Word Meanings - ORIENTALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to Oriental people. 2. Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history, literature, etc. London Quart. Rev.

Related words: (words related to ORIENTALISM)

• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• QUARTZITE
  Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; -- called also quartz rock.
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• QUARTENE
  See BUTYLENE
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• LONDONISM
  A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.
• QUARTER ROUND
  An ovolo.
• QUARTENYLIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic acid series, metameric with crotonic acid, and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- so called from having four carbon atoms in the molecule. Called also isocrotonic acid.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• CUSTOM
  Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without
• SYSTEMLESS
  Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
• SYSTEMIZATION
  The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
• SYSTEMATISM
  The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.
• QUARTERON; QUARTEROON
  A quadroon.
• QUARTERON
  A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred. Piers Plowman.
• SYSTEMATIST
  1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. 2. One who adheres to a system.
• QUARTAN
  Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.
• QUARTZOID
  A form of crystal common with quartz, consisting of two six- sided pyramids, base to base.
• LONDONIZE
  To impart to a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.
• QUARTZOUS
  Quarzose.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• BERTILLON SYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
  The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• WISDOM LITERATURE
  The class of ancient Hebrew writings which deal reflectively with general ethical and religious topics, as distinguished from the prophetic and liturgical literature, and from the law. It is comprised chiefly in the books of Job, Proverbs,
• DISACCUSTOM
  To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.