Word Meanings - TIRONIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.

Related words: (words related to TIRONIAN)

• INTRODUCTOR
  An introducer.
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• SYSTEMLESS
  Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
• SYSTEMIZATION
  The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
• SYSTEMATISM
  The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.
• SYSTEMATIST
  1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. 2. One who adheres to a system.
• INTRODUCEMENT
  Introduction.
• SYSTEMATIZATION
  The act or operation of systematizing.
• INTRODUCTRESS
  A female introducer.
• INTRODUCTORY
  Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.
• 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
• ANCIENTNESS
  The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
• ANCIENTLY
  1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
• SYSTEMATIC; SYSTEMATICAL
  Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. Systematic theology. See under Theology. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed
• INTRODUCE
  1. To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room. 2. To put ; to insert; as, to introduce the finger, or a probe. 3. To lead to and make known by formal announcement or recommendation; hence, to cause
• SYSTEMIC
  Of or pertaining to the general system, or the body as a whole; as, systemic death, in distinction from local death; systemic circulation, in distinction from pulmonic circulation; systemic diseases. Systemic death. See the Note under Death, n.,
• INTRODUCTION
  1. The act of introducing, or bringing to notice. 2. The act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another. 3. That part of a book
• INTRODUCTIVE
  Serving to introduce; introductory. -- In`tro*duc"tive*ly, adv.
• SYSTEM
  The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n. (more info) 1. An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some
• INTRODUCT
  To introduce.
• BERTILLON SYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
  The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.
• TANDEM SYSTEM
  = Cascade system.
• BLOCK SYSTEM
  A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric, or combined electric and pneumatic, signals that no train enters a section or block until the preceding train
• THREE-TORQUE SYSTEM OF CONTROL
  Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.
• BELL SYSTEM OF CONTROL
  See CLOCHE