Word Meanings - TRANSFORMISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis. Huxley.

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• LIVINGLY
  In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• LIVRAISON
  A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
• LIVINGNESS
  The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
• LIVED
  Having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived.
• LIVE
  liven, livien, AS. libban, lifian; akin to OS. libbian, D. leven, G. leben, OHG. lebn, Dan. leve, Sw. lefva, Icel. lifa to live, to be left, to remain, Goth. liban to live; akin to E. leave to forsake, and life, Gr. lip to anoint, smear; -- the
• MODIFICATION
  The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. Bentley.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• EXIST
  exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand 1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift.
• LIVERWORT
  1. A ranunculaceous plant with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups. 2. A flowerless plant , having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. Note: From this plant many others of the same
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• EXISTER
  One who exists.
• LIVING PICTURE
  A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
• EXISTIBLE
  Capable of existence. Grew.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• LIVERY
  gift of clothes made by the master to his servants, prop., a thing delivered, fr. livrer to deliver, L. liberare to set free, in LL., to The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements. The writ by which possession is obtained. Note: It
• ORIGINATION
  1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
• LIVER-GROWN
  Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison.
• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• POSTEXIST
  To exist after; to live subsequently.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• REDELIVER
  1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• OLIVARY
  Like an olive. Olivary body , an oval prominence on each side of the medulla oblongata; -- called also olive.
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• NONEXISTENCE
  1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne.
• OLIVINE
  A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks.
• COD LIVER
  The liver of the common cod and allied species. Cod-liver oil, an oil obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.
• OLIVERIAN
  An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.