Word Meanings - SHROVETIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday.
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- PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values - EVENMINDED
Having equanimity. - EVENT
1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix. - SUNDAY
The first day of the week, -- consecrated among Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day. Advent Sunday, Low Sunday, Passion Sunday, etc. See under Advent, Low, etc. Syn. -- See - PERIODONTAL
Surrounding the teeth. - PRECEDENTLY
Beforehand; antecedently. - EVENTILATION
The act of eventilating; discussion. Bp. Berkely. - MORNE
Of or pertaining to the morn; morning. "White as morne milk." Chaucer. - BEFORETIME
Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5. - EVENTFUL
Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life. - EVENTIDE
The time of evening; evening. Spenser. - PRECEDENTED
Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole. - PRECEDE
1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. "Harm precedes not sin." Milton. 2. To go before in place, rank, or importance. 3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the - EVENTRATION
A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen. A wound, of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude. The act af disemboweling. - PERIOD
One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology. 4. The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; - PERIODICALLY
In a periodical manner. - EVENTLESS
Without events; tame; monotomous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful. - EVENER
1. One who, or that which makes even. 2. In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast. - EVENE
To happen. Hewyt. - MORNING-GLORY
A climbing plant having handsome, funnel- shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal. - IMPREVENTABLE
Not preventable; invitable. - PREVENTATIVE
That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive. - REVENDICATION
The act of revendicating. Vattel - SEVENNIGHT
A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight. - ANTIPERIODIC
A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers. - PREVENIENCE
The act of going before; anticipation. - IMPREVENTABILITY
The state or quality of being impreventable. - THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer. - CROMORNA
A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe. (more info) G. krummhorn crooked horn, cornet, an organ pipe turned like a - ALABAMA PERIOD
A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic. - CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending - PREVENTABLE
Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.