Word Meanings - SECRETITIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors. Floyer.

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• PARTHIAN
  Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia. -- n.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• PARTICIPIALIZE
  To form into, or put in the form of, a participle.
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• PARTICIPANT
  Sharing; participating; having a share of part. Bacon.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• PARTLY
  In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly. "I partly believe it." 1 Cor. xi. 18.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• PARTNER
  An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership. 3. pl. (more info) 1. One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: A husband or
• PARTITE
  Divided nearly to the base; as, a partite leaf is a simple separated down nearly to the base.
• PARTIALISM
  Partiality; specifically , the doctrine of the Partialists.
• PARTURIFACIENT
  A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing. Dunglison.
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• PARTICIPLE
  A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not
• ANIMAL
  1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
• PARTLET
  1. A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but laterby women alone; a ruff. Fuller. 2. A hen; -- so called from the ruffing of her neck feathers. "Dame Partlett, the hen." Shak.
• PARTICIPATION
  1. The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. These deities are so by participation. Bp. Stillingfleet. What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed participation of
• PARTIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
• RAMPART
  A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. Mahan. Syn. -- Bulwark; fence; security; guard. -- Rampart, Bulwark. These words were formerly interchanged; but
• TRIPARTIBLE
  Divisible into three parts.
• SELF-IMPARTING
  Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will. Norris.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• COUNTERPART
  One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate. 3. A person who closely resembles another. 4. A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• REPARTIMIENTO
  A partition or distribution, especially of slaves; also, an assessment of taxes. W. Irving.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• ESPARTO
  A species of Spanish grass , of which cordage, shoes, baskets, etc., are made. It is also used for making paper.