Word Meanings - SYNODIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An adherent to a synod. These synodists thought fit in Latin as yet to veil their decrees from vulgar eyes. Fuller.
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- LATINIZATION
The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country. The Germanization of Britain went far deeper than the Latinization of France. M. Arnold. - THOUGHT
imp. & p. p. of Think. - FULLER
One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed - THOUGHTLESS
1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly, - THESE
The plural of this. See This. - SYNODIC; SYNODICAL
Of or pertaining to a synod; transacted in, or authorized by, a synod; as, synodical proceedings or forms. "A synodical epistle." Bp. Stillingfleet. - ADHERENTLY
In an adherent manner. - VULGARIZATION
The act or process of making vulgar, or common. - THOUGHTFUL
1. Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. Pope. 2. Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful - VULGARIAN
A vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. Used also adjectively. - LATINITY
The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom. "His eleLatinity." Motley. - VULGARISM
1. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity. 2. A vulgar phrase or expression. A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call "slang," which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. Coleridge. - VULGARLY
In a vulgar manner. - VULGARIZE
To make vulgar, or common. Exhortation vulgarized by low wit. V. Knox. - ADHERENT
Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals. (more info) 1. Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope. 2. Attached as an attribute or circumstance. - SYNODIST
An adherent to a synod. These synodists thought fit in Latin as yet to veil their decrees from vulgar eyes. Fuller. - SYNOD
An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters. Note: Synods are of four kinds: 1. General, or ecumenical, which are compopsed of bishops from different nations; -- commonly called general council. 2. National, composed of bishops - LATIN
Latium a country of Italy, in which Rome was situated. Cf. Ladin, 1. Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language. 2. Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; - SYNODAL
Synodical. Milton. - FULLERY
The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on. - OSCILLATING
That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale. - VACILLATING
Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv. - PLATINIRIDIUM
A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum. - BETHOUGHT
imp. & p. p. of Bethink. - GELATINATION
The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly. - GELATINIZATION
See GELATINATION - FORETHOUGHT
Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon. - NASOPALATAL; NASOPALATINE
Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve. - OSCILLATING CURRENT
A current alternating in direction. - NEW THOUGHT
Any form of belief in mental healing other than Christian Science and hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances, - DEVULGARIZE
To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow. Shakespeare and Plutarch's "Lives" are very devulgarizing books. E. A. Abbott. - PLATINOID
Resembling platinum. - PLATINICHLORIC
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid consisting of platinic chloride and hydrochloric acid, and obtained as a brownish red crystalline substance, called platinichloric, or chloroplatinic, acid. - NITROGELATIN
An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin.