Word Meanings - DISTRICT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISTRICT)

• Precinct
• Precincts
• Purlieus
• environs
• limit
• bounds
• boundary
• confine
• district
• Quarter
• Region
• locality
• territory
• mercy
• forbearance
• pity
• Country
• clime
• tract of land
• portion
• part
• Tract
• District
• quarter
• region
• piece
• patch

Related words: (words related to DISTRICT)

• MERCY
  mercedis, hire, pay, reward, LL., equiv. to misericordia pity, mercy. L. merces is probmerere to deserve, acquire. See Merit, and cf. 1. Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• PORTIONIST
  One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• QUARTER ROUND
  An ovolo.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• QUARTERON; QUARTEROON
  A quadroon.
• TRACTARIANISM
  The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times."
• QUARTERON
  A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred. Piers Plowman.
• LIMITARY
  1. Placed at the limit, as a guard. "Proud limitary cherub." Milton. 2. Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• ENVIRONS
  The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.
• DISTRICT
  Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
• QUARTERPACE
  A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only. See Halfpace.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• GRAMERCY
  A word formerly used to express thankfulness, with surprise; many thanks. Gramercy, Mammon, said the gentle knight. Spenser.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• REAPPORTIONMENT
  A second or a new apportionment.
• MISPROPORTION
  To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.