Word Meanings - COMFORTMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Act or process of administering comfort. The gentle comfortment and entertainment of the said embassador. Hakluyt.

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• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• COMFORTABLY
  In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.
• COMFORT
  1. To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate. Wyclif. God's own testimony . . . doth not a little comfort and confirm the same. Hooker. 2. To assist or help; to aid. I . . . can not help the noble chevalier: God comfort him in this
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• GENTLEWOMAN
  1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.
• COMFORTABLE
  1. Strong; vigorous; valiant. Wyclif. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be comfortable; hold death a while at the arm's end. Shak. 2. Serviceable; helpful. Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her.
• ADMINISTER
  To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor. Syn. -- To manage; conduct; minister; supply; dispense; give out; distribute; furnish. (more info) 1. To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct
• GENTLE-HEARTED
  Having a kind or gentle disposition. Shak. -- Gen"tle-heart`ed*ness, n.
• GENTLEMANHOOD
  The qualities or condition of a gentleman. Thackeray.
• ADMINISTERIAL
  Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.
• GENTLEMANLIKE; GENTLEMANLY
  Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well- behaved; courteous; polite.
• COMFORTABLENESS
  State of being comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.
• ENTERTAINMENT
  1. The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general. The entertainment of Christ by faith. Baxter. The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the
• PROCESSIONING
  A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession. Bouvier.
• GENTLE
  F. gentil noble, pretty, graceful, fr. L. gentilis of the same clan or race, fr. gens, gentis, tribe, clan, race, orig. that which belongs together by birth, fr. the root of genere, gignere, to beget; hence gentle, properly, of birth or family,
• PROCESS PLATE
  A plate prepared by a mechanical process, esp. a photomechanical process. A very slow photographic plate, giving good contrasts between high lights and shadows, used esp. for making lantern slides.
• GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT
  An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.
• EMBASSADORIAL
  See AMBASSADORIAL
• DISCOMFORTABLE
  1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• BASIC PROCESS
  A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.
• PAYNE'S PROCESS
  A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn"ize, v. t.
• FLOTATION PROCESS
  A process of separating the substances contained in pulverized ore or the like by depositing the mixture on the surface of a flowing liquid, the substances that are quickly wet readily overcoming the surface tension of the liquid and sinking, the
• MISCOMFORT
  Discomfort.
• WELDON'S PROCESS
  A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor.
• RECOMFORTLESS
  Without comfort.
• THOMAS PROCESS
  See ABOVE
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in