Word Meanings - LASCIVIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Wanton; lewd; lustful; as, lascivious men; lascivious desires. Milton. 2. Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions. He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. Shak. -- Las*civ"i*ous*ly, adv. --

Additional info about word: LASCIVIOUS

1. Wanton; lewd; lustful; as, lascivious men; lascivious desires. Milton. 2. Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions. He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. Shak. -- Las*civ"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Las*civ"i*ous*ness, n.

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• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• CHAMBERING
  Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
• CHAMBERER
  1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• TENDANCE
  1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
• NIMBLY
  In a nimble manner; with agility; with light, quick motion.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• CHAMBERED
  Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• PLEASANTNESS
  The state or quality of being pleasant.
• TENDRESSE
  Tender feeling; fondness.
• PLEASURIST
  A person devoted to worldly pleasure. Sir T. Browne.
• TENDON
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• CHAMBERMAID
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• PLEASURER
  A pleasure seeker. Dickens.
• TENDRILED; TENDRILLED
  Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey.
• INTENDENT
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• STAR-CHAMBER
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• INTENDIMENT
  Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.
• OBTEND
  1. To oppose; to hold out in opposition. Dryden. 2. To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend. Dryden
• INCHAMBER
  To lodge in a chamber. Sherwood.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• OVERPLEASE
  To please excessively.
• ENTEND
  To attend to; to apply one's self to. Chaucer.
• PRETENDER
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• PRETENDANT
  A pretender; a claimant.