Word Meanings - COMPELLATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Style of address or salutation; an appellation. "Metaphorical compellations." Milton. He useth this endearing compellation, "My little children." Bp. Beveridge. The peculiar compellation of the kings in France is by "Sire," which is nothing else
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Style of address or salutation; an appellation. "Metaphorical compellations." Milton. He useth this endearing compellation, "My little children." Bp. Beveridge. The peculiar compellation of the kings in France is by "Sire," which is nothing else but father. Sir W. Temple.
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- PECULIARIZE
To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith. - NOTHINGNESS
1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value. - STYLET
A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape - LITTLENESS
The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness. - PECULIARNESS
The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede. - ENDEAR
1. To make dear or beloved. "To be endeared to a king." Shak. 2. To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive. King James I. . - ADDRESS
To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - ENDEAREDNESS
State of being endeared. - COMPELLATION
Style of address or salutation; an appellation. "Metaphorical compellations." Milton. He useth this endearing compellation, "My little children." Bp. Beveridge. The peculiar compellation of the kings in France is by "Sire," which is nothing else - PECULIARLY
In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually. - PECULIAR
1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - LITTLE-EASE
An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer. - APPELLATION
1. The act of appealing; appeal. Spenser. 2. The act of calling by a name. 3. The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation. They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates. - ENDEAREDLY
With affection or endearment; dearly. - NOTHINGARIAN
One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect. - KINGSHIP
The state, office, or dignity of a king; royalty. Landor. - KINGSTON VALVE
A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line. - CHILDREN
pl. of Child. - ARAEOSTYLE
See INTERCOLUMNIATION - CYCLOSTYLE
A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred - MONOTHALAMAN
A foraminifer having but one chamber. - MONOTHALMIC
Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - SURSTYLE
To surname. - AMPHIPROSTYLE
Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n. - INSTYLE
To style. Crashaw. - AGONOTHETE
An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece. - ENDOSTYLE
A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata. - KNOW-NOTHING
A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The - DO-LITTLE
One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson. - DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw. - NEGINOTH
Stringed instruments. Dr. W. Smith. To the chief musician on Neginoth. Ps. iv. 9heading).