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  • English Word Contributories Definition of Contributory
  • English Word Contributory Definition Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive.
  • English Word Contributory Definition One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness.
  • English Word Contrist Definition To make sad.
  • English Word Contristate Definition To make sorrowful.
  • English Word Contrite Definition Thoroughly bruised or broken.
  • English Word Contrite Definition Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent.
  • English Word Contrite Definition A contrite person.
  • English Word Contrite Definition In a contrite manner.
  • English Word Contriteness Definition Deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition.
  • English Word Contrition Definition The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing.
  • English Word Contrition Definition The state of being contrite; deep sorrow and repentance for sin, because sin is displeasing to God; humble penitence; through repentance.
  • English Word Contriturate Definition To triturate; to pulverize.
  • English Word Contrivance Definition The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.
  • English Word Contrivance Definition The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement.
  • English Word Contrivble Definition Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised.
  • English Word Contrive Definition To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.
  • English Word Contrive Definition To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.
  • English Word Contrived Definition of Contrive
  • English Word Contrivement Definition Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.
  • English Word Contriver Definition One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas.
  • English Word Contriving Definition of Contrive
  • English Word Control Definition A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
  • English Word Control Definition That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.
  • English Word Control Definition Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.
  • English Word Control Definition To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.
  • English Word Control Definition To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.
  • English Word Controllability Definition Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
  • English Word Controllable Definition Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command.
  • English Word Controllableness Definition Capability of being controlled.