Word Meanings - INCREPATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A chiding; rebuke; reproof. Hammond.
Related words: (words related to INCREPATION)
- CHIDESTER
A female scold. - CHIDER
One who chides or quarrels. Shak. - CHIDERESS
She who chides. - REBUKE
1. A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment. For thy sake I have suffered rebuke. Jer. xv. 15. Why bear you these rebukes and answer not Shak. 2. Check; rebuff. L'Estrange. To be without rebuke, to live without - CHIDINGLY
In a chiding or reproving manner. - REPROOF
1. Refutation; confutation; contradiction. 2. An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach. Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. Pope. Syn. -- Admonition; reprehension; - REBUKEFUL
Containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke. -- Re*buke"ful*ly, adv. - REBUKER
One who rebukes. - CHIDE
1. To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with. Upbraided, chid, and rated at. Shak. 2. Fig.: To be noise about; to chafe against. The sea that chides the banks of England. Shak. To chide hither, chide from, or chide away, to cause to come, - GLOCHIDIUM
The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills. - SELF-REPROOF
The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment. - RACHIDIAN
Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian. - ORCHIDEOUS
See ORCHIDACEOUS - ORCHIDOLOGY
The branch of botany which treats of orchids. - ORCHIDOLOGIST
One versed in orchidology. - ARCHIDIACONAL
Of or pertaining to an archdeacon. This offense is liable to be censured in an archidiaconal visitation. Johnson. - ORCHIDEAN
Orchidaceous. - GLOCHIDIATE
Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles. Gray. - RHACHIDIAN
Of or pertaining to the rhachis; as, the rhachidian teeth of a mollusk. - ORCHIDACEOUS
Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all - STICHIDIUM
A special podlike or fusiform branch containing tetraspores. It is found in certain red algæ. - FIREPROOFING
The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process. - ECHIDNA
A monster, half maid and half serpent.