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Word Meanings - CHASTENED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down. Sir. W. Scott. Of such a finished chastened purity. Tennyson.

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  • 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
  • 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,
  • 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,
  • 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.

 

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