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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.

 

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