Word Meanings - PASSIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross.

• Statesmanlike
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• Crossbarred
  Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.
• Unitedly
  In an united manner.
• Cross-days
  The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.
• CROSSBEARER
  A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.
• Crossjack
  The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
• CROSSPURPOSE
  A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons.
• Crossrow
  The alphabet; -- called also Christcross-row.
• Crosswort
  A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.
• Foundries
  of Foundry
• Calligrapher
  One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
• Membership
  The state of being a member.
• Callose
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• Callosities
  of Callosity
• Statesmanly
  Becoming a statesman.
• Crossbeak
  Same as Crossbill.
• Uniter
  One who, or that which, unites.
• Crossette
  A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow.
• CROSSBIRTH
  Any preternatural labor, in whiche the boly of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus.
• CRosslegged
  Having the legs crossed.

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