Word Meanings - VERTICALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The quality or state of being vertical; verticalness. The different points of the verticality. Sir T. Browne.
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- ASCENT
1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. To him with swift ascent he up returned. Milton. 2. The way or means by which one ascends. 3. An eminence, hill, or - EMINENCE
1. That which is eminent or lofty; a high ground or place; a height. Without either eminences or cavities. Dryden. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. Burke. 2. An elevated condition among men; a place or station above men in - LOFTINESS
The state or quality of being lofty. - HEIGHT
AS. heáh, fr. heah high; akin to D. hoogte, Sw. höjd, Dan. höide, 1. The condition of being high; elevated position. Behold the height of the stars, how high they are! Job xxii. 12. 2. The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above - HEIGHTEN
1. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate. 2. To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint. - VERTICALITY
The quality or state of being vertical; verticalness. The different points of the verticality. Sir T. Browne. - ALTITUDE
The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real - HEIGHTENER
One who, or that which, heightens. - ELEVATION
The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star. (more info) 1. The act of raising from a lower place, condition, - TALLNESS
The quality or state of being tall; height of stature. - DEPASCENT
Feeding. - ADNASCENT
Growing to or on something else. "An adnascent plant." Evelyn. - REASCENT
A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity. Cowper. - PREEMINENCE
The quality or state of being preëminent; superiority in prominence or in excellence; distinction above others in quality, rank, etc.; rarely, in a bad sense, superiority or notoriety in evil; as, preëminence in honor. The preëminence - RELEVATION
A raising or lifting up. - SUPEREMINENCE; SUPEREMINENCY
The quality or state of being supereminent; distinguished eminence; as, the supereminence of Cicero as an orator, or Lord Chatham as a statesman. Ayliffe. He was not forever beset with the consciousness of his own supereminence. Prof. Wilson. - CONNASCENT
Born together; produced at the same time. Craig. - VIOLASCENT
Violescent. - RENASCENT
1. Springing or rising again into being; being born again, or reproduced. 2. See Renaissant. - ENASCENT
Coming into being; nascent. Bp. Warburton. - AHEIGHT
Aloft; on high. "Look up aheight." Shak. - NASCENT
Evolving; being evolved or produced. Nascent state , the supposed instantaneous or momentary state of an uncombined atom or radical just separated from one compound acid, and not yet united with another, -- a hypothetical condition implying