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Word Meanings - DOOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation. The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens. J. R. Green. Now against himself he sounds this doom. Shak. 2. That to which one is doomed

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1. Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation. The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens. J. R. Green. Now against himself he sounds this doom. Shak. 2. That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty. Ere Hector meets his doom. Pope. And homely household task shall be her doom. Dryden. 3. Ruin; death. This is the day of doom for Bassianus. Shak. 4. Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision. And there he learned of things and haps to come, To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom. Fairfax. Syn. -- Sentence; condemnation; decree; fate; destiny; lot; ruin; destruction.

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  • CHANCELLERY
    Chancellorship. Gower.
  • HAZARDIZE
    A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
  • DESIGN
    drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
  • REVOKER
    One who revokes.
  • INTENTIONALITY
    The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
  • OBJECTIVENESS
    Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
  • DESIGNATE
    Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
  • SCOPELINE
    Scopeloid.
  • PURPOSELESS
    Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
  • DENOUNCE
    denunciare; de- + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce, report, nuntius a 1. To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim . Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx.
  • VENTURESOME
    Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
  • INTENDENT
    See N
  • CENSURER
    One who censures. Sha.
  • ORDAINMENT
    Ordination. Burke.
  • OBJECTIST
    One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
  • POINT SWITCH
    A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
  • INTENDIMENT
    Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.
  • CONVICTION
    A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal. Conviction may accrue two ways. Blackstone. 3. The act of convincing of
  • DESTINATION
    1. The act of destining or appointing. 2. Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design. 3. The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at. Syn.
  • POINTLESSLY
    Without point.
  • DISVENTURE
    A disadventure. Shelton.
  • HAEMATOSCOPE
    A hæmoscope.
  • INDEVOTE
    Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
  • LACTOSCOPE
    An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
  • METEOROSCOPE
    An astrolabe; a planisphere. An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.
  • OTOSCOPEIC
    Of or pertaining to the otoscope or to otoscopy.
  • NONARRIVAL
    Failure to arrive.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • ENDOSCOPE
    An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
  • MICROSPECTROSCOPE
    A spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance.
  • MISFORTUNED
    Unfortunate.

 

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