Word Meanings - RECREMENTITIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to recrement; consisting of recrement or dross. Boyle.

Related words: (words related to RECREMENTITIOUS)

• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• DROSS
  1. The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement. 2. Rust of metals. Addison. 3. Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings;
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• BOYLE'S LAW
  See LAW
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• DROSSEL
  A slut; a hussy; a drazel. Warner.
• 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
• RECREMENTITIAL
  Of the nature of a recrement. See Recrement,2 . "Recrementitial fluids." Dunglison.
• CONSISTENT
  1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous;
• RECREMENT
  1. Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; as, the recrement of ore. Excrement. A substance secreted from the blood and again absorbed by it.
• CONSISTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a consistory. "Consistorial laws." Hooker. "Consistorial courts." Bp. Hoadley.
• DROSSY
  Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless. " Drossy gold." Dryden. "Drossy rhymes." Donne. -- Dross"i*ness, n.
• CONSISTORY
  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
• RECREMENTITIOUS
  Of or pertaining to recrement; consisting of recrement or dross. Boyle.
• RECREMENTAL
  Recrementitious.
• DROSSLESS
  Free from dross. Stevens.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• INCONSISTENCY
  1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility. There is a perfect inconsistency between
• INCONSISTENTNESS
  Inconsistency.
• INCONSISTENCE
  Inconsistency.
• SELF-CONSISTENT
  Consistent with one's self or with itself; not deviation from the ordinary standard by which the conduct is guided; logically consistent throughout; having each part consistent with the rest.
• SELF-CONSISTENCY
  The quality or state of being self-consistent.