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Word Meanings - JUNTO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A secret council to deliberate on affairs of government or politics; a number of men combined for party intrigue; a faction; a cabal; as, a junto of ministers; a junto of politicians. The puzzling sons of party next appeared, In dark cabals and

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A secret council to deliberate on affairs of government or politics; a number of men combined for party intrigue; a faction; a cabal; as, a junto of ministers; a junto of politicians. The puzzling sons of party next appeared, In dark cabals and mighty juntos met. Thomson.

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  • CONFEDERACY
    A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy. Syn. -- League; compact; alliance; association; union; combination; confederation. (more info) 1. A league or compact between
  • FACTION
    One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
  • CABALISM
    1. The secret science of the cabalists. 2. A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes. Emerson.
  • COMBINATION
    The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
  • LEAGUE
    lieue, Pr. lega, legua, It. & LL. lega, Sp. legua, Pg. legoa, legua; all fr. LL. leuca, of Celtic origin: cf. Arm. leo, lev (perh. from French), Ir.leige ; also Ir. & Gael. leac a flag, a broad, flat stone, W. llech, -- such stones having perh.
  • CABALLERIA
    An ancient Spanish land tenure similar to the English knight's fee; hence, in Spain and countries settled by the Spanish, a land measure of varying size. In Cuba it is about 33 acres; in Porto Rico, about 194 acres; in the Southwestern
  • CABALA
    1. A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediæval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumed that every letter, word, number,
  • CABALIST
    One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions. "Studious cabalists." Swift.
  • CABALISTIC; CABALISTICAL
    Of or pertaining to the cabala; containing or conveying an occult meaning; mystic. The Heptarchus is a cabalistic of the first chapter of Genesis. Hallam.
  • FACTIONARY
    Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides. Always factionary on the party of your general. Shak.
  • CONSPIRACY
    An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy. Syn. -- Combination; plot; cabal. (more info) 1. A combination of
  • COTERIE
    A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique. "The queen of your coterie." Thackeray.
  • CABALLERO
    A knight or cavalier; hence, a gentleman.
  • LEAGUERER
    A besieger. J. Webster.
  • CABALLINE
    Of or pertaining to a horse. -- n.
  • CABALLER
    One who cabals. A close caballer and tongue-valiant lord. Dryden.
  • LEAGUER
    1. The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general. b. Jonson. 2. A siege or beleaguering. Sir W. Scott.
  • FACTIONIST
    One who promotes faction.
  • CABALIZE
    To use cabalistic language. Dr. H. More.
  • CABALISTICALLY
    In a cabalistic manner.
  • MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
    The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
  • CHYLIFACTION
    The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
  • BELEAGUERER
    One who beleaguers.
  • REFACTION
    Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell.
  • COLLIQUEFACTION
    A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.
  • UNSATISFACTION
    Dissatisfaction. Bp. Hall.
  • AREFACTION
    The act of drying, or the state of growing dry. The arefaction of the earth. Sir M. Hale.
  • UNDERFACTION
    A subordinate party or faction.
  • COLLEAGUE
    A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures. Syn. -- Helper; assistant; coadjutor; ally; associate; companion; confederate. (more info) time with another, a
  • INLEAGUER
    To beleaguer. Holland.
  • BELEAGUER
    To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade. The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. Longfellow. Syn. -- To block up; environ; invest; encompass. (more info) Dan. beleire); pref. be- = E. be- + leger bed, camp, army,
  • PRIMROSE LEAGUE
    A league of both sexes among the Conservatives, founded in 1883. So called because primrose was taken to be the favorite flower of the Conservative statesman Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.
  • OLFACTION
    The sense by which the impressions made on the olfactory organs by the odorous particles in the atmosphere are perceived.
  • STUPEFACTION
    The act of stupefying, or the state of being stupefied. Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it. South.

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