Word Meanings - CASUALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance.

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• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• EXIST
  exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand 1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• EXISTER
  One who exists.
• EXISTIBLE
  Capable of existence. Grew.
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• CHANCEFUL
  Hazardous. Spenser.
• CHANCE
  Probability. Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance,
• EXISTENT
  Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place. The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent. Dryden.
• CHANCELLORSHIP
  The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
• CHANCEL
  lattices, crossbars. (The chancel was formerly inclosed with lattices That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed. Hence, in modern use; All that part of a cruciform church which is
• CHANCEABLY
  By chance.
• CONTROLLABLE
  Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South.
• CHANCERY
  1. In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now
• CONTROLLER
  An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, controls
• EXISTIMATION
  Esteem; opinion; reputation. Steele.
• EXISTENCY
  Existence. Sir M. Hale.
• CHANCELLOR
  A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction. Note: The chancellor was originally a chief scribe or secretary under the Roman emperors, but afterward was invested with
• EXISTENTIAL
  Having existence. Bp. Barlow. --Ex`is*ten"tial*ly, adv. Existentially as well as essentially intelligent. Colerige.
• CHANCE-MEDLEY
  The kiling of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley. Note: The term has been sometimes applied to any kind of homicide by misadventure, or to any accidental killing of a person without premeditation
• POSTEXIST
  To exist after; to live subsequently.
• NONEXISTENCE
  1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne.
• SELF-EXISTENT
  Existing of or by himself,independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being.
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• NONEXISTENT
  Not having existence.
• PERCHANCE
  By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
• COEXIST
  To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with. Of substances no one has any clear idea, farther than of certain simple ideas coexisting together. Locke. So much purity and integrity . . . coexisting with so much decay and so
• COEXISTENT
  Existing at the same time with another. -- n.
• UNCONTROLLABLE
  1. Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events. 2. Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable title. Swift. -- Un`con*trol"la*ble*ness,
• MISCHANCE
  Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak. Syn. -- Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity; disaster. See Calamity.
• BECHANCE
  By chance; by accident. Grafton.