Word Meanings - SUPERPHYSICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws. Something superphysical and superchemical. J. Le Conte.

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• CONTENTMENT
  1. The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. 2. The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice
• CONTEMPORARY
  1. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype. 2. Of the same age; coeval. A grove born with himself he sees,
• CONTENTLY
  In a contented manner.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• CONTEMPLATIVE
  1. Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative. Fixed and contemplative their looks. Denham. 2. Having the power of contemplation; as, contemplative faculties. Ray.
• CONTEMPORARINESS
  Existence at the same time; contemporaneousness. Howell.
• CONTENEMENT
  That which is held together with another thing; that which is connected with a tenetment, or thing holden, as a certin quantity of land a Burrill.
• CONTERRANEAN; CONTERRANEOUS
  Of or belonging to the same country. Howell.
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• CONTEMPORANEOUS
  Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary. The great age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra, Maimonides, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy. Milman - Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness,
• CONTENTIOUS
  Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed
• CONTEMPTIBLY
  In a contemptible manner.
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• CONTEMNER
  One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
• CONTERMINOUS
  Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous. This conformed so many of them as were conterminous to the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws. Sir M. Hale.
• CONTEMPTUOUS
  Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
• CONTEMPERATURE
  The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. The different contemperature of the elements. SDouth.
• PHYSICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to nature ; in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and
• CONTERMINABLE
  Having the same bounds; terminating at the same time or place; conterminous. Love and life not conterminable. Sir H. Wotton.
• CONTEST
  1. Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation. Leave all noisy contests, all immodest clamors and brawling language. I. Watts. 2. Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife
• RACONTEUR
  A relater; a storyteller.
• HYPERPHYSICAL
  Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural. Those who do not fly to some hyperphysical hypothesis. Sir W. Hamilton.
• METAPHYSICS
  first used by the followers of Aristotle as a name for that part of his writings which came after, or followed, the part which treated of 1. The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with
• CATAPHYSICAL
  Unnatural; contrary to nature. Some artists . . . have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.
• METAPHYSICALLY
  In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician. South.
• PENTACONTER
  See PENTECONTER
• INCONTESTED
  Not contested. Addison.