| romancist | A romancer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| romancy | 1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. "Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more absurd, and undeed romantic, than such a persuasion?" (South) "Zeal for the good of one's country a party of men have represented as chimerical and romantic." (Addison) 2. Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind. 3. Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets. 4. Characterised by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape. Synonym: sentimental, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, extravagant, wild, chimerical. Origin: F. Romantique, fr. OF. Romant. See Romance. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| romanesque | 1. Somewhat resembling the Roman; applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman empire, but especially. To the more developed architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th. 2. Of or pertaining to romance or fable; fanciful. Romanesque style, that which grew up from the attempts of barbarous people to copy Roman architecture and apply it to their own purposes. This term is loosely applied to all the styles of Western Europe, from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the appearance of Gothic architecture. Origin: F. Romanesque; cf. It. Romanesco. Romanesque style. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| romanic | 1. Of or pertaining to Rome or its people. 2. Of or pertaining to any or all of the various languages which, during the Middle Ages, sprung out of the old Roman, or popular form of Latin, as the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Provencal, etc. 3. Related to the Roman people by descent; said especially of races and nations speaking any of the Romanic tongues. Romanic spelling, spelling by means of the letters of the Roman alphabet, as in English; contrasted with phonetic spelling. Origin: L. Romanicus. See Romance. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| romanish | Pertaining to Romanism. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| romanism | The tenets of the Church of Rome; the Roman Catholic religion. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| romanist | One who adheres to Romanism. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| romanize | 1. To Latinize; to fill with Latin words or idioms. 2. To convert to the Roman Catholic religion. Origin: Romanised; Romanizing. 1. To use Latin words and idioms. "Apishly Romanizing." 2. To conform to Roman Catholic opinions, customs, or modes of speech. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| romanizer | One who Romanizes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Romano, C | <person> 20th century Italian physician. See: Romano-Ward syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Romano-Ward syndrome | <syndrome> A prolonged Q-T interval in the electrocardiogram in children subject to attacks of unconsciousness that result from ventricular arrhythmias including ventricular fibrillation; autosomal dominant inheritance. Compare: Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome. Synonym: Ward-Romano syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Romanovsky type stain | <technique> Composite histological stains including methylene blue, Azure A or B and eosin, sometimes with other stains. Examples are Giemsa, Wright's and Leishman's stain. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Romanowsky's blood stain | <technique> Prototype of the eosin-methylene blue stain's for blood smears, using aqueous solutions made of a mixture of methylene blue (saturated) and eosin. Romanowsky-type stain's depend for their action on compounds formed by interaction of methylene blue and eosin; most are of no value if water is present in the alcohol because neutral dyes become precipitated. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Romanowsky, Dimitri | <person> Russian physician, 1861-1921. See: Romanowsky's blood stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| romansch | The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin. Alternative forms: Romansch, and Rumonsch. Origin: Grisons rumansch, rumonsch, romonsch. See Romance. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |