Word Meanings - BUSHIDO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The unwritten code of moral principles regulating the actions of the Japanese knighthood, or Samurai; the chivalry of Japan. Unformulated, Bushido was and still is the animating spirit, the motor force of our country. Inazo Nitobé.

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• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• MORALIST
  1. One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties. Addison. 2. One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules;
• JAPAN CURRENT
  A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
• MOTOR; MOTORY; MOTORIAL
  Causing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of motion; - - applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve fibers which only convey impressions from a nerve center to muscles, thereby causing motion.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• ANIMATING
  Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing. "Animating cries." Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv.
• MORALIZE
  1. To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from. This fable is moralized in a common proverb. L'Estrange. Did he not moralize this spectacle Shak. 2. To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• MORALIZATION
  1. The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse. 2. Explanation in a moral sense. T. Warton.
• SPIRITUOSITY
  The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
• BUSHIDO
  The unwritten code of moral principles regulating the actions of the Japanese knighthood, or Samurai; the chivalry of Japan. Unformulated, Bushido was and still is the animating spirit, the motor force of our country. Inazo Nitobé.
• STILLSTAND
  A standstill. Shak.
• SPIRITUAL-MINDED
  Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n.
• STILLING
  A stillion.
• MORAL
  1. Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners,
• SPIRITISM
  Spiritualsm.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• RHEOMOTOR
  Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated.
• INSTILL
  To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
• PHONOMOTOR
  An instrument in which motion is produced by the vibrations of a sounding body.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• PISTILLIFEROUS
  Pistillate.
• INANIMATION
  Want of animation; lifeless; dullness.
• DISPIRITED
  Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• MAGNETOMOTOR
  A voltaic series of two or more large plates, producing a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena.
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT