Word Meanings - GENERALSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general. Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene. Goldsmith. 2. Military skill in a general officer
Additional info about word: GENERALSHIP
1. The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general. Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene. Goldsmith. 2. Military skill in a general officer or commander. 3. Fig.: Leadership; management. An artful stroke of generalship in Trim to raise a dust. Sterne.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GENERALSHIP)
- Stratagem
- Artifice
- tactics
- trick
- contrivance
- generalship
- manoeuvre
- device
- machination
- plot
- plan
- deceit
- imposition
Related words: (words related to GENERALSHIP)
- ARTIFICER
A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one - TRICKISH
Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n. - TRICKERY
The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture. - DECEITFUL
Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak. - DEVICEFUL
Full of devices; inventive. A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman. - DECEITLESS
Free from deceit. Bp. Hall. - TRICKTRACK
An old game resembling backgammon. - TRICKINESS
The quality of being tricky. - TRICKSTER
One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat. - TACTICS
1. The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction. - DEVICEFULLY
In a deviceful manner. - STRATAGEM
An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak. Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but - TRICKMENT
Decoration. " No trickments but my tears." Beau. & Fl. - MACHINATION
1. The act of machinating. Shak. 2. That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot. Devilish machinations come to naught. Milton. His ingenious machinations had failed. Macaulay. - TRICKER
A trigger. Boyle. - ARTIFICE
1. A handicraft; a trade; art of making. 2. Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. The material universe.. in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. Cudworth. 3. Artful or skillful contrivance. His plots were constructed - TRICKY
Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish. - TRICKSY
Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak. he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge. - GENERALSHIP
1. The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general. Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene. Goldsmith. 2. Military skill in a general officer - DECEITFULLY
With intent to deceive. - TRICK
The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - STRICKLE
An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core. (more info) 1. An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike. 2. An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle. - TRICKING
Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott. - DOGTRICK
A gentle trot, like that of a dog. - MOONSTRICKEN
See MOONSTRUCK - MANEUVERER; MANOEUVRER
One who maneuvers. This charming widow Beaumont is a nanoeuvrer. We can't well make an English word of it. Miss Edgeworth. - AWE-STRICKEN
Awe-struck. - STRICK
A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers. Knight.