List Words
Reliant
Having, or characterized by, reliance; confident; trusting.
Reprieved
of Reprieve
Yardstick
A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc.
Chrestomathy
A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.
Diocesan
Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions.
Carious
Affected with caries; decaying; as, a carious tooth.
Mediative
Pertaining to mediation; used in mediation; as, mediative efforts.
Benignant
Kind; gracious; favorable.
Delectus
A name given to an elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek.
Incarnate
Not in the flesh; spiritual.
Archpriest
A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.
Putrescent
Becoming putrid or rotten.
Rondo
A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.
Sympathizing
of Sympathize
Douay Bible
A translation of the Scriptures into the English language for the use of English-speaking Roman Catholics; -- done from the Latin Vulgate by English scholars resident in France. The New Testa..
Self-existent
Existing of or by himself,independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being.
Ordinance
Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision.
Bible
A book.
Necrotic
Affected with necrosis; as, necrotic tissue; characterized by, or producing, necrosis; as, a necrotic process.
Prebendary
A clergyman attached to a collegiate or cathedral church who enjoys a prebend in consideration of his officiating at stated times in the church. See Note under Benefice, n., 3.
Litany
A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usu..
Gangrenous
Affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of gangrene.
Rondeau
A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule.
Subdean
An under dean; the deputy or substitute of a dean.
Sphacelated
of Spacelate
Lection
A lesson or selection, esp. of Scripture, read in divine service.
Decomposed
of Decompose
Septuagint
A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.
Decayed
of Decay
Conflation
A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
Compulsory
Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
Required
of Require
Apodictic
Alt. of Apodictical
Ineludible
Incapable of being eluded or evaded; unvoidable.
Dictated
of Dictate
Mediatory
Mediatorial.
Scripture
Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.
Contaminated
of Contaminate
Anthology
A discourse on flowers.
Vulgate
An ancient Latin version of the Scripture, and the only version which the Roman Church admits to be authentic; -- so called from its common use in the Latin Church.
Missal
The book containing the service of the Mass for the entire year; a Mass book.
Obligatory
Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty or obligation; requiring performance or forbearance of some act; -- often followed by on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier.
Fugato
in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue.
Abstracter
One who abstracts, or makes an abstract.
Unthread
To draw or take out a thread from; as, to unthread a needle.
Overcredulous
Too credulous.
Unriddle
To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery.
Graveolent
Having a rank smell.
Abridger
One who abridges.
Incisor
One of the teeth in front of the canines in either jaw; an incisive tooth. See Tooth.
Random Quote
"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986
