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Word Meanings - HOUSEHOLD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family. And calls, without affecting airs, His household twice a day to prayers. Swift. 2. A line of ancestory; a race or house. Shak.

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  • FAMILIARLY
    In a familiar manner.
  • FRANKALMOIGNE
    A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms. Burrill.
  • FRANKFORT BLACK
    . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
  • ACCUSTOMARILY
    Customarily.
  • INTIMATE
    corresponding to the compar. interior cf. F. intime. The form 1. Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton. 2. Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate
  • ACCUSTOMEDNESS
    Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
  • COMMONER
    1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
  • COMMONISH
    Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
  • COMMONLY
    1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
  • COMMONWEALTH
    Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;
  • INTIMATELY
    In an intimate manner.
  • COMMONITION
    Advice; warning; instruction. Bailey.
  • ACCUSTOMABLE
    Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer.
  • AFFABLE
    1. Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay. 2. Gracious;
  • COMMONAGE
    The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. The claim of comonage . . . in most of the forests. Burke.
  • COMMONS
    1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled chasses or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. 'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign. Shak. The word commons in its present
  • FAMILIARITY
    1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity. 2. Anything said or done by one person to another
  • FRANKLIN
    An English freeholder, or substantial householder. Chaucer. The franklin, a small landholder of those days. Sir J. Stephen.
  • COMMONPLACE
    Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
  • FRANK-LAW
    The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; -- an obsolete expression signifying substantially the same as the American expression civil rights. Abbot.
  • UNCOMMON
    Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
  • FELLOW-COMMONER
    A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
  • INTERCOMMON
    To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.
  • DISACCUSTOM
    To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.
  • INCONVERSANT
    Not conversant; not acquainted; not versed; unfamiliar.
  • INTERCOMMONAGE
    The right or privilege of intercommoning.
  • DISCOMMON
    To deprive of commonable quality, as lands, by inclosing or appropriating. Burrill. (more info) 1. To deprive of the right of common. Bp. Hall. 2. To deprive of privileges. T. Warton.

 

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