Word Meanings - METALEPSIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.

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• DIFFERENTIALLY
  In the way of differentiation.
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• DIFFERENTLY
  In a different manner; variously.
• DIFFERENT
  1. Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison. 2. Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different
• SUCCESSION
  1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. 2. A series of persons or things according to
• CONTINUATION
  1. That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation. Preventing the continuation of the royal line. Macaulay. 2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries
• THROUGH
  thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece
• TROPEINE
  Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.
• TROPE
  The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of
• SUCCESSIONIST
  A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially , one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.
• DIFFERENTIA
  The formal or distinguishing part of the essence of a species; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference.
• DIFFERENTIATE
  To obtain the differential, or differential coefficient, of; as, to differentiate an algebraic expression, or an equation. (more info) 1. To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to
• THROUGHLY
  Thoroughly. Bacon. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Ps. li. 2. To dare in fields is valor; but how few Dare to be throughly valiant to be true Dryden.
• DIFFERENTIATOR
  One who, or that which, differentiates.
• UNIONISM
  1. The sentiment of attachment to a federal union, especially to the federal union of the United States. 2. The principles, or the system, of combination among workmen engaged in the same occupation or trade.
• DIFFERENTIATION
  The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination. (more info) 1. The act of differentiating. Further investigation of the Sanskrit may lead to differentiation of
• DIFFERENTIAL
  Of or pertaining to a differential, or to differentials. (more info) 1. Relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate. For whom
• SUCCESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive. "Successional teeth." Flower. -- Suc*ces"sion*al*ly, adv.
• UNIONIST
  1. One who advocates or promotes union; especially a loyal supporter of a federal union, as that of the United States. 2. A member or supporter of a trades union.
• UNION
  A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• HEMITROPE
  Half turned round; half inverted; having a twinned structure.
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• SEMATROPE
  An instrument for signaling by reflecting the rays of the sun in different directions. Knight.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• THAUMATROPE
  An optical instrument or toy for showing the presistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn. Note: It consists of a card having on its opposite faces figures of two different objects, or halves of the same object,
• NONUNIONIST
  One who does not belong, or refuses to belong, to a trades union.
• EXCOMMUNION
  . A shutting out from communion; excommunication. Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature. Milton.
• FOOTROPE
  The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse. That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.
• RHEOTROPE
  An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current.
• NONUNION
  1. Not belonging to, or affiliated with, a trades union; as, a nonunoin carpenter. 2. Not recognizing or favoring trades unions or trades-unionists; as, a nonunion contractor. --Non*un"ion*ism , n.
• DISUNIONIST
  An advocate of disunion, specifically, of disunion of the United States.
• HELIOTROPE
  An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
• ANISOTROPE; ANISOTROPIC
  Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.