Word Meanings - PRELUSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of the nature of a prelude; introductory; indicating that something of a like kind is to follow. "Prelusive drops." Thomson. -- Pre*lu"sive*ly, adv.
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- PRELUDE
An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with - PRELUDER
One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason. - DROPSICAL
1. Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient. 2. Of or pertaining to dropsy. - DROPSICALNESS
State of being dropsical. - FOLLOWING EDGE
See ABOVE - INDICATOR
A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part; as: An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at - INDICATIVELY
In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify. - 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. - INTRODUCTORY
Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse. - PRELUSIVE
Of the nature of a prelude; introductory; indicating that something of a like kind is to follow. "Prelusive drops." Thomson. -- Pre*lu"sive*ly, adv. - DROPSIED
Diseased with drops. Shak. - FOLLOWING
1. One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. Macaulay. 2. Vocation; business; profession. - DROPSY
An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. Dunglison. (more info) idropisie, F. hydropisie, L. hydropisis, fr. Gr. Water, and cf. - NATURED
Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc. - FOLLOWING SURFACE
See ABOVE - INDICATED
Shown; denoted; registered; measured. Indicated power. See Indicated horse power, under Horse power. - NATURELESS
Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton. - INDICATORY
Serving to show or make known; showing; indicative; signifying; implying. - THOMSON PROCESS
A process of electric welding in which heat is developed by a large current passing through the metal. - INDICATE
To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants. (more info) pref. in- in + dicare to proclaim; akin to dicere to say. See 1. To point out; to discover; - COINDICATION
One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease. - UNNATURE
To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney. - TORSION INDICATOR
An autographic torsion meter. - DEMINATURED
Having half the nature of another. Shak. - TIME SIGNATURE
A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as - ORNATURE
Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed. - VINDICATION
The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of - CONSIGNATURE
Joint signature. Colgrave. - TRANSNATURE
To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel. - VINDICATOR
One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains. Locke. - CONTRAINDICATE
To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require. Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. Harvey. - DENATURE
To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of.