Word Meanings - DICAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A functionary in ancient Athens answering nearly to the modern juryman.
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- MODERN
1. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon. 2. New and common; - ANSWER
1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to - MODERNIZATION
The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting. - NEARLY
In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost. - MODERNNESS
The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty. M. Arnold. - ANSWERLESS
Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron. - ANCIENTNESS
The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times. - ANCIENTLY
1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner. - ANSWERABLE
1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that - ANSWERABLY
In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably. - MODERNLY
In modern times. Milton. - FUNCTIONARY
One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries. - JURYMAN
One who is impaneled on a jury, or who serves as a juror. - MODERNITY
Modernness; something modern. Walpole. - MODERNISM
Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression. - ANCIENTRY
1. Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West. 2. Old age; also, old people. Wronging the ancientry. Shak. 3. Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller. - ANSWERER
One who answers. - MODERNIZE
To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste. Percy. - MODERNIZER
One who modernizes. - ANSWERABLENESS
The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent. - UNANSWERABLE
Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument. -- Un*an"swer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*an"swer*a*bly, adv. - CURVILINEARLY
In a curvilinear manner. - UNANSWERABILITY
The quality of being unanswerable; unanswerableness.