Word Meanings - ENSTAMP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.

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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• STAMP
  Dan. stampe, Sw. stampa, Icel. stappa, G. stampf a pestle and E. 1. To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward. Shak. He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. Dryden. 2. To bring
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• STAMPING
  from Stamp, v. Stamping ground, a place frequented, and much trodden, by animals, wild or domesticated; hence , the scene of one's labors or exploits; also, one's favorite resort. -- Stamping machine, a machine for forming metallic articles or
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• STAMPER
  1. One who stamps. 2. An instrument for pounding or stamping.
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• MOTIVELESS
  Destitute of a motive; not incited by a motive. -- Mo"tive*less*ness, n. G. Eliot.
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• CHARACTERISTICAL
  Characteristic.
• CHARACTERY
  1. The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark. Fairies use flowers for their charactery. Shak. 2. That which is charactered; the meaning. I will construe to thee All the charactery of my sad
• MOTIVE
  The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is (more info) 1. That which moves; a mover. Shak. 2. That
• CHARACTERLESS
  Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.
• STAMPEDE
  A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic. She and her husband would join in the general stampede.
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• MANUMOTIVE
  Movable by hand.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• PROMOTIVE
  Tending to advance, promote, or encourage. Hume.
• MENDELIAN CHARACTER
  A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.
• EMOTIVENESS
  Susceptibility to emotion. G. Eliot.
• INSTAMP
  See ENSTAMP
• LOCOMOTIVENESS; LOCOMOTIVITY
  The power of changing place.