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Word Meanings - SPECULATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Intended or adapted for viewing or espying; having oversight. T. Warton. 2. Exercising speculation; speculative. T. Carew.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • ADAPTABLE
    Capable of being adapted.
  • INTENDENT
    See N
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • INTENDIMENT
    Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.
  • EXERCISE
    exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • INTENDANT
    One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • ADAPTNESS
    Adaptedness.
  • INTENDER
    One who intends. Feltham.
  • CAREWORN
    Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • SPECULATIVE
    1. Given to speculation; contemplative. The mind of man being by nature speculative. Hooker. 2. Involving, or formed by, speculation; ideal; theoretical; not established by demonstration. Cudworth. 3. Of or pertaining to vision; also,
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • INTENDMENT
    The true meaning, understanding, or intention of a law, or of any legal instrument. (more info) 1. Charge; oversight. Ford. 2. Intention; design; purpose. The intendment of God and nature. Jer. Taylor.
  • ADAPTIVE
    Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.
  • VIEWLESS
    Not perceivable by the eye; invisible; unseen. "Viewless winds." Shak. Swift through the valves the visionary fair Repassed, and viewless mixed with common air. Pope.
  • SELF-VIEW
    A view if one's self; specifically, carefulness or regard for one's own interests
  • COUNTERVIEW
    1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
  • REVIEW
    Etym: 1. To view or see again; to look back on "I shall review Sicilia." Shak. 2. To go over and examine critically or deliberately. Specifically: To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition. To go
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • REVIEWABLE
    Capable of being reviewed.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • SUPERINTENDER
    A superintendent.

 

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