Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; -- opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.
2. Possessing inferior hardness, brilliancy, or beauty; -- used of inferior precious stones and gems, because those found in the Orient are generally superior.
Western Christians of the Latin rite. See Orientals.
Laterality Roget’s Thesaurus §236
N. laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, # hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, east, orient, levant, west, orientation
Adj. lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, eastern, orient, oriental, levantine, western, occidental, hesperian
Adv. sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends
Phr. "his cheek the may of days outworn"
No Bible verses found for "occidental".