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Word Meanings - DECRETORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Established by a decree; definitive; settled. The decretory rigors of a condemning sentence. South. 2. Serving to determine; critical. "The critical or decretory days." Sir T. Browne.

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  • SOUTHWEST
    Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
  • SOUTHSAY
    See SOOTHSAY
  • SOUTHWESTERLY
    To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
  • SERVING
    a & n. from Serve. Serving board , a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. -- Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant. -- Serving mallet , a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes. -- Serving man, a male servant,
  • SOUTHPAW
    A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
  • SOUTHERNLINESS
    Southerliness.
  • SERVO-MOTOR
    A relay apparatus; specif.: An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve
  • DEFINITIVE
    1. Determinate; positive; final; conclusive; unconditional; express. A strict and definitive truth. Sir T. Browne. Some definitive . . . scheme of reconciliation. Prescott. 2. Limiting; determining; as, a definitive word. 3. Determined; resolved.
  • SOUTHREN
    Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
  • SERVILELY
    In a servile manner; slavishly.
  • DETERMINE
    1. To come to an end; to end; to terminate. He who has vented a pernicious doctrine or published an ill book must know that his life determine not together. South. Estates may determine on future contingencies. Blackstone. 2. To come to a decision;
  • CRITICALLY
    1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification
  • SERVILENESS
    Quality of being servile; servility.
  • SERVABLE
    Capable of being preserved. (more info) 1. Capable of being served. 2. Etym:
  • DEFINITIVELY
    In a definitive manner.
  • SETTLEMENT
    A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
  • CONDEMNER
    One who condemns or censures.
  • SERVITORSHIP
    The office, rank, or condition of a servitor. Boswell.
  • SERVER
    1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph.
  • SOUTHSAYER
    See SOOTHSAYER
  • DISSERVE
    To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym:
  • RESERVE
    1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • DESERVEDNESS
    Meritoriousness.
  • CONSERVATIONAL
    Tending to conserve; preservative.
  • MISOBSERVE
    To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
  • SUBSERVIENCE; SUBSERVIENCY
    The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. Bentley.
  • INSERVE
    To be of use to an end; to serve.
  • ACRITICAL
    Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.
  • PRECONDEMN
    To condemn beforehand. -- Pre*con`dem*na"tion, n.
  • PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
    A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.

 

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