Word Meanings - TUESDAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The third day of the week, following Monday and preceding Wednesday. (more info) god of war; akin to OHG. Zio, Icel. T, L. Jupiter, Gr. Ziostac

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• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• THIRDLY
  In the third place. Bacon.
• PRECEDENTED
  Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.
• PRECEDE
  1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. "Harm precedes not sin." Milton. 2. To go before in place, rank, or importance. 3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the
• JUPITER
  The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus.
• PRECEDENCE; PRECEDENCY
  1. The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another. 2. The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior
• THIRD
  third, G. dritte, Icel. , Goth. , L. tertius, Gr. t. See Three, and 1. Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the thirdhour in the day. "The third night." Chaucer. 2. Constituting or being one of three equal
• FOLLOWING
  1. One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. Macaulay. 2. Vocation; business; profession.
• THIRDINGS
  The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.
• FOLLOWING SURFACE
  See ABOVE
• THIRD-PENNY
  A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl.
• THIRD RAIL
  The third rail used in the third-rail system. An electric railway using such a rail.
• MONDAY
  The second day of the week; the day following Sunday. (more info) the moon, day sacred to the moon; akin to D. maandag, G. montag, OHG.
• THIRD-BOROUGH
  An under constable. Shak. Johnson.
• PRECEDENTIAL
  Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions. All their actions in that time are not precedential to warrant posterity. Fuller.
• THIRD-RAIL SYSTEM
  A system in which a third rail is used for carrying the current for operating the motors, the rail being insulated from the ground and the current being taken off by means of contact brushes or other devices.
• PRECEDING
  In the direction toward which stars appear to move. See Following, 2. (more info) 1. Going before; -- opposed to following.
• PRECEDENT
  Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services. Shak. "A precedent injury." Bacon. Condition precedent , a condition which precede the vesting of an estate, or the accruing of a right.
• PRECEDANEOUS
  Preceding; antecedent; previous. Hammond.
• WHITMONDAY
  The day following Whitsunday; -- called also Whitsun Monday.
• ASH WEDNESDAY
  The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents.
• BLACK MONDAY
  1. Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold. Stow. Then it was not for nothing that may nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday
• UNPRECEDENTED
  Having no precedent or example; not preceded by a like case; not having the authority of prior example; novel; new; unexampled. -- Un*prec"e*dent*ed*ly, adv.