Word Meanings - SUPERFETATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring. The female . . . is said to superfetate. Grew.

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• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• CONCEPTIONAL
  Pertaining to conception.
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• BIRTHMARK
  Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth. Most part of this noble lineage carried upon their body for a natural birthmark, . . . a snake. Sir T. North.
• CONCEIVER
  One who conceives.
• AFTER DAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• AFTER-NOTE
  One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
• PRIORITY
  1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
• BIRTHING
  Anything added to raise the sides of a ship. Bailey.
• CONCEPTIONALIST
  A conceptualist.
• BIRTHRIGHT
  Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. Lest there be any
• PRIORATE
  The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.
• AFTERWISE
  Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
• PRIORESS
  A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
• SUPERFETATE
  To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring. The female . . . is said to superfetate. Grew.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• SUBPRIOR
  The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
• THEREAFTER
  1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison,
• PRECONCEPTION
  The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed.