Word Meanings - ARISTOTELIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to Aristotle or to his philosophy. "Aristotelic usage." Sir W. Hamilton.

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• PHILOSOPHY
  1. Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws. Note: When applied to any particular department of knowledge,
• USAGE
  1. The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage. My brother Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands He hath good usage and great liberty. Shak.
• 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
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• ARISTOTLE'S LANTERN
  The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.
• USAGER
  One who has the use of anything in trust for another. Daniel.
• ARISTOTELIC
  Pertaining to Aristotle or to his philosophy. "Aristotelic usage." Sir W. Hamilton.
• HOUSAGE
  A fee for keeping goods in a house. Chambers.
• DISUSAGE
  Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse. Hooker.
• SPOUSAGE
  Espousal. Bale.
• ESPOUSAGE
  Espousal. Latimer.
• MISUSAGE
  Bad treatment; abuse. Spenser.
• PHYSICO-PHILOSOPHY
  The philosophy of nature.
• SAUSAGE
  1. An article of food consisting of meat minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal. 2. A saucisson. See Saucisson. Wilhelm.
• UNUSAGE
  Want or lack of usage. Chaucer.
• SUPERPLUSAGE
  Surplusage. "There yet remained a superplusage." Bp. Fell.
• ABUSAGE
  Abuse. Whately .
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach
• SURPLUSAGE
  Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected. (more info) 1. Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. Take what thou please of all this surplusage. Spenser.