Word Meanings - HECTORISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying.

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• HECTORISM
  The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• HECTORLY
  Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting. "Hectorly, ruffianlike swaggering or huffing." Barrow.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• BULLY; BULLY BEEF
  Pickled or canned beef. (more info) boil. See Boil, v. The word bouilli was formerly commonly used on the
• BULLY TREE
  The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceæ, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.
• BULLY
  bullerbrook, a blusterer, D. bulderaar a bluster, bulderen to bluster; prob. of imitative origin; or cf. MHG. buole lover, G. 1. A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent,
• HECTOR
  A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.
• BULLYRAG
  See BULLIRAG
• DISPOSITIONAL
  Pertaining to disposition.
• BULLYROCK
  A bully. Shak.
• DISPOSITION
  1. The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will. Who have received the law by the disposition of angels. Acts vii. 53. The disposition of the work,
• DISPOSITIONED
  Having a disposition; -- used in compounds; as, well- dispositioned.
• MALPRACTICE
  Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
• INDISPOSITION
  1. The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine. A general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury. 2. A slight disorder or illness. Rather as an indisposition in health than as
• PREDISPOSITION
  1. The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger. 2. Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression,
• MISPRACTICE
  Wrong practice.
• MISDISPOSITION
  Erroneous disposal or application. Bp. Hall.
• MALEPRACTICE
  See MALPRACTICE