Timeserving: alternatives and connections

Of the nature of, or resembling, the white of the eye, or of an egg; albuminous; -- a term applied to textures, humors, etc., which ar…

Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied…

Corrective of acrimony of the humors.

Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.

Believed to cause a revulsion of fluids or of humors from one part to another.

Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times, or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the apostolic age.

Giving assent; of the nature of assent; complying.

To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or…

A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood.

The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.

One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be…

A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation.

An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes.

Not complying with the restraints of order and law; tumultuous; unruly; lawless; turbulent; as, disorderly people; disorderly assembli…

Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.

Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.

One of the products arising from the multiplication of two or more quantities by the same number or quantity. Thus, seven times 2, or…

Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the…