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Word Meanings - DOMINANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power. The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel.

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Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power. The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel. Macaulay. Dominant estate or tenement , the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement. Bouvier. Wharton's Law Dict. -- Dominant owner , one who owns lands on which there is an easement owned by another. Syn. -- Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant; ascendant.

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  • INDECOMPOSABLENESS
    Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
  • INDECOROUSNESS
    The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
  • INDESERT
    Ill desert. Addison.
  • INDEVOTE
    Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
  • CHURCHLINESS
    Regard for the church.
  • INDECENCY
    1. The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity. 2. That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy. They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or the
  • SPIRITUOUS
    1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
  • INDEXICAL
    Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.
  • CHURCHLIKE
    Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
  • INDEFICIENCY
    The state or quality of not being deficient. Strype.
  • INDEFATIGABLY
    Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently. Dryden.
  • INDEBT
    To bring into debt; to place under obligation; -- chiefly used in the participle indebted. Thy fortune hath indebted thee to none. Daniel.
  • SUBJECTION
    1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government
  • PARTY
    1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
  • SUBJECTIST
    One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
  • INDEFECTIBLE
    Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke.
  • SUBJECTNESS
    Quality of being subject.
  • INDEPENDENCY
    Doctrine and polity of the Independents. (more info) 1. Independence. "Give me," I cried , "My bread, and independency!" Pope.
  • POWERFUL
    Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
  • INDEMNITY
    1. Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty. Having first obtained a promise of indemnity for the riot they had committed. Sir W. Scott. 2.
  • PUBLIC-SPIRITED
    1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
  • EARTHLY-MINDED
    Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • OVERRULING
    Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv.
  • EVENMINDED
    Having equanimity.
  • MISGOVERNED
    Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
  • FERULIC
    Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida ; as, ferulic acid.
  • CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
    Grossness of mind.
  • CHONDRULE
    A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.
  • MISREMEMBER
    To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.

 

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