Word Meanings - SAXONISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language. T. Warton.

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• SAXONY YARN
  A fine grade of woolen yarn twisted somewhat harder and smoother than zephyr yarn.
• ANGLO-CATHOLIC
  Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.
• IDIOMORPHOUS
  Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock. (more info) 1. Having a form of its own.
• SAXONITE
  See MOUNTAIN
• IDIOM
  1. The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language. Idiom may be employed loosely and figuratively as a synonym of language or dialect, but in its proper sense it signifies the totality of the general
• SAXONISM
  An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language. T. Warton.
• IDIOMORPHIC
  Idiomorphous.
• ANGLO-SAXON
  The Teutonic people of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest. It is quite correct to call Æthelstan "King of the Anglo-Saxons," but to call this or that subject of Æthelstan "an Anglo-Saxon" is simply nonsense.
• ANGLO-SAXONISM
  1. A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. M. Arnold. 2. The quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense.
• IDIOMUSCULAR
  Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.
• SAXONIST
  One versed in the Saxon language.
• ANGLOPHOBIA
  Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English. -- An"glo*phobe, n.
• LANGUAGE
  tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
• SAXON
  cf. AS. pl. Seaxe, Seaxan, fr. seax a knife, a short sword, a dagger (akin to OHG. sahs, and perhaps to L. saxum rock, stone, knives being originally made of stone); and cf. G. Sachse, pl. Sachsen. Cf. One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt
• ANGLOMANIAC
  One affected with Anglomania.
• IDIOMATIC; IDIOMATICAL
  Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase. -- Id`i*o*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
• SAXONIC
  relating to the saxons or Anglo-Saxons.
• ANGLO-SAXONDOM
  The Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race.
• ANGLOMANIA
  A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc.
• ANGLO-CATHOLICISM
  The belief of those in the Church of England who accept many doctrines and practices which they maintain were those of the primitive, or true, Catholic Church, of which they consider the Church of England to be the lineal descendant.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• SEMI-SAXON
  Half Saxon; -- specifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English, belonging to the period 1150-
• BROMIDIOM
  A conventional comment or saying, such as those characteristic of bromides.
• VANGLO
  Benne ; also, its seeds; -- so called in the West Indies.
• HYPIDIOMORPHIC
  Partly idiomorphic; -- said of rock a portion only of whose constituents have a distinct crystalline form. -- Hy*pid`i*o*mor"phic*al*ly, adv.
• SEA LANGUAGE
  The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
• INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
  A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.