Word Meanings - EXQUISITELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought. To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it. Hawthorne.

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• SENSITIVE
  1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• THERETO
  1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• THEREOUT
  1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer.
• THEREUNDER
  Under that or this.
• THEREAFTER
  1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison,
• THERE-ANENT
  Concerning that.
• PAINFUL
  1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing Addison. 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking;
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• EXQUISITE
  1. Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship. Plate of rare device, and jewels Of reach and exquisite form. Shak.
• WROUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Work. Alas that I was wrought ! Chaucer.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• THEREOF
  Of that or this. In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Gen. ii.
• THEREFOR
  For that, or this; for it. With certain officers ordained therefore. Chaucer.
• EXQUISITELY
  In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought. To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it. Hawthorne.
• THEREFROM
  From this or that. Turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left. John. xxiii. 6.
• THEREUNTO
  Unto that or this; thereto; besides. Shak.
• OBSERVER
  1. One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer. The observed of all observers. Shak. Careful observers may foretell the hour, By
• THEREINTO
  Into that or this, or into that place. Bacon. Let not them . . . enter thereinto. Luke xxi. 21.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• HIGH-WROUGHT
  1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• ETHEREALITY
  The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• ETHEREALLY
  In an ethereal manner.
• PINFEATHERED
  Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
• DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
  A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
• ETHEREAL
  Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts. Ethereal oil. See Essential oil, under Essential. -- Ethereal oil of wine , a heavy, yellow, oily liquid consisting essentially of etherin, etherol, and ethyl sulphate. It
• FEATHERED
  Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog. (more info) 1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• LATHEREEVE; LATHREEVE
  Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe.