Word Meanings - DEFEATURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Overthrow; defeat. "Nothing but loss in their defeature." Beau. & Fl. 2. Disfigurement; deformity. "Strange defeatures in my face." Shak.

Related words: (words related to DEFEATURE)

• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• OVERTHROW
  1. The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrow; ruin. Your sudden overthrow much rueth me. Spenser. The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head. A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that striker makes
• DEFORMITY
  deformis: cf. OF. deformeté, deformité, F. difformité. See Deform, v. 1. The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. To make an
• NOTHINGARIAN
  One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect.
• DEFEATURED
  Changed in features; deformed. Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.
• STRANGENESS
  The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).
• NOTHER
  Neither; nor. Chaucer.
• DEFEATURE
  1. Overthrow; defeat. "Nothing but loss in their defeature." Beau. & Fl. 2. Disfigurement; deformity. "Strange defeatures in my face." Shak.
• NOTHING
  A cipher; naught. Nothing but, only; no more than. Chaucer. -- To make nothing of. To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or important. "We are industrious to preserve our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls
• STRANGELY
  1. As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange. Shak. 2. In the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly. You all look strangely on me. Shak. I do in justice charge
• DEFEAT
  1. An undoing or annulling; destruction. Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made. Shak. 2. Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design. 3. An overthrow, as of an
• STRANGER
  One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered
• STRANGE
  1. To be estranged or alienated. 2. To wonder; to be astonished. Glanvill.
• NOTHINGISM
  Nihility; nothingness.
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• MONOTHALMIC
  Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• AGONOTHETE
  An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
• KNOW-NOTHING
  A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
  A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
• NEGINOTH
  Stringed instruments. Dr. W. Smith. To the chief musician on Neginoth. Ps. iv. 9heading).
• MONOTHEIST
  One who believes that there is but one God.
• DO-NOTHINGISM; DO-NOTHINGNESS
  Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. Carlyle. Miss Austen.
• MONOTHECAL
  Having a single loculament.
• DEINOTHERIUM
  See DINOTHERIUM
• GONOTHECA
  A capsule developed on certain hydroids , inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.
• MONOTHEISM
  The doctrine or belief that there is but one God.
• ESTRANGEDNESS
  State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.
• HENOTHEISM
  Primitive religion in which each of several divinities is regarded as independent, and is worshiped without reference to the rest.