Word Meanings - WALLACHIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Wallachia, a former principality, now part of the kingdom, of Roumania. -- n.

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• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• WALLACHIAN
  Of or pertaining to Wallachia, a former principality, now part of the kingdom, of Roumania. -- n.
• KINGDOMED
  Having a kingdom or the dignity of a king; like a kingdom. "Twixt his mental and his active parts, Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages And batters down himself. Shak.
• KINGDOM
  1. The rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal authority; sovereign power; rule; dominion; monarchy. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Ps. cxiv. 13. When Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself.
• 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
• FORMER
  1. One who forms; a maker; a creator. A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed. A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped. A cutting die.
• ROUMANIAN
  Of or pertaining to Roumania. (more info) the country, Roumanian România, fr. Român Roumanian, L. Romanus
• FORMERET
  One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• MISINFORMER
  One who gives or incorrect information.
• INFORMER
  One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute. Common informer , one who habitually gives information of the violation of penal statutes, with a view to a prosecution
• SUBKINGDOM
  One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zoölogy, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, Coelentera, and the Protozoa; in botany, the Phanerogamia, and
• PHASING TRANSFORMER
  Any of several transformers for changing phase.
• PARALLEL TRANSFORMER
  A transformer connected in parallel.
• AUTOTRANSFORMER
  A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil.
• REFORMER
  One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin. (more info) 1. One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer
• TRANSFORMER
  One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. , an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.
• TESLA COIL; TESLA TRANSFORMER
  A transformer without iron, for high frequency alternating or oscillating currents; an oscillation transformer.
• UNDERKINGDOM
  A subordinate or dependent kingdom. Tennyson.
• PERFORMER
  One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp.