Word Meanings - MOONSHEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A Mohammedan professor or teacher of language.

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• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• MOHAMMEDAN ERA
  The era in use in Mohammedan countries. See Mohammedan year, below.
• MOHAMMEDANIZE; MOHAMMEDIZE
  To make conformable to the principles, or customs and rites, of Mohammedanism.
• PROFESSOR
  1. One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church. "Professors
• PROFESSORSHIP
  The office or position of a professor, or public teacher. Walton.
• MOHAMMEDAN CALENDAR
  A lunar calendar reckoning from the year of the hegira, 622 a. d. Thirty of its years constitute a cycle, of which the 2d, 5th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 21st, 24th, 26th, and 29th are leap years, having 355 days; the others are common, having
• LANGUAGE
  tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
• MOHAMMEDAN YEAR
  The year used by Mohammedans, consisting of twelve lunar months without intercalation, so that they retrograde through all the seasons in about 32½ years. The Mohammedan era begins with the year 622 a.d., the first day of the Mohammedan year 1332
• MOHAMMEDAN
  Of or pertaining to Mohammed, or the religion and institutions
• MOHAMMEDANISM; MOHAMMEDISM
  The religion, or doctrines and precepts, of Mohammed, contained in the Koran; Islamism.
• LANGUAGELESS
  Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak.
• PROFESSORIATE
  1. The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college. 2. A professorship.
• LANGUAGED
  Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope.
• PROFESSORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a professor; as, the professional chair; professional interest.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• SEA LANGUAGE
  The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
• INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
  A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.