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69 words match “OMINATE”

OMINATE v.
To presage; to foreshow; to foretoken. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
ABOMINATE v.
s ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.
AGNOMINATE v.
To name. [Obs.]
ANNOMINATE v.
To name. [R.]
BROMINATE v.
See Bromate, v. t.
DENOMINATE a. 2 definitions
e or denomination; specified in the concrete as opposed to abstract; thus, 7 feet is a denominate quantity, while 7 is mere abstract quantity or number. See Compound number, under Compound.
DOMINATE v. 2 definitions
To predominate over; to rule; to govern. "A city dominated by the ax." Dickens. We everywhere meet with Slavonian nations either dominant or dominated. W. Tooke.
INNOMINATE a. 2 definitions
Having no name; unnamed; as, an innominate person or place. [R.] Ray.
NOMINATE v. 4 definitions
To mention by name; to name. [Obs.] To nominate them all, it is impossible. Shak.
NOMINATELY adv.
By name; particularly; namely. [Obs.] Spelman.
PREDOMINATE v. 2 definitions
ve controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, love predominated in her heart. [Certain] rays may predominate over the rest. Sir. I. Newton.
PRENOMINATE a. 2 definitions
Forenamed; named beforehand. [R.] "Prenominate crimes." Shak.
PREOMINATE v.
To ominate beforehand; to portend. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
ADVOWSON n.
the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]
ANTIQUATED a.
ntiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott.
ATOMIC; ATOMICAL a.
as developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the Epicurean philosophy. -- Atomic theory, or the Doctrine of definite proportions (Chem.), teaches that chemical combinations take place between the supposed ultimate particles or atoms of bodies, in some simple ratio,…
AVERROIST n.
peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.
BALLET n.
A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.
BETROTH v.
To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration. Ayliffe.
CALL v.
To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate. What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. Acts x. 15.
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