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Word Meanings - CHRONIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Relating to time; according to time. 2. Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual. Chronic disease, one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.

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  • CHRONICLE
    The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings. Syn. - Register; record; annals. See History. (more info) 1. An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time. 2. A narrative of
  • INGRAIN
    1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
  • CHRONIC
    1. Relating to time; according to time. 2. Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual. Chronic disease, one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.
  • CONFIRMEDLY
    With confirmation.
  • CONFIRMEE
    One to whom anuthing is confirmed.
  • INCARNATE
    Not in the flesh; spiritual. I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do. Richardson.
  • INVETERATE
    1. Old; long-established. It is an inveterate and received opinion. Bacon. 2. Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse. Heal the inveterate canker of one wound.
  • CONFIRMEDNESS
    A fixed state.
  • HABITUAL
    1. Formed or acquired by habit or use. An habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims. South. 2. According to habit; established by habit; customary; constant; as, the habiual practice of sin. It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety
  • CONFIRMER
    One who, or that which, confirms, establishes, or ratifies; one who corroborates. Shak.
  • INVETERATELY
    In an inveterate manner or degree. "Inveterately tough." Hawthorne.
  • CONFIRM
    To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3. Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament. Hammond. Syn. -- To strengthen; corroborate; substantiate; establish; fix; ratify; settle;
  • CONFIRMABLE
    That may be confirmed.
  • CONFIRMATION
    A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc. This ordinance is called confirmation, because
  • CONFIRMATORY
    Serving to confirm; corroborative. A fact confirmatory of the conclusion. I. Taylor. 2. Pertaining to the rite of confirmation. Compton.
  • CONFIRMATIVE
    Tending confirm or establish. Sherwood. -- Con*firm"a*tive*ly, adv.
  • CONFIRMANCE
    Confirmation.
  • INVETERATENESS
    Inveteracy. Sir T. Browne.
  • CHRONICLER
    A writer of a chronicle; a recorder of events in the order of time; an historian. Such an honest chronicler as Griffith. Shak.
  • CONFIRMINGLY
    In a confirming manner.
  • ACHRONIC
    See ACRONYC
  • ANTICHRONICAL
    Deviating from the proper order of time. -- An`ti*chron"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • MONOCHRONIC
    Existing at the same time; contemporaneous.
  • RECONFIRM
    To confirm anew. Clarendon.

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