Word Meanings - DRAMATIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.

Related words: (words related to DRAMATIST)

• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• AUTHORITY
  1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority
• PLAYSOME
  Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n.
• WRITERSHIP
  The office of a writer.
• AUTHORESS
  A female author. Glover. Note: The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male.
• AUTHORSHIP
  1. The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author. 2. Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.
• AUTHOR
  auctor, sometimes, but erroneously, written autor or author, fr. 1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. Milton. 2.
• AUTHORIZABLE
  Capable of being authorized. Hammond.
• AUTHORIZED
  1. Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. 2. Sanctioned by authority. The Authorized Version of the Bible is the English translation of the Bible published in 1611 under sanction of King James I. It was "appointed to be
• DRAMATIC; DRAMATICAL
  Of or pertaining to the drama; appropriate to, or having the qualities of, a drama; theatrical; vivid. The emperor . . . performed his part with much dramatic effect. Motley.
• AUTHORITATIVE
  1. Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow. 2. Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an
• AUTHORIZE
  1. To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary. 2. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage. 3. To establish
• AUTHORLESS
  Without an author; without authority; anonymous.
• AUTHORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an author. "The authorial Hare.
• AUTHORLY
  Authorial. Cowper.
• AUTHORISM
  Authoriship.
• DRAMATICALLY
  In a dramatic manner; theatrically; vividly.
• COMPOSITION
  The adjustment of a debt, or avoidance of an obligation, by some form of compensation agreed on between the parties; also, the sum or amount of compensation agreed upon in the adjustment. Compositions for not taking the order of knighthood. Hallam.
• AUTHORIZE ONE'S SELF
  , to rely for authority. Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories. Sir P. Sidney.
• AUTHORIZER
  One who authorizes.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• UNDERWRITER
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• INAUTHORITATIVE
  Without authority; not authoritative.
• DISAUTHORIZE
  To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. W. Wotton.
• NEWS-WRITER
  One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. Macaulay.
• RECOMPOSITION
  The act of recomposing.
• TYPEWRITER
  1. An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper. 2. One who uses such an instrument.