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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.

 

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