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Word Meanings - SUCCESSIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially , one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.

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  • APOSTOLICISM; APOSTOLICITY
    The state or quality of being apostolical.
  • REGULARITY
    The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
  • 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;
  • ALONENESS
    A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. Bp. Montagu.
  • REGULARIA
    A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
  • PERSONIZE
    To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
  • PERSONATE
    To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
  • PERSONATOR
    One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
  • SUCCESSION
    1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. 2. A series of persons or things according to
  • PERSONAL
    Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
  • PERSONIFY
    1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
  • PERSONIFIER
    One who personifies.
  • PERSONA
    See 8
  • SUCCESSIONIST
    A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially , one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.
  • PERSONABLE
    1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E.
  • APOSTOLIC
    A member of one of certain ascetic sects which at various times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles.
  • PERSONALLY
    1. In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton. 2. With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually;
  • VALID
    Having legal strength or force; executed with the proper formalities; incapable of being rightfully overthrown or set aside; as, a valid deed; a valid covenant; a valid instrument of any kind; a valid claim or title; a valid marriage.
  • REGULAR
    Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin. (more info) 1. Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal;
  • IRREGULARITY
    The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
  • 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.
  • ABALONE
    A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.
  • INVALIDE
    See N
  • UNIPERSONALIST
    One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal.
  • TRIPERSONALITY
    The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.
  • IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
    The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.
  • TRIPERSONAL
    Consisting of three persons. Milton.
  • INVALIDITY
    1. Want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will. 2. Want of health; infirmity. Sir W. Temple.
  • MONOPERSONAL
    Having but one person, or form of existence.

 

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