Marginal definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary M`ARGINAL, a. Pertaining to ... margin. 1. Written or printed in the margin; as a marginal note or gloss. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: at or constituting a border or edge; "the marginal strip of beach" [syn: fringy, marginal] 2: of questionable or minimal quality; "borderline grades"; "marginal writing ability" [syn: borderline, marginal] 3: just barely adequate or within a lower limit; " ...
marginal cost definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the ... of one more or one less unit of output [syn: marginal cost, incremental cost, differential cost]
marginal placentation definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: with ... wall along the ventral suture of a simple ovary [syn: marginal placentation, ventral placentation]
... Webster's 1828 Dictionary POS'TIL, n. [L. post.] A marginal note; originally, a note in the margin of the Bible ... written after the text. POS'TIL, v.t. To write marginal notes; to gloss; to illustrate with marginal notes. Oxford Reference Dictionary n. hist. 1 a marginal note or comment, esp. on a text of Scripture. 2 ... Bible, so called because written after the text; hence, a marginal note; a comment. Langton also made postils upon the whole ... Postil Pos"til, v. t. [Cf. LL. postillare.] To write marginal or explanatory notes on; to gloss. --Bacon. Webster's ...
... a demonstration. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or ... scholium, from diminutive of schol? lecture Date: 1535 1. a marginal annotation or comment (as on the text of a classic ... train of reasoning Oxford Reference Dictionary n. (pl. scholia) a marginal note or explanatory comment, esp. by an ancient grammarian on ... E. Scholiums. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ?. See School.] 1. A marginal annotation; an explanatory remark or comment; specifically, an explanatory comment ... comment, commentary, commentation, docket, entry, exegesis, footnote, gloss, item, jotting, marginal note, marginalia, memo, memoir, memorandum, memorial, minutes, notation, note, note ...
... initial capitals, and is divided into paragraphs, but has no marginal signs except in the Gospels. Several different hands are discovered ... of Ephraem are in two. Enlarged initials and the Eusebian marginal sections are used and several hands have corrected the MS ... cites "many misreadings of abbreviations, as also the adoption of marginal glosses into the text by which much of the most ... rather than omissions. Hence arose, in the first place, the marginal glosses and insertions between the lines which later transcribers incorporated ... based directly upon the work of Ximenes and Erasmus, had marginal readings from 15 new manuscripts, one of which was Codex ...
... year before Isaac's birth. Now we are familiar with marginal notes that set forth a system of chronology in many ... commentator constructed a scheme of chronology which was embodied in marginal notes. Then these crept into the text and such numbers ... form of expression is far superior. They are obviously mere marginal note. Again the critical method is perpetually breaking down. It ...
... definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PAR'AGRAPH, n. [Gr. a marginal note; to write near or beyond the text; beyond, and ... paragrapher Merriam Webster's I. noun Etymology: Middle English paragraf marginal sign marking a paragraph, from Anglo-French parogref, from Medieval ... See Para-, and Graphic, and cf. Paraph.] 1. Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention ...
... set of straight lines passing through one point. 6 the marginal portion of a composite flower, e.g. a daisy. 7 ... Bot.) A radiating part of the flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a ... rays. Ray flower, or Ray floret (Bot.), one of the marginal flowers of the capitulum in such composite plants as the ...
... Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1839 1. one of the marginal flowers of the head in a composite plant (as the ... Bot.) A radiating part of the flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a ... rays. Ray flower, or Ray floret (Bot.), one of the marginal flowers of the capitulum in such composite plants as the ...