Word Meanings - SORORAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Relating to a sister; sisterly.

Related words: (words related to SORORAL)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• SISTER
  AS. sweostor, sweoster, swuster, akin to OFries. sweester, suster, LG. süster, suster, D. zuster, OS. & OHG. swestar, G. schwester, Icel. systir, Sw. syster, Dan. söster, Goth. swistar, Lith. ses, Russ. sestra, Pol. siostra, L. soror, Skr. svasr.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• RELATE
  1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
• RELATIVITY
  The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
• RELATRIX
  A female relator.
• RELATIONAL
  1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
• SISTERING
  Contiguous. Shak.
• RELATED
  See 4 (more info) 1. Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree. 2. Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric
• RELATOR
  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.
• RELATER
  One who relates or narrates.
• RELATION
  1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon. 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended
• RELATEDNESS
  The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity. Emerson.
• SISTERLY
  Like a sister; becoming a sister, affectionate; as, sisterly kindness; sisterly remorse. Shak.
• SISTER-IN-LAW
  The sister of one's husband or wife; also, the wife of one's brother; sometimes, the wife of one's husband's or wife's brother.
• RELATIVENESS
  The state of being relative, or having relation; relativity.
• RELATIONIST
  A relative; a relation.
• RELATIVE
  Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun. (more info) 1. Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject. I'll
• SISTERHOOD
  1. The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister. She . . . abhorr'd Her proper blood, and left to do the part Of sisterhood, to do that of a wife. Daniel. 2. A society of sisters; a society of women united in one faith
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• IRRELATIVE
  Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• ASSISTER
  An assistant; a helper.
• IRRELATION
  The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
• PRELATEITY
  Prelacy. Milton.
• CORRELATE
  To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor.
• PRELATY
  Prelacy. Milton.
• UNPRELATED
  Deposed from the office of prelate.
• PRELATESHIP
  The office of a prelate. Harmar.
• STEPSISTER
  A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.