Word Meanings - APPELLATIVELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.

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• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• APPELLATIVENESS
  The quality of being appellative. Fuller.
• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• STRONGYLOID
  Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.
• COMMONISH
  Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• HERCULES
  A hero, fabled to have been the son of Jupiter and Alcmena, and celebrated for great strength, esp. for the accomplishment of his twelve great tasks or "labors."
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• COMMONWEALTH
  Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;
• STRONGYLID
  Strongyloid.
• AFTER DAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• AFTER-NOTE
  One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
• COMMON
  1. To converse together; to discourse; to confer. Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of. Grafton. 2. To participate. Sir T. More. 3. To have a joint right with others in common ground. Johnson. 4.
• EXPRESSURE
  The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• INTERCOMMON
  To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• INEXPRESSIBLY
  In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.