Word Meanings - ALDERMANLIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like or suited to an alderman.

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• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• SUITRESS
  A female supplicant. Rowe.
• SUITING
  Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
• ALDERMANSHIP
  The condition, position, or office of an alderman. Fabyan.
• SUIT
  1. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word. Shak. 2. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit. Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. Dryden. Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which
• ALDERMANIC
  Relating to, becoming to, or like, an alderman; characteristic of an alderman.
• ALDERMANLIKE
  Like or suited to an alderman.
• ALDERMANRY
  1. The district or ward of an alderman. 2. The office or rank of an alderman. B. Jonson.
• SUITABLE
  Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness, n. -- Suit"a*bly, adv. Syn. -- Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant;
• SUITOR
  1. One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant. She hath been a suitor to me for her brother. Shak. 2. Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover. Sir P. Sidney. One who sues or prosecutes a demand in
• ALDERMANLY
  Pertaining to, or like, an alderman.
• SUITE
  One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect
• ALDERMANITY
  1. Aldermen collectively; the body of aldermen. 2. The state of being an alderman.
• ALDERMAN
  1. A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity. Note: The title was applied, among the Anglo-Saxons, to princes, dukes, earls, senators, and presiding magistrates; also to archbishops and bishops, implying superior wisdom or authority. Thus
• ALDERMANCY
  The office of an alderman.
• DEMISUIT
  A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
• UNSUIT
  Not to suit; to be unfit for. Quarles.
• JESUITOCRACY
  Government by Jesuits; also, the whole body of Jesuits in a country. C. Kingsley.
• JESUITIC; JESUITICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods. 2. Designing; cunning; deceitful; crafty; -- an opprobrious use of the word. Dryden.
• JESUITESS
  One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633.
• JESUITRY
  Jesuitism; subtle argument. Carlyle.
• EALDERMAN; EALDORMAN
  An alderman.
• JESUITISM
  1. The principles and practices of the Jesuits. 2. Cunning; deceit; deceptive practices to effect a purpose; subtle argument; -- an opprobrious use of the word.
• ESTABLISHED SUIT
  A plain suit in which a player could, except for trumping, take tricks with all his remaining cards.
• PURSUIT
  Prosecution. That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court. Fuller. Curve of pursuit , a curve described by a point which is at each instant moving towards a second point, which is itself moving according
• LAWSUIT
  An action at law; a suit in equity or admiralty; any legal proceeding before a court for the enforcement of a claim.