Word Meanings - SYRIAC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch. -- n.

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• SYRIACISM
  A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism.
• 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
• SYRIANISM
  A Syrian idiom, or a peculiarity of the Syrian language; a Syriacism. Paley.
• VERSIONIST
  One who makes or favors a version; a translator.
• VERSION
  A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See Anteversion, and Retroversion. 3. The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language. 4. A translation;
• PENTATEUCH
  The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.
• LANGUAGE
  tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
• PENTATEUCHAL
  Of or pertaining to the Pentateuch.
• SYRIASM
  A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism; a Syriacism. M. Stuart. The Scripture Greek is observed to be full of Syriasms and Hebraisms. Bp. Warburton.
• SYRIAN
  Of or pertaining to Syria; Syriac. -- n.
• LANGUAGELESS
  Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak.
• LANGUAGED
  Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope.
• SYRIAC
  Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch. -- n.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• REVERSION
  The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
• SUBVERSION
  The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. The
• SUBVERSIONARY
  Promoting destruction.
• REVERSIONER
  One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated. Blackstone.
• TRANSVERSION
  The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
• AVERSION
  1. A turning away. Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury. 2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of
• ANIMADVERSION
  1. The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception. The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called. Glanvill. 2. Monition; warning. Clarendon. 3. Remarks by way of criticism
• CONVERSION
  An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse. Or bring my action of conversion And trover for my goods. Hudibras. (more info) 1. The act of turning or changing
• SEA LANGUAGE
  The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
• PERVERSION
  The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use. "Violations and perversions of the laws."
• CONTROVERSION
  Act of controverting; controversy. Hooker.
• INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
  A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.
• CONTRAVERSION
  A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve.