Word Meanings - POST-TEMPORAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes. -- n.
Related words: (words related to POST-TEMPORAL)
- APPLICABLE
Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv. - TEMPORALNESS
Worldliness. Cotgrave. - APPLICATIVE
Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv. - APPLICANCY
The quality or state of being applicable. - TEMPORAL
Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural. Dryden. He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor or temporals. Lowell. - APPLICABILITY
The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied. - TEMPORALTY
1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality. - SITUATE
To place. Landor. - APPLICATORILY
By way of application. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - PECTORALLY
As connected with the breast. - SKULLFISH
A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old. - SITUATE; SITUATED
1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - TEMPORALITY
1. The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity. 2. The laity; temporality. Sir T. More. 3. That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from - APPLICATE
Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of - SKULLCAP
Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised. (more info) 1. A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a - APPLICATION
1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the - ESPECIALLY
In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree. - REGIONAL
Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional. - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - REAPPLICATION
The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied. - PHOTIC REGION
The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light. - INAPPLICABILITY
The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness. - PECTORAL
Having the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral sandpiper. Pectoral arch, or Pectoral girdle , the two or more bony or cartilaginous pieces of the vertebrate skeleton to which the fore limbs are articulated; the shoulder girdle. In man - THICK-SKULLED
Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn. - NUMSKULL
A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.