Word Meanings - PETRIFIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Petrifying; petrifactive. Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry. Milton.

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• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• PETRIFICATION
  1. See Petrifaction. 2. Fig.: Obduracy; callousness. Hallywell.
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• DEATHWARD
  Toward death.
• PETRIFIC
  Petrifying; petrifactive. Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry. Milton.
• DEATH
  Loss of spiritual life. To be death. Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death
• DEATHFULNESS
  Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.
• DEATH'S-HERB
  The deadly nightshade . Dr. Prior.
• DEATHBED
  The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• PETRIFACTIVE
  1. Having the quality of converting organic matter into stone; petrifying. 2. Pertaining to, or characterized by, petrifaction. The . . . petrifactive mutations of hard bodies. Sir T. Browne.
• DEATHLESS
  Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
• DEATHSMAN
  An executioner; a headsman or hangman. Shak.
• PETRIFICATE
  To petrify. Our hearts petrificated were. J. Hall .
• DEATHBLOW
  A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys. The deathblow of my hope. Byron.
• DEATHFUL
  1. Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody. These eyes behold The deathful scene. Pope. 2. Liable to undergo death; mortal. The deathless gods and deathful earth. Chapman.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• PETRIFY
  1. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. Kirwan. 2. To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.