Word Meanings - CRESSELLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the last week of Lent.
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- CATHOLICON
A remedy for all diseases; a panacea. - CHURCHLINESS
Regard for the church. - CHURCHLIKE
Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak. - RATTLESNAKE
Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common - DURAMEN
The heartwood of an exogenous tree. - DURIO
A fruit tree of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian. - ROMANY
1. A gypsy. - DUROUS
Hard. - CATHOLICIZE
To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic. - CATHOLICITY
1. The state or quality of being catholic; universality. 2. Liberality of sentiments; catholicism. 3. Adherence or conformity to the system of doctrine held by all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine so held; orthodoxy. - ROMANTICAL
Romantic. - SOMETIMES
1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . . - ROMANISH
Pertaining to Romanism. - CHURCH
AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. ç'd4ra hero, Zend. çura 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally - CHURCHYARD
The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak. Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre. - DURANTE
During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure. - CHURCH-BENCH
A seat in the porch of a church. Shak. - LATTERLY
Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period. Latterly Milton was short and thick. Richardson. - LATTER-DAY SAINT
A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons. - ROMANTICIST
One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley. - BLATTER
To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer. - FLATTER
1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc. - REVERDURE
To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners. - BLATTEROON
A senseless babbler or boaster. "I hate such blatteroons." Howell. - BEFLATTER
To flatter excessively. - CATHOLIC
1. Universal or general; as, the catholic faith. Men of other countries to bear their part in so great and catholic a war. Southey. Note: This epithet, which is applicable to the whole Christian church, or its faith, is claimed by Roman Catholics - CLATTERINGLY
With clattering. - PODURA
Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. Podura scale , one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope. (more info) podo`s, - OBDURATION
A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart. - ORDURE
1. Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak. 2. Defect; imperfection; fault. Holland. - ELEUTHEROMANIAC
Mad for freedom. - BORDURE
A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged. - SPLATTERDASH
Uproar. Jamieson.