Word Meanings - BELATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To retard or make too late. Davenant.
Related words: (words related to BELATE)
- RETARDATION
The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards. 4. The extent to which anything - RETARDATIVE
Tending, or serving, to retard. - RETARDMENT
The act of retarding; retardation. Cowley. - RETARDER
One who, or that which, retards. - RETARD
1. To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to Ant: accelerate. 2. To put