Word Meanings - CENTILOQUY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A work divided into a hundred parts. Burton.

Related words: (words related to CENTILOQUY)

• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• DIVIDUOUS
  Divided; dividual. He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge.
• DIVIDEDLY
  Separately; in a divided manner.
• HUNDREDER
  A person competent to serve on a jury, in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs. 3. One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred. Blount. Cowell. (more info) 1. An inhabitant or freeholder of
• DIVIDINGLY
  By division.
• DIVIDED
  Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; - - said of a leaf. (more info) 1. Parted; disunited; distributed.
• DIVIDUALLY
  By dividing.
• DIVIDUAL
  Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. Milton.
• DIVIDANT
  Different; distinct. Shak.
• DIVIDING
  That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating. Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars ; also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker. . See under Sinker.
• BURTON
  A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended of a hook block in the bight of the running part.
• DIVIDE
  To subject to arithmetical division. (more info) cf. Skr. vyadh to pierce; perh. akin to L. vidua widow, and E. widow. 1. To part asunder ; to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. Divide the living child in
• DIVIDABLE
  1. Capable of being divided; divisible. 2. Divided; separated; parted. Shak.
• HUNDRED
  hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga-ra to count, L. ratio reckoning, account; akin to OS. hunderod, hund, D. hondred, G. hundert, OHG. also hunt, Icel. hundra, Dan. hundrede, Sw. hundra, hundrade, Goth. hund, Lith. szimtas, Russ. sto, W. cant,
• DIVIDENT
  Dividend; share. Foxe.
• HUNDREDTH
  1. Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units. 2. Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth.
• HUNDREDWEIGHT
  A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds
• HUNDREDFOLD
  A hundred times as much or as many. He shall receive as hundredfold now in this time. Mark x. 30.
• SUBINDIVIDUAL
  A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
• INDIVIDUALIZER
  One who individualizes.
• SUBDIVIDE
  To divide the parts of into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden.
• REDIVIDE
  To divide anew.
• UNDIVIDUAL
  Indivisible. True courage and courtesy are undividual companions. Fuller.
• MISDIVIDE
  To divide wrongly.
• INDIVIDUATE
  Undivided.
• INDIVIDUATOR
  One who, or that which, individuates. Sir K. Digby.
• INDIVIDABLE
  Indivisible. Shak.
• THUNDROUS
  Thunderous; sonorous. "Scraps of thunderous epic." Tennyson.