Word Meanings - POSSESSIONARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.

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• ARISTATE
  Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• ARISTARCH
  A severe critic. Knowles.
• ARISTARCHIAN
  Severely critical.
• ARISTOTELIANISM
  The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy.
• ARISTOCRAT
  1. One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble. 2. One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person. A born aristocrat, bred radical. Mrs. Browning. 3. One who favors
• POSSESSIONARY
  Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
• ARISTOTELIAN
  Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher -- n.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• ARISTA
  An awn. Gray.
• ARISTOTYPE
  Orig., a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made.
• ARISTOLOGY
  The science of dining. Quart. Rev.
• ARIST
  of Arise, for ariseth. Chaucer.
• ARISTOTLE'S LANTERN
  The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.
• POSSESSION
  The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful. Note: Possession may be either actual or constructive; actual, when a party has the immediate occupancy;
• ARISTOCRACY
  meant fitting: cf. F. aristocratie. See Arm, and Create, which is related to Gr. 1. Government by the best citizens. 2. A ruling body composed of the best citizens. In the Senate Right not our quest in this, I will protest them To all the world,
• ARISTARCHY
  Severely criticism.
• ARISTOCRATIC; ARISTOCRATICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to an aristocracy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men; as, an aristocratic constitution. 2. Partaking of aristocracy; befitting aristocracy; characteristic of, or originating with,
• ARISTOTELIC
  Pertaining to Aristotle or to his philosophy. "Aristotelic usage." Sir W. Hamilton.
• ARISE
  1. To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the
• IMPARISYLLABIC
  Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.
• PANDARISM
  See SWIFT
• PARISYLLABIC; PARISYLLABICAL
  Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.
• CELLARIST
  See CELLARER
• GARGARISM
  A gargle.
• CITHARISTIC
  Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara.
• CESARISM
  See CæSARISM
• CLARISONUS
  Having a clear sound. Ash.
• ALTARIST
  A chaplain. A vicar of a church.
• SEMINARIAN; SEMINARIST
  A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.
• VOLUNTARISM
  Any theory which conceives will to be the dominant factor in experience or in the constitution of the world; -- contrasted with intellectualism. Schopenhauer and Fichte are typical exponents of the two types of metaphysical voluntarism, Schopenhauer
• TAMARISK
  Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species is the source of one kind of manna. Tamarisk salt tree, an East Indian tree
• WARISON
  1. Preparation; protection; provision; supply. 2. Reward; requital; guerdon. Wit and wisdom is good warysoun. Proverbs of Hending.
• POLARISCOPY
  The art or rocess of making observations with the polariscope.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.