directorate (direktorat)

[F. director at; as director + -ate3.] 1. The office of a director. -2. A body of directors. directorial (dir-ek-to'ri-al), a. [ The emperor's power in the collective body, or the diet, is not directorial , but executive. W. Guthrie, Geog., Germany. 2. Belonging to a director or a body of direc The very objects of speculative contemplation being tors, as the French Directory. selected and created under the directive influences of some deep-seated want. IMG:content-2723.png:[blocks in formation] Limbs are his instruments, In no le working, than are swords and bows Directive by the limbs. Shak ., T. and C., i. 3. 4. Dealing with direction: as, directive algebra. - Directive corpuscle, an apoblast (which see). directly (dili-rekt'li), adv. 1. In a straight line or course, literally or figuratively; in the natural and primitive way: as, aim directly at the object; gravity tends directly to the center of the earth. In mechanics a body is said to strike or impinge directly against another when the stroke is in a direction perpendicular to the surface at the point of contact, Also, a sphere is said to strike directly against another when the line of direction pa es through both their centers. Two equal flat pencils in the same plane or parallel planes are said to be directly equal when they could be generated by equal displacements of rays, these displacements being in the same direction of rotation. 2. In a direct manner; without the intervention of any medium; immediately. All [the ancient Greeks] who were qualified to vote at all voted directly , and not through representatives, in the greatest affairs of state. E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 273.