Word Meanings - BATTUTA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The measuring of time by beating.

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• BEATIFIC; BEATIFICAL
  Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. "The beatific vision." South. -- Be`a*tif"ic*al*ly, adv.
• MEASURING
  Used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure. Measuring faucet, a faucet which permits only a given quantity of liquid to pass each time it is opened, or one by means of which the liquid which passes can be measured.
• BEATIFICATION
  The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage
• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• BEATIFICATE
  To beatify. Fuller.
• MEASURABLE
  1. Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation. 2. Moderate; temperate; not excessive. Of his diet measurable was he. Chaucer. -- Meas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Meas"ur*a*bly, adv. Yet do it measurably, as it becometh
• BEATER
  1. One who, or that which, beats. 2. A person who beats up game for the hunters. Black.
• MEASURELESS
  Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable. -- Meas"ure*less*ness, n. Syn. -- Boundless; limitless; endless; unbounded; unlimited; vast; immense; infinite; immeasurable. Where Alf, the sacred river ran, Through canyons measureless to man, Down to
• BEATIFY
  To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of "the blessed" and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized. (more info) 1. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring
• MEASURE
  The space between two bars. See Beat, Triple, Quadruple, Sextuple, Compound time, under Compound, a., and Figure. The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic
• BEATITUDE
  Beatification. Milman. Syn. -- Blessedness; felicity; happiness. (more info) 1. Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss. 2. Any one of the nine declarations , made in the Sermon on the Mount , with regard to the blessedness of those who
• BEATEN
  1. Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. "A broad and beaten way." Milton. "Beaten gold." Shak. 2. Vanquished; conquered; baffled. 3. Exhausted; tired out. 4. Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. 5. Tried; practiced. Beau.
• MEASURED
  Regulated or determined by a standard; hence, equal; uniform; graduated; limited; moderated; as, he walked with measured steps; he expressed himself in no measured terms. -- Meas"ured*ly, adv.
• BEATING
  Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n. (more info) 1. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows. 2. Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.
• BEAT
  To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc. To beat down, to haggle with to secure a lower
• MEASUREMENT
  1. The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required. 2. The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.
• BEATH
  To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood. Spenser.
• DRUMBEAT
  The sound of a beaten drum; drum music. Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. D. Webster.
• WINTER-BEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• IMMEASURABLY
  In an immeasurable manner or degree. "Immeasurably distant." Wordsworth.
• TRABEATED
  Furnished with an entablature.
• IMMEASURED
  Immeasurable. Spenser.
• DEADBEAT
  Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.
• ADMEASURE
  To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. 2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. (more info) 1. To measure.
• CHALYBEATE
  Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs.
• TRABEATION
  See ENTABLATURE
• REMEASURE
  To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax.
• OUTMEASURE
  To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than. Sir T. Browne.
• BROWBEATING
  The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, suspercilious manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeating and scorn of great men. L'Estrange.
• WATER MEASURE
  A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel. Cowell.
• OVERMEASURE
  To measure or estimate too largely.