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Word Meanings - RELATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed. (more info) 1. One who relates; a relater. "The several relators of this history." Fuller.

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  • WHOSESOEVER
    The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
  • FILOSELLE
    A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.
  • RELATIONSHIP
    The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
  • PERSONNEL
    The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
  • PERSONIFICATION
    A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
  • FILAMENTOUS
    Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.
  • FILIPENDULOUS
    Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
  • GENERALIZED
    Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
  • GENERALIZABLE
    Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
  • FILLIPEEN
    See PHILOPENA
  • FILIALLY
    In a filial manner.
  • FILLIBEG
    A kilt. See Filibeg.
  • PRIVATEERING
    Cruising in a privateer.
  • FILICAL
    Belonging to the Filices, r ferns.
  • ATTORNEYISM
    The practice or peculiar cleverness of attorneys.
  • FILLETING
    The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.
  • FILMINESS
    State of being filmy.
  • PERSONIZE
    To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
  • FULLER
    One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
  • PERSONATE
    To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
  • MAJOR GENERAL
    . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
  • KAFILAH
    See CAFILA
  • PROFILE
    A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face. A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like. A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the
  • MISRELATION
    Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
  • 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.
  • CAFFILA
    See CAFILA
  • PROFILING
    In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.
  • INFILTRATE
    To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something. The water infiltrates through the porous rock. Addison.
  • CAFILA; CAFILEH
    A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.
  • UNIPERSONAL
    Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.

 

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