Word Meanings - COMMINATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms. B. Jonson.
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- UNPROMISE
To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman. - MINACIOUS
Threatening; menacing. - FOREBODINGLY
In a foreboding manner. - MENACE
1. To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war. My master . . . did menace me with - INTIMIDATORY
Tending or serving to intimidate. - THREATEN
1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. - IMPENDING
Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening. An impending brow. Hawthorne. And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. Pope. Syn. -- Imminent; threatening. See Imminent. - IMMINENT
1. Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril. "In danger imminent." Spenser. 2. Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous. Hairbreadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. Shak. - MENACINGLY
In a threatening manner. - INTIMIDATE
To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson. Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; abash; - IMMINENTLY
In an imminent manner. - MENACER
One who menaces. - COMMINATORY
Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms. B. Jonson. - THREATENER
One who threatens. Shak. - MENACCANITE
An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite. - FOREBODEMENT
The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded. - FOREBODER
One who forebodes. - FOREBODING
Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune. - IMPENDENCE; IMPENDENCY
The state of impending; also, that which impends. "Impendence of volcanic cloud." Ruskin. - FOREBODE
1. To foretell. 2. To be prescient of ; to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, - CRIMINATORY
Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience. - EXTERMINATORY
Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate. "Exterminatory war." Burke. - IMPEND
To pay. Fabyan. - INCRIMINATORY
Of or pertaining to crimination; tending to incriminate; criminatory. - RECRIMINATORY
Having the quality of recrimination; retorting accusation; recriminating.