Word Meanings - YOUNGMENSCHRISTIANASSOCIATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and physical welfare of young men, founded, June 6, 1844, by George Williams (knighted therefor by Queen Victoria) in London. In 1851 it extended to the United States and Canada, and in 1855 representatives of similar organizations throughout Europe and America formed an international body. The movement has successfully expanded not only among young men in general, but also specifically among railroad men, in the army and navy, with provision for Indians and negroes, and a full duplication of all the various lines of oepration in the boys' departments.

• Knightage
  To body of knights, taken collectively.
• Youngness
  The quality or state of being young.
• Knightly
  Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit.
• KNIGHTERRATIC
  Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry. [R.] Quart. Rev.
• Formalism
  The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.
• Promote
  To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture.
• YOUNGMENSCHRISTIANASSOCIATION
  An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and physical welfare of young men, founded, June 6, 1844, by George Williams (knighted therefor by Queen Victoria) in London. In 1851 it extended to the United States and Canada, and in
• Formerly
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• Queenhood
  The state, personality, or character of a queen; queenliness.
• Formulae
  of Formula
• Sociality
  The quality of being social; socialness.
• Formyl
  A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde.
• Spiritually
  In a spiritual manner; with purity of spirit; like a spirit.
• Foundry
  The act, process, or art of casting metals.
• Unitable
  Capable of union by growth or otherwise.
• George
  A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter.
• Unitized
  of Unitize
• Knights bachelors
  of Knight bachelor
• Youngster
  A young person; a youngling; a lad.

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