Word Meanings - EPIGRAPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.

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• DECIPHERMENT
  The act of deciphering.
• ENGRAVING
  1. The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration
• ENGRAVEMENT
  1. Engraving. 2. Engraved work. Barrow.
• ENGRAVED
  Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines. (more info) 1. Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.
• ENGRAVE
  1. To cut in; to make by incision. Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh He did engrave. Spenser. 2. To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions. Like
• DECIPHER
  1. To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters. 2. To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly
• ENGRAVER
  One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.
• DECIPHERESS
  A woman who deciphers.
• ENGRAVERY
  The trade or work of an engraver. Sir T. Browne.
• DECIPHERER
  One who deciphers.
• DECIPHERABLE
  Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable.
• SCIENCE
  1. Knowledge; lnowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts. If we conceive God's or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, . . . his science or sight from all
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• OMNISCIENCE
  The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden.
• UNSCIENCE
  Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.
• ELECTRO-ENGRAVING
  The art or process of engraving by means of electricity.
• INDECIPHERABLE
  Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved. -- In`de*ci"pher*a*bly, adv.
• CONSCIENCE
  consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power,
• CONSCIENCED
  Having a conscience. "Soft-conscienced men." Shak.
• NESCIENCE
  Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.
• PHOTO-ENGRAVING
  The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture produced by such a process.
• PHOTO-ENGRAVE
  To engrave by a photomechanical process; to make a photo- engraving of. -- Pho`to-en*grav"er , n.
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
  A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system
• INSCIENCE
  Want of knowledge; ignorance.
• CONSCIENCELESS
  Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous. Conscienceless and wicked patrons. Hookre.