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Word Meanings - EDUCATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.

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  • TENDER
    A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
  • EXPERIENCED
    Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
  • TENDERLY
    In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
  • PROCESSIVE
    Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
  • GIVES
    Fetters.
  • TENDANCE
    1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • TENDERNESS
    The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
  • EDUCATIONIST
    One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.
  • EDUCATION
    The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education
  • TENDRESSE
    Tender feeling; fondness.
  • TENDON
    A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex , a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally
  • PROCESSIONARY
    Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
  • TENDRILED; TENDRILLED
    Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey.
  • TENDRIL
    A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally. Note: Tendrils may represent the end of a stem, as in the grapevine; an axillary branch, as
  • TENDER-HEARTED
    Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n. Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7.
  • EDUCATIVE
    Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.
  • TENDRON
    A tendril. Holland.
  • TEND
    To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
  • TENDRE
    Tender feeling or fondness; affection. You poor friendless creatures are always having some foolish tendre. Thackeray.
  • INTENDENT
    See N
  • ACID PROCESS
    That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
  • CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
    The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.
  • INTENDIMENT
    Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.
  • OBTEND
    1. To oppose; to hold out in opposition. Dryden. 2. To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend. Dryden
  • MISEDUCATE
    To educate in a wrong manner.
  • EXTENDLESSNESS
    Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
  • BARREL PROCESS
    A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
  • ENTEND
    To attend to; to apply one's self to. Chaucer.
  • PRETENDER
    The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
  • PRETENDANT
    A pretender; a claimant.

 

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