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Word Meanings - ADHORTATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. Potter.

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  • POTTERN
    Of or pertaining to potters. Pottern ore, a species of ore which, from its aptness to vitrify like the glazing of potter's wares, the miners call by this name. Boyle.
  • CONTAINMENT
    That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
  • COUNSEL
    fr. the root of consulere to consult, of uncertain origin. Cf. 1. Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation. All the chief priest and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death. Matt. xxvii. 1. 2. Examination
  • COUNSELOR
    conseiler, F. conseiller, fr. L. consiliarius, fr. consilium 1. One who counsels; an adviser. Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counselor, or no Shak. 2. A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign
  • ADVISORY
    Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory. The General Association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches. Trumbull.
  • CONTAINANT
    A container.
  • COUNSELORSHIP
    The function and rank or office of a counselor. Bacon.
  • POTTERY
    1. The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked. 2. The place where earthen vessels are made.
  • COUNSELABLE
    1. Willing to receive counsel or follow advice. Few men of so great parts were upon all occasions more counselable than he. Clarendon. 2. Suitable to be advised; advisable, wise. He did not believe it counselable. Clarendon.
  • WARNSTORE
    To furnish. "To warnstore your house." Chaucer.
  • CONTAINABLE
    Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
  • POTTER
    The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin. Potter's asthma , emphysema of the lungs; -- so called because very prevalent among potters. Parkers. -- Potter's clay. See under Clay. -- Potter's field, a public burial place, especially in a city, for
  • WARN
    To refuse. Chaucer.
  • CONTAINER
    One who, or that which, contains.
  • WARNINGLY
    In a warning manner.
  • WARNING
    Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice. That warning timepiece never ceased. Longfellow. Warning piece, Warning wheel , a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.
  • WARNER
    One who warns; an admonisher.
  • CONTAIN
    1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
  • HORTATORY
    Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech. Holland.
  • FOREWARN
    To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.
  • EXHORTATORY
    Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory. Holinshed.
  • SELF-CONTAINED
    Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
  • DISCOUNSEL
    To dissuade. Spenser.
  • DEHORTATORY
    Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade. Bp. Hall.
  • MISCOUNSEL
    To counsel or advise wrongly.
  • DISWARN
    To dissuade from by previous warning.
  • SPOTTER
    One who spots.

 

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