Word Meanings - SMITHSONIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n.

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• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• SMITHSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n.
• ENDOWMENT
  1. The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support. 2. That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church,
• 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.
• NATIONALNESS
  The quality or state of being national; nationality. Johnson.
• INSTITUTIONARY
  1. Relating to an institution, or institutions. 2. Containing the first principles or doctrines; elemental; rudimentary.
• INSTITUTIONAL
  1. Pertaining to, or treating of, institutions; as, institutional legends. Institutional writers as Rousseau. J. S. Mill. 2. Instituted by authority. 3. Elementary; rudimental.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SMITHSONITE
  Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• NATIONALIZE
  To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.
• WASHINGTONIAN
  A member of the Washingtonian Society. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy. Lowell. 2. Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on
• NATIONALLY
  In a national manner or way; as a nation. "The jews ... being nationally espoused to God by covenant." South.
• LEARNER
  One who learns; a scholar.
• NATIONALITY
  1. The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism. 2. The sum of the qualities which distinguish a nation; national character. 3. A race or people, as determined by common language and character, and not by
• LEARNED
  Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. The learnedlover lost no time. Spenser. Men of
• NATIONALRATH
  See LEGISLATURE
• NATIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a nation; common to a whole people or race; public; general; as, a national government, language, dress, custom, calamity, etc. 2. Attached to one's own country or nation. National anthem, a popular song or hymn which has
• NATIONALIZATION
  The act of nationalizing, or the state of being nationalized.
• NATIONALIST
  One who advocates national unity and independence; one of a party favoring Irish independence.
• INTERNATIONAL
  1. Between or among nations; pertaining to the intercourse of nations; participated in by two or more nations; common to, or affecting, two or more nations. 2. Of or concerning the association called the International. International code
• REENDOW
  To endow again.
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• IMAGINATIONALISM
  Idealism. J. Grote.
• INTERNATIONALISM
  1. The state or principles of international interests and intercourse. 2. The doctrines or organization of the International.
• DENOMINATIONAL
  Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society. "Denominational differences." Buckle.
• INTERDENOMINATIONAL
  Occurring between or among, or common to, different denominations; as, interdenominational fellowship or belief.
• TERMINATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.
• IMAGINATIONAL
  Pertaining to, involving, or caused by, imagination.
• SUPERINSTITUTION
  One institution upon another, as when A is instituted and admitted to a benefice upon a title, and B instituted and admitted upon the presentation of another. Bailey.