Word Meanings - THOUSAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
thusundig, thusind, OFries. thusend, D. duizend, G. tausend, OHG. t, d, Icel. þusund, þushund, Sw. tusen, Dan. tusind, Goth. þusundi, 1. The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects. 2.
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thusundig, thusind, OFries. thusend, D. duizend, G. tausend, OHG. t, d, Icel. þusund, þushund, Sw. tusen, Dan. tusind, Goth. þusundi, 1. The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects. 2. Hence, indefinitely, a great number. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand. Ps. xci. 7. Note: The word thousand often takes a plural form. See the Note under Hundred. 3. A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1,000, M or CI.
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- NUMBERFUL
Numerous. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - CONSIST
1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. - CONSISTORIAN
Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton. - TIMESERVING
Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power. - CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We - CONSISTORY
The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf. - HUNDREDER
A person competent to serve on a jury, in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs. 3. One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred. Blount. Cowell. (more info) 1. An inhabitant or freeholder of - CONSISTENT
1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous; - NUMBERLESS
Innumerable; countless. - CONSISTORIAL
Of or pertaining to a consistory. "Consistorial laws." Hooker. "Consistorial courts." Bp. Hoadley. - NUMBER
The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of - NUMBERS
of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews. - TIMESERVER
One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense. - TIMESAVING
Saving time; as, a timesaving expedient. - NUMBERER
One who numbers. - HUNDRED
hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga-ra to count, L. ratio reckoning, account; akin to OS. hunderod, hund, D. hondred, G. hundert, OHG. also hunt, Icel. hundra, Dan. hundrede, Sw. hundra, hundrade, Goth. hund, Lith. szimtas, Russ. sto, W. cant, - HUNDREDTH
1. Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units. 2. Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth. - COLLECTION
1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. 2. That which is collected; as: A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay. A gathering of money for charitable - HUNDREDWEIGHT
A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds - BETIME; BETIMES
1. In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow. 2. In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes - SOMETIMES
1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . . - INCONSISTENTLY
In an inconsistent manner. - OUTNUMBER
To exceed in number. - INCONSISTENCY
1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility. There is a perfect inconsistency between - MISRECOLLECTION
Erroneous or inaccurate recollection. - ANTENUMBER
A number that precedes another. Bacon. - INCONSISTENTNESS
Inconsistency. - INCONSISTENCE
Inconsistency. - MISNUMBER
To number wrongly. - RECOLLECTION
1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance. 2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which - SELF-CONSISTENT
Consistent with one's self or with itself; not deviation from the ordinary standard by which the conduct is guided; logically consistent throughout; having each part consistent with the rest.