Word Meanings - AGATIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To convert into agate; to make resemble agate. Dana.

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• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• CONVERTIBLY
  In a convertible manner.
• CONVERTIBLE
  1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
• CONVERTEND
  Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. .
• CONVERTIBLENESS
  The state of being convertible; convertibility.
• CONVERTER
  A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal. (more info) 1. One who converts; one who makes converts.
• AGATE
  On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate. Cotgrave.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• CONVERT
  To change into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. 8. To turn into another language; to translate. Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted. B. Jonson. Converted guns, cast-iron guns
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• CONVERTITE
  A convert. Shak.
• GAGATE
  Agate. Fuller.
• INCONVERTED
  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• UNCONVERTED
  1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.
• RUNAGATE
  A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade. Bunyan. Wretched runagates from the jail. De Quincey. Who has not been a runagate from duty Hare.
• REFRAGATE
  To oppose. Glanvill.
• PHASE CONVERTER
  A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.
• INCONVERTIBLE
  Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
• INCONVERTIBLENESS
  Inconvertibility.
• INTERCONVERTIBLE
  Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible.
• INCONVERTIBLY
  In an inconvertible manner.
• PLAGATE
  Having plagæ, or irregular enlongated color spots.
• PROPAGATE
  akin to propages, propago, a layer of a plant, slip, shoot. See Pro-, 1. To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species
• RECONVERT
  To convert again. Milton.
• INCONVERTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being inconvertible; not capable of being exchanged for, or converted into, something else; as, the inconvertibility of an irredeemable currency, or of lead, into gold.
• INDAGATE
  To seek or search out.