Calamite - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: calamiteCalamite
A fossil plant of the coal formation having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family but sometimes attaining the height of trees and having the stem more or less woody within See Acrogen and Asterophyllite...
Catastrophe
An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things a final event usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature hence sudden calamity great misfortune...
Deplorable
Worthy of being deplored or lamented lamentable causing grief hence sad calamitous grievous wretched as lifes evils are deplorable...
Direful
Dire dreadful terrible calamitous woeful as a direful fiend a direful day...
Imprecate
To call down by prayer as something hurtful or calamitous...
Miserably
In a miserable unhappily calamitously wretchedly meanly...
Mitigation
The act of mitigating or the state of being mitigated abatement or diminution of anything painful harsh severe afflictive or calamitous as the mitigation of pain grief rigor severity punishment or penalty...
Presentiment
Previous sentiment conception or opinion previous apprehension especially an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant distressing or calamitous about to happen anticipation of evil foreboding...
Series
A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order and connected by a like relation sequence order course a succession of things as a continuous series of calamitous events...
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