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Word Meanings - REGRESSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Passing back; returning. 2. Characterized by retrogression; retrogressive. Regressive metamorphism. See Retrogression. See Katabolism.

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  • PASS
    passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind
  • PASSUS
    A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.
  • PASSOVER
    A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb. The sacrifice offered at
  • PASSIBILITY
    The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility. Hakewill.
  • PASSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
  • PASSIVE FLIGHT
    Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
  • RETURNLESS
    Admitting no return. Chapman.
  • PASSENGER MILE
    A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.
  • PASSIFLORA
    A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.
  • REGRESSIVELY
    In a regressive manner.
  • PASSEGARDE
    A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.
  • RETROGRESSION
    Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also
  • PASSERINE
    Of or pertaining to the Passeres. The columbine, gallinaceous, and passerine tribes people the fruit trees. Sydney Smith.
  • PASSIBLE
    Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents. Apolinarius, which held even deity itself passible. Hooker.
  • PASSAGEWAY
    A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
  • PASSER-BY
    One who goes by; a passer.
  • PASSIONLESS
    Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.
  • PASSIVE BALLOON; PASSIVE AEROPLANE
    One unprovided with motive power.
  • PASSABLY
    Tolerably; moderately.
  • PASSACAGLIA; PASSACAGLIO
    An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne. (more info) tune on the guitar, prop., a tune played in passing through the
  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • SURPASS
    To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip.
  • OUTPASSION
    To exceed in passion.
  • INCOMPASSIONATE
    Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
  • REPASS
    To pass again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea.
  • SURPASSING
    Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n.
  • IMPASSIVE
    Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
  • MISCHARACTERIZE
    To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
  • IMPASSABLE
    Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf. Milton. -- Im*pass"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*pass"a*bly, adv.
  • UNPASSABLE
    Impassable. E. A. Freeman. -- Un*pass"a*ble*ness, n. Evelyn.
  • IMPASSIONABLE
    Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.

 

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