Word Meanings - CINGALESE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A native or natives of Ceylon descended from its primitive inhabitants; also ,

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• PRIMITIVENESS
  The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.
• DESCEND
  To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder. But never tears his cheek descended. Byron.
• DESCENDING
  Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. Descending constellations or signs , those through which the planets descent toward the south. -- Descending node , that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing
• DESCENDENT
  Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source. More than mortal grace Speaks thee descendent of ethereal race. Pope.
• DESCENDIBILITY
  The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.
• NATIVE
  1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
• NATIVE STEEL
  A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.
• CEYLONESE
  Of or pertaining to Ceylon. -- n. sing. & pl.
• PRIMITIVE
  1. Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church. "Our primitive great sire." Milton. 2. Of or pertaining to a former time; old-fashioned;
• NATIVELY
  By natural or original condition; naturally; originally.
• NATIVENESS
  The quality or state of being native.
• PRIMITIVELY
  1. Originally; at first. 2. Primarily; not derivatively. 3. According to the original rule or ancient practice; in the ancient style. South.
• DESCENDIBLE
  1. Admitting descent; capable of being descended. 2. That may descend from an ancestor to an heir. "A descendant estate." Sir W. Jones.
• DESCENDER
  One who descends.
• DESCENDANT
  Descendent.
• DESCENDINGLY
  In a descending manner.
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• REGNATIVE
  Ruling; governing.
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
• DENOMINATIVE
  Connotative; as, a denominative name. 3. Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable. The least denominative part of time is a minute. Cocker. (more info) 1. Conferring a denomination or name.
• GLUTINATIVE
  Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.
• CONGLUTINATIVE
  Conglutinant.
• URINATIVE
  Provoking the flow of urine; uretic; diuretic. Bacon.
• EMANATIVELY
  By an emanation.
• ALTERNATIVENESS
  The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• GERMINATIVE
  Pertaining to germination; having power to bud or develop. Germinative spot, Germinative vesicle. Same as Germinal spot, Germinal vesicle, under Germinal.