Word Meanings - ROMANIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Of or pertaining to Rome or its people. 2. Of or pertaining to any or all of the various languages which, during the Middle Ages, sprung out of the old Roman, or popular form of Latin, as the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Provencal,
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1. Of or pertaining to Rome or its people. 2. Of or pertaining to any or all of the various languages which, during the Middle Ages, sprung out of the old Roman, or popular form of Latin, as the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Provencal, etc. 3. Related to the Roman people by descent; -- said especially of races and nations speaking any of the Romanic tongues. Romanic spelling, spelling by means of the letters of the Roman alphabet, as in English; -- contrasted with phonetic spelling.
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- POPULARIZATION
The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people. - MIDDLE
1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening. - DURAMEN
The heartwood of an exogenous tree. - LATINIZATION
The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country. The Germanization of Britain went far deeper than the Latinization of France. M. Arnold. - DURIO
A fruit tree of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian. - PEOPLE
1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx. - PROVENCAL
Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants. - ROMANY
1. A gypsy. - DUROUS
Hard. - PORTUGUESE
Of or pertaining to Portugal, or its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl. - ROMANTICAL
Romantic. - ROMANISH
Pertaining to Romanism. - DURANTE
During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure. - ROMANTICIST
One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley. - DURANCY
Duration. Dr. H. More. - DURRA
A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - DUR
Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major. - DURABILITY
The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness. A Gothic cathedral raises ideas - MIDDLE-GROUND
That part of a picture between the foreground and the background. - OSCILLATING
That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale. - REVERDURE
To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners. - VACILLATING
Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv. - PODURA
Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. Podura scale , one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope. (more info) podo`s, - OBDURATION
A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart. - ORDURE
1. Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak. 2. Defect; imperfection; fault. Holland. - ELEUTHEROMANIAC
Mad for freedom. - BORDURE
A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged. - PLATINIRIDIUM
A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum. - ENDURANT
Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood. - ADUROL
Either of two compounds, a chlorine derivative and bromine derivative, of hydroquinone, used as developers.