Word Meanings - IMITATIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or employed in, imitation; as, imitational propensities.

Related words: (words related to IMITATIONAL)

• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• IMITATION
  One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon.
• EMPLOYMENT
  1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. 2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments;
• EMPLOYEE
  One employed by another.
• EMPLOYE
  One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.
• IMITATIONAL
  Pertaining to, or employed in, imitation; as, imitational propensities.
• EMPLOYABLE
  Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle.
• EMPLOY
  implicate, engage; in + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Imply, 1. To inclose; to infold. Chaucer. 2. To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as:
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• UNEMPLOYED
  1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• PREEMPLOY
  To employ beforehand. "Preëmployed by him." Shak.
• DISEMPLOYMENT
  The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.
• ILLIMITATION
  State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.
• MISEMPLOYMENT
  Wrong or mistaken employment. Johnson.
• LIMITATION
  1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible
• DISEMPLOY
  To throw out of employment. Jer. Taylor.
• NONLIMITATION
  Want of limitation; failure to limit.
• MISEMPLOY
  To employ amiss; as, to misemploy time, advantages, talents, etc. Their frugal father's gains they misemploy. Dryden.