Word Meanings - SYRIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to Syria; Syriac. -- 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. - 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. - SYRIAC
Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch. -- n. - ASSYRIAN
Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria. - APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach