Word Meanings - APISHLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.

Related words: (words related to APISHLY)

• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• APISHNESS
  The quality of being apish; mimicry; foppery.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• APISHLY
  In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• SERVILE
  1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. She must bend the servile
• IMITATION
  One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• IMITATIONAL
  Pertaining to, or employed in, imitation; as, imitational propensities.
• APISH
  Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling. The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy. Sir W. Scott.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• TAPISH
  To lie close to the ground, so as to be concealed; to squat; to As a hound that, having roused a hart, Although he tappish ne'er so soft. Chapman.
• ILLIMITATION
  State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• LIMITATION
  1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• NONLIMITATION
  Want of limitation; failure to limit.