Word Meanings - SCANDINAVIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. -- n.

SWEDENBORGIAN
One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through
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
SCANDINAVIAN
Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. -- n.
DENMARK SATIN
See SATIN
SWEDENBORGIANISM
The doctrines of the Swedenborgians.
APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach