Word Meanings - TRIBAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter. Bp. Warburton.

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• TRIBE
  A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. Note: By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order
• SCEPTERELLATE
  Having a straight shaft with whorls of spines; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. under Spicule.
• 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
• TRIBAL
  Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter. Bp. Warburton.
• TRIBALISM
  The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics.
• SCEPTERLESS; SCEPTRELESS
  Having no scepter; without authority; powerless; as, a scepterless king.
• SCEPTER; SCEPTRE
  1. A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace. And the king held out Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Esther v. 2. 2. Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty;
• CEPHALOTRIBE
  An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
• DIATRIBE
  A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic. The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. John Morley.
• SUBTRIBE
  A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.
• UNSCEPTERED; UNSCEPTRED
  Having no scepter. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• 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