Word Meanings - EXPOSTULATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter.
Related words: (words related to EXPOSTULATORY)
- CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - LETTERER
One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters. - LETTERURE
Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer. - DISCOURSER
1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne. - CONTAINANT
A container. - LETTERN
See LECTURN - LETTER
One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire. - LETTERPRESS
Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates. - EXPOSTULATION
The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion. We must use expostulation kindly. Shak. - CONTAINABLE
Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle. - LETTERLESS
1. Not having a letter. 2. Illiterate. E. Waterhouse. - LETTERWOOD
The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum , found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for - CONTAINER
One who, or that which, contains. - REMONSTRANCE
See MONSTRANCE (more info) 1. The act of remonstrating; as: A pointing out; manifestation; proof; demonstration. You may marvel why I . . . would not rather Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power Than - EXPOSTULATORY
Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter. - LETTERING
1. The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting. 2. The letters made; as, the lettering of a sign. - DISCOURSE
fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range - LETTERGRAM
See ABOVE - LETTERED
1. Literate; educated; versed in literature. " Are you not lettered" Shak. The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers. Milman. - CONTAIN
1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores - BLACK LETTER
The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type. - SELF-CONTAINED
Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine. - SEA LETTER
The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo. - UNDERLETTER
A tenant or lessee who grants a lease to another. - BLACK-LETTER
1. Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book. 2. Given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date. Kemble, a black-letter man! J. Boaden. 3. Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar - BLOODLETTER
One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist. - NIGHT LETTER; NIGHT LETTERGRAM
See ABOVE - NEWS-LETTER
A circular letter, written or printed for the purpose of disseminating news. This was the name given to the earliest English newspapers.