Word Meanings - ALDERMANIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Relating to, becoming to, or like, an alderman; characteristic of an alderman.
Related words: (words related to ALDERMANIC)
- CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - ALDERMANSHIP
The condition, position, or office of an alderman. Fabyan. - BECOME
happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional - 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. - 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. - RELATRIX
A female relator. - ALDERMANIC
Relating to, becoming to, or like, an alderman; characteristic of an alderman. - BECOMED
Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak. - RELATIONAL
1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris. - ALDERMANLIKE
Like or suited to an alderman. - RELATED
See 4 (more info) 1. Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree. 2. Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric - BECOMINGLY
In a becoming manner. - RELATOR
A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed. (more info) 1. One who relates; a relater. "The several relators of this history." Fuller. - ALDERMANRY
1. The district or ward of an alderman. 2. The office or rank of an alderman. B. Jonson. - CHARACTERISTICALLY
In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes. - BECOMINGNESS
The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew. - RELATER
One who relates or narrates. - ALDERMANLY
Pertaining to, or like, an alderman. - 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. - UNBECOMING
Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n. - PRELATISM
Prelacy; episcopacy. - PRELATIZE
To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey. - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. - IRRELATIVE
Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence - CORRELATIVENESS
Quality of being correlative. - UNBECOME
To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock. - IRRELATION
The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation. - PRELATEITY
Prelacy. Milton. - CORRELATE
To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor. - PRELATY
Prelacy. Milton. - UNPRELATED
Deposed from the office of prelate. - PRELATESHIP
The office of a prelate. Harmar. - MISBECOMING
Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.