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.

Related words: (words related to RIGORIST)

• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• JANSENIST
  A follower of Cornelius Jansen, a Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres, in Flanders, in the 17th century, who taught certain doctrines denying free will and the possibility of resisting divine grace.
• EXTREMELESS
  Having no extremes; infinite.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• RIGOROUS
  1. Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• EXTREME
  Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth. Extreme and mean ratio , the relation of a line and its segments when the line is so divided that the whole is to the greater
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• APPLIABLE
  Applicable; also, compliant. Howell.
• APPLIEDLY
  By application.
• APPLIER
  He who, or that which, applies.
• APPLICATORY
  Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. -- n.
• APPLIMENT
  Application. Marston
• APPLICANT
  One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner. The applicant for a cup of water. Plumtre. The court require the applicant to appear in person. Z. Swift.
• APPLIANCE
  1. The act of applying; application; subservience. Shak. 2. The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances.
• EXTREMELY
  In an extreme manner or state; in the utmost degree; to the utmost point; exceedingly; as, extremely hot or cold.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• OVERRIGOROUS
  Too rigorous; harsh.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• MISAPPLICATION
  A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.
• UNAPPLICABLE
  Inapplicable.