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Word Meanings - ASSUAGEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mitigation; abatement.

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  • ROUSE
    To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
  • AGITATE
    1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
  • EXCITEFUL
    Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
  • QUIETER
    One who, or that which, quiets.
  • DISTURBANCE
    The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil;
  • QUIET
    p. pf quiescere to rest, keep quiet; akin to quies rest, and prob. to E. while, n. See While, and cf. Coy, a., Quiesce, Quietus, Quit, a., 1. In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air. They
  • ASSUAGEMENT
    Mitigation; abatement.
  • ROUSER
    A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rouses. 2. Something very exciting or great.
  • QUIETISM
    The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes. (more info) 1. Peace
  • QUIETSOME
    Calm; still. Spenser.
  • QUIETLY
    1. In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly. 2. Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly. 3. Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion;
  • QUIETISTIC
    Of or pertaining to the Quietists, or to Quietism.
  • CESSATION
    A ceasing of discontinuance, as of action, whether termporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war. The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. Motley. The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward.
  • SUBSIDENCE; SUBSIDENCY
    The act or process of subsiding. The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions. Bp. Warburton.
  • AGITATEDLY
    In an agitated manner.
  • QUIETAGE
    Quietness. Spenser.
  • QUIETUS
    Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; rest; death. When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak.
  • QUIESCENCE; QUIESCENCY
    The state or quality of being quiescent. "Quiescence, bodily and mental." H. Spencer. Deeds will be done; -- while be boasts his quiescence. R. Browning.
  • DISTURB
    desturber, destourber, fr. L. disturbare, disturbatum; dis- + turbare 1. To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest. Preparing to disturb With all-cofounding war the realms
  • DISTURBATION
    Act of disturbing; disturbance. Daniel.
  • DISQUIETTUDE
    Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
  • TROUSERING
    Cloth or material for making trousers.
  • EFFLAGITATE
    To ask urgently. Cockeram.
  • DISQUIETLY
    In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
  • UNQUIET
    To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
  • TROUSE
    Trousers. Spenser.
  • DISQUIETMENT
    State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment. Hopkins.
  • AROUSE
    To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the
  • CROUSE
    Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent. Burns.
  • OVERAGITATE
    To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient. Bp. Hall.
  • DISQUIETOUS
    Causing uneasiness. So distasteful and disquietous to a number of men. Milton.
  • INQUIETATION
    Disturbance. Sir T. Elyot.
  • OVEREXCITE
    To excite too much.
  • INQUIET
    To disquiet. Joye.

 

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