Word Meanings - FRONDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.

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• DURAMEN
  The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• DURIO
  A fruit tree of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.
• DUROUS
  Hard.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• DURANTE
  During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.
• DURANCY
  Duration. Dr. H. More.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• COURTESAN
  A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• DURRA
  A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called
• COURT TENNIS
  See TENNIS
• COURT-CUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• POLITICALLY
  1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles.
• DUR
  Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.
• COURTEPY
  A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
• DURABILITY
  The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness. A Gothic cathedral raises ideas
• PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
  Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
• COURTBRED
  Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
• REVERDURE
  To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.
• PODURA
  Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. Podura scale , one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope. (more info) podo`s,
• OBDURATION
  A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.
• ORDURE
  1. Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak. 2. Defect; imperfection; fault. Holland.
• BORDURE
  A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
• METROPOLITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.
• ENDURANT
  Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.
• ADUROL
  Either of two compounds, a chlorine derivative and bromine derivative, of hydroquinone, used as developers.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• IMPOLITICAL
  Impolitic. -- Im`po*lit"i*cal*ly, adv. Bacon.