Word Meanings - CONVERSATIONED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Acquainted with manners and deportment; behaved. Till she be better conversationed, . . . I'll keep As far from her as the gallows. Beau. & Fl.

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• ACQUAINTANCE
  1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract
• ACQUAINTED
  Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.
• BETTERMOST
  Best. "The bettermost classes." Brougham.
• GALLOWS
  The rest for the tympan when raised. 4. pl. (more info) AS. galga, gealga, gallows, cross; akin to D. galg gallows, OS. & OHG. galgo, G. galgen, Icel. galgi, Sw. & Dan. galge, Goth. galga a cross. Etymologically and historically considered, gallows
• BEHAVE
  To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill. Note: This verb is often used colloquially without an adverb of manner; as, if he does not behave, he will be punished. It is also often applied to inanimate objects; as,
• ACQUAINTEDNESS
  State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. Boyle.
• ACQUAINTABLE
  Easy to be acquainted with; affable. Rom. of R.
• BEHAVIOR
  Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. A gentleman that is very singular
• ACQUAINTANT
  An acquaintance. Swift.
• DEPORTMENT
  Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carrige; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing. The gravity of his deportment carried him safe through
• BETTERMENT
  An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural. Bouvier. (more info) 1. A making better; amendment; improvement. W. Montagu.
• CONVERSATIONIST
  One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. Byron.
• BETTER
  1. Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy. 2. One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural. Their betters would hardly be
• BETTERNESS
  1. The quality of being better or superior; superiority. Sir P. Sidney. 2. The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard.
• ACQUAINT
  Acquainted.
• CONVERSATION
  conversacion, F. conversation, fr. L. conversatio frequent abode in a 1. General course of conduct; behavior. Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27. 2. Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close
• CONVERSATIONISM
  A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloqualism.
• CONVERSATIONAL
  Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style. Thackeray.
• CONVERSATIONALIST
  A conversationist.
• ACQUAINTANCESHIP
  A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey.
• DISACQUAINT
  To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick.
• INACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance. Good.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• SCAPEGALLOWS
  One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. Dickens.
• PREACQUAINTANCE
  Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.
• PREACQUAINT
  To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding.
• ABETTER; ABETTOR
  One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender. Note: The form abettor is the legal term and also in general use. Syn. -- Abettor, Accessory, Accomplice. These words denote different degrees of complicity in some deed or crime. An abettor
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.
• UNACQUAINTANCE
  The quality or state of being unacquainted; want of acquaintance; ignorance. He was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity. Sir W. Hamilton.
• NONACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance; the state of being unacquainted.