See Also: dextrorse(medicine)
dextrorse(dictionary)

fellowship (iou) and dextrorse (iou)


fellowship (iou)



fellowship noun & verb. ME.
[from FELLOW noun + -SHIP.]
A. noun.
Participation, sharing; community of interest, sentiment, or Nature. ME.
Swift Joining with us here in the fellowship of slavery.
b. Partnership, (a) membership in a society. LME-E17.
Companionship, company, society. ME.
J. Locke To have fellowship with those of his own kind.
Intimate personal communion; intercourse. ME.
b. Communication. M16-E17.
Friendliness; the spirit of comradeship; an instance of this. ME.
R. L. Stevenson Life forces men apart and breaks up the goodly fellowships for ever. R. H. Tawney A band of comrades, where fellowship should be known for life.
A body of fellows or equals; a company. Now rare. ME.
= COMMUNION 4. LME.
the right hand of fellowship admission or entitlement to communion.
A guild, a corporation, a company. LME.
b. The members of a guild or corporation. LME-M17.
c. An association of any kind; a society, a club, a fraternity. M16.
J. P. Donleavy The Student Christian Movement is a fellowship of students who desire to understand the Christian faith.
a. The body of fellows in a college or university; the society constituted by the fellows. L15-L18.
b. The status or emoluments of a fellow in a college, learned society, etc.; a post as a fellow in a college etc. E16.
S. Spender If they..obtained fellowships, generally they became absorbed into the Oxford hierarchy.
Math. The process of calculation by which gain or loss is divided among partners. M16.
b. verb. Infl. -pp-, *-p-.
verb trans. Unite in fellowship; associate with, to. LME-M16.
verb trans. Accompany. LME-L15.
verb trans. Admit to fellowship; enter into participation or comradeship with. Now only in religious use. LME.
verb intrans. Join in fellowship; associate with. Now only in religious use & chiefly US. LME.

dextrorse (iou)



dextrorse adjective. M19.
[Latin dextrorsum, dextrorsus.]
Turned or spiralling upwards towards the right; dextral.
Also dex'trorsal adjective E19.