Word Meanings - VOLUNTARYISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The principle of supporting a religious system and its institutions by voluntary association and effort, rather than by the aid or patronage of the state.

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• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• RATHER
  Prior; earlier; former. Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• ASSOCIATION
  1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
• 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
• ASSOCIATIONIST
  One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• SYSTEMLESS
  Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• VOLUNTARY
  Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle
• SYSTEMIZATION
  The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
• SYSTEMATISM
  The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.
• STATECRAFT
  The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
• SYSTEMATIST
  1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. 2. One who adheres to a system.
• ASSOCIATIONISM
  The doctrine or theory held by associationists.
• STATESWOMAN
  A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
• SYSTEMATIZATION
  The act or operation of systematizing.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
• 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
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• ARISTATE
  Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
• UNVOLUNTARY
  Involuntary. Fuller.