Word Meanings - CHASTENED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down. Sir. W. Scott. Of such a finished chastened purity. Tennyson.
Related words: (words related to CHASTENED)
- TONSILITIC
Tonsilar. - CORRECTLY
In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error. - PURITY
The condition of being pure. Specifically: freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals. Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. "The purity of a linen vesture." Holyday. Freedom from - FINISHER
1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings, - TONSURE
1. The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the crown of the head; also, the state of being shorn. The first ceremony used for devoting a person to the service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, abbot, - TONGUELET
A little tongue. - TONNE
A tun. Chaucer. - TONNAGE
1. The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship. 2. The cubical content or burden of a vessel, or vessels, in tons; or, the amount of weight which one or several vessels may carry. See Ton, n. . A fleet . . . with an aggregate tonnage of 60,000 - TONGUE-SHELL
Any species of Lingula. - TONITE
An explosive compound; a preparation of gun cotton. - CORRECTORY
Containing or making correction; corrective. - DISCIPLINER
One who disciplines. - TONICAL
Tonic. Sir T. Browne. - CORRECTIFY
To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl. - REFINED
Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n. - TONGKANG
A kind of boat or junk used in the seas of the Malay Archipelago. - TONGUESTER
One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson. - TONTINE INSURANCE
Insurance in which the benefits of the insurance are distributed upon the tontine principle. Under the old, or full tontine, plan, all benefits were forfeited on lapsed policies, on the policies of those who died within the tontine period only the - CORRECTIBLE; CORRECTABLE
Capable of being corrected. - BUTTONHOLE
The hole or loop in which a button is caught. - PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - CAPSTONE
A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap. - CLINKSTONE
An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite. - SERPENT-TONGUED
Having a forked tongue, like a serpent. - GRINDSTONE
A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed, - HYDROPERITONEUM
See ASCITES - HUTTONING
Forcible manipulation of a dislocated, stiff, or painful joint. - WANTON
wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness." - KARYOMITON
The reticular network of fine fibers, of which the nucleus of a cell is in part composed; -- in opposition to kytomiton, or the network in the body of the cell. W. Flemming. - MOORSTONE
A species of English granite, used as a building stone. - PHITONESS
Pythoness; witch. - RUBSTONE
A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub. - STONEBRASH
A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash. - ASTONISH
étonner, fr. L. ex out + tonare to thunder, but perhaps influenced by 1. To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow. The very cramp-fish . . . being herself not benumbed, is able to astonish others. Holland. 2. To strike with sudden - GRINDLE STONE
A grindstone. - EMPROSTHOTONOS
A drawing of the body forward, in consequence of the spasmodic action of some of the muscles. Gross. - MELOCOTON; MELOCOTOON
peach tree and its fruit, L. malum cotonium, or cotonea, or Cydonia, A quince. A kind of peach having one side deep red, and the flesh yellow. - MONOTONE
A single unvaried tone or sound. - STONINESS
The quality or state of being stony.