Word Meanings - SCIATIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the hip; in the region of, or affecting, the hip; ischial; ischiatic; as, the sciatic nerve, sciatic pains.

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• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• NERVELESSNESS
  The state of being nerveless.
• SCIATIC
  Of or pertaining to the hip; in the region of, or affecting, the hip; ischial; ischiatic; as, the sciatic nerve, sciatic pains.
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• SCIATICA
  Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thing, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. The name is also popularly applied
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• ISCHIAL
  Of or pertaining to the ischium or hip; ischiac; ischiadic; ischiatic. Ischial callosity , one of the patches of thickened hairless, and often bright-colored skin, on the buttocks of many apes, as the drill.
• AFFECTIONED
  1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
• AFFECTER
  One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.
• SCIATICAL
  Sciatic.
• NERVELESS
  1. Destitute of nerves. 2. Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.
• AFFECTIVE
  1. Tending to affect; affecting. Burnet. 2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers.
• AFFECTIONATED
  Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
• AFFECTIONATE
  1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
• PAINSTAKER
  One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay.
• AFFECTEDLY
  1. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality. 2. Lovingly; with tender care. Shak.
• AFFECTEDNESS
  Affectation.
• AFFECTIBLE
  That may be affected. Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the creaturely, become affectible. Coleridge.
• AFFECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• INAFFECTED
  Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
• MISAFFECTED
  Ill disposed.
• MISAFFECTION
  An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall.
• UNNERVE
  To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm. Unequal match'd, . . . The unnerved father falls. Shak.