Word Meanings - ULTERIOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
other side, properly cases of an old adjective, formed with a comparative suffix, which is akin to OL. uls beyond, L. olim formerly, hereafter, orig., at that time, ille that, OL. olle, ollus. 1. Situated beyond, or on the farther side; thither;
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other side, properly cases of an old adjective, formed with a comparative suffix, which is akin to OL. uls beyond, L. olim formerly, hereafter, orig., at that time, ille that, OL. olle, ollus. 1. Situated beyond, or on the farther side; thither; -- correlative with hither. 2. Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior demands or propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior measures will be adopted is uncertain. Ulterior object or aim, an object or aim beyond that which is avowed.
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- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - COMPARATIVELY
According to estimate made by comparison; relatively; not positively or absolutely. With but comparatively few exceptions. Prescott. - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FARTHERMOST
Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - ADJECTIVE
1. Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an word sentence. 2. Not standing by itself; dependent. Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency. 3. Relating to - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - FORMICATE
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. - FORME
See PATTé - SITUATE
To place. Landor. - FORMEDON
A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished. - FORMAT
The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form. The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work. G. H. Putnam. One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - FORMYL
A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde. Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3. - BEYOND
1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or - THITHERTO
To that point; so far. - FARTHERMORE
See FURTHERMORE - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - FULL-FORMED
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson. - SCORIFORM
In the form of scoria. - PENNIFORM
Having the form of a feather or plume. - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - MALCONFORMATION
Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts. - REFORMATIVE
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good. - DENDRIFORM
Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.