Word Meanings - DEVULGARIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow. Shakespeare and Plutarch's "Lives" are very devulgarizing books. E. A. Abbott.
Related words: (words related to DEVULGARIZE)
- COMMONER
1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground. - COMMONISH
Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar. - BOOKSELLING
The employment of selling books. - COMMONLY
1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser. - BOOKSTAND
1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference. - DEVULGARIZE
To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow. Shakespeare and Plutarch's "Lives" are very devulgarizing books. E. A. Abbott. - COMMONWEALTH
Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state; - NARROW-MINDED
Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n. - BOOKSHOP
A bookseller's shop. - COMMONITION
Advice; warning; instruction. Bailey. - SHAKESPEAREAN
Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his - VULGARIZATION
The act or process of making vulgar, or common. - NARROWER
One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More. - COMMONAGE
The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. The claim of comonage . . . in most of the forests. Burke. - COMMONS
1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled chasses or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. 'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign. Shak. The word commons in its present - COMMONPLACE
Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation. - VULGARIAN
A vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. Used also adjectively. - BOOKSHELF
A shelf to hold books. - VULGARISM
1. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity. 2. A vulgar phrase or expression. A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call "slang," which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. Coleridge. - COMMON SENSE
See SENSE - UNCOMMON
Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n. - FELLOW-COMMONER
A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table. - INTERCOMMON
To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon. - INTERCOMMONAGE
The right or privilege of intercommoning. - DISCOMMON
To deprive of commonable quality, as lands, by inclosing or appropriating. Burrill. (more info) 1. To deprive of the right of common. Bp. Hall. 2. To deprive of privileges. T. Warton. - INVULGAR
To cause to become or appear vulgar. Daniel.