Word Meanings - ACCELERATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening. Reid.
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- ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
A foolish or dull-witted fellow. - ADDUCT
To draw towards a common center or a middle line. Huxley. - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - ADDUCTION
The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its (more info) 1. The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor. - ADDITIVE
Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive. - ADDOOM
To adjudge. Spenser. - ADDUCIBLE
Capable of being adduced. Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible. I. Taylor. - QUICKEN
1. To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb. The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. Ray. And keener lightnings quicken in her - ADDER'S-TONGUE
A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray. - ADDUCE
To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. - ADDITION
That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase; - ADDITIONALLY
By way of addition. - ADDERWORT
The common bistort or snakeweed . - RELATIVELY
In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts. - ADDITAMENT
An addition, or a thing added. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge. - ADDUCTOR
A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose. In the bivalve shells, the muscles - ADDLINGS
Earnings. Wright. - RELATE
1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy - RELATIVITY
The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge. - ADDABLE
Addible. - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - HADDOCK
A marine food fish , allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine - SADDER
See SADDA - SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
The tenets of the Sadducees. - ENQUICKEN
To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More. - SIDESADDLE
A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia. - RADDE
imp. of Read, Rede. Chaucer. - SPADDLE
A little spade. - PRELATISM
Prelacy; episcopacy. - PRELATIZE
To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey. - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. - WADDYWOOD
An Australian tree ; also, its wood, used in making waddies. - SWADDLE
Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison. - PADDLER
One who, or that which, paddles. - GADDISH
Disposed to gad. -- Gad"dish*nes, n. "Gaddishness and folly." Abp. Leighton. - UNSADDLE
1. To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from, as a horse. 2. To throw from the saddle; to unhorse.