Word Meanings - INFALLIBILITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The quality or state of being infallible, or exempt from error; inerrability. Infallibility is the highest perfection of the knowing faculty. Tillotson. Papal infallibility , the dogma that the pope can not, when acting in his official character
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The quality or state of being infallible, or exempt from error; inerrability. Infallibility is the highest perfection of the knowing faculty. Tillotson. Papal infallibility , the dogma that the pope can not, when acting in his official character of supreme pontiff, err in defining a doctrine of Christian faith or rule of morals, to be held by the church. This was decreed by the Ecumenical Council at the Vatican, July 18, 1870.
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- BELLMAN
A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton. - ACTURE
Action. Shak. - BESCRATCH
To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches. - ACTURIENCE
Tendency or impulse to act. Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote. - BELIAL
An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil. What concord hath Christ with Belia 2 Cor. vi. 15. A son of Belial, a worthless, wicked, or thoroughly depraved person. 1 Sam. ii. 12. - BEASTLIHEAD
Beastliness. Spenser. - BEWRAP
To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax. - ACTINOLITE
A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses. - BERGOMASK
A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness. - ACTINOSTOME
The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal. - BEVELMENT
The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes. - BELEAVE
To leave or to be left. May. - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - BETSO
A small brass Venetian coin. - CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - KNOWINGLY
1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak. - BESCORN
To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer. - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - BECHE DE MER
The trepang. - BELLADONNA
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1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave. - GABBER
1. A liar; a deceiver. 2. One addicted to idle talk. - SELF-ACTIVE
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents. - HAIRBELL
See HAREBELL - ORBED
Having the form of an orb; round. The orbèd eyelids are let down. Trench. - HEMIDACTYL
Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath. - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - PHYLACTERED
Wearing a phylactery. - LAMBERT PINE
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A kind of ornamental firework. Farrow. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - GABELER
A collector of gabels or taxes.