Word Meanings - UNIFORMITARIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes.

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• ACTURE
  Action. Shak.
• ACTURIENCE
  Tendency or impulse to act. Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.
• ACTINOLITE
  A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
• ACTINOSTOME
  The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.
• ACTINARIA
  A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• ACTUARIAL
  Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• PRESENT
  one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
• ACCOUNTANCY
  The art or employment of an accountant.
• EXIST
  exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand 1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift.
• PRESENTIVE
  Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
• ACTIVITY
  The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
• ACTUATE
  Etym: 1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest
• PRESENTANEOUS
  Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
• ACTINOPHOROUS
  Having straight projecting spines.
• EXISTER
  One who exists.
• PRESENTLY
  1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree
• EXISTIBLE
  Capable of existence. Grew.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• PHYLACTERED
  Wearing a phylactery.
• HEMIDACTYL
  Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
• INACTUATE
  To put in action.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• POSTEXIST
  To exist after; to live subsequently.
• RIPPER ACT; RIPPER BILL
  An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• OLFACTOR
  A smelling organ; a nose.
• AUTODIDACT
  One who is self-taught; an automath.