Word Meanings - ADVERBIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.
Related words: (words related to ADVERBIAL)
- ADVERBIALITY
The quality of being adverbial. Earle. - ADVERBIALIZE
To give the force or form of an adverb to. - ADVERB
A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white. - 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 - PHRASEOLOGIST
A collector or coiner of phrases. - PHRASELESS
Indescribable. Shak. - NATURED
Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc. - NATURELESS
Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton. - ADVERBIAL
Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form. - ADVERBIALLY
In the manner of an adverb. - PHRASEOGRAM
A symbol for a phrase. - NATURE
1. The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay. 2. The personified sum and order - PHRASEOLOGY
1. Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style. Most completely national in his . . . phraseology. I. Taylor. 2. A collection of phrases; a phrase book. Syn. -- Diction; style. See Diction. - PHRASE
A short clause or portion of a period. Note: A composition consists first of sentences, or periods; these are subdivided into sections, and these into phrases. Phrase book, a book of idiomatic phrases. J. S. Blackie. (more info) 1. A - PHRASEOLOGIC; PHRASEOLOGICAL
Of or pertaining to phraseology; consisting of a peculiar form of words. "This verbal or phraseological answer." Bp. Pearson. - UNNATURE
To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney. - DEMINATURED
Having half the nature of another. Shak. - TIME SIGNATURE
A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as - ORNATURE
Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed. - CONSIGNATURE
Joint signature. Colgrave. - PERIPHRASE
The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution. "To describe by enigmatic periphrases." De Quincey. - METAPHRASE
paraphrase; meta` beyond, over + fra`zein to speak: cf. F. 1. A verbal translation; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase. Dryden. 2. An answering phrase; repartee. Mrs. Browning. - TRANSNATURE
To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel. - DENATURE
To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of. - SIGNATURE
An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated. Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use. Dr. H. More. (more info) 1. A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal. The brain, being well - PARAPHRASER
One who paraphrases. - METAPHRASED
Translated literally. - DISNATURED
Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. Shak. - PARAPHRASE
A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation