Word Meanings - CONCINNITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse. An exact concinnity and eveness of fancy. Howell.

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• HOWELL
  The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• FITNESS
  The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
• 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
• EXACTLY
  In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
• EXACTION
  1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion. Take away your exactions from my
• CONCINNITY
  Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse. An exact concinnity and eveness of fancy. Howell.
• FANCYWORK
  Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.
• DISCOURSE
  fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
• FANCYMONGER
  A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. Shak.
• INTERNALLY
  1. Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface. 2. Hence: Mentally; spiritually. Jer. Taylor.
• DISCOURSER
  1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
• FANCY
  fantaisie, F. fantaisie, L. phantasia, fr. Gr. bhato shine. Cf. 1. The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the
• EXACT
  drive out, to demand, enforce, finish, determine, measure; ex out + 1. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps
• EXACTRESS
  A woman who is an exactor. B. Jonson.
• ADAPTATION
  1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine. 2. The result of adapting; an adapted form.
• INTERNALITY
  The state of being internal or within; interiority.
• FANCY-SICK
  Love-sick. Shak.
• HARMONY
  See STRAIN (more info) 1. The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between
• 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
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• SURSTYLE
  To surname.
• AMPHIPROSTYLE
  Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.
• INSTYLE
  To style. Crashaw.
• ENDOSTYLE
  A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
• DISFANCY
  To dislike.
• INCONCINNITY
  Want of concinnity or congruousness; unsuitableness. There is an inconcinnity in admitting these words. Trench.
• INFANCY
  The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority. (more info) 1. The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood. The babe yet lies in smiling infancy. Milton. Their
• DODECASTYLE
  Having twelve columns in front. -- n.