Word Meanings - UNCENTURY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To remove from its actual century. It has first to uncentury itself. H. Drummond.

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• DRUMMOND LIGHT
  A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• ACTUAL
  1. Involving or comprising action; active. Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor. 2. Existing in act or reality;
• FIRST-CLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
• CENTURY
  1. A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. And on it said a century of prayers. Shak. 2. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago. Note: Century, in the reckoning of time, although
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• ACTUALITY
  The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature. South.
• FIRST-RATE
  Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett .
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• FIRSTLY
  In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
• REMOVE
  1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
• ACTUALIZATION
  A making actual or really existent. Emerson.
• FIRSTLING
  1. The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock. Milton. 2. The thing first thought or done. The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. Shak.
• FIRST-HAND
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent. One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.
• FIRSTBORN
  First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
• ACTUALLY
  1. Actively. "Neither actually . . . nor passively." Fuller. 2. In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.
• ACTUALIST
  One who deals with or considers actually existing facts and conditions, rather than fancies or theories; -- opposed to idealist. J. Grote.
• UNCENTURY
  To remove from its actual century. It has first to uncentury itself. H. Drummond.
• ACTUALNESS
  Quality of being actual; actuality.
• HEADFIRST; HEADFOREMOST
  With the head foremost.
• TACTUAL
  Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch. In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over the entire body. Tyndall.