Word Meanings - MATERIALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In the state of matter. I do not mean that anything is separable from a body by fire that was not materially preëxistent in it. Boyle. 2. In its essence; substantially. An ill intention is certainly sufficient to spoil . . . an act in itself

Additional info about word: MATERIALLY

1. In the state of matter. I do not mean that anything is separable from a body by fire that was not materially preëxistent in it. Boyle. 2. In its essence; substantially. An ill intention is certainly sufficient to spoil . . . an act in itself materially good. South. 3. In an important manner or degree; essentaily; as, it materially concern us to know the real motives of our actions.

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• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• BOYLE'S LAW
  See LAW
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• STATECRAFT
  The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
• SPOIL
  1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of
• INTENTIONAL
  Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental.
• STATESWOMAN
  A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
• STATESMANLY
  Becoming a statesman.
• STATESMAN
  1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light
• SPOILER
  1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
• SPOILSMAN
  One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public
• SPOILABLE
  Capable of being spoiled.
• SEPARABLE
  Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist. -- Sep"a*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Sep"a*ra*bly, adv. Trials permit me not to doubt of the
• STATEDLY
  At stated times; regularly.
• MATTERLESS
  1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
• STATELESS
  Without state or pomp.
• INTENTIONALLY
  In an intentional manner; with intention; by design; of purpose.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• ARISTATE
  Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
• BICOSTATE
  Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
• TRIPLICOSTATE
  Three-ribbed.
• DEHONESTATE
  To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
• DEVASTATE
  To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay. Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.
• SELF-EXISTENT
  Existing of or by himself,independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being.
• APOSTATE
  One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. (more info) 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a
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