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Word Meanings - CHAMPERTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain.

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  • SUGARPLUM
    A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
  • RIGHT-RUNNING
    Straight; direct.
  • SUFFRAGAN
    A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop. (more info) 1. An assistant.
  • SUPPLANT
    heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
  • SUBARYTENOID
    Situated under the arytenoid cartilage of the larynx.
  • SUMMATION
    The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate. Of this series no summation is possible to a finite intellect. De Quincey.
  • SUNDRILY
    In sundry ways; variously.
  • SUPERFETE
    To conceive after a former conception. Howell.
  • SUPERCONCEPTION
    Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
  • SUPERFLUITY
    1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
  • SUSURRINGLY
    In the manner of a whisper.
  • SUPERNATURALNESS
    The quality or state of being supernatural.
  • SUPERCELESTIAL
    1. Situated above the firmament, or great vault of heaven. Waterland. 2. Higher than celestial; superangelic.
  • SUBBRONCHIAL
    Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.
  • SUPERSTITIONIST
    One addicted to superstition. "Blind superstitionists." Dr. H. More.
  • SUBLATE
    To take or carry away; to remove. E. Hall.
  • SUPINITY
    Supineness. Sir T. Browne.
  • SUITABILITY
    The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
  • SUPPING
    1. The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper. 2. That which is supped; broth. Holland.
  • SUPERREFLECTION
    The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
  • BLOODSUCKER
    Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • LONG-SUFFERANCE
    Forbearance to punish or resent.
  • ISSUABLY
    In an issuable manner; by way of issue; as, to plead issuably.

 

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