Word Meanings - LAODICEAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Laodicea, a city in Phrygia Major; like the Christians of Laodicea; lukewarm in religion. Rev. iii. 14-16.

Related words: (words related to LAODICEAN)

• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• MAJORSHIP
  The office of major.
• MAJORATION
  Increase; enlargement. Bacon.
• RELIGION
  A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion. Trench. A good man was there of religion. Chaucer. 4. Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined
• RELIGIONISM
  1. The practice of, or devotion to, religion. 2. Affectation or pretense of religion.
• PHRYGIAN CAP
  A close-fitting cap represented in Greek art as worn by Orientals, assumed to have been conical in shape. It has been adopted in modern art as the so-called liberty cap, or cap of liberty.
• MAJORCAN
  Of or pertaining to Majorca. -- n.
• 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
• MAJOR
  Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone. Major axis , the greater axis. See Focus, n., 2. -- Major key , a key in which one and two, two and three, four and five, five and six and seven, make major
• MAJORAT
  Property, landed or funded, so attached to a title of honor as to descend with it. (more info) 1. The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.
• MAJOR-DOMO
  A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer.
• RELIGIONIZE
  To bring under the influence of religion. Mallock.
• LAODICEAN
  Of or pertaining to Laodicea, a city in Phrygia Major; like the Christians of Laodicea; lukewarm in religion. Rev. iii. 14-16.
• RELIGIONLESS
  Destitute of religion.
• PHRYGIAN
  Of or pertaining to Phrygia, or to its inhabitants. Phrygian mode , one of the ancient Greek modes, very bold and vehement in style; -- so called because fabled to have been invented by the Phrygian Marsyas. Moore . -- Phrygian stone, a light,
• MAJORITY
  Ancestors; ancestry. 4. The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as,
• RELIGIONARY; RELIGIONER
  A religionist.
• RELIGIONIST
  One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious zealot. The chief actors on one side were, and were to be, the Puritan religionists. Palfrey. It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodoreligionists, was to be scourged
• RELIGIONARY
  Relating to religion; pious; as, religionary professions.
• MAJORATE
  The office or rank of a major.
• CORRELIGIONIST
  A co-religion
• AID-MAJOR
  The adjutant of a regiment.
• VIS MAJOR
  A superior force which under certain circumstances is held to exempt from contract obligations; inevitable accident; -- a civil-law term used as nearly equivalent to, but broader than, the common-law term act of God .
• DRUM MAJOR
  . 1. The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers. 2. The marching leader of a military band. 3. A noisy gathering. See under Drum, n.,
• TIERCE-MAJOR
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