Word Meanings - SUPERORDINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor. Fuller.

Related words: (words related to SUPERORDINATION)

• DURAMEN
  The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
• LIFETIME
  The time that life continues.
• 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;
• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• ORDINATION
  The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders. 3. Disposition; arrangement; order. Angle of ordination , the angle between the axes of coördinates. (more info) 1. The act of ordaining,
• DURIO
  A fruit tree of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.
• DUROUS
  Hard.
• OFFICIALISM
  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
• DURANTE
  During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.
• ECCLESIASTICALLY
  In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
• STATIONARY
  1. Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed. Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. Southey. 2. Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• DURANCY
  Duration. Dr. H. More.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• STATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a station.
• 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.
• DURRA
  A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called
• DUR
  Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• REVERDURE
  To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.
• TORPEDO STATION
  A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments. The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport,
• PODURA
  Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. Podura scale , one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope. (more info) podo`s,
• INCRUSTATION
  A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement. (more info) 1. The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted. 2. A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit
• OBDURATION
  A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.
• ORDURE
  1. Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak. 2. Defect; imperfection; fault. Holland.
• BORDURE
  A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
• INSUBORDINATION
  The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
• ENDURANT
  Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.