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Word Meanings - ENTRANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into

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1. The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office. 2. Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends. Shak. 3. The passage, door, or gate, for entering. Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city. Judg. i. 24. 4. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business. "Beware of entrance to a quarrel." Shak. St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology. Hakewill. 5. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day. The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line. Ham. Nav. Encyc. The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line. Totten.

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    One who ravishes .
  • PERMIT
    1. To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker. 2. To grant express license or liberty
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • ADVENTIST
    One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
  • CAPTIVATE
    1. To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak. 2. To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts.
  • TRANSPORTING
    That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
  • ADVENTIVE
    Adventitious. Gray. (more info) 1. Accidental.
  • RETREATFUL
    Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
  • ATTRACTABILITY
    The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
  • TRANSPORTAL
    Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
  • TRANSPORTABILITY
    The quality or state of being transportable.
  • ATTRACTILE
    Having power to attract.
  • ADVENTURESS
    A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
  • APPROXIMATION
    1. The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature.
  • PERMITTER
    One who permits. A permitter, or not a hinderer, of sin. J. Edwards.
  • RETREATMENT
    The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
  • ADVENTUROUSNESS
    The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
  • RAVISHING
    Rapturous; transporting.
  • BEWITCHING
    Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming. -- Be*witch"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*witch"ing*ness, n.
  • TRANSPORTED
    Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
  • WATER-BEARER
    The constellation Aquarius.
  • SHIELD-BEARER
    Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
  • NONARRIVAL
    Failure to arrive.
  • MISTRANSPORT
    To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
  • SEABEARD
    A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
  • DOWNBEAR
    To bear down; to depress.
  • REACCESS
    A second access or approach; a return. Hakewill.
  • BLUEBEARD
    The hero of a mediƦval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
  • INSUPPRESSIBLE
    That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.

 

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