Word Meanings - PILLARED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars. "The pillared arches." Sir W. Scott. "Pillared flame." Thomson.

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• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• PILLARED
  Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars. "The pillared arches." Sir W. Scott. "Pillared flame." Thomson.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• PILLAR
  A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church. Skelton. (more info) 1. The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or
• THOMSONIANISM
  An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.
• ARCHES
  pl. of Arch, n. Court of arches, or Arches Court , the court of appeal of the Archbishop of Canterbury, whereof the judge, who sits as deputy to the archbishop, is called the Dean of the Arches, because he anciently held his court in the church
• FLAMELET
  A small flame. The flamelets gleamed and flickered. Longfellow.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• PILLAR-BLOCK
  See PILLOW
• FLAMEN
  A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis. Affrights
• ORNAMENTER
  One who ornaments; a decorator.
• SUPPORTER
  A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
• SUPPORT
  1. The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining. 2. That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind. 3. That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling,
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• ORNAMENTALLY
  By way of ornament.
• PAPILLARY
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillæ; bearing, or covered with, papillæ; papillose.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
  The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
• DISINFLAME
  To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.
• INFLAMED
  Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
• MONARCHESS
  A female monarch.
• CAPILLARITY
  The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid , is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction. Note: Capillarity depends upon the relative attaction of the modecules of the liquid for each other and
• INSUPPORTABLE
  Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• UNSUPPORTABLE
  Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• PAPILLAR
  See PAPILLOSE